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Mariska Hargitay says Knicks comeback win beats out wedding to Peter Hermann as ‘greatest night of my life’
The Knicks beat the Spurs in a stunning comeback during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday.
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LA DA Nathan Hochman says 81 percent of claims in $4B sex abuse settlement may be ‘fraudulent’
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney has filed a motion calling for payments relating to a $4 billion settlement for sex abuse victims – which is the largest in US history – and sensationally claimed that 81% of claims could be fraudulent.
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‘Gross misuse of federal funding’: HUD cuts off funds to LA homeless services agency over fraud concerns
After losing county funding, Los Angeles’ primary homeless services agency has lost federal funding due to its failure to address potential fraud.The Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, alongside the Department of Housing and Urban Development, sent a letter on Thursday to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to inform the agency that it was immediately suspending funding amid an ongoing probe by HUD’s inspector general. The IG’s office is investigating any potential offenses by the LAHSA and its leadership, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained a copy of the letter.'Taxpayers will not bankroll LA’s fraud-filled homelessness industrial complex.'The department reportedly outlined in its letter conflicts of interest, financial mismanagement, fraud, and oversight failures.HUD has given the Los Angeles Continuum of Care, which is led by the LAHSA, nearly $1 billion over the last five years.“Suspending LAHSA’s participation in federal government programs is a necessary step in accomplishing that critical mission in Los Angeles,” the letter read, according to Fox News Digital. “LAHSA’s failures have been so severe and pervasive that Los Angeles County has withdrawn its funding for the agency, and the City of Los Angeles is considering doing so as well.”“HUD cannot ignore LAHSA’s wanton mismanagement of public funds. HUD’s mission is to reduce the plague of homelessness in America,” the agency’s letter continued. “Turning over billions of dollars from American taxpayers to an organization under investigation and suspected of gross misuse of federal funding and ‘obvious fraud’ does nothing to reduce homelessness. Indeed, diverting dollars from worthy programs to LAHSA merely makes the homeless crisis worse.”RELATED: Socialist mayoral candidate is outraged at encampment outside her LA home — but it's not what it seems Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesHUD’s letter quoted a federal judge who stated last year that the LAHSA had committed “obvious fraud” after it allegedly sought full funding for an 88-bed shelter despite maintaining only roughly half occupancy.HUD also noted that a former top LAHSA official, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, was caught up in a conflict-of-interest scandal. The LAist reported in Feb. 2025 that the executive signed contracts that funneled $2.1 million to a nonprofit where her husband held a senior leadership position. The LAHSA told the outlet that Adams Kellum was “completely recused” from any business related to the nonprofit, and the contracts were inadvertently given to her for signature.The LAist reported that the LAHSA has an $828 million budget this fiscal year, 46% of which comes from Los Angeles County, 35% from the city of Los Angeles, 11% from the federal government, over 8% from California, and a smaller amount from private philanthropy.RELATED: Homeless people on Skid Row claim they were PAID TO VOTE — and not for Spencer Pratt Scott Turner. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images.L.A. County voted last year to cut $300 million in funding from the LAHSA, beginning in July. The county has formed a new department to address homelessness, which it believes will increase accountability by “streamlining bureaucracy to stretch our dollars further, and improving care for people experiencing homelessness.”HUD Secretary Scott Turner stated that the agency “will fund results, not corrupt failure.”“While hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA with little accountability, homelessness skyrocketed,” Turner wrote. “Taxpayers will not bankroll L.A.’s fraud-filled homelessness industrial complex.”“For years, American taxpayers have been sending billions of dollars to Los Angeles to house the homeless and other vulnerable Americans. The result? Fraud and corruption. That ends today,” White House Task Force Executive Director Scott Brady stated, according to a HUD press release.The LAHSA confirmed receipt of HUD’s letter and warned that the department’s actions “could put thousands of formerly homeless people back on the street,” the agency said in a statement provided to Blaze News.“After initial review, this appears to be a blatant attempt to pull yet more resources from Los Angeles, a city they have targeted time and again, when it is clear that LAHSA has either corrected or is in the process of correcting nearly all of the issues raised,” the agency said. “Local oversight actions have already resulted in strong repairs and reforms to LAHSA’s internal controls, which are accountable and viewable to the public.”The LAHSA noted that it is also modernizing its financial systems.“If HUD’s inspector general actually conducts a fair review of LAHSA’s current and future practices, they will clearly see how our systems now allow us to clearly track the work and investments that have resulted in L.A. outperforming the nation by reducing homelessness over the last two years,” the statement continued.
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Raw Story
DOJ agency claims it has no records of Trump's shady IRS settlement
A Department of Justice division claimed it had no records related to President Donald Trump's IRS settlement, a watchdog reported.According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the DOJ's Civil Division came up empty-handed when responding to a request for records related to the settlement that led to Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. The $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund came out of a settlement in the case Trump v. IRS, a $10 billion lawsuit over the leaking of the Trump family and organization's tax returns. CREW filed the request to see DOJ documents related to the settlement that created the fund, but "DOJ's Civil Division claims to have no record of so much as being notified about Trump's case," the watchdog reported.CREW was expecting some paper trail, given the amount of money involved and the fact that it was the first time a sitting president had sued and settled a case with their own administration."Given the extraordinary way this case unfolded, a settlement of this magnitude leaving no trace in the files of the divisions typically responsible for it is yet another striking confirmation of the irregular, collusive process that produced an enormously corrupt result," CREW wrote.CREW is challenging the lawsuit in court, it noted.
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'Laughter in the courtroom': Analyst says DOJ keeps dodging key slush fund question
Political observers never believed President Donald Trump's cancellation of his "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was sincere, especially after new reporting revealed the administration plotted to continue it secretly, correspondent Scott MacFarlane told Nicolle Wallace on Thursday.A big reason why, he said, is that DOJ attorneys are being asked in court why they refuse to put the cancelation of the fund in writing — and they aren't giving convincing answers."Scott, take me inside the reporting you've done on how the victims of some of these crimes, the people who are on the other end of some of these criminals violent acts against law enforcement feel about Trump's dedication to a fund that even Republicans oppose," said Wallace.MacFarlane noted that a number of the January 6 defendants "in court during trial claimed they were the victims of a weaponized prosecution, and that argument was laughed out of court, either by the judges, juries or some combination of the two.""As for the slush fund. Oh, the slush fund. It reminds me of one of those corny 80s or 90s teen horror movies where everybody thinks the monster is dead, and then they go back out, running around the house and the monster comes back again and comes back again. This thing is not dead," said MacFarlane. The court exchange in which a judge asked the DOJ legal team why they haven't "put it in writing," and the DOJ team had no clear answer even as he insisted "a dozen times" the fund was "not moving forward," tells people all they need to know, he said."The judge asked point-blank, why not just put it in writing? Why not just rescind the fund for now, pending future review?" MacFarlane said. "And the attorney twice said, I don't know, your honor. There was a murmur in the courtroom. There was laughter in the courtroom."The bottom line, he said, is that "nobody takes their word this monster is dead" — and the Trump administration will keep being asked in court why they can't put it in writing that it is, as more lawsuits get filed. - YouTube www.youtube.com
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The Hill News
Appeals court rules Trump’s 10 percent global tariff can stay, for now
On Thursday, federal appeals court ruled that President Trump’s 10 percent global tariff is likely legal, deciding it can remain in place until the court delivers its final word. Trump imposed the new levy after the Supreme Court invalidated his previous emergency tariffs as exceeding his authority. Last month, a federal trade court found the new tariff unlawful and blocked officials from forcing a group…
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Trump biographer says 'demented' president will go down as 'worst in history'
Art of the Deal Co-author Tony Schwartz predicts Trump is destined to make history — just not the side of it he probably wants.MS NOW anchor Ari Melber asked Schwartz to comment on Trump’s most recent slate of gaffes, particularly his devastating claim that he “loves” the inflation currently racking voters and threatening to destroy his own Republican Party in the November midterms.“It's demented. I mean, it's so self-destructive,” said Schwartz, who described Trump as an addict who acts as a kind of “black hole.” “And you pour stuff into it. And he poured it in and maxed out when he was reelected president. And it looked fantastic. But it seeped out incredibly quickly. And then he has to keep upping the ante and chasing the high. And so now where he's at is there's no high to chase. So that's just that's just a piece of self-destructiveness. He's going to go down as the worst president in the history of this country,” said Schwartz, the founder of consulting firm the Energy Project.The worst of Trump’s crisis will hit when Democrats re-take Congress as a result of Trump’s self-imposed crises with the war in Iran, rampant inflation and other Trump-sources plagues, said MS NOW host Ari Melbar, citing a claim be Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that Trump was hurting his own party with self-serving decisions and his insistence on a kind of slavish loyalty, ultimately setting himself up for a midterm disaster.Cornyn added that Trump’s following two years of powerlessness will be “the most miserable two years of his life.”Schwartz said Trump’s “got something going on pretty significant physically, given the number of visits to the hospital,” and his debilitating health problems will likely merge with his post-midterm powerlessness to drive Trump into the permanent doldrums.“He would not step down or bow out,” said Schwartz, predicting the second half of Trump’s impotent second term to be “a tortuous time” for him. “I think he's going to quit in his own mind. It's like you're playing a basketball game. You're playing a basketball game, you're down by 29 [points] and you say, ‘you know what? I've had it.’ And that's where we go if they lose the midterms. … He is going to quietly quit, even if he just loses the House.”But Shwartz predicted Trump’s time of torture is unavoidable.“I think people really — maybe this is my hope — are underestimating how big this [blue] wave is going to be. I think it’s going to be bigger.” - YouTube youtu.be
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Bloomberg Politics
Hale, Stroul Weigh Trump’s Claims of Iran Deal
David Hale, Former US ambassador to Pakistan and Lebanon, and Dana Stroul, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, discuss President Trump’s announcement of a potential deal with Iran, including questions over what has been agreed to, whether Iran’s leadership is aligned, and how the US and Israel may approach the next phase of negotiations. They speak with Kailey Leinz on the late edition of Bloomberg’s "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg Politics
Trump Says US Made 'Great Settlement' of War With Iran
President Donald Trump says the US “just made a great settlement of the war with Iran, and we’re going to be subject to finalization of documents.” Trump says a final deal could be signed within days. He spoke at the White House Thursday. (Source: Bloomberg)
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