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Virginia State University Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Suppressing Christian Student Ministries While Exempting Muslim Groups

Two Christian student groups at Virginia State University are suing the school with the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, claiming that their First Amendment rights have been violated.

The groups allege that the school is suppressing them while giving other student groups, including Muslim groups on campus, a pass.

The school better have a very talented lawyer. Alliance Defending Freedom has an outstanding record in cases like this one.

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Virginia State University accused of suppressing Christian student ministries while Muslim groups are exempt

Virginia State University (VSU) is facing a federal lawsuit from two Christian student organizations that say the school stripped them of their official campus status and placed them under the direct authority of a university-appointed minister.

“Higher education has really broke from its long-standing desire to promote intellectual diversity and to actually seek truth, and, instead, they are essentially telling students that any disagreement, that certain speech is violence and that hearing difference of opinions on important topics is actually not encouraged. It’s actually discouraged,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer told Fox News Digital.

“I think that higher education is really failing in its primary role, which is to educate the next generation … how to deal with living in a pluralistic society with people who have different opinions.”

Attorneys with ADF filed the lawsuit on behalf of campus chapters for Women of Victory and Bethel Campus Fellowship. The lawsuit challenges VSU’s updated Campus Ministries Policy, which plaintiffs argue violates the First Amendment by forcing Christian student groups under university control while granting exemptions to non-Christian religious groups…

Non-Christian and Muslim student organizations remain exempt from the mandate, according to the legal filing.

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Dozens Detained at Communist Party Rally in Moscow

Police in Moscow detained about 60 people at a rally Sunday held by Russia’s Kremlin-friendly Communist Party, the party said.

The party said in a statement that the detentions happened as the rally was ending, and that its Moscow branch was working to get those who were detained – mostly young people – released.

The rally marked the anniversary of the Kremlin’s 1993 crushing of a parliamentary uprising.

The Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti said protesters chanted slogans including “Freedom for political prisoners,” “For fair elections,” and “Down with the Tsar.”

The rally came as public frustration has been simmering in Russia during the intensifying Ukrainian drone attacks deep inside the country. The strikes have hit oil refineries and warehouses, caused fuel shortages and disrupted daily life, including in Moscow.

The October 1993 violence capped a long standoff between President Boris Yeltsin and hard-line lawmakers who opposed his painful free-market reforms.

After Yeltsin ordered parliament disbanded and demonstrators supporting the lawmakers tried to seize the state TV broadcasting center, he sent in the military, which used tanks to shell the parliament building.

Authorities said 123 people were killed, while unofficial estimates put the toll in the hundreds.

The Communist Party has been a leading force in parliament since the 1990s, led for more than three decades by 82-year-old Gennady Zyuganov, a former Soviet official.

Throughout Putin’s rule of over a quarter-century, the Communists have criticized some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of him. They steadfastly support the war in Ukraine.

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Multi-Million Dollar TRICARE Fraud Bought A Gold-Plated Cybertruck And Casino Parties

Millions of dollars spent on casino-themed parties, expensive hotels and a gold-plated Cybertruck. It sounds like the spending spree of a character from The Wolf of Wall Street. Instead, federal prosecutors say the absurd spending was financed by a 64-year-old mental health clinic owner named Kevin Darnell Curry.

Curry, who owned and operated Acuity TMS of Plano, Acuity TMS of Fort Worth and Emerald Coast TMS of Fort Walton Beach, was convicted of submitting roughly $26 million in fraudulent claims to TRICARE, which paid out approximately $17 million.

These clinics, which offered transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS, operated in areas with substantial military populations. His Fort Walton Beach clinic sat in the same Florida Panhandle military community as Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field, while his Fort Worth operation was near Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. A third clinic operated in Plano, north of Dallas, Texas.

The scheme involved an unknown number of active duty service members, veterans and military family members covered by TRICARE, though the indictment did not identify where they lived or which installations, if any, the active-duty beneficiaries were assigned to. Curry falsely presented himself as a medical doctor, using fake credentials to convince service members and families to sign up for the treatment.

Curry was convicted of three counts of health care fraud, three counts of offering and paying illegal health care kickbacks and three counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property. Federal authorities previously seized approximately $200,000 in assets connected to Curry’s case, including $136,022 in cash and the gold-plated Cybertruck, according to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors say Curry recruited TRICARE beneficiaries through illegal kickbacks and bribes to receive TMS, then billed TRICARE for treatments that weren’t provided, weren’t provided as represented or for which patients did not qualify.

TMS is a noninvasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate nerve cells in areas of the brain involved in depression. TRICARE covers the treatment for some patients with major depressive disorder when other treatments have failed.

To qualify, patients generally had to have tried at least two antidepressants from different drug classes without success and undergone evidence-based psychotherapy that also failed to adequately treat their depression, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors say some of Curry’s patients did not meet those requirements. His clinics allegedly submitted false information about beneficiaries’ treatment histories to obtain authorization from TRICARE, including records claiming patients had unsuccessfully tried medications they had not actually taken.

The scheme turned military beneficiaries into a source of millions of dollars in fraudulent TRICARE payments and unfolded inside a military health system that has simultaneously been trying to convince service members they can trust it enough to seek mental health care.

Despite the benefits of treatment, an estimated 60% to 70% of military personnel experiencing mental health problems do not seek mental health services, according to the Defense Department’s Psychological Health Center of Excellence.

The Pentagon attributes that gap to a range of barriers, including stigma and concerns about how seeking treatment could affect a service member’s career.

Those concerns can include fears about being viewed as weak, being treated differently by military leadership or losing the confidence of others in their unit.

It remains unclear how much of the approximately $17 million paid by TRICARE has been recovered.

Curry is scheduled to be sentenced at a later date and faces up to 10 years in prison on each count.

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HYPOCRISY: Crazed Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, Who Sued Exxon and Bragged She “Stopped Two Gas Pipelines,” Now Begs Trump’s Energy Secretary to Fast-Track a Natural Gas Expansion Days Before Re-election

Massachusetts Democrat Governor Maura Healey is suddenly singing a very different tune on natural gas.

Far-left Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, the same Democrat who sued ExxonMobil over climate change and once boasted that she stopped gas pipelines from entering the state, is now pleading with the Trump administration to rush federal permits for a natural gas pipeline expansion.

Healey sent a letter Thursday to Energy Secretary Chris Wright urging the administration to speed reviews and permits for Enbridge’s Algonquin Reliable Affordable Resilient Enhancement project, known as RARE, according to her office and CommonWealth Beacon.

She asked Wright to “work across the Administration to ensure that the federal reviews and permits needed for RARE move without delay,” and that “sufficient staff and resources are dedicated to completing the required reviews in time to preserve the project’s planned 2028 in-service date.”

The governor’s own press office confirmed the ask. In an October 1 release, Healey called on the Trump administration to expedite federal review of the Algonquin expansion she says she has previously supported.

Her office said the project would supply gas to about 600,000 customers and cut gas bills by roughly $40 million a year. The savings would come largely from reducing reliance on higher-cost imported liquefied natural gas through the Everett LNG terminal.

In January, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities approved two 10-year agreements between Eversource gas utilities and Algonquin to take the new supply. Enbridge, not ratepayers, would pay for the development, Healey said.

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The 200-Year History of Vaccine Disasters That The Government Censors

The first federal vaccine push in the U.S. was the Act to Encourage Vaccination of 1813 – signed by President James Madison, which required free distribution of smallpox vaccine – according to historical accounts. The measure followed lobbying by James Smith, a physician known as the “Jenner of America,” who was appointed federal vaccine agent under the law.

Congress repealed the act in 1822 after safety failures and complaints of profiteering and corruption, the same accounts state. The repeal marked the first federal retreat from vaccine regulation in the nation’s history. The episode set a template that historians and critics say has repeated for more than two centuries: government promotion of vaccination, followed by documented safety failures and followed by public backlash.

Early Setbacks: Tarboro Tragedy and Civil War Vaccination Problems

The 1822 repeal followed what is known as the Tarboro Tragedy, in which Smith sent live smallpox virus instead of cowpox vaccine to North Carolina, causing about 60 infections and 10 deaths, according to the historical account. The incident is cited as an early example of distribution failures under a federal vaccine program.

Historian Terry Reimer wrote that “unfavorable results from vaccination, or spurious vaccinations, were all too common” during the Civil War, according to Brownstone Institute President Jeffrey A. Tucker. Reimer stated that syphilitic scabs and contaminated material spread disease, and that the Confederate Medical Department tried to limit soldier-to-soldier vaccination.

These 19th-century episodes illustrate a recurring theme that later critics of vaccine policy would cite. Safety problems were often documented only after widespread use, and official responses frequently came after public harm had occurred.

Biologics Control Act of 1902: Industry Initiative, Coleman Article Says

The Biologics Control Act of 1902, a foundational federal law governing vaccine and antitoxin production, was an initiative of the large biologics manufacturers, according to Terry S. Coleman’s 2016 article in the Food and Drug Law Journal titled “Early Developments in the Regulation of Biologics.” Coleman wrote that “the 1902 Act was an initiative of the large biologics manufacturers, and it was enacted with the secret cooperation of Public Health Service.”

According to the historical account, Parke-Davis pushed for strict standards and wrote to the Public Health Service, “As you are perhaps aware, the regulations cannot be too stringent for us.” The correspondence is cited as evidence that industry players sought regulation to stabilize markets and disadvantage smaller competitors.

Separately, investigative reporting published by The BMJ has found that regulatory agencies in six countries, including the United States, have seen large proportions of their budgets funded by the industry they are sworn to regulate, raising questions about independence. Maryanne Demasi, the investigative journalist behind the report, documented significant conflicts of interest between drugmakers and the agencies, according to the reporting [1][2][3].

Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the 1986 Liability Shield

In 1905, the Supreme Court decided Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upholding forced vaccination on public health grounds over freedom of conscience, according to the historical account. The ruling remains a foundational precedent for state vaccine mandates.

Eighty-one years later, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 granted liability protection to makers of childhood schedule vaccines and moved injury claims out of civil courts into a specialized federal compensation program, according to the account. The law has been criticized by vaccine-injured families, who describe the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as “a fortress of opacity and resistance – a system that prioritizes protecting the pharmaceutical industry” over claimants [4].

According to Tucker, the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act enabled the National Institutes of Health to share patents with pharmaceutical companies, a policy shift with reported market value approaching $1 billion to $2 billion. The combination of liability protection, patent sharing and mandatory childhood schedules created what critics describe as a durable framework of industry-favorable regulation.

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Baltimore Rock Opera Society Fires White Director for ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Because She Wore Cornrows to Burning Man

The Baltimore Rock Opera Society has fired its new executive director, Kelly Carnes, after a video showed the white arts executive wearing cornrows at the Burning Man festival, and leftists complained that the hairstyle was cultural appropriation.

Carnes had only been on the job for about two weeks when she was canned.

The volunteer-run theater group, which has staged original rock-and-roll shows in Baltimore since 2009, welcomed her on Instagram on September 14, writing that it was “excited for the new stories about to unfold under AWOL’s leadership as she supports us in our 7,000-year mission of incredible rock theater.”

Less than two weeks later, they fired her.

An email to volunteers, obtained by the Baltimore Banner, announced the firing and said four of the six board members would step down on December 31.

“For BROS to continue, there is an URGENT NEED for qualified people to step up and take these responsibilities from the current board immediately,” the email said.

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The organization added it was revising its Anti-Discrimination Policy to address cultural representation and dress and enforcing anti-racism leadership training.

“The mission of this group will focus on initiatives and systemic changes related to community culture, anti-racist practices, inclusion, accountability, equity, and access within BROS,” the statement posted on social media adds.

The scandal began with a video from a BROS public event.

Carnes had just returned from Burning Man, the annual arts festival in the Nevada desert. She said she had her hair put in cornrows as a “protective style” against the wind and dust, and that she kept the braids because she did not have time to take them out before her first event with the group.

The style featured cornrows along the top, then longer braids and extensions.

She told The Banner that she had checked with fellow campers, including people of color, and with people she works with at home, before wearing it.

The group later removed the video.

Before a September 22 meeting, the board posted that it had “received many heartfelt and concerned messages from members of our community regarding a video circulated on social media showing our new Executive Director, who is white, wearing cornrows at a recent BROS public event.”

The statement said the board shared “the weight of these concerns” and took the matter seriously.

Carnes said the termination letter did not mention the hairstyle. It said she was “not a good fit,” but she does not accept that explanation.

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Trump Admin Cancels $2.2 Billion In Phony Obamacare Enrollments — And Brokers Who Facilitated Them

The Trump administration’s latest action to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Obamacare Exchanges entailed disenrolling people from insurance plans — costing taxpayers billions — who couldn’t identify themselves with proper documentation.

It’s the kind of move that would prompt ordinary taxpayers in the heartland to ask: Why didn’t they do that sooner?

Ghost Enrollees

In a fact sheet, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it had “canceled approximately 315,000 enrollments covering over 760,000 individuals after confirmation that these enrollments were unauthorized.” The action, taken after investigations in coordination with insurance companies, will result in approximately $2.2 billion in Obamacare subsidies being refunded to the federal government.

At the same time, CMS announced it had sent “569 notices of intent to terminate Exchange Agreements to agents and brokers that submitted 2026 applications [for coverage] without identifying applicant information, such as a Social Security number.” It said 66 of those agents and brokers had already been terminated, and more will likely follow as CMS receives responses from the relevant parties.

Questionable Enrollment Persists

CMS also published an interim final rule (i.e., one taking effect immediately) imposing a six-month moratorium on the new registration of brokers and agents, allowing CMS to implement another round of program integrity measures to guard against fraud by agents and brokers. (The moratorium will not apply in states that run their own Exchanges, which set their own rules regarding insurance brokers.) The move caused some pushback from the broker community, which said this punishes the innocent with the guilty since no new broker will be able to register until next February, after the open enrollment period for 2027.

In response, CMS cited data indicating that new agents for the current (i.e., 2026) plan year had significantly higher rates of questionable enrollment — for instance, a 2.8-time higher rate of “unresolved income verification issues,” a 2.7-time higher rate of “missing Social Security numbers,” a 2.6-time higher rate of “unresolved citizenship or immigration status verification issues,” and a 1.4-time higher rate of dual enrollment in Exchange coverage and Medicaid. To CMS, these data points suggest that new brokers may be disproportionately seeking to enroll ineligible individuals primarily for the commissions, and justified the registration moratorium as a preventive measure.

Prior Government Audit

While taking action to prevent fraud is always welcome, did these particular steps come too late? CMS’s latest announcement raises questions about when and why brokers are being terminated or reinstated.

Specifically, an audit released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last December addressed this issue. It noted that, in October 2024, CMS “suspended 850 agents and brokers from the federal Marketplace [i.e., Exchange] for reasonable suspicion of fraudulent or abusive conduct related to unauthorized enrollments or unauthorized plan switches. However, in May 2025, CMS officials told us that the agency reinstated all these suspended agents and brokers to better fulfill the agency’s statutory and regulatory procedures.” 

It isn’t clear why CMS reinstated the brokers last May and whether any of the reinstated brokers were among those who received new termination notices over the summer. But the reinstatements came at a time when the federal government continued to struggle with program integrity efforts.

The recent interim final rule noted that in 2025, CMS received approximately 300,000 “complaints attesting to unauthorized enrollments or unauthorized plan switching.” A separate GAO report, released in July, disclosed a total of 299,604 such complaints last year — an increase from 258,424 in 2024. Thankfully, CMS said in the interim final rule that these trends have reversed in 2026. But given the persistence of eligibility fraud through 2025, CMS should make its reasoning behind last year’s broker reinstatements and this year’s subsequent terminations clear — and if it doesn’t, Congress should ask those questions on behalf of the American people.

As last year’s GAO report noted, a total of 19 of 20 fictitious enrollees were able to obtain subsidized coverage from the federal Exchange. Taxpayers should find that unacceptable, and most ordinary Americans would, regardless of political party. It’s why Washington should continue digging into fraud and demanding accountability. We the people deserve no less.

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President Trump Calls for Mandatory Prison Sentences for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Fraudsters – Says Crooked Politicians Who Cover It Up Must Face Real Consequences

President Donald Trump is calling on Congress to finally put real teeth behind the government’s war on fraud, mandatory prison sentences for criminals caught stealing from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

In a video released Saturday, Trump demanded legislation establishing mandatory minimum sentences for fraudsters who loot the federal programs millions of Americans depend on.

Under Trump’s proposal, probation would no longer be an option for covered fraud offenses.

“Today, I’m calling on Congress to pass legislation to address fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security programs,” Trump said.

“First, Congress must impose mandatory minimum sentences on fraudsters who steal from critical benefit programs designed to take care of the sick, feed the hungry, care for our children, and protect our senior citizens’ retirements.”

“Under our proposal, probation is no longer an option for the fraudsters. If you steal from the American people, you will go to prison and for a long period of time. And the more you steal, the longer you’ll stay in that prison,” he said. “If you’re a convicted fraudster who gets caught stealing from the American people a second time, your sentence will be doubled.”

Then he went after the politicians.

“Second, Congress must make sure that crooked and corrupt politicians who willfully turn a blind eye to fraud finally face real consequences,” Trump said.

“Under our proposal, if a state or local politician knows about fraud and has the ability to stop it, but does nothing about it, they can be personally liable for the full loss of the American taxpayers’ money that they should have stopped and they should have saved.”

The White House published the president’s announcement Saturday under the title “Minimum Sentences on Fraudsters.”

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Merz Pledges €1.35 Billion More to Ukraine, Vows to Keep Fighting Russia…The War Machine Grinds

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on 4 October 2026 by special train, as air-raid sirens and explosions sounded over the capital, and used the trip to lock in another round of weapons, money, and industrial cooperation rather than any concrete path to a ceasefire.

Berlin’s package, as described by German officials to Reuters, is straightforward. Germany will release €1 billion in military aid already budgeted and €350 million for repairs to Ukraine’s energy system, while finalising a joint production deal covering drones and related systems. Merz travelled with Economy Minister Katherina Reiche and executives from defence and energy firms, including companies tied to interceptor drones and longer-range weapons.

The visit was not a diplomatic probe. It was an arms-and-industry mission staged under fire.

Merz’s own framing left little room for de-escalation. “If Russia is not stopped, it will turn its war machine against us sooner or later,” he said on arrival, according to German reporting of the trip. He told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine could continue to count on German help. That is the logic of indefinite support: Russian power must be worn down in Ukraine, or it will eventually be turned on Europe, so the flow of interceptors, long-range systems with ranges above 1,000 kilometres, and repair money cannot be allowed to stop.

Winter attacks on power plants are treated as a reason to spend more, not as a reason to force a settlement before the heating season.

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Jasmine Crockett In Hot Water Legally After Boneheaded Move

Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s campaign-funded merchandise website advertised more than political swag: It offered lobbying services while the Texas Democrat was still serving in Congress, according to Zeteo.

The listing disappeared after the outlet contacted her office. Crockett’s spokesperson said she had not instructed anyone to put it there.

The offerings raised questions about congressional ethics and potential legal violations, experts told Zeteo.

Visitors to the website for Crockett’s merchandise line, “The Clapback Collection,” could find a button near the bottom that read “Political Consultant- Book Now,” according to the report.

Clicking through brought up options ranging from campaign strategy and management to government relations and lobbying. The menu also included communications and public relations, digital and social media work, and political risk management.

Crockett’s office said the site’s purpose was to sell campaign merchandise.

“This website is and has always been focused on selling campaign merchandise,” a Crockett spokesperson told Zeteo. “The Congresswoman has only advertised it for merchandise and did not build it,” they continued. “She never directed anyone to add the button you are inquiring about.”

The solicitation appeared by May, roughly two months after Crockett lost her Senate bid in March, according to Zeteo.

The report also drew a jab from progressive commentator Ryan Grim.

“Not waiting until you leave congress to start lobbying is impressive,” Grim wrote on X.

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