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Campaign Worker for Abdul El-Sayed Among Those Arrested by the FBI in Michigan for Terrorizing Jewish Community Leaders and University Officials

Back in June, the FBI arrested eight people at the University of Michigan for engaging in an ongoing campaign of terror against Jewish community leaders and officials at the University of Michigan.

Over this weekend, four more people were arrested as part of the same investigation.

It has now been revealed that one of the original eight arrested by the FBI was a campaign worker for Abdul El-Sayed.

Anyone surprised?

From the New York Post:

A former Abdul El-Sayed campaign worker was among the dozen anti-Israel activists accused of terrorizing members of Michigan’s Jewish community, according to feds.

Mariam Odeh, 24, was one of eight included in the original rounds of indictments by the US Attorney’s Office for allegedly threatening University of Michigan officials in an attempt to force the school to cut ties with Israel, the US Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan said.

The number of conspirators grew to 12 Friday when four more alleged co-conspirators were indicted, federal prosecutors said.

Odeh, who was charged in June for her alleged role in the scheme, did a stint working for El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign, The Detroit News reported that same month.

She had been paid twice by the lefty candidate’s campaign, records obtained by the outlet showed.

An El-Sayed spokesperson later confirmed Odeh’s position as an hourly employee on the campaign for two weeks to the outlet.

The Dearborn, Michigan native left the campaign gig on April 15, after raking in nearly $750, El-Sayed spokesperson Roxie Richner told the paper.

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“The Height Of Hypocrisy”: Charity Founder Gets Eight Years For Embezzling Millions

The founder of a charity that helped low-income workers cover emergency bills has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for spending millions of dollars in donations on himself. Keith Taylor, 59, of New York, founded Modest Needs around 2002, and U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon sentenced him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in August 2025 to defrauding the charity and its donors and to evading more than $1 million in federal income taxes.

Modest Needs was a 501(c)(3) that used crowd-sourced funding to help people living paycheck to paycheck with unexpected costs such as medical bills or a broken appliance. Prosecutors say Taylor embezzled more than $2.5 million from the charity and its donors since at least 2015 and used it to fund his own lifestyle.

The list of what the money bought is the heart of the case. Taylor regularly ate at Per Se, Jean-Georges, Masa and Marea, sometimes twice a day, and spent more than $320,000 of charity funds at New York restaurants and steakhouses. Donations also paid over $300,000 of the rent on a 30th-floor apartment in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, more than $100,000 to food delivery services, and bills for his electronics and his own medical care. Another $270,000 went straight into his personal brokerage account.

“Keith Taylor embezzled millions from a charity for low-income families to pay for his own lavish lifestyle,” U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said. “This is the height of hypocrisy.” He added that Taylor “shattered the trust of those who believed in the mission of the charity, denying essential help to vulnerable individuals and families in genuine need.”

Taylor was arrested in June 2024, and prosecutors say the spending did not stop. He purportedly resigned and was barred from the charity’s bank accounts as a condition of pretrial release, yet he kept using its money for meals, medical expenses and the rent on the luxury apartment, in violation of those conditions.

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Hillary Clinton: Trump Has ‘Truly Lost the Plot of Being President’

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said President Donald Trump has “truly lost the plot of being president for the American people.”

Cooper said, “How do you think he is as a candidate, when you see the guy you debated then and you see the person now, and with the press conference he gave today outside the reflecting pool and the plans and the decorations and the crafting projects, how how different is he?”

Clinton said, “Look, I think that he’s lost the plot. You know, back in 2016, ten years ago, think about that, he had a theory of the case. He knew how he wanted to present himself. He had people around him who at least had some ability to rein him in or to say no to him. He’s totally unfettered and unhinged now. And for him to go to the reflecting pool, one of the great failures of his efforts to redo Washington and stand there as though it was a huge success, and go on and on about all of his, you know, projects ripping up Washington, destroying the East Wing, building an arch that will interfere with air traffic control, navigation in and out of Washington. I mean, you can’t make this up. He is so focused on himself.”

She added, “He wants to build tributes to himself, in the image of himself. I mean, he’s truly lost the plot of being president for the American people.”

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Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ Says You Should Vote Democrat Because Ground Beef is $6.30 a Gallon

Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ is encouraging her social media followers to vote for Democrats, which is no surprise at all, even though the show touts her as a Republican.

In a recent video, Navarro must have been a little nervous because she says that ground beef is now $6.30 a gallon.

Ground beef comes in a gallon now? Who knew?

From Twitchy:

The View’s Ana Navarro took to social media on Monday with a USDA ‘Grade F’ get-out-the-vote message. She’s urging her fellow idiots to vote Democrat, of course. She sounds more sauced than usual. Apparently, she’s a fool when it comes to fuel. She says it’s getting expensive to put ground beef in our cars and trucks or pick up a few jugs of meat at the grocery store. Wut?

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‘Epstein Files’ Include Information Pertaining To National Security

Attorney General Todd Blanche has claimed that there are no national security secrets included in the “Epstein files” – the trove of documents the Justice Department holds on deceased multimillionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

“There’s not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding,” Blanche said around the time that the DOJ started releasing the Epstein files last winter.

However, an inventory of the Epstein files shows that, contrary to what Blanche said, there is classified information included in the files. Government documents ostensibly can only be classified if their release would damage national security.

The document that shows there’s classified material in the Epstein files is an inventory compiled by the FBI when they were redacting the files for public disclosure. The inventory says that on March 3, 2025, agents responded to a “request for any documents at a higher classification (50D serials 538, 539, 684).”

The inventory further reveals the presence of an “Inventory sheet with page counts and red lines showing classified material (x2).” It also says there are “CDs with classified materials (x2).”

The inventory was first reported by CBS News, which noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act – which Congress passed to force disclosure of the files – authorizes withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy.

CBS also reported that there appears to be missing documents from the Epstein files, including financial records collected as evidence in a federal prosecution.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog announced a review in April of the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Epstein files.

The review from the inspector general’s office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted materials in preparation for their release, as well as its process for addressing concerns that arose after the files were made public, when Epstein survivors complained that personal information about them had been disclosed.

Meanwhile, at least 3 million documents from the Epstein files have yet to be released, according to public reports.

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Newsom Threatens Anyone Who ‘Meddles’ in California Elections in Unhinged Video Message on Eve of Midterms

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday threatened anyone who ‘interferes’ with California’s ballot counting in an unhinged video message on the eve of the midterm elections.

Newsom slammed President Trump and warned that poll watchers who ‘meddle’ in California’s ballot counting will be hit with felonies.

“Donald Trump is trying to throw out 20,000 California ballots and intimidate election workers. Let me be clear, if you interfere with our elections, California will come for you. No presidential pardon will save you,” Newsom said.

“If you interfere with our voters, you will be prosecuted with a felony. If you tamper with our ballots, you will face justice. It doesn’t matter who gave the order. Meddle in California’s elections and California will come for you,” Newsom said.

Newsom continued, “And don’t count on a pardon. The President can’t pardon you out of California justice.”

“Two months ago I signed a law giving our state prosecutors new tools to make sure of that. We saw this coming. We passed 13 election protection bills. We sent $40 million to counties to hire staff and count ballots faster,” Newsom said.

Newsom warned that his election security task force is watching for “misinformation and threats at the polls.”

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For First Time In Years, Air Force Sends F-16s To Remote Aleutians, Near Russia

The Air Force sent several F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to a remote part of the western Aleutian Islands this month, as part of a wider North American Aerospace Defense Command exercise. The deployment was notable as it was the first time in years that fighter jets were at Eareckson Air Station in an air defense alert role.

The use of the station on Shemya Island for this role comes as the U.S. looks to expand its abilities to rapidly move forces to remote or austere spots in the Arctic.

The F-16s were on Shemya, a tiny island sitting in the Bering Sea in the western part of the Aleutian Islands, as part of Operation Noble Defender, NORAD announced on Friday, Oct. 30. The operation, which started in mid-October and wrapped Oct. 26, saw American and Canadian fighter jets and refueling planes stage around Alaska and Alberta, Canada. It culminated on Oct. 25 with a large-scale air exercise called Operation Noble Eagle. It involved two F-16s, F-35 Lightning IIs assigned to Eielson Air Force Base, an E-3 Sentry from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Canadian fighter jets, and multiple refueling tankers.

As NORAD noted, Eareckson Air Station is roughly 1,600 miles away from Eielson. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert D. Davis, the commander for the Alaskan NORAD Region, noted the need to “bring combat power together across vast distances.”

“Operating from Eareckson Air Station proved we can deploy to an austere location, maintain alert, launch on short notice, and seamlessly integrate U.S. and Canadian forces to defend the northern approaches,” Davis said in the NORAD announcement.

Shemya is home to a large runway as well as an important early warning tracking station. The island is closer to Russian territory than it is to the Alaskan mainland. During the Cold War it was home to many deployed fighter jets operating in air defense roles to deter the Soviets. In the early 1990s, however, Eareckson Air Station saw its regular fighter presence end. The military has returned aircraft to the station several times in the following years. As TWZ noted, special operations forces have repeatedly trained on the island in recent years in exercises focused on defending the important Cobra Dane radar system.

NORAD often scrambles fighter jets to intercept aircraft in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone; the zone is part of international airspace but NORAD requires aircraft to identify themselves. Last year there were several instances of Russian jets entering the Alaskan ADIZ.

In its announcement, NORAD noted that the deployment to Eareckson Air Station further validated the remote base “as a viable location for future fighter operations from an austere airfield.”

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Study Links Frozen Embryo Transfers To Higher Rates Of Childhood Cancer

There are an estimated 1.2 million unused frozen embryos in the U.S. and millions more sitting in cryopreservation tanks across the world. The majority of these test tube babies will never be implanted in a womb. Instead, they will stay indefinitely preserved — literally frozen in time — until they are discarded or dissected. The small percentage of cryopreserved embryos that do escape the liquid nitrogen tanks, according to a new study out of Denmark, will experience a higher rate of childhood cancer than children who were conceived without ART.

Denmark has one of the highest rates of ART in the world — approximately 10 to 12 percent of the Danish babies born are the product of fertility help like in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a process that involves isolating and injecting a single live sperm cell into a mature egg with hopes of fertilization.

According to researchers who examined 1,086,136 of the Land of Danes’ live births from 1996 to 2012, 3,736 cancers “occurred.” The study was careful to note that “absolute risks were low,” but indicated that the “modestly increased childhood cancer” rate is “procedure-related, rather than infertility-related.”

Babies born after they were conceived using ART had a higher rate of cancer incidence, 23.6 per 100,000 person-years, than their naturally conceived peers, 18.3 per 100,000. Those rates doubled in children born of frozen embryos, which yielded a 41.1 per 100,000 cancer rate, and also increased in children born after ICSI, 27.9 per 100,000.

Children born of IVF with fresh embryos — embryos that were created in a petri dish and implanted within three to five days after egg retrieval — did not show any specific cancer associations. Dane babies born of frozen embryos, however, suffered an 11.1 pediatric leukemia incidence rate, a 3.03 lymphoma rate, and a 7.63 soft tissue sarcomas rate.

ICSI also saw significant associations with lymphomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and an 8.2 per 100,000 incidence rate for central nervous system neoplasms.

This particular study is significant because it’s one of the longest and largest scientific examinations of children born using ART. Most IVF transfers in the U.S. and around the world involve frozen embryos. Yet the risks of those transfers are not always apparent or publicized.

“Nobody yet has long-term data on IVF as it is done today. Children conceived with today’s methods won’t have 20 years of data until the 2040s, so today’s IVF children are, in effect, the trial,” Josh Wood, executive director at Them Before Us, noted.

ART is more popular and profitable now than ever, but conceiving children outside of the human body doesn’t come without risks for mothers or their babies. In addition to the cancer incidence findings of this latest study, children who are conceived via IVF are at higher risk for preterm delivery, low birth weight, congenital heart problems, “neurodevelopmental disorders as well as potentially long-term metabolic outcomes,” and myriad birth defects.

Mothers who carry babies conceived by IVF also face risks such as ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome after egg retrievals, reactions to fertility drugs, infection, bleeding, bowel perforation, ectopic pregnancy, and an increased risk of major postpartum hemorrhage. Women who undergo fertility interventions also see a “transient increase” in the risk of certain cancers.

ART, like IVF, is often pitched to people struggling with infertility as a quick fix. Yet scientific data detailing the risks of outsourcing reproduction can be limited. In some ART, like surrogacy, data is more established but downplayed. That’s because detailing the imminent and measurable harm renting wombs has on women, babies, and intended parents puts the industry at risk of regulation and profit loss.

The cancer risk detailed in the recent Denmark study should raise concerns among reproductive technology specialists. Yet little to no legal or financial incentives exist for the global fertility industry to act on those concerns.

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FDA Official Urged Fatal Myocarditis Warning on COVID Vaccine Labels 10 Months Ago. It Was Never Added.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety official recommended adding a warning about fatal myocarditis to mRNA COVID-19 vaccine labels in December 2025, after an agency review identified several pediatric deaths as possibly or probably related to vaccination.

More than 10 months later, the agency hasn’t added the warning.

According to documents obtained by investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker, an FDA pharmacovigilance expert — Dr. Meghna Alimchandani — emailed agency leadership on Dec. 5, 2025, formally recommending that a warning for fatal myocarditis be added to mRNA COVID-19 vaccine labels.

Her recommendation followed an internal memo from Dr. Vinay Prasad, then-head of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). The memo, later leaked to The New York Times, revealed that agency researchers had initially identified “no fewer than 10” child or teen deaths tied to vaccine-induced myocarditis.

However, documents released in June by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) showed that a month after CBER identified the 10 child deaths, it reduced the number of deaths to seven and downgraded the probability that the vaccines were directly responsible.

Several former FDA officials told RealClearInvestigations that the leaked memos and documents — along with reporting by The New York Times and other news outlets — “appears to have unsettled the FDA’s safety office,” leading the agency to reduce the number of child deaths that it linked to the COVID-19 shots.

In May 2025, the FDA directed Pfizer and Moderna to strengthen their COVID-19 vaccine label warnings by expanding the age group at risk for vaccine-related myocarditis and pericarditis and warning that myocardial injury can be lasting — but the warning about fatal outcomes has never been added.

Thacker suggested that overlapping political, pharmaceutical and media interests may have led to the FDA decision not to add the warning.

He attributed the lack of action partly to the Trump administration’s investment in Operation Warp Speed, which accelerated vaccine development in 2020, and to what he describes as the Biden administration’s reluctance to publicize findings that could undermine its vaccination policies.

Drug safety advocate Kim Witczak, a former member of the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, told The Defender that the warning label issue should not be partisan.

“This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats, Trump, Biden or RFK Jr., it’s about the American public’s right to know,” Witczak said. “If FDA scientists identified credible evidence of fatal myocarditis and recommended updating the COVID vaccine labels, why hasn’t that happened? Who made that decision?”

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Watchdog: Almost 10,000 Dead People on Los Angeles County Voter Rolls

There are nearly 10,000 dead people on Los Angeles County, California’s active voter rolls, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges in a Help America Vote Act complaint filed with state election officials.

The complaint raises serious concerns about California’s voter registration maintenance ahead of tomorrow’s midterm elections. Among the allegations, PILF lawyers “identified 9,766 potentially deceased active voter registrants” in Los Angeles County.

In addition, 1,279 duplicate registrations are also allegedly on Los Angeles County’s voter rolls, as well as 1,340 registrants with fictitious birth dates and over 700 registrants with birth dates that make them at least 110 years old.

California has a responsibility to maintain accurate voter rolls,” PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement on the group’s website. “Election officials should investigate these discrepancies and ensure that voter registration records are accurate.”

PILF lawyers warned California election officials last year that significant errors were pervasive throughout the state’s voter rolls.

The September 2025 complaint alleged that almost 95,000 dead people were on California’s voter rolls, along with more than 57,000 duplicate registrants, and more than 7,600 registrants with fictitious birth dates.

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