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As Georgia Prosecutor Willis Pursued Trump, Biden DOJ 'Invited' Her To Get Lucrative $2M Grant (Just the News) — The Biden Justice Department "invited" Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to apply for a lucrative sole-source grant in 2022 at the same time that she was pursuing an election interference investigation against Donald Trump, the eventual GOP competitor to President Joe Biden, internal correspondence obtained by Just the News reveals. “I want to document your recognition of our progress and services provided with dynamic partners, as we complete sole source steps for our new grant award, a grant in which you invited us to apply,” Willis wrote to Justice Department Senior Policy Advisor Scott Pestridge in the Office of Justice Programs in December 2022. The district attorney was highlighting the Justice Department’s 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant, from which her office ultimately received $2,000,000 to implement its programs, agency records show. That award, which was opened in April 2022 as a competitive grant, appears to have been provided to Fulton County as the “sole source,” according to the district attorney. See full story	DEATH OF A LEGACY: The Washington Post Hemorrhages $100M+ (Daily Wire) — The era of the “paper of record” is officially dead, and the bank statements at 1301 K Street have the receipts to prove it. The Washington Post, the crown jewel of the billionaire-funded activist press, reportedly hemorrhaged more than $100 million in 2025, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. This staggering deficit follows a $100 million loss the previous year, and a $77 million loss in 2023, highlighting a catastrophic downward spiral for the Jeff Bezos-owned outlet that has failed to find a pulse in the modern media landscape. The financial bloodbath has already triggered a “painful” restructuring, with the Post slashing its staff by a massive 30% earlier this month. In a candid internal meeting held Wednesday, acting CEO Jeff D’Onofrio and Executive Editor Matt Murray laid bare the dysfunction. D’Onofrio revealed that while newsroom costs surged 16% over the last five years, productivity cratered; the number of stories published by the outlet has plummeted by 42% since 2020. See full story
Federal Judge Allows Trump’s $400M White House Ballroom To Move Forward (Fox Business) — A federal judge on Thursday denied a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, clearing the way for construction on the estimated $400 million expansion to proceed. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the injunction sought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, saying the group was unlikely to succeed on the merits. The group sued the Trump administration in December to halt construction, arguing it skipped required reviews and failed to obtain congressional approval before demolishing the East Wing of the White House. In his order, Leon wrote that the preservation group relied on a "ragtag group of theories" under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution. He wrote that the challenge failed because "the White House office in question is not an agency" under the APA and because the plaintiff did not bring what was needed to challenge the president’s statutory authority to complete the project with private funds and without congressional approval. See full story	Here's How Trump Could Boost Your Retirement Savings With Annual Match – From Government (NY Post) — President Trump announced a new public retirement plan with federal contributions to ensure all Americans profit from stock market gains. Starting next year, the federal government will match up to $1,000 in contributions annually in new public retirement accounts available to all American workers, Trump said during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. “We have millions and millions of people, ‘cause the stock market has done so well, hitting all those records, your 401ks are way up – yet half of all working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer,” the president said. “To remedy this gross disparity, I am announcing that next year, my administration will give these oft forgotten American workers – great people, people who built our country – access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker.” More than 44% of full-time American workers, or 40.6 million people, do not participate in a retirement plan at all, while nearly 51%, or 48.8 million, do not benefit from an employer match, according to the White House. See full story
Vance, Oz Announce Pause In Medicaid Funds To Minnesota Amid Fraud Probe (The Hill) — Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz announced on Wednesday the Trump administration will halt certain Medicaid funds to Minnesota as a part of the effort to crack down on fraud in the state. “We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money,” Vance said alongside Oz. As a part of the move, $259.5 million in Medicaid funds for Minnesota will not be reimbursed as the administration investigates alleged fraud in the state. Fourteen programs, including autism care and non-medical transports are among the programs viewed as having a high risk of fraud. “This is not a problem with the people of Minnesota. It’s a problem with the leadership of Minnesota and other states who do not take Medicaid preservation seriously,” Oz said. See full story	Stolen Cash, Nepotism, And A Trunk Full Of Jewelry: San Fran Homeless Nonprofit CEO Charged (San Fran Stadard) — The former head of a San Francisco homelessness services nonprofit, who has been accused of misappropriating more than $1.2 million in public funds, was charged Monday with nine felonies. Gwendolyn Westbrook, 71, former CEO of the United Council of Human Services, faces charges that include misappropriation of public funds, grand theft, and filing four years of false tax returns. Westbrook was booked into county jail Friday, according to the Sheriff’s Department, but is no longer listed in custody. She is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Hall of Justice. Prosecutors allege that between 2019 and 2023, Westbrook misappropriated more than $1.2 million from UCHS accounts through unauthorized self-payments, improper cash withdrawals, and fraudulent reimbursement practices that diverted public funds for personal use. See full story
A Tyrannosaurus Tooth Embedded In Dinosaur Skull Tells A Violent Story (Popular Science) — A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a large plant-eating Edmontosaurus has a tooth lodged into it, indicating that it may have met its final moments as a meal. The tooth in question belongs to one of the most famous dinosaurs on earth – Tyrannosaurus. Montana was once home to Tyrannosaurus rex, the most famous of several known members of the fearsome Tyrannosauridae family. This apex predator stomped around until the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, roughly 66 million years ago. It lived alongside large plant-eaters like Triceratops and the duck-billed Edmontosaurus. In 2005, paleontologists found a nearly complete Edmontosaurus skull in the fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation in eastern Montana. Now on display at the museum, a reexamination of the skull revealed one striking detail: a Tyrannosaurus tooth stuck inside its face. The findings are detailed in a study published today in the journal PeerJ. See full story	‘Stupid People Should NOT Own Pets’: Woman Arrested After Abandoning ‘Service’ Dog At Airport (Amer Wire News) — Some people should not be allowed to have pets. Case in point, a woman who brought a two-year-old Golden Doodle to the airport, but cruelly abandoned the pooch after she was told she couldn’t bring the dog on her flight. The Las Vegas Police Department reported the story on X after the woman, reportedly named Germiran Bryson, 26, was subsequently arrested for her actions. “Airline staff advised the dog’s owner she was required to complete online documentation in order to travel with the animal as a service dog. When the required paperwork was not completed, the passenger was denied a boarding pass. She then left the dog behind and proceeded through the airport to the departure gate,” the post continued. “Officers later located the individual at Gate D1. When asked why she abandoned the dog, she stated the airline would not allow her to fly with it and claimed the dog had a tracking device – implying it was acceptable to leave the animal behind and it would return to her.” That’s when she was arrested, but apparently not without a fight. See full story
NYPD Nabs 27-Year-Old After Mamdani Dismissed Mob Targeting Police As ‘Kids At A Snowball Fight’ (Daily Wire) — A 27-year-old man accused of a separate crime was arrested Thursday in relation to the mob that surrounded NYPD police officers and pelted them with snowballs earlier this week. Gusmane Coulibaly was detained by NYPD officers after the department released images of four people, including Coulibaly, wanted after two officers were injured when a mob of people hurled snowballs at them at Washington Square Park on Monday. The NYPD said that Coulibaly was arrested earlier this month for “attempted robbery in the transit system.” The three other suspects wanted by New York police remain at large, the New York Post reported. It remains unclear what charges Coulibaly faces. New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani put himself at odds with other city and state officials, including Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, when he told reporters he disagreed with calls for arrests following the snowball attack. See full story	DOJ Sues 5 More States, Demanding Access To Voter Rolls: 'We Will Not Be Deterred' (Fox News) — The Department of Justice on Thursday sued five additional states, requesting that their election data be shared with the Trump administration amid its push for access to voter rolls from states across the country. Four states President Donald Trump carried in the last three presidential elections – Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia – were slapped with the latest legal action, along with New Jersey. The DOJ has now sued more than two dozen states in efforts to access election records, with most of the states being controlled by Democrats. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon suggested that state election officials were "choosing to fight us in court rather than show their work" with voter roll access. "We will not be deterred, regardless of party affiliation, from carrying out critical election integrity legal duties," she said in a statement on Thursday. "The Justice Department will continue to fulfill its oversight role dutifully, neutrally, and transparently wherever Americans vote in federal elections," Dhillon said. See full story