California's state government has funneled at least $41 million in combined state and federal grants to the Council on American-Islamic Relations' California affiliate over the last five years, according to a new investigation, despite the group's documented ties to Hamas financing networks and incendiary rhetoric from its own leadership.
State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat seeking to flip one of the most competitive congressional seats in the country, is facing renewed scrutiny this week over a 2021 video showing her reciting a Muslim prayer on the Iowa Senate floor, and a separate interview in which she described Iowa as insufficiently diverse and implied constituents harbor "horrible animosity" toward Muslims.
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that uncovering waste and fraud inside the federal government is like "fishing in a barrel with dynamite," adding that his Fraud Task Force uncovers jaw-dropping abuse every single week.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, accusing the newspaper of passing over a white male candidate for a top editorial role in favor of a less-qualified applicant to meet the company's diversity targets, in what legal observers are calling one of the highest-profile DEI-related discrimination cases in recent memory.
