The Global Update

A California tax preparer pleaded guilty Monday to helping an illegal immigrant file fraudulent federal income tax returns that claimed $25 million in refunds, the Justice Department said.  Victor Cruz, 40, of Bakersfield, helped Miguel Martinez, a Mexican national who was in the United States illegally, carry out the scheme from November 2019 through June…

Left-wing Bluesky accounts defended Vice President JD Vance’s young children facing jeers and boos during their trip to Disneyland over the weekend. Vance was with his wife Usha and their children at the California amusement park where they faced cheers and boos from park attendees. Their trip also drew a large protest outside the Grand…

A progressive Democratic state representative sparked controversy after referring to ICE agents as “Nazi Gestapo thugs” following an ICE operation in Providence, Rhode Island, that resulted in the arrest of a known MS-13 gang member. “The Nazi Gestapo ICE thugs kidnapped another of our neighbors in Providence this morning. This time on Alverson St.,” wrote…

Fans of overweight influencers are reportedly feeling “abandoned” as those they look up to are choosing to lose weight.  “I think the audiences that are feeling abandoned, in my opinion, largely the feedback is not, ‘I’m mad that you’re skinny,’” Lydia Okello, a writer and model who was quoted in a recent Teen Vogue article…

A former intern for New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appeared in a resurfaced video calling activism “jihad” while encouraging protesters to get suspended or arrested in defiance of “settler colonialism.” The footage of Hadeeqa Malik shows her calling out Muslims who haven’t taken to the streets.  “The true believer knows that none…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., scored a victory on Friday when the state of Florida’s university system approved a new accreditor to overhaul higher education. Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee formed the Commission for Public Higher Education, a consortium of six public universities offering a new accreditation model. Florida’s Board of Governors approved…

The old adage goes: Where there is smoke, there is fire. And the metaphorical smoke billowed during the first day of SEC Media Days on Monday around college football legend Nick Saban. Rumors about Saban returning to the sport he left more than a year ago ramped up. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON…

The Democratic, Republican and independent candidates for New York City mayor don’t often agree on much, but they appear to be in lock-step over the view that New Yorkers want someone different than former Governor Andrew Cuomo to run the Big Apple. Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa, the Democratic and Republican nominees for New York…

Documents subpoenaed by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs show major failures among the six U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agents who were suspended without pay in response to an assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. While the USSS had previously…

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Monday just how unpopular the Democratic Party has become. In an interview with anchor Dana Bash, Emanuel scolded his party, stating that it has “disappointed” its voters and been lost ever since President Donald Trump’s election victory last year.  “Just to give you a sense of how…