Just weeks after the Daily Wire’s investigation into Medicaid fraud in Ohio, the Trump administration arrived at the epicenter of the scandal in Columbus to start shutting the fraudsters down. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, personally traveled to Columbus, and rattled off findings from our investigation into abuse of the “home health care” program, which accounts for billions of dollars in Medicaid spending. From outside of a company that was caught defrauding the government through home health, Dr. Oz said his team confirmed the Daily Wire report about a cluster of hundreds of home health companies in seven office buildings on one street in Columbus. “We also identify 288 Medicaid registered home health aid companies operating out of just seven office buildings along one nearby road,” Dr. Oz said. “Some of these buildings are nearly vacant. Home health care and personal care services have become the subject of nearly all of the recent fraud prosecutions in Ohio.” Fraudsters have been treating Medicaid like a piggy bank, but it ends now. Ohio is showing what happens when data meets accountability. We followed the money and caught the crooks. And we’re not done yet. See you again soon, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/Z1FMxI3gQl — DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) May 30, 2026 The seven buildings containing 288 companies that billed a quarter-billion dollars worth of Medicaid payments were identified by The Daily Wire after Dr. Oz’s agency released data on Medicaid expenditures. READ MORE: Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million Those buildings are all owned by a New Jersey-based landlord, Cordoba, and illustrate just how much of the economy in Columbus has been replaced with Medicaid businesses. Even Cordoba expressed concern with the findings. “The questions you’re raising about how Ohio’s Medicaid dollars are being used and abused are certainly legitimate ones,” a spokesman for the real estate company said. “After your reporting surfaced, Cordoba proactively contacted the Ohio Auditor of State and offered its full cooperation with any investigation.” As was noted by Dr. Oz, the suspicious Medicaid businesses are clustered in a neighborhood that is home to one of the country’s largest Somali immigrant communities. “I’m in Columbus, Ohio, it’s home to the second largest Somali population in the entire United States, after Minneapolis,” Dr. Oz said. “Franklin County, where we are now, by itself accounts more than a third of the billion and a half dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. That is three times more than what would be expected.” “Now process that statistic: the corruption is so widespread here that over a third of the entire state’s home health care budget goes to this county, which is three times more than you expect,” Dr. Oz said. The Daily Wire’s series, Medicaid Millions, is still in progress, yet numerous top government officials have already taken action. Part 5 of the series is set to drop next week. Dr. Oz pledged that this is just the beginning of the crackdown on fraud. “If we do this the right way, people will stop using Medicaid as a piggy bank,” he said. “Vice President [JD] Vance, who’s from Ohio, wants the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force coming after fraudsters everywhere with everything we have.” On Wednesday, a new congressional task force created by the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on Ohio home health care fraud, where I will testify on what I found in Ohio.

The wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner discovered that her husband had exchanged sexually explicit text messages with multiple women and flagged the texts for Platner’s campaign last year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Platner’s wife Amy Gertner flagged the messages for some of Platner’s aides in August 2025, but the campaign ultimately decided to keep the scandal under wraps and label it a personal matter between the couple and their marriage counselor, the Journal reported. The messages came to light within the Platner campaign just before he appeared on stage with democratic-socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for a Labor Day weekend rally where Sanders officially endorsed the leftist’s Senate bid. Exactly how many women Platner exchanged sexually charged messages with was not specified in the Journal’s reporting. Platner tied the knot with Gertner in fall 2024, and she first discovered the sexually explicit messages just months later in spring 2025. Gertner told the Journal that she and her husband worked through the infidelity, and their “marriage today is stronger than ever before.” “We did the hard work that marriage requires. We went to counseling. We were honest with each other in ways that weren’t easy,” she said. “And we came through it, not in spite of how much we’ve been through, but because of how much we love each other and the life we’ve built.” “I know who Graham is. I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn’t changed, and it won’t,” she added. National Democrats have rallied behind Platner, pushing him as a political outsider and lowly “oyster farmer” who’s prepared to be a thorn in the side to Republicans. The text revelations, however, add yet another scandal to a campaign defined by Platner’s long list of disturbing comments and actions that include defending his Nazi tattoo, mocking a wounded American soldier, and making derogatory comments about women. Earlier this month, The Daily Wire reported that Platner once lamented the closing of a loophole that allowed military contractors to save money on taxes by spending their time off “banging hookers in Thailand.” “Spend your leave banging hookers in Thailand instead of getting b*tched at by the wife back home, and you could sell it as avoiding federal income tax,” Platner wrote on Reddit in June 2019. “Once the Afghans started using our paychecks as a personal piggy bank, that whole loophole disappeared.” Platner is expected to cruise to victory in the Democratic primary in Maine on June 9 after his top Democratic opponent, Governor Janet Mills, suspended her campaign last month. Platner also holds a polling lead over Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in the general election.

President Donald Trump suggested that he would take the place of multiple “third rate” artists who have dropped out of the Freedom 250 concert planned for next month, calling himself “the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World.” At least five artists pulled out of the concert earlier this week, claiming that the event has become too politicized. After the Great American State Fair announced the lineup, artists Morris Day & The Time, Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, Young MC, and the Commodores all announced they had changed their minds about performing at one of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, which begin next month. Trump suggested on Saturday that the concert might be replaced by an “America is Back” rally. “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’ and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!” he wrote on Truth Social. Some of the artists scheduled to perform have remained committed to the concert, but with the loss of five headline singers, the Freedom 250 event could be forced to make major last-minute changes to the programming. “I don’t want so-called ‘Artists’ that get paid far too much money, who aren’t happy,” Trump added on Saturday. “I only want to be surrounded by Happy People, Smart People, Successful People, and People that know how to WIN.” The artists who dropped out complained about so-called partisanship in the concert programming, arguing that it was a Trump-backed event. “The artists were never told about any political involvement with the event. And despite the claims by the organizers that the event is non-partisan, SPIN magazine describes it as Trump-backed. I hope to perform in D.C. in the near future at an event that is not so politically charged,” Young MC said. Michaels released a similar statement and added that he and his team had faced threats after it was announced that he was performing. “Unfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of,” he said. “Concerns have also been raised regarding the safety of my fans, band, crew, family and myself, including threats that are completely unfounded and unforgivable.” Freedom 250, the nonprofit dedicated to uniting Americans around the nation’s 250th anniversary, said the concert will be non-political. “Freedom 250 is focused on our signature celebrations and events that honor our history and engage all Americans — welcoming all who share our goal of commemorating this milestone in a way that uplifts and unites America,” spokeswoman Rachel Reisner told CBS News.

A fun day at a popular Texas amusement park quickly turned into a nightmare earlier this week for eight students who got stuck on a roller coaster and dangled vertically 100 feet off the ground for almost four hours. While the students of the Houston Independent School District were on a field trip to Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier in Texas, the Iron Shark roller coaster stopped mid-ascent during its featured 100-foot climb. Firefighters rushed to the rescue and pulled out a 105-foot fire truck tower ladder to retrieve the stuck kids. ABC Eyewitness News reported that the roller coaster stopped at 5:21 p.m., and firefighters received a call at 5:37 p.m., according to Galveston Fire Department Chief Mike Varela Jr. The amusement park was closed while the firefighters on top of the truck’s 105-foot tower ladder lowered the students in a harness one at a time. The last student was retrieved shortly after 9:00 p.m. A terrifying roller coaster rescue is underway in Galveston, Texas Thursday. A car became stuck on a vertical track, leaving eight people dangling at the very top of the ride. Firefighters are using a long-ladder truck to reach the riders several stories above the ground. Crews… pic.twitter.com/Wma3RxQMWQ — ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) May 29, 2026 Terry Turney, the chief operating officer of Pleasure Pier, said in a statement that the roller coaster “as designed, immediately stopped to keep everyone safe” during its initial ascent due to a malfunction. However, it is still unclear what caused the malfunction. The students were checked for dehydration after being stuck in the sun for hours, but no one was injured. “Our focus immediately shifted to the safety of our guests. Therefore, we contacted the Fire Department to assist, ensuring all guests were safely removed from the ride,” Turney said. “A thorough inspection of the ride will take place before it is placed back in service.” In an interview, Galveston Fire Chief Mike Varela said, “Of course they were shaken up from climbing that ladder down, being in that hot sun.” However, he said the firefighters were “able to use their skills to calm everyone down,” and they reassured the students that “the equipment they were putting on them was going to keep them safe.” Pleasure Pier is a major tourist attraction in Galveston, with the Iron Shark roller coaster featuring four full inversions, a 100-foot climb, 95-degree drop, and reaches speeds up to 52 mph.

An AI startup is offering free home cleaning services for New York City residents in an effort to train their future robot workforce. Social media skeptics were quick to point out the privacy concerns that would inevitably arise from allowing cameras to capture every inch of a client’s living space. But for many commenters, the deal was too good to pass up.  Shift announced the offer on social media Thursday, explaining that the insights it will gain from offering free cleanings will more than pay for how much they spend to get it. “Here’s how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing,” the post says. “In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed.” The X post went on to mention that this service is just the beginning. “By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services.”  “Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands,” the post concluded. Today, we’re launching shift. We’re starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here’s how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing. In exchange, we record… pic.twitter.com/oBrCXcEz5G — shift (@joinshiftX) May 28, 2026 “Every home cleaned today lays the groundwork for a home that cleans itself tomorrow,” the company says in the video.  A promotional video shows a cleaner washing windows, mopping and vacuuming floors, scrubbing dishes, and wiping down counters. He’s clad in a white uniform and a baseball cap with an obvious camera mounted on the front of it.  According to Shift’s co-CEO and co-founder Bercan Kilic, this “magic hat” records the work with a hidden camera that documents their every move. On its website, Shift promises that “privacy is fully protected,” with information such as names, faces, or personal information from screens and ID cards blurred before being used for AI training. The company also claims the data “is never shared publicly and is never used for advertising.”  The video has more than 3 million views as of Friday. While many commenters said they want to sign up for the free cleans, others were more cautious. “Nothing is free. People are being taken advantage of,” one person wrote. “You should be paying them. Their data is more valuable than that, and you know it. Unscrupulous corrupt AI corporations like yours are evil.” “This is so freakin’ creepy. Don’t people understand that nothing is free?” another person agreed. “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product,” a third person observed.