Herbert Leon Kimble, 60, was arrested in the Philippines after failing to appear for his sentencing hearing in August 2024, according to federal officials. His capture marks the second arrest from the FBI’s new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list in just over two weeks. FBI Director Kash Patel said Kimble had been on the run since 2024 after orchestrating a $1.2 billion scheme from 2014 to 2019. “In just over two weeks, this is the second Most Wanted Fraudster arrested on the FBI’s list led by Vice President Vance and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud,” Patel posted on X. In just over two weeks, this is the second Most Wanted Fraudster arrested on the FBI’s list led by Vice President Vance and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Herbert Leon Kimbel was apprehended in the Philippines and is now back in the United States, on the run… pic.twitter.com/9ju6cnEfFX — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 19, 2026 Kimble had pleaded guilty in 2019 to multiple federal offenses, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, health care fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, making false claims, and offering kickbacks and bribes. Prosecutors said Kimble operated a health care fraud scheme that generated more than $1.2 billion in Medicare charges and affected thousands of beneficiaries, many of them elderly. Authorities said the operation used call centers to steer patients toward medically unnecessary orthopedic braces. The case puts a face on the kinds of large-scale fraud federal officials say they are trying to root out. Authorities say elderly beneficiaries were pushed toward unnecessary medical equipment, taxpayers were left with more than a billion dollars in charges, and Kimble fled before he could be sentenced. Patel said the FBI remains committed to carrying out President Donald Trump’s directive to crack down on fraud and protect taxpayer dollars. Kimble’s arrest comes after federal officials announced the apprehension of Said Abdullahi Ereg, 47, who was wanted on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Ereg was the first person on the list to be taken into custody. Vice President JD Vance said Kimble’s capture was tied directly to the creation of the Most Wanted Fraudsters list. “Our message is simple,” Vance wrote on X. “If you defraud the American people, we will find you and we will bring you to justice.” “Kimble preyed on the elderly for years, costing taxpayers over a billion dollars,” Vance continued. “The FBI catching Kimble is a direct result of the task force’s partnership with the FBI to create the Most Wanted Fraudsters list.” Vance said authorities had been unable to capture Kimble for months, but that the Philippine government helped locate him after the Justice Department published its list. The arrest comes months after the Justice Department announced the creation of a National Fraud Enforcement Division to support President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, led by Vance. The task force was launched to investigate and recover fraudulent spending in programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Kimble fled to the Philippines rather than face accountability in the United States. “Fleeing the United States does not mean you can flee justice,” Blanche wrote on X. “Instead of facing accountability for his $1.2 billion Medicare fraud crimes in the United States, Kimble fled to the Philippines hoping to escape justice,” Blanche continued. “That plan failed.” Blanche said the FBI has now apprehended two fraudsters from its recently unveiled list in just two weeks, adding that there are “more to come.”

According to a new report, Jim Carrey is in talks to reprise his role in the popular Christmas classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” live action film from 2000.  Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing a sequel to the original smash hit that made more than $350 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter — a more-than-respectable amount for the time. Ron Howard is also rumored to be returning as director and Brian Grazer will again serve as producer, the outlet noted. The trio of script writers — Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel — also worked on the Dr. Seuss adaptation “The Cat in the Hat” (2003) starring Mike Myers, which was not considered a success. It won the Golden Raspberry Award (Razzie) that year for “Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content).” The project is far from being a done deal and is still in the beginning stages. Carrey, 64, has discussed in the past how difficult the Grinch makeup was to put on and wear — but now he realizes technology has changed everything. He said he was open to returning if that process could be different.  “Oh, gosh, you know, if we could figure out the Grinch,” the actor told ComicBook during a 2024 interview. “The thing about it is, on the day, I do that with a ton of makeup and can hardly breathe. It was an extremely excruciating process. The children were in my mind all the time. ‘It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids.’ And now, with motion capture and things like that, I could be free to do other things. Anything is possible in this world.” Carrey is best known for cult classic comedy films such as “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “The Mask,” and “Dumb and Dumber,” among others. But he gradually stopped working as much and in 2022, even said he was “probably” retiring from Hollywood.  Then the actor joined the “Sonic the Hedgehog” franchise as the film’s villain, Dr. Robotnik, and said he agreed to do the third installment for a relatable reason. “I came back to this universe because, first of all, I get to play a genius, which is a bit of a stretch. And, you know, it’s just … I bought a lot of stuff and I need the money, frankly. Yeah,” Carrey said.  He is also set to reprise his role in “Sonic the Hedgehog 4,” scheduled in 2027.

Vandals damaged the newly restored Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump said Friday. The news comes as National Park Service members have been scrubbing algae from the pool while strips of peeled paint float in the water following weeks of a $14.8 million restoration.  “Things are really looking good in our Nation’s Capital, and add to that the fact that when I became President, Crime was rampant, and now, Washington, D.C., is one of the Safest Cities anywhere in the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday. “However, we’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool, which sits between The Washington Monument and The Lincoln Memorial.” Trump said vandals have tried to damage both the inside and the outside of the pool. “No different than the chemicals that were used on the National Mall, they used something similar in the Reflecting Pool to try to destroy and demean our beautiful work,” Trump said in the post. Last week, the numbers “86 47” appeared in the grass near the pool, prompting an investigation. The Trump administration has interpreted the numbers as a call for violence against the president. “86” is slang in the restaurant industry for getting rid of something, while “47” might refer to Trump being the 47th president, The New York Times reported.  Meanwhile, the National Park Service has used chemicals and ozone nanobubbles to counter the algae that had turned the pool bright green. The department also vacuumed out dead algae. Video shows the green algae water being pumped out of the pool. Crews continue to pump out the dead algae from the reflecting pool. pic.twitter.com/qeS0t02wdv — Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) June 19, 2026 Algae growth has been a problem with the reflecting pool since it first opened in 1922, according to an X post from the Interior Department. The pool also has leaking pipes that disrupt its filtration system, per The New York Times. In addition to the algae growth, the “American flag blue” paint and sealant are peeling from the bottom of the pool. Trump said the pool’s damage will be fixed immediately, and law enforcement is investigating the potential vandalism. “The algae is 75% gone, and the condition will soon be completely remedied, and the area that was vandalized, fortunately, is just a small area of damage, and will be fixed early next week,” he wrote on Truth Social.

In 1972, Richard Nixon was re-elected with over 60% of the popular vote. Just a few years later, he left office as the most disgraced president in history. His resignation cemented his legacy as one of scandal, and for half a century Nixon has been associated with Watergate: “I am not a crook.” But something’s happening online that may once and for all disprove Fitzgerald’s dictum that there are no second acts in American lives. Across social media, Tricky Dick is blowing up — with memes, edits, and merchandise marketed at Gen Z. Thirty-two years after his death, America’s 37th president is popular again. And for the first time ever, he’s cool. “It’s frightening and terrifying and sad,” Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks told Vanity Fair. “It’s part of the whole process of history being rewritten and obliterated.” The Vanity Fair piece, titled “Richard Nixon’s Instagram Redemption Is Perfect for Our Post-Truth World,” is a pearl-clutching jeremiad straight out of Joe Scarborough’s Id. For 2,000 words, Wine-Banks and Watergate mastermind-turned-informant John Dean assert Nixon’s villainy while cautioning that the Nixon Foundation’s attempt at rehabilitation is some kind of conspiracy to make Donald Trump’s “lies” acceptable. For those of us who only learned about Nixon as a historical figure — that is to say, at least half of the country — it’s not hard to imagine this conspiracy. After all, that’s what Nixon was about: Watergate, of course, but also the Oval Office recordings, Kissinger’s scheming diplomacy, and the Committee to Re-Elect the President, infamously abbreviated to CREEP. Surely some shadowy cabal of Republican elites were behind this social media blitz. But the truth is simpler, and to the extent that there is a conspiracy, it’s among Nixon’s opponents. The guys behind the memes are just doing their job. They happen to be really good at it. And like the man whose legacy they steward, they’re now being attacked for their success. James Byron was named president and CEO of the Nixon Foundation in 2021, at the ripe age of 28. A history major who briefly served as an advisor to the Archivist of the United States, Byron says this is his dream job. It’s clear when you talk to him that this is an understatement. Byron is hardly alone. The Nixon foundation team is excited to tell the story about America’s most misunderstood president. Nowhere is this clearer than with Chris Barber, the Foundation’s 35-year-old marketing director and the man behind the memes. Hearing Barber’s age is likely a shock to anyone who’s seen his videos, which are the most Gen Z things of all time. Smash cuts of Nixon speeches overlaid with TikTok rap and strobe light transitions dominate the Foundation’s Instagram page and are frequently shared on X. In the comments section, Zoomer argot abounds in praise of Dick. Among you young men, there may be a Vice President Nixon! pic.twitter.com/7tqj0Lltmq — Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) June 10, 2026 “Aura farming from the grave is crazy,” writes one commenter. “Someone is on one at the Nixon foundation and I’m thrilled,” adds another. “This shit is in my Spotify liked list holy moly.” Thanks to Barber’s edits, the Nixon Foundation has racked up 250 million views across social media platforms since October 2023. Subscribers climbed from 65,000 to 450,000 in that same window. Today, over half of the Foundation’s Instagram audience is under 35. But the Nixon renaissance is not merely an online phenomenon. Nixon Library attendance is up 30% year-over-year. This May the Foundation sold more merchandise than they’ve sold in 10 years. When the Foundation dropped a line of “Nixon–Maxxing” hats, they sold out in 90 minutes. So did the second order the Foundation scrambled to release. They sold 200 hats in total, completely clearing the shelves. Nixonmaxxing hats sold out in a few hours. Restock alerts here → https://t.co/dh622ATSqx pic.twitter.com/lp503q1lEr — Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) February 14, 2026 It’s tempting to chalk this whole thing up to Gen Z being ironic. And of course, that’s part of it. But Vanity Fair isn’t dragging out John Dean to sound the alarm on a mere social media bit. Something else is happening here, something deeper — and it has people panicking. Perhaps the best way to understand this is to migrate over to the Nixon Foundation’s YouTube channel, where memes give way to clips of Nixon’s speeches. Here the videos — which frequently amass more than 3 million views — are not cheeky or funny. They’re just Nixon: Nixon talking about Bill Clinton, Nixon being prescient on Russia and Ukraine, Nixon waxing philosophical about what constitutes a good life. People may get pulled in by the edits, but Nixon himself is holding their attention. That’s not surprising. If one is interested in Congress, communism, and China, to say nothing of the presidency and the media, one is de facto interested in Nixon. He helped shape and was shaped by all of those institutions. It’s impossible to understand them, or our time, without understanding him. The Honorable Richard M. Nixon pic.twitter.com/xjDbQPvqa1 — Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) May 20, 2026 For Nixon’s critics, this is the problem. Conventional wisdom and AP U.S. History textbooks hold that you’re allowed to say one good thing about Nixon: he opened China. Otherwise, it’s all stagflation, pancake makeup, and burglary. Americans cannot be allowed to appreciate Nixon the man in full because doing so would shatter the totalizing impulse that has dominated American politics since Woodward and Bernstein first went to press. This point really cannot be overstated: the Nixon revival is a threat not because it gives cover to Trump to lie, cheat and steal, but because it could make Americans realize that the people they trust to render judgement on politicians are not always honest brokers. And God forbid people start looking at Watergate with fresh eyes. They might learn that Bob Woodward never actually used the codeword “Deep Throat” for Mark Felt, and that his book agent made it up to sell more copies of “All The President’s Men.” They might learn that the reason Woodward and Carl Bernstein never revealed Felt’s identity was because he was a career FBI agent with an axe to grind against Nixon, who passed Felt over for the director job. They might learn that Felt was the mastermind behind COINTELPRO, a controversial FBI program to infiltrate and dismantle radical Left groups. Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) They might also discover that Washington Post publisher Ben Bradlee had serious misgivings about Woodward and Bernstein’s reporting. In 2012, New York Magazine — no Nixonian rag, to be sure — published excerpts from Bradlee’s personal papers in which he said “There’s a residual fear in my soul that that isn’t quite straight.” “Dealing with Woodward and Bernstein became — as they became more skilled in subterfuge, as they became more skilled in double meanings and triple meanings and quadruple, it became quite hard to deal with … Their great habit was to come around about 7:30 at night to say they had a helluva story … because they thought the guard would be down and they could slip it into the paper without the usual sort of grilling.” The author of that piece, Jeff Himmelman — who discovered the papers while writing Bradlee’s authorized biography — confronted Woodward about the quote. To put it succinctly, Woodward freaked out. Later Himmelman found that the tape containing those comments, one in a series of 13, had disappeared. He asked Bradlee if he thought Woodward had taken it. “Maybe,” Bradlee laughed. That piece is 14 years old and I can guarantee you most Americans have never read it. The fact is, the media industrial complex has — in an ironic twist, given the subject matter — worked to keep the full truth of Watergate under wraps. Because Watergate is the modern media’s foundational myth. Before Woodward and Bernstein, journalism largely consisted of reporting facts, and investigative journalism meant exposing real scandals in the public interest. Watergate changed that. From that moment on, investigative journalism became inherently political, and politicians became trophies to hunt. Journalists’ political sympathies being what they are, this necessarily meant that Republicans were always in the crosshairs. To interrogate Watergate is to interrogate the very foundations of our media and the way we see politics. There’s a reason political scandals get the “-gate” suffix. For the status quo to hold, Watergate must be a triumph, and Bob Woodward must be a hero. Which means Nixon must be the villain. Getty Images For a while, it seemed that this would always be the case. But then, during the first Trump administration, Americans saw for the first time what the “deep state” really was. Not some imagined rightwing boogeyman but an actual, active network of entrenched bureaucrats willing to subvert a president to push their own political agendas. The veil dropped. If this happened now, people realized, it could have happened then. Suddenly old doubts became new. The idea that Nixon was targeted by the bureaucracy, which political scientist John Marini first argued in 1992, was back on the table. The fact that Nixon only set up his wiretaps because he discovered American military commanders were wiretapping the White House — which historian James Hougan first revealed in his 1984 book “Secret Agenda” — was put into the light earlier this year when James Rosen exposed the long-buried grand jury hearing where Nixon explained the situation. In 2025, Bill Murray appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience. Years earlier, Woodward published a book about Murray’s friend, the late comedian John Belushi. Remarking on the book’s myriad falsehoods, Murray told Rogan “I read like five pages … and I went, ‘Oh my God. They framed Nixon.'” Murray’s joke gets at something real. Pull at one thread and the sweater unravels. Start noticing and it’s hard to stop. The Nixon renaissance is about reevaluating the narrative we’ve been fed about our history, our government, and our media, sure, but it’s also the result of a curious drive that springs up naturally when something that for so long has been off limits is suddenly placed on the table. 55 years ago, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was observed across the United States. President Nixon’s response was firm: “Under no circumstances will I be affected whatsoever by it.” pic.twitter.com/6gcUBE729i — Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) October 16, 2025 It’s especially clear why Gen Z would be excited about this prospect. They learned the standard “Nixon bad” narrative from teachers who themselves only knew this one-dimensional Nixon. But more generally, Gen Z has every reason to question the “truths” they’ve been fed. They came of age during COVID lockdowns and peak woke, and have now seen those movements and the people who pushed them collapse in disgrace. Their generation’s drive to question authority and push the bounds of acceptable thought has led them to embrace people like Hasan Piker and Nick Fuentes, figures whose ideas threaten the foundation of our democracy. But this has also led them to praise the aura of a self-made California Quaker who dedicated his life to public service and remained in the arena even after the people and country he fought for rejected him time and again. Richard Nixon always seemed like something from a bygone age, always just a few steps behind where America was trending. But perhaps, like so much else about Nixon, we got it wrong. Maybe Nixon wasn’t a relic come too late, but a visionary come too early. Maybe his time is now.

“Toy Story 2” almost didn’t exist, thanks to one string of code that deleted the entire movie. “Toy Story” is a massively successful franchise. Its fifth installment, “Toy Story 5,” premiered Friday. But in 1998, Pixar nearly lost “Toy Story 2” when an employee accidentally erased it from the company’s servers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The code culprit was a short command: /bin/rm-r-f*. That command directed the chosen server to delete all of its files immediately, without requesting permission, the Journal reported.  Technical employees used it to free up storage in their personal directories, but since they could also access the “Toy Story 2” master drive, it was easy to input the command in the wrong place. Technical Director Oren Jacob was working on the film in Pixar’s Richmond, California, offices when the files disappeared from his computer, according to the Journal. Pixar had lost about 90% of the movie. “You don’t often watch a company vaporize in front of your eyes,” Jacob told the Journal. Pixar planned to release the movie in theaters, and any delay would have been catastrophic for the company, according to co-founder Ed Catmull. “We didn’t have the resources at that time to absorb that kind of delay and survive,” Catmull told the Journal. Catmull focused on finding a solution instead of someone to blame. Looking for someone to blame doesn’t help us learn from mistakes,” he told the Journal. “We understood that the deletion of the movie was an accident because somebody typed in a command when they were in the wrong directory. We don’t know who typed the command, or if they even knew that they were the one who did it, but it didn’t matter. Supervising Technical Director Galyn Susman initially thought Pixar could recover the film from the company’s backups — only to discover the backup systems had also failed. Then Susman realized she had a backup on her home computer, the Journal reported. She had created a work-from-home setup while on maternity leave. She would take the computer to the Pixar offices once a week and download the latest copy of the movie so she could continue working on it. Susman and Jacob transported the computer from Susman’s home to the office and were able to restore the movie’s files. After recovering the movie, however, the studio deleted it again — on purpose this time — and completely overhauled it less than a year before its release date, according to the Journal. The do-over worked, and the film became incredibly successful. “Personally, I still think ‘Toy Story 2’ is the best of the franchise,” Susman told the Journal.