Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations and current president of the U.N. Security Council, has a role in a Cincinnati health care company which faced federal scrutiny over a Medicaid fraud conviction, HHS confirmed Monday.  “I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati,” HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill posted on X. “HHS has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud.” “More to come,” O’Neill added. I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati. HHS has previously taken… pic.twitter.com/zWIlC63Qer— Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill (@HHS_Jim) January 5, 2026 HHS’ National Provider Identifier system lists “Abukar D. Osman” as “president & CEO” of Progressive Health Care Services Inc., located on Boudinot Avenue in Cincinnati. The company did not respond to calls from The Daily Signal to the number listed on the registry. HHS declined to provide further information on the alleged Medicaid fraud connection. “By statute we cannot confirm or deny the existence of an investigation,” Bethany McCorkle, communications director for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, told The Daily Signal Tuesday. Scrutiny for Somali Community The U.S. Somali community is facing renewed scrutiny in the wake of multiple fraud scandals in Minnesota. The Minneapolis nonprofit Feeding Our Future reported fake food distribution sites while collecting federal child nutrition assistance in a $250 million fraud scheme. The office of U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen has charged at least 78 defendants connected to the scheme, and 56 of them have pleaded guilty. Authorities have also filed charges in a $14 million fraud case involving an autism program and a multi-million dollar fraud case involving housing stabilization services. One federal prosecutor has estimated Medicaid fraud in the state to have exceeded $9 billion. According to the Associated Press, around 89% of the defendants in the wide-ranging fraud cases trace their descent to Somali immigrants. Minnesota state Rep. Kristen Robbins, a Republican, previously told The Daily Signal that while Somalis make up a majority of defendants in the cases, “some of the best whistleblowers have come from the Somali community.” Somali refugees come to the U.S. to escape the civil war in their homeland, which has dragged on for more than 30 years. Piracy, grinding poverty, and the influence of radical Islamist groups like Al-Shabaab continue to trouble the East African country. Somalia at the U.N. The U.N. General Assembly elected Somalia to join the Security Council for a two-year term as a non-permanent member in June 2024. Osman, as the Somali representative on the Security Council, manages the council’s schedule and presides over its meetings as president for January 2026. The Daily Signal reached out to the Permanent Mission of the Somali Republic to the United Nations for comment and did not receive a response by publication time. The United Nations declined to comment for the story. The post Somalia’s UN Ambassador Associated With Fraud-Connected Ohio Health Company, HHS Confirms appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In the three days following Nicolas Maduro's arrest, the Big Four News Apps (Apples News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) have done their best to distort and detract from President Donald Trump's successful exfiltration of the Venezuelan dictator. For its part, Apple News highlighted more non-Venezuelan related foreign affairs stories than it did stories about the Venezuelan mission. Google News and Yahoo News both ran stories from leftist outlets, consistently putting Trump in a negative light. Meanwhile, MSN ran far more entertainment and sports news stories than hard news.  Because the Big Four News Apps funnel much of the news directly to Americans, their distorted coverage in turn distorts people’s understanding of the truth.  Apple News Of the top 60 stories Apple News published from Jan. 3 - Jan. 5, 2026, it devoted twice as much attention to foreign affairs stories not relating to Venezuela (7 stories about Venezuela, 14 about other foreign affairs matters). The non-Venezuelan foreign affairs stories included a Swiss bar fire that left 40 dead, Iran protests and the Yemeni civil war.  Instead of providing more coverage about the capture of Maduro, Apple News pushed stories about Division lll football, Justin Bieber's pastor and how Heinz is losing its lock on mac & cheese.  Of course, the stories Apple News published about the arrest of Maduro were not framed positively for Trump. Examples include:  The Washington Post: Trump Revives Old Vision of American Power. The Atlantic: Trump Threatens New Leader. NBC News: Congress Returns to Venezuela Clash. Yahoo News Yahoo News struck an entirely different chord. Of the top 60 stories Yahoo News published following Maduro’s capture, 17 had something to do with Venezuela, and those constituted all but one of the stories Yahoo News highlighted about foreign affairs. The other story was a BBC piece about the Swiss bar fire. Of the articles about Venezuela, most were from left-leaning outlets and included such gems as: The New Republic: You Won’t Believe Who Trump Told About Venezuela Attack Ahead of Time. Here’s a hint: it wasn’t Congress.  BuzzFeed: Everyone Is Pointing Out The Same Odd Detail In These Trump Venezuela War Room Photos.  The New Republic: Trump: U.S. Has Abducted Venezuelan Leader After Overnight Bombing. NY Daily News: Mayor Mamdani called Trump to express opposition to Maduro’s capture. Google News Google News ran the most articles about Venezuela, and its coverage of Venezuela constituted about twice the coverage of other foreign affairs stories such as the Swiss bar fire and the Iran protests. Of course, Google News also ran headlines negative toward Trump, including other foreign affairs stories. These included: The Guardian: Trump threatens Colombia with military action. The New York Times: Can the U.S. Legally ‘Run’ Venezuela After Maduro’s Capture? BBC News: ‘We need Greenland’: Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory. MSN MSN showed itself to be even less informative about Trump’s freeing of the Venezuelan people than Apple News.  Of the top 60 stories MSN published in the three days following Maduro’s arrest, only five had anything to do with foreign affairs. Four of the stories related to Venezuela, and the other one was about a response to Trump saying that he wants more immigrants from Scandinavia.  MSN proved itself to be unserious about keeping its readers informed of newsworthy topics. Instead, it focused heavily on entertainment news, including multiple stories about Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter Victoria Jones being found dead in her hotel room, sports news as well as random stories about the DNA results from a strange-looking dog and the viral reaction of a Jamaican mother to seeing snow for the first time. Conclusion The Big Four News Apps, which are tools or platforms that gather articles from multiple media sources into a single place either through algorithmic selection or human curation, are a growing source for people to get their news. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  The Big Four News Apps all continue to fall well short of being the sort of neutral news source that people can rely on to stay on top of the biggest headlines of the day.  Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

A woman has been shot in the face by federal agents and killed after ramming them with her car, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. Protesters initially claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had shot the woman as she was driving away from them. 'This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement.'DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin released a statement contradicting the claims of the protesters."Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism," McLaughlin said in a statement on social media.She said an ICE officer fired defensive shots after fearing for his life and the safety of the public."He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers," she added. "The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries."Local reports said anti-ICE protesters began to curse and yell at the officers after the incident as they tried to secure the scene. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, immediately called for all ICE agents to leave the city in the wake of the shooting."I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland," he wrote on social media. "The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities."RELATED: Hilton Hotels cuts loose hotel location accused of refusing to host ICE agents McLaughlin went on to blame anti-ICE rhetoric for the shooting."This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement," she said. "These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats."This is a developing story. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Meta says it deleted ads off its platforms to get rid of scams, not hide them.A review of internal documents, however, spurred allegations that Meta was attempting make certain ads "not findable" to government regulators.'To suggest otherwise is disingenuous.'According to a report by Reuters — which said it reviewed the docs — Meta began deleting possible fraudulent ads from its search function after Japanese regulators were upset over obvious scams on Facebook and Instagram that pushed fake celebrity product endorsements or investment schemes.Reuters said that, according to the documents, Meta feared Japan would force the company to verify the identities of its advertisers.In order to test Meta's work on "tackling scams," Japanese regulators allegedly used the search function on Meta's "Ad Library" to seek out fraudulent ads; the library acts as a "comprehensive, searchable database for ads transparency," the company states on its website.This "simple test," as described in documents, was allegedly the avenue Meta took to make good with the regulators. Documents purportedly showed that Meta identified the top keywords and celebrity names that the Japanese were searching to find fraud, and then deleted ads that appeared fraudulent. RELATED: OOF: Mark Zuckerberg's losing metaverse bet cost Meta $77B Photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images The deletions made certain content "not findable" for "regulators, investigators, and journalists," Reuters claimed.A few months later, a Meta memo allegedly stated that "less than 100" of the unwanted ads had been discovered in the last week of a testing period, "hitting 0 for the last 4 days of the sprint."This was apparently applauded by the Japanese government, and Japan did not end up forcing advertiser verification.Meta then reportedly added the deletion tactics to its "general global playbook" to be deployed against, as Reuters described, regulatory scrutiny in other markets like the U.S., Europe, Australia, and more. The alleged playbook was a strategy to stall regulators and prevent advertiser verification requirements, the report claimed.A Meta spokesperson has since called the allegations disingenuous, and argued that Meta deleting fraudulent ads off its platforms is a good thing, not bad.Meta spokesman Andy Stone told the outlet that there is nothing misleading about removing the scam ads from the library. "To suggest otherwise is disingenuous," he insisted.RELATED: 2025 is so over and so is virtual reality Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images"Meta teams regularly check the Ad Library to identify scam ads because when fewer scam ads show up there that means there are fewer scam ads on the platform," Stone added.On top of claiming that verifying advertisers is "not a silver bullet," Stone said that chasing down scam ads is a job that will "never end."Verification "works best in concert with other, higher-impact tools," the spokesman noted. "We set a global baseline and aggressive targets to drive down scam activity in countries where it was greatest, all of which has led to an overall reduction in scams on platform."Meta also claimed that it has seen a 50% decline in user reports of scams over the past year.Return reached out to Meta for additional comments. This article will be updated with any applicable responses. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Democrat representative in the Georgia House has resigned her position, as she now faces a federal charge in connection with alleged COVID relief fraud.On Monday, federal prosecutors filed charges against former state Rep. Karen Bennett, claiming she lied to secure nearly $14,000 in COVID funds.Bennett also allegedly withheld that she was receiving $905 weekly from a church 'the entire time she was claiming PUA benefits.'According to court documents, Bennett, who owned a physical therapy business called Metro Therapy, applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance funds in May 2020, stating that she had been unable to go to her place of employment since April 10 because of quarantine and other COVID-related restrictions.She was subsequently approved. Between March and August 2020, she then posted certifications claiming that, aside from the $300 she received each week for her political position in the Georgia General Assembly, she earned no other income, court documents said.However, according to prosecutors, Bennett served in an administrative role at Metro Therapy and worked from a home office, allowing her to continue earning a paycheck "throughout the pandemic." "She was able to continue working as usual from her home to support Metro Therapy throughout the pandemic, and the therapists who provided actual services to clients were able to continue their work after a brief disruption," prosecutors asserted in charging documents.Bennett also allegedly withheld that she was receiving $905 weekly from a church "the entire time she was claiming PUA benefits," court documents said.In all, Bennett raked in $13,940 in fraudulent PUA and other federal funds, prosecutors alleged. She has been charged with one count of making false statements.RELATED: Georgia Democrat indicted for alleged pandemic relief fraud greenleaf123/Getty ImagesIn court Monday, Bennett waived the indictment, pled not guilty, and posted bail. The AP indicated that many federal defendants who waive their indictments often eventually plead guilty.On Thursday, four days before charges were filed, Bennett officially resigned her seat representing District 94, which includes parts of DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties. She was first elected in 2012.Bennett also submitted a letter of resignation to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. The letter, dated December 30, made no mention of possible criminal charges and gave no explanation for her departure. Instead she wrote: "I am proud of the work accomplished by the Georgia General Assembly when we came together to advance policies that strengthened our state and improved the lives of all Georgians. Serving in this capacity has truly been a labor of love and one that I will miss."A spokesperson from Bennett's former assembly office declined a request for comment from Blaze News. Bennett did not respond to a request for comment from the Georgia Recorder, and her attorneys did not respond to a request for comment from the AP.Bennett is now the second Georgia Democrat accused of fraudulently obtaining COVID relief funds. Last month, state Rep. Sharon Henderson was arrested after she allegedly pocketed nearly $18,000, claiming she had been a substitute teacher in 2020, even as prosecutors say she had not worked in that capacity since 2018.Henderson was charged with two counts of theft of government funds and 10 counts of making false statements — yet she still remains in office.Just before Christmas, Henderson posted a note to social media, requesting donations to a crowdfunding account that she says will help her as she continues "seeking justice after recent events."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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