While Minnesota grapples with a burgeoning fraud crisis, one blue state that still does not require photo ID to vote will require residents seeking to pay a reduced fare on state-owned transit present one in order to qualify. Reduced-fare on NJTransit, and mass transit in other states, is often offered to senior citizens, military personnel or the infirm. Meanwhile, officials in Minnesota are grappling with a multifaceted fraud...

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are escalating their investigation into Minnesota’s sweeping fraud schemes, setting a hearing next week and demanding answers from Gov. Tim Walz’s administration over what they say were glaring failures of oversight. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced lawmakers would hold a hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 7, evaluating the fraud scandal, its scale and whether the state’s leadership could have done...

As senior U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino continued to suggest that the agency will be in Chicago “for years,” former Windy City Mayor Lori Lightfoot told the federal official that his “day of reckoning is fast approaching.” “If you think we’re done with Chicago, you’d better check yourself before you wreck yourself,” Bovino, commander of Operation At Large in California, wrote in a post on X. “Don’t...