House report alleged governor and state attorney general knew of ‘widespread taxpayer fraud’ in social programs
The US vice-president, JD Vance, asked the Department of Justice to investigate Tim Walz, his rival in the 2024 election, after a congressional report renewed allegations of inaction and retaliation over fraud schemes in Minnesota.
In the Trump administration’s latest broadside against the midwestern state and its political leaders, Vance referred Walz, its Democratic governor, and Keith Ellison, its Democratic attorney general, for investigation.
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© Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
© Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Rights groups and some locals worry that program to ‘track illicit activity’ could become a data collection project
The Great Lakes have rarely ever been considered a hotbed of illicit drug activity or center for illegal immigration.
But that hasn’t stopped US government agencies and the company behind surveillance sailing drones from treating the region as such. The US Coast Guard recently announced it has launched an armada of at least six sailing drones in the Great Lakes this summer in an attempt to, in part, “track illicit activity”.
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© Photograph: James Brooks/AP
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