Vice President JD Vance, leader of the White House's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, has uncovered $230 billion in fraud since January 2025. Now, he is calling on Congress to help combat fraud, protect social programs, and restore social trust.

Vance called Republican members of Congress to the White House to ask for their help and announce policy priorities.

"We will fundamentally always have a limitation unless our colleagues in the House and the Senate are working with us," Vance said Wednesday at the roundtable event. "There are a few things that we really need to do, and that we can't do at the federal government without the cooperation of Congress."

Vance Announces Massive Fraud Crackdown at Historic Camp David Cabinet Meeting

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(The Center Square) – Less than 100 days from the midterm election, a Democrat is ahead in the polls for the U.S. Senate race in Texas.

State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, has surpassed Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton by at least 2 points. The race remains statistically tied.

A new Texas Southern University Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center poll has Talarico leading Paxton 47% to 45%. Six remain undecided with 2% supporting Libertarian Ted Brown, according to the poll.

Talarico holds a lead among women, Hispanic and Black voters. Paxton holds a lead with white and male voters, according to the data.

Talarico's favorable and unfavorable ratings are nearly tied, 46% and 47%, respectively. Paxton's unfavorable rating of 57% is higher than his favorable rating of 39%.

The poll was conducted among 1,200 likely Texas voters between July 27 and 30. It has a margin of error of 2.83%.

A new Beacon Research and

A former NBA star turned human-rights activist has declared his intent to enter the Women's National Basketball League as a player next year.

In his announcement video, Enes Kanter Freedom (previously Enes Kanter) says he has reviewed the "current eligibility guidelines" for the WNBA and believes he is eligible for the league's 2027 draft.

"If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA," notes Kanter Freedom in an X video.

Later in his statement, the former NBA center, who originally hails from Europe and played on various teams between 2011 and 2022, explained, "I'm simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone – the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for."

The video is apparently in response to recent controversy withing the WNBA since Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham declared her support for women's and girls'

A civil war erupted in Wyoming a few weeks ago when a Christian church, on private land inside the outside perimeter of the Wind River Indian Reservation, simply stated the faith's foundation, that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven.

The sermon had followed only by a short time the Northern Arapaho tribe's Sun Dance ritual, and tribal officials erupted in rage, telling the church to leave, demanding that the church accept its beliefs, demanding that the church obtain tribal authorization to operate on its own property.

Now there's a new plateau for the fight: A legal team has filed a religious discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture because a regional organization, the Food Bank of the Rockets in Denver, and a hub, Food Bank of Wyoming, apparently discriminated against the church involved, Foundations For Nations, by removing them from a food distribution program.

"Filing the discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture is the next step to bring scrutiny to the

Gordon "Chaps" Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy chaplain removed from his post over his prayers "In Jesus Name," is asking that President Donald Trump review his case and provide justice.

However, he charges that top Navy lawyers "are hiding" his dispute from Trump and Pete Hegseth, Trump's secretary of war.

WND has reported on Klingenschmitt's case since its beginning back around 2006 and its move into the courts shortly later.

Now he's seeking a presidential pardon that could return him to his military status, restore back pay and more.

Klingenschmitt told WND he submitted a request for the consideration months ago, and then again after there was no response. More recently, he filed Freedom of Information Act requests to find out the status of his filing, and only recently has been told its being reviewed.

In Klingenschmitt's own announcement about the origins of the fight, he explains it was 20 years ago when he challenged a "bad Navy prayer policy" that

Just a few months after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a settlement agreement with Texas Children's Hospital, the facility has 90 days to implement a detransition clinic.

In February, Paxton sued Texas Children's Hospital and a Dallas-area doctor for illegally transitioning children and engaging in Medicaid fraud, which made taxpayers cover the costs for the procedures.

The lawsuit stemmed from the Texas Legislature passing Senate Bill 14, which codified a statewide ban on gender-transition interventions for minors, including mutilative surgeries and cross-sex hormone therapies.

In May, an out-of-court civil settlement was reached that required the hospital to pay "$10 million for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal 'gender-transition' interventions, including by using false diagnosis codes; and compels the termination and revocation of privileges of multiple physicians."

The settlement also required the hospital to create the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed