Salem News Channel

Join Carl Jackson as he delves into the complex web of political and financial intrigue surrounding Ilhan Omar and the alleged fraud schemes in Minnesota. From the rapid rise in Omar's net worth to the controversial activities of her husband's venture capital firm, Carl unpacks the details with a critical eye. Tune in for an in-depth analysis of the political landscape, including insights into the broader implications of these events on national politics. Don't miss this engaging episode of the Carl Jackson Show, where truth meets scrutiny. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carljacksonradio Twitter: https://twitter.com/carljacksonshow    Parler: https://parler.com/carljacksonshow   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecarljacksonshow http://www.TheCarlJacksonShow.com

Read More...

The Role of Government and Charity

Read More...

Read More...

Read More...

Read More...

Read More...

The South Carolina health department reported 176 measles cases related to the ongoing outbreak in the state on Tuesday, 20 additional cases since its last update on Friday. The widening outbreak has been reported in the northwest part of the state, which includes Greenville and Spartanburg, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health. There are currently 287 people in quarantine and two in isolation. Of those infected, 165 were unvaccinated, four were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, one was fully vaccinated and four had unknown vaccination status. Linda Bell, South Carolina's state epidemiologist, said holiday gatherings and travel likely contributed to the surge in cases. "We do believe that the holidays contributed to this, in terms of activities that people may have participated in, without being as cautious as they could be, and sort of opting to just participate in other activities without paying attention to disease transmission in our communities," Bell said. Seven of the new cases were known household exposures, five resulted from a previously reported school exposure, two resulted from an exposure at church, and one resulted from an exposure at either school or church, the state health department said. The sources of four cases are unknown, and one is still being investigated. "So the trajectory that we're looking at now is that we do anticipate more cases well into January," Bell added. As of December 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 50 measles outbreaks and a total of 2,012 confirmed cases of the disease in the U.S. this year, compared with 16 outbreaks reported in 2024. The CDC defines an outbreak as three or more related cases.

Read More...

A derailed CSX train leaked a flammable chemical and sparked a fire in a rural part of southern Kentucky on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue a shelter-in-place order that was later lifted for nearby residents. No injuries were reported after 31 rail cars derailed at about 6:15 a.m. CST in Todd County, CSX said in a statement. The derailment caused a leak of molten sulfur from one rail car and sparked a fire that was extinguished by late Tuesday morning, the company said. Crews at the scene were working “as safely and quickly as possible" to clean up the site, it said. “We appreciate the swift response and coordination of local first responders and emergency management officials,” the company said. “Our primary focus continues to be the health and safety of onsite personnel, the surrounding community and mitigating any potential risk to the environment.” The chemical substance that leaked can be toxic when it is on fire, the company said. But air quality testing at the derailment site indicated that “everything is good now” and the shelter-in-place order was lifted, said Ash Groves, emergency management director for Todd County. Todd County authorities had issued a half-mile shelter-in-place order around the impacted site as a precaution. The derailment occurred about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) west of downtown Trenton — about 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) northwest of Nashville, Tennessee.

Read More...

Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. Her family disclosed her death in a statement posted online Tuesday by the John. F. Kennedy Library Foundation. It did not give a cause of death for Schlossberg, who was 35. The daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, the journalist revealed she had terminal cancer in a November 2025 essay in The New Yorker. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024 at age 34 after the birth of her second child. In the essay titled “A Battle with my Blood,” Schlossberg recounted rounds of chemotherapy, stem cell transplants and clinical trials.

Read More...

2026 Midterms Predictions

Read More...

We're following reports that the woman married to Jill Biden's ex-husband was pronounced dead at her home after police say they responded to a domestic dispute at the address. Authorities say 64-year-old Linda Stevenson died Sunday in Delaware. Linda was married to 77-year-old Bill Stevenson and he was married to the former first lady between 1970 and 1975. The New Castle County Police Department says it's investigating her death. This is a developing story.

Read More...

The Somali Fraud is beautiful for Republicans

Read More...

A National Guard deployment in New Orleans authorized by President Donald Trump will begin Tuesday as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations a year after an attack on revelers on Bourbon Street killed 14 people, officials said Monday. The deployment in New Orleans follows high-profile National Guard missions the Trump administration launched in other cities this year, including in Washington and Memphis, Tennessee. But the sight of National Guard troops is not unusual in New Orleans, where troops earlier this year also helped bolster security for the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras. “It’s no different than what we’ve seen in the past,” New Orleans police spokesperson Reese Harper said. The Guard is not the only federal law enforcement agency in the city. Since the start of the month, federal agents have been carrying out an immigration crackdown that has led to the arrest of at least several hundred people. Harper stressed that the National Guard will not be engaging in immigration enforcement. "This is for visibility and just really to keep our citizens safe," Harper said. "It’s just another tool in the toolbox and another layer of security.” The Guard is expected be confined to the French Quarter area popular with tourists and won't be engaging in assisting in immigration enforcement, Harper said. Guardsmen will operate similar to earlier this year when they patrolled the area around Bourbon Street following the vehicle-ramming attack on Jan. 1. The 350 Guard members will stay through Carnival season, when residents and tourists descend on the Big Easy to partake in costumed celebrations and massive parades before ending with Mardi Gras in mid-February. Louisiana National Guard spokesperson Lt. Col. Noel Collins said in a written statement that the Guard will support local, state, and federal law enforcement “to enhance capabilities, stabilize the environment, assist in reducing crime, and restoring public trust.” In total, more than 800 local, state and federal law enforcement officials will be deployed in New Orleans to close off Bourbon Street to vehicular traffic, patrol the area, conduct bag searches and redirect traffic, city officials said during a news conference Monday. The extra aid for New Orleans has received the support of some Democrats, with Mayor LaToya Cantrell saying she is "welcoming of those added resources.” The increased law enforcement presence comes a year after Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove around a police blockade in the early hours of Jan. 1 and raced down Bourbon Street, plowing into people celebrating New Year's Day. The attacker, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran who had proclaimed his support for the Islamic State militant group on social media, was fatally shot by police after crashing. After an expansive search, law enforcement located multiple bombs in coolers placed around the French Quarter. None of the explosive devices detonated. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, 100 National Guard members were sent to the city. In September, Gov. Jeff Landry asked Trump to send 1,000 troops to Louisiana cities, citing concerns about crime. Democrats pushed back, specifically leaders in New Orleans who said a deployment was unwarranted. They argued that the city has actually seen a dramatic decrease in violent crime rates in recent years.

Read More...

Joey Hudson discusses the recent New York Post report on $5 billion in "questionable" rental payments—including funds sent to all 50 states for people who are no longer with us.

Read More...

Josh closes out 2025 with a hard-hitting look at the foreign policy minefield the Trump administration is stepping into as 2026 begins. He’s joined by Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, for a no-nonsense breakdown of the global threats coming at the U.S. from every direction—China’s ambitions, Venezuela’s instability, Russia’s aggression, and the cascading challenges facing America and its allies. Heinrichs lays out why President Trump is approaching foreign policy with clarity and strength—and what it means for America’s standing on the world stage

Read More...

A surge of federal officers in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents. President Donald Trump has previously linked his administration’s immigration crackdown against Minnesota’s large Somali community to a series of fraud cases involving government programs in which most of the defendants have roots in the east African country. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel both announced an increase in operations in Minnesota this week. The move comes after a right-wing influencer posted a video Friday claiming he had found that day care centers operated by Somali residents in Minneapolis had committed up to $100 million in fraud. Tikki Brown, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, said at Monday news conference that state regulators took the influencer’s allegations seriously. Noem posted on social media that officers were “conducting a massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud.” Patel said the intent was to “dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs.” Minnesota has been under the spotlight for years for Medicaid fraud, including a massive $300 million pandemic fraud case involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors said it was the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud scam and that defendants exploited a state-run, federally funded program intended to provide food for children. In 2022, during President Joe Biden’s administration, 47 people were charged. The number of defendants has grown to 78 throughout the ongoing investigation. So far, 57 people have been convicted, either because they pleaded guilty or lost at trial. Most of the defendants are of Somali descent. Numerous other fraud cases are being investigated, including new allegations focused on child care centers. In news interviews and press releases over the summer, prosecutor Joe Thompson estimated the total loss from all fraud cases could exceed $1 billion. Earlier this month, a federal prosecutor alleged that half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 programs in Minnesota since 2018 may have been stolen. Trump’s immigration enforcement in Minnesota has focused on the Somali community in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, which is the largest in the country. Trump labeled Minnesota Somalis as “garbage” and said he didn’t want them in the U.S. About 84,000 of the 260,000 Somalis in the U.S. live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The overwhelming majority are U.S. citizens. Almost 58% were born in the U.S and 87% of the foreign-born are naturalized citizens. Among those running schemes to get funds for child nutrition, housing services and autism programs, 82 of the 92 defendants are Somali Americans, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, has said fraud will not be tolerated and his administration “will continue to work with federal partners to ensure fraud is stopped and fraudsters are caught.” The fraud could be a major issue in the 2026 gubernatorial race as Walz seeks a third term. Walz has said an audit due by late January should give a better picture of the extent of the fraud but allowed that the $1 billion estimate could be accurate. He said his administration is taking aggressive action to prevent additional fraud. He has long defended how his administration responded. Minnesota’s most prominent Somali American, Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, has urged people not to blame an entire community for the actions of a relative few.

Read More...

The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The strike, which was announced by U.S. Southern Command on social media, has brought the total number of known boat strikes to 30 and the number of people killed at least 107 since early September, according to numbers announced by the Trump administration. The military said the vessel “was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” though it did not provide evidence to back up the claim. In a video of the strike posted to social media, a boat is seen moving through water before being struck by two explosions. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and asserted that the U.S. is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. Along with the strikes, the Trump administration has built up military forces in the region as part of an escalating pressure campaign on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. Trump, when asked by reporters Monday about “an explosion in Venezuela,” said the U.S. had “hit” a dock facility along a shore where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up." “There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida. Trump, the White House and the Pentagon have provided no other details. In December, the Trump administration also launched a new tactic by seizing two sanctioned oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela and pursuing a third. As a result, some sanctioned tankers began to divert away from the South American country. Maduro has insisted the real purpose of the U.S. operations is to force him from power. Trump for months has suggested that he may conduct land strikes in Venezuela or possibly another country. The Trump administration has been faced scrutiny from lawmakers over the boat strike campaign. It grew amid revelations that the first attack in early September involved a follow-up strike that killed two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a boat after the first hit.

Read More...

Joey Hudson looks back at a staggering 2018 report from Fox 9 Minneapolis. Millions in taxpayer dollars allegedly funneled out of daycare centers in the Somali community—where did the money go?

Read More...

A California man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his estranged wife in Arizona. Michael Abatti, 63, is accused of traveling to Pinetop on November 20 and killing Kerri Ann Abatti, 59, outside her vacation home. Investigators say the couple’s ongoing divorce was a recurring topic during interviews with family and friends, but the official motive remains unclear. An autopsy confirmed that Kerri Abatti died from a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities say Michael Abatti returned to California after the shooting and later surrendered to law enforcement.

Read More...

Trump Meets With Zelensky, Netanyahu AND Hits Venezuela With Brent Sadler, Senior Research Fellow, Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.

Read More...