High school student faces more than 300 charges in sextortion scheme involving classmates
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. - An 18-year-old is being held without bail on more than 300 charges involving sexual exploitation of his high school classmates.
Police in Peters Township, Pennsylvania, said the investigation began in December when law enforcement became aware that more than 20 boys, ages 14 to 17, were victims of a “large-scale criminal network” involving catfishing and sextortion.
Detectives uncovered that 18-year-old Zachariah Meyers used various social media platforms to lure teenage boys to connect with him.
Meyers is a senior at Peters Township High School. Click here to read more.
Overpayments in state food program spike 1,852% in one year
A state health program that has served fewer residents in recent years saw a nearly 20-fold increase in overpayments from 2023 to 2024, according to records obtained by Michigan Capitol Confidential.
The Michigan Combined Application Project, or MiCAP, helps get food benefits to individuals who receive Supplemental Security Income payments from the Social Security Administration. It paid 15,059 residents more than $45 million in fiscal year 2022, but it also overpaid by nearly $87,000. Documents CapCon received through a records request show a spike in overpayments over the following two years.
Fiscal year 2022: 15,059 recipients were paid $45,685,525. There were 456 overpayments totaling $86,980.
Fiscal year 2023: 14,410 recipients were paid $38,878,154. There were 440 overpayments totaling $123,652.
Fiscal year 2024: 13,585 recipients who were paid $29,015,443. There were 8,588 overpayments totaling $441,083.
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Taxpayers Will Finally See Which Foreign Entities Fund US Universities
The Department of Education will soon require universities to publicly disclose the counterparties of foreign funding, a senior Education Department official told The Daily Signal.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires higher education institutions to report gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more to the Department of Education, to make them available for public inspection.
Universities currently report counterparties, their gifters or contractors, to the agency. However, the identities of foreign counterparties are not made public, which the senior department official said violates the law. The totals received from counterparties of concern are listed in the Section 117 Foreign Gift & Contract Reporting portal, but the gifters’ identities are not named. Click here to read more.
Prediction: Debt Will Soon Break Record
The Congressional Budget Office’s annual 10-year economic forecast warns that, by 2030, the federal debt held by the public will be $40.3 trillion, or 108% of the country’s gross domestic product — an amount never before seen in American history.
Key facts: The federal debt held by the public differs slightly from the overall federal debt because it excludes money that government agencies owe to each other. Most economists consider it a more meaningful statistic. It reached $30.2 trillion in 2025, the CBO notes.
By 2036, it will be even higher: the debt held by the public will be $56.2 trillion, the CBO predicts. That would be 120% of GDP. It has never been higher than 106%. Click here to read more.
‘Kangaroo court’ tribunal fines school board member $750,000 for opposing gender ideology
As Canadian parliament debates legislation to criminalize supposed hate speech, comments against “gender ideology” in the curriculum have already cost a former British Columbia school board member the equivalent of more than half a million U.S. dollars.
A nurse who got kicked out of her own union for gender-critical views said the verdict against ex-Chilliwack Board of Education trustee Barry Neufeld shows “I do not have a snowball’s chance in hell” before the same quasi-judicial body.
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Neufeld to pay $750,000 Canadian to all LGBTQ-identified members of the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association for “injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect,” citing discrimination in employment, hate speech and “discriminatory publications” on Facebook, “statements made in Board meetings, rallies, and interviews.” Click here to read more.
