An Illinois Democrat state lawmaker and her county clerk husband are heading into the November election while facing federal criminal charges tied to an alleged corruption scheme involving campaign kickbacks, taxpayer-funded grants, and efforts to obstruct an FBI investigation.

And here’s the kicker: Their federal trial has been postponed until December 7, more than a month AFTER Election Day!

Democrat State Rep. Carol Ammons of Urbana and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 7, 2026. Both pleaded not guilty on July 16.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported on July 9, 2026, the federal indictment against Carol and Aaron Ammons came just weeks after their daughter, Titianna Ammons, was separately indicted on federal wire fraud charges.

Despite the serious allegations, both remain in their elected positions and are seeking reelection in November.

Even more troubling, Aaron Ammons remains responsible for overseeing elections in Champaign County while facing charges that he attempted to obstruct a federal investigation involving his own family.

According to Capitol News Illinois reporting published by NPR Illinois, Carol Ammons faces a write-in challenge from Keith Smith, while her husband is running against Republican Alan Anderson.

Official Champaign County election records list Carol Ammons for Illinois House District 103 and Aaron Ammons for county clerk in the November 3 election.

Their trial was previously scheduled for November 17 but was moved to December 7 by U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless. Aaron requested the postponement because of his election administration responsibilities, Carol requested corresponding dates, and federal prosecutors did not object.

The clerk’s office has already drawn criticism for ballot errors that mixed up districts, including the one his wife is running in.

On October 7, Capitol News Illinois reported that the Illinois Republican Party had requested intervention from the state attorney general after hundreds of ballots were distributed with incorrect state legislative district information.

Aaron Ammons acknowledged that voters in nine precincts received erroneous ballots.

Although he blamed a vendor, Ammons admitted his office failed to catch the mistakes before the ballots were distributed.

According to the report, 28 voters had already cast affected ballots that officials could not change.

Republican House Leader Tony McCombie called for state intervention to protect voters and ensure every legitimate ballot is counted.

The mistakes are especially concerning because the 104th House District includes one of Illinois’ closely contested legislative races.

Federal Prosecutors Allege Years of Campaign Kickbacks and Taxpayer-Funded Family Benefits

According to the July 7 federal indictment, prosecutors allege that Carol Ammons orchestrated a scheme between 2017 and 2025 to divert political contributions and public resources for personal and family benefit.

Federal investigators allege Ammons used her campaign committee, Friends of Carol Ammons, to issue inflated payments to individuals who then returned portions of the money to her in cash.

These alleged kickbacks were sometimes disguised as innocent-sounding “gifts.”

The indictment further alleges that her campaign paid her daughter approximately $600 per month, totaling $15,585, despite payments being disproportionate to the work performed.

But the allegations do not end with campaign contributions.

Prosecutors contend Ammons used her position in the Illinois General Assembly to help direct state grant funding to nonprofit organizations that employed her daughter, Titianna Ammons.

Among the organizations named were Hood Vote Neighborhood Transformation, Bridgewater Sullivan Community Life Center, and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

At Bridgewater Sullivan, the lawmaker allegedly helped draft her daughter’s employment contract after facilitating a $612,000 state grant. Her daughter subsequently received more than $60,000 annually as program director.

Federal prosecutors allege that Ammons and her daughter received more than $100,000 in financial benefits through the broader arrangement.

Carol Ammons also faces a charge alleging she made a false statement to an FBI agent in May 2024 about her knowledge of a conflict of interest involving her daughter’s compensation.

Meanwhile, the accusations against Aaron Ammons add another disturbing dimension to the case.

According to prosecutors, the county clerk allegedly sought to interfere with investigators attempting to trace the suspected financial transactions.

The indictment accuses him of encouraging a potential witness to use coded language and to “muddy the waters” during the federal investigation.

He faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.

Meanwhile, his wife faces eight wire fraud counts, one false-statement count, and one conspiracy-to-obstruct-justice count.

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Secretary Kennedy Raised the Alarm: Children in State Care, Drug Trials & Undetermined Deaths

Republished with permission from AbleChild.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s scrutiny of psychiatric prescribing to children brings renewed attention to questions AbleChild put before Congress more than two decades ago: who authorized treatment, what protections were enforced, and where are the records showing outcomes?

Kennedy examined foster child research and burial practices in The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Investigative journalist Celia Farber, who researched the documentary Guinea Pig Kids, visited Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. Kennedy’s book recounts the investigative reporter’s work: “I found the mass grave at Gate of Heaven cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.” In that report, the graves were believed to contain children used in clinical drug trials. The questions extend beyond one cemetery and one isolated investigation.

Georgetown University’s Forgotten Children Initiative identified more than 1,000 children buried at or near 40 youth correctional institutions across 29 states. At Maryland’s House of Reformation, more than 230 Black boys are believed to be buried nearby, most in unmarked graves. Children as young as five were confined for poverty, homelessness, or being orphaned; others were labeled “incorrigible.”

Georgetown’s national survey identified a child who died in the 1950s. Recorded causes at the Maryland institution included tuberculosis, pneumonia, and exhaustion. Researchers documented incomplete records and failures to inform families. These findings raise a question about government’s treatment of children today. What has changed?

For children with no parent available to challenge the government institutions, who independently represented their interests? Who investigated the death? Who authorized burial?

Maryland established a commission to investigate the House of Reformation and provide a public accounting. The law took effect July 1, 2026. These historical records concern correctional institutions. The clinical-trial records concern all children under government authority.

On May 18, 2005, AbleChild submitted written testimony to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources hearing, “Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials.” The submission by Sheila Matthews and Gloria M. Wright entered the official federal record.

Matthews submitted a Hartford Courant investigative news report identifying 396 Medicaid-covered children younger than four who were prescribed psychiatric drugs, including some younger than one. It quoted Yale Child Study Center psychiatrist Dr. Andres Martin: “I can’t make any sense of why a 1-year-old would be on Prozac.”

Who were these children? How many were in state custody or enrolled in a clinical research study? These questions remain unanswered.

The Vera Institute of Justice’s review of New York foster-child research identified 532 children who participated in 88 HIV/AIDS clinical trials and observational studies. Vera documented consent and authorization failures. Eighty children died while in foster care; 25 died while enrolled in a medication trial.

The government’s own prescribing reviews added another warning.

In 2011, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that hundreds of Medicaid-covered children in five states received five or more psychiatric drugs simultaneously. Its clinical experts found no evidence supporting that regimen in adults or children. However, the data obtained by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, (CCHR) shows some serious conflicting indications of the potential overlay of drug prescribing categories.   The data appears to conflict with the clinical experts’ findings.  The drug-category counts exceed the reported total number of children, indicating overlap across categories and suggesting that some children received more than one type of psychiatric drug simultaneously during 2023.

Who authorized those combinations, if any? What risks were disclosed? Which agencies reviewed the outcomes? Where are the records showing corrective action?

According to data obtained through a freedom of information request by CCHR, its March 2026 report compiled 2023 data from 32 states: 2,999,084 Medicaid-enrolled children ages 0 to 17 were prescribed psychiatric drugs, including 270,196 ages 0 to 5, with associated spending of $1.78 billion.  CCHR identified 18 states as unreported.

CCHR identified 1,423,643 children prescribed ADHD stimulants, 920,411 prescribed antidepressants, and 465,559 prescribed antipsychotics. How many received multiple drugs simultaneously or prescriptions outside FDA-approved ages or indications?

The prescribing totals do not identify clinical-trial participation; however, these cocktails of psychiatric drugs have never endured a clinical trial.  The bottom line is that the psychiatric drug combinations have never undergone clinical trials in which manufacturers jointly tested their drugs for adverse effects or fatal outcomes.

Government has the testimony, prescribing reviews, and spending records. What remains missing is a complete public accounting of what happened to the children and the verifiable outcomes.

The accompanying chart shows gaps in death reporting. Incomplete records leave unanswered questions about custody, treatment, and clinical-trial participation, and about the lack of a cause and manner of death.

An “undetermined” finding needs further clarification of exactly how the child died. The large gaps in reporting across the nation, year after year, certainly support Secretary Kennedy’s human rights concerns and the need for more clarification on the category of undetermined deaths.

Accountability requires examining who supplies the data and who independently verifies it, particularly when providers or researchers benefit from government contracts.

Government must produce the custody, treatment, research, consent, and investigation records. Where records are missing, it must identify what is missing, why, and who was responsible for maintaining it.

Children’s identities can remain private. Government decisions cannot remain beyond scrutiny.  “Undetermined” is not an accounting. Account for every child.

AbleChild is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has recently co-written landmark legislation in Tennessee, setting a national precedent for transparency and accountability in the intersection of mental health, pharmaceutical practices, and public safety.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has publicly confirmed that his government has prepared for a once-unthinkable scenario: a military invasion by the United States.

The revelation was highlighted in an October 3 report by the BBC titled “Why Canada is preparing for a (long shot) US invasion.”

According to the BBC, Canada’s military is considering hypothetical scenarios involving American military action as relations between Ottawa and Washington deteriorate under President Donald Trump’s second administration.

The extraordinary development follows months of political and economic confrontation between President Trump and Canada’s political establishment, particularly over trade, national sovereignty, defense spending, and Trump’s repeated suggestions that Canada could become America’s 51st state.

And now Canadian officials are treating the possibility seriously enough to incorporate it into national security planning.

In a September 23 interview with The New York Times, Carney acknowledged that his government had considered the possibility of military action by Washington.

“I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk,” Carney told the Times.

“That’s just risk management,” he continued.

The prime minister stressed that an American invasion was not his government’s expected scenario, but argued that ignoring even highly improbable threats would be irresponsible.

When pressed about whether Canada had undertaken specific preparations, Carney declined to elaborate.

According to reporting cited by the BBC and earlier Globe and Mail accounts, Canadian military planners modeled a hypothetical American attack for the first time in a century.

The model projects U.S. forces overwhelming Canada’s strategic land and sea positions within a week, or as little as two days, after which Canadian forces would shift to guerrilla-style tactics resembling those used against U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan.

Officials indicated that Canada would look to allies such as Britain and France for support. Canada’s defence chief has also pushed for a massive expansion of reserve forces, including up to 300,000 lightly trained citizen soldiers.

Military experts quoted by the BBC described an actual invasion as highly improbable given deep integration through NATO and NORAD. Former Royal Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Christopher Coates noted that planners never previously considered an attack originating from U.S. territory.

The White House responded directly: “President Trump has done more than anyone to protect the great people of Canada.”

Trump has previously stated that the use of military force against Canada is “highly unlikely” and that he prefers economic leverage to achieve political objectives.

This isn’t the first time Mark Carney has flexed his non-existent military muscles against the United States.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Carney previously issued aggressive threats against Washington over Greenland, bizarrely hinting at military action and invoking NATO’s Article 5 to “defend” Denmark against American interests.

Carney has repeatedly signaled that Canada must abandon its historic posture toward the U.S., telling global elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos that “middle powers like Canada” need to break away from American leadership and pivot toward globalist networks.

Now, the regime in Ottawa has taken its anti-Trump hysteria to full-blown military delusions.

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Commies on the march…

Less than one in three organizations leading the violent “student protests” in France are student groups or youth groups.

The rest of the groups are international agitators and communist groups.

They’ve launched their revolution on the West in France. How soon before these same communist, anarchist groups bring their violence to the streets of America!

Behind all of the chaos and street unrest is the American-born, Shanghai-based tech tycoon and communist Roy Singham.

Singham is accused of being behind the anti-ICE riots, the anti-Trump protests following the arrest of Maxist tyrant Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, the anti-Trump Iran protests, Cuban propaganda in the US, and the “anti-Kings” protests in the US, to name a few.

And, Roy Singham is central to all of these staged and paid for protest movements in the US today.

The fake news WILL NEVER report on this. They must agree with him.

And now, we learn that Neville Roy Singham is indirectly funding the rioting in France.

FOX News Digital also reported that less than one-in-three groups linked to the French protests are student or youth groups.

A Fox News Digital investigation has found that a transnational network of far-left communist and socialist organizations is seizing on France’s fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda, using tactics deployed in the United States over the past decade to amplify unrest, deepen divisions and project an image of chaos.

Earlier in the week, BreakThrough News splashed another headline across the front of its website: “French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity,” mobilizing “with support from unions and progressive forces.”

But those “progressive forces” aren’t limited to students demanding education reform as part of their “Lycéenne Mobilisation,” or high school student mobilization.

From France to the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Greece and India, adults with deep pockets are tapping France’s school protests and turning a domestic education dispute into a platform for broader political and ideological confrontation. BreakThrough News is a pro-communist propaganda outlet based in New York City, funded by an American-born, Shanghai-based communist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who has financed a network of communist and far-left groups in the U.S. that have capitalized on grievances to stoke similar street unrest for almost a decade.

A Fox News Digital investigation traces how a movement that the media is mostly framing as students protesting deteriorating school conditions is actually part of an extensive infrastructure of unions, communist activists, far-left political parties and international media organizations that are organizing demonstrations, calling strikes, mobilizing supporters and broadcasting the unrest around the world with “BREAKING” alerts.

In a digital analysis of scores of news articles, social media posts and public statements, Fox News Digital has identified 50 organizations in the French student protest movement and its wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, revealing an activist ecosystem extending far beyond the students who launched the demonstrations.

Of the network of 50 groups, 15 are student or youth groups, including several communist youth movements and a Muslim student association.

From our previous reporting–

The Gateway Pundit’s Antonio Graceffo reported that Singham is the funder behind the communist part network that is fueling the anti-ICE protests across the US.

FBI Confirms Investigation Into Foreign Funding as Violence Spreads to 25+ Cities, and Cash Trail Leads Back to the Chinese Communist Party.

The anti-ICE riots engulfing Los Angeles and spreading to more than 25 American cities are not the spontaneous uprisings the mainstream media wants you to believe.

It all goes back to the Communist Chinese.  Aren’t you glad the American presidents and political leaders helped shape that communist regime into what it is today?

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Hamas, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of hostages on October 7, 2023, has just issued an official press statement celebrating the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize award to South African jurist Navi Pillay.

The terror group called the decision a “crucial step in the path of international accountability for war crimes in Gaza.”

The statement, dated 9 October 2026, opens with the Islamic invocation “In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” and declares that Pillay’s award “represents a crucial step in the path of international justice and a new international acknowledgment of the crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people.”

Hamas specifically praised her chairmanship of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry and its September 2025 report that claimed Israel had committed genocide.

It also highlighted her earlier work defending African National Congress activists and her role as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Senior Hamas figure Bassem Naim described the award as a “message of hope for Palestinians in Gaza” because it supposedly shows that “humanity continues to resist the forces of evil that target international justice,” according to multiple reports of the statement.

The press release reads:

Honoring Navi Pillay a Crucial Step in the Path of International Accountability for War Crimes in Gaza

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirms that the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African human rights advocate and judge Navi Pillay, in recognition of her career in defending human rights and promoting international law, particularly in the Palestinian territories, represents a crucial step in the path of international justice and a new international acknowledgment of the crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people.

Pillay contributed to the defense of African National Congress activists in the face of the apartheid regime and served as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This honor reflects a distinguished career in defending rights and holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable.

The findings reached by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Pillay, regarding the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, and the conclusions of its report issued in September 2025 that a crime of genocide had been committed, underscore the gravity of what our people have endured and necessitate serious international action to translate the documented facts into legal measures and genuine accountability for those responsible.

BREAKING:

Hamas just issued a statement in support of Navi Pillay, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. https://t.co/uxqRMPQ6I5

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 11, 2026

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the widespread outrage over the Nobel decision. Jewish leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, condemned the award. Netanyahu stated that the Nobel committee “has lost its moral compass” and had honored “a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.”

UN Watch also criticized the choice, citing Pillay’s prior public statements calling to “Sanction Apartheid Israel,” her letter to President Biden urging punishment of Israel after the May 2021 fighting with Hamas, and her defense of a fellow commissioner who invoked antisemitic tropes about “the Jewish Lobby.”

President Trump responded by noting that he had helped end multiple conflicts while the committee chose a figure largely unknown outside anti-Israel circles who, as he put it, “very obviously hates Israel.”

Pillay herself joked after the announcement that she might share the prize with Trump if people clapped enough, an odd quip given the context of last year’s laureate handing her medal to the American president.

The Nobel Committee cited Pillay’s long career promoting international law and accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Critics point out that the prize has a history of controversial choices, including the 1994 award to Yasser Arafat alongside Israeli leaders, which prompted a Nobel committee member to resign in protest over Arafat’s terrorist record.

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China is turning its ambition to displace American leadership into an institutional strategy, building a coalition inside the UN while establishing organizations that could expand Beijing’s influence over international rules, mediation, AI, and data. Its promises of equality and cooperation raise questions about whether these institutions will serve their members or advance CCP interests.

A system that places state sovereignty above individual rights could shield authoritarian governments from international condemnation, while Chinese influence over technology standards could promote surveillance and censorship.

CCP officials have announced that China will host the first Xiong’an Global Governance Forum in Hebei Province this autumn and the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19. Foreign Minister Wang Yi has listed both events among the next steps for implementing Xi Jinping’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI), Beijing’s plan to change how the world is governed.

Xi announced the initiative on September 1, 2025, at the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus” meeting in Tianjin. It followed three earlier Xi frameworks: the Global Development Initiative in 2021, the Global Security Initiative in 2022, and the Global Civilization Initiative in 2023.

These initiatives continue an older CCP ambition. Two decades before the GGI, Hu Jintao called for strengthening global governance as part of building a “harmonious world.”

Wang Yi made the GGI’s target clear when he said “a few countries monopolize global governance” and that this should no longer continue. A concept paper released by the Chinese government on the day of the announcement says the initiative seeks to make existing institutions more responsive to developing countries without overturning the international order or building a framework outside it. Its five core concepts are sovereign equality, international rule of law, multilateralism, a people-centered approach, and “real results.”

The Group of Friends of Global Governance is Beijing’s vehicle for promoting the GGI inside the UN. Nearly 40 founding member states attended its launch meeting in New York on December 9, 2025, chaired by China’s UN ambassador, Fu Cong. The group has since added chapters in Geneva and Vienna. At the group’s May 2026 meeting, Wang Yi proposed nine areas for reforming global governance.

On June 17, 2026, the State Council Information Office released a white paper titled “More Just and Equitable Global Governance: China’s Principles, Proposals and Actions.” Beijing claims nearly 160 countries and international organizations have backed the GGI and more than 60 countries have joined the group. No independent membership list has been published.

The white paper calls on countries to uphold the UN-centered international system “instead of reinventing the wheel.”  However, this call is no guarantee that the CCP will not hijack the existing UN-centered system while asking other countries to support it.

Beijing has paired this diplomacy with new institutions headquartered in China. The International Organization for Mediation, jointly initiated by 19 countries, including China, began operating in Hong Kong in October 2025.

On July 16, 2026, 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai establishing the World AI Cooperation Organization, headquartered there. Its founding members include Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Laos, and Indonesia. Beijing has also backed a World Data Organization in the capital and offered to host the secretariat of the UN high-seas biodiversity agreement in Xiamen.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has assessed that Xi’s three earlier initiatives seek to change global governance to serve Chinese Communist Party interests. Together, the commission wrote, they form a blueprint for replacing the rules-based order led by the United States and its allies.

According to the commission, under such a system, other states would respect or emulate China’s Party-state model, while human rights and democracy would no longer be treated as universal standards. The commission also found that working through UN platforms lowers Beijing’s coordination costs, lends legitimacy to its goals, and amplifies its influence.

Beijing is advancing the GGI as Washington reduces its participation in international bodies. On January 7, 2026, Trump signed a memorandum directing U.S. withdrawal from 66 international organizations: 31 UN entities and 35 non-UN bodies.

The White House said many promote radical climate policies, global governance, and ideological programs that conflict with U.S. sovereignty. The memorandum followed earlier U.S. exits from the World Health Organization, the Paris climate agreement, and the UN Human Rights Council.

Beyond the Trump administration, analysts differ in their assessments of China’s goals. The Mercator Institute for China Studies found that Beijing uses widely accepted terms to criticize the liberal order and build a coalition of states dissatisfied with the United States or the European Union. India’s Observer Research Foundation described the initiatives as a repackaging of familiar Chinese ideas under new names.

The China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe network argued that the GGI seeks to shift the balance of power within the existing order rather than replace it. Although these analysts differ on whether Beijing seeks to replace the international order or change it from within, their assessments point to a common goal: an international system that reflects China’s vision of global governance.

President Trump’s withdrawals from international organizations that undermine American sovereignty could also help shield the country from China’s malign influence. Americans must remain vigilant against that influence at home and continue to vote against future participation in transnational or supranational organizations. Washington must also counter Beijing’s influence by strengthening cooperation with U.S. allies through bilateral agreements.

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