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Kerala 2026: why the Left lost, and what it means that India has no communist-led state for the first time since 1977

The Left Democratic Front’s rout in the Kerala assembly election ends the CPI(M)-led government’s long run and breaks a half-century pattern: since 1977, at least one Indian state had always been ruled by the parliamentary left. Here is what the numbers say, what drove the swing, and how analysts read the future of left politics nationwide.

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Politics

Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud: $250 million in alleged meal-program theft, federal convictions, and state scrutiny of Ilhan Omar’s MEALS Act

Prosecutors describe a nonprofit-led scheme that drained USDA-backed child nutrition funds during COVID school closures. Aimee Bock, Feeding Our Future’s leader, was convicted at trial. Representative Ilhan Omar is not charged as a central defendant; Minnesota House Republicans have tied her 2020 meal-access bill to later oversight failures.

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