When the freshmen Congressional class of 2018 was ushered into office, there was a sense by the media that the tides were shifting for the better. After all, the class contained the largest group of elected female representatives, including the “Squad.” Led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the “Squad” also includes Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). The New York Times proudly proclaimed that the women are the “Future of the Democratic Party.”

But three out of the four are now facing allegations of corruption.

It’s recently been announced that Rep. Rashida Tlaib is under investigation for illegitimately using campaign funds for personal use. According to Fox News, documents recently released show that Rep. Tlaib was “frantically contacting members of her staff for financial help.” She apparently even also asked for a “loan” from her campaign for personal reasons. The documents indicate that she paid herself $45,500 from her campaign committee. While people running for office can draw a salary from their campaigns, the situation does change after the individual is elected to office.

The Wall Street Journal has undertaken a thorough investigation into how Google, despite its denials and disavowals, manipulates search results to influence what you learn and find online.

For years Google executives have insisted that they do not use human intelligence to arrange the results of online searches. Yet, the Journal found that, “Google’s algorithms are subject to regular tinkering from executives and engineers who are trying to deliver relevant search results, while also pleasing a wide variety of powerful interests and driving its parent company’s more than $30 billion in annual profit.”

The Journal also found that, “Despite publicly denying doing so, Google keeps blacklists to remove certain sites or prevent others from surfacing in certain types of results.”

Back in January, New York’s state legislature passed Senate Bill 660, which went into effect November 8. It directly targets religious and pro-life employers by denying them the right to require employees to adhere to biblical standards regarding what the law euphemistically calls “reproductive health decisions.”

We’re talking, of course, about abortion, birth control, same-sex adoption, sex outside of marriage and other issues on the Left’s sexual liberty list of items to be imposed on people of faith. The law offers no exclusion for churches and other faith-based organizations. Indeed, it’s clear that the state’s new requirements are directed at those types of employers, according to a new lawsuit.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) represents a faith-based pregnancy center, a church and several other religious nonprofit organizations in New York in the litigation which asks a federal court to declare the law unconstitutional.