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Feds subpoena Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trips

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FIRST ON FOX: Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba’s communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned.
Piker and Benjamin are among those caught in a federal inquiry into whether activists who traveled to Cuba in March violated U.S. sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island. The administrative subpoenas were sent to the pair by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control
The administrative subpoenas — called «Requests for Information,» or RFI — seek financial, logistical and communications information revolving around trips the two widely bragged about making to the island nation in March with delegations of the «Nuestra América Convoy,» or «Our America Convoy,» from a global network of communist sympathizers, activists and influencers who brought supplies to the country’s ruling Communist Party of Cuba, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The investigation is part of a broader effort by officials at Treasury, State and Justice departments to curb malign foreign influence operations inside the United States, particularly activities tied to support for political violence, extremist movements or acts the U.S. government classifies as terrorism. The scrutiny reflects growing concern among federal authorities and lawmakers over whether foreign actors and aligned organizations are attempting to shape American political discourse, mobilize activists, sow discord and normalize rhetoric that could encourage violence or undermine U.S. national security interests.
According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has pumped $278 million into nonprofit groups that have pushed pro-China, pro-Cuba, anti-U.S. narratives and street protests for almost a decade, since his marriage in February 2017 to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, who is also being investigated for her role in the March trip. CodePink received $1.33 million from Singham after he married Evans.
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Hasan Piker, a Democratic Socialists of America member, and CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans meet in Havana, Cuba, as part of a «United Front» supporting the communist regime. (NO ACCESS EDGE/NNS/FNS/OUTKICK/CodePink)
In mid-March, organizations in the Singham network — from the Venceremos Brigade to People’s Forum, a hub for communist causes in New York City — were leaders of the Nuestra American Convoy, which included an estimated 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations. The organizations included Democratic Socialists of America, a U.S. nonprofit that promotes Piker as a headline member.
The investigation by the Office of Foreign Assets Control is part of a broader dragnet that includes as many as 40 American citizens who joined foreign nationals, including a controversial Brazil activist, Thiago Avila, who are part of a global network of anti-U.S. Marxists, communists and socialists. Additional subpoenas are expected.
The administrative subpoenas mark a serious escalation by the Trump administration against a far-left nonprofit activist network that has spent years defending communist regimes, from Cuba to China, while presenting its work as humanitarian aid, anti-war organizing and «solidarity» with people «oppressed» by the «imperialist» U.S «colonial power.»
As reported, a Fox News Digital investigation has identified 145 U.S. nonprofits and activist groups with $1 billion in collective revenues that Justice and Treasury Department officials are investigating as part of a wider influence campaign by Cuba’s communist regime and other foreign actors. According to public statements, it’s believed that delegation members stayed at a hotel the U.S. State Department has put on a «Cuba Restricted List,» as businesses directly tied to the communist government of Cuba, designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
U.S. law imposes broad restrictions on financial transactions involving Cuba, primarily through the «Cuban Asset Control Regulations,» administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Those rules generally prohibit unlicensed travel-related transactions and the export of goods or services to Cuba, with limited exceptions for journalism, humanitarian projects, educational programs and certain activities meant to support the Cuban people.
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Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker stands outside his home in West Hollywood, Calif., pointing silently to his dog Kaya to direct her back into his home. (MB/Splash for Fox News Digital)
Piker, one of the most influential political streamers on Twitch, has built a massive online following with a mix of Marxist politics, anti-American commentary and inflammatory statements that have repeatedly drawn public backlash.
On March 10, Piker posted a photo of himself on Instagram with the message: «I’M GOING TO CUBA.»
In an Instagram post from the trip, Singham’s wife, Evans, smiled widely in Havana, wearing a red-and-white Palestinian scarf, or kefiyyeh, around her neck, while standing beside Piker, who looked seriously into the camera.
On a livestream this week, Piker said that the Justice Department’s indictment of Cuban leader Raúl Castro is a «sham» with «no legal standing,» designed to create a pretext for escalating U.S. pressure on the island. Piker argued that Trump is acting like a «playground bully.»
Fox News Digital recently observed Piker outside his Los Angeles home escorting his dog, Kaya, outside the house for a bathroom break early one morning. Kaya, a large-breed dog that is a mix of Tibetan Mastiff, Chow Chow, and St. Bernard, has been the beloved subject of an online campaign, dubbed «Free Kaya,» over allegations Piker trained Kaya with a shock collar that transmits painful stimuli as part of behavior training. At one moment, Piker silently stood over Kaya and gestured with a finger for her to return to the house after relieving herself. Later, Kaya was observed being walked and driven by a woman leaving Piker’s home.
Benjamin has made her mark as an activist gadfly who stages media spectacles at Congressional hearings, defense industry trade conferences and the homes of government officials, yelling invectives, chants and slogans, branding herself as «anti-war,» but actually running a pattern of messages denouncing the U.S. and uplifting communist and authoritarian regimes from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of Cuba.
Fox News Digital recently observed Benjamin outside her colorful home in Washington, D.C., with her partner and fellow activist Tighe Barry, who accompanied her on the trip to Havana.
Piker has been criticized for saying that «America deserved 9/11,» a remark he later said was poorly phrased, and for past comments about former Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, a Navy SEAL veteran who lost an eye in Afghanistan. More recently, critics, including Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., have accused Piker of amplifying anti-Semitic rhetoric after Oct. 7, while Piker has denied antisemitism and said his criticism is aimed at Israel, not Jews.
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The larger group under scrutiny includes Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., according to sources, with investigators examining whether Omar may have funded her daughter’s travel to Cuba. Omar didn’t respond to an earlier request for comment about her daughter’s trip.
Piker, Benjamin, Singham, Evans and CodePink didn’t respond to requests for comment.
According to sources, the Office of Foreign Assets Control is also investigating CodePink’s DC Coordinator, Olivia DiNucci, a former Division I basketball star from Emerson College in Boston. Her unassuming, girl-next-door persona often gains her entry into coveted spaces that she then disrupts with loud theatrics. She joined a convoy led by the Brazilian activist, Avila.
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Tycoon Neville Roy Singham with wife Jodie Evans. In 2025, he argues in Shanghai that he support the «new world order» of the Chinese Communist Party, which includes control over Cuba. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images and Global South Academic Forum)
Federal investigators are examining whether the caravan’s financing, logistics, coordination or delivery of goods crossed legal lines under U.S. sanctions law, sources said.
Legal experts told Fox News Digital that the subpoenas could determine whether prosecutors pursue a criminal case under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, known as IEEPA, or whether the matter remains a civil enforcement issue handled by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which administers U.S. sanctions programs.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control can impose civil penalties under a «strict liability» standard, meaning the government does not have to prove intent. The Justice Department, by contrast, generally must show that a defendant willfully violated the law in a criminal case, often through evidence of concealment, evasion or knowing participation in prohibited transactions.
In a long livestream on Saturday, Piker interviewed another influencer, Ashley St. Clair, about having a baby with billionaire Elon Musk, railed against Trump, defended the communist leaders of Cuba and free-associated about other topics in the news, including a shooting outside the White House, decrying the chaos in America. «It’s f@*&ing terrifying,» he said.
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Medea Benjamin (right) and Olivia DiNucci (center) of CodePink protest against the U.S. war in Iran. (Fox News Digital)
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Johnson’s strategy to bypass Democrats’ SAVE Act blockade survives key vote, handing GOP big win

President Trump urges lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act
President Trump used his nationwide address to demand Congress pass the Save America Act, believing it will tighten election security. Chad Pergram, Chief Congressional Correspondent, reports on the legislation’s challenging path forward. While most House Republicans are on board, some GOP Senators remain skeptical, highlighting concerns about its implementation and potential impact on election integrity.
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Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest bid to skirt Democrats’ opposition to an election integrity bill backed by President Donald Trump survived a key hurdle on Monday evening.
The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has faced significant headwinds in Congress despite having Trump’s full-throated support. While it passed the House, the legislation has struggled in the Senate where at least several Democratic votes are needed to break a filibuster and advance to final passage.
But the new plan by Johnson, R-La., which would allow key parts of the bill to skirt Democrats entirely, is one step closer to getting a House-wide vote sometime this week.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., attend the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Republicans would erase the need for any Democratic buy-in by putting key elements of the SAVE America Act into a larger budget reconciliation bill. The reconciliation process allows the party in power to pass sweeping fiscal policy reforms without input from their opposition by lowering the Senate’s threshold for passage to line up with the House’s simple majority requirement.
But there are strict guidelines for what can be in a reconciliation bill. Such legislation must deal with yearly federal spending and revenues, meaning issues that do not directly affect fiscal policy are generally excluded.
House Republicans are aiming to use this reconciliation bill to fund states’ election integrity efforts, replenish military funding amid the U.S. war with Iran, and dole out aid to American farmers.
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In total, the legislation would set the stage for $95 billion in new federal spending across the next 10 years.
The first chamber-wide step in the reconciliation process is to pass a framework that directs the relevant committees to then craft details dealing with their allocated budgets. Those details are then put back into a single sweeping bill that must pass the House and Senate before getting to Trump’s desk for his signature.
Passing the House Rules Committee means the bill will see a chamber-wide test vote that, if adopted, will set the stage for lawmakers to debate the bill before a final vote.
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That vote is expected to occur Tuesday afternoon, with the final vote taking place the following day at 3:30 p.m., according to a preliminary schedule obtained by Fox News Digital.
Trump urged Republicans to advance the bill earlier Monday, arguing it would «get AS MUCH of THE SAVE AMERICA ACT as possible in a Budget Bill, along with aid to our incredible Farmers, and funding for our Military.»
Democrats, meanwhile, have accused Republicans of trying to unfairly sway elections with their SAVE America Act push.
«This is a phony issue that Donald Trump is creating. What’s amazing to me is that Donald Trump had the nerve to say to the Speaker of the House, who apparently didn’t object, that the most important thing that Republicans should focus on is voter suppression legislation, and that housing doesn’t matter, healthcare doesn’t matter, grocery bills don’t matter,» House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said earlier this year.

Voting booths are seen at Glass Elementary School’s polling station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on November 8, 2022. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has repeatedly referred to the legislation as «Jim Crow 2.0.»
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«While the specific policies may have changed since the days of the Jim Crow South, the goal of the SAVE Act is the same: disenfranchising American citizens and making it harder for eligible people to vote, particularly low income Americans and people of color,» he said in February.
Republicans argue that the SAVE America Act — which would implement federal voter ID requirements and a proof of citizenship mandate in the voter registration process — would make American elections safer and more secure.
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Basado en hechos reales: cuando el dolor se transforma en un libro capaz de iluminar a sus lectores

Las tres parten de una tragedia íntima. Y las tres de circunstancias distintas: un aborto clandestino, la supervivencia al Holocausto y la muerte de un ser amado. ¿El punto de contacto? la escritura como forma de procesar lo vivido y encontrar un sentido que trascienda lo personal.
En El acontecimiento, la francesa Annie Ernaux, Premio Nobel de Literatura, reconstruye el aborto clandestino al que debió someterse en la Francia de 1963, cuando interrumpir un embarazo era un delito. Y lo hace con una honestidad brutal. Ernaux no pretende despertar compasión ni hacer un alegato sentimental. Solo escribe y, de esa forma, rescata de la oscuridad una experiencia compartida por miles de mujeres, demostrando cómo la memoria individual puede convertirse en colectiva.
“Una tarde salí decidida a encontrar un médico que aceptara ayudarme a abortar. Ese ser tenía que existir en algún lugar. (…) Las chicas como yo estropeábamos el día a los médicos. Sin dinero y sin relaciones – de lo contrario no hubiéramos ido a parar a ciegas a su consulta- les obligábamos a recordar la ley que podía llevarles a la cárcel y prohibirles para siempre el ejercicio de su profesión. No se atrevían a decir la verdad: que no iban a arriesgarse a perderlo todo por la cara bonita de una señorita lo bastante estúpida como para haberse dejado preñar. (…) Y como de costumbre, era imposible determinar si el aborto estaba prohibido porque estaba mal, o si estaba mal porque estaba prohibido. Se juzgaba con relación a la ley, no se juzgaba la ley”.

Diferente es la travesía de la sicóloga húngara Edith Eger, con La bailarina de Auschwitz. Deportada al campo de concentración nazi, con solo 16 años, pudo sobrevivir al horror después de perder a sus padres y de convivir con el hambre, el miedo y la muerte.
“El doctor Menguele es un asesino refinado y amante de las bellas artes. Por las noches busca entre los barracones a presas con talento para que lo entretengan. Esta noche entra con su séquito de ayudantes y lanza una mirada sobre las recién llegadas. (…) Permanecemos inmóviles, con las espaldas pegadas a las literas de madera que rodean la habitación. Nos examina. (…) Los ojos de Menguele me miran fijamente. (…) ¡Baila! Me ordena. (…) Puedo oír su voz por encima de la música. Habla con el otro oficial acerca de cuáles de las cien chicas presentes serán las próximas en morir. Si doy un mal paso, si hago algo que le desagrade, podría ser yo”.
Décadas más tarde, convertida en psicóloga clínica, encontró en la escritura una manera de integrar el pasado y de transmitir una enseñanza que atraviesa todo el texto: incluso después del sufrimiento más extremo, siempre está la posibilidad de elegir cómo vivir con eso que nos pasó. Su relato evita el resentimiento y apuesta por la resiliencia como una forma de libertad interior. La historia real que escribe Eger, es un análisis exhaustivo del alma humana y de cómo recuperarla luego de un episodio traumático. Y es posible. Al menos así lo asegura.

“Estamos abrumados por la pérdida y creemos que nunca recuperaremos el sentido de identidad y de realización, que nunca mejoraremos. Pero, a pesar de las dificultades y las tragedias de nuestras vidas y, en realidad, gracias a ellas, todos tenemos la posibilidad de adoptar una perspectiva que nos transforme de víctimas en triunfadores. Podemos elegir asumir la responsabilidad de nuestras dificultades y nuestra curación. Podemos elegir ser libres.”
En línea con la pérdida y el duelo, en El año del pensamiento mágico, la periodista y escritora norteamericana Joan Didion enfrenta una tragedia diferente pero igualmente devastadora: la muerte repentina de su esposo, el escritor John Gregory Dunne. Con la lucidez que la caracteriza, Didion registra el desconcierto del duelo, “la vida cambia en un instante, Te sientas a cenar y la vida que conocías se acaba”, esa etapa en la que la razón convive con la idea irracional de que el ser querido pueda regresar.
“Todavía no estaba preparada para enfrentarme a los trajes camisas y chaquetas, pero sí pensé que podía encargarme de los zapatos que quedaban, lo cual era un principio. Me detuve en la puerta de la habitación. No pude dar el resto de los zapatos. Me quedé allí un momento plantada y entonces me di cuenta de por qué: si John quería volver, le iban a hacer falta zapatos. El ser consciente de esta idea no la erradicó en absoluto. (…) Cómo podía volver John si le sacaban los órganos, ¿cómo iba a volver si no tenía zapatos?”.

La obra es una exploración minuciosa de la pérdida, pero también un testimonio contundente sobre los mecanismos con los que la mente intenta sobrevivir cuando el mundo conocido se derrumba.
Final. Más allá de sus diferencias, las tres obras comparten una convicción: contar la verdad, incluso cuando duele, puede ser un acto profundamente transformador. Y que el medio para ese relato sea la literatura pone de relieve la función catalizadora que puede llegar a tener la acción de contarlo, pero por escrito.
Las tres autoras eligieron escribir desde la herida, convirtiéndose en protagonistas y narradoras de su propia tragedia. Esa condición les permitió construir textos reflexivos y de alto impacto emocional a la vez. En tiempos en que las fronteras entre ficción y realidad son cada vez más difusas, Ernaux, Eger y Didion demuestran que la experiencia propia puede alcanzar una dimensión universal. Sus relatos hablan de ellas, pero también de cualquier persona que haya atravesado la pérdida, la incertidumbre o el miedo. Porque, al final, estas lecturas celebran algo valioso: la capacidad humana para encontrar sentido en medio del dolor y transformar una vivencia límite en una obra capaz de acompañar, consolar e iluminar la vida de los lectores.
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Sinaloa Cartel boss ‘El Mayo’ sentenced to life, ordered to pay $15B in drug trafficking profits

Mexico questions FBI role in Sinaloa Cartel abduction
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum strongly criticizes the U.S. government for its alleged involvement in the 2024 abduction of former Sinaloa Cartel boss ‘El Mayo’ Zambada. Sheinbaum explicitly states the U.S. lied about its participation, claiming a violation of Mexican sovereignty. This incident raises serious questions about diplomatic relations between the two nations and American intervention in Mexico.
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Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada Garcia, of Mexico, was sentenced on Monday to life in a U.S. prison and ordered to forfeit $15 billion in drug trafficking profits, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said that while he had no choice but to give a life sentence since the charges carried a mandatory term of life imprisonment, he believed it was the right punishment.
«The almost unimaginable amount of drugs attributable to him and the number of murders that we can document is enough to justify Congress’s decision to make this a mandatory life sentence,» the judge said.
He is one of the most high-profile Mexican drug traffickers to be sentenced by a U.S. judge since fellow Sinaloa leader Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in 2019.
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A photo of former Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada Garcia being detained by federal agents is displayed next to a Beechcraft King Air aircraft, used in July 2024 to transport Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of notorious narco leader «El Chapo» Guzman, to the U.S., at the War Eagles Air Museum, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. (REUTERS/Paul Ratje)
Garcia, 76, agreed to plead guilty in August 2025 to multiple charges, including racketeering conspiracy and continuing criminal enterprise, after the DOJ said it would not pursue the death penalty.
He was arrested in July 2024 alongside Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of Guzman’s sons, after their plane landed in the U.S. Guzman Lopez has since pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including drug trafficking and a July 2024 kidnapping.
Joseph Nocella, a federal prosecutor, told reporters after Garcia’s sentencing that Guzman Lopez had admitted to kidnapping Garcia in an attempt to secure leniency and credit from U.S. law enforcement.

A reward sign for former Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada Garcia standing next to a Beechcraft King Air aircraft, used in July 2024 to transport Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of notorious narco leader «El Chapo» Guzman, at the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. (REUTERS/Paul Ratje)
«The United States made perfectly clear that we do not condone kidnapping and that he would receive no credit,» Nocella said.
Guzman Lopez has not yet been sentenced.
Garcia told the court during his sentencing on Monday that he took responsibility for the harm he had caused.
«No one wins in a war like this. To the next generation, I say, choose a different path,» he said.
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Cogan suggested that Garcia be placed in a facility where he would receive adequate medical care since he was suffering from several progressive health ailments.
«Ismael Zambada Garcia spent nearly four decades poisoning American communities to make billions of dollars in profit and ordering the murders of anyone who stood in his way. Today, that chapter closes for good,» Nocella said in a statement.

Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada Garcia was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison. (REUTERS/Gustavo Graf)
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«He will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison, exactly where he belongs,» he added. This sentence was made possible by the tireless bilateral cooperation between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement, who refused to let El Mayo’s years of evading justice become a permanent state of affairs. We hope that today’s sentence brings some measure of justice to the countless victims of the Sinaloa Cartel’s narcotics trafficking and violence.»
Reuters contributed to this report.
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