Outrage After Transgender Migrant Gets Just 6 Months in New York Jail for Raping Teen

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The light, six-month jail sentence given to a transgender illegal migrant convicted of raping a child is sparking outrage in New York City and beyond.

Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old Colombian national who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old East Harlem boy, is already set to be released for time served before he is even officially sentenced on April 27, according to the New York Post.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office claims that the extremely lenient sentence was agreed upon with the family of the victim and arranged by prosecutors to help the teen avoid having to testify about his abuse in open court.

The District Attorney’s Office also noted that they “expect” that Contreras-Suarez will be arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and then deported immediately upon being released.

Contreras-Suarez was arrested after his victim reported being attacked in a bodega near Thomas Jefferson Park on February 11, 2025. The illegal migrant was arrested the following day.

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TSA Experiencing Longest Wait Times in History — and May Be Forced to Shutter Entire Airports

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Airline passengers are experiencing some of the highest security wait times in the 25-year-history of the Transportation Security Administration — with some taking more than four-and-a-half hours to make it through checkpoints, a top official told Congress Wednesday.

TSA acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified to the House Homeland Security Committee that her beleaguered agency is “being forced to consolidate” and “may have to close smaller airports if we do not have enough officers.”

“It is a fluid, challenging and unpredictable situation. We understand this is frustrating and disruptive,” she added. “This is unacceptable.”

More than 480 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) have quit during the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, McNeill revealed, warning that the figure is rapidly growing.

On Sunday, the TSA recorded a shocking 11.76% nationwide call-out rate among officers still on the payroll, the highest figure since the shutdown began Feb. 14, according to the latest figures. At some airports, call-out rates have jumped as high as between 40% and 50%. (Read more from “TSA Experiencing Longest Wait Times in History — and May Be Forced to Shutter Entire Airports” HERE)

Jury Finds Meta and Google Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

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A Los Angeles jury has found Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube liable in a groundbreaking lawsuit concerning harm to children using their platforms, awarding $3 million in damages to a young woman who claims social media addiction during childhood worsened her mental health.

NBC News reports that in a precedent-setting verdict, jurors in the high profile social media addiction trial deliberated for more than 40 hours across nine days before determining that both Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design and operation of their platforms. The jury concluded that each company’s negligence was a substantial factor in causing harm to the plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman who testified that her childhood use of social media created an addiction to the technology and aggravated her mental health problems.

The multimillion-dollar award is expected to increase significantly, as jurors determined that the companies acted with malice or highly egregious conduct. This finding means the jury will soon hear additional evidence and return to deliberations to decide on punitive damages, which could substantially raise the total compensation.

Meta and Google-owned YouTube were the final two defendants remaining in the case after TikTok and Snap reached settlements before the trial commenced. The plaintiff, identified in court documents as KGM and referred to as Kaley by her legal team during proceedings, provided testimony alongside high-profile technology executives. Meta leaders Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri appeared as witnesses, while YouTube CEO Neal Mohan was not called to testify.

According to her testimony, Kaley started using YouTube when she was six years old and began using Instagram at age nine. She told jurors that she spent time on social media platforms all day long throughout her childhood. The legal team representing Kaley, headed by attorney Mark Lanier, was responsible for demonstrating that the negligence of the respective defendants was a substantial factor in causing harm to their client. (Read more from “Jury Finds Meta and Google Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial” HERE)

High-Profile Scientists Keep Winding Up Dead Or Missing — GOP Rep Suggests There May Be A Conspiracy At Play

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Several prominent scientists and researchers in the U.S. have reportedly died or gone missing over the past year, fueling speculation about whether some of the disappearances may have occurred under suspicious circumstances.

William Neil McCasland, a 68-year-old retired Air Force major general who had knowledge of UFOs, went missing in New Mexico on Feb. 27, NewsNation reported. Republican Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett told the Daily Mail on Sunday that he believes there may be a pattern emerging of other researchers throughout the nation similarly disappearing “under suspicious circumstances.”

“There have been several others throughout the country that have disappeared under suspicious circumstances,” Burchett told the outlet. “I think we ought to be paying attention to it.”

The congressman also indicated that “the numbers seem very high in these certain areas of research,” adding “I think we’d better be paying attention, and I don’t think we should trust our government.” He went on to claim that researchers with knowledge about UFOs are usually “very secretive about what they know.”

“Everybody’s talking about the UFO stuff,” the Tennessee Republican told the Daily Mail. “Those folks are very secretive about what they know. So I suspect very much that [McCasland] was involved in some of that.” (Read more from “High-Profile Scientists Keep Winding Up Dead Or Missing — GOP Rep Suggests There May Be A Conspiracy At Play” HERE)

Mystery Hum ‘Like a Huge Engine Idling’ Heard Across US

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A mysterious hum has been heard across several US states, rattling locals who have been struggling to sleep.

Residents have said the noise is disrupting their daily life, and they believe they know what “monstrosity” is behind it.

The humming sound has been reported throughout New Jersey, Connecticut and Virginia.

Some of the latest reports are coming out of Vineland, New Jersey, where locals have revealed the sound started up after construction for a 2.4 million-square-foot data center began.

Although, officials have yet to confirm a link between the construction and the sound.

“That is not construction, and that monstrosity is only partially built,” Scott Montgomery, who lives about a half mile from the site, told ABC6. (Read more from “Mystery Hum ‘Like a Huge Engine Idling’ Heard Across US” HERE)

Iran Worried Trump’s Negotiations Could Be Trap to Assassinate One of the Regime’s Last Surviving Political Leaders: Report

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Iranian officials fear that US cease-fire talks are a trap — an attempt to lure the regime’s last surviving leaders into an ambush where they can be assassinated, according to a report.

Leaders in Tehran worry that any face-to-face negotiations with the US and Israel to end the war would be a ruse to draw out Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Ghalibaf, a former paramilitary commander and one of the few senior Iranian leaders to escape the airstrikes, is wanted by the US to take part in any peace discussions. (Read more from “Iran Worried Trump’s Negotiations Could Be Trap to Assassinate One of the Regime’s Last Surviving Political Leaders: Report” HERE)

Report: 3,000 Troops from Army’s Elite 82nd Airborne Set for Rapid Mideast Deployment

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The Pentagon is expected to order roughly 3,000 troops from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East “in the coming hours,” according to a Wall Street Journal report outlining an imminent deployment of a rapid-response brigade combat team to support operations against Iran.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing two U.S. officials, that a written deployment order is expected shortly for the unit, along with the division’s headquarters element responsible for planning and coordination.

The move would mark a significant expansion of U.S. force posture in the region, positioning a high-readiness ground force capable of executing a range of missions if directed.

The 82nd Airborne serves as the Army’s emergency response force and can deploy anywhere in the world within 24 hours. Its brigade combat teams are trained to parachute into hostile or contested territory to secure airfields and establish footholds for follow-on operations.

Officials cautioned that no decision has been made to put American boots on the ground inside Iran. (Read more from “Report: 3,000 Troops from Army’s Elite 82nd Airborne Set for Rapid Mideast Deployment” HERE)

Noem Spent $20,000 on Horse Rentals, $3,800 on Hair and Makeup for Mount Rushmore ads: Dems

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Taxpayers shelled out more than $200,000 in production costs for an ad featuring fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem riding around Mount Rushmore on horseback, Democratic lawmakers revealed Monday.

The payments were made under a subcontract issued to The Strategy Group Company, as part of the controversial $220 million advertising campaign authorized by Noem that urged illegal migrants to leave the US.

“This looks like waste, fraud, and abuse to me,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said after reviewing the breakdown of the ad’s production costs.

A partial invoice provided to Welch and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) showed The Strategy Group Company spent $20,000 on horse rentals for the ad; $3,781 on hair and makeup; $52,599 on videography, photography and production vendors; $41,852 on “other vendors.”

The Strategy Group Company billed $107,405 for labor costs, and $60,000 for a “signing bonus,” according to the senators. (Read more from “Noem Spent $20,000 on Horse Rentals, $3,800 on Hair and Makeup for Mount Rushmore ads: Dems” HERE)

Trump Blasts Robert Mueller after News of ex-FBI Director, Russia Special Counsel’s Death: ‘Good’

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President Trump celebrated the death of former FBI director and special counsel Robert Mueller with a teeth-baring social media post on Saturday.

“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” he posted shortly after Mueller’s death was announced.

Mueller was named special counsel and tasked with investigating the 2016 election which hung over the head of Trump throughout his first term in office.

The now dead former G-man concluded that Russia interfered, mainly on social media, with the intent of benefitting Trump.

No charges against the president came from the investigation, though Mueller refused to formally exonerate Trump. (Read more from “Trump Blasts Robert Mueller after News of ex-FBI Director, Russia Special Counsel’s Death: ‘Good’” HERE)

A Once-in-a-4,433-Year Heat Wave Is Hitting the Western U.S.

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It is difficult to describe how bonkers this week’s heat wave is in the southwestern United States. Alan Gerard, a typically even-keeled meteorologist with 35 years of forecasting experience under his belt, attempted to do so in a recent edition of his newsletter, Balanced Weather. He settled on: “jaw-dropping,” “insane,” “truly historic,” “literally flabbergasting,” “incredible,” and “anomalous [even for] the middle of summer.”

Jeff Berardelli, the chief meteorologist at WFLA, the NBC affiliate in Tampa, tried to contextualize it on social media, noting that based on historical patterns, Phoenix could expect a March day as hot as it was on Thursday — 105 degrees Fahrenheit — only once every 4,433 years.

Phoenix is just one part of the story. The heat wave — which began ramping up on Tuesday, peaks Friday, and won’t subside until early next week — has set or tied March record highs in at least 480 locations so far, stretching from New Mexico to Southern Oregon. California has already broken the record for the hottest winter day ever recorded anywhere in the U.S.: 109 degrees on Thursday at a station in the eastern Coachella Valley. “The extent and magnitude of this particular heat wave is without comparison to anything that we’ve seen in March,” John Abatzoglou, a professor of Climatology at the University of California, Merced, who specializes in climate impacts in the West, told me.

That’s partially because this heat wave would be “virtually impossible for the time of year in a world without human-induced climate change,” per a report released Friday by scientists from World Weather Attribution. Heat waves have one of the clearest climate signals of any extreme weather event because a hotter planet means a hotter baseline. “Across almost the entire western U.S., temperatures [this week] were made at least five times more likely due to climate change,” Zachary Labe, a climate scientist at Climate Central, which maps the effects on daily temperatures, told me.

The March 2026 heat wave is likely to become a reference point in the same vein as the 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest, subject to study, research, and scrutiny by climatologists, public health experts, hydrologists, and emergency managers in the months and years to come. The consequences of the current heat wave will also outlast the record temperatures. When it is this hot — and, more importantly, when it is this hot this soon — the effects compound, touching everything from hydropower capacity to the coming wildfire season. (Read more from “A Once-in-a-4,433-Year Heat Wave Is Hitting the Western U.S.” HERE)

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