State to Use National Guard Armory as Shelter for Illegal Aliens Despite Building’s Ongoing Use

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Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s office plans to convert a National Guard armory in Lexington into a temporary “safety-net” shelter for illegal immigrants, the Boston Herald reported Monday.

The Lexington Armory is roughly 35,000 square feet and includes an assembly hall, a mess hall with classroom space, a kitchen, showers, and administrative space.

The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities stated that nine Massachusetts National Guardsmen are currently using the building to complete administrative tasks. Despite the facility’s planned conversion into a shelter space, the guardsmen will continue to use the building daily.

Emergency Assistance director and retired Air National Guard Lt. Gen. Scott Rice told the news outlet that the armory will provide housing to 55 families. According to the Boston Herald, the site will also be open to homeless American families. The governor has claimed that many individuals utilizing the state’s emergency shelter program are Massachusetts residents.

“We have identified a state-owned building in Lexington to use as a safety-net site for families experiencing homelessness. Preparations are underway in close collaboration with local officials, and we expect to open the site next month,” Rice told the media outlet. (Read more from “State to Use National Guard Armory as Shelter for Illegal Aliens Despite Building’s Ongoing Use” HERE)

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Trans Sex Offender Tries to Kidnap Children From Elementary School Recess

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Parents in a Colorado community are outraged after a transgender sex offender allegedly tried to kidnap an elementary schooler during recess after entering the property without a problem.

Surveillance footage obtained by CBS News shows an individual police believe to be 33-year-old Solomon Galligan entering the playfield at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora on the afternoon of April 22 and approaching the children.

Galligan, who was convicted of “nonconsensual grabbing, touching, or groping another’s intimate body parts” in 2011 according to the Daily Mail, then tried to grab a potential victim, a boy, who ran away. . .

Social media posts from 2011 viewed by the outlet show Galligan documenting a gender transition.

“So I’m starting my hormone shots and I really can’t wait I’m on my hormone pills I’ve been on them for almost 4 months,” one post read. (Read more from “Trans Sex Offender Tries to Kidnap Children From Elementary School Recess” HERE)

‘That’s a Scandal’: CDC Knew COVID Shots Caused Deaths, but Lied With Public Denials

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A new report from the Epoch Times reveals its investigation shows that the CDC knew of the links between the COVID shots and death – and lied about them.

The report explains officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths.” . . .

The Times explained “Myocarditis was also described as being caused by vaccination in a subset of the deaths. In other cases, the CDC workers found that deaths met the agency’s definition for myocarditis, that the patients started showing symptoms within 42 days of a vaccine dose, and that the deceased displayed no virus-related symptoms. Officials say that after 42 days, a possible link between the vaccine and symptoms becomes tenuous, and they list post-vaccination deaths as unrelated if they can find any possible alternative causes.”

But the report noted Dr. Clare Craig, a British pathologist, said in cases with the three features, it is absolutely safe to say the vaccines caused death.

However, while the findings were determined by the end of 2021, the CDC in subsequent claims alleged it saw no signs linking the RNA and mRNA shots to deaths “reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.” (Read more from “‘That’s a Scandal’: CDC Knew COVID Shots Caused Deaths, but Lied With Public Denials” HERE)

Judge Hits Trump With Fines, Threatens Jail Time Over Gag Order; Trump Responds to Gag Order Fine, Says Judge Is ‘Rigging’ 2024 Election

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By Daily Wire. The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush-money trial fined the former president $9,000 and threatened him with jail time for social media posts the judge said violated a court-imposed gag order.

Judge Juan Merchan wrote in an order on Tuesday that Trump had violated a gag order against speaking out about several people involved in the trial nine times. Merchan fined the former president $1,000 for each violation and ordered him to delete the posts in question from Truth Social and Trump’s campaign website.

The judge warned Trump that additional violations of the gag order could result in jail time for the former president. Merchan complained that he is not legally allowed to fine Trump more than $1,000 for each violation, arguing that heftier fines, potentially as large as $150,000, would be more likely to produce the desired effect.

“Criminal contempt is punishable by a fine not exceeding $ 1,000, by jail not exceeding 30 days or by both in the discretion of the court, for each violation of a court order. … However, the Judiciary Law does not vest the Court with authority to craft an appropriate punishment when a $1,000 fine will not achieve the intended purpose,” Merchan wrote. (Read more from “Judge Hits Trump With Fines, Threatens Jail Time Over Gag Order” HERE)

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Trump Responds to Gag Order Fine, Says Judge Is ‘Rigging’ 2024 Election

By Daily Wire. Former President Donald Trump said Judge Juan Merchan is “rigging” the 2024 presidential election after the judge slapped Trump with a $9,000 fine and threatened to jail him for social media posts that violated his gag order in the New York hush-money trial.

Merchan wrote in an order on Tuesday that Trump had violated his gag order nine times, fining him $1,000 for each offense. The former president is prohibited from commenting on potential witnesses, jurors, court staff, attorneys, and members of the judge’s family. Prosecutors urged Merchan to take action on Trump for violating the gag order, pointing to posts he made on his social media site Truth Social or his campaign website about Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, and the jury pool.

“This Judge has taken away my Constitutional Right to FREE SPEECH,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon. “I am the only Presidential Candidate in History to be GAGGED. This whole ‘Trial’ is RIGGED, and by taking away my FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THIS HIGHLY CONFLICTED JUDGE IS RIGGING THE PRESIDENTIAL OF 2024 ELECTION. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”

In his order, Merchan complained that he could not legally fine Trump more than $1,000 for each violation, writing, “In some cases that might be a $2,500 fine, in other cases it might be a fine of $150,000.” (Read more from “Trump Responds to Gag Order Fine, Says Judge Is ‘Rigging’ 2024 Election” HERE)

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Six States Sue Biden Admin Over New Title IX Protections for Biological Men in Girls’ Sports

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced on Tuesday that they are leading six states in suing the Department of Education (ED) due to the overhaul of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act.

Court documents show that the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

The Biden administration has unveiled new rules aimed at safeguarding LGBTQ+ students and changing the ways in which sexual harassment and assault claims are adjudicated on campus.

Skrmetti and Coleman are targeting new provisions that are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the ED, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Biden to revamp those issued during the Trump administration.

“The U.S. Department of Education has no authority to let boys into girls’ locker rooms,” Tennessee Attorney General Skrmetti said in a statement. (Read more from “Six States Sue Biden Admin Over New Title IX Protections for Biological Men in Girls’ Sports” HERE)

Space Laser Transmission Strikes Earth From 140 Million Miles Away: NASA

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. . .Earth just received a laser transmission from a world- (and perhaps universe-) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major implications for the future of space travel.

However, this correspondence wasn’t extraterrestrial in origin: It was actually sent by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is currently located approximately 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the sun.

“This represents a significant milestone for the project by showing how optical communications can interface with a spacecraft’s radio frequency comms system,” Meera Srinivasan, the project’s operations lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.

This major breakthrough was achieved by using a Psyche feature called Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, one of the droid’s several tasks per Space.com. Its main directive is exploring 16 Psyche, the asteroid from which it takes its name.

NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted across interstellar distances, allowing for high bandwidth and a much speedier connection — from 10 to 100 times faster than what’s available today — between humans and the probes they send into space. (Read more from “Space Laser Transmission Strikes Earth From 140 Million Miles Away: NASA” HERE)

Report: White House Considers Inviting Gaza Palestinians as Refugees

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The White House has reportedly been considering whether or not to accept Palestinians from Gaza as refugees amid Israel’s war with Hamas.

According to internal federal documents obtained by CBS News, senior officials in the Biden administration and U.S. agencies have “discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents.”

The documents show that welcoming Palestinians under the United States Refugee Admissions Program has been proposed as a means to bring people into the country from war-torn Gaza. CBS News added:

Top U.S. officials have also discussed getting additional Palestinians out of Gaza and processing them as refugees if they have American relatives, the documents show. The plans would require coordination with Egypt, which has so far refused to welcome large numbers of people from Gaza.

Potential refugees would need to pass various security and medical screenings before they could be granted access to the United States and the numerous benefits associated with refugee resettlement in the country, including permanent residency, housing assistance, and a pathway to American citizenship. (Read more from “Report: White House Considers Inviting Gaza Palestinians as Refugees” HERE)

Most Migrants Paroled Under Biden Administration Are Flying to This State, Subpoenaed Docs Show

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The bulk of migrants who qualify for the Biden administration’s mass parole program are flying into Florida, subpoenaed documents released Tuesday by the House Homeland Security Committee show.

Under President Biden’s controversial border policy, migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela who obtain a US sponsor, pass a background check and demonstrate that parole is warranted based on significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons are allowed to fly into US ports of entry, where they will receive work permits and authorization to remain in the country for two years. . .

The documents from DHS obtained by the House Homeland Security Committee cover some 200,000 migrant arrivals over a period from January-August 2023. . .

[Click HERE to see] the top 15 cities that individuals who qualified for the so-called CHNV program flew into during that 8-month span.

The House panel said the DHS documents also revealed that there were some 1.6 million migrants waiting for approval to fly into the US via the parole program, as of October 2023. (Read more from “Most Migrants Paroled Under Biden Administration Are Flying to This State, Subpoenaed Docs Show” HERE)

Landmark Shift Against Gender Ideology: Sex Defined as Biological Sex

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The transgender agenda, the belief that men can simply say they are women and they are women, has hit headwinds with a new decision by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.

A report in the Telegraph explains that the organization that serves the health care concerns of millions has proposed a definition change that states sex is a matter of biology.

The report noted that’s a “landmark shift against gender ideology.”

The change means, among other things, that men who claim to be women now are banned from women-only wards, and women have the right to request a female physician for intimate care.

The changes are coming as part of an update to the organization’s constitution that is required to be reviewed every 10 years, and last was done in 2015. (Read more from “Landmark Shift Against Gender Ideology: Sex Defined as Biological Sex” HERE)

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Study Finds That Renting Is Cheaper Than Buying a Home in All 50 of America’s Largest Metro Areas

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Renting has become more affordable than buying a home in 50 of the largest metro areas in the United States, a recent study reveals.

The analysis, performed by Bankrate, found that it costs about 37 percent more a month to buy a home than to rent nationwide. The cost disparity is largely a product of rising home prices, increased mortgage rates, and a slowdown in rent hikes, the study noted.

The average monthly rent payment is $1,979 while the average monthly payment on a $412,778 home, the median price, is just over $2,703. The average monthly mortgage rate, meanwhile, is 7.33 percent as of April 17th, 2024, a three percent increase since March 2022.

While the trend is persistent across the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the disparity between the costs of renting and buying a home vary wildly depending on location.

The analysis uses the buy-to-rent ratio, which compares “typical monthly mortgage payments to typical monthly rent payments.” The disparity is most drastic in California’s Bay Area, with a buy-to-rent ratio of over 180 percent in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley and a 162 percent ratio in San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. (Read more from “Study Finds That Renting Is Cheaper Than Buying a Home in All 50 of America’s Largest Metro Areas” HERE)

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