In The News Today: 5/13/2024.

Transgender Kills Civilian: Runs Him Over, Stabs Him & Kisses Him

Karon Fisher, a transgender in Houston, Texas, allegedly crashed into the body of 64-year-old Steven Anderson earlier this month, before stabbing him to his death, kissing him and prancing over his body.

Co-Owner of Trending Politics, Collin Rugg, posted a video of the incident which looks like it was obtained from someone’s outdoor security camera.

According to reports, Anderson was outside getting the mail from his mailbox when Fisher rammed right into him with a vehicle. Fisher allegedly then reversed the car in order to hit Anderson again while witnesses called 911.

The video shows Fisher, who was wearing what looked like a bra and underpants, flip over Anderson’s limp body before straddling and kissing him.

Reports indicate that Fisher then stabbed Anderson a total of nine times before prancing over his body like a gazelle and walking away “as if nothing had happened.”


15.6% of US population now foreign born, at least 51.6 MILLION amid Biden’s border crisis

According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the largest two-year increase of those who are foreign born has happened in the last two years in the US since March 2022.

The findings of CIS highlight, “In March 2024 the foreign-born population reached 51.6 million, 5.1 million more than in March 2022—the largest two-year increase ever recorded in American History.” CIS added in the report that this is approximately equal to the growth in the foreign-born population in the 9 years prior to COVID-19.

Since President Joe Biden has taken office, the number of foreign-born people in the US has increase on record by 6.6 million in 39 months, equating to just under 170,000 foreign born individuals emigrating to the US every month on average since Biden took office. CIS has previously estimated that about 58 percent of the increase of immigration is from illegal immigration under the policies that Biden has set. Only 46 percent of those who have arrived after March 2022 are employed.

The CIS estimated in its report that if the trend continues on the path how it is now, that the US foreign-born population will reach 62.5 and then 82.2 million by 2040. The report from CIS comes as Biden is struggling in the polls on the topic of immigration, where Trump leads by 35 ponts on the topic in recent polls. Trump also leads in 5 out of six important swing states, according to a New York Times poll published on Monday.

A large spike in illegal Chinese immigrants is also being investigated by the House GOP later this week.”>President Joe Biden’s tenure in office. This comes after the last two years have seen the highest growth in foreign-born people coming to the US on record.  


Biden’s VA Gave $11M Bonuses to Execs Using Money Meant to Help Veterans.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials approved an estimated $11 million in bonuses for high-ranking executives instead of using the funds for their intended purpose, according to an inspector general report. Congress authorized this misused money to hire and retain “critical skill” specialists to manage veterans‘ benefits resulting from health complications related to exposure to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other hazardous substances.

Instead, the fund was used to pay out bonuses to over 180 senior executives at the VA’s central office in Washington.

The report outlines that the misappropriated bonuses, which averaged over $55,000 and, in some cases, exceeded $100,000, resulted from breakdowns of control and leadership at multiple levels within the VA. The report recommends that the “Secretary of Veterans Affairs or his designee takes appropriate action to determine whether individuals involved in the decision-making process … had any actual or apparent conflicts of interest and develop a process to ensure all decision-makers are free from conflicts when awarding future incentives.”


Pfizer very quietly agrees to settle 10,000 cancer lawsuits…

Many may be wondering, how on earth can Big Pharma hide something like cancer from the public? Well, sadly, it’s easy for them. They outright lie. In addition, they manipulate and hide clinical trial data. And don’t put it past them to pay off doctors, researchers, and scientists, not to mention politicians and the media.

And in case you were wondering just how bad things actually are with Zantac, take a look at this:

Bloomberg: 

Pfizer Inc. has agreed to settle more than 10,000 cases accusing it of hiding the cancer risks of its Zantac heartburn drug, according to people familiar with the deal, the biggest of the litigation.

The agreements cover cases in state courts across the US but don’t completely resolve the company’s exposure to Zantac claims, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the settlement publicly. Financial details of the accords weren’t immediately available.

The deal is likely to reassure investors, who have seen other Zantac makers, including GSK Plc and Sanofi, sign settlements. Concerns about the drugmakers’ exposure to Zantac suits helped wipe out about $45 billion in combined market value in the summer of 2022. The shares have since recovered and have risen on news of the earlier deals.

Pfizer shares fell 1.5% in trading before US markets opened Thursday. They’ve lost 27% in the past 12 months through Wednesday’s close.

“Pfizer has explored and will continue to explore opportunistic settlements of certain cases if appropriate, and has settled certain cases,” the New York-based company said in an emailed statement. “The company has not sold a Zantac product in more than 15 years and did so only for a limited period of time.”


Here’s the damning video clip that just landed Trump’s trial judge in hot water…

In the never-ending circus we call our judicial system, another scandal has burst onto the scene. This time, it’s involving an activist judge attempting to take down President Trump. Enter Judge Engoron…

Now, a hotshot lawyer turned accidental “whistleblower” has called him out for being so incredibly unprofessional that he ought to be de-robed and tossed off the bench by the scruff of his neck.

It turns out that Judge Arthur Engoron is now under investigation for allegedly taking “unsolicited advice” from this high-priced real estate lawyer. This so-called “hotshot advice” came right before the Engoron ruled against Trump in the New York City case, which starred Trump-hating prosecutor Letitia James.

The Independent:

The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial is now under investigation after a hotshot New York real estate attorney claimed he gave him unsolicited advice ahead of the hotly-anticipated multi-million-dollar ruling, according to a report.

Attorney Adam Leitman Bailey told NBC New York that he spoke to Judge Arthur Engoron three weeks before he made his final judgment in the former president’s case, where he found Mr Trump, his two oldest sons, as well as their Trump Organization associates and properties liable for $464m for falsely inflating his assets.

“I actually had the ability to speak to him three weeks ago,” Mr Bailey told the outlet on February 16, the date of the judge’s decision.

“I saw him in the corner [near the courthouse] and I told my client, ‘I need to go.’ And I walked over and we started talking … I wanted him to know what I think and why…I really want him to get it right.”

This claim prompted the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct to launch an investigation into the alleged interaction, NBC News reported. The commission’s administrator Robert Tembeckjian declined to comment on behalf of the judicial body, saying it “is constrained by a strict confidentiality statute.”

A spokesperson for the New York State’s Office of Court Administration has rejected Mr Bailey’s claim that he gave Judge Engoron advice.


Farage Launches Campaign Against Pandemic Treaty and to ‘Take Back Control’ From the World Health Organization

Vowing to take on the “billion-dollar global health empire”, Nigel Farage said he has joined the Action on World Health (AWH) campaign group to reduce the scope of the W.H.O., calling for its £5.5 billion budget to be dramatically cut and to fight against the implementation of the controversial pandemic treaty being imposed.

“The W.H.O. is proposing a pandemic treaty that would be legally binding on all 194 member states and is pushing for mandatory lockdowns and vaccinations.  I have joined forces with Action on World Health to fight back,” Mr Farage wrote on social media.

Action on World Health said that “the first draft of the Treaty made clear that the W.H.O. wants the power to force countries into lockdown and mandate vaccines”.

The campaign is also seeking to launch a petition to try to force Members of Parliament to debate whether or not the government should sign the pandemic treaty


Bragg’s Paralegal Admits Call Records Deleted from Trump Case Files

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The acknowledgment is important because the defense may not have all of the evidence necessary.

Jarmel-Schneider’s testimony involved a key recording that the prosecution played earlier in the trial. The prosecutors played the recording in order to allegedly show Trump and Cohen speaking about “catch and kill” or hush money payments.

While Trump defense attorney Emil Bove challenged evidence put forward by prosecutors on Friday, he asked Jarmel-Schneider about the “deletion of some toll records between Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen after the defense submitted recordings between the two from 2018,” CNN reported.

The paralegal admitted Bragg’s office deleted some call records from the Trump case files. Some of the call records related to a three page exhibit of calls between Gina Rodriguez and Dylan Howard, Jarmel-Schneider confirmed.


Cambria Heights postal worker caught on camera stealing mail from a Suffolk County distribution center: Feds

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York

According to the complaint, between January and March of this year, Rodriguez was seen on surveillance camera footage taking first-class mail and priority mail envelopes from the automated mail stream, putting the items into his pants, and then leaving the facility on multiple occasions.

The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General and other law enforcement agencies are currently investigating Rodriguez and others in connection with a ring that has been illegally cashing checks and using money orders stolen from the Huntington Station Processing and Distribution Center.


Sitting Oklahoma judge indicted in connection with 2 drive-by shootings, 1 of which occurred at in-law’s ranch

Composite screenshot of KFOR YouTube video

Seven months later, on the afternoon of September 11, a man was driving around in a white SUV near the intersection of Matamoros and Santa Maria in Austin, Texas, when he suddenly began pointing a weapon and firing at other vehicles. One witness described the suspect as “a white male, wearing a baseball-style hat and grey shirt.”

The man allegedly fired at least five shots, and police found “several vehicles with projectile defect in them,” according to the affidavit. Three .40-caliber shell casings were later recovered from the scene.

About an hour later, Judge Brian Lovell was arrested less than two miles from the intersection where the shooting occurred after his white SUV with Oklahoma plates allegedly rear-ended another vehicle twice.

Lovell reportedly admitted to rear-ending the woman’s vehicle twice but denied doing so intentionally. When police asked him about the shooting earlier that afternoon, his mind seemed to have gone blank. “Lovell advised he did not know why he would have shot his gun and he could not recall any part of the shooting incident,” the affidavit said.


House Committee investigates surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing border after Biden relaxes vetting: Report

Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

According to Customs and Border Protection reporting, in the first six months of fiscal year 2024, border agents nationwide encountered 42,000 Chinese nationals compared to 18,000 during the same period the previous fiscal year.

The committee will hold a hearing on Thursday to discuss the approximately 8,000% increase in Chinese illegal immigration in the United States since March 2021, a spokesperson for the committee told the DCNF.

“This dramatic surge calls for intense scrutiny — especially as Border Patrol agents have been instructed to decrease vetting for Chinese nationals in order to process them into the country faster,” Bishop stated. “As the CCP continues its quest for geopolitical dominance and threatens our sovereignty, we must examine the risks presented by releasing ever-increasing numbers of minimally vetted Chinese nationals into our communities.”

Todd Bensman, a senior national fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, is one of three experts expected to testify during Thursday’s hearing.

Bill Wells, the mayor of El Cajon, California, recently shared a video on X showing hundreds of discarded and torn IDs found near the San Diego border. He noted that some of the IDs had been lit on fire.


Entitled Illegals “Make Demands,” But They ALL Should Be DEPORTED

Buckle up for a heated discussion! In this video, we’re diving deep into the controversy surrounding the migrant encampments in Denver, Colorado.

With orders to vacate their makeshift homes under a bridge and near train tracks, migrants are refusing to budge and have even presented a list of 13 demands to Mayor Mike Johnston.

But here’s the kicker: One of their demands includes cooking their own meals with fresh ingredients provided by the city.


White-owned businesses boxed out from $2.3 billion in contracts to renovate JFK International Airport

Photo courtesy of the Port Authority

Leaders in New York City and throughout New York state have celebrated an initiative by the New York Port Authority to reserve a sizeable portion of the nearly $20 billion renovation project at JFK International Airport for businesses owned by women and non-white men.

The plan to renovate JFK airport was announced all the way back in 2017 and will cost an estimated $19 billion, which will be paid for by both public and private funds. Of that $19 billion, renovation contracts worth a total of $2.3 billion have been reserved for MWBEs — minority- and women-owned business enterprises — as part of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s goal of increasing state partnerships with MWBEs. Thus far, 680 MWBEs have been awarded contracts for the JFK renovation project.

Indeed, the Port Authority has openly embraced “a progressive diversity and inclusion initiative” which aims to increase “contract participation” with MWBEs, its website says. More specifically, by 2030, the agency hopes to have minority-owned businesses represent 20% of its contract partners and women-owned businesses represent another 10%. It is unclear how businesses owned by female racial minorities might be categorized.

White-owned businesses may not have been entirely excluded from bidding on contracts related to the JFK airport renovation. The Port Authority has also worked with Queens-based businesses — some of which may be owned by white men — awarding approximately 200 of them some $950 million in JFK-related contracts.


Convention of States | Full Measure

Disillusion with the federal government is nothing new. But in some corners, it seems to have reached a crescendo. The disastrous COVID response. A debt that seems irretrievably high. Government censorship, a dual system of justice, drugs, crime, illegal immigration out of control — just some of the persistent complaints.

All of that has breathed life into a political campaign you may start hearing more about. It’s a push to invoke a provision under the Constitution to convene a Convention of States to rein in big government. Supporters and opponents say it’s closer than you may think to actually happening.


Israel commemorates its fallen; UK warns against withholding munitions from IDF TV7Israel News 13.05

1) Israel turns from sorrow to relative joy, as it commemorates its fallen ahead of this evening’s festivities – marking Israel’s 76th Independence Day.

2) British Foreign Secretary David Cameron asserts that withholding weaponry from Israel would only serve Hamas and would further ‘make a hostage release deal’ less likely.

3) The U.N. General Assembly Votes in favor of a resolution ‘recommending the Security Council reconsider Palestinian statehood favorably.’


Turbo Cancer | Full Measure

This year, for the first time ever, new cases of cancer in the U.S. are expected to surpass 2 million. The alarming increase follows a period of relative stability in new cancer cases prior to COVID.

Experts disagree on the root cause. Some say it’s just a backlog after so many people put off screenings during the shutdowns. But some researchers point to the mysterious spike protein in COVID and made in the vaccines.

They say it’s causing “turbo cancers.” Dr. Nathan Goodyear is a medical doctor, an alternative treatment homeopath, and integrative oncologist. He became interested in specializing in cancer after he developed a tumor in his adrenal gland.


EV Bust | Full Measure

For a decade and a half, the U.S. government has pushed electric vehicles on the American public, using a combination of laws, financial incentives, and guilt as motivators. Lisa Fletcher looks at why the result isn’t turning out to be as many hoped.


Previously deported Texas illegal immigrant charged in connection with 3-month-old baby’s death: sheriff

Melvin Jesus Aquino Enriquez, 26, of Porter, is charged with injury to a child and assault-family violence. (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)

Authorities initially responded to reports of an injured child at the home where Enriquez was residing at the 25000 block of Needham Road in Porter on April 14 and “promptly initiated a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the child’s injuries,” the sheriff’s office said in a press release.

The baby was hospitalized but ultimately “succumbed to” injuries on April 24.

The MCSO Special Victims Unit is awaiting autopsy results to “further determine the circumstances leading to the untimely and devastating death of the child,” at which point officials will determine whether “appropriate additional charges” are warranted, the sheriff’s office said.


California budget woes are hitting hard

 Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered sobering news to lots of groups that rely on state funding, proposing billions in budget cuts to ongoing programs.

Later this week, more bad tidings are on the way: Dozens of bills with new spending will get killed in the Legislature’s “suspense file.” 

That process is scheduled to unfold after floor sessions on Thursday, with about 530 bills in the Assembly suspense file, and about 250 in the Senate’s. The new Assembly and Senate appropriations committee chairpersons both suggest fewer bills will get through because of the state’s financial woes. 


Calif. deploying secret weapon to raise gas prices by as much as 50 cents a gallon

A longstanding emissions reduction program may lead to a 50-cent increase in gasoline prices within two years in California, according to a little-known state air quality regulator report.

In September, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s primary environmental regulator, reported gas prices will rise next year by about 50 cents a gallon and every year thereafter to aid in clean air efforts.

The price increase does not include the existing gas tax in the state.

Republican state Sen. Janet Nguyen, one of the legislature’s most critical tax hawks, told Fox News Digital the “secret” tax increase “would penalize the majority of Californians.”

“The middle class, the low income, they can’t afford gas to go to school, work or grocery or the doctor’s office,” Nguyen said. “No one knows about this. I think people just think it’s a tax, so they don’t know the difference between the carbon tax versus the state tax. It’s almost like a tax on the tax.”


Turley: You have to wonder if the judge is having second thoughts

Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley and UC Berkeley Law professor John Yoo joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss their take on the latest developments in the NY v. Trump trial as Michael Cohen takes the witness stand.


GOP lawmaker: ‘This is a gross abuse of power by the Biden administration’

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., sounds off on the GOP’s push to add a censorship question to the census and filing articles of impeachment against President Biden.