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#10 Bill to Ban Purchase, Sale, and Transfer of So-Called Assault Weapons in Colorado Will Be Shelved - Jesse Paul for The Colorado Sun and Rocky Mountain Gun Owners for X
Colorado bill that would have banned the purchase, sale, and transfer of a broad swath of semiautomatic firearms, defined in the measure as assault weapons, will be shelved at the request of one of its main sponsors. Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat and one of the lead sponsors of House Bill 1292, announced Monday that she would ask for the measure to be killed Tuesday in the Senate State, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. “After thoughtful conversations with my Senate colleagues, I decided that more conversations need to take place outside of the pressure cooker of the Capitol during the last weeks of the legislative session,” Gonzales said in a written statement. “In that spirit, I look forward to renewing and continuing those discussions over the interim.” The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2036, and the combined Social Security trust fund will become exhausted in 2035, the programs’ trustees projected on Monday. The report illustrates the long-term problems facing the entitlement programs, on which tens of millions of people rely. Nevertheless, it contained good news in that the deadlines have been moved back a bit from last year’s projections. The extended timeline gives a bit more breathing room to Congress, where the looming depletion of the trust fund has become a top political issue. Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have vowed not to cut the popular entitlement benefits for seniors. Still, the fact that the dates are still just over a decade away is another reminder of the fiscal cliffs that are looming large and the need for lawmakers to craft a plan to keep the programs solvent... The Fall Guy stumbled out of the weekend box office well below expectations for the start of the summer movie-going season. This drove the year-to-date box office down 43 percent compared to 2019. Worse case projections had Fall Guy opening at $30 million. Best case predicted as high as $40 million. Nope — $28.5 million. Worldwide, it grossed just $65.4 million. Break-even is likely around $450 million, and there is zero chance of that. Wait till you hear what came in second place at this weekend’s box office. But first… Compared to last year’s disappointing box office performance, 2024 is down 22 percent... The lead prosecutor for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump received thousands of dollars from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2018, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show. Matthew Colangelo, who was President Joe Biden’s acting associate attorney general and spent two years in the current president’s Department of Justice (DOJ), joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as senior counsel in December 2022. The lawyer received $12,000 from the DNC in 2018 for “political consulting” in two payments of $6,000 on Jan. 31 of that year, FEC records show... The greatest border crisis in U.S. history grinds on, with an estimated 8 to 10 million illegal foreign nationals entering the country since Joe Biden became president in 2021 and stopped enforcing border security. As hundreds of thousands are offered federal benefits, asylum, or Social Security numbers for work permits, what are the chances they will flow onto voter rolls illegally ahead of the 2024 election? An accountant’s answer might apply: Highly likely; it also depends... Multiple hacking collectives are been actively using Microsoft Graph API to hide their communications with command & control (C2) infrastructure hosted on Microsoft cloud services, cybersecurity researchers from Symantec Threat Hunter Team have revealed. The researchers claim that for two and a half years now, groups such as APT28, REF2924, Red Stinger, Flea, APT29, and Oilrig have been using this technique to remain out of sight. Among the targets is an unnamed organization from Ukraine, which was infected by a previously unknown malware variant dubbed BirdyClient... Los Angeles County Sheriff Department detectives proudly announced a complex and successful sting this week. A retail theft ring has been caught red-handed, with millions of dollars worth of make-up, perfume, pharmaceuticals, and more stolen from stores in and around California, much of it still bearing store tags. Product has been recovered; at least a dozen locations have been revealed. Multiple fences have been identified, with eight arrests announced at the start and likely more to follow. They will prove that shoplifting rings were organized to hit the stores that had what the fences wanted – from pharmacies like CVS to big box stores like Walmart... More than three-quarters of rapes on the streets of Paris last year were committed by foreign nationals, according to shocking data from French authorities. 97 rapes were recorded in public spaces in France's capital in 2023 - fewer than a third of which have been solved, local outlet Europe 1 reported. Stats from Paris police headquarters said the crimes were largely committed at night, in tourist hotspots, and near "points de deal" - places where drug deals happened... Bernie Sanders has just announced that he is running for another term in the U.S. Senate. Sanders is 82 years old and this would be his fourth term. Does he need another house? Like many people in DC, Bernie is addicted to the power of his position and will not let it go in order for a new generation of lawmakers to step in and serve. These people all seem to want to go out the way Dianne Feinstein did, voting from her deathbed. On May 6, 2024, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will host its famous Met Gala to raise funds for The Costume Institute. The event will also kick off the latest costume exhibition titled "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," with "The Garden of Time" as the dress code. The institute was renovated in 2014 as the Anna Wintour Costume Center with the help of the Vogue editor-in-chief, whose name is at its doors. A trustee of the Met, Wintour has spent decades growing the gala into what the museum calls one of the "most visible and successful charity events in the world." "It was a society event. People weren't very excited about going to it," Wintour recounted to "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King in 2023. "To take it over and try to make a night out of it was quite intimidating." A Tennessee father is counting his blessings after his teenage daughter survived a car accident that ended with the vehicle totaled after striking a guard rail. On March 24, Kevin Mullins’ daughter was driving down a Gibson County road, when she allegedly got distracted and hit a guardrail, causing the vehicle to flip, while the rail came crashing through the windshield. “She just started screaming, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s bad,” Mullins recalled. He would end up meeting his daughter at the crash site, where he reportedly found her in the middle of the road. Despite the damage to the vehicle, the 17-year-old managed to climb through a back window to safety and was unharmed.
#9 Social Security Trust Fund to Be Exhausted by 2035 and Medicare in 2036, Trustees Project - Zachary Halaschak for Washington Examiner and Matthew Milsap on X
#8 Nolte: ‘Fall Guy’ Launches Summer Slump, YTD Box Office Down 43 Percent - John Nolte for Breitbart and Matt Kalinowski on X
#7 Former Biden DOJ Official Prosecuting Trump Received Thousands Of Dollars From DNC - Jason Cohen for The Daily Caller and Mike Davis on X
#6 To Confirm Voters’ U.S. Citizenship, States Could Easily Check DMV Data - Erin Marie Joyce for The Federalist
#5 Microsoft Graph Is Becoming a Popular Target for Hackers - Sead Fadilpašić Tech Radar and The Nimble Nerd on X
#4 Retail Theft Ring Busts Reveal Some Hard Truths - John F. Di Leo for The American Thinker
#3 France Migration Chaos: 77% of Rape Cases on Paris Streets Committed by Foreigners in 2023 - James Saunders for GB News and Breanna Morello on X
#2 82-Year-Old Bernie Sanders Announces He is Running for a Fourth Term in the U.S. Senate - Mike LaChance for The Gateway Pundit and Lauren Boebert on X
#1 Here’s What Happens Inside the Met Gala After the Red Carpet- Luis Giraldo for CBS News and Alyssa, George Santos and Cryptonism on X
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‘God Is Amazing’: Tennessee Father Credits Faith After Teenage Daughter Survives Scary Crash - Jordan James for WSMV 4 and Tracy Beanz on X
