NYFD Boss Heckled During St. Patrick’s Parade for Targeting Pro-Trump Firefighters

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NYFD Boss Heckled During St. Patrick’s Parade for Targeting Pro-Trump Firefighters

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A fired-up group of pro-Trump demonstrators scolded Laura Kavanagh, the commissioner of the New York City Fire Department, during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City on Saturday.

The incident comes amid widespread scrutiny of Kavanagh and the NYFD following an investigation into newly promoted firefighters who booed Attorney General Letitia James during a graduation ceremony earlier this month.

Among the hecklers, one man shouted, “You suck! Firefighters are the hunters.” Another exclaimed, “Hunting Kavanagh gotta go.” 

But Kavanagh appeared unbothered, waving at the crowd while seemingly disregarding the pro-Trump activists. 

“These are heroes,” a third man said, seemingly referring to NYFD firefighters. The chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” rang out in unison as she passed through the crowd that was positioned in front of Trump Tower.

Video footage, first reported by Fox News and FreedomNews.tv, showed numerous MAGA supporters gathered with flags, signs and images of the former president. 

Less than two weeks ago, footage of a NYFD graduation ceremony went viral, capturing James stepping onto the stage to begin a speech, only to be met with resounding boos from the crowd.

Attempting to restore order, albeit unsuccessfully, James appealed, “Oh, c’mon, we’re in a house of God. Simmer down. Thank you for getting it out of your system.” 

Despite her efforts, the firefighters continued to chant “Trump! Trump! Trump!” disrupting her speech. 

The NYFD responded to the heckling by launching an investigation a week later, as revealed in a leaked memo circulated among local firehouses.

The memo urged those involved in disrupting James’s speech to come forward, warning of potential identification through security footage. 

“These actions reflected very poorly upon us and diminished the dignity of the occasion. … Instead of news reports talking about the accomplishments of our members, it talked about the politics and our poor behavior,” the memo stated. 

The incident comes amid heightened attention on James, following a significant ruling against the Trump Organization, resulting in a $350 million civil judgment against Trump.

Biden to Americans Stranded in Haiti: Escape ‘At Your Own Risk’

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Biden to Americans Stranded in Haiti: Escape ‘At Your Own Risk’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration extended assistance to Americans trapped in Haiti amidst violent turmoil and allegations of cannibalism. However, the aid came with a disturbing caveat. 

The Department of State informed stranded Americans on Friday that they could be evacuated from Haiti, but only if they managed to reach the northern part of the island, approximately 120 miles (or 6 hours) away from the gang-controlled capital.

More unsettlingly, the State Department emphasized that those undertaking the journey to Cap-Haïtien International Airport would be doing so at their own risk. 

“We are arranging a charter flight for U.S. citizens with valid U.S. passports from Cap-Haitien to the U.S.,” the federal agency announced on Saturday via Twitter. “Travel to Cap-Haitien is conducted at your own risk.”

The Biden administration announced the evacuation plans two days after Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, stated that there were no active plans to evacuate Americans from Haiti, emphasizing that they had been advising Americans to leave Haiti since 2020.

The partial evacuation follows the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry amid widespread violence and political unrest in Haiti, triggered by violent gangs demanding his ouster.

The violence escalated when Henry traveled to Kenya earlier this month seeking foreign assistance. However, upon departing Kenya, he was unable to safely land in Haiti after gangs seized control of the capital’s airport, Aeroport International Toussaint Louverture. 

Henry was denied entry to the Dominican Republic, the neighboring country with which he has clashed over illegal immigration. Ultimately, he landed in Puerto Rico, where he presumably remains.

The gang leader, Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, issued further threats of violence if Henry did not step down. Chérizier allegedly spearheaded an uprising that led to the release of at least 4,000 incarcerated criminals. 

The violence prompted the Biden administration to order the evacuation of some U.S. personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Haiti last week.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Southern Command deployed the U.S. Marine Fleet-Anti-terrorism Security Team to “maintain strong security capabilities” at the embassy. 

Also plaguing Haiti are allegations of cannibalism. A two-year-old video resurfaced showing a man from the “Cannibal Army” biting the skin of a burnt individual, presumably from an opposing gang.

Both federal and state governments in the U.S. have raised concerns about a potential increase in illegal immigration from Haitian individuals. The Dominican Republic is also conducting mass deportations.

RFK Jr.’s Shocking Running Mate Pick: A Threat to Kamala Harris?

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RFK Jr.’s Shocking Running Mate Pick: A Threat to Kamala Harris?

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy has reportedly selected his running mate ahead of the 2024 presidential election. 

Kennedy Jr. will be joined by none other than Nicole Shanahan, a prominent California attorney, entrepreneur and former wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin – as reported by news outlet Mediaite.

Shanahan’s selection dispels long-held rumors that Kennedy Jr. initially considered NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers as his running mate, which purportedly drew the ire of the presidential candidate’s donors.

Shanahan is no stranger to Kennedy Jr., as she reportedly paid for Kennedy Jr.’s viral Super Bowl ad. The presidential ad was inspired by his uncle, John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential Jingle campaign spot.

According to Shanahan’s LinkedIn profile, she is the founder and president of the Bia-Echo Foundation, a private organization dedicated to investing in criminal justice reform, reproductive equality and environmental sustainability. 

Shanahan was married to Brin from 2018 until 2023. Notably, Brin is the former president and co-founder of Google and has a staggering net worth that surpasses $112.8 billion.

She was embroiled in accusations of having a romantic relationship with tech mogul Elon Musk. Both parties have vehemently denied the claims.

Shanahan is now set to join Kennedy Jr.’s campaign, which presents an electoral threat to the sinking re-election campaign of President Joe Biden. 

Kennedy Jr. first ran for the Democratic nomination but left the party amid allegations that the DNC rigged the primary process to help Biden.  

He now portrays himself as a threat to both Biden and Trump. However, despite his claims, Trump maintains a commanding lead in several pre-election polls. 

 “The Democrats are frightened that I’m going to spoil the election for President Biden,” he said during a campaign rally in October 2023. “The Republicans are frightened that I’m going to spoil it for President Trump. The truth is, they’re both right.”

College Forces Its Athletes to Watch Anti-White Propaganda

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College Forces Its Athletes to Watch Anti-White Propaganda

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Student-athletes of Davidson College were recently required to watch the video “I’m Not Racist… Am I?” which labels all white people as racists.

The hatred of white people was exposed and denounced by the Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse, an alumni-run free speech organization, after learning the North Carolina institution forced the students to watch it this semester, the College Fix reported.

The organization told the Fix in an email statement last week that “in one clip of the film that [they] uncovered, is the unequivocal repetition that all white people are racist and people of color cannot be racist.”

“The students with whom we have spoken about this film found it offensive, divisive and personally insulting,” the organization wrote.

Instead of normal school hours, the athletic department opted to show the film on a Sunday afternoon, with the students expressing their disappointment about the fact that, in addition to being subjected to anti-white racism, they were compelled to participate in the event “for over three hours on a Sunday afternoon.”

The viewing could facilitate conflict among student-athletes, the free speech organization added.

Late last month, the organization started a petition to advocate for student’s rights and oppose future instances of ideological oppression.

The petition also exposed “numerous” class syllabi, including Spanish 101, multivariable calculus and cell biology classes, that contained “controversial ‘anti-oppression’ behaviors unrelated to the course subject” as another cause for concern.

The group discovered that the syllabi include statements like “We can only identify how power and privilege play out when we are conscious and committed to understanding how white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, heterosexism, cisgenderism, ableism and all other systems of oppression affect each of us.”

“… understand and embrace that you will feel discomfort and pain as you face your part in oppression,” one of the class syllabi that was obtained by the group said.

On March 5, 2024, Davidson College defended both the video and syllabi in an emailed statement to the Fix that was filled with buzzwords about how students should accept “other people’s points of view.”

Virginia Swimmers with Riley Gaines in Lawsuit Against NCAA

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Virginia Swimmers with Riley Gaines in Lawsuit Against NCAA

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) – Sixteen former and current female college athletes, including a handful from the women’s Roanoke College swim team and an Olympian at Virginia Tech, have sued the NCAA.

The lawsuit is led by former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines. The athletes’ grievance is the NCAA allowing men who say they are women to compete in women’s sports.

In a 156-page filing on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, the plaintiffs argue the NCAA and event host Georgia Tech knowingly violated Title IX by allowing transgender female student Lia Thomas to participate in the 2022 NCAA Championships.

Gaines, who swam against Thomas there, has become the face of the saving women’s sports in the United States. In late 2023, the Roanoke College women’s swim team publicly joined that movement holding a press conference to talk about its swimmers’ experience with a transgender female student briefly joining the team.

“We tried numerous times to ask the school for support, but each and every time, we were told to deal with it ourselves or told nothing at all,” sophomore and team captain Kate Pearson said then. “We were informed that even if our entire women’s team decided to stand together and not swim … our coach would be allowed to have a one-athlete swim team.”

Along with Gaines and Olympian swimmer Reka Gyorgy of Virginia Tech, Pearson and five others from Roanoke – fellow sophomores Katie Blankenship, Julianna Morrow, Carter Satterfield, and other team captains Lily Mullens and Susanna Price – are among the plaintiffs in the suit. Kaitlyn Wheeler and Ellie Eades, a swimmer and a tennis player, also hail from Gaines’ alma mater.

Others include Kylee Alons, a swimmer from N.C. State; Ainsley Erzen of Arkansas, a soccer and track athlete; and four unnamed athletes, two who competed in Division I swimming, the others in Division II volleyball and Division III track.

Alons is a 31-time All-American, Gaines a 12-time All-American.

The NCAA, in response, said, “College sports are the premier stage for women’s sports in America, and while the NCAA does not comment on pending litigation, the Association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports and ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships.”

Gaines and others have advocated for Virginia to pass a Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, but such legislation has failed twice in the state’s General Assembly.

Apple to Pay $490 Million to Settle Fraud Suit

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Apple to Pay $490 Million to Settle Fraud Suit

(Headline USA) Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company’s revenue forecast.

The preliminary settlement filed Friday in Oakland, California, federal court stems from a shareholder lawsuit focused on the way Apple relayed information about how iPhone models released in September 2018 were performing in China, one of the company’s biggest markets.

Cook signaled that the new iPhones were off to a good start during an investor conference call in early November 2018, according to the complaint.

That reassurance dissolved into a huge letdown on Jan. 2, 2019 when the Cook issued a warning that Apple’s revenue for the just-completed quarter would fall $9 billion below management’s forecast for the period. What’s more, virtually all of the sales drop was traced to weak demand in China.

It marked the first time Apple had cut its revenue guidance since the iPhone’s release in 2007 and triggered its stock price to plunge 10% in the next day of frenetic trading, wiping out more than $70 billion in shareholder wealth.

Apple vehemently denied Cook deceived investors about the iPhone’s sales in China between early November and early January. The Cupertino, California, company maintained that stance in the settlement documents, but said it decided to make the payment after more than four years of legal wrangling to avoid an “overly burdensome, expensive, and distracting” hassle.

The settlement was reached through a mediator after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected Apple’s request to dismiss the case and set a Sept. 9 trial date.

Gonzalez Rogers is now being asked to approve the settlement in a hearing scheduled for April 30.

Thousands of shareholders who bought the big tech stock in late 2018 could be eligible for a piece of the settlement, which will be distributed from of a pool that will be less than $490 million after lawyers involved in the case are paid. The attorneys plan to seek up to one-fourth, or about $122 million, of the settlement.

The $490 million payment represents less than 1% of the $97 billion profit that Apple pocketed during its last fiscal year ended in September.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Minn. Dems Push $500 Monthly Universal Basic Income for Illegals

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Minn. Dems Push $500 Monthly Universal Basic Income for Illegals

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Democrats in Minnesota want to implement a freewheeling basic income program that would redistribute taxpayer money to those who are “needy,” even if it is illegal aliens.

House File 2666 which was sponsored by Democratic state Rep. Athena Hollins cleared the House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee on a voice vote on March 12, 2024, according to Blaze Media. Considering that the Democratic Party controls the office of the governor and both chambers of the legislature, it looks like the bill will be passed.

If this bill is combined with the state Senate’s companion bill, Senate File 2559, and then implemented, $100 million would be sucked out of the General Fund in fiscal year 2025, the news source said. In turn, this money would be granted out to intermediaries.

These nonprofits would be tasked with giving away money in monthly increments ranging from $350 to $1,200 to those individuals and families they deem deserving for a period of 12 to 24 months.

In addition to that, a person who enrolled in the program based on an attestation that they qualify will not have to recertify, which means that if someone gets a job one day after qualifying for the program, the government would still be paying him money.

Even illegals could be qualified for the program, as it was admitted by Hollins herself.

“I do think that it is important that we extend this — because it’s a pilot program — to individuals who may not have documentation,” she said.

Democratic state Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn went as far as claiming that illegals deserve to receive the money because they pay taxes.

“We earn $5.8 billion off the backs of undocumented immigrants in the state of Minnesota… They are paying taxes, and we should be supporting them,” she said.

However, the data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation revealed that an estimated 59.4% of households headed by illegal aliens drew on at least one major taxpayer-funded welfare support, the Center for Immigration Studies wrote in its December report.

Illegals reportedly use every welfare program at “statistically significantly higher rates than the U.S.-born, except for [Supplemental Security Income], [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] and housing,” the organization said.

Township Ordered to Shelter in Place After Violent Philadelphia Night

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Township Ordered to Shelter in Place After Violent Philadelphia Night

(Headline USA) Several people were shot after gunfire erupted early Saturday in a suburban Philadelphia township, forcing cancellation of a St. Patrick’s Day parade and shutting down a children’s theme park, authorities said.

Middletown Township police said Saturday morning that there were “confirmed shootings” in neighboring Falls Township in Western Pennsylvania that resulted in “several gunshot victims.”

Authorities in Bucks County issued a shelter-in-place order for the area, warning residents to stay in their homes and lock their doors.

Police said it wasn’t known yet if the shootings were “targeted or random.”

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican who represents Bucks County, said in social media posts that there had been “a carjacking and a shooting in two sections of Falls Township.”

He said he was “in touch with law enforcement officials as they pursue the suspect.”

Police said Oxford Valley Mall and Sesame Place had been told to close until further notice.

The area’s Target store and other businesses chose to close as well.

Further details about the shootings and suspect or suspects weren’t immediately released.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Energy Department Approves $2 Billion Loan for Lithium Mine in Nevada

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Energy Department Approves $2 Billion Loan for Lithium Mine in Nevada

(Headline USA) Joe Biden‘s administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable energy agenda.

The U.S Energy Department agreed on Thursday to provide the $2.26 billion conditional loan to Canada-based Lithium Americas to help cover costs at its open pit mine deeper than the length of a football field near the Oregon line.

The loan would help finance the a lithium carbonate processing plant at the Thacker Pass mine about 200 miles north of Reno — “the largest-proven lithium reserves in North America,” DOE said in a statement.

“Thacker Pass is a treasure trove of lithium — key to strengthening U.S. energy security and electrifying America,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a message posted Friday on Twitter.

The Energy Department said the loan is contingent on its Loan Programs Office’s review of the project under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Biden’s renewable energy agenda is expected to be a key issue in his reelection bid against President Donald Trump, who has said he would focus on drilling for more oil.

The department said lithium carbonate from Thacker Pass could support the production of batteries for up to 800,000 electric vehicles annually, avoiding the consumption of 317 million gallons of gasoline per year.

Lithium Americas said the loan would cover the vast majority of the first phase of the Thacker Pass project, which is now estimated to cost $2.93 billion. Last January, General Motors Co. conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in the project.

The conditional commitment to the government’s loan “is a significant milestone for Thacker Pass, which will help meet the growing domestic need for lithium chemicals and strengthen our nation’s security,” said Jonathan Evans, president and chief executive officer of Lithium Americas.

“The United States has an incredible opportunity to lead the next chapter of global electrification in a way that both strengthens our battery supply chains and ensures that the economic benefits are directed toward American workers, companies and communities,” he said.

Environmental groups and leaders of three tribes spent nearly two years fighting the mine, which they say borders the sacred site of a massacre of more than two dozen Native Americans in 1865.

But a federal judge in Reno dismissed the latest challenges in December and the chairman of the Reno Sparks Indian Colony at the forefront of the legal battle said weeks later they were abandoning any future appeals.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Navarro Asks SCOTUS Reprieve in Politically Driven Contempt Case

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Navarro Asks SCOTUS Reprieve in Politically Driven Contempt Case

(Headline USA) Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.

Navarro is due to report to a federal prison next week, after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the J6 hysteria.

Navarro has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, barred him from making that argument at trial, finding that he didn’t show Trump had actually invoked it.

The emergency application comes as the Supreme Court separately prepares to hear arguments on whether Trump himself has presidential immunity from charges alleging he interfered in the 2020 election.

Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of misdemeanor contempt of Congress charges. Former White House adviser Steve Bannon previously received a four-month sentence but was allowed to stay free pending appeal by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump.

Navarro was found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 committee and sentenced to four months in prison.

He served as a White House trade adviser under then-President Donald Trump.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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