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California’s requirement that all handguns sold in the state come with chamber load indicators, magazine disconnect mechanisms, and microstamping features are likely unconstitutional according to U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, who granted an injunction on Monday in Boland v. Bonta; a case brought by the California Rifle & Pistol Association and several individual gun owners taking on the constitutionality of several aspects of California’s Unsafe Handgun Act. In his ruling, Carney pointed out that California’s requirements have a “devastating impact” on Californians’ ability to acquire “new, state-of-the-art” handguns; noting that no new models of handguns have been made available for...

Robert Costello, the former legal advisor to ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen, appeared before the grand jury in the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Trump Monday, and testified that Cohen is a "serial liar." Costello said he testified to the grand jury Monday that Trump did not know about the payments made by Cohen to Stormy Daniels. "There can be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Michael Cohen has great difficulty telling the truth," Costello said. "He is, after all a convicted perjurer, and our track record with Mr. Cohen convinced us that he was a serial liar." Cohen's...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) sent out a tweet on Sunday night that showed a photo of him putting the middle finger of his right hand up against the pacifier of an infant lying on a pillow. “With one-month-old Hank!” says the tweet. On Feb. 13, the Advocate website posted a story with this headline: “Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Lesbian Daughter and Her Wife Welcome a Son.” […] Schumer did not say where or how the baby had been conceived and was being gestated. …

A young math instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology died suddenly on campus last month while he was playing basketball, the school has announced.According to MIT News, applied mathematics teacher Peter Baddoo was on a campus basketball court in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Feb. 15 when he collapsed.The university offered few details about the incident, other than to note the 29-year-old died “suddenly” and unexpectedly.“Peter Baddoo, an instructor in the Department of Mathematics, passed away suddenly on Feb. 15 while playing basketball on campus,” the report from MIT News stated.It is not clear if Baddoo had any underlying medical conditionsNo...

Eyeing 2025 Jubilee, Vatican opens shopping mall just off St. Peter’s SquareROME – Perhaps it was inevitable that the most storied church in Christendom eventually would be flanked by a chapel to that other defining Western creed, consumerism. Fulfilling that bit of destiny, the Vatican opened its very own shopping mall on March 16, located immediately adjacent to St. Peter’s Square.The idea behind the new 120,000 square foot “Caput Mundi” Mall, using a traditional saying about Rome as the “capital of the world,” is to appeal not only to the four million visitors who move through the Vatican every year,...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis: Ousting of Bishop Rey ImminentWhile Francis is silently watching how the German state bishops are turning the Church into Sodom and Gomorrah, he is brutally persecuting the thriving Fréjus-Toulon Diocese, writes LeSalonBeige.fr (March 17).• Fréjus-Toulon Bishop Dominique Rey, 70, one of the most courageous and dynamic bishops worldwide, will be expelled from his diocese or sidelined by a coadjutor.• The decision has been taken and only needs to be made official.• France has 1.5% practising Christians, and many dioceses have no vocations, but that doesn't worry Francis.

[Catholic Caucus] Journey Into A Perverted MindOne must say that Frankie is in great satanical form these days. On Friday (you will be able to find the link on the internet) he had another exercise in “this is that”, where he uses childish comparisons to sabotage the faith. Explaining to us that a lot of stuff that he does not like on earth “is hell”, he clearly implied that the “hell” of, say, poverty, inequality, you name it, is the only hell that needs to concern a human. The outrage cause him to, actually, talk about humans who go to...

In the aftermath of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th biggest bank in the country, many are left wondering what went wrong. Both current and former employees have stated that the bank’s support of remote work is a contributing factor. Axios reports that current and former employees of Silicon Valley bank have mentioned the bank’s support of remote work as a contributing factor to its recent collapse. SVB stood out in the banking sector for its commitment to remote work. “If our time working remotely has taught us anything, it’s that we can trust our employees to...

Silicon Valley Bank failed just 14 days after KPMG LLP gave the lender a clean bill of health. Signature Bank went down 11 days after the accounting firm signed off on its audit. What KPMG knew about the two banks’ financial situation and what it missed will likely be the subject of regulatory scrutiny and lawsuits. KPMG signed the audit report for Silicon Valley Bank’s parent, SVB Financial Group SIVB Regulators seized the bank on March 10 after a surge of withdrawals threatened to leave it short of cash. “Common sense tells you that an auditor issuing a clean report,...

Michael Cohen is far from solid evidence:" Cohen's former legal advisor Robert Costello says after his Monday grand Jury testimony

"And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her." "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." "But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." Luke, Chapter 1 1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things...

While spring break revelers in Miami were put under curfew following a series of deadly shootings, the party shows no signs of slowing down in Texas. Hordes of rowdy college students were seen drinking, dancing and twerking Saturday on the beaches of South Padre Island as celebrations continued there unabated. Despite gray skies and blustery conditions, hundreds of Gen Z party animals stripped down and drank up during a daylight rave on Clayton’s Beach.

Amanda Bynes had allegedly not been taking her medication prior to being placed on a psychiatric hold early Sunday. “She got off her meds, and she’s still off her meds,” the actress’ ex-fiancé, Paul Michael, exclusively claims to Page Six. “She’s wild." Michael adds that he and Bynes are “friends now.” They were spotted out together as recently as December 2022. An eyewitness told TMZ on Monday that the former child star — who has bipolar disorder and has struggled with substance abuse issues in the past — was roaming the streets of Downtown Los Angeles, naked, when she flagged...

The Oregon DMV knew about the problem, but it "wasn't at a high enough level to understand the urgency" of the need to fix it.Nicholas Chappelle spent almost a year in an Oregon prison after he was wrongfully convicted of driving with a suspended license. The reason for his incarceration? A shoddy DMV database. And the worst part is he's not alone. While it's unclear just how many Oregonians have been wrongfully arrested or convicted due to errors in the database, at least 3,000 licenses have been mislabeled as indefinitely suspended. At least five wrongful arrests or convictions have been...

President Joe Biden issued the first veto of his presidency Monday in an early sign of shifting White House relations with the new Congress since Republicans took control of the House in January — a move that serves as a prelude to bigger battles with GOP lawmakers on government spending and the nation’s debt limit. Biden sought to kill a Republican-authored measure that would ban the government from considering environmental impacts or potential lawsuits when making investment decisions for people’s retirement plans. In a video released by the White House, Biden said he vetoed the measure because it “put at...

Nancy and Paul Pelosi arrived in New York City on Monday, the day before Donald Trump claimed the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would issue an indictment against the former president.

The case hinges on the claim that the former president tried to cover up a campaign finance violation with which he was never charged.The expected criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in New York reportedly hinge on a violation of federal election law with which Trump was never charged. That fact in itself suggests how dubious the case against Trump is: To convert a state misdemeanor involving falsification of business records into a felony, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, is relying on the theory that Trump was trying to cover up another crime. But federal prosecutors apparently...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday as a "Soros-funded prosecutor" who is "pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office" as he reportedly considers indicting former President Donald Trump on charges related to alleged hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. "And so you're talking about this situation with, and like, I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair — I just I can't speak to that," DeSantis said. "But what I can speak to is...

California voters would decide whether to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction, under the latest proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the state's homelessness crisis. Newsom announced Sunday that he will ask allies in the Democratic-controlled Legislature for a measure on the 2024 ballot to authorize funding to build residential facilities where up to 12,000 people a year could live and be treated. The plan is the latest by the governor who took office in 2019 vowing to own the issue of homelessness in a state where an estimated...