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Hundreds of locals in one of San Francisco's wealthiest counties have been forced to pack up their lives into RVs and trailers after being pushed out of the housing market. Shocking photos show the ever-growing line of trucks and other vehicles along 101 Highway – which now stretches over two miles in one of the largest encampments in the country. Cities in Marin County, where on average homes cost $1.4million, are pushing for the line along the highway to end after the number of residents living in their cars ballooned during the pandemic. Photos and video taken by DailyMail.com show...

CV NEWS FEED // Chelsea Clinton this week defended a list of books marketed toward minors, claiming they are “vital” for children and that “attempted book bans” against the LGBTQ content are “harmful.” “Over 50% of the attempted book bans last year involved books with LGBTQ+ characters & themes,” tweeted Clinton, who is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “Books are a vital way that children, adolescents and adults learn about themselves and our world. Bans such as these are nothing but harmful.” Clinton also shared a write-up on the topic from NBC...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is leaving her post in June. Walensky's departure was announced by President Biden, according to several news reports. Walensky has led the agency for roughly two-and-a-half years and has led the country through a series of major health matters including the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration is set to end the public health emergency on the pandemic next week.

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. WHO first declared COVID-19 to be an emergency more than three years ago. The U.N. health agency's officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn't come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East... Tedros said the pandemic had been on a downward trend for more than a year, acknowledging...

Former President Donald Trump is garnering majority support in the hypothetical North Carolina 2024 Republican primary race, a John Locke Foundation survey released this week found. Like virtually every national survey, this state-level survey found Trump leading the Republican primary field with majority support, garnering support from 55 percent of likely GOP voters in North Carolina. No other potential challenger came close, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fell 33 points behind, with 22 percent support. Former Vice President Mike Pence placed third with eight percent, followed by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — who officially declared her candidacy in...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released a statement Thursday pushing back on suggestions that her absence has stalled President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations and made no mention of when she might return to the Senate. The 89-year-old senator, who has been absent from the Senate since March when she was hospitalized with shingles, said in a statement “there has been no slowdown” on judicial confirmations with her gone. “The Senate continues to swiftly confirm highly qualified individuals to the federal judiciary, including seven more judicial nominees who were confirmed this week,” she said in the statement. Feinstein sits on the Senate...

What’s the issue with this new interest on reserves tool the Fed is using? Let's take a look. think the average American does not know that the US Federal Reserve currently pays 4.90% interest to banks on people’s checking and savings deposits—this includes the cash in the drawer! I just checked my personal savings account and I am currently getting .01% on my savings account. My hard-earned money is earning my bank 4.89% interest—this is not right. How much is your bank making off your deposits? Additionally, did you know that your deposits no longer get loaned out to small...

The next time you're sipping your favorite hot beverage, consider what it Dr. Lisa Zhuoting Zhu has found a positive link between coffee and tea consumption and the thickness of our macular retinal nerve fiber layer. The macula is the central part of the retina at the back of the eye that gives us sharp central vision. The retinal nerve fiber layer is a thin layer of nerve cells that transmit visual information from the eye to the brain. "Our findings indicate if we consume two to three cups of coffee or more than four cups of tea per day,...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Eighty-three-year-old Louise has been receiving a phone call around the same time every morning for 20 years. "If something happened to me that night, the next morning, someone would be calling again," Louise, who lives in Palm Beach County, told WPBF 25 News. She signed up for free 211 Sunshine Daily calls, which check in on the well-being of seniors and isolated caregivers. "I have made friends, but it’s not been easy. And I rely on 211 immensely," she said. She said she wanted to receive these daily calls to make sure that her Dobermanns...

[Catholic Caucus] Scandalous Pride Mass at St. John the Evangelist Parish in San Diego Saint John the Evangelist, a parish in San Diego’s homosexual Hillcrest neighborhood notorious for its promotion of pro-sodomy initiatives, advertises a 5:00 PM Sunday Mass hosted by the church’s LGBTQ Ministry. The parish also offers an LGBTQ monthly social/potluck, LGBTQ prayer and support group, and other activities, and has marched in San Diego’s “gay pride” parade.Since learning about the Sunday “LGBTQ liturgy celebration,” the faithful have been showing up every Sunday at 4:30 PM to pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy in reparation for...

Muscle cars ignited the national zeitgeist in the 1960s and ‘70s with their hulking engines, exuberant styling, and tire-shredding torque. Though the performance of these charismatic throwbacks can’t hold a flame to modern sports cars, nostalgia rules supreme because the demand for old-school automotive brawn is as hyped as it’s ever been. “One of the most potent segments of the collector-car market are classic muscle cars, loosely defined as being produced from 1964 through 1974,” says John Kraman, TV commentator/analyst for Mecum Auctions, which has offered examples of the most coveted cars in this category. “This decade of performance set...

A progressive Chicago pastor said teens who rioted in the city needed more resources and support from the community and city, after some Democrat leaders downplayed the violence. Around 400 Black pastors and men joined Bishop Tavis Grant in an anti-violence march last weekend to show the youth who destroyed property and attacked tourists two weekends ago they had positive role models and work opportunities to turn to. Men held signs that read "You matter to God. You matter to us too," and "No violence." The church leaders offered hundreds of jobs to the youth and their families. "It was...

Google Engineer Jumps to His Death from 14th Floor of Company-s NYC HQ A Google engineer has jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company headquarters in New York City in what appears to be an apparent suicide. The man, who has not yet been named, was found on the ground on Thursday’s 15th Street side of the building. Police found the man unconscious after receiving multiple phone calls about the incident. The Google engineer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he later died. The officer discovered handprints on the 14th-floor ledge, according to one source speaking...

It seems so to me. Don't like the idea of transvestites (and for the most part that's what they are) going into women's toilets and dressing rooms? If you think about stopping them, well... Trans activist threatens women to confront him in women’s restroom: “Meet me here in Oklahoma City…if you want to meet somewhere where there is a public restroom, I will go into the restroom and you will have every opportunity to put up or shut up.” pic.twitter.com/bzfTkdut6D — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 4, 2023Try to stop this one from using the women's room, it'll be "the last...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has opened a public consultation after a Trudeau-funded LGBTQ+ rights group called for Fox News to be banned from Canadian cable packages reports the National Post Egale Canada published an open letter on April 4 calling on the CRTC to hold a consultation on allowing Fox News to be broadcast in Canada, claiming that the “programming is in clear violation of Canadian broadcasting standards and has no place on Canadian broadcasting networks.” This complaint followed a segment in which Carlson named Egale and prominent Canadian trans activist Fae Johnstone while addressing the trans...

WATCH: Retired Swiss bishop living with the SSPX says Novus Ordo Mass is ‘departure from tradition’'The crisis of the Church is a consequence of a partial apostasy from the transmitted faith, tradition, and practice of the faith,' says Bishop Vitus Huonder.Bishop Vitus Huonder, a retired bishop of the Swiss diocese of Chur, has issued a critique of the Novus Ordo Mass as it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. In his eyes, a “partial apostasy” in the Church has taken place in recent decades, and the “departure from tradition is felt most painfully in the changed rite of...

The Obama Foundation likely stored classified presidential records illegally in a private facility at Hoffman Estates in Illinois for more than a year after President Barack Obama left the White House, according to America First Legal (AFL). In 2018, more than a year after Obama left the White House, the National Archives (NARA) and the Obama Foundation entered into an agreement to permit the foundation to maintain possession of presidential records for the purpose of digitizing and overseeing them as part of the Obama Presidential Center, AFL alleges. The agreement shows the Obama Foundation kept classified documents at a private...

The former president is consolidating support among GOP members of Congress and others, even as he faces a thicket of legal woesMANCHESTER, N.H. — Former president Donald Trump, fighting criminal charges in New York and multiple other ongoing investigations by federal and local prosecutors, is pitching Republican elected officials to get behind him as the inevitable nominee — and many of them are buying it.Trump is finally seeing the response he was hoping for when he announced his candidacy almost six months ago, in a moment of political weakness, as many Republicans were openly blaming him for the party’s disappointing...

Spain’s government has decided to cut water brought from the Tagus River to irrigate crops in the bone-dry southeast of the country. Spain is one of the EU’s biggest fruit and vegetable producers. Almost half of the country’s exports are grown by farmers like Juan Francisco Abellaneda, co-founder of farming cooperative Delior. His salads and watermelons fill the shelves of Europe’s supermarkets throughout the year. These crops are irrigated by water brought from the River Tagus, hundreds of kilometres to the north of Abellaneda’s 300 hectares of fields near Murcia. But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change with...

The Naval Postgraduate School hosted a two-day Department of the Navy Climate Tabletop Exercise last week to tackle climate and sustainability initiatives. The event – held April 27-28 – was the department’s second climate tabletop exercise and was held in partnership with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The Naval Postgraduate School signed an education partnership agreement with the school in December in an effort to tackle climate change.