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California Man Who Set Out to Kill Kavanaugh Arrested, Charged With Attempted Murder

Spencer Brown: An armed California man was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home between 1:00 and 2:00 am Wednesday and allegedly told law enforcement he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice, according to reporting from multiple sources that was confirmed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday (Townhall). Karol Markowicz: I can confirm the man taken into custody outside of Brett Kavanaugh’s house last night is a 26 year old white male with a California driver’s license. Previous address in Seattle (Twitter). Daily Wire: The Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center then received a call from an individual who said he was having suicidal thoughts, that he had a gun in his suitcase, and that he had come from California to kill “a specific United States Supreme Court Justice.” Police were dispatched to the justice’s home where they encountered him still on the phone with the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center. The officers took the man into custody “without incident” (Daily Wire). Mike Gallagher: And tell me some more about the Democrats twiddling their thumbs and not giving the Supreme Court justices and their families additional protection. Hey, Pelosi? How about we give the Supreme Court justices at least as much personal protection as you get (Daybreak Daily)?

Houses Passes “Protecting Our Kids Act,” Which Raises Age to Purchase Semi-Automatic Rifles to 21

CNBC: The House on Wednesday passed a sweeping gun bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. from 18 to 21, even though the legislation doesn’t stand much of a chance in the Senate. The bill, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, would also bar the sale of large-capacity magazines and institute new rules that dictate proper at-home gun storage. The Democratic-held chamber approved the legislation in a 223-204 vote. It passed in a mostly party line vote: Five Republicans supported the measure, while two Democrats opposed it. The House earlier voted by a 228 to 199 margin to include the purchasing age provision — under heavy scrutiny after two recent massacres carried out by 18-year-olds — in the broader bill (CNBC). National Review: While the gun age bill advanced in the House, where Democrats have a larger governing margin, it is unlikely to survive in the evenly-divided Senate, where deliberations over improving mental health programs, “hardening” schools with enhanced security, expanding background checks are currently taking precedence. The age provision is part of the Protecting Our Kids Act, a package of proposals that also includes a prohibition on large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, tougher punishments for gun trafficking and straw purchases, and a requirement for registration of bump stock-type devices, among other regulations. Democratic leaders split the package into individual items as a strategy to push Republicans who otherwise oppose broad gun control (National Review).

Mortgage Application Index Decreased to Lowest Number in 22 Years

Wall Street Journal: A measure of mortgage applications fell to its lowest level in 22 years last week, another sign the U.S. housing market is coming back to Earth after a red-hot, two-year stretch. Applications fell 6.5% in the week ended June 3, the fourth consecutive week of declines, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Refinance and purchase activity fell 6% and 7%, respectively. Higher interest rates have been weighing on demand for refinances all year, but now there are signs the slowdown has spread to purchase demand as well. Sales of existing homes in April fell to their slowest pace since before the pandemic. But even with sales slowing, home prices continue to rise thanks to a dearth of homes for sale. That means many would-be buyers are struggling with the twin challenges of double-digit jumps in home prices and higher borrowing costs (Wall Street Journal).

Lawn Care Services Increase More Than 20 Percent, Leading Americans to Do It Themselves

Wall Street Journal: For many landscapers, the three biggest costs to running their business—fuel, labor and equipment—are all surging in price. This means many are now increasing prices for the vast services they offer. The price of lawn-mowing services is up 22.4%, exterior pressure-washing prices rose 20%, and tree trimming increased 9.1% year-over-year as of May, according to online home-services company Angi Inc. The rapid increase in prices means thousands of customers now have to decide between shelling out more money to maintain their properties or losing time they might rather spend in other ways while they are out cutting the grass or fixing a broken fence instead (Wall Street Journal). NBC: Timothy London with London Lawn Care Service says he has started to switch over to electric machines. “In the lawn scaping industry saving money is number one,” London said. He has one electric machine and a hybrid work truck, but the majority of his equipment still runs on gas. “I put $175 in gas this morning,” London said. He says he spends at least $1000 a week on gas. It’s a cost he hopes he will not need to pass along to the consumer (NBC).

Biden Steering America Toward Stagflation

ABC: Stagflation is the bitterest of economic pills: High inflation mixes with a weak job market to cause a toxic brew that punishes consumers and befuddles economists. For decades, most economists didn’t think such a nasty concoction was even possible. They’d long assumed that inflation would run high only when the economy was strong and unemployment low. But an unhappy confluence of events has economists reaching back to the days of disco and the bleak high-inflation, high-unemployment economy of nearly a half century ago. Few think stagflation is in sight. But as a longer-term threat, it can no longer be dismissed. The government estimates that the economy shrank at a 1.5% annual rate from January through March (ABC). World Bank: The recovery from the stagflation of the 1970s required steep increases in interest rates by major advanced-economy central banks to quell inflation, which triggered a global recession and a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). If current stagflationary pressures intensify, EMDEs would likely face severe challenges again because of their less wellanchored inflation expectations, elevated financial vulnerabilities, and weakening growth fundamentals. This makes it urgent for EMDEs to shore up their fiscal and external buffers, strengthen their monetary policy frameworks, and implement reforms to reinvigorate growth (World Bank).

Twitter Agrees to Share Internal Account Data with Musk to Secure Buyout

Washington Post: After a weeks-long impasse, Twitter’s board plans to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for internal data by offering access to its full “firehose,” the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the state of negotiations. The move aims to end a standoff with the billionaire, who has threatened to pull out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter unless the company provides access to data he says is necessary to evaluate the number of fake users on the platform (Washington Post). Fox News: The billionaire, who believes at least 20% of Twitter users are spam or fake accounts, has said his team would conduct its own random sampling to calculate the total percentage. He has also expressed a willingness to renegotiate the deal for a lower price proportionate to the total percentage. On Monday, Musk threatened to walk away from the deal after accusing the company of breaching its obligations under the merger agreement (Fox News).

Mexican Government Offers 1,000 Visas to Massive Caravan Heading Toward US

Washington Examiner: The Mexican government will attempt to quell a massive caravan of migrants traveling through the country to the United States’s southern border with the issuance of 1,000 humanitarian visas that would allow only a small number of the migrants to reside and work in the country legally. A caravan of between 6,000 and 11,000 people departed Tapachula, a city near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, on Monday. Its organizer, Luis Garcia Villagran of the Center for Human Dignity, made the announcement to reporters Tuesday. The number has dropped to between 5,000 and 8,000 just a day into the march, he said (Washington Examiner). Breitbart: The Mexican asylum agency is reportedly overwhelmed with the increase in migrants in their nation. The AP reported the agency processed more than 130,000 asylum requests in 2021 — triple the previous year. This year the numbers spiked another 20 percent over the 2021 level. The Biden Administration is in the process of appealing a court order stopping the administration from canceling the Title 42 protocol. In May, open border activists lobbied the administration to bring Title 42 to an end, Breitbart reported. A combination of official and unofficial numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources show that more than 600,000 migrants crossed the U.S. border from Mexico since March 1. Ending Title 42 could bring approximately 18,000 illegal border crossers per day to the border, according to a DHS report (Breitbart).

DHS to Move Migrants Waiting for Court Dates Deeper Into the Country

CBS: The Department of Homeland Security is planning to transport migrants awaiting immigration proceedings from U.S. cities along the southern border further into the interior of the country, beginning with Los Angeles in the coming weeks, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News. The plan would alleviate overcrowding along the border where record high numbers of border crossers have overwhelmed the capacity of local shelters in some cities, at times leading Customs and Border Protection to release migrants on the street to fend for themselves. The new model would use federal funds to send migrants to shelters in cities further inside the country before they go to their final destinations. Besides Los Angeles, cities where they will be sent include Albuquerque, Houston and Dallas. DHS is working with shelters in each of those cities in advance of moving migrants (CBS).

Over 90 Gymnasts Abused by Doctor Sue FBI, Seeking $1 Billion

Wall Street Journal: More than 90 women and girls, including the star gymnasts who raised concerns about Larry Nassar in 2015 that were disregarded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, filed administrative tort claims against the agency on Wednesday collectively seeking $1 billion. The claimants include Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman, the elite gymnasts who were first identified in the summer of 2015 as having been sexually abused by the then-doctor to the national women’s gymnastics team under the guise of medical treatment. The group also includes dozens of Nassar patients sexually assaulted by him for more than a year after the FBI was alerted to the gymnasts’ concerns, their lawyers said. The claims draw on a report released by the Justice Department’s inspector general last year that was sharply critical of the FBI. The report found that FBI agents in Indianapolis—who received an initial visit from USA Gymnastics to report Nassar on July 28, 2015—didn’t take the claims seriously, document the evidence they received or transfer the allegations to the FBI’s resident agency in Lansing, Mich. The report also found the agents later made false statements to cover their mistakes (Wall Street Journal). Associated Press: Nassar wasn’t arrested until fall 2016 during an investigation by Michigan State University police. He was a doctor at Michigan State. The Michigan attorney general’s office ultimately handled the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filed a child pornography case. The Justice Department in May said that it would not pursue criminal charges against former agents who were accused of giving inaccurate or incomplete responses during the inspector general’s investigation (Associated Press).

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President Biden’s Average Approval Rating Keeps Falling

Daily Wire: President Joe Biden’s poll numbers continue to sink further into the doldrums, as the RealClearPolitics average of polls shows his approval rating under 40%. The RealClearPolitics poll of polls has Biden’s approval rating at 39.7%, with an average of 55% disapproval. Biden’s approval ratings were dragged down by a new poll showing him at a record low rating, and another poll showing him in the high 30s, and another poll showing his approval languishing in the mid-30s (Daily Wire).

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