The Supreme Court of Hawaii has ruled a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit in the state‚ overturning a lower court ruling that concluded this would violate his rights under the Second Amendment. Christopher Wilson was charged with keeping a firearm in an improper place and keeping ammunition in an improper place after being arrested on December 7‚ 2017‚ in the West Maui Mountains. He was found in possession of a handgun that had been loaded with a 10-round...

Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro has been given 24 hours to surrender his passport amid an ongoing investigation into the 2023 storming of Brazil's Congress by his supporters. Police accuse him of having led a failed plot to remain in power after losing the election to his left-wing rival‚ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Mr Bolsonaro says the operation is politically motivated. Three of Mr Bolsonaro's allies have been arrested. The head of his political party has also been detained...

Sen. Chris Murphy‚ D-Conn.‚ said Wednesday that the Democratic Party's push for a path to citizenship in border legislation has failed the people they "care about most" in this country‚ "undocumented Americans." MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Murphy about the border security bill and said‚ rather than pushing for a path to citizenship in border legislation negotiations like the party has in the past‚ Democrats were using Ukraine funding.  "Well‚ I mean‚ Chris‚ that’s been a failed play...

President Joe Biden referred to former President Trump as an “existential threat” during a fundraiser in New York City on Wednesday‚ as anti-Israel protesters blocked Fifth Avenue outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump‚” Biden told business leaders during his first stop of the day at the Upper West Side home of Larry Linden‚ the former managing partner of Goldman Sachs. “He’ll try to undo everything we’ve done… We can’t let...

A coalition of GOP lawmakers are pressuring Paramount Global and CBS to ditch Super Bowl ads from a Chinese company they believe is making its products with forced labor‚ according to a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller. Republican West Virginia Rep. Carol Miller alongside ten other lawmakers demanded Thursday that the network block Temu from spending a reported $15 million on ads during CBS’s Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 11. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist...

The special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has concluded that no criminal charges are warranted in the matter and said they wouldn’t be even if the Department of Justice didn’t have a policy barring the prosecution of sitting presidents. That conclusion was revealed in a 345-page report that the Justice Department sent to Capitol Hill on Thursday. The report criticized Biden’s conduct‚ saying he improperly took classified material related to the...

If you've never heard of the Cat Distribution System‚ then you probably don't own a cat‚ or you do‚ but you acquired your cat in a normal‚ non-weird way. You know‚ like at an animal shelter or from some nice lady on social media who had a box of kittens. Some people do get cats that way‚ and it's one thousand percent a valid way to attain cat parent status.But some lucky folks get cats through the Cat Distribution System (or CDS for short). Is this system real? The only people who know this are cats. They're also the ones that run the system‚ so the rules and the way in which you attain your purr machine may be a bit wonky. You may wake up with an unknown cat in your bed even though all of your windows are closed‚ or you just may be like this delivery driver. The driver was out picking up orders when a cat came out of the CDS and jumped on the man's leg as he attempted to get back to his car. Thanks to his dash cam‚ you get to see CDS at work‚ and so did his mom. The video currently has over 2.8 million views on TikTok.When the driver asked his mom if he could keep the cat‚ at first she said no. Then she saw the footage of the cat aggressively and desperately choosing her son to be its new cat dad—and that's how you get a cat through the CDS. Once the cat realized she made the right choice‚ she snuggled up on her dad's lap as he drove her home. "We are not cat people‚" reads the text overlay. "My youngest son was out making deliveries last night. A cat kept following him. Then jumped on his leg and would not let go."I have news for you‚ Mom‚ you're cat people now. It's how the Cat Distribution System works. They train their recruits to turn non-cat people into cat people‚ one unsuspecting human at a time. If you don't make it to the end of the video‚ yes‚ they kept the cat and her name is Venus. That's how the system is designed.Watch the CDS at work below: @dretontheborder #catrescue #catrescueroftiktok I am not a #catperson but maybe now I will be after today. I #Love my #son has a #huge #compassionate #heart #momsoftiktok #rescate #gato This article originally appeared on 4.12.23

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