Cross-Examination

• KJP avoids Texas killer’s migration status: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sought to blame “weapons of war” for the execution-style murder of five people, including an eight-year-old, in Cleveland, Texas, over the weekend. The man suspected of committing the crime is a 38-year-old thrice-deported illegal alien from Mexico, and a massive manhunt is underway seeking to apprehend him. KJP conveniently avoided noting the suspect’s illegal status and instead chose to repeatedly slam Americans’ Second Amendment rights, calling on Congress to ban AR-15s and similar firearms. The Biden administration’s willingness to exploit the heinous actions of a criminal alien — while utterly avoiding any allusion to Biden’s refusal to secure the border — in order push an agenda assaulting the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans is simply despicable.

• Biden admin will finally end federal vax mandate: On May 12, the Biden administration will officially end Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for any foreign traveler seeking to enter the U.S. With the pandemic long over, and hospitalizations from coronavirus infections down significantly across the country and globally, maintaining the mandate would have been for purely political motives. The reality is that the COVID vaccines did not prevent transmission of the virus, which was the rationale for the mandates in the first place, so continuing to maintain them in the face of evidence to the contrary was obviously not a decision motivated by science.

• ChatGPT gives better medical advice than docs: Will AI soon be replacing doctors? That’s not likely, but a recent study found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT scored better on answering some 200 medical questions submitted by patients than did doctors when judged by a panel of healthcare professionals. According to the researchers from the University of California, San Diego, “Our panel of health care professionals preferred ChatGPT four to one over physicians.” The crux of the problem is essentially impersonal information overload. “With the rise in online remote care,” says lead researcher Dr. John W. Ayers, “doctors now see their patients first via their inboxes — and the messages just keep piling up.” In other words, doctors feel like patients are demanding too much of their time via email seeking answers to their questions, while patients find that their questions either aren’t being answered or the answers aren’t satisfactory. Of course, AI tech like ChatGPT has nearly limitless time and resources to pull from in order to respond to questions, something a doctor simply cannot do.

• Tracking another Chinese spy balloon: The U.S. is tracking another balloon that is currently over the Pacific Ocean after having just floated across Hawaii. It appears to be headed toward Mexico. U.S. officials currently claim not to know what type of balloon it is, nor which country it belongs to, but they are somehow certain that it does not pose a threat. With China’s spy balloon stunt earlier this year, the odds are that Beijing is behind this latest one as well. Apparently, the Biden administration struggles with the concept of defending our national sovereignty, whether it be at the southern border or in the air space above.

• Biden passes gas project: On Monday, the Biden administration formally green-lighted a massive Alaskan natural gas pipeline project that had been originally granted approval by the Department of Energy back in 2020 under Donald Trump. Now Alaska will be able to significantly boost natural gas exports, a boon for The Last Frontier. The Biden administration, which has repeatedly bowed to the radical demands of climate activists and environmentalists, this time rebuffed their objections. Alaskan Republican Senator Dan Sullivan praised the decision by observing that it will bring in good jobs to his state, further noting that it will help “our allies not only get off Russian oil and gas but flex the muscle that Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are scared to death of: American energy dominance.” That’s even more true, he said, “if we’re sending it to Asia.”

Headlines

• McCarthy accepts Biden’s invitation to meet on May 9 amid debt limit standoff (The Hill)

• Yellen warns of debt default as early as June 1 (Daily Wire)

• “Wasn’t my idea”: Secretary of State Blinken denies role in Hunter Biden Russian disinfo letter (Fox News)

• Karine Jean-Pierre roasted for claiming illegal immigration is down 90% (Fox News)

• Border towns declare state of emergency ahead of Title 42 being lifted (Townhall)

• In Reynosa, Mexico, 15,000 Haitian immigrants wait for new chaotic Biden policy to kick in (The Federalist)

• Lori Lightfoot begs Texas to stop sending migrants to her sanctuary city (Townhall)

• Bernie Sanders calls for confiscating all money people make over $999 million per year (Daily Wire)

• Supreme Court to hear case that could rein in federal agencies (National Review)

• Justice Alito says he has “pretty good idea” who leaker is (Free Beacon)

• Supreme Court opinions released at historically slow pace, with blockbusters to come (Washington Examiner)

• Ben Cardin won’t seek reelection, opening Maryland Senate seat (The Hill)

• DeSantis expands Florida death penalty law, defying U.S. Supreme Court (WaPo)

• Oklahoma governor bans gender surgeries for minors, threatens providers with felony charge (Fox News)

• Middle school student allegedly sent home for refusing to change shirt that said “There are only two genders” (Fox News)

• Novak Djokovic can play U.S. Open after COVID policy change (Forbes)

• Hollywood writers go on strike after contract negotiations fail (NBC News)

• Satire: Disney execs baffled that Mario movie made $1 billion without any trans goombas (Babylon Bee)

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