WEXFORD COUNTY, Mich. — A pregnant Wexford County woman who was missing for three weeks has been found dead in the Manistee National Forest, according to searchers and local authorities, UpNorthLive reports.

Rebecca Kay Park, 22, was last seen on Nov. 3 outside a relative’s home in Boon Township, where witnesses say she entered a dark-colored vehicle before disappearing.

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There is no confirmed information about the status of her baby.

Up North Live reports, Her cellphone was later found abandoned along a nearby two-track road, raising concerns about her safety early in the investigation.

Search efforts intensified over the past several weeks as friends, family, volunteers, and community members scoured the region. Park, who was 39 weeks pregnant, had not contacted loved ones since the day she went missing.

On Monday, a searcher confirmed that Park’s body was located after 21 days missing, though officials have not released a cause of death. The Wexford County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate.

Park’s fiancé, Richard Falor, previously told reporters the disappearance was completely out of character, saying the two were always in communication. Friends also noted that Park never went anywhere alone.

Authorities say Park had recently received about $2,000 from a family inheritance, but friends maintained she had no intention of leaving the area on her own. A $10,000 reward had been offered for information leading to her safe return.

Anyone with information about Park’s movements on Nov. 3 or the dark-colored vehicle she entered is asked to contact the Wexford County Sheriff’s Office.

 

 

RNC sues Jocelyn Benson over rule allowing voters who have never resided in Michigan to vote in state elections

Republicans are suing Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over election rules she concocted that allow a majority of Democratic non-Michigan residents to vote in the state’s elections.

“Individuals who have never lived in the United States, let alone Michigan, should not have a say in Michigan’s elections,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement. “Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is ignoring the Michigan Constitution by allowing people who don’t live in Michigan to vote in Michigan. That’s why the RNC is fighting to ensure only lawful votes count.”

The lawsuit, filed Friday in the Michigan Court of Claims, points to an election manual issued by the Secretary of State that provides guidance on military and overseas voters. Click here to read more.

 

Ohio Church Secures a Win Against ‘Petty Tools of Government’

A church in Bryan, Ohio recently notched a win that religious liberty advocates believe will set a new precedent after the city attempted to shut down the church using fire codes.

Last Friday, Ohio’s Sixth District Court of Appeals reversed an injunction against the church, called Dad’s Place, and its pastor, Chris Avell, from being able to carry out religious ministry to the homeless and providing them with temporary shelter. The legal questions in the case centered around the relationship between religious liberty and municipal codes, with an eye to ensuring religious organizations are not unnecessarily burdened. Click here for more.

X’s new location feature exposes apparent fraudster accounts posing as Americans, Gaza journalists

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X is exposing the truth behind social media accounts across the political spectrum, with account owners apparently misleading followers about where they are posting from.

The new feature allows all X users to inspect where a given account is based, usually listing a country or region. Many popular accounts posing as American “patriots” or “constitutionalists” have been exposed as being run from foreign countries since the update rolled out on Friday.

One account with the handle “@1776General_” boasts over 140,000 followers and has a user biography describing the owner as a “constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically American.” The biography claims the account is based in the U.S., but X’s new feature reveals it is actually based in Turkey. Click here to read more.

 

Biden-era executive order harms business owners, forcing them into union agreements

The Trump administration recently enforced a Biden-era executive order, harming contractors and subcontractors that provide services to federal entities, and Bill Slayden is one of the many contractors who have been harmed by this rule. If Bill wants to continue providing construction services to the federal government, which is a major source of his company’s revenue, the company must enter into a forced agreement with labor unions—something that neither Bill nor his employees wants to do.

With the help of Pacific Legal Foundation, Bill Slayden is suing the Trump administration for enforcing the Biden-era executive order that is hurting businesses like Slayden Plumbing & Heating Inc. Click here to read more.

 

Florida AG launches probe into Campbell’s over lab-grown meat claims, company calls executive’s comments ‘patently false’

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is demanding answers from Campbell’s Soup Company after a company executive was reportedly recorded condemning the use of bioengineered ingredients, including what he described as “fake meat” produced with emerging food-tech methods.

Uthmeier announced on Monday in a social media post that his office is launching a probe into the matter, saying Florida law bans lab-grown meat and that the state’s Consumer Protection Division “will demand answers from Campbell’s.”

He did not specify what conduct is under investigation or what information the state is seeking. Click here to read more.

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Jocelyn Benson’s husband is VP of company forcing data center on Saline Township

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is fast-tracking approvals for a massive AI datacenter in Saline Township.

Locals oppose the project, but few are more excited about it than Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s husband, Ryan Friedrichs.

Friedrichs, vice president for billionaire Stephen Ross’ Related Companies, celebrated the project on LinkedIn.

“Thank you again to all our community, state, regional, and national partners who worked tirelessly with us this year, and will into the future,” Friedrichs wrote in the post, which linked to another from Related Companies CEO Jeff Blau. Click here to read more.

 

50-Year Mortgages Won’t Fix the Affordability Crisis

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, recently floated the idea of offering people a 50-year mortgage instead of the more conventional 30-year financing option. It sounds attractive at first because stretching out repaying of a mortgage would lower the borrower’s monthly payment, but this wouldn’t fix the homeownership affordability crisis.

It’s no exaggeration to name the current situation as a crisis. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the percentage of a household’s income needed to afford just a median price home is near a record high today, and affordability is near a record low. An entire generation of young Americans has largely given up on the dream of homeownership. Click here to read more.

 

Can the Government Mandate a Vaccine for Your Own Good? This Federal Court Says Yes.

Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge Board of Health. But the breadth of the license granted by that decision is a matter of dispute, even as applied to superficially similar COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Critics of those mandates argued that COVID-19 shots, unlike smallpox vaccination, do not prevent disease transmission, so requiring them amounts to paternalistic intervention rather than protection of the general public. Last summer in Health Freedom Fund v Carvalho, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismissed that distinction as constitutionally irrelevant. Click here to read more.

 

The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition

The FBI is looking for ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into drones, according to federal procurement documents.

On Thursday, the FBI put out the call to potential vendors of AI and machine learning technology to be used in unmanned aerial systems in a so-called “request for information,” where government agencies request companies submit initial information for a forthcoming contract opportunity.

“It’s essentially technology tailor-made for political retribution and harassment.”

The FBI is in search of technology that could enable drones to conduct facial recognition, license plate recognition, and detection of weapons, among other uses, according to the document.

The pitch from the FBI immediately raised concerns among civil libertarians, who warned that enabling FBI drones with artificial intelligence could exacerbate the chilling effect of surveillance of activities protected by the First Amendment. Click here to read more.

 

UK Study to Give Puberty Blocking Drugs to Children as Young as Ten

More than a hundred children as young as ten years old will be subjected to clinical trials of transgender drugs in Britain, despite the government blocking puberty blockers for general use.

Last year, a review from leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass found that transgender medical practices were “built on shaky foundations” and that Britain’s socialised healthcare system should not hand out puberty-blocking drugs to minors over safety concerns. The left-wing Labour Party government agreed and barred the practice for children. Click here to read more.