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Merrimack College defeated Fairleigh Dickinson in the Northeast Conference Tournament and under normal circumstances it would’ve been the Warriors getting the chance to upset Purdue in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.The Knights made the conference tournament final and lost by two points to the Warriors. But because Merrimack moved from Division II to Division I, they are ineligible to compete in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT until 2023-24. Fairleigh Dickinson, the No. 16 seed in the tournament, pulled off an incredible upset of No. 1 Purdue in the first round.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Fairleigh Dickinson forward Sean Moore reacts after a basket against Purdue during the NCAA Tournament Friday, March 17, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)Merrimack coach Joe Gallo appeared on the “All Ball with Doug Gottlieb” podcast and said there were “no hard feelings” about not getting into the tournament because they knew the NCAA rule as they moved up. He added that he was happy for the Knights for their upset victory.”I think the reactions most people are looking for aren’t what they’re going to get out of me. I’m happy for them. I’m happy for the league. I think people really kind s— on our league a lot this year. When every team is playing 4-5 guarantee games and your league starts out 0-40, your metrics are never going to catch up to the leagues. Fairleigh Dickinson guard Grant Singleton celebrates after a basket against Purdue during the men’s NCAA Tournament in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)UCLA STAVES OFF NORTHWESTERN’S COMEBACK TO EARN TRIP TO SWEET 16″They go and do what they did – not only in that game, I mean they 20-pieced Texas Southern and it wasn’t even close. I think for them to do that gives our league a little more credibility.… But let’s have FDU keep winning and have Merrimack’s name keep getting put out there because of it.”Gallo told CBS Sports he was “happy” to see the Knights win. Head coach Joe Gallo of the Merrimack Warriors during the game against the St. John’s Red Storm at Carnesecca Arena on Nov. 7, 2022 in the Queens, New York. (Porter Binks/Getty Images)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPFairleigh Dickinson became the second No. 16 seed to do the unthinkable and upset a No. 1 seed. UMBC was the first to accomplish the feat. The Retrievers beat Virginia in 2018.

A Chicago woman said a squatter with a long criminal history has taken over her dead mother’s home and has refused to leave since September.Darthula Young told CBS Chicago this week that she received a call from neighbors in September that there had been a shooting inside the Chatham neighborhood home that her mother had left to the family after she died. When Young arrived at the home, the locks had been changed and there was a bullet hole in the front window, she told the outlet.”The person who had been shot in the apartment – this guy named Takito Murray – came back from the hospital, and informed us and the police that he now lived there, that he had rights – he was professional squatter,” Young said.DELAWARE MAN LOSES $125,000 PROPERTY TO SQUATTER NEIGHBOR AFTER TRYING TO REMOVE GOAT PEN SHE BUILT ON IT A Chicago woman says that a man with a long criminal history has taken over her deceased mother’s home and won’t leave. (Illinois DOC and Google Earth)Young said Chicago police told her she needs to go through the court system and she has been trying to do so with no success since September.”It’s been a nightmare,” Young said.CBS Chicago reported that Murray has been arrested for drug and weapons charges at least six times since 2017 and the outlet was able to confront Murray outside the home.”I’m in the process of finding somewhere to stay,” Murray told the outlet. “You can’t just move like that.”WASHINGTON PROPERTY OWNER SAYS SQUATTERS RETURNED AFTER SWAT RAID: ‘I’M GOING TO GIVE UP’ Darthula Young’s two-flat home on Vernon Avenue near 80th Street in Chatham. (Google Earth)Murray claims he is planning on leaving sometime in April or May, but Young said he routinely claims to be leaving soon and then stays put.”Every time I’ve been there, he tells me he’s leaving in two weeks,” Young said. “He’s leaving in two weeks. He just cannot find a place.””So you acknowledge that it was her mom’s building – that her mom owned it?” reporter Charlie De Mar asked Murray.”Yes, I guess I acknowledge – her mom and her siblings, that was their building,” Murray responded. He said he is renting the property from one of Young’s siblings but could not provide proof.PORTLAND FAMILY TERRORIZED BY FIRES SET BY HOMELESS SQUATTERS NEXT DOOR: ‘MY WIFE WAS SCREAMING’ The Chicago skyline from outside the Adler Planetarium. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)Young said the city has not shut off the water since someone is technically living there, and she is on the hook for a $1,300 bill.Michael Zink, a landlord-tenant attorney who is not involved with the case, told the outlet that evictions of squatters in Chicago can take six to eight months via the legal system.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”The problem that police have is when they show up to a scene like that, they don’t know who is telling the truth,” Zink said.Zink said squatting in Chicago is on the rise and Fox News Digital reported earlier this month that squatters in the very same Chatham neighborhood had taken over the home of another woman’s deceased mother and claimed to be living there legally.

The Royal Family shared several new family photos Sunday as they marked their first U.K. Mother’s Day following Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. “Happy Mother’s Day from our family to yours,” the Prince and Princess of Wales wrote on their Instagram account. Prince William and Kate Middleton shared two new photos taken by the family’s trusted photographer, Matt Porteus, taken on the same day as their family Christmas card photo.The first photo shows Kate sitting in a tree with her three children – George, Charlotte, and Louis – all wearing casual outfits with sneakers. The second photo then shows Kate lovingly carrying Louis in her arms. PRINCE WILLIAM’S CHILDREN TO PARTICIPATE IN KING’S CORONATION; PRINCE HARRY’S KIDS YET TO BE INVITEDThe post, which amassed more than 350,000 likes a little over an hour after being shared, garnered tender comments from fans worldwide.”Happy Mother’s Day to you Catherine. It is so clear to see through the pictures how wonderful and doting mum you are. Have an amazing day,” one fan wrote.  Prince William and Kate Middleton shared two new photos taken by the family’s trusted photographer, Matt Porteus, taken on the same day as their family Christmas card photo.  (Matt Porteous/Prince and Princess of Wales/ Kensington Palace via AP)”Now that’s what you call a family tree,” another fan commented. King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla also shared their own Mother’s Day photos, specifically honoring mothers who have passed. PHOTOS: QUEEN ELIZABETH II THROUGH THE YEARS”To all mothers everywhere, and to those who may be missing their mums today, we are thinking of you and wishing you a special #MothersDay,” the post read. The first of the two photos feature a young Queen Elizabeth proudly holding a toddler Charles during a photo call while the second shows Camilla smiling with her mother, Rosalind Shand.  The Royal Family shared several new family photos Sunday as they marked their first UK Mother’s Day following Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.  (Photo by Chris Jackson)Queen Elizabeth passed away at the age of 96 in September 2022, following the death of her husband, Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, in April 2021. Elizabeth and Philip were married for more than 70 years, with Elizabeth becoming the longest-reigning monarch as she served as the face of her country for more than 70 years. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPCharles ascended to the throne immediately after his mother’s death. His coronation is set for May 6, 2023. 

Nearly 800,000 people signed up to join the North Korean military in a single day, the country’s state-run media claimed Saturday. The North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun says 800,000 students and workers signed up to fight the U.S. on Friday, just one day after North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea between South Korea and Japan. The total number included many North Koreans who sought to re-enlist, the paper noted. “The soaring enthusiasm of young people to join the army is a demonstration of the unshakable will of the younger generation to mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs…

One Michigan resident issued a stark warning against the construction of Chinese-owned battery plants, arguing communities see the “writing on the wall” amid growing national security concerns. Big Rapids resident Matthew Maczynski, who is also an Iraq War veteran, joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” to discuss why residents have pushed back against plans to build factories for Chinese-owned company Gotion Global. “I have no idea,” Maczynski told Joey Jones, when asked if the state will stand up against the construction. “I know what I’d like to say, but I don’t know how true it is. A lot of people who are…

A Texas sheriff told members of Congress his county is “under siege” by illegal aliens and smugglers going through the county, trying to get to destinations within the United States.Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe testified before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security at a field hearing on border security held in Pharr, Texas, last Wednesday. Coe said his deputies apprehended 741 human smugglers last year and filed over 3,000 felony cases against the smugglers. “That’s a huge increase from calendar year 2021, when we apprehended 169 human smugglers. We are currently on track right now to exceed 900 smugglers for the year,” Coe explained.   ICE ARRESTS 220 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH CONVICTIONS INCLUDING RAPE, MURDER Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe testifies before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security at a field hearing on border security held in Pharr, Texas on March 15, 2023.  (Homeland Security Committee Events YouTube)Meanwhile, his department is sharing some of the most high-profile cases they have been seeing on social media. Just one day before Coe’s testimony, a man was caught smuggling a mother and two children inside a trunk. “What may have become a high-speed-pursuit came to an abrupt end after a driver hit a deer on RR 674,” a department Facebook post reads. 6 WOMEN WHO WENT MISSING IN MEXICO WERE KILLED, BODIES BURNED BY ARMED MEN A mother and two children, ages 7 and 2, were found in the trunk of a vehicle being smuggled into the United States on March 14, 2023.  (Kinney County Sheriff’s Office)The driver was identified as Devin Klein Shawn from Houston, and the two children were ages 7 and 2. The night after Coe’s testimony deputies busted a driver in an “eye-catching red Corvette” that was attempting to decoy for a load of illegal immigrants in a Ford Fusion. The two drivers were observed “working in tandem,” according to a Facebook post, with their pickup taking place in the city of Bracketville. The cars were pulled over on RR 334, and drivers Jesse Alvarez III, of Floresville and Nestor Adorno Salgado of San Antonio were arrested. They are both facing three counts of smuggling.  Two illegal immigrants found in the back of a Ford Fusion in Kinney County, Texas, on March 15, 2023.  (Kinney County Sheriff’s Office)The day following Coe’s testimony, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers pulled over a rental van on Highway 90 headed for Uvalde. Fifteen illegal aliens were found inside.  Texas Department of Public Safety troopers pulled over a rental van with 15 illegal immigrants inside, likely heading for Uvalde on Highway 90, Kinney County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. (Kinney County Sheriff’s Office)CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”Presumably, the driver was going to let them out and have them hike their way around the checkpoint before getting there,” a subsequent Facebook post reads. 

A teacher from Utah’s Nebo School district went viral for doling out an extra credit assignment encouraging students to eat insects for a lesson on climate change and claiming that doing so would alleviate some of the harm done by raising cattle and eating beef, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital.”Should we be eating bugs?” teacher Kim Cutler asked in a video that aired Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “Yeah, because we’re killing the world by raising cows and animals,” she continued.Will Harris, a fourth-generation Georgia cattleman, pushed back against the notion.UTAH SCHOOL GIVES KIDS ‘DISGUSTING’ INSECTS TO EAT IN CLASS FOR CLIMATE ASSIGNMENT ON COWS KILLING EARTH”It’s an example of a fanatic attempting to force her interpretation of science onto someone under her control,” he told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy. “It’s a presupposition and is completely improper.” A Utah teacher came under fire for assigning an extra credit task to kids, encouraging them to eat bugs for protein. (Middle School | Fox News Digital)Harris said he agrees with environmental scientists’ consensus that industrialized cattle production is wreaking havoc on the environment, but said the Utah teacher’s blanket remarks about cattle “killing the planet” are overreaching.”For her to extrapolate that, that all cattle production is harmful, is absolutely a fanatical embracement of junk science.”MOM VOWS TO TAKE ACTION AFTER TEACHER ENCOURAGED HER DAUGHTER TO EAT INSECTS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT A Utah middle school student said her teacher offered extra credit to students for eating bugs and claimed the teacher encouraged her to eat a grasshopper. (Reuters)The contentious climate change assignment instructed sixth graders to write an argumentative essay about the benefits of eating insects for protein instead of cattle since cows notoriously, according to the climate agenda, destroy the ozone layer by releasing methane gas.Students were allegedly not permitted to take a different stance in their essays, however.”[My daughter] wasn’t given an option to give an argument,” concerned mom Amanda Wright said of the essay during a meeting with administrators.FARMER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST FORCING COWS TO WEAR DIAPERS TO CONTAIN METHANE EMISSIONS: ‘GONE TO LOONY TOWN’School district administrators defended the decision by claiming the assignment asked students to provide evidence supporting the viability of eating insects to save the planet.”How come we can’t state our opinion and write that we shouldn’t be eating bugs?” Wright asked teacher Kim Cutler.Cutler responded, “Because we don’t have any evidence to support it.”Still, Harris said the argument fails to consider other types of farming, including grassfed farming, that focus more on the land and animal than a more industrialized approach. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAs the former president of the American Grassfed Association in the 1990s, Harris transitioned his family farm from industrialized farming to grassfed farming.”I am the fourth generation to manage this farm, and those four generations of 150 years have gone full cycle from a production model that was very focused on the animals, the land and the community to, under my father’s watch and my early watch, a very industrial commodity, a centralized approach and now back to production models based on doing the right thing for the land, the animals and the community,” he said.Harris maintained nutrition should be a personal choice, citing evidence that other cultures choose to eat insects.Fox News’ Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.

A new report from the cybersecurity company Feroot Security reveals that TikTok can track you even if you’ve never used the app before. This deeply concerns me and comes as the Biden administration still debates whether the popular social media app should be banned here in the United States. Here’s what we know so far. CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER How can TikTok track me if I’ve never used the app? According to Feroot, TikTok has trackers on it that are called pixels. These pixels…

AI technology seems to be finding its way into every industry from fast-food chains to delivering packages to automatic self-driving vehicles. Now, some companies are also incorporating AI security guards to keep their businesses safe. However, I’m not so sure these bots can be reliable. Let’s see how the robot security experiments are turning into reality.CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTERHow are these AI security guards being used?These robot guards are being used mainly in office buildings and have various jobs. Leading the charge to populate these office buildings is Cobalt Robotics, a company that specializes in “artificial intelligence and robotic automation to handle mundane, important tasks…”NEVER MISS A CALL AGAIN EVEN WHEN YOUR PHONE’S IN ANOTHER ROOM Cobalt Robotics is one of the leading companies creating robots that guard and patrol office buildings. (CyberGuy.com/Cobalt Robotics)Some of these tasks include things like patrolling office buildings for broken fire alarms, suspicious activity, and checking in visitors. The main reason that a lot of office buildings are beginning to use these robots over human beings is that it saves them a ton of money – roughly $79,000 per year, according to a report from Forrester Research. Although they can work longer hours and do multiple tasks, I don’t know that I would trust this machine with any kind of weaponry in case of a malfunction. Let’s go over the pros and cons of using this technology.MORE: HOW TO FIND OUT WHO’S SPYING ON YOUWhat are the pros of having AI security guards?One big pro of AI security guards is that they might be able to detect more danger than a security camera or even a human being can. They cannot get tired or distracted, and it would be safer for them to confront intruders than to risk the life of a human security guard.Another perk is the two-way communication system that some of these robots are being designed with. Employees can report an issue directly to the bot, or if they’d rather deal with a human and can’t find one, they can request human presence to the robot, and it will alert the proper department.IS FACEBOOK LISTENING TO YOU? Cobalt Robotics has set many features into their bots that makes human communication much easier. (CyberGuy.com/Cobalt Security)More specifically, the Cobalt Robotics security guard is designed with fabric and can pass for high-end furniture, so an intruder may not even realize at first glance that it is a security guard watching them. This might be a clever design that other companies may take note from as to keep the security guard more in disguise.HOW DRONES ARE REVOLUTIONIZING DELIVERY BY TAKING TO THE SKIESWhat are the cons of having AI security guards?One con is that human security guards may lose their jobs. However, it can be argued that human beings can always be designated to do other jobs, such as fixing the AI technology if it malfunctions or coming in to handle an issue if an employee does not want to go through the robot.HOW TO COMPARE VACATION RENTAL HOME PRICES Many worry that robots will replace human security guards as tech advances. (CyberGuy.com/Cobalt Security)And the con that I am concerned with the most is this technology malfunctioning. We’ve seen AI technology malfunction all the time, whether it be something like ChatGPT saying the wrong thing or the self-service machine at McDonald’s being out of service. Plus, there hasn’t been much detail about if these robots can actually prevent crime. Security guards are meant to keep people in a designated building safe, so I’m a little hesitant to put all our trust in AI bots until companies are certain that they’re the safest option and won’t malfunction in times of need.MORE: U.S. MILITARY JET FGLOWS BY AI FOR 17 HOURS – SHOULD YOU BE WORRIED?Arming robots with gunsThe San Francisco Police Department has proposed a policy that would allow robots to be armed and they could even use deadly force if there was a situation extreme enough where the public or the police are in imminent danger. While their policy was denied, the police department has said they are interested in putting it back on the table.So that poses the question: should we trust robots to carry weapons instead of paying a human to do the job?  Let us know your thoughts.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPFor more of my tips, subscribe to my free CyberGuy Report Newsletter by clicking the “Free newsletter” link at the top of my website.Copyright 2023 CyberGuy.com. All rights reserved. 

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The greatest joy in my life has been standing by my husband as we raise six smart, caring, and energetic kids. While none of them carry our blood, they carry our last name and all the love that comes with it.More often than not, women are stigmatized for their choice to place their child for adoption. In my experience, however, it was never a lack of love that led women to choose adoption, but an abundance of it. I have seen that it takes immense strength and compassion to choose life for a child and then to selflessly place them in the arms of another, with the hope of giving them a better life.Because of these courageous women, my hopes and prayers of becoming a mother have been answered.PAUL BATURA: THE BEST RISK MY WIFE AND I EVER TOOKWhen we adopted our first son, I can remember sitting in wonder and awe as I looked down at the small life that I rocked slowly in my arms. The precious little boy that I held was not formed in my womb but was my son, nonetheless. I sat in that moment thinking about how special it was, and my heart ached for my son’s birth family, who may never get to experience all that he was. It was then that I decided to have an open adoption. I wanted the brave woman who chose life for this little boy to experience the joy of his smile and the magic that emanated from his laugh.After our first successful open adoption our family was blessed with another little boy. With all the happiness he brought into our home, we knew that we wanted to expand our family yet again.  Osvold family photo. Ashley Oberholtzer Photography