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Federal judge responds to Trump team’s request after immunity ruling

The federal judge presiding over former President Trump’s Florida case has paused several court deadlines to consider presidential immunity. 

Trump’s legal team presented a motion Friday seeking “a partial stay of further proceedings” in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith “until President Trump’s motions based on Presidential immunity and the Appointments and Appropriations Clauses are resolved.”

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday agreed to hear arguments, allowing two weeks for both camps to prepare briefs regarding the relevance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.

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Trump faces charges from Smith’s investigation into his possession of classified materials. 

He pleaded not guilty to all 37 felony counts from Smith’s probe, including willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements.

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Trump was also charged with an additional three counts as part of a superseding indictment from the investigation, an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in the Trump v. United States case that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office but not for unofficial acts.

In a 6-3 decision, the court sent the matter back to a lower court when the justices did not apply the ruling to whether former President Trump is immune from prosecution regarding actions related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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“The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. 

Minnesota Vikings rookie dies in car crash at 24 — just three months after NFL Draft

Khyree Jackson, the Minnesota Vikings’ 2024 fourth round draft pick and former Oregon standout, is dead after an early morning car crash that killed two others, police said. He was just 24. 

Jackson, who was drafted by the Vikings with the No. 108 overall pick in April, died in a car accident Saturday morning, along with two others, according to the Maryland State Police. 

The Vikings released a statement on Saturday confirming the news of Jackson’s death.

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“I am absolutely crushed by this news,” head coach Kevin O’Connell said. 

“Khyree brought a contagious energy to our facility and our team. His confidence and engaging personality immediately drew his teammates to him. In our short time together, it was evident Khyree was going to develop into a tremendous professional football player, but what was more impressive was his desire to become the best person he could be for his family and those around him. I am at a loss for words. My heart goes out to Khyree’s family, friends, teammates and coaches.”

Police in Prince George’s County responded to reports of a crash involving three vehicles at around 3:14 a.m. on Saturday. Upon arrival, state troopers found a maroon Dodge Charger, a silver Infiniti Q50 and a silver Chevrolet Impala that all had been involved in the crash. 

Jackson, a passenger in the Charger, and 23-year-old Isaiah Hazel, who had been driving the car, were both pronounced dead at the scene. Police said that 23-year-old Anthony Lytton Jr., who had been sitting in the rear of the car, was transported to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. 

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The three reportedly had been teammates at Dr. Henry Wise Jr. High School in Maryland. 

Police say the early investigation indicated that the driver of the Infiniti, identified by law enforcement as Cori Clingman, chad rashed into the Charger while attempting to change lanes. Police said she had been “driving at a high rate of speed” when she struck the vehicle, and later the Chevrolet.  

Clingman had two other passengers in the car at the time of the crash, but none was injured as a result. The driver of the third vehicle was also uninjured. 

Police said they “believe alcohol may have been a contributing circumstance in the crash.” Charges are pending as the investigation continues. 

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Jackson took a break from football after high school, but he returned to the sport when he attended community college, where he made the switch from wide receiver to cornerback. He played two seasons under Nick Saban at Alabama before finishing his collegiate career at Oregon, where he was an all-Pac-12 first-team selection.

According to ESPN, Hazel played at Maryland and Charlotte, and Lytton played at Florida State and Penn State.

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‘Jeopardy’ producers crack down on winner’s big moment: ‘We’re not doing that’

When it comes to game show etiquette, “Jeopardy” contestants are used to following certain standards. For Drew Basile, the first “Survivor” contestant to compete on the game show, his excitement was quick to overshadow the what-should-have-been “poised” celebration. 

During an episode of “Rob Has a Podcast,” the Michigan-based graduate student — who admitted to never really watching “Jeopardy” before appearing on the show — revealed that he had been forced to re-record a winning moment due to his “huge reaction.”

“Obviously, I had a big reaction at the end of the tiebreak because, you know, it’s like a Western standoff,” he said, referencing his game against opponent Josh Heit. “I had such a big reaction that I think we had to re-record it.”

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“I was like, ‘Let’s go!'” he said, while he pumped his fists in the air. 

“They were like, ‘We’re not doing that?'” a podcast co-host asked of the producers’ reaction.

“Well, ‘Jeopardy!’ is so classy. I had a huge reaction,” Basile responded. “It was kind of a little bit muted, compared to some of the hate you get from ‘Survivor,’ he added of the retake. 

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Basile’s over-the-top reactions earned him mixed feedback from fans of the show, but the negativity hasn’t seemed to bother him. 

“I was kind of a polarizing figure on ‘Jeopardy!’” he said. “They have so much poise, and they’re all dressed up to encourage those best qualities of politeness and rectitude, and people don’t really showboat.”

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“I had no issue with either of those things, I love showboating,” he added. “I think [because I have] a little bit more personality than your average winning contestant, [it] could have been a little unnerving for [some] viewers,” he speculated.

“Everyone loves to root against the winner … you don’t want the winner to be some kind person who you would invite into your home, that’s boring. I’ll gladly take being the heel … I’ll lean into it,” he concluded.

Basile finished with a seven-day winning streak, behind 15-day winner Adriana Harmeyer. He earned $129,601 before he was defeated on June 28.

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In contrast to Basile, “Jeopardy” contestant Erin Buker made a game show record this season after earning the second-lowest score in the competition’s history. 

After an episode in June, the stay-at-home mom walked away with -$7,200. The low score followed former contestant Patrick Pearce’s -$7,400 in July 2021. 

Buker told Fox News Digital that while she had a “pretty cool” time taping the episode, she would describe it as an “out-of-body experience.”

“You’re looking, you see the clues, but you don’t remember what category it is,” she explained. “You’re reminding yourself to not, you know, make weird faces, because you’re on live television. … The way they tape it is like it’s the live show. They really try to keep it really tight.”

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She continued, “So you just, like, don’t make weird faces, don’t … do anything odd, which is always kind of just running through your head. And then, so you’ll see the answer in front of you … it’s all very blurry, I can’t explain it.”

“This is all happening,” she said, “and it’s just, it’s all happening at once, and there’s just a lot of noise in the head, and it’s kind of an out-of-body experience, too.”

Actress says she’s ‘lost more jobs than I’ve gained’ because of her famous family

When it comes to her career in Hollywood, Emma Roberts claims to have lost jobs due to something completely out of her control. 

In a new interview with Flaunt, the “Scream Queens” actress, whose father is actor Eric Roberts and aunt is Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts, opened up about the pros and cons to having famous family members and explained how her acting career has been affected. 

“I’ve lost more jobs than I’ve gained from being in the business,” said Roberts. “People have opinions, and sometimes maybe they’re not good opinions of people in your family. I’ve never gotten a job because of it, I know I definitely have lost a couple of jobs because of it.”

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One of her “biggest heartbreaks” came when she was only nine years old when she lost out on the role of Wendy in the 2003 film, “Peter Pan.”

“I came very close. I had a British accent,” she recently told Variety. “I was very impressed with myself, but I didn’t get the part.”

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“The one that got away in the beginning was ‘I Am Sam,’ which the amazing Dakota Fanning obviously got,” she added. “I came close, but the feedback was, ‘You’re a little on the older side,’ and I was nine. To be told you’re on the older side at nine, I was like, ‘There’s my thick skin. It grew right there.’”

Last month, Roberts questioned whether men have it easier than women when it comes to the controversial Hollywood discussion surrounding “nepo babies.”

“People definitely have preconceived notions of you,” Roberts, 33, told Bruce Bozzi on his podcast “Table for Two” of being born into a famous family. 

“I think there’s two sides of the coin, you know. People like to say, ‘You have a leg up, because you have family in the industry,’ but then the other side to that is, you know, you have to prove yourself more,” she explained. “Also, if people don’t have [a] good experience maybe with other people in your family, then you’ll never get the chance.”

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“I think there’s something to be said where everybody loves the kind of overnight success story,” she continued. “And so, if you’re kind of not the girl from the middle of nowhere that broke into Hollywood, you know there’s kind of an eye roll of like, ‘Well, your dad was this.’ I always joke, I’m like, ‘Why is no one calling out George Clooney for being a nepo baby? [His aunt] Rosemary Clooney was an icon,'” she said of the late singer and actress.

Though Roberts has previously stated she’s never aspired to be her aunt, she admitted she’d “love to find the perfect project” for them to work on together. 

“I know that there will be something. But it’s never been the right thing,” she told Variety. “She’s the best, and I want to do something with her. We send each other books and talk about stuff, but it hasn’t been right.”

“I watch her movies when I’m on location, and I’m by myself,” she added, referencing some of Julia’s classics. “I have movies of hers downloaded on my computer that I watch for comfort.My Best Friend’s Wedding’ and ‘America’s Sweethearts’ are my safe movies.”

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Caitlin Clark makes WNBA history as she notches first career triple-double

There’s a reason why Caitlin Clark got the most votes for the WNBA All-Star Game.

Entering Saturday, Clark had been awfully close to a triple-double on several occasions, but she finally got it done this time.

The rookie phenom dropped 19 points, handed out 13 assists and grabbed 12 rebounds to become the first rookie in WNBA history to record a triple-double.

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It also was the first triple-double in Indiana Fever history, and she became the youngest player to achieve it.

Clark, already with 15 points and 10 assists, recorded her 10th rebound with 7:07 left in the fourth as the Fever trailed by nine, and that seemed to spark a comeback, who trailed by as many as 11 in the quarter.

The Fever chipped away slowly, and after trailing 75-68 with 4:21 to go, they went on an 11-0 run to take a four-point lead.

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A Sabrina Ionescu three-pointer (previously the youngest with a triple-double) cut the Liberty’s deficit to one, but the Fever pulled away and earned an 83-78 win after the spirited comeback.

Clark was averaging 16.0 points, 7.1 assists and 5.7 rebounds per game entering the contest – the former two stats were both tops among rookies.

After starting 3-10, the Fever have now won six of their last nine games.

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Clark was the only player to collect over 700,000 All-Star Game votes, which came roughly a month after she wasn’t selected for the United States Olympic team. She was one of just two rookies to make the All-Star Game, along with Angel Reese.

Top eyebrow-raising moments from Biden’s first interview post disastrous debate

President Biden dodged questions about taking a neurological test and dismissed concerns about his age and ability to serve a second term during his first post-debate interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Friday, which was meant to re-assure Americans concerned about his candidacy. 

The president’s comments failed to calm the storm over his debate performance. Biden at one point suggested he was doing the “goodest job” he could, according to the ABC News transcript. He also seemed somewhat unsure if he’d watched his own performance, saying, “I don’t think I did, no.” Biden stated that “if the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get outta the race,’ I’d get outta the race.” 

Stephanopoulos asked the president bluntly how he would feel in January if Donald Trump ended up winning the election and his warnings about Trump and democracy came to pass. Biden replied: “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about…. I think the United States and the world is at an inflection point when the things that happen in the next several years are going to determine what the next six, seven decades are going to be like.” 

Following a rocky debate performance, Biden has faced several calls to drop out of the race from members of the media and some Democrats. 

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Biden told Stephanopoulos and the American people that he would only drop out of the race if the Lord Almighty came down to tell him so. 

“I mean, if the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get outta the race,’ I’d get outta the race. The Lord Almighty’s not coming down. I mean, these hypotheticals, George,” Biden responded. 

Asked if he watched the debate after his performance, Biden said he didn’t think he did. 

The president claimed that he was the one who “shut Putin down” while responding to a question about whether he could serve effectively should he win another term.

“George. I’m the guy that put NATO together, the future. No one thought I could expand it. I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen. I’m the guy that put together a South Pacific initiative with AUKUS. I’m the guy that got 50 nations out– not only in Europe, outside of Europe as well to help Ukraine,” Biden said. 

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Russia, under Russian President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine in February 2022 in the largest military attack of one state against another on the European continent since WWII. 

The president also repeatedly dodged Stephanopoulos’ questions about whether he’s taken a neurological and cognitive exam. 

“I’ve had, I get a full neurological test everyday with me. And I’ve had a full physical. I had, you know, I mean, I’ve been at Walter Reed for my physicals. I mean, yes, the answer,” Biden responded. 

“Have you had the specific cognitive tests, and have you had a neurologist, a specialist, do an examination?” the ABC News host followed up.

Biden responded, “No. No one said I had to. No one said. They said I’m good.”

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Stephanopoulos followed up again to ask if Biden would be willing to get one. 

“Look, I have a cognitive test every single day,” Biden said. “Every day I have that test. Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world. Sounds like hyperbole, but we are the central nation in the world.”

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The ABC News host also asked Biden about his low approval rating as president, which the president largely dismissed. Stephanopoulos pointed out that Biden was behind in the popular vote.

“I don’t– I don’t buy that,” the president responded. “I don’t think anybody’s more qualified to be President or win this race than me,” Biden said. 

Stephanopoulous pointed out that he’s never seen a president with a 36% approval rating get re-elected. 

“Well, I don’t believe that’s my approval rating. That’s not what our polls show,” Biden responded.

In Wisconsin on Friday, Biden suggested he would beat Trump “again” in “2020.” “Let me say this as clearly as I can, I am staying in the race. I’ll beat Donald Trump, I will beat him again in 2020.” 

Outrage over Biden allowing Iran’s terrorist-sponsoring regime to hold voting in US

The Biden administration recently allowed Iranian citizens to vote in the totalitarian regime’s sham presidential election from makeshift booths in a handful of U.S. hotels, drawing the ire of the terror-sponsoring nation.

Biden green-lighted Iranian regime voting stations across America for election of the president of the Islamic Republic. The contest on Friday resulted in the victory of Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon, over the former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.  Pezeshkian secured secured 53.3% of the vote while Jalili received 44.3%.

Many Iranian observers bitterly complained on X that the mainstream media had falsely framed the election as a vote between the “reformer” Pezeshkian and the “hardliner” Jalili. 

Kaveh Shahrooz, an Iranian-Canadian expert on Iran’s regime, urged a “two-front battle” to debunk the myth that Pezeshkian is a reformer and to unite the Iranian opposition against the regime in Tehran.

“But now, with the selection of a ‘reformist’ president, they will revive their lies about the Iranian regime’s capacity for change,” wrote Shahrooz.

The largely symbolic presidential position is controlled by the unelected Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on domestic and foreign policies. Khamenei selects who can run for president. Hence, Iranians call it a “selection” and not a real election.

Last Friday’s first round of voting saw the lowest participation since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution established a theocratic state. The Iranian regime’s Interior Ministry said that yesterday’s election produced over 30 million votes. The alleged turnout of 50% in the run-off election was higher than the first round (40%) on June 2, but still low by historical standards. Eyewitness reports and videos showed empty polling stations in Iran.

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Lisa Daftari, a leading Iranian-American expert on the Islamic Republic and editor-in-chief of the Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital the U.S. should not have facilitated voting.

“The Biden administration’s decision to allow the regime to extend its influence onto U.S. soil is deeply troubling,” Daftari said. “The Islamic Republic has a history of violence against Americans and continues to hold American citizens hostage. It’s perplexing why any administration would grant access to such a rogue and murderous regime.”

Daftari called it “ironic” that Iran appeared to target voters in the United States due to a lack of voter turnout at home.

“Many Iranians refused to legitimize the regime by voting, yet Washington permitted this regime to establish polling stations on American soil,” she said. “This decision raises serious questions about past and present foreign policy strategies of the current administration, particularly in emboldening the regime in Iran.”

When asked about the criticism of holding elections for the clerical regime on American soil, a U.S. State Department spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel’s remarks

“In this context foreign governments carrying out election-related activities in the U.S., they need to do so in a manner that is consistent with U.S. law and regulation,” Patel said. “We respect the rights of Iranian citizens and the diaspora protesting Iran’s elections or choosing to participate in Iran’s elections. And I will also just note that the Iranians have conducted this kind of activity in the United States before, so this is nothing new, and as have a number of other governments, especially in the time that I have worked here as well.”

Patel said the U.S. does not believe the Iranian elections are free or fair, and does not expect them to “lead to a fundamental change in Iran’s direction or lead the Iranian regime to offer more respect for human rights and more dignity for its citizens.”

Fox News Digital learned that at a polling location at a hotel in Lynnwood, Washington, on June 28, a security guard allegedly assaulted an Iranian-American who had objected to the election.  

According to the police report obtained by Fox News Digital, a hotel security guard “grabbed her arm and attempted to seize her phone.” The police officer reviewed a video of the confrontation and noted he that “did not observe” the security guard issuing the Iranian-American a warning that her phone would be seized before his attempt to take it.

A Lynwood police official said the criminal complaint was forwarded to the prosecutor’s office for review.

The Iranian-American woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Fox News Digital she was stunned to learn that the regime was collecting votes just a few miles from her home.

“I left Iran about two decades ago, leaving behind my family, my friends, my hometown, the neighborhood I grew up in, all because I could not live under a regime that told me what to wear, what to say, what to do, what to see and what to unsee … a regime that would kill and torture its own people to suppress any opposing voice,” she said. “So when I learned that there will be a voting station for the regime who kills, rapes and tortures my brothers and sisters, in my home state, I was shocked.”

Fox News Digital left repeated messages for the hotel manager and the security guard, but none was returned. 

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Fox News Digital confirmed on Friday that the run-off vote had not taken place at the Lynwood hotel, but had been relocated to another Seattle-area hotel.

After Iranian-Americans and Iranian-Canadians showed up at the second hotel to protest on Friday, the manager canceled the vote. 

Iran’s regime announced the polling locations through its representative in the U.S., the Pakistani embassy in Washington D.C. A link is published that lists the voting locations in more than 30 U.S. cities. The information about voting was released on each Friday, ostensibly to prevent organized demonstrations against the Iranian regime election.

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Video footage and photographs showed protests against the polling stations in Massachusetts, Arizona, California and Washington.

According to a Voice of America report, voting took place in the first round  at hotels and various other properties in Nebraska, New York, California, Texas, New Jersey, Ohio, Arizona, Chicago, Illinois and Kansas. 

Birthday party ends in tragedy after man who wasn’t invited allegedly kills multiple people

Four people and one suspect are dead after a shooting in Kentucky early Saturday, the Florence Police Department says. 

The shooting took place at around 2:50 a.m. at a home on Ridgecrest Drive, located in the city of Florence, in northern Kentucky, Florence Police Chief Jeff Mallery said at a press briefing Saturday. 

A 21st birthday party was taking place at a residence there which suddenly turned deadly, Mallery said. 

Police were called to the scene after receiving calls about an active shooter and when they arrived they still heard shots being fired, he said.

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They found at least four people dead at the scene and others injured.

The suspect, identified by Mallery as 20-year-old Chase Garvey, fled the scene southbound in a vehicle, sparking a police chase, but it crashed into a ditch on Dale Heimbrock Way near Hicks Pike after Garvey shot himself.

He was found by police with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The four deceased victims were all adults and named as Delaney Eary, 19, Hayden Rybicki, 20, Melissa Parrett, 44, and Shane Miller, 20.

The party was being held at Parrett’s home for her 21-year-old child, according to the chief.

Garvey was not invited to the party, but did know those celebrating, a visibly shaken Chief Mallery explained.

“We’ve never dealt with this before and now it’s going on through the nation, but this is the first time we’ve had a mass shooting in Florence, so yeah, it’s very emotional.”

“We train on this, hoping it would never happen, but unfortunately, we’ve been touched like so many departments and cities,” Mallery said.

A motive for the shooting is unclear. 

KENTUCKY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING LEAVES 1 DEAD, 7 HOSPITALIZED

The other three victims were transported to a local hospital and currently listed as critical but stable, Mallery said. He said they are expected to make a full recovery.

Florence Police Department tells Fox 19 that there is currently no threat to the public.

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Ridgecrest Drive is about 15 miles southwest of Cincinnati, Ohio.

$2M vacation home in exclusive hotspot sells for just $200,000

A coastal vacation home severely threatened by beach erosion recently got scooped up for only six-figures in Nantucket, Massachusetts, according to the Nantucket Current.

The house is changing ownership in a $200,000 deal that took place last week, the outlet reported. It identified the sellers of the home as married couple Jane Carlin and Ben Gifford and the buyer as the owner of a neighboring property, Ticketnetwork Inc co-founder Don Vaccaro.

That reported price was approximately $1.77 million lower than Nantucket’s assessed value of $1.97 million, according to property records.

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The sale of the 1,700-square-foot home came after the couple unsuccessfully tried to figure out if housing non-profits “would consider taking the house and moving it” with financial assistance from them so that it wouldn’t fall victim to erosion, Carlin told the outlet. It had reportedly belonged to them since 1988.

The distance between the sea and the home had been becoming smaller and smaller, particularly over the winter, the Nantucket Current reported. The overall area where the property is located has been severely impacted by coastal erosion over the years.

The two-story home, built in 1979, contains three bedrooms and two bathrooms, per property records.

“I have no illusions that the house will remain in place for more than a year, and bought it on the assumptions that it will be in the water by spring of 2025,” Vacarro told FOX Business in a statement, adding that his ownership of a neighboring home will afford him some “ways to use the house for a little longer than someone who doesn’t have an adjoining property.”

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Vaccaro also said “there is the possibility” to make use of “some simple yet costly mitigation techniques that will slow the erosion.” He previously mentioned tactics such as “sea grass planting” and “silt fencing” to the Nantucket Current.

“In the off season the property is targeted to be donated to Ukrainian Refugees, if the town has no objections,” he also told FOX Business.

Prior to the “miracle” offer that Vaccaro made to Carlin and Gifford, they had not listed it because they didn’t “want to sell to someone when you know a storm could take it out next week,” Carlin explained to the Nantucket Current.

NANTUCKET BEACHFRONT HOMES STILL COVETED BY BUYERS DESPITE HIGH RISK OF BEING SWALLOWED BY THE SEA

Nantucket’s southern coastline experiences annual beach erosion “in the middle” of 0.56 feet and 12.63 feet, the local government said on its website. Other areas on the island also deal with erosion.

Homes in the city of Nantucket had median asking prices of $4.7 million in May, according to Realtor.com. For sale prices, the median was $3 million.