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President-elect Donald Trump's youngest daughter Tiffany is expecting her first child with her husband Michael Boulos. The 31-year-old confirmed the news via her Instagram Story. Tiffany Trump, like Barron Trump, has steered herself away from the public eye. Ivanka Trump dazzles in a series of festive looks after politics admission Barron Trump fans say he and an unlikely royal are ‘a match made in heaven’ She attended her friend's wedding where she posted a picture with her friend, cradling her baby bump. In the next photo alongside Boulos, she added the message "5 months" with an emoji of a pregnant woman. Trump had appeared to leak the news about her pregnancy at a donor event in October. At an event at the Detroit Economic Club that also included Tiffany Trump's father-in-law Dr. Massad Boulos as one of the attendees, Trump gushed over his 30-year-old daughter whom he shares with ex-wife Marla Maples. While acknowledging Dr. Boulos in the audience, Trump said, "He happens to be the father of Tiffany's husband, Michael, who's a very exceptional young guy." "And she's an exceptional young woman. And she's going to have a baby. So that's nice," he added. Tiffany had not addressed her pregnancy publicly until now. Michael Boulos is the heir of a wealthy Lebanese family with businesses in Nigeria. Tiffany Trump met Boulos in 2018 at Lindsay Lohan's club in Mykonos, Greece, before getting engaged in January 2021, towards the end of Trump's first term. As the US Capitol riot rocked the nation, the duo announced their news on social media the day before Trump left office. Boulos proposed to her with a $1.2 million diamond ring in the White House Rose Garden, according to PEOPLE. "It has been an honor to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories with my family here at the White House, none more special than my engagement to my amazing fiancé Michael! Feeling blessed and excited for the next chapter!" Tiffany had then announced on Instagram. The couple got hitched at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida in November 2022. As Melania Trump has largely kept Barron out of the public eye, Tiffany, who is rumored to be the closest Trump sibling to Barron, has also been quite absent in the spotlight. She was raised in California by her mother and allegedly had a strained relationship with her father, PEOPLE reported. "They always had a strained relationship her whole life, and it got exacerbated by the presidency," a source close to her alleged to PEOPLE.Social media users are misrepresenting a Vermont Supreme Court ruling , claiming that it gives schools permission to vaccinate children even if their parents do not consent. The ruling addressed a lawsuit filed by Dario and Shujen Politella against Windham Southeast School District and state officials over the mistaken vaccination of their child against COVID-19 in 2021, when he was 6 years old. A lower court had dismissed the original complaint, as well as an amended version. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed on Nov. 19. But the ruling by Vermont's high court is not as far-reaching as some online have claimed. In reality, it concluded that anyone protected under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP, Act is immune to state lawsuits. Here's a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that schools can vaccinate children against their parents' wishes. THE FACTS: The claim stems from a July 26 ruling by the Vermont Supreme Court, which found that anyone protected by the PREP Act is immune to state lawsuits, including the officials named in the Politella's suit. The ruling does not authorize schools to vaccinate children at their discretion. According to the lawsuit, the Politella's son — referred to as L.P. — was given one dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic held at Academy School in Brattleboro even though his father, Dario, told the school's assistant principal a few days before that his son was not to receive a vaccination. In what officials described as a mistake, L.P. was removed from class and had a “handwritten label” put on his shirt with the name and date of birth of another student, L.K., who had already been vaccinated that day. L.P. was then vaccinated. Ultimately, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that officials involved in the case could not be sued. “We conclude that the PREP Act immunizes every defendant in this case and this fact alone is enough to dismiss the case,” the Vermont Supreme Court's ruling reads. “We conclude that when the federal PREP Act immunizes a defendant, the PREP Act bars all state-law claims against that defendant as a matter of law.” The PREP Act , enacted by Congress in 2005, authorizes the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a declaration in the event of a public health emergency providing immunity from liability for activities related to medical countermeasures, such as the administration of a vaccine, except in cases of “willful misconduct" that result in “death or serious physical injury.” A declaration against COVID-19 was issued on March 17, 2020. It is set to expire on Dec. 31. Federals suits claiming willful misconduct are filed in Washington. Social media users described the Vermont Supreme Court's ruling as having consequences beyond what it actually says. “The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that schools can force-vaccinate children for Covid against the wishes of their parents,” reads one X post that had been liked and shared approximately 16,600 times as of Tuesday. “The high court ruled on a case involving a 6-year-old boy who was forced to take a Covid mRNA injection by his school. However, his family had explicitly stated that they didn't want their child to receive the ‘vaccines.’” Other users alleged that the ruling gives schools permission to give students any vaccine without parental consent, not just ones for COVID-19. Rod Smolla, president of the Vermont Law and Graduate School and an expert on constitutional law, told The Associated Press that the ruling “merely holds that the federal statute at issue, the PREP Act, preempts state lawsuits in cases in which officials mistakenly administer a vaccination without consent.” “Nothing in the Vermont Supreme Court opinion states that school officials can vaccinate a child against the instructions of the parent,” he wrote in an email. Asked whether the claims spreading online have any merit, Ronald Ferrara, an attorney representing the Politellas, told the AP that although the ruling doesn't say schools can vaccinate students regardless of parental consent, officials could interpret it to mean that they could get away with doing so under the PREP Act, at least when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines. He explained that the U.S. Supreme Court appeal seeks to clarify whether the Vermont Supreme Court interpreted the PREP Act beyond what Congress intended. “The Politella’s fundamental liberty interest to decide whether their son should receive elective medical treatment was denied by agents of the State and School,” he wrote in an email to the AP. “The Vermont Court misconstrues the scope of PREP Act immunity (which is conditioned upon informed consent for medical treatments unapproved by FDA), to cover this denial of rights and its underlying battery.” Ferrara added that he was not aware of the claims spreading online, but that he “can understand how lay people may conflate the court's mistaken grant of immunity for misconduct as tantamount to blessing such misconduct.” John Klar, who also represents the Politellas, went a step further, telling the AP that the Vermont Supreme Court ruling means that “as a matter of law” schools can get away with vaccinating students without parental consent and that parents can only sue on the federal level if death or serious bodily injury results. — Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck .