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World health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than COVID

Without preparedness, the WHO warned, a pandemic from Disease X could cause much more damage than COVID, which has killed more than 7 million worldwide.

The Hill
🚨 Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit has announced his resignation

“…A few hours ago, I received an ultimatum from Lake's team: resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording. I am truly unsure of its contents, but considering our numerous past open conversations as friends, I have decided not to take the risk.”

https://x.com/azgop/status/1750234611890971064?s=46
Hunter Biden has agreed to nine conditions to remain on bond while awaiting trial.

He has to supply his probation office with his income tax returns as part of his bond conditions, court records have shown. He must also sign a waiver to allow their disclosure.

The condition opens up the prospect of public access to Biden's tax returns as he battles prosecutors' claims that he took huge payments from foreign business interests.

Newsweek
A citizen journalist in Texas cannot sue officials over her arrest for asking a police source questions, a divided federal appeals court has held in a ruling that dissenting judges warned posed a threat to free speech and news gathering.

The full New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on a 9-7 vote ruled, opens new tab on Tuesday that police officers and county prosecutors in Texas were entitled to qualified immunity from claims that they violated Priscilla Villarreal's rights under the U.S. Constitution' First and Fourth Amendments.

Villarreal, an online citizen journalist in Laredo, has become one of the city's most popular news sources, with 120,000-plus people following her Facebook page where she regularly reports on crime, events and government.

She was charged with two felony counts of misuse of information after she published the identities of suicide and car crash victims on Facebook, using information she verified by speaking to a police officer in Laredo.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/citizen-journalist-cant-sue-over-arrest-divided-us-appeals-court-rules-2024-01-24/
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and committee Republicans called for the leaker of President Donald Trump’s taxes to face the maximum penalty, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.

Smith and the House Republicans wrote to Judge Ana Reyes, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The letter was obtained by Breitbart News.

Breitbart
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will be sentenced on Thursday for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6.

Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of Congress over his refusal to appear for a deposition in front of the committee, and on a second count for refusing to produce documents.

Prosecutors have asked for Navarro, who under Trump was director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, to be sentenced to six months behind bars.

ABC News
Forwarded from Vigilant News (𝑀𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶)
continued… “HSI responds to every instance of human trafficking that [it is] made aware of as soon as [it is] made aware of it.” Therefore, Grassley’s referral should trigger immediate law enforcement action. Despite the witness’ pledge to provide Grassley with a detailed plan of action to recover the missing children, DHS has failed to do so in the three months following the hearing.

Read Grassley’s Letter: READ

Grassley Alerts DHS, FBI To Evidence Of Human Trafficking; Calls For Immediate Action To Locate & Rescue Migrant Children

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Liz Crokin
Maine's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who requested last week for the high court to consider her earlier decision to bar President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot under the 14th Amendment.

Maine's top trial court had just days earlier deferred ruling on her landmark decision, which had been appealed by Trump's team, until after the U.S. Supreme Court settled a similar 14th Amendment case from Colorado, ordering that the challenge would go back down to Bellows for reconsideration after the nation's highest court had their say.

Bellows filed an appeal of that decision to the Maine Supreme Court so that it might speed up the judicial process ahead of the state's primary date, but the Court on Wednesday declined to hear the challenge because the Maine Superior Court's decision was not a "final" judgment, just a deferment.

"Because the appeal is not from a final judgment, we dismiss the appeal as interlocutory and not justiciable," the seven-justice Court wrote in a 19-page decision.

ABC News
🚨 HEARING ADVISORY:

“The Southern Border Crisis: The Constitution and the States”

#SCOTUS #Texas

https://x.com/judiciarygop/status/1750352866911347067?s=46
Fox News can put Smartmatic on the defensive over whether the voting machine company's $2.7 billion lawsuit over the network's coverage of the 2020 election is designed to chill its speech, a New York judge ruled on Wednesday.

Last April, Fox entered into a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, avoiding a trial on whether the network knowingly spread false conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump's defeat to appease viewers. But Fox potentially faces billions more in liabilities from Smartmatic's lawsuit, filed in Manhattan in 2021.

Taking advantage of New York's broad journalistic protections, Fox hit back at Smartmatic with a countersuit under the state's anti-SLAPP statute, short for "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" and designed to prevent litigation designed to chill free speech. Smartmatic argued that the success of Dominion's lawsuit proved the merit of their own lawsuit, but Fox contends that Smartmatic's enormous damages demand has no basis in fact.

In a seven-page ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David Cohen wrote there has yet to be a ruling on whether Smartmatic’s claims have a substantial factual basis.

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