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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Speaker Kevin McCarthy Announces Impeachment Inquiry Against President Biden

Spencer Brown: Just hours after the U.S. House of Representatives returned to the business of the American people following the August recess, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) officially announced that Republicans were opening an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden (Townhall). Speaker Kevin McCarthy: I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct—a culture of corruption (X). National Review: Since Republicans reclaimed a majority in the House, Comer and Jordan have uncovered what they say is evidence of then-vice president Biden cooperating with his son’s foreign influence-peddling efforts, most notably those involving the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, whose board Hunter was appointed to while his father was serving as vice president. Hunter’s former business partner and fellow Burisma board member Devon Archer testified before the Oversight Committee that the elder Biden spoke on the phone and/or met with their business partners a total of 20 times over the course of their decade-long partnership (National Review).

CIA Bribed Six Officers Investigating Covid Origins to Hide the Link to a Chinese Lab

Daily Wire: New whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges the Central Intelligence Agency bribed six officers investigating the origins of COVID-19 with hush money to bury their conclusion that the virus likely originated from a Chinese lab. U.S. House lawmakers on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said on Tuesday that an anonymous “highly credible senior-level CIA” official alleged that six members with “significant scientific expertise” in the federal agency tasked with investigating the roots of SARS-CoV-2 found that the virus likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory (Daily Wire). Charlie Kirk: The CIA pay-off scheme was reportedly orchestrated by former CIA chief operating officer Andrew Makridis. While the FBI and the Energy Department have concluded that COVID came from a lab, the CIA remains “unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Ask yourself, why was the CIA so invested in covering up that COVID came from a lab (Twitter)?

Chicago to House Immigrants in Tents

Just the News: Chicago is setting up tents to house an influx of illegal migrants, more than 1,500 of whom have been sleeping in police stations for months, as Mayor Brandon Johnson says he is open to budget cuts similar to New York City to address the growing crisis. Chicago is projected to spend more than $250 million on migrants in 2023 alone. Chicago and Illinois have already allocated $94 million in taxpayer dollars for migrant housing, and the state budget includes $550 million in taxpayer subsidies for migrants over the age of 65 to receive health care (Just the News). Washington Examiner: At the City Council’s meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13, Alderman Raymond Lopez will debut an ordinance that would allow city police to turn over to federal immigration authorities a much broader range of illegal immigrants, rather than releasing them back into the community. At present, Chicago policy does not allow local police to turn someone in custody over to ICE even if the individual has an outstanding criminal warrant, a felony conviction, or is identified as a known gang member (Washington Examiner).

Trans Clinic in Missouri Announces a Halt in Handing Out Puberty Blockers to Minors

Townhall: A controversial transgender clinic in Missouri announced this week that it will stop administering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children. The Washington University Transgender Center said in a statement on Monday that “physicians will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition” over a new state law slated to take effect. Going forward, families will be referred to other facilities to undergo this type of experimental care (Townhall). New York Post: The center became a catalyst for state legislators to draft the new law, which bars hormone therapy for minors under 18 after a whistleblower came forward in February to claim physicians doled out hormone drugs to kids with little screening of their mental health issues (New York Post).

New Mexico Sheriff Refuses to Enforce Governor’s New Public Health Order Regarding Open Carry

Julio Rosas: Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen (D) issued a forceful rebuke of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s (D) public health order, which banned the legal concealed and open carrying of firearm for 30 days, during a press conference on Monday (Townhall). Breaking911: Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen announces he will not enforce New Mexico Governor’s concealed carry and open carry ban. “It is unconstitutional… This order will not do anything to curb gun violence other than punish law abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.” “I have a fact for you: Criminals do not follow the law or a public health order — never seen it — we will never see criminals follow the law” (X).

FDA Determines Most Over-the-Counter Decongestants Are Ineffective

New York Post: An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration stated today that virtually all over-the-counter (OTC) decongestants simply don’t work. The FDA panel found that phenylephrine — the active ingredient in Sudafed, Benadryl, Robitussin and other popular decongestants — is nearly useless at reducing nasal congestion. The advisory panel’s ruling might soon lead to these oral products being pulled off store shelves nationwide (New York Post). NBC: The FDA will now need to decide whether to revoke the drug’s OTC designation as “generally recognized as safe and effective.” The designation, typically used for older drugs, allows drugmakers to include an ingredient in OTC products without the need to file an FDA application (NBC).

California Reverses Travel Ban to Red States with LGBTQ Laws

Bloomberg: California lawmakers voted to reverse a ban on government-sponsored travel to mostly Republican-led states with discriminatory laws targeting LGBTQ people, acknowledging that the policy had failed to stop a surge of legislation across the US. The ban, enacted in 2017, applied to state agencies, departments, boards and schools that are part of the University of California and the California State University systems. It prohibited them from using state funding to travel to states that had passed laws such as barring transgender people from participating in school sports or using the bathroom of their gender identity, ultimately affecting 26 states (Bloomberg). Associated Press: That has posed a significant challenge to sports teams at public colleges and universities, which have had to find alternative funding sources to pay for their road games in states like Arizona and Utah. It has also complicated some of the state’s other policy goals, like using state money to pay for people who live in other states to travel to California for abortions. The reversal on the travel ban comes amid intense political battles across the country over transgender rights, including efforts to impose bans on gender-affirming care, bar trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, and require schools to notify parents if their children ask to use different pronouns or changes their gender identity (Associated Press).

CDC Accepts Recommendation from Advisory Committee That Everyone Older Than Six Months Gets Covid Booster

Wall Street Journal: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed Covid-19 boosters for everyone six months old and above, as cases increase heading into the fall months. The CDC on Tuesday accepted the recommendation of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to follow a universal booster strategy for the coming season. The Food and Drug Administration cleared updated boosters from Pfizer and Moderna for people six months and older on Monday. Pfizer has said that its vaccine would be available soon after the CDC recommendation, and Moderna said its shots should be available soon (Wall Street Journal). Washington Post: This is the first time the federal government is not buying all the coronavirus shots, meaning doctors, hospitals and pharmacies must order them directly. The vaccine will still be free for most Americans who have private health insurance or coverage through Medicare or Medicaid. Under federal law, any coronavirus vaccine must be covered by private and public insurers immediately, as soon as it receives sign off by the FDA (Washington Post).

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Meets with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Discuss Arms Deal

Associated Press: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled through Russia on an armored train Tuesday toward a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, a rare encounter between isolated leaders driven together by their need for support in escalating standoffs with the West. Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country, and, in a twist, appears to have something Putin desperately needs: munitions for Russia’s grueling war in Ukraine. It’s a chance for the North Korean leader to get around crippling U.N. sanctions and years of diplomatic isolation. For Putin, it’s an opportunity to refill ammunition stores that the war has drained (Associated Press). Citizen Free Press: Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia to meet with Putin (Citizen Free Press).

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Thousands Presumed Dead, Missing as Flood Wipes Away Parts of Libyan City

CNN: More than 5,000 people are presumed dead and 10,000 missing after heavy rains in northeastern Libya caused two dams to collapse, surging more water into already inundated areas. At least 5,300 people are thought dead, said the interior ministry of Libya’s eastern government on Tuesday. In the eastern city of Derna, which has seen the worst of the devastation, as many as 6,000 people remain missing, Othman Abduljalil, health minister in Libya’s eastern administration. Whole neighborhoods are believed to have been washed away in the city (CNN). Washington Post: Libya’s infrastructure has suffered repeated blows during a civil war that broke out after the fall of Moammar Gaddafi in 2011. The country remains split between rival governments in the east and the west, a divide that has fueled confusion over causality counts and the coordination of a humanitarian response (Washington Post). DW News: In Libya, thousands are feared dead in floods caused by torrential rains from Storm Daniel. Derna residents reported hearing loud explosions when dams near the eastern city collapsed, followed by a wall of water that “erased everything in its way” (X).