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NEW YORK, NY - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has accused CBS News of selectively editing his answers on disaster relief and election integrity, cutting five minutes worth of answers from his 15-minute interview.
Johnson (R-LA) first noted the edits in a post on X late Monday, saying the media outlet “chose to cut FIVE important minutes out of my nearly 15 minute interview.”
“You can be the judge as to why,” Johnson added.
The speaker then posted three clips with side-by-side comparisons of what CBS aired on television and his actual comments, which were recorded while he was appearing on the network remotely.
In the first clip, “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan presses Johnson on his claims about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) not providing enough resources to those in need following Hurricane Helene, which devastated western North Carolina. Click here to watch the clip.
ATLANTA, GA - A Georgia judge ruled on Tuesday that county election officials must certify election results by the legal deadline, including any number of votes suspected of being fraudulent.
“No election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance,” ruled Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney. Georgia law requires county election superintendents to certify results by 5:00 P.M. the Monday immediately following an election (this year, it will be Tuesday as Monday falls on a holiday).
The judge rebuffed the claims made by Fulton County election board member Julie Adams. Adams voted against certifying this year’s presidential primary election results.
“If election superintendents were, as plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge and so — because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud — refuse to certify election results, Georgia voters would be silenced,” McBurney claimed. “Our Constitution and our election code do not allow for that to happen.” Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - The Great Education Initiative, a Michigan-based nonprofit representing parents and students, recently filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan challenging the Biden-Harris administration’s rewrite of Title IX protections to include gender identity.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan aims to block the enforcement of the new Title IX provisions in Michigan schools, following the lead of several states that have successfully secured injunctions.
Title IX prohibits discrimination “on the basis of sex” in education programs and activities that receive federal funding, and the Biden-Harris Title IX revisions that took effect in August expand the definition of “sex” to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
“GEI asserts that this redefinition not only undermines the original intent of Title IX, which was established to protect women and girls from discrimination in educational settings, but also imposes unconstitutional burdens on students, teachers, and parents, particularly those with religious convictions,” according to a GEI press release.
GEI argues the Biden-Harris rule change was carried out without clear congressional authorization as required, and it violates the statutory text of Title IX, as well as the U.S. Constitution. Click here to read more.
NORTHVILLE, Mich - NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will pay nearly a dozen patients and employees of a Northville Township child psychiatric hospital $13 million after the hospital held an unannounced active shooter drill that attorneys say traumatized patients and staff.
The Hawthorn Center held an active shooter drill in December 2022 but did not tell patients, most employees or local police, dispatchers or EMS that the drill was going on, according to the lawsuits. The center had two employees act as fake intruders during the drill, who were surrounded by police pointing guns at them after patients and staff called 911 thinking the drill was real, according to the employees’ lawsuits.
Two children who were at the Hawthorn Center during the drill, a then-11-year-old boy and a then-14-year-old girl, and employees NaQuana Jones, Jason Smith, Jennifer Vance, Kai Mason, Annette Padula, Chauncey Payne , Jr., Brandon Woodruff and Hawk Kennedy were named in the settlement agreement. All except Payne filed lawsuits in Wayne County as well, which were closed as a result of the settlement. Click here to read more.
NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND - A former ‘hoarder’ is now spending her days transforming the lives of people living in houses filled with mountainous piles of clutter and filth.
Lisa Curtis grew up with a fondness for ‘collecting’ things, which she later realized most people would describe as ‘hoarding’.
Her journey out of that mess began in 2013 when her 65-year-old father died. She discovered his house was bursting with chaos because he was also a hoarder.
She spent six months of her weekends sifting through his belongings, choosing what to keep, donate, sell, or discard to clear the mess.
“My dad would never let us into his house,” explained the 53-year-old from Newcastle, England. “I walked in and found that time had just stood still—he hadn’t thrown anything away.”
His mother (Lisa’s grandmother) had died back in 2001 and he started hoarding her old possessions to deal with the grief, and had also failed to keep on top of his housework. Click here to read more.
