Scoop: Josh Shapiro, the Democrat running for PA governor, has a notable co-host for a fundraiser tonight: Sheryl Bartos — wife of Jeff Bartos, a two-time statewide GOP candidate and, more pointedly, the co-chair of Dr. Oz’s Senate campaign.
NEWS: House GOP leadership will be whipping against the Electoral Count Act (ECA), the whip's office confirms to me.
The vote is expected to take place tomorrow.
Huy Fong's Sriracha hit revenue of $150m+ a year...with no sales team, no trademark and $0 in ad spend.
Its creator is Vietnamese-American David Tran, making the sauce's success a tale of immigrant hustle and a product that literally sells itself.
Here's the story🧵
Uzbekistan authorities threw a party for all the SCO delegates, and played "Jimmy Jimmy Aja Aja" & "I'm a disco dancer" among other songs to welcome them.
NEW: 🚨Our 7-month investigation charts the journey through which much of the international response to Covid passed from governments to a privately overseen global constituency of NGO experts connected to the Gates Foundation. In partnership with
“No U.S. diplomats have been killed this year, anywhere in the world,” he said. “But three U.S. State Department officials have died in the Washington area — all hit by vehicles. Two have been hit on bikes. One was right here.”
In other search warrant affidavit news....we're learning more about the DOJ investigation of Sen. Burr over stock sales amid the early months of the pandemic:
w/
#Ukraine In Kharkiv, a chimpanzee escaped from a zoo. It was walking around the city while zoo employees tried to convince it to return. Suddenly it started to rain, and the ape ran to a zoo employee for a jacket and then agreed to return to the zoo.
An AP analysis found many US states barely use the red flag laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens, a trend blamed on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce.
Today in PA Sen news...Oz attacked Fetterman for having two convicted murderers on his staff, calling for him to fire them. They are Lee and Dennis Horton, brothers whose convictions were widely criticized and who ultimately were granted clemency by the Board of Pardons 5-0.
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the 10th GOP co-sponsor of the Senate's bipartisan Electoral Count Act reform bill, his office confirms. If all Dems in favor, that gives it a filibuster-proof Senate majority
Collins: "I'm excited about that. And I think there is other Republican support"
The UN asks the world not to send Uyghurs back to China.
"States should further refrain from returning members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim minorities to China who are at risk of refoulement and provide humanitarian assistance," it says in the very last paragraph.
The UN office describes "possible forced sterilization" according to interviewees' accounts. "There are credible indications of violations of reproductive rights through the coercive enforcement of family planning policies since 2017."
#BREAKING: UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet's office calls China's treatment of the Uyghur minority as constituting "serious human rights violations" in a report issued just minutes before the end of her tenure.
Trump attorney Alina Habba went on Charlie Kirk's show today. She says of the Mar-a-Lago docs: "if they're declassified, as he has the right to do, he has the right to have them and he was working together with NARA...."
https://americasvoice.news/playlists/the-charlie-kirk-show/…
Those arrested DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown were registered and were sent voter cards. The government told them they could vote, so they voted
One man was arrested by armed SWAT team at 6 a.m. He was in his underwear and was taken to jail that way
Airlines have mishandled nearly 26,000 wheelchairs or scooters since the end of 2018, according to the DOT. Travelers are fed up -- and have ideas about how flying could improve. Our story:
We are living through a great extinction on pace to rival the worst in Earth's history, but the loss of an iconic animal like this still gets me every time.
'When a CNN reporter tracked her down on Monday...Maloney began running down the sidewalk to a waiting car, while one of her daughters repeatedly positioned herself with her hands and legs out in an attempt to block any further questions'
FULL STORY - A top DoJ official said Thursday the investigation into the handling of classified records housed at Mar-a-Lago is “in its early stages”
(I just came out of the courtroom, where live tweeting wasn’t allowed)
w/