January, 2020

"...the subjects discussed included efforts within the US government to support prosecutions, in Ukraine and the UK, of Burisma Holdings... and concerns that Hunter Biden’s position with the company could complicate such efforts."

Bernie’s campaign cutting a campaign ad with Joe Rogan fucking sucks. Rogan is an incredibly influential bigot and Democrats should be marginalizing him.

— Carlos Maza 🌹 (@gaywonk) January 24, 2020

Joe Rogan is a transphobic bigot who shills for quackery and cuddles up to dangerous racists.

Appearing on his show is bad but understandable. Publicising his endorsement is indefensible. https://t.co/A1ZcPWtFGM

— bernie & warren are both good (@mikeyfranklin) January 24, 2020

The federal Health and Human Services Department said it is issuing a "notice of violation," giving California 30 days to comply with a federal law known as the Weldon amendment. That law bars federal health care funding from being provided to states or entities that practice "discrimination" against a health care organization on the basis that it "does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions."

Mila told French media agencies that at one point, "I was receiving 200 messages of pure hatred a minute." Criminal inquiries were under way to track the authors of threats to kill and rape the teenager. The case has become a big story in France which has five to six million Muslims...

A spokesman for the station said a civilian vehicle drove through a gate just after 7 a.m. without stopping for a vehicle or ID check. The vehicle was located just before 10 a.m. and the driver is being questioned, according to another Facebook post.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that in 2018 there were 134 overdose deaths from Fentanyl and heroin. In 2019 there were 290, more than twice as many. The Sacramento Bee reported that California doesn't stand up well against the national trends for drug use...

West Virginia, unlike Virginia's Democrat-led government, is now controlled by Republicans in the House, the Senate and the governor's mansion. GOP House member Gary Howell, chairman of the Committee on Government Organization, told Fox News that 43 out of 100 West Virginia House members are sponsoring a resolution that would let West Virginia accept some of the largely rural Virginia counties unhappy with how things are being run in Richmond.

However, the jury was deadlocked on more than a dozen other charges, including murder in relation to the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. government personnel.

Erdogan continues bid to lay claim to half of entire East Mediterranean waters...

The lawsuit marks the first multi-plaintiff trial in the litigation over whether glyphosate, Roundup's active ingredient, is carcinogenic... Roundup cancer lawsuits against Bayer in the United States have ballooned to more than 75,000 since the company was hit with multibillion-dollar verdicts, as three consecutive juries found the company liable for causing cancer. Bayer is appealing those verdicts.

As of this morning, the deadly coronavirus that originated in China has killed 26 people and infected more than 900. But according to one simulation run less than three months ago, things could get much, much worse... a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security, had run a simulation of a global pandemic involving the exact same type of virus... His simulation predicted that 65 million people could die "within 18 months".

The cases currently being monitored in the U.S. stretch across 22 different states, including the first patient in Washington state and the new case in Illinois... Officials said the patient, a woman in her 60s, is currently doing well and is in stable condition... The Illinois patient traveled to China in late December and began experiencing symptoms when she returned to the U.S. last week... the patient had very limited movement from outside her home and did not use public transportation or attend any large gatherings...

Today, justice was served for the brave Americans who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks in #Benghazi. We continue to mourn the losses of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods. @StateDept continues its important work around the world.

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 24, 2020

From the roadside stand where his family sells mole, barbecue and chicken stew, Miguel Ángel Vázquez has seen all the caravans of Central American migrants and asylum seekers stream past his front door in recent years... After watching armored National Guard troops and immigration agents break up the latest one right on his doorstep, loading men, women and wailing children onto buses and hauling them off to a detention center in the nearby city of Tapachula, he’s sure of one thing. “I can see that these caravans are no longer going to pass,” said Vásquez, 56.