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Time to act now | Ending violence against women in the PacificMALIBU, Calif., Dec. 13, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — As the Franklin Fire nears containment, having scorched over 4,000 acres and displaced thousands of residents, the Satellite Phone Store ( satellitephonestore.com ) is stepping up to provide critical communication solutions to assist recovery efforts and prepare communities for future emergencies. The Franklin Fire, which destroyed six homes and damaged others, left many areas without reliable communication infrastructure. Satellite communication devices such as sat phones & starlink terminals , which function independently of damaged cell networks, are proving essential for both emergency responders and returning residents. IN RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS, THE SATELLITE PHONE STORE IS OFFERING: “A WAKE-UP CALL FOR PREPAREDNESS” “Disasters like the Franklin Fire remind us how essential reliable communication is during and after an emergency,” said Tina Blanco, CEO of Satellite Phone Store. “We’re here to help Malibu recover, but we also want to encourage everyone to think ahead. It’s never too late to prepare for the unexpected, and having the right tools can make all the difference.” SATELLITE COMMUNICATION: A LIFELINE DURING AND AFTER A CRISIS As displaced residents begin returning home, satellite communication tools are helping: With the wildfire starting to be under control, attention now shifts to the importance of emergency preparedness. Wildfires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters can happen at any time, and satellite communication ensures connectivity when traditional networks fail. WHY PREPAREDNESS MATTERS The Satellite Phone Store emphasizes the importance of readiness for future emergencies: PREPARE TODAY FOR TOMORROW’S EMERGENCIES As Malibu rebuilds, the Satellite Phone Store urges individuals and communities to take action now to prepare for what’s next. Reliable communication tools aren’t just for disasters—they’re a safeguard for the unexpected challenges of the future. About Satellite Phone Store: The Satellite Phone Store, a division of Connecta Satellite Solutions LLC , is a global leader in satellite communication technology. Specializing in satellite phones, portable internet hotspots, GPS trackers, and emergency equipment, the company equips families, businesses, and governments with tools to stay connected in extreme conditions. For more information, visit https://SatellitePhoneStore.com/ or call 1-877-324-6913. MEDIA CONTACT: Lacey Moore Website: SatellitePhoneStore.com Email: Care@SatellitePhoneStore.com Phone: 1-877-324-6913 Locations: California, Florida, Alaska NEWS SOURCE: Satellite Phone Store Keywords: Telecom and VoIP, Emergency, Telecom, Technology, Internet, Natural Disasters, malibu wildfires, portable internet, satellite internet, sat phones, franklin fires, emergency response, california, MALIBU, Calif. This press release was issued on behalf of the news source (Satellite Phone Store) who is solely responsibile for its accuracy, by Send2Press® Newswire . Information is believed accurate but not guaranteed. Story ID: S2P122844 APDF15TBLLI To view the original version, visit: https://www.send2press.com/wire/satellite-phone-store-steps-in-to-support-malibu-wildfire-recovery-with-lifesaving-communication-tools/ © 2024 Send2Press® Newswire, a press release distribution service, Calif., USA. Disclaimer: This press release content was not created by nor issued by the Associated Press (AP). Content below is unrelated to this news story.Fate of Matt Gaetz's bombshell ethics report revealed The committee met for the first time Thursday since Gaetz resigned CLICK HERE: Sign up for DailyMail.com's daily U.S. politics newsletter By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, POLITICAL REPORTER ON CAPITOL HILL, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 23:07 GMT, 5 December 2024 | Updated: 23:19 GMT, 5 December 2024 e-mail 38 View comments Republicans defeated an effort by Democrats to force the release of a bombshell ethics report into MAGA firebrand Matt Gaetz. The House Ethics Committee has been investigating allegations that Trump's former attorney general pick Gaetz had sex with a minor and did illegal drugs while a federal employee. Multiple reports indicating Gaetz paid two girls over $10,000 for sex, and that he inquired about them bringing 'party favors' - slang for drugs - led to the demise of his AG nomination as GOP senators expressed many reservations about his past. Gaetz has repeatedly denied all of the allegations and likened the Ethics Committee's investigation as a smear campaign against him. After a high-stakes Ethics Committee meeting earlier Thursday, the bipartisan panel said they would not put out the report. 'The Committee met today to discuss the matter of Representative Matt Gaetz. The Committee is continuing to discuss the matter. There will be no further statements other than in accordance with the Committee and House Rules .' But Democratic Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Steve Cohen of Tennessee had both offered resolutions to force a vote on releasing the committee's report. Those resolutions were voted down on the House floor by Republicans on Thursday evening, delivering a blow to the Democrats' plan. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (L) the President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Attorney General walks alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance (R) as they arrive for meetings with Senators at the U.S. Capitol on November 20, 2024 in Washington, D.C. The following day Gaetz withdrew his nomination for AG The House Ethics Committee convened on Thursday to discuss ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz pending report regarding sexual misconduct and drug use allegations The House Ethics Committee decided against releasing the Gaetz report on Thursday Many Democrats have called for its release, while Republicans say publishing the report on the former lawmaker is no longer important given he withdrew his nomination to become attorney general on November 21, just over a week after he was nominated and resigned his congressional seat. Two weeks ago, the panel deadlocked on whether they should release the file, opted against taking any action and planned a follow up session for today. Thursday's afternoon meeting again revolved around discussing whether they should publish the potentially damaging file, though they ultimately chose against it for now. Gaetz's longtime rival, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy , who Gaetz ousted from power last year, has said the former Florida Republican was looking for an excuse to get out of Congress and away from the potentially disastrous report. 'Matt wanted an out,' McCarthy said on NewsNation on Wednesday. 'He wanted [the] excuse to resign, even though other people have been nominated, but they didn’t resign from Congress.' Because of the committee's decision, the report should not see the light of day. However, Democrats still attempted to get the report into the public eye by forcing votes on its release on the House floor. Releasing it would break with past precedent set by the panel that no longer has jurisdiction over Gaetz after he resigned from Congress one day after being tapped to be the nation's highest law enforcement official. Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., has previously come out firmly against the report's release, saying he strongly advises against it, but the committee decided to vote on it any way. Bombshell testimony from Orlando-based attorney Joel Leppard, who represents two women who claim to have information on Gaetz's allegedly lurid past, fueled lawmaker's and the public's demand to see the file. Gaetz allegedly partied, used drugs and paid women for sex repeatedly between 2017 and 2019 while serving in the House of Representatives , Leppard claims. Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (C) and wife Ginger Luckey Gaetz talk with another guest at the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024 in Palm Beach. Joel Leppard of Leppard Law is representing two women making allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz The allegations have been central to the House Ethics Committee investigation into the ex-lawmaker as the women have reportedly testified before the panel. The Republican attended up to 10 'sex parties' where illegal drugs and 'group sex situations' were present, according to Leppard. Both women represented by Leppard allege that Gaetz paid them for sex via Venmo , the attorney claims. Gaetz paid upwards of $10,000 dollars to two women on Venmo between 2017 - 2019 , ABC News reports. 'She testified [that] in July of 2017, at this house party, she was walking out to the pool area, and she looked to her right, and she saw Rep. Gaetz having sex with her friend, who was 17,' Leppard said Monday. One of the witnesses alleges that she saw her friends having sex with Gaetz at a party in July 2017 against a game table thought to be an air hockey table. The unnamed witness also says that her friend was 17 years old at the time. Politics Capitol Hill Democrats Matt Gaetz Share or comment on this article: Fate of Matt Gaetz's bombshell ethics report revealed e-mail Add comment
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader-in-waiting John Thune plans to have the chamber in session for 10 straight weeks to start 2025. That’s according to the Senate’s 2025 legislative calendar released by the South Dakota Republican on social media Thursday. The calendar has senators in session for five days a week for most of the year, which, if adhered to, would be a change in the chamber’s current flow of usually eschewing Friday votes. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
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There was an odd atmosphere on Capital Hill . or signup to continue reading A taut electric vibe tussled with a summery last-day-of-school looseness. Haggard correspondents intoned philosophic, wearily resigned to their designation as villains in the febrile digital colosseum of political combat. With an unholy crush in the Senate - 31 bills passed on one day and 45 for the week - nervous but footloose lower house MPs killed time. Ministers floated between offices, affecting calm in that way trial lawyers do after closing arguments when everything hangs on a curmudgeonly judge or an inscrutable jury. The Speaker, Milton Dick, expressed his thanks to the sprawling complex's thousands of staff for keeping operational what Anthony Albanese described as "the most visited building in Australia". And it certainly seemed "most-visited" at Aussies on Thursday morning - the roiling social hub where over three decades, Dom Calabria and his father Tony have furnished coffee and meals to stressed press gallery journos, MPs, PMs and frontbenchers, and an infinity of lobbyists and public officials. In their ritual post-question time speeches before the summer break - a bilateral nod to civility dubbed "the hypocrisies" by one scribe - Albanese and Peter Dutton praised old Tony's 28-year stint at Aussies. "Tony is the man who did so much to enhance the seat of democracy here," Albanese remarked warmly to his fellow "Italo-Australian" looking up to the public gallery where three generations of Calabrias watched on. Dutton lauded the ailing 84-year-old's migrant story having emigrated at just 14. "He has worked every day since then, he has educated his children, he has provided a role model and has given that love to his family that has created a remarkable legacy," Dutton said. In other comments, Albanese revealed that he and Dutton did not hate each other after all. He noted that while he had visited Morrison's office only once as opposition leader (a startling factoid since the global pandemic occasioned a bipartisanship likened to wartime), Dutton had been into Albanese's prime ministerial suite, well, "more often than I'd like". Cue laughter. Yet coursing impatiently under all this ersatz chumminess, was the existential fight to come. Each knows that within months, one will be up, the other, finished. Since the Second World War, it has occupied the Treasury benches for just 29 years. Nonetheless, Labor goes into next year's election comforted by electoral history and shielded by an unofficial "Swiss G]guard" of community independents. But that historical precedent - every first-term federal government since 1932 has secured a second term - may amount to nothing in this disintermediated age of antisocial media and permanent grievance. For the 93 years since the rookie Scullin Labor government crashed along with everything else in the Great Depression, incumbency has been a winged keel. Australian voters have tended to pick and stick, at least once. Now though, around the democratic world in 2024, the vogue is to "pick then kick". But what about that Swiss guard of independents? Albanese's worst-case scenario is that one or all of the first-term teals lose. Another risk is that some back a Dutton executive. Currently Labor has 78 seats to the Coalition's 58. Dutton needs a net gain of 18 seats to govern in his own right. A huge task. Polls suggest the most likely outcome is a minority parliament. Labor could lose half a dozen seats to Dutton's Liberals and still be close enough to credibly seek crossbench commitments for supply and confidence. But what would the teal independents do - who would they prefer to form government? The lesson from the minority Gillard period is that indies who hold conservative seats but back progressive governments face extinction themselves. In this light,, it may be instructive to consult the AEC's "two-party preferred" exercise, in which it allocated all 151 "Reps" seats to either of the two major parties (irrespective of whether the seat actually fell to a third party). Unsurprisingly, it shows that preferences for either of the two majors (ahead of the other) favoured the Liberals by the following percentages in teal seats: Curtin (5.4), Goldstein (4.8), Kooyong (4.1 ), Mackellar (8.6), Warringah (1.4), Wentworth (5.9). These pro-Liberal margins may even expand in a 2025 election devoid of the unpopular Morrison. Yet this cuts both ways. In formerly safe Labor Fowler, Dai Le (assuming she survives) would have to ignore a strong Labor proclivity in her seat to back a Dutton-led minority government. Another outlier is Alexander Downer's erstwhile stronghold of Mayo, held by the centre-right indie Rebekah Sharkie. Her Adelaide Hills seat actually favoured Labor by 1.6 per cent in 2022. In all three of the Queensland seats filched by the Greens in 2022, voters preferred Labor - even the two secured from the LNP, Brisbane and Ryan. Nationally, the polls show a busy and productive Labor trailing Dutton's detail-light rhetorical assault over cost of living and immigration. The hardline Queenslander is a more effective political communicator than even his own colleagues thought when they overlooked him in 2018. In 2025, Labor remains the narrow favourite. But its hardheads recognise that no opposition leader is unelectable, no historical precedent immutable, and no seat lead impregnable. Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast. He writes a column every Sunday. 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BOSTON - Waterman Road in Roslindale has 25 homes. It has two cemeteries. It also has one little boy with a story or two to tell. Eleven-year-old Joseph Zyber is a young newspaper publisher with a staff of two. "It's really just me and my mom," Joseph said with a smile. Joseph spends every Monday afternoon putting together the Waterman News. It's a single page newspaper with all the news "fit to print," as long as it's news about Waterman Road. "My mom told me to do something with my brain," Joseph said. Newspaper started as summer project Joseph, like most 11-year-olds, likes playing video games. His parents, like most parents, would prefer that he does something else. After all, Oxford Press' Word of the Year is "brain rot." So, this past summer, his mother gave him a project. "We told both of our sons to do something with their brain and something with their body and Joseph chose this for his project," his mom Elizabeth Perry said. So, you'll now see the little boy in his green froggy hat hopping all over town. "Thursdays are print and deliver day. Then on Friday, I play with my friends," Joseph said as he walked briskly toward the Roslindale Library where Joseph makes 30 copies of his latest edition. The library card gives him $20 worth of free printing per month. He prints in black and white to save money. "I've been doing this for like a couple months now," Joseph said. "I'm really proud of myself." Waterman News delivered to neighbors Thanks to his mom's challenge, Joseph is using his brain and using his legs. He walks house to house on Waterman Road stuffing his weekly paper into mailboxes. It's a one-page paper with recent articles about Porchfest, local grocery prices, a local road project and a replica of the future International Space Station recently on display at a nearby museum. The paper has puzzles and a word search too. "There was a garden tour that I did, that was kind of big," Joseph said. Joseph has an elderly neighbor named Phillip Anastasia who looks forward to him hand delivering the paper every week. It brings back memories of being a paperboy a long time ago. "At that age where could you make $3 a week or something," Anastasia said with a hearty laugh. Joseph doesn't earn a dollar. He gets paid in self-confidence. Those walks alone to the library teach him independence. And going door to door, is teaching him the value of knowing his neighbors. "My social skills have improved definitely," Joseph said. His neighbors, like Mo Pepin are getting more than headlines. "It has truly brought the neighborhood together," said Pepin, pointing out that Porchfest had more participants this year than ever before. Because of little Joseph Zyber, every mailbox on this road is stuffed with something.... extra. Extra. Read all about it. In the Waterman News. Multiple award-winning journalist David Wade co-anchors WBZ-TV News at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. with co-anchor Lisa Hughes and chief meteorologist Eric Fisher.