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[0] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[1] It's Friday, September 15th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] President Biden's son Hunter filed a lawsuit this week against a former Trump White House aide for allegedly being involved in the laptop scandal.
[3] The 14 -page complaint, which was filed in California on Wednesday, accuses former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler of violating state computer and data fraud laws.
[4] The suit claims Ziegler, broke these laws by accessing tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and videos that belong to Hunter.
[5] The filings claim Ziegler and 10 others spent numerous hours accessing, tampering width, manipulating, altering, copying, and damaging computer data that they did not own.
[6] NASA said Thursday, the study of UFOs will require a new approach, including advanced satellites, as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived.
[7] Daily Wire, senior editor, Cabot Phillips, has more.
[8] The agency released a lengthy report showing some of their findings from the year -long study of UFOs.
[9] In the 33 -page report, the team commissioned by the space agency said they want to shift how UFOs are perceived.
[10] Official stress that the team found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin in regard to what they call unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs.
[11] But NASA administrator Bill Nelson did say, quote, with billions of stars and billions of galaxies out there, another Earth could exist.
[12] It would have to be a very advanced civilization.
[13] The distances, you know, light years, hundreds of light years, billions of light years.
[14] But whatever we find, we're going to tell you.
[15] When pressed by reporters on whether the U .S. or other governments are hiding aliens or otherworldly craft, Nelson said, quote, show me the evidence.
[16] Critics were quick to cast doubts on two supposed extraterrestrial bodies present.
[17] to Mexico's Congress earlier this week, many have pointed to journalist Jamie Mousin's past record of similar claims, which were later debaunt.
[18] The session in Mexico's Congress took place two months after a similar one before the U .S. Congress, and that one a former U .S. Air Force intelligence officer claimed his country has probably been aware of non -human activity since the 1930s.
[19] France has taken a big bite out of Apple's sales after regulators in the country have ordered the company to stop selling the iPhone 12, claiming it emits radiation levels that are above EU standards.
[20] The company, however, disputes the findings and said the device complies with regulations.
[21] A French government watchdog that oversees wireless comms frequencies issued the order after the device failed a test for electromagnetic waves capable of being absorbed by the body.
[22] France's digital minister said the phone's radiation levels are still much lower than what science considers harmful.
[23] Researchers say the U .S. is in the throes of a fourth wave of the opioid crisis, a chapter characterized by overdose deaths that's been caused by a combination of fentanyl and stimulants such as cocaine.
[24] A new study reveals that overdoses involving fentanyl and stimulants increased more than 50 -fold from 2010 to 2021.
[25] U .S. overdose deaths in the U .S. topped 100 ,000 for the first time in 2021, but now a new challenge has arisen.
[26] so -called polysubstance overdoses or overdoses that involved more than one drug.
[27] A leading decongestant, a major ingredient in several cold medicines, has been voted not affected by the FDA.
[28] According to FDA advisors, it's no better than a dummy pill.
[29] The decongestant is found in various medications such as pseudofed, dequil, and many others.
[30] The FDA switched from pseudoephedrine to phenolephrine after 2006 law had forced the move because pseudoephedrine can be illegally processed into methamphetamine.
[31] And more than 11 ,000 people have been killed by flash flooding in Libya after a tropical storm dropped more than 16 inches of rain on parts of the country and destroyed two dams.
[32] Governments in the war -torn country have been slow to respond as poorly maintained infrastructure has collapsed or been badly damaged.
[33] Officials fear the death count could rise even higher in the coming days.
[34] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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