The founder and executive chairman of Govini, a software firm with deep Pentagon ties, has been arrested and charged with soliciting sexual contact with a preteen girl, according to the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office. Eric Gillespie, 57, of Pittsburgh, allegedly tried to arrange a meeting with a young girl through an online chat platform often used by sex offenders, authorities said. An undercover agent posing as an adult intercepted Gillespie’s messages.

Los Angeles strengthened its rent stabilization law for the first time in 40 years Wednesday, setting a 4% ceiling on annual rent increases for a massive portion of the city’s housing stock. The historic vote by the L.A. City Council will help set rents for decades to come for tenants who live in units built before 1978 — nearly half of the city’s residents.

Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will vote next week to repeal a provision slipped into the bill to end the shutdown that would allow senators to sue the government for potentially millions of dollars if their data is obtained without their notification. Johnson said he was “shocked” and “angry” when he learned about the provision, which would uniquely benefit eight Republican senators, whose phone records — but not the contents of their calls or messages — were found to have been accessed as part of the investigation that led to former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Liberal Party has formally abandoned its commitment to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, ending weeks of internal clashes that have exposed deep ideological fractures and placed deputy leader Sussan Ley under pressure. Senior Liberal sources confirmed the shift after a lengthy shadow cabinet meeting on Nov. 13. The party voted to abandon the long-held target but keep Australia in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which obliges countries to steadily increase emission cuts.

Views of webpages used for the Conference of the Parties (COP) sites—referring to the annual United Nations climate change summit—emit up to 10-fold more carbon emissions than average site views. Leaders from around the world—with the notable exception of the U.S.—are on their way to Belém, Brazil, for the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, which takes place from November 10 to 21. COP is the main decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

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by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News: The White House Epstein files scandal was headline news all day today. First, Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released some emails this morning showing that Trump knew about Epstein’s child sex trafficking, and even spent time with the under-aged girls. This is one report from The Hill: TRUTH […]

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