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July 4th Patriot edition
ICYMI Trump Rally in Florida on July 3rd
On The Fourth Of July, Let’s Take A Moment To Be Grateful For America
‘We couldn’t miss it for the world’: Trump supporters descend on Sarasota for rally
Elections
PA State Senator Doug Mastriano Holds Private Briefing with GOP Senators on AZ-Style Audit – Contacts Law Firm on Audit Funding Options
World
Some Philippine troops jump before military plane crashes in flames, killing at least 45
Plane crash kills at least 42 on board, 3 civilians on ground
C-130 aircraft carrying 96 passengers
Search ongoing for five unaccounted military personnel
Forty nine survivors being treated in hospital
Four dead from devastating Cyprus forest fire
Four people were found dead on Sunday as a huge fire raged for a second day in Cyprus, razing tracts of forest and gutting dozens of homes in a blaze one official called the worst on record.
The blaze, fanned by strong winds, affected at least 10 communities over an area exceeding 50 square kilometres (19 square miles) in the foothills of the Troodos mountain range, an area of pine forest and densely vegetated shrubland.
Settlement agreed over ship that blocked Suez Canal -owner's representative
A representative of the owners and insurers of the Ever Given container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March said on Sunday that a formal settlement had been agreed with the canal authority to allow the vessel to be released.
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has held the giant ship and its crew in a lake between two stretches of the waterway since it was dislodged on March 29, amid a dispute over a demand for compensation by the SCA.
The Japanese-owned Ever Given had become stuck in high winds and remained wedged across the canal for six days, disrupting global trade.
"Preparations for the release of the vessel will be made and an event marking the agreement will be held at the Authority's headquarters in Ismailia in due course," Faz Peermohamed of Stann Marine, which represents owner Shoei Kisen and its insurers, said in a statement.
Earlier on Sunday an Egyptian court adjourned hearings in the compensation dispute to July 11 to allow the canal and the ship's owner to finalise a settlement, court sources and a lawyer said.
Shoei Kisen and its insurers said last month they had reached an agreement in principle with the SCA
The SCA had demanded $916 million in compensation to cover salvage efforts, reputational damage and lost revenue before publicly lowering the request to $550 million.
Shoei Kisen and the ship's insurers had disputed the claim and the ship's detention under an Egyptian court order.
The Epoch Times
Arizona Newspaper Files Lawsuit Against GOP-Led Senate Over Audit Information
An Arizona newspaper filed a lawsuit against the GOP-led state Senate and a contractor to obtain information about the audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County.
The Arizona Republic said it has “filed a special action in Maricopa County Superior Court seeking financial records and communications about the audit from the [Arizona] Senate and Cyber Ninjas,” the Florida-based company that is carrying out the review of voting equipment and 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa.
A lawyer for the newspaper said the lawsuit and records have to be disclosed under Arizona law because the Senate, a public body, is orchestrating the audit.
“Arizona law entitles the public to know how this audit is being conducted and funded,” David Bodney, an attorney representing the newspaper, said last week. “And the Arizona public records law does not permit the Senate to play ‘hide the ball’ by delegating core responsibilities to a third party like Cyber Ninjas and concealing records of government activities and public expenditures in Cyber Ninjas’ files.”
Cyber Ninjas, which was hired by the state Senate, previously asked a court to keep its procedures secret after Arizona Democratic Party and Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo filed a suit against the Senate to prevent the audit. A Maricopa County judge later rejected a request made by Cyber Ninjas and ruled the firm cannot hide procedures or policies from the media or members of the public.
The lawsuit comes after Senate Majority Leader Karen Fann, a Republican, told The Epoch Times that Maricopa supervisors haven’t turned over “missing items” that were related to a court-ordered subpoena of the election. The Senate, meanwhile, extended its lease at the State Fairgrounds for several more weeks, she said.
“The Arizona Senate has extended our contract with the State Fairgrounds for two weeks at the Wesley Bolin building. Our vendor is finishing the aggregation process which is double and triple-checking the tallies of the hand counts, spreadsheet, tally sheets, image scanning etc.,” Fann said last week. “This is a critical step to ensure the tallies can be accurately verified which will give us a path forward in completing the audit.”
Late last month, the audit team announced it finished the hand-count portion of the audit, although spokespeople have stressed that more work is needed to be completed before a final report—estimated to be finished around August—can be released.
Ken Bennett, an audit liaison, told NBC News several days ago that the team obtained Maricopa County documents that track ballot duplications after the ballots were either damaged or unreadable in a tabulating machine.
The Epoch Times has contacted Fann and Cyber Ninjas for comment on the Arizona Republic’s suit.
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