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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Friday, September 15th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: 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.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 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.
--:-- John Bickley: The suit claims Ziegler broke these laws by accessing tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos and videos that belonged to Hunter.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The filings claim Ziegler and 10 others spent numerous hours accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data that they did not own.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The agency released a lengthy report showing some of their findings from the years study of UFOs. In the 33 report, a team commissioned by the space agency said they want to shift how UFOs are perceived.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Officials stressed that the team found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin in regard to what they call unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But NASA Administrator Bill Nelson did say, "With billions of stars and billions of galaxies out there, another Earth could exist. It would have to be a very advanced civilization."
--:-- Georgia Howe: The distances, you know, light years, hundreds of light years, billions of light years. But whatever we find, we're going to tell you.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: When pressed by reporters on whether the U.S. or other governments are hiding aliens or otherworldly craft, Nelson said, "Show me the evidence."
--:-- Georgia Howe: Critics were quick to cast doubts on two supposed extraterrestrial bodies presented to Mexico's Congress earlier this week.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Many have pointed to journalist Jamie Mousen's past record of similar claims which were later debunked.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The session in Mexico Congress took place two months after a similar one before the U Congress. In that one, a former U Air Force intelligence officer claimed his country has probably been aware of non-activity since the 1930s.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: 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.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The company, however, disputes the findings and said the device complies with regulations.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: 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.
--:-- Georgia Howe: France's digital minister said the phone's radiation levels are still much lower than what science considers harmful.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: 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.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A new study reveals that overdoses involving fentanyl and stimulants increased more than 50-fold from 2010 to 2021.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: U.S. overdose deaths in the U.S. topped 100,000 for the first time in 2021 but now a new challenge has arisen. So polysubstance overdoses or overdoses that involved more than one drug.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A leading decongestant, a major ingredient in several cold medicines, has been voted not effective by the FDA.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: According to FDA advisors, it's no better than a dummy pill.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The decongestant is found in various medications such as Sudafed, Dayquil, and many others.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The FDA switched from pseudoephedrine to phenylephrine after 2006 law had forced the move because pseudoephedrine can be illegally processed into methamphetamine.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 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.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Governments in the war-torn country have been slow to respond as poorly maintained infrastructure has collapsed or been badly damaged.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Officials fear the death count could rise even higher in the coming days.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- John Bickley: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
