Explosion at Huawei’s R&D Lab

Huawei’s research and development lab in the city of Dongguan, China is on fire, with large clouds of gray smoke billowing from the building, according to multiple videos posted to social media and the state news outlet Global Times. It’s not clear what caused the blaze, but firefighters are on the scene, according to China’s Sixth Tone news outlet, and there have been no reports of casualties.

People presumed to be Huawei employees, some dressed in white lab coats, can be seen fleeing the area. Some social media videos refer to an “explosion” but state media has only reported on a fire and there’s no immediate evidence to suggest any kind of “explosion” occurred.

Dongguan is located in Guangdong province, the site of Huawei’s $1.5 billion Songshan Lake campus. Huawei reportedly has roughly 25,000 employees there, a corporate park which gained widespread attention in U.S. media last year for its European-themed buildings.

Early reports indicate that the R&D lab may contain “sound absorbing materials,” like cotton, that are highly flammable, according to the Global Times. The building was reportedly under construction, suggesting that the number of people inside may have been minimal.

Several Chinese-based media outlets tweeted videos about the incident using videos posted to Weibo, a popular social media service it China, but some deleted their tweets without explanation.

The Global Times first tweeted video around 5:30 p.m. local time, 5:30 a.m. ET, but deleted the video less than 10 minutes later. Sixth Tone did the same thing, crediting their video to Fengmian News, but deleted it from Twitter rather quickly. Both sites appear to have reposted video and text roughly 30 minutes later similar to the content that was deleted. It’s not clear why the tweets were deleted and reposted.

A compilation video published to YouTube by China’s The Paper shows the fire from several angles. [Update, 7:20 a.m.: The Paper’s YouTube video was deleted for an unknown rea1845177778son, but other videos have been reposted showing the blaze.]

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Trump Signs Order Protecting Infants Who Survive Abortions

Graham Piro - September 23, 2020 1:53 PM

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will sign an executive order protecting infant survivors of late-term abortions.

"We believe in the joy of family, the blessing of freedom, and the dignity of work, and the eternal truth that every child, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of God," Trump said during his address at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. "I will always protect the vital role of religion and prayer in American society and I will always defend the sacred right to life."

Trump's executive order comes after congressional Democrats blocked a legislative amendment in February that would have protected abortion survivors. Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) also proposed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a law that would mandate medical care for infants who survive late-term abortions, but the Democratic minority filibustered it in February.

Sen. Sasse called on Congress to take action following Trump's executive order. "This is really simple: every baby deserves a fighting chance. Whether she’s born in a state-of-the-art NICU or an abortion clinic in a strip mall, these babies deserve medical care and dignity," Sasse said. "Today’s executive order is a step in the right direction, and it’s time for Congress to change the law to make sure that every baby is protected. Congress ought to follow today’s news by passing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."

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AG Curtis Hill urges appellate court to protect pipeline construction

Attorney General Curtis Hill has asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court ruling that brought pipeline construction to a grinding halt nationwide.

He and 16 other states’ attorneys general filed a brief late Wednesday arguing that a federal district judge inappropriately transformed a case challenging one project into a nationwide injunction that affected new oil and gas pipelines in every state — no matter the project’s length, purpose or minimal environmental effect.

This coalition of 17 states won a stay in July at the U.S. Supreme Court. Now its member states seek ultimate reversal of the lower court ruling.

“Few of us think very often about the thousands of miles of crude oil pipelines that crisscross the United States,” Attorney General Hill said. “Like the electrical grid that enables us to light a room at the flip of a switch, we largely take such infrastructure for granted. But the recent expansion of these pipelines is a testament to American prosperity, signifying our nation’s increased production of domestic oil. And we must protect our ability to keep building them.”

The original lawsuit in this case focused on a permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline. The coalition argues the district court order inappropriately used that issue to strike down all projects that employed the same permitting process nationwide.

The coalition contends the district court ruling, if allowed to stand, would make needed infrastructure projects significantly more costly and time-consuming — and potentially render some completely unfeasible, thus eliminating an untold number of jobs.