Mo. Independent: Special session to redraw Missouri congressional districts was constitutional, judge rules Mo. Independent:

A Cole County judge ruled Friday that Gov. MikeKehoe had the constitutional-authorityto call thespecial sessionthat resulted in the passage of anew gerrymandered congressional mapfor Missouri.

During the special session,legislators redrew the map to favor Republicans. The MissouriNAACPfiled the lawsuit against state officials including Kehoe in Septemberin an attempt to stop the special session from happening, but thecourt did not take up the casein time to stop legislators from meeting for the session.

The lawsuit allegedthat while the Missouri Constitution allows the governor to call special sessions for extraordinary occasions,Kehoe’s reasoningto call the most recent sessiondid not qualify as an extraordinary occasion.(if it were democrats they would qualify for special sessions daily.)

Judge Christopher Limbaughdisagreed, stating in the ruling issued Friday that thegovernor has the constitutional discretion to decide what qualifies as an extraordinary occasion.

Article 4, Section 9 of the Missouri Constitution, which describes thepowers of the governor, states that on extraordinary occasions, the governor may convenethe General Assembly by proclamation and state matters for the legislature to take action on.

Kehoe called Missourilawmakers to a special session on Aug. 29, 2025, directing them tofocus the session on redistricting the stateand changing the initiative petition process.

The new congressional map, which is at the center of multiple lawsuits, would likelygive the Republican Party a 7-to-1 majorityin Missouri’sU.S. House seats. Republicans already hold six of Missouri’s eight congressional seats.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2026/02/16/special-session-to-redraw-missouri-congressional-districts-was-constitutional

24272576, >>24272578, >>24272581 On March 20, 2015, Jeffrey Epstein received a draft agenda for a meeting titled "Preparing for Pandemics".…PN

"I hope we can pull this off!"

The Pandemic was a satanic mass world wide sacrifice for satanic killers that had planned it for years. Remember the UN secret documents on their involvement

Question: What else was discussed for the entire duration of the shut down etc. and was Fauci involved or named in the documents?How about the crazy Debra Birx that didn’t know her ass from a hole in the ground.

(Read this extensive article by many scientist of what a disaster Birx is, was and always will be.)

On the morning of 13 July, more than 20 COVID-19 experts from across the U.S. government assembled in a conference room at the Department of Health and Human Services, steps from the Capitol. The group conferred on how best to gather key data on available beds and supplies of medicine and protective gear from thousands of hospitals. Around the table, masks concealed their expressions, but with COVID-19 cases surging out of control in some parts of the country, their grave mood was unmistakable, say two people who were in the room.

Irum Zaidi, a top aide to White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx, chaired the meeting. Zaidi lifted her mask slightly to be heard and delivered a fait accompli:Birx, who was not present, had pulled the plug on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) system for collecting hospital data and turned much of the responsibility over to a private contractor, Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking TechnologiesInc., a hospital data management company.The reason: CDC had not met Birx's demand that hospitals report 100% of their COVID-19 data every day.

According to two officials in the meeting, one CDC staffer left and immediately began to sob, saying, "I refuse to do this. I cannot work with people like this. It is so toxic." That person soon resigned from the pandemic data team, sources say.

Other CDC staffers considered the decision arbitrary and destructive. "Anyone who knows the data supply chain in the U.S. knows [getting all the data daily] is impossible" during a pandemic, says one high-level expert at CDC. And they considered Birx's imperative unnecessary because staffers with decades of experience could confidently estimate missing numbers from partial data.

"Why are they not listening to us?" a CDC official at the meeting recalls thinking. Several CDC staffers predicted the new data system would fail, with ominous implications. "Birx has been on a monthslong rampage against our data," one texted to a colleague shortly afterward. "Good f—ing luck getting the hospitals to clean up their data and update daily."

When Birx, a physician with a background in HIV/AIDS research, was named coordinator of the task force in February, she was widely praised as a tough, indefatigable manager and a voice of data-driven reason.But some of her actions have undermined the effectiveness of the world's preeminent public health agency, according to a Science investigation. Interviews with nine current CDC employees, several of them senior agency leaders, and 20 former agency leaders and public health experts—as well as a review of more than 100 official emails, memos, and other documents—suggest Birx's hospital data takeover fits a pattern in which she opposed CDC guidance, sometimes promoting President Donald Trump's policies or views against scientific consensus.

https://www.science.org/content/article/inside-story-how-trumps-covid-19-coordinator-undermined-cd

Al Pacino, 85, and baby mama Noor Alfallah, 32, spark reunion rumours

05:31 EST 18 Feb 2026, updated

(Man, Pacino looks really old, who dresses him?)

Al Pacino and the mother of his child, Noor Alfallah sparked reunion rumours when they were seen leaving a party in Beverly Hills together on Tuesday night.

Noor, 32, had been rumoured to have been dating US TV host, comedian Bill Maher, 68, but has remained close to Al after they split and was also pictured out with him at the San Vicente Bungalows back in January.

She and Al, 85, were seen together once again leaving a private party at Funke on Tuesday, which was attended by the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen and Kevin Costner.

Noor wore a long black velvet dress which was emblazoned with crosses on it and ankle boots as she exited the party.

Al wore blue trousers and a purple coat with a jazzy scarf as a minder held an umbrella over his head.

While they left separately, they got into the same car, with Noor getting behind the wheel for the journey home.

The couple have a son called Roman, two, together.

Noor was last seen with Bill when they attended a Halloween party, with Noor wearing a sexy French maid's costume.

In January last year, Maher defended age-gap relationships after he was seen out with Noor.

Maher got defensive on the Fly On The Wall podcast just months after he was seen cruising around Los Angeles with Alfallah in October.

Although he didn't mention the mother-of-one by name, he made it known how he feels about age when it comes to relationships by suggesting he and one of the hosts join a season of ABC's The Golden Bachelor

'But like our real lives, not with an age-appropriate woman, because that’s boring,' he said regarding the reality TV show. 'Because you know what? The appropriate age for a relationship is one that works.'

Noor had previously said that she and Maher are just 'friends.'

The HBO Real Time host previously admitted his dating choices were 'not age-appropriate' as he mainly dates women several years his junior.

When asked if his romantic interests were 'perceived in an unorthodox context, younger than what you should be dating,' Maher had a blunt response on the Him & Her podcast.

'Not just perceived, they literally are,' he said at the time. 'The people who are p*ed off at that, fk you. You do you, I do me. You do what works for you.'

Despite his suggestion of possibly joining ABC's dating show, he said he was not interested in participating if the women were his age.

'Don’t you think that would be a great show? But with women that David [Spade] and I are attracted to. And that doesn’t make us bad people,' he said.

The comedian and author also defended older men dating young women, citing Kate Beckinsale dated Pete Davidson when he was 26 and 20 years her junior.

'When they do it, it's empowering. When men do it, we're perverts,' Maher remarked on the Fly On The Wall podcast.

Maher also agreed with the host when he suggested men and women in power tend to go for younger romantic partners, remarking on how Madonna has dated younger men in the past.

Noor is known for dating much older, wealthy men. Among her exes, including Pacino; who claimed they are 'friends' and co-parenting their child Roman.

She also dated Mick Jagger in 2017 when he was 79 and she was 22.

(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15569981/Al-Pacino-85-baby-mama-Noor-Alfallah-32-spark-reunion-rumours-theyre-seen-leaving-party-Beverly-Hills-together.html