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Friday, November 18, 2022
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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Speaker Pelosi Will Not Seek Leadership in Upcoming Congress
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Associated Press: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections. The California Democrat, who rose to become the nation’s only woman to wield the speaker’s gavel, said she would remain in Congress as the representative from San Francisco, a position she has held for 35 years, when the new Congress convenes in January ( Associated Press). Spencer Brown: Pelosi’s announcement on her future means that she won’t yet be moving on to other adventures that were reportedly on her radar as a next step. President Joe Biden had been keeping the position of U.S. Ambassador to Italy open in the event Pelosi decided to step away from Congress and enjoy not having to deal with lawmakers or being accountable to her constituents, but she apparently won’t be taking the post immediately after losing her House majority ( Townhall).
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Biden Will Look to Supreme Court to Reinstate His Student Loan Cancellation Plan
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Politico: The Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to revive its student debt relief program as it fights to reverse lower court rulings that have upended its plans to forgive up to $20,000 of debt for tens of millions of Americans. The Justice Department said in a court filing on Thursday that it planned to ask the Supreme Court to reverse an injunction issued earlier this week by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals that prohibits the administration from carrying out student debt relief ( Politico).
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Massachusetts Public Health Department Sued for Secretly Installing Health Tracking Apps on Phones
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Fox News: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part of the state government’s efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 through contact tracing. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm, accused the Bay State’s health department of “brazen disregard for civil liberties” by installing “spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners’ permission and awareness.” The class-action suit claims DPH is in violation of both the Massachusetts and U.S. Constitutions ( Fox News). New Civil Liberties Alliance : No law or regulation authorizes DPH to secretly install any type of software onto the Android devices of Massachusetts residents. NCLA is unaware at this time of other states that engaged in a similar surreptitious strategy of auto-installing contact-tracing apps ( New Civil Liberties Alliance).
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House Oversight and Reform Chair Promises to Investigate Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings
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Reuters: Republicans said on Thursday that investigating President Joe Biden and his family’s business dealings will be their top oversight priority when they formally take power next year. Representative James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who is expected to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told reporters that the panel will investigate bank reports and claims by anonymous whistleblowers that he said show connections between the president and the business activities of his 52-year-old businessman son, Hunter Biden ( Reuters). Benny Johnson: NEW HOUSE OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAMES COMER: “I want to be clear. This is an investigation of Joe biden” ( Twitter).
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US Customs and Border Protection Agents Get in Shootout with Suspected Smugglers in Puerto Rico
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Associated Press: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler died during a shootout Thursday off the Puerto Rico coast, authorities said. Two other U.S. officers were injured. CBP’s Air and Marine Operations unit was on routine patrol around 8 a.m. Thursday when the shots were fired about 12 miles (19 kilometers) off the coast from Cabo Rojo, a major drug smuggling corridor for cocaine coming out of South America known as the Mona Passage, the agency said. It lies between Puerto Rico’s western coastline and the Dominican Republic. Three CBP Marine Interdiction Agents exchanged gunfire with two people who were aboard the suspected smuggling ship. All three agents were shot and airlifted to local hospitals in Puerto Rico. One of the agents was later pronounced dead ( Associated Press).
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Many Employees Leave Twitter After Elon Musk’s Ultimatum
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Wall Street Journal: A new wave of Twitter employees began posting farewells Thursday, after the deadline passed on an ultimatum Elon Musk issued for them to commit to “long hours at high intensity” or leave. Many staffers spent the past day weighing their options, after waking up Wednesday to an overnight email in which Mr. Musk told them to fill out a form by Thursday, 5 p.m., to indicate if they want to remain at the company and are willing to be “extremely hardcore.” Employees who don’t opt in will be given three months of severance ( Wall Street Journal). CNN: Twitter staffers began posting the salute emoji, which has become a signal that someone is exiting the company. But the decision may not be so easy for others. The ultimatum comes during a difficult period for the tech industry, following mass layoffs and hiring freeze announcements at many major firms including Meta, Amazon, Lyft and others. Employees working in the United States from other countries could also risk losing their work visas if they leave the company ( CNN).
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UK Government Announces Recession and Introduces Tax Hikes and Guts Spending
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CNBC: The U.K. government on Thursday unveiled a sweeping 55 billion pounds ($66 billion) fiscal plan as it seeks to plug a gaping hole in the public finances and restore Britain’s economic credibility, even as the country teeters on recession. Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt, in his hotly anticipated inaugural Autumn Statement, outlined around 30 billion pounds in spending cuts and 25 billion pounds in tax hikes. The measures included an extra two-year freeze on income tax thresholds and a lowering of the top rate of income tax to 125,140 — moves directly opposed to the major cuts touted in September’s catastrophic mini-budget ( CNBC). Wall Street Journal: The U.K. government saw its debts rise sharply relative to the size of the economy during the pandemic years. But so did other governments. According to the International Monetary Fund, its government debts were equivalent to 95.3% of gross domestic product in 2021, compared with 121.8% in the U.S., 112.6% in France and 150.9% in Italy ( Wall Street Journal).
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Russian Morale Among Newly Mobilized Units Craters
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CNN: With the Russian government touting that at least 50,000 of the recently drafted are now in Ukraine, a long list of complaints is emerging: Lack of leadership from mid-ranking officers, tactics that lead to heavy casualties, non-existent training, promised payments not received. There are also logistical difficulties, as reported by soldiers, their families and Russian military bloggers: Insufficient uniforms, poor food, a lack of medical supplies ( CNN). Hot Air: The situation with newly mobilized Russians, known as mobiks, continues to be bad. Weeks ago there were numerous reports indicating that they were being called up and sent to Ukraine with little or no training and only whatever equipment they could buy for themselves. “We don’t have any training or supplies and our guys showed up in their own uniforms paid for with their own money,” one of the mobiks said in a video that circulated last month ( Hot Air).
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North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile After Threatening US For Increasing Security in the Region
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ABC: North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, hours after the North threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to the U.S. bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan. It was North Korea’s first ballistic missile firing in eight days and the latest in its barrage of tests in recent months. North Korea previously said some of the tests were simulations of nuclear attacks on South Korean and U.S. targets. Many experts say North Korea would eventually want to enhance its nuclear capability to wrest bigger concessions from its rivals ( ABC).
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George W Bush Speechwriter Passes Away of Cancer
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National Review: Michael Gerson, adviser and speechwriter to George W. Bush and then a Washington Post columnist and author, died today after a long battle with cancer. His passing will no doubt draw a lot of reflection on his work and on the Bush era, on great lines and on the role of the speechwriter ( National Review). CNN: When asked to cite his “favorite addresses” during an interview, Gerson pointed to those following the September 11 attacks and denoted a line in a speech given by Bush during a prayer service at the National Cathedral three days later: “Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn” ( CNN).
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Mike Gallagher questions the wisdom of granting amnesty for millions of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally
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Mike Gallagher: So, Chuck Schumer, emboldened by the Democrats holding onto the Senate, wants to grant amnesty to every single illegal who broke the law to come into the United States of America. Here’s Cut 2. Here he is, your Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, on the issue of illegals and...
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Dinesh D’Souza considers the timing and reasons for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid
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Dinesh D’Souza: Okay, he’s doing it. He’s running for President. Trump made his big announcement last night at Mar-a-Lago. … There was a little bit of déjà vu. Debbie and I know that room, we know that atmosphere. We were kind of scrolling through the audience to see if there were people...
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Dennis Prager discusses the US men's soccer team's newly fashioned LGBTQ+ crest on display at the World Cup
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Dennis Prager: “USA makes a statement,” from the Daily Mail, “at the World Cup in Qatar by redesigning their crest with rainbow colors to show solidarity with the LBGTQ+ community.”
The U.S. soccer team. The World Cup. Is there any other team in the world that has done that? That will be...
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Brandon Tatum brings perspective to the midterms and outlines the significance of Republican control of the House of Representatives
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Officer Tatum: I was very upset yesterday. I was yelling on my live stream and I was telling people, do not be cowards. Do not back down. Do not what we call “chump out.” Republicans are doing well. We cannot allow the Democrat party to act as if they’re conducting a victory lap.
If you look...
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Eric Metaxas talks with BlazeTV’s Steve Deace about some dubious patterns forming in our nation’s elections
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Eric Metaxas: Folks, welcome back. As promised our friend Steve Deace, he’s with BlazeTV, radio. Steve, welcome.
Steve Deace: Always good to be back with you, Eric. How are you, man?
Eric Metaxas: Well, I’m blessed. I know I’m blessed. But we’re going through a tough time as a nation....
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Morgan Zegers calls for accountability rather than blanket forgiveness for the wrongs perpetrated during covid madness
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Morgan Zegers: The Atlantic, Emily Oster, just posted one of the worst things I have seen this year, in years. It’s called, “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty: We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about Covid.”
No thanks!
So, when I first saw...
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