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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Meets with Counterpart in China
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Associated Press: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met on Wednesday with her Chinese counterpart and pledged an effort to manage differences and “prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict” as the two nations try to thaw relations. Yellen’s first face-to-face meeting with Vice Premier Liu He in Zurich is the highest-ranking contact between the two countries since their presidents agreed last November during their first in-person meeting to look for areas of potential cooperation ( Associated Press). Reuters: Yellen’s meeting with Liu came before a three-country visit to Africa, where she will push to expand U.S. trade and business ties with the continent, which China has long dominated. She is also expected to repeat her criticism of Beijing – now the world’s largest creditor – for not moving more quickly to provide debt relief, as well as its use of forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region and “non-market” economic practices ( Reuters).
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NHL Player Evokes Christian Faith to Not Participate in LGBT Celebration
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National Review: A player for the Philadelphia Flyers invoked his Christian faith Tuesday night in explaining why he refused to observe the team’s pride night commemoration. Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov refused to join his teammates as they took to the ice during pre-game warmups wearing rainbow jerseys and carrying hockey sticks wrapped in rainbow tape, symbolizing solidarity with the LGBT community. After the festivities, Provorov played in the game against the Anaheim Ducks ( National Review). Greg Price: Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov on refusing to wear a rainbow jersey for warm ups during “Pride Night” due to his Russian Orthodox faith ( Twitter).
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Donald Trump Prepares for Twitter, Facebook Return
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NBC: Mounting a comeback for the White House, Donald Trump is looking to regain control over his powerful social media accounts. With access to his Twitter account back, Trump’s campaign is formally petitioning Facebook’s parent company to unblock his account there after it was locked in response to the U.S. Capitol riot two years ago ( NBC). Post Millennial: Trump was locked out of his Facebook and Twitter in January 2021, with the companies alleging that he incited the violence that resulted in protesters storming the Capitol building while Congress was certifying Biden’s 2020 presidential victory. The Facebook ban, enacted on January 7, 2021, was for an initial period of two years, after which it would come up for review ( Post Millennial).
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Federal Deficit Increased $1.4 Trillion in 2022
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Just the News: The Congressional Budget Office this month released the final details of federal spending in 2022 showing the federal government had a $1.4 trillion deficit last year, borrowing roughly $82 billion in December alone. MacGuineas pointed out last year’s borrowing totals more than $10,000 per household and $4 billion per day. The federal debt surpassed $31 trillion in the fall ( Just the News).
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Microsoft to Layoff 10,000 Employees
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CNBC: Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s letting go of 10,000 employees through March 31 as the software maker braces for slower revenue growth. The company is taking a $1.2 billion charge in the fiscal second quarter that will result in a negative impact of 12 cents to earnings per share. Alphabet, Amazon and Salesforce are among the technology companies that have lowered head count in recent weeks. The contraction comes after demand for cloud computing and collaboration services picked up as enterprises, government agencies and schools encouraged remote work to reduce Covid exposure ( CNBC). Reporter Tom Warren: Microsoft’s layoffs today have affected employees in the following divisions: HoloLens, Microsoft Edge, marketing, 343 Industries and Bethesda ( Twitter).
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US Provides Ukraine with $125 Million to Repair Power Grid
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Associated Press: The Biden administration is providing $125 million for electrical parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country’s electrical system, the U.S. international development aid chief said Wednesday. The U.S. Agency for International Development plans to use the money to procure backup power for Kyiv’s water and district-heating systems. The funding also will help replenish supplies of gas turbines, transformers and other vital power equipment ( Associated Press).
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FAA Changes EKG Parameters to Allow Pilots to Pass Health Test Easier
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Townhall: Late last year, after the vaccine rollout, the Federal Aviation Administration quietly changed the EKG parameters for pilots in a move that’s raising concern about flight safety. According to a report on Substack by Vaccine Safety Research Foundation founder Steve Kirsch, the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners widened the range acceptable for pilots to fly. “The PR used to be in the range of .12 to .2,” he writes. “It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher. This is a very wide range; it accommodates people who have cardiac injury” ( Townhall). TexasLindsay: Tucker covers @StKirsch’s bombshell finding about the FAA loosening its EKG range for pilots while offering no explanation as to why to the public ( Twitter).
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Ukraine’s Interior Minister Crashes Killing Him and a Dozen Others
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Associated Press: A helicopter carrying Ukraine’s interior minister crashed into a kindergarten in a foggy residential suburb of Kyiv on Wednesday, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground, authorities said. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who oversaw the country’s police and emergency services, is the most senior official killed since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago. His death, along with the rest of his ministry’s leadership and the entire helicopter crew, was the second major calamity in four days to befall Ukraine, after a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the southeastern city of Dnipro, killing dozens of civilians ( Associated Press).
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Dow Tumbles 600 More Points Wednesday
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CNBC: The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 600 points on Wednesday as investors took profits on some of the strong January gains and as a disappointing December retail sales reading raised concerns about a recession. Shares of banks led the losses ( CNBC). Wal Street Journal: Wednesday morning data showed retail sales fell 1.1% in December, with higher interest rates and inflation hurting spending on vehicles, gasoline and furniture. Wholesale price inflation fell to its slowest pace since March 2021, brightening the price outlook for consumers and policy makers but casting a cloud over hopes for a “soft landing” ( Wall Stret Journal).
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New Zealand Prime Minister Announces Resignation
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Daily Wire: Leftist New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her position because she does not have the stamina to seek re-election. Her term will end on February 7 and an election will be held on October 14. Ardern was known for clamping down on the freedoms of people in her country while in office, including draconian pandemic lockdowns, gun bans, and advocating for regulating speech online ( Daily Wire). Reporter Aaron Dahmen: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is quitting politics. Leaving ‘no later’ than Feb 7 ( Twitter).
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Brandon Tatum calls out LAPD Chief Michel Moore for disrespecting police officers and pandering to the left
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Officer Tatum: The LAPD is getting ripped for the police chief banning the thin blue line flag. I’m going to try to say this without cussing because I’m supposed to be a Christian. I don’t understand how we as a nation fall for this crap. When is enough enough?
I was a police officer since...
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Julie Hartman evaluates single-minded environmentalism and finds that it can actually be bad for the environment
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Julie Hartman: Within the last month, there has been a strange phenomenon in New Jersey where about seven humpback whales have washed ashore on the beach. These are 300-foot-long, hundreds of pounds heavy, majestic blue animals that are just on the Jersey shore washing up as people are taking their...
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Hugh Hewitt covers a racism story no one is talking about — the suppression of National Merit Awards because they benefit Asian Americans
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Hugh Hewitt: I believe the biggest story in the United States not yet covered by legacy media is what happened in Fairfax County high schools, where a pattern in practice has developed that is clearly unconstitutional, in my view, of suppressing test results because they benefited Asian American...
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Dennis Prager exposes a troubling, communistic scheme to impose individual limits on CO2 emissions
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Dennis Prager: Listen to this. A German scientist said that every individual — in the Western world at least — should have a carbon dioxide limit.
“Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said that every person should have a limit of three tons of CO2...
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Mike Gallagher rails against Democrats who, vitriolically and almost unanimously, oppose the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
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Mike Gallagher: I know it’s a huge story that Joe Biden apparently had classified documents in his garage next to his Corvette. … It’s a big story. But you know what’s even bigger to me? You know what’s a huge story to me? A headline that maybe you didn’t notice: “Senior Democratic...
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Dinesh D’Souza compares Biden‘s classified docs with Trump’s, and finds that Biden’s case is far worse
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Dinesh D’Souza: I’m really enjoying this controversy over the classified docs. It gets not just funnier by the day, it gets almost funnier by the minute.
Remember the outrage — “Trump is in possession of classified documents! Classified documents are a serious crime, Dinesh! This guy needs...
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Sebastian Gorka notes the questionable timing and circumstances of the discovery of Biden’s classified documents in a closet at the Penn Biden Center
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Let’s set it up right. Let’s set it up correctly. Six days before the midterm elections in November, a slew of not just confidential — top-secret SCI, Special Compartmented Information, the highest level under Q, which is nuclear secrets — a slew of top-secret, SCI...
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Charlie Kirk turns to investigative journalist Matthew Tyrmand for a report on the election protests in Brazil
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Charlie Kirk: Now we have Matthew Tyrmand to talk about Brazil. Matthew, welcome to the program. What on Earth is happening in Brazil? The storming of the presidential quarters yesterday? Walk us through it, Matt.
Matthew Tyrmand: Well, certainly, obviously, they’re trying to build as many...
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Eric Metaxas talks with journalist Andrew McDiarmid about how screens and gadgets are virtually taking over our lives
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Eric Metaxas: Right now, we have Andrew McDiarmid. Welcome to the program.
Andrew McDiarmid: Thank you, Eric. Thanks for having me. …
Eric Metaxas: I want to talk to you about this article you’ve written about technology that appeared in the New York Post a couple of days ago. If people want...
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