Morning Wire - Friday Afternoon Update | 10.14.22

Episode Date: October 14, 2022

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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, October 14th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. President Biden established the most recent national monument at Camp Hale in Colorado on Wednesday. The move is seen as something that could assist incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennett, who is facing a challenge this year from Republican candidate Joe Odea. Stanford University issued an apology this week for deliberately keeping out Jewish students in the 1950s. New Zealand authorities are suggesting a new tax on greenhouse gases that are expelled from livestock. Farmers have strongly criticized the idea.

A new study from researchers at the University of Cambridge suggests that predictive signs of dementia could appear several years before a formal diagnosis is possible. The study looked at grip strength, problem solving, reaction times, propensity for falls, and certain memory and logic tasks, among other things. A new report by the World Wildlife Fund revealed that Wildlife Fund, revealed that Wildlife Fund, Population sizes have gone down by an average of 69% over the last half century. A cancer research charity founded by the late actress Olivia Newton-John announced they've discovered a possible new treatment for pancreatic cancer. Professor Matthias Ernst, the director of the Melbourne-based O-NJ Cancer Research Institute, headed a study that was published in the Cell Report's scientific journal on Wednesday.

China's Communist Party is anticipated to give President Xi Jinping another term as the general secretary. Two Connecticut police officers were killed and a third was injured in Bristol when responding to an emergency call this week. Now the state police department has issued a statement saying the call was, quote, a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene. The World Health Organization is working with Uganda to prevent a deadly Ebola outbreak in East Africa from spreading to neighboring nations. The agency's chief said Wednesday that authorities have identified 74 confirmed in probable cases of Ebola across five districts. And Netflix is launching a version of its streaming service that will now include advertisements in November.

Netflix with ads will cost $7 per month and will include four to five minutes of ads per hour. Well, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to DailyWire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning. Also, look for this week's episode of Election Wire, which offers the latest election news, airing on this feed, YouTube, and Dailywire.com this Sunday.