Morning Wire - Friday Afternoon Update | 9.23.22

Episode Date: September 23, 2022

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Hey, this is Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, September 23rd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. This week, the European Union put out new guidelines saying the movement of fertilizer and coal to nations outside of the block is now permitted due to worries over power supplies. Some countries are concerned that this will lessen the impact of sanctions against Russia. Tesla is recalling nearly 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. because the windows can pinch a person's fingers when being rolled up. The company says in documents posted Thursday by U.S. safety regulators that the automatic window reversal system may not react correctly after detecting an obstruction. Thousands of Iranian citizens have been demonstrating for several days straight over the death of a young woman who died in police custody after refusing to wear the hijab as mandated by the Iranian regime.

Supporters from around the world have burned their hijabs and cut their hair in support, as protesters continue to speak out against the morality police in the streets of Tehran. I am strongly against for morality police because it's not possible to enforce a cultural issue with violence. The American Association for Cancer Research says that the number of cancer survivors in the U.S. increased by more than 1 million over the last three years and projects that the total number of survivors

will increase from 18 million to 26 million by 2040. A congressional panel says it will cost $62 million to remove all references and statues related to confessions, Confederate history. One-third of the funds will go to renaming military bases, and the rest will go toward removing items, including statues, throughout the military. California Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speer suggested on the House floor this week that the federal government should move more than 100 military bases solely because they were located in Republican states that have tight restrictions on abortion. We have 128 bases and installations in these red states,

in these states that ban abortion. Maybe we should just move these bases. The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that all new vehicles in the U.S. be equipped with blood-alcohol monitoring systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving. And NASA plans to use a spacecraft to slam into an asteroid millions of miles away.

The impact is a test to determine whether such a collision will change the asteroid's course in case a killer asteroid ever heads toward Earth. The test will be a test will, cost $325 million. 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

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