Morning Wire - Monday Afternoon Update | 12.12.22

Episode Date: December 12, 2022

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A new report indicates that U.S. scientists have reached a breakthrough. in viable nuclear fusion. In the past two weeks, scientists at a federal facility in California were able to produce more energy than the amount of energy put into the experiment using lasers to ignite a fusion reaction with a small amount of hydrogen plasma. That's according to insiders. A full report from the government is expected this week. The Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that took down a commercial flight

over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, including 190 Americans, is in U.S. custody after more than three decades. The suspected bomber is due to appear in the U.S. District Court of Columbia as early as this week. Family members of the victims have waited 34 years for justice. We now have him. He will spend the rest of his life in the United States in a prison. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration cannot force religious health care providers to perform or pay for sex change surgeries.

House Republicans will subpoena the 51 intelligence veterans who signed a letter suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation operation. Here's Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over the weekend. Why did they sign it? Why did they lie to the American public? A clapper, a Brennan. Why did you use the reputation that America was able to give to you

more information, but use it for a political purpose and lie to the American public. It's exactly what Adam Schiff has done to us, and this has got to stop. Senator-elect John Federman will have a cameo in a Netflix film titled The Pale Blue Eye, directed by Scott Cooper.

The film stars Christian Bale as a detective who attempts to solve the murder of a West Point cadet. The film was shot entirely in Braddock, Pennsylvania, when Federman was the mayor, and the makers of the movie became friends with the Democrat. But it was his unique mug that sealed the deal. John's got this fantastic face. He does look like you can have different times.

And so I said to Scott, we've got to have him in the tavern, right? You've got to have that face. That's a face that fits in the 1830s. A caravan of about 1,000 migrants crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas on Sunday night. Video posted by Fox News reporter Bill Malugian shows scores of migrants walking across the shallow river into the U.S. Malugian reports that prior to the mass crossing, Mexican police escorted nearly 20 buses of migrants to Juarez, where they were given to NGOs and then released to cross the border. U.S. Central Command Forces conducted a helicopter raid in Syria on Sunday that killed two officials of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. The city of Richmond, Virginia, removed the final city-owned Confederate monument, a statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill on Old Dominion's capital, Monday,

morning. Since 2020 and the George Floyd riots, more than a dozen Confederate memorials have been removed from the city. A federal court has ordered Southwest Airlines to provide back pay and maximum punitive damages to a former flight attendant named Charlene Carter. Carter was fired in 2017 after posting pro-life messages and supported a recall of her union's president. The court ordered Carter's reinstatement as well. Carter was represented by attorneys from the National Right to Work Foundation. Here's the foundation's president, Mark Mix, after a jury ruled earlier this year in Carter's favor. This long overdue verdict vindicates Charlene Carter's fundamental right to dissent from the causes and ideas

that TWAU union officials who claim to represent Southwest flight attendants support while forcing workers to bankroll their activities. The head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Texas, Chris Beard, was arrested Monday morning and was charged with third-degree assault on a relative. Mississippi State University head football coach Mike Leach is in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack Sunday. Leach is in his third year as head coach at Mississippi State. And on Sunday, Elon Musk said that Twitter will up its character limits from 280 to 4,000 for individual tweets. Well, those are your drive-home updates this afternoon.

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