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[5] This is Daily Wire, editor -in -chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howl.
[6] It's Thursday, January 12th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[7] An attorney for President Biden announced Thursday morning that a second batch of classified documents from his days as vice president were found by Biden aides in his garage in Wilmington, Delaware.
[8] Pressed by a reporter on Thursday about the newly disclosed documents, the president defended his storage choice by saying the garage was locked.
[9] Classified material next to your Corvette?
[10] What were you thinking?
[11] Yeah, we're going to get a chance to speak on all this, God willing, soon.
[12] But as I said earlier this week, people, and by the way, my Corvette's in a lock garage.
[13] Okay, so it's not like you're sitting out in the street.
[14] Shortly after 1 p .m. Eastern Time, U .S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to handle the investigation of the classified documents.
[15] The Consumer Price Index decreased 0 .1 % in December 2022, marking the largest inflationary decline in nearly three years.
[16] But prices still remain near record levels across America.
[17] The House of Representatives passed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Wednesday, all but two Democrats voted against the bill.
[18] Supporters of the bill, like Virginia Representative Ben Klein, says this is an incredible and important step.
[19] Protecting living and breathing babies outside the womb should not be a partisan issue.
[20] It should be one around which we all should unite.
[21] A day after thousands of flights were grounded across the country, the FAA says they're zeroing in on a cause for the system outage.
[22] In a statement released last night, the agency said, quote, our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.
[23] The agency went on to say that at this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack.
[24] Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging President Biden to revoke any diplomatic visa for former Brazilian President Jayao Bolsonaro, who has been residing in Florida since late December.
[25] The letter, sent Wednesday, follows riots in Brazil's capital earlier this week over the election of Bolsonaro's opponent left -wing Luis Anasio Lula de Silva.
[26] Bolsonaro has denounced the riots.
[27] Nurses at two of New York City's biggest hospitals ended a three -day strike on Thursday after reaching a tentative deal.
[28] Union officials say the agreement offers Mount Sinai Hospital and Montfior Medical Center nurses a 19 % raise over three years and better working conditions.
[29] The nurses at both facilities walked out earlier this week after negotiations failed.
[30] Each hospital has over 1 ,000 beds and 3 ,500 or more union nurses.
[31] New York Governor Kathy Hochel greeted nurses as they went back to work at Mount Sinai.
[32] We finally reached the resolution to get thousands of nurses back on the job where they want to be.
[33] But in a way that's going to be safer for our patients with new staffing ratios, it's going to be a better environment for them.
[34] After nine months of captivity in Russia, Taylor Dudley, a 35 -year -old U .S. citizen, was released Thursday and allowed to cross the Polish border.
[35] Once across, he was met by a U .S. Embassy official in Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico, who specializes in detainee negotiations.
[36] Dudley was arrested on unknown charges after crossing the border while backpacking to attend a music festival in Poland.
[37] The Justice Department announced Thursday that the L .A.-based City National Bank will be required to pay $31 million in the largest redlining settlement in history.
[38] After the feds say, the bank refused to provide, provide mortgages and other banking services to families in minority L .A. neighborhoods.
[39] As part of the settlement, the bank will create a nearly $30 million loan subsidy specifically for black and Hispanic borrowers.
[40] And First Lady Jill Biden underwent a successful procedure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Wednesday to remove a small basal cell carcinoma or skin cancer above her right eye.
[41] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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