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[4] It's Thursday, May 23rd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[5] President Biden announced today that Kenya will be designated a major non -NATO ally deepening the United States relationship with the East African country.
[6] The move underscores a race to develop relations in Africa as Russia and China strengthen their influence over the continent.
[7] Biden is hosting Kenyan President William Ruto for a three -day conference and says that a relationship between the two nations will allow them to take on issues from health to debt to technology.
[8] Ruto is the first African leader since 2008 to visit the White House, though Kenya has been a long -standing ally of the U .S. America has partnered with Kenya for years on counterterrorism efforts, including a response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea last December.
[9] Ruto also met with House Speaker Mike Johnson and will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris tomorrow night.
[10] President Biden is on track to miss Ohio's election registration deadline.
[11] Here with Morris Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips.
[12] Ohio state law requires political parties to certify their candidate 90 days before election day.
[13] This year, that deadline falls on all.
[14] August 7th, but the Democratic Party will not certify Biden until its national convention on August 19th.
[15] Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says he and the state legislature have sent weeks of warnings to the Democratic Party but have not been offered a legal resolution.
[16] In his words, quote, I am duty -bound to follow the law as Ohio's chief elections officer.
[17] For his part, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said the state will make sure Biden gets on the ballot.
[18] If not by the legislature, then quote, by the court.
[19] The Supreme Court on Thursday shot down a challenge to a South Carolina electoral map, a win for Republicans in the state.
[20] Daily Wire's senior editor, Ash Short, has details.
[21] The Supreme Court ruled six to three to reverse a lower court's finding of racial bias and uphold South Carolina's redrawn congressional map.
[22] Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority opinion and said the map's challengers, quote, provided no direct evidence of a racial gerrymander, and their circumstantial evidence is very weak.
[23] Republicans in the state argued that the redistricted not.
[24] map, which favors the GOP, was drawn for legal partisan reasons, not illegal racial ones.
[25] Alito noted in his opinion that the plaintiff's case relied on deeply flawed expert reports that failed to produce any similarly partisan map with a more balanced racial makeup.
[26] In the dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that Alito enabled South Carolina to continue dividing citizens along racial lines.
[27] The House Ways and Means Committee released over 100 pieces of evidence against Hunter Biden, saying the president's son indisputably lied while testifying to Congress.
[28] Here with the details is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
[29] The House Ways and Means Committee released emails, phone records, and documents from two IRS whistleblowers related to Hunter Biden's business abroad.
[30] The evidence suggests Biden gave false testimony to Congress at least three times on February 28th.
[31] For example, the president's son testified that a Rosemont -Seneca -Bohi bank account was not affiliated with him, but one of the documents released yesterday was Biden's contract with the bank.
[32] Committee Chairman Jason Smith said it's clear that Biden lied to Congress, adding, lying during sworn testimony is a felony offense, and the American people expect the same accountability for the son of the president of the United States.
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[37] Thirteen counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede from the Beaver State and join Idaho.
[38] Measures to join the movement called Greater Idaho have now been passed by a total of 13 Oregon counties after Crook County joined yesterday.
[39] Greater Idaho called on Oregon's governor, Speaker of the House and Senate president to with organization leaders and discuss legitimizing the county's secession.
[40] Greater Idaho's executive director Matt McCaw said, quote, the voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward.
[41] The proposed move would shift Oregon's border with Idaho 200 miles, cutting the state in half, but only shifting 10 % of its population.
[42] Because of the Portland metro area being so populated and so different than the rest of the state, what we get is state -level government that gets decided by the Portland metro area, that then gets kind of forced onto the rest of the state, and it causes a lot of friction.
[43] The Idaho House of Representatives invited the Oregon legislature to begin talks last year.
[44] Families of 19 of the Uvaldi school shooting victims are suing almost 100 state police officers.
[45] The suit was filed as the families also agreed to a $2 million settlement with Uvaldi, where city officials promised to improve local police standards and training.
[46] Daily Wire Investigations editor, Brent Scher, has more.
[47] The lawsuit seeks $500 million in damages and comes in the wake of a 600 -page Justice Department report released in January, which described the, quote, cascading failures of the law enforcement response to the shooting.
[48] 370 federal state and local officers arrived at Rob Elementary School, but waited over 70 minutes before attempting to confront the shooter.
[49] The lawsuit says state troopers did not follow their active shooter training, even as students and teachers followed their lockdown procedures.
[50] In terms of the accountability, no discipline of any police officers, no demotions, no nothing.
[51] The suit names 91 individual officers as well as Motorola and Schneider Electric.
[52] Motorola made the law enforcement radios that were unreliable during the shooting, and Schneider Electric allegedly made the school's door locks.
[53] The stock price of NVIDIA surged Thursday to more than 1 ,000 per share.
[54] The artificial intelligence chipmaker beat Wall Street earnings estimates, proving AI demand, remains strong.
[55] NVIDIA's data center business grew 427 % in the first quarter, and its chief financial officer told investors that companies who purchase NVIDIA chips are also profiting.
[56] On Wednesday, the company announced a 10 -for -one stock split and raised its dividend.
[57] NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Yahoo Finance that the company has no plans to slow down and its AI applications are limitless.
[58] We now have software and AI model that can understand, learn almost any language.
[59] The language of English, of course, but the language of images and video and chemicals and protein and even physics, and to be able to generate almost anything.
[60] And so it's basically like machine translation.
[61] And that capability is now being deployed at scale in so many different industries.
[62] All right.
[63] Those are your drive -home updates this afternoon.
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