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[0] This is Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howl.
[1] It's Thursday, June 15th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] On Thursday, the U .S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a 1978 law that states, Native American parents should have priority preference when Native American children are up for adoption.
[3] The law was challenged by several non -Native American families who argued that Congress has gone outside of its constitutional authority.
[4] In a 7 -2 vote, the majority opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who ruled that, quote, Congress's power to legislate with respect to Indians is well established and broad.
[5] President Joe Biden praised the decision, saying it kept in place of vital protection for tribal sovereignty and native children.
[6] Several U .S. federal agencies were effectively hacked due to a vulnerability in a widely used software called Move It.
[7] The U .S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed to CNN that it is, quote, providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions.
[8] It's unclear who is responsible for the attack.
[9] Several people are accused of stealing and selling human remains from Harvard Medical School's morgue.
[10] Here with more is Daily Wire researcher Trevor Mock.
[11] A grand jury has indicted the morgue manager, 55 -year -old Cedric Lodge in the criminal plot, which according to the complaint, lasted from 2018 to earlier this year.
[12] The federal complaint was filed in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where one of the defendants lives.
[13] Lodge allegedly allowed buyers to come into the morgue and pick and choose what remains they wanted to buy.
[14] He also allegedly stole parts of donated cadavers, including brains, skin, and bones, took them home to his New Hampshire residents and shipped them to buyers by mail.
[15] Six other people, including Lodge's wife, Denise Lodge, and a mortician from Arkansas, have all been charged in the scheme.
[16] Space Force Lieutenant General Deanna Burt is under fire for admitting during a recent Department of Defense Pride event that she would allow access to gender affirming care to take priority over qualifications when deciding where to assign officers.
[17] Here with more as DailyWire Senior Editor Virginia Cruda.
[18] Bert has gone viral in a video this week in which she explains how she handles several states that have passed laws banning transgender surgeries and in some cases puberty blockers and cross -sex hormones for minors.
[19] In the speech, Bert states that while she would normally consider job performance and qualifications before selecting officers for certain jobs.
[20] She has also had to consider whether her troops and their families would be comfortable taking jobs in certain states.
[21] It's a good match for a job does not feel safe being themselves and performing at their highest potential at a given location, or if their family could be denied critical health care due to the laws in that state.
[22] I am compelled to consider a different candidate and perhaps less qualified.
[23] Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky vowed on Thursday to block all nominees and legislation in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions until key documents related to COVID and its origins are released.
[24] Taxpayers fund this research.
[25] We should be able to see the research that our government does that we funded.
[26] There is nothing classified about this, but they will not give it to us.
[27] We'd like to know if there's other grants that were granted, either domestically or in foreign, that are at risk for creating viruses that could create another pandemic.
[28] The nation of Germany is moving ahead to purchase new technology similar to Israel's Iron Dome defense system.
[29] The Budget Committee of Germany's National Parliament released its initial payment of 560 million euros toward the purchase of the Israel -made Aero3 Air Defense System.
[30] The purchase is part of the European country's 100 billion euro defense upgrade.
[31] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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