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[6] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[7] It's Monday, December 12th.
[8] And this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[9] A new report indicates that U .S. scientists have reached a breakthrough.
[10] in viable nuclear fusion.
[11] 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.
[12] That's according to insiders.
[13] A full report from the government is expected this week.
[14] 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.
[15] Americans, is in U .S. custody after more than three decades.
[16] The suspected bomber is due to appear in the U .S. District Court of Columbia as early as this week.
[17] Family members of the victims have waited 34 years for justice.
[18] We now have him.
[19] He will spend the rest of his life in the United States in a prison.
[20] A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration cannot force religious health care providers to perform or pay for sex change surgery.
[21] 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.
[22] Here's Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over the weekend.
[23] Why did they sign it?
[24] Why did they lie to the American public?
[25] A clapper, a Brennan.
[26] 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?
[27] is exactly what Adam Schiff has done to us, and this has got to stop.
[28] Senator -elect John Fetterman will have a cameo in a Netflix film titled The Pale Blue Eye, directed by Scott Cooper.
[29] The film stars Christian Bale as a detective who attempts to solve the murder of a West Point cadet.
[30] The film was shot entirely in Braddock, Pennsylvania, when Fetterman was the mayor, and the makers of the movie became friends with the Democrat.
[31] But it was his unique mug that sealed the deal.
[32] Jones got this fantastic face.
[33] He does look like he's definitely a time.
[34] And so I said to Scott, we've got to have him in the tavern, right?
[35] You've got to have that face.
[36] That's a face that fits in the 1830s.
[37] A caravan of about 1 ,000 migrants crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas on Sunday night.
[38] 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.
[39] of migrants to Juarez, where they were given to NGOs and then released to cross the border.
[40] 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.
[41] 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.
[42] Since 2020 and the George Floyd riots, more than a dozen Confederate memorials have been removed from the city.
[43] A federal court has ordered Southwest Airlines to provide back pay and maximum punitive damages to a former flight attendant named Charlene Carter.
[44] Carter was fired in 2017 after posting pro -life messages and supported a recall of her union's president.
[45] The court ordered Carter's reinstatement as well.
[46] Carter was represented by attorneys from the National Right to Work Foundation.
[47] Here's the foundation's president, Mark Mix, after a jury ruled earlier this year in Carter's favor.
[48] This long overdue verdict vindicates Charlotte.
[49] Carta'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.
[50] 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.
[51] Mississippi State University head football coach Mike Leach is in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack Sunday.
[52] Leach is in his third year as head coach at Mississippi State.
[53] And on Sunday, Elon Musk said that Twitter will up its character limits from 280 to 4 ,000 for individual tweets.
[54] Well, those are your drive -home updates this afternoon.
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