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[0] I'm Daily Wire, editor -in -chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howl.
[1] It's Tuesday, May 23rd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his candidacy for president of the United States on Twitter on Wednesday.
[3] The Florida governor is making the unconventional announcement as part of a conversation with Elon Musk.
[4] The conversation will take place on the social media app at 6 p .m. Eastern.
[5] We'll be interviewing Ron DeSantis, and he has quite an announcement to make.
[6] and will be the first time that's something like this is happening on social media and with real -time questions and answers, not scripted.
[7] A man has been charged with several crimes, including threatening the president after he allegedly drove a U -Haul truck into barriers around the White House late Monday.
[8] Here with more is Daily Wire researcher Trevor Mock.
[9] The driver of the truck who the Daily Mail identified as Cy Farshith Candula 19 of Chesterfield, Missouri, smashed into a security gate at Lafayette Park, which is in front of the White House gates just before 10 p .m. last night.
[10] He was charged with five crimes, including threatening to kill, kidnap, or harm the president, vice president, or family member.
[11] Police also allegedly found a swastika flag in the vehicle.
[12] The LA Dodgers have reversed course yet again on their decision to disinvite the LGBT activist group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to their June 16th Pride night.
[13] The MLB franchise initially received backlash from activists when they disinvited the group due to concerns about offending their Catholic fans.
[14] The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a drag performance group that characters Catholic nuns.
[15] Morning Wire spoke to Brian Birch, the president of Catholic Vote, a group that has protested the presence of what they describe as anti -Catholic performances.
[16] They do things like pole dance on a cross.
[17] They have engaged in sexual innuendo, like blessing each other with sex toys, to using a chalice filled with yogurt to imitate the products of a sexual act.
[18] They also invert the words of Jesus and rally around the mantra, go and sin some more.
[19] Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed a bill that bans transgender surgeries on those 18 and younger and bans most abortions at 12 weeks.
[20] The signing makes Nebraska the 18th state to pass laws banning transgender procedures on children and follows a raucous week at the Capitol building in Lincoln.
[21] Several protesters were arrested at the Capitol during the legislators' Friday session.
[22] Police in Portugal are renewing the search for Madeline McCann.
[23] Then three -year -old McCann disappeared in 2007 while on vacation with her parents, sparking a worldwide multi -year search.
[24] On Tuesday, officers could be seen digging near a dam about 30 months.
[25] miles from where McCann went missing in the beach town of Priya -Dalus.
[26] According to the Federal Reserve's annual economic well -being of U .S. household survey, 35 % of adults said they were financially worse off than the year before.
[27] That's the highest percentage ever since the Fed began taking the survey in 2014.
[28] Ford has reversed its decision to remove AM radio from new 2024 models.
[29] CEO Jim Farley posted to social media Tuesday that the company chose to reverse the decision after government leaders expressed concern about retaining the ability to transmit emergency alerts.
[30] The GoFundMe for the widow of the California father who was killed while assisting a family of ducklings across a busy road has surpassed $80 ,000.
[31] Casey Rivara, a 41 -year -old father of two, pulled over to assist a family of ducks at an intersection in Rockland, California on Thursday evening when he was struck and killed by a 17 -year -old driver.
[32] Rivera's children were also in the car at the time.
[33] TikTok sued the state of Montana in federal court on Monday over a new law that bans downloads of the app in the state.
[34] According to their statement, TikTok is, quote, challenging Montana's unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana.
[35] And the Daily Wire will be streaming all of its podcasts on Twitter as of Tuesday, May 30th.
[36] The announcement comes one month after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh began to live stream each episode of a show on the site.
[37] DailyWire co -CEO, Jeremy Boring, explained the decision in a statement Tuesday.
[38] At this moment, Twitter is the largest free speech platform in the world, said Boring.
[39] The overwhelming amount of positive feedback from our advertisers and audience after putting the Matt Walsh show on Twitter signals to us that there is a tremendous opportunity, which is why we've decided to distribute the rest of our shows on Twitter.
[40] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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