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[0] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[1] It's Monday, December 11th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] Special counsel, Jack Smith, asked the Supreme Court today to weigh in on whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity.
[3] Smith is hoping to keep Trump's federal election interference trial on track by bypassing the appeals court process and going directly to our nation's highest court.
[4] The earliest the court could consider the appeal would be on January 5th.
[5] Following the resignation of UPenn President Liz McGill, Harvard President Claudine Gay, who has also faced backlash for her recent congressional testimony, is receiving some support on campus.
[6] Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham has more.
[7] Over 650 faculty members have signed a letter asking administrators to resist forcing Gay to resign.
[8] Calls for the Harvard president's ouster increased over the weekend after the resignation of University of Pennsylvania president, Liz McGill.
[9] Gay, McGill, and MIT President Sally Cornbluth have fielded heavy criticism after a congressional hearing where they danced around the question of whether students calling for the genocide of Jews is worthy of punishment.
[10] Here's Gay being questioned by New York rep, Elise Stefonic, last week.
[11] Do you believe that type of hateful speech is contrary to Harvard's code of conduct, or is it allowed at Harvard?
[12] It is at odds with the values of Harvard.
[13] Can you not say here that it is against the...
[14] code of conduct at Harvard?
[15] We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful.
[16] It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassing, and interrogation.
[17] Does that speech not cause that barrier?
[18] Does that speech not call for the genocide of Jews and the elimination of Israel?
[19] The Air Force says it has disciplined 15 airmen for dereliction of duty.
[20] and not taking the proper action after becoming aware of Massachusetts airmen Jack Tashara's alleged leak of several intelligence documents last year.
[21] Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
[22] According to an investigation released Monday, Tashara's immediate superiors were reportedly unaware that the 21 -year -old was sharing some of the country's most sensitive secrets online.
[23] But the Watchdog report does detail a great deal of holes and oversight from Air Force officials.
[24] The 15 servicemen who have been removed from their positions span a large range of military ranks and have received non -judicial administrative punishments.
[25] The Internal Air Force Review is separate from the Justice Department's criminal investigation, which led to the eventual indictment of Tashara earlier this year.
[26] Tashira pleaded not guilty and is awaiting a trial date.
[27] Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is said to be missing after his allies and lawyers say they haven't heard from him in six days.
[28] Navalny, who's currently serving a 19 -year prison sentence on charges of extremism, missed his court appearance today.
[29] According to a spokesperson for the politician, the prison where Navalny is being held cited electrical problems for the lack of communication, though his lawyers also haven't been able to access him.
[30] The 47 -year -old Russian opposition leader has been locked up since January of 2021.
[31] He was arrested after returning from Germany, where he recuperated from poisoning by a nerve agent, an attack he blames on the Kremlin.
[32] He is seen as one of Vladimir Putin's greatest foes and has organized many anti -Kremlin protests.
[33] A new study published in the scientific journal Nature found that one in four MRI COVID shots accidentally created so -called nonsense proteins in people that were supposedly harmless.
[34] As the telegraph reports, the study found that 25 to 30 percent of people injected with the mRNA COVID jabs suffered an unintended immune response created by a glitch in the way the vaccine was read by the body.
[35] But the study also claims that no adverse effects were caused by the creation of the jumbled proteins.
[36] While MRI vaccines are supposed to mimic a COVID infection to spur the creation of antibodies, the study claims they at times accidentally created a nonsensical and harmless protein, which the body attacks and leads to an immune system flare up.
[37] The authors also say there's a way to prevent that from happening as much in the future.
[38] A trapped hiker was rescued after spending seven hours with his leg pinned underneath an estimated 10 ,000 -pound boulder in California.
[39] Officials say the man was hiking in the Inyo Mountains before the incident.
[40] Inyo County Search and Rescue was called to conduct the rescue mission after the local sheriff's office was notified about the trapped hiker.
[41] According to a press release from Inyo County Search and Rescue, rescuers used a system of ropes, pulleys, and leverage to shift the boulder and rescue the hiker.
[42] Due to the seriousness of his injuries, officials decided to extract him via helicopter.
[43] He was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated.
[44] All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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