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[0] Hey, this is Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
[1] It's Tuesday, September 20th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] At least eight people were hospitalized Tuesday after part of a top floor of an apartment building collapsed in the Chicago area.
[3] Local news reports that the 36 -unit apartment building experienced an explosion just before 9 .30 Tuesday morning.
[4] The southwestern border of the U .S. saw more than 2 million arrests of illegal immigrants in one year for the first time ever.
[5] That number does not include the estimated 800 ,000 -plus godaways, migrants who were able to cross without being detained.
[6] Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without electricity and over a million people without water in the Dominican Republic.
[7] Fiona is now a category three hurricane, but is expected to intensify and become a category four.
[8] It is now heading towards Turks and Caicos.
[9] The White House is defending President Biden's record on inflation in deficit spending as we enter the final stretch of the 2022 midterm elections.
[10] White House Economic Advisor Jared Bernstein told Fox News Monday that the administration's fiscal policy has not contributed to record high inflation.
[11] And the answer based on over a trillion dollars of deficit reduction is no. That doesn't negate the point that inflation is too high, which it is.
[12] And we're doing everything we can to help.
[13] The last couple of months have been a respite.
[14] New York Governor Kathy Hochle said this week that New York, New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be putting security cameras in all of the subways after a pilot run that started this summer.
[15] New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday that the city will lift its COVID -19 vaccine mandate for private sector employees on November 1st.
[16] This put the choice in the hands of New York businesses.
[17] The city began requiring almost all private businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace in December 2021.
[18] It remains the largest place in the U .S. to have made vaccines mandatory as a workplace safety measure.
[19] The C .O. of Beyond Meat was arrested over the weekend for allegedly biting a man's nose during a fight after a college football game.
[20] Police say 53 -year -old Doug Ramsey faces charges of terroristic threatening and battery.
[21] Russian -controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans Tuesday to start voting this week on whether to join Russia.
[22] The Kremlin -backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set the stage for Moscow to escalate the war following Ukraine's successes on the battlefield.
[23] And the legal teams representing Twitter and Elon Musk deposed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tuesday morning as part of Twitter's ongoing lawsuit against Musk.
[24] Dorsey was subpoenaed by Musk last month over documents related to the impact or effect of false or spam accounts on Twitter's business and operation.
[25] We're superficially claiming less than 5 % of fake or spam accounts, but in fact, it is four or five times that number.
[26] This is a big deal.
[27] The trial is scheduled to start October 17th.
[28] Well, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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