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[3] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[4] It's Wednesday, March 13th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[5] The House passes a TikTok ban in a largely bipartisan vote.
[6] On this vote, the yeas are 352.
[7] The nays are 65, one present.
[8] Two -thirds being in the affirmative.
[9] The rules are suspended.
[10] The bill is passed.
[11] Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest.
[12] Today, the House voted in favor of bipartisan legislation that would give TikTok's parent company BiteDance six months to divest from the popular platform or face a nationwide ban.
[13] Essentially, app stores would prohibit access to TikTok if ByteDance refuses to sell off ownership.
[14] The bill passed without the support of House progressives, including Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez and 13 conservative Republicans.
[15] Here's Republican Representative Thomas Massey, who says he's concerned over the bill's constitutionality.
[16] Americans have the right to view information.
[17] We don't need to be protected by the government from information.
[18] Some of us just don't want the president picking which apps we can put on our phones or which websites that we can visit.
[19] We don't think that's appropriate.
[20] Meanwhile, members who support the measure, such as Republican Representative Mike Gallagher, say TikTok is a national security threat.
[21] It takes no position at all on the content of speech, only foreign adversary control of what is becoming the dominant news platform for Americans under 30.
[22] This is a common -sense measure to protect our national security.
[23] I urge my colleagues to support this critical bipartisan legislation.
[24] The bill now heads to the Senate where its future is currently uncertain since Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hasn't committed to putting it on the floor.
[25] President Biden has said he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.
[26] The judge overseeing Trump's election interference case in Georgia dismissed some of the charges facing the former president today.
[27] Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestajocamo has more.
[28] Fulton County Superior Court judge Scott McAfee has voided six counts in the indictment, including three against former President Trump.
[29] The judge said prosecutors failed to provide enough detail about the election.
[30] crimes.
[31] The rest of the racketeering indictment stands, with Trump still facing 10 charges.
[32] Prosecutors could seek a new indictment to try to reinstate the charges Judge McAfee dismissed, or they could appeal the ruling.
[33] Both, though, would further delay the case.
[34] The judge's decision comes the same week he's expected to decide on the potential disqualification of Fulton County DA Fannie Willis from prosecuting the case.
[35] Willis is accused of misconduct to her romantic relationship with her subordinate Nathan Wade.
[36] Hunter Biden rejected an invite today from House Republicans to appear in a public hearing.
[37] Biden's attorney Abby Lowell dismissed the hearing as a carnival show.
[38] In a letter obtained by the Associated Press, Lowell blasted the effort after Hunter sat for a nearly seven -hour deposition last month.
[39] The president's son would have appeared alongside several of his former business associates who are facing their own legal issues.
[40] The dismissal of the invitation comes after her.
[41] Hunter Biden and his lawyer insisted late last year that he appear for a public hearing instead of a private deposition, citing concerns that GOP lawmakers would distort his interview.
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[46] The police chief in Uvaldi, Texas, has resigned.
[47] His decision comes just days after a report cleared several officers of wrongdoing during their response to the deadly shooting at Rob Elementary School.
[48] Chief Daniel Rodriguez did not address the report or the shooting itself in his statement.
[49] The report cleared law enforcement of wrongdoing when they waited 77 minutes for tactical gear to arrive on scene before intervening in the mass shooting while students remained locked inside a classroom.
[50] 19 students and two teachers were killed.
[51] The investigator who wrote the report did note a clear communication issue between responding officers and the school district police.
[52] At a Uvaldi City Council meeting Tuesday, parents voiced their disappointment over the council's previous statement saying they may not accept the report.
[53] As far as the chief's resignation, that doesn't absolve y 'all of y 'all's responsibility to terminate the three officers I mentioned last week.
[54] That's Javier Martinez, Louis Landry, and Eduardo Canales.
[55] A presidential rematch is officially set.
[56] Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have clinched their party's nominations.
[57] Trump worked his way through a crowded primary, defeating 14 Republican challengers while Biden ran virtually unopposed.
[58] The nominations set the stage for the first presidential election rematch since 1956 and will be the longest general election campaign ever, with 238 days until the November election.
[59] Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving a preview into who might be his running mate.
[60] The short list reportedly includes NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers and former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura.
[61] According to the New York Times, Mr. Kennedy says both men top his list, though it remains unclear if either Rogers or Ventura have formally been offered the post.
[62] And UFC Hall of Famer and former heavyweight champion Mark Coleman is in the hospital battling for his life.
[63] This comes after he ran into a burning building to save his parents whose house caught on fire earlier this week.
[64] According to a social media post from Coleman's daughter, he went into the burning house several times and was able to bring out both his mother and his father.
[65] Over the past few days, there's been an outpouring of well -wishes from combat sport athletes.
[66] Here's what friend and current UFC fighter Matt Brown told WBNS in Ohio.
[67] Coleman's one of the strongest, most savage guys I know.
[68] He's just always a positive person, optimistic to the very end.
[69] So we know that he's going to get through this.
[70] We know that he's going to get stronger from this.
[71] So we just all got to admit our thoughts.
[72] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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