January 22, 2024 Good morning, Leading the News . . . Biden to announce new unilateral abortion measures . . . The White House on Monday is announcing new steps intended to ensure access to contraception, abortion pills and emergency abortions at
hospitals. The effort to expand access to contraception involves several measures. Federal agencies are issuing guidance that would make no-cost contraceptives more available under the Affordable Care Act and take similar actions to expand contraception access for federal employees. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra also plans to send a letter to health
insurers instructing them of their obligation to provide no-cost contraceptives, according to a memo the White House sent to reporters Sunday. The agency also announced a new team dedicated to enforcing its interpretation of a law, known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, which the Biden administration has said requires hospitals to provide emergency abortions nationwide, including in the 21 states where the procedure is limited or banned. Washington Post Subscribe to the Culture Translator . . . Join 300k+ parents to get the free Culture Translator. Get informed about the cultural trends impacting your teenager's world from a Christian worldview - all in a five-minute weekly read. Each week, the team researches culture to help you stay up to date on the music, movies, TV shows, and social media trends impacting your kid’s world. Keep your kids or your grandkids on the right path. Sign up to receive the weekly Culture Translator email for free. Sign up
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DeSantis suspends presidential bid, endorses Trump . . . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump. The decision leaves Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as the last major candidates remaining in the race ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. This is the scenario Trump’s foes in the GOP have long sought,
raising the stakes for this week’s contest as the party’s last chance to stop the former president who has so far dominated the race. Associated Press How DeSantis crumbled . . . Longtime Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, a veteran of half-a-dozen presidential campaigns, noted that DeSantis "ran a mechanical campaign and failed on two mechanical fronts. He wasted bazillions on door knocking when you don’t build a brand going door to door. And two – he’s a
mechanical candidate who you don’t want at your door. You need to be a people person to run for public office," he argued. Republican strategist Michael Dennehy agreed, charging that DeSantis "just didn’t have the charisma to connect with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire." Fox News Trump ditches criticism and praises DeSantis . . . Donald Trump set aside months of criticism and mockery of Ron DeSantis on Sunday night, celebrating his onetime
Republican rival as his newest supporter after the Florida governor ended his presidential campaign and endorsed the former president. “I just want to thank Ron and congratulate him on doing a very good job,” Trump said at the outset of his remarks. “He was very gracious, and he endorsed me. I appreciate that, and I also look forward to working with Ron.” Trump described DeSantis as “a really terrific person.” Washington Times DeSantis exit bad news for Haley . . . First Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out and endorsed Trump. Then Haley’s fellow South Carolinian, Republican Sen. Tim Scott, who ended his own campaign in November, followed suit. On Sunday, Trump added DeSantis to the list of former foes turned friends again. Ramaswamy’s supporters in New Hampshire had already begun gravitating toward Trump, with several of his former staffers publicly supporting Trump and encouraging others to
do the same. Now the former president is likely to get another boost — even if a small one — from DeSantis’ base of conservative Republican and libertarian-leaning backers. Politico Anything can happen in politics. But one of the most unlikely of those things is that Nikki Haley will beat Trump for the nomination. The big question is whether she gets out after New Hampshire or risks humiliation in her home state of South Carolina next month. Trump has double digit lead over Haley . . . With the contest for the Republican presidential nomination now a two-person race, Donald Trump holds a clear lead among New Hampshire voters over Nikki
Haley, his last remaining challenger, ahead of Tuesday’s primary here, according to a Washington Post-Monmouth University poll. The poll finds 52 percent of potential primary voters supporting Trump, while 34 percent are backing Haley. In the poll, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is at 8 percent, but the survey was completed before DeSantis delivered his surprise announcement Sunday that he was suspending his campaign. Washington Post Trump to testify Monday in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse defamation suit Biden knocks Trump for seeming to mix up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi . . . President Biden mocked former President
Trump on Sunday for appearing to mix up Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a campaign rally this weekend. “I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi,” Biden wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, attaching a campaign ad that knocked Trump for the mix-up and highlighted concerns about his mental fitness. The Hill Also in the news: Pot calls kettle black. Biden not on NH ballot but backers predict write-in win . . . President Biden’s name won’t appear on the ballot in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. His campaign has not been active in the
state, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has described the upcoming vote as “meaningless” in the scheme of choosing a nominee. More than a dozen other candidates will appear on the Democratic ballot, including long-shot primary challengers Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.). And yet, strategists believe Biden will emerge
victorious Tuesday, thanks to a grassroots write-in campaign that has been in the works for months. The Hill This could be the sleeper story of New Hampshire. If Dean Phillips makes a credible showing, it could cause problems for Biden. Remember, independents
who might back Biden are permitted to vote in either primary, and some will vote for Haley, leaving a lot of lefties around in the Dem primary to vote their discontent with the president. Georgia prosecutor in Trump case paid for trips with girlfriend Fani Willis . . . The top prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump paid for at least two airline trips with Fulton County
District Attorney Fani Willis during his investigation, court documents show. The stunning disclosure, which came to light in bank statements filed Friday as part of Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade’s divorce case, raises more ethical questions surrounding Ms. Willis. She is suspected of violating rules of professional conduct by accepting gifts from Mr. Wade, her employee and alleged boyfriend. Washington Times Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee deleted 100 encrypted emails . . . The former House Select Committee on Jan. 6 deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe just days before Republicans took over the majority in the House of Representatives,
Fox News Digital has learned. The House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee is leading an investigation into Jan. 6, 2021, led by Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. The panel is investigating the security failures on that day, as well as the "actions" of the former select committee investigating the Capitol riot. Fox News Speaker Johnson faces growing threats to his job . . . A growing number of House Republicans are increasingly frustrated with Johnson’s leadership and whispering about whether he can hang on to his role after 2024 — if he even makes it that far. Despite serving barely three months as speaker, the Louisianan is already facing an immediate threat from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of
Georgia, who is openly disparaging him and suggesting she may try to boot him from the speakership. “I don’t think he’s safe right now,” Greene said, adding: “The only reason he’s speaker is because our conference is so desperate.” Politico
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conventional battlefield performance prompts Russian focus on nukes . . . The war in Ukraine has dented Russia's confidence in its conventional forces and increased the importance to Moscow of non-strategic nuclear weapons (NSNWs) as a means of deterring and defeating NATO in a potential future conflict, a leading Western think-tank said on Monday. NSNWs include all nuclear weapons with a range of up to 5,500 km (3,400 miles), starting with tactical arms designed for use on the
battlefield - as opposed to longer-range strategic nuclear weapons that Russia or the U.S. could use to strike each other's homeland. Reuters US ends search for missing Navy SEALs International
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Arab allies push hostage release plan . . . The U.S., Egypt and Qatar are pushing Israel and Hamas to join a phased diplomatic process that would start with a release of hostages and, eventually, lead to a withdrawal of Israeli forces and an end to
the war in Gaza, diplomats involved in mediating the talks said. Taher Al-Nono, a media adviser to Hamas, said there was no real progress. After The Wall Street Journal’s report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he rejected Hamas’s demands because they included an end to the war. Wall Street Journal Taliban enforces draconian restrictions on unmarried women . . . The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to
work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she wanted to keep her job at a healthcare facility, saying it was inappropriate for an unwed woman to work. The Taliban have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade. Associated Press
Money It's getting tougher to switch jobs . . . American workers are getting restless in their jobs just as the labor market is making it much tougher for them to jump to something new. Millions of workers switched jobs during the past couple of years, enticed
by abundant openings and big pay raises from companies desperate to hire. The market for salaried, white-collar jobs has since cooled, but workers’ itchiness to find new work hasn’t. Roughly 85% of 1,000 U.S. professionals polled in a new LinkedIn survey say they are thinking about changing jobs this year, up from 67% a year earlier. WSJ Indian tech boss dies in horrific accident at company gala . . . he last moments of a US tech boss who plunged 15 feet to his
death during his company's anniversary party have been captured on film. Sanjay Shah, CEO of Illinois-based revenue management company Vistex, fell during an appearance on stage after a cable holding up an iron cage he was performing in snapped. The freak accident took place at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India on Thursday during a celebration for the Vistex Asia's silver jubilee. Daily Mail
Culture NFL to plan black national anthem at Superbowl . . . The NFL announced its pregame lineup for Super Bowl LVIII on Thursday, and the league drew criticism over its intentions to have the Black national anthem played before the game. "Lift Every Voice and
Sing," known as the Black national anthem, has been played at each Super Bowl since Super Bowl LV and has stirred controversy on social media since. This year, the NFL said the song is to be performed by Grammy-winning R&B singer Andra Day. Fox News Will white players take a knee? Global elites target free speech . . . Numerous speakers and panelists at the World Economic Forum consistently emphasized the necessity of censoring “misinformation and disinformation” during the Davos conference held from Monday to Friday. Top representatives from government, universities and nonprofits set their sights on this purportedly menacing threat
in speeches and discussions throughout the summit. Many pressed for worldwide cooperation on combatting so-called misinformation, and advocated for the enforcement of specific censorship measures to stifle the dissemination of objectionable content online, particularly in the lead-up to the 2024 elections. Daily Caller The newspapers in the early days of the republic were filled with the worst vitriol and slander. And yet, our Founders said the right to free speech was more
important. The left wants to put an end to free speech, because it's all so inconvenient! Policing reduces crime in New York City . . . New York City experienced
a banner year in the fight against rising violent crime, flooding the streets with new teams of police officers despite fierce resistance from law enforcement reform groups. New York City murder numbers dropped 12% in 2023 compared to the previous year while shootings fell 25%, according to numbers released by the New York City Police Department. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has credited the city's more aggressive approach to policing as being responsible for the enhanced safety. Fox News More police, less crime. Who could have predicted this?
More Boeing planes under scrutiny . . . The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late Sunday recommended airlines operating Boeing
737-900ER jets inspect door plugs to ensure they are properly secured after some operators reported unspecified issues with bolts upon inspections. The recommendation follows the FAA's grounding of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes after the Jan. 5 mid-air cabin blowout of a door plug on an eight-week-old Alaska Airlines MAX 9 jet. Reuters
TAILgating disaster: Man lights ass on fire before Chiefs game . . . Ahead of the Buffalo Bills-Kansas City Chiefs AFC Divisional Playoff game, Bills Mafia was doing its thing tailgating before kickoff. That included the odd-yet-exciting tradition of body-slamming and smashing a folding table. On Sunday, it featured one fan tossing another wearing a Detroit Lions sweatshirt from the bed of a pickup truck onto the table with one twist: someone set the table on fire. In fact, one
person can be seen pouring lighter fluid onto the table to feed the flames mid-toss. New York Post
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