Date: December 29, 2023
Host: Jim Schneider
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Here’s a look at some of the headlines that made the cut for this final edition of the News Round-Up for 2023:
–Yesterday Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State removed former President Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause.
–The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to remove former President Trump from their 2024 ballot.
–California’s election chief yesterday approved former President Trump to be on the state’s primary ballot.
Louisiana is considering removing former President Trump from their state’s primary ballot.
–A poll indicates that 50% of Americans have said that the national media intended to mislead, misinform and persuade the public.
–A Christmas message from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jim provided the audio.
–Iranian state TV announced Sunday that Iran’s navy had enhanced its weaponry with the integration of advanced, locally manufactured cruise missiles.
–A senior official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed Monday in an alleged Israeli air strike in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
–Tehran claimed the October 7th massacre in Israel was a response to the 2020 killing of Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani by the U.S. Hamas has denied the claim, insisting that the massacre was a response to alleged Israeli crimes at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
–Anti-Israel protesters wreaked havoc on unsuspecting shoppers and travelers in an effort to spread their cease-fire and “Israel is guilty of genocide” messages near JFK Airport in New York City and at Los Angeles International Airport.
–President Joe Biden ordered retaliatory air strikes on 3 sites in Iraq on Monday after Iran-backed terrorists launched a drone attack on a U.S. military base.
–A second American hostage in the Gaza strip was confirmed dead yesterday.
–France President Emmanuel Macron demanded a lasting cease-fire in Gaza during a call with the Israeli prime minister.
–Following a year of record immigration into Canada and amid reports of nearly 2 million of its citizens relying on food banks, the Canadian government has announced plans to accept refugees from Gaza.
–Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says that Israel will declare five money exchange offices in the West Bank to be terror organizations due to alleged money transfers made to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
