Date: January 5, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
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Coast to coast and around the globe, Jim wrapped up the week by presenting key news stories, some of which are listed below:
–Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine banned transgender transition surgeries on minors today with an executive order. The move comes just a week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned the practice and required single-sex sports teams to be established at schools, colleges and universities throughout the state.
–More information is coming out concerning the school shooting that took place in Perry, Iowa, yesterday morning. The alleged shooter had posted on Tik Tok. Those that were able to obtain screen shots of his online presence shows he had a pride flag in his Tik Tok bio and has allegedly participated in a transgender Reddit group.
–Hamas fired at least 27 rockets at the south and center of Israel as the nation attempted to celebrate the start of the New Year.
–Israeli Defense Forces announced Monday the killing of Hamas Commander Adil Mismah who took part in the October 7th invasion of Israel.
–Saleh L. Arouri, Deputy Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, was killed in an explosion in Southern Beirut on Tuesday.
–Israel began withdrawing thousands of troops from Gaza as prolonged fighting is expected to continue.
–Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas’s Political Bureau, said that they’re open to the idea of a national unity government to run the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
–ISIS is claiming responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks in Iran this week.
–More than a dozen nations have issued an ultimatum to Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis after the militant group fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles in the Southern Red Sea.
–The TSA is monitoring a potential terror threat against the U.S. from an affiliate of Al Qaeda known as the AQAP.
–Over 100 anti-Israeli protesters shut down the California Assembly on Wednesday during its first legislative session of the year.
–Hundreds of godless Marxists and pro-Palestinian protesters took over historic Boston Common on New Year’s Eve chanting, “Biden, Biden, pick a side. Cease-fire or genocide.”
–Many Texans living at the border say they are fed up and want Congress to shut down the border.
–The Justice Department is suing Texas over Governor Abbott’s new law that authorizes state authorities to arrest and deport illegal immigrants, arguing the state is overstepping its bounds by implementing immigration policy which only the federal government has the authority to do.
–Republicans are taking the first steps to formally impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas for his handling of the southern border crisis.
