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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, August 17th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: House Republicans are looking into President Joe Biden's alleged use of a fake name to mask his identity as they ramp up an investigation into the first family.
--:-- John Bickley: Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: On Thursday, Oversight Chairman James Comer put in a request to the National Archives and Record Administration for all unredacted records and communications from Biden's time as vice president that overlapped with his son Hunter's activities in Ukraine.
--:-- Tim Pierce: In particular, Comer said he wants communications in which Joe Biden allegedly used a pseudonym to mask his identity.
--:-- John Bickley: Comer gave NARA until August 31st to turn over the requested documents and said the oversight panel wants unrestricted special access under the Presidential Records Act.
--:-- Tim Pierce: A NARA spokesperson told the Daily Wire that the agency received the request and will respond in accordance with the requirements of the PRA.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Washington Democratic Governor Jay Inslee was sued Wednesday by a non-profit legal group seeking to stop the enforcement of a law allowing the state to hide child sex change surgeries from parents.
--:-- John Bickley: Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell.
--:-- Zach Jewell: America First Legal filed the lawsuit over Senate Bill 5599, which was recently signed into law by Inslee.
--:-- Zach Jewell: The bill was pushed by Democrats as protection of trans youth and allows host homes to keep parents in the dark about their child sex change procedure.
--:-- Zach Jewell: America First Legal says the legislation creates a dangerous incentive for minors who disagree with their parents on gender-affirming care to run away to a shelter or host home.
--:-- Zach Jewell: The suit also goes after Washington's Attorney General and the Secretary of the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families.
--:-- Zach Jewell: America First Legal argues that the new statute deprives certain parents of their fundamental rights under the United States Constitution to direct the care and upbringing of their children.
--:-- John Bickley: Two conservative bills will take effect in North Carolina as a result of the GOP-controlled legislature overriding vetoes by the state's Democrat Governor Roy Cooper.
--:-- Georgia Howe: One bill bans gender reassignment treatments for minors, and the other limits participation in women's sports to biological women.
--:-- John Bickley: The motion to override the government's veto on House Bill 574 passes.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The veto override makes North Carolina the 22nd state to ban common transgender treatments for anyone under the age of 18.
--:-- John Bickley: They also overrode a veto on a bill that would give parents the right to be informed of a name change and pronoun change at their school and would allow parents to review course materials and books that their children are exposed to at school.
--:-- Georgia Howe: What parents are asking for is what educators are asking for and school staff want as well.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They want to be able to welcome and educate all children from all types of families.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Parents need to be brought into the conversation from the very beginning, not treated with suspicion or as the source of that anguish unless there is a reason to report it to the Department of Social Services.
--:-- John Bickley: In the beach town of Rye, New Hampshire, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement arrested an illegal alien wanted for murder in Brazil.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: A 29-year-old ex-Brazilian military officer was convicted just two months ago for 11 murders, mental and physical torture, as well as attempted murder over an event known as the Curio Massacre that occurred in his home country in November 2015.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: It's believed that in 2019, the Brazilian national fled Brazil and traveled to the U.S.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: Authorities monitored him for weeks, and on Monday morning, Rye police and ICE agents arrested the murderer while he was working construction at a local home.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: He will now remain in ICE custody as he awaits trial.
--:-- John Bickley: Sammy Johnson, a fellow construction worker, told WMUR9 his eyewitness account of the arrest.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: Bam! Flashbang and military guys, and it's just like, holy moly, you know?
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: So we're just, okay, okay, okay, we had nothing to do with it.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: And so it's a pretty epic way to start your Monday morning, you know?
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: It's just kind of baffling.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The suspected architect of the 9/11 attacks and his fellow defendants may have their death sentence overturned through a plea deal.
--:-- John Bickley: The Pentagon and FBI sent a letter on August 1st to notify family members of the deceased of the potential deal.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: Daily Wire researcher Trevor Mock has more.
--:-- Trevor Mock: Five terrorists involved in the attack have been incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center for years.
--:-- Trevor Mock: Among them is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who suggested the 9/11 attacks to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and then planned the attacks.
--:-- Trevor Mock: Repeated delays and legal disputes have postponed the death penalty being applied.
--:-- Trevor Mock: No trial date has been set.
--:-- Trevor Mock: According to the August 1st letter sent to the families, the office of the chief prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements.
--:-- Trevor Mock: The letter stated that although no plea deal has been finalized and may never be finalized, there is a potential that a deal could remove the possibility of the death penalty.
--:-- Trevor Mock: The families were given until Monday, August 21st to respond to the FBI's Victim Services Division with any comments or questions about the matter.
--:-- John Bickley: And a flight traveling from Miami to Chile was forced to make an emergency landing earlier this week after one of its pilots collapsed and died while in the lavatory of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The two remaining co-pilots successfully landed the Latam Airlines plane at the International Airport in Panama City, Panama.
--:-- John Bickley: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
--:-- Georgia Howe: To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- John Bickley: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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