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--:-- Georgia Howe: Welcome to Morning Wire, I'm Georgia Howe.
--:-- John Bickley: And I'm John Bickley, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief. It's Monday, August 7th.
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--:-- John Bickley: A new Colorado state gun law took effect today, raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, with exceptions for first responders and members of the military. A flurry of lawsuits have sprung up against the law, which critics say takes away the right of some citizens to defend themselves.
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--:-- Kevin McClung: If at 18 you can get called to go die for your country, why can't you have a firearm? Criminals don't follow the law in the first place, so there's no stopping them from having those guns.
--:-- John Bickley: The law passed by the state legislature and signed by Colorado's Democratic governor is one of the most restrictive in the nation.
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--:-- John Bickley: A former Minneapolis police officer, Tu Tao, who responded to the 911 call that led to George Floyd's death, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today. His sentencing came three months after he was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
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--:-- Judge: I think your culpability is less than Mr. Chauvin, but well above Mr. King, Mr. Lane, as an experienced senior officer who was in the best position to save George Floyd. Accordingly, it's my belief that a sentence at the top of the range would be condign punishment. You are sentenced to 57 months in prison with credit for 340 days already served.
--:-- John Bickley: More than 11,000 Los Angeles city workers plan to ditch work on Tuesday as part of the latest labor strike demanding better pay and benefits.
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--:-- Joel Needler: The city employees and the LA government have been locked in negotiations for months. Now, thousands of striking public employees, including sanitation workers, heavy-duty mechanics, traffic officers, and engineers, will walk off the job tomorrow and picket outside City Hall.
--:-- David Green: The message we're sending is that our workers are just fed up. They've reached a breaking point. It's the first such strike in decades for the Union.
--:-- John Bickley: The United Kingdom has begun moving hundreds of asylum seekers on board a gigantic housing barge docked off the southeast coast of England.
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--:-- Sarah Dines: We need to make sure that it's a basic but proper accommodation and not luxurious. If you come to the country from a safe country unlawfully, you can't expect to stay in a four-star hotel. So this is just one of many measures we're bringing in.
--:-- John Bickley: The latest version of President Biden's student debt bailout, scaled back after its defeat in the Supreme Court, is now facing legal challenges again.
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--:-- Tim Pearce: Biden's latest plan involves forgiving the federal student loans of 800,000 borrowers worth roughly $39 billion. That comes after the Supreme Court struck down his initial student debt bailout.
--:-- John Bickley: The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed the legal challenge last week in Michigan on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute.
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--:-- Tim Pearce: The lawsuit argues that the Department of Education is overstepping its authority with a forgiveness plan and asked the judge to rule it illegal.
--:-- John Bickley: For its part, the Education Department slammed the legal action as a desperate attempt from right-wing special interests to keep hundreds of thousands of borrowers in debt.
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--:-- Tim Pearce: The owner of X, the company formerly known as Twitter, said on Saturday night that his company would pay the legal bills of any user who was unfairly treated due to posting or liking something on the social media platform.
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--:-- Elon Musk: And we won't just sue. It will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too.
--:-- John Bickley: Musk has long maintained that he is an ardent supporter of the First Amendment.
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--:-- David Fulcher: While engaged in the firefight, two helicopters collided. The first helicopter was able to land safely nearby. Unfortunately, the second helicopter crashed and tragically all three members perished, which included one CAL FIRE division chief, one CAL FIRE air captain, and one contract pilot.
--:-- John Bickley: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. 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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--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for listening to Morning Wire.
