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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, May 23rd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his candidacy for President of the United States on Twitter on Wednesday.
--:-- John Bickley: The Florida governor is making the unconventional announcement as part of a conversation with Elon Musk. The conversation will take place on the social media app at 6 p.m. Eastern.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We'll be interviewing Ron DeSantis, and he has quite an announcement to make. And it will be the first time that something like this is happening on social media, and with real-time questions and answers, not scripted.
--:-- John Bickley: A man has been charged with several crimes, including threatening the president, after he allegedly drove a U-Haul truck into barriers around the White House late Monday.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here with more is Daily Wire researcher Trevor Mock.
--:-- Trevor Mock: The driver of the truck, who the Daily Mail identified as Sy Varshith Kandula, 19 of Chesterfield, Missouri, smashed into a security gate at Lafayette Park, which is in front of the White House gates, just before 10 p.m. last night.
--:-- John Bickley: He was charged with five crimes, including threatening to kill, kidnap, or harm the president, vice president or family member.
--:-- Trevor Mock: Police also allegedly found a swastika flag in the vehicle.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The LA Dodgers have reversed course yet again on their decision to disinvite the LGBT activist group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to their June 16th Pride Night.
--:-- John Bickley: The MLB franchise initially received backlash from activists when they disinvited the group due to concerns about offending their Catholic fans.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a drag performance group that characters Catholic nuns.
--:-- John Bickley: Morning Wire spoke to Brian Birch, the president of Catholic Vote, a group that has protested the presence of what they describe as anti-Catholic performances.
--:-- Brian Birch: They do things like pole dance on a cross. They have engaged in sexual innuendo, like blessing each other with sex toys, to using a chalice filled with yogurt to imitate the products of a sexual act.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They also invert the words of Jesus and rally around the mantra, "go and send some more."
--:-- John Bickley: Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed a bill that bans transgender surgeries on those 18 and younger and bans most abortions at 12 weeks.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The signing makes Nebraska the 18th state to pass laws banning transgender procedures on children and follows a raucous week at the Capitol building in Lincoln.
--:-- John Bickley: Several protesters were arrested at the Capitol during the legislators' Friday session.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Police in Portugal are renewing the search for Madeline McCann. Then three-year-old McCann disappeared in 2007 while on vacation with her parents, sparking a worldwide multi-year search.
--:-- John Bickley: On Tuesday, officers could be seen digging near Dam about 30 miles from where McCann went missing in the beach town of Praia de Luz.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to the Federal Reserve's annual economic well-being of U.S. household survey, 35 percent of adults said they were financially worse off than the year before.
--:-- John Bickley: That's the highest percentage ever since the Fed began taking the survey in 2014.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Ford has reversed its decision to remove AM radio from new 2024 models.
--:-- John Bickley: CEO Jim Farley posted to social media Tuesday that the company chose to reverse the decision after government leaders expressed concern about retaining the ability to transmit emergency alerts.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The GoFundMe for the widow of the California father who was killed while assisting a family of ducklings across a busy road has surpassed $80,000.
--:-- John Bickley: Casey Rivara, a 41-year-old father of two, pulled over to assist a family of ducks at an intersection in Rockland California on Thursday evening when he was struck and killed by a 17-year-old driver.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Rivara's children were also in the car at the time.
--:-- John Bickley: TikTok sued the state of Montana in federal court on Monday over a new law that bans downloads of the app in the state.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to their statement, TikTok is, quote, "challenging Montana's unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana."
--:-- John Bickley: And The Daily Wire will be streaming all of its podcasts on Twitter as of Tuesday, May 30th.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The announcement comes one month after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh began to live stream each episode of his show on the site.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boring explained the decision in a statement Tuesday.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: At this moment, Twitter is the largest free speech platform in the world, said Boring. The overwhelming amount of positive feedback from our advertisers and audience after putting The Matt Walsh Show on Twitter signals to us that there is a tremendous opportunity, which is why we've decided to distribute the rest of our shows on Twitter.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. 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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