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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, September 30th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: Oklahoma Children's Hospital will stop offering some gender identity-related medical services after the state threatened to pull millions of dollars in funding. The hospital was poised to lose $39.4 million in American Rescue Plan funds thanks to a bill that requires the hospital to stop offering so-called gender-affirming medical treatments for children in order to keep the funding.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The FDA proposed new regulations this week for which foods can have labels that say a food is healthy. The proposal would allow food manufacturers to label products healthy if they contain certain amounts of food from food groups recommended by dietary guidelines, and if they limit amounts of potentially harmful elements like saturated fat and sugars.
--:-- John Bickley: At the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health this week, the Biden administration said it's raised $8 billion from the public and private sector to help end U.S. hunger by 2030. I really do know we can do this. End hunger in this country by the year 2030.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A new Defense Department report found that China is exploiting federal programs to steal technology. The report states that China is the ultimate beneficiary of Department of Defense and other U.S. government research investments according to U.S. Senator Joni Ernst. Ernst said Wednesday that American companies receiving taxpayer funding from the DoD and other agencies to develop technology are recruited by China to continue their work at institutions associated with the People's Liberation Army.
--:-- John Bickley: Shares of Biogen stock soared this week after the drugmaker and its Japanese partner said their Alzheimer's drug slowed the rate of cognitive decline of patients in a late-stage study.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Queen of Denmark has taken royal titles away from four of her grandchildren. In a statement, the palace said the Queen wishes to create the framework for four grandchildren to be able to shape their own lives to a much greater extent without being limited by the special considerations and duties of the Royal House of Denmark.
--:-- John Bickley: An international study released in the British Medical Journal found that COVID-19 vaccinations do have an effect on the schedule of women's menstrual cycles.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And NBA superstar Kyrie Irving says that he gave up a $100 million contract extension because he refused to get the COVID vaccine. I gave up four years, a hundred and something million, deciding to be unvaccinated. And that was the decision. It was contract, get vaccinated or be unvaccinated. And there's a level of uncertainty of your future, whether you're going to be in this league, whether you're going to be on this team. So I had to deal with that real-life circumstance of losing my job for this decision.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Well, 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.
--:-- John Bickley: From all of us here at Morning Wire, we hope you're enjoying the show.
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