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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, April 25th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Stubborn inflation and slow economic growth sent shutters through the stock market. At one point Thursday, the Dow had lost as much as 700 points before rebounding a bit to close down 382 points. Driving negative sentiment was a slower than expected GDP growth. The economy grew at 1.6 percent, much lower than the expected 2.4 percent. Meanwhile, inflation continues to grow. The consumer price index rose 3.4 percent the first quarter, much higher than the Fed's 2 percent target. That means it's unlikely the Fed will cut rates in the near future.
--:-- Ash Short: The rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been overturned. In a 4-1 opinion, a New York appeals court found that the trial judge had unfairly allowed women who weren't involved in the case to testify. Weinstein was convicted in California and later sentenced to 16 years in prison there. In light of the New York conviction reversal and because he was also convicted in California, he will not walk free but will instead be transferred to the custody of prison authorities in California.
--:-- Ash Short: Weinstein was once very powerful in the entertainment industry and prosecutors say he abused his power to take advantage of aspiring female actors, like the alleged victims. In 2017, a New York Times story reported that Weinstein had reached several settlements with women over the decades. The story also featured accusations from actress Ashley Judd, which sparked a plethora of accusations from other women with similar accounts, kicking off the Me Too movement.
--:-- John Bickley: The Supreme Court seemed divided today over former President Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution related to his actions on January 6th. Much of the discussion focused on which allegations in the indictment involve official acts. During almost three hours of arguments, the liberal justices emphasized that a president is not above the law, sympathizing with the special counsel.
--:-- Ketanji Brown Jackson: So my question, and I think the Chief Justice may have asked this at the beginning, or maybe Justice Thomas, how do you determine what is an official act? And when we're talking about the kinds of scenarios that Justice Sotomayor brought up, one could say that when the president is using the trappings of his office to achieve a personal gain, then he's actually not acting officially, even if the doctrine was absolute immunity.
--:-- Samuel Alito: I think it's worth noting that the FDR concentration camp decision, which was an official presidential act, has been cited by Mr. Sauer and others as an example of a president engaging in conduct that might have been charged as a federal crime. And you say, well, no, that's not really true. This is page 42 of your brief. So what about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to intern Japanese Americans during World War II? Couldn't that have been charged under 18 U.S.C. 241, conspiracy against civil rights?
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--:-- John Bickley: Anti-Israel protests continue to expand to more colleges and universities across the country. The common demand among these protests is for the colleges to divest funds from Israeli military operations. Since the arrests and student removal at New York's Columbia University and NYU, more demonstrations have popped up at other institutions, some turning into massive encampments. Overnight, police arrested 93 people on and around the University of Southern California campus, mainly on trespassing charges. Then in Boston over 100 people were arrested and four police officers injured during an effort to clear out an encampment at Emerson College, just one encampment of several at different schools in the area.
--:-- John Bickley: Encampments have also popped up at Yale, the University of Texas at Austin, and even Emory College in Atlanta.
--:-- John Bickley: Prime Minister Arielle Henry of Haiti resigned today, clearing a path for a new government to be formed in the country. Haiti has been overtaken by gang violence in the past few months, leading to thousands being killed or injured. Henry's remaining cabinet members have since chosen economy and finance minister Michel Boisvert as the interim prime minister.
--:-- John Bickley: Boisvert says that Haiti's crisis has gone on too long and that the country now finds itself at a crossroads.
--:-- John Bickley: And in frivolous news, a Florida puppy has been launched into internet stardom due to her unique and temporary fur color. The puppy named Shamrock was born with green fur. She was born on March 3rd, just in time for St. Patrick's Day. In a video which has been viewed more than 8 million times, the owner of the kennel where Shamrock was born says the pup, quote, was born lucky and that her coloring is the result of being stained with Billy verdant likely caused by bile in the mother dog's womb.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your film 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 our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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