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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.
--:-- John Bickley: It's Friday, July 28th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Special counsel Jack Smith expanded the charges against former President Trump on Thursday evening in the classified documents case, adding new charges and one additional defendant.
--:-- John Bickley: The new superseding indictment adds an additional charge that claims Trump asked a Mar-a-Lago employee to delete surveillance footage to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In addition, the prosecutors added another charge of retaining classified documents, bringing the count from 31 to 32.
--:-- John Bickley: Prosecutors alleged that Trump retained a classified document related to an Iran attack and then shared it in a discussion at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In addition, a third defendant was named Carlos de Oliveira, who is described as a property manager at Mar-a-Lago. The indictment claims he played a role in the effort to delete security footage and in moving boxes of documents along with the already charged Trump aide, Walt Nada.
--:-- John Bickley: The charges allege that Trump, Nada, and Diolivera did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with each other and with others known and unknown to the grand jury to engage in misleading conduct.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Diolivera will be arraigned on Monday in Miami.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Bud Light, have announced that they're laying off 2% of the company's 19,000 employees, or nearly 400 workers.
--:-- John Bickley: The layoffs come months after Bud Light was replaced by Modelo as America's number one selling beer.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Since the Anheuser-Busch collaboration with Dylan Mulvaney back in April, the corporation has lost $27 billion in market value and has taken a hit in its popularity, dropping to 15th behind Corona, Guinness, and Sam Adams, according to a YouGov poll.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Missouri has been sued over its law that bans sex change procedures from being performed on children, making it the latest Republican-led state to face a challenge over a law shielding children from transgender procedures.
--:-- John Bickley: The lawsuit, which was filed by left-wing legal groups, including the ACLU of Missouri and Lambda Legal, claims that Missouri's law is discriminatory.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The law prohibits procedures like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and giving children cross hormones and puberty blockers.
--:-- Laura Kavanaugh (FDNY Commissioner): It is quickly becoming one of the leading causes of fire deaths this year. And we want to emphasize again, these fires are extremely dangerous. They create a large volume of fire very quickly and present significant threats to New Yorkers who are trying to get out of their homes and to our members as they respond to these calls.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The chief executive of Kootz Bank has stepped down amid the furor surrounding populist politician Nigel Farage's complaints that his account was closed because of his political views.
--:-- John Bickley: CEO Peter Flavel resigned just days after Coutts' owner NatWest Group parted ways with its CEO, Alison Rose.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Rose left after admitting that she had spoken with a reporter regarding Farage's personal details.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A mutinous group of soldiers in Niger announced on state television Wednesday night that they have overthrown the country's president and ended the government.
--:-- John Bickley: Today the 26th of July 2023, we the Defense and Security Forces united with the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Fatherland decided to put an end to the regime that you know.
--:-- Georgia Howe: This follows the continued deterioration of the national security situation and poor economic and social governance. All land and air borders are closed until the situation stabilizes.
--:-- John Bickley: The Commissions of the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States described the events as an effort to unseat Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected president two years ago in the nation's first peaceful democratic transfer of power since its independence from France in 1960.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have developed red meat allergies since 2010 due to a strange syndrome triggered by tick bites.
--:-- John Bickley: According to a government report, as many as 450,000 Americans have developed the allergy, which makes it the 10th most common food allergy in the U.S.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Health officials said that they are not aware of any confirmed deaths, but people with the allergy have described it as bewildering and terrifying.
--:-- John Bickley: Despite its Texas-themed name, the Lone Star Tick is most common in the eastern and southern U.S. About 4% of all U.S. cases have been in the eastern end of New York's Long Island.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 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: Thanks for listening to the Morning Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And don't forget to tune in tomorrow for more updates.
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