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--:-- John Bickley: Welcome to Morning Wire, I'm Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And I'm Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, January 19th.
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--:-- John Bickley: Now, let's get to the news. An internal investigation into the Supreme Court leaker has failed to identify the person responsible for leaking a draft of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
--:-- Georgia Howe: That's right. After 126 formal interviews of 97 employees and searches of computers, networks, printers, and call logs, investigators say they failed to find forensic evidence sufficient to identify a culprit.
--:-- John Bickley: Oscar-nominated actor Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Helena Hutchins on the set of the Western movie Rust.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Prosecutors say the film armorer who was in charge of the weapons on set, Hannah Gutierrez, is also charged with involuntary manslaughter.
--:-- John Bickley: According to New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, the charges are based on two alternative theories of involuntary manslaughter.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The first part of the involuntary manslaughter charge is that Baldwin and Gutierrez acted without due caution and circumspection, meaning they weren't just negligent in their duties, but that they were on notice, that they had duties, and that they should have done or not done.
--:-- John Bickley: The second part of the charge is a petty misdemeanor in New Mexico, called negligent use of a deadly weapon.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And once they show that, then that can lead to the second alternative theory of involuntary manslaughter.
--:-- John Bickley: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy officially ended proxy voting on Thursday.
--:-- Georgia Howe: House Democrats had previously left the measure in place, citing COVID precautions, but both Republicans and Democrats often wound up attending fundraisers and other political events, while another member of Congress voted in their place.
--:-- John Bickley: McCarthy says they're going to be back in person again and have field hearings, including a hearing on the open border at the border.
--:-- Georgia Howe: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Wednesday that she's resigning from her position because she doesn't have the stamina to seek re-election.
--:-- John Bickley: Ardern expressed her gratitude to the New Zealanders for giving her the opportunity to serve.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Combating climate change has taken center stage in Davos this week with figures like Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and former Vice President Al Gore giving speeches on the matter.
--:-- John Bickley: Gore called for urgent action to fight climate change, claiming that we're still putting millions of tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every single day.
--:-- Georgia Howe: He compared it to the explosion of 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs on Earth every day.
--:-- John Bickley: That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach one billion in this century.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The U Secret Service is prepared to offer names of individuals who visited President Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home if requested by Congress.
--:-- John Bickley: The White House continues to insist that no formal visitor logs exist for the president's personal residence where two troves of classified documents were found.
--:-- Georgia Howe: But the Secret Service does collect information on guests with regular access to the home.
--:-- John Bickley: Republican Representative Greg Stubbe of Florida spent the night in the ICU after falling about 25 feet from a ladder while cutting tree limbs on Wednesday.
--:-- Georgia Howe: His office said Thursday that his injuries are not life-threatening and he is making progress and in good spirits.
--:-- John Bickley: And the March for Life will take place in Washington, D.C. tomorrow, the first march since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The walk this year will pass by the U.S. Capitol and end between the Supreme Court and the Capitol buildings.
--:-- John Bickley: Well, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 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 Morning Wire.
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--:-- John Bickley: We'll be back tomorrow with more news and analysis.
