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--:-- John Bickley: Hey, this is Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, January 31st, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A new report indicates that the FBI searched the Penn-Biden Center in November. Here with more is Daily Wire's Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: CBS News published a report Tuesday that suggested the FBI was more involved in the search for classified documents related to President Biden than was previously known. Federal agents searched Biden's office in the Penn Biden Center in November. It's not clear what, if anything, the search turned up. It has been reported that the FBI found classified documents in Biden's home when agents searched it in mid-January.
--:-- Georgia Howe: New York Congressman George Santos told House Republican colleagues that he will recuse himself from sitting on any committees. The freshman congressman who has admitted to falsifying aspects of his career and personal life is facing multiple investigations and a chorus of calls to resign.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Ukraine won the support of Baltic nations and Poland in its quest to obtain Western fighter jets today, while the U.S. and Britain show no signs that they've changed their stance of refusing to provide the warplanes to Kiev after almost a year of battling Russia's invading forces.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Texas and surrounding states were hit with winter weather today, causing the cancellation of nearly 1,500 flights nationwide and bringing traffic to a standstill on an Arkansas interstate. Numerous auto collisions were reported in Austin, Texas, with at least one fatality, according to the Austin Fire Department. Weather officials expect the systems to continue up through Arkansas and into Tennessee.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In an interview Monday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stated he believes children 13 years old are too young to join social media platforms. The other concern I have is that these rules around age are inconsistently implemented. We have some of the best designers and product developers in the world who have designed these products to make sure people are maximizing the amount of time they spend on these platforms. And if we tell a child use the force of your willpower to control how much time you spending you pitting a child against the world greatest product designers and that just not a fair fight.
--:-- Georgia Howe: If any company is loving global inflation, it appears that it's the fast food chain McDonald's. The company announced a 12% increase in global sales in the fourth quarter of 2022. Experts say consumers flocked to the home of the Big Mac for cheaper eating options as food prices surged. The report comes as new data released this week from the University of Michigan indicates that more than 10 percent of Americans over age 50 have an addiction to processed foods.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to data reported by CNN, Pfizer's COVID vaccine and therapy sales boon is over. The company made $57 billion in 2021 off the jab and its oral pill Paxlovid, or 60% of its total revenue. Yet that number is expected to dip to just $21 billion in 2023.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a plan on Tuesday to rid the state's public universities of DEI, or Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, initiatives. The Republican governor plan will abolish all DEI departments and forbid requiring so diversity statements and diversity training.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The late Michael Jackson nephew Jafar Jackson will play his deceased uncle in an upcoming biopic from Lionsgate. Jafar is the 26 nephew of the late pop icon who died in 2009. His father, Jermaine Jackson, is Michael's brother and a former member of the Jackson 5.
--:-- Georgia Howe: NBA star Steph Curry is coming under scrutiny for opposing low-income housing in his neighborhood. The Golden State Warriors legend is reportedly demanding that the California town of Atherton either scrap the development of 16 townhouses on a 1.5-acre plot of land near his family's home, or pay to build a fence and shrubbery blocking the development from his view. Critics have slammed Curry for hypocrisy as he has often used his platform to support progressive causes and to speak out against the so-called wealth gap. Both Curry and his wife have also been outspoken supporters of President Biden.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here they are back in 2020 endorsing then-candidate Joe Biden. We want to ensure that our kids live in a nation that is safe, happy, healthy, and fair. And so this election... We're voting for Joe Biden.
--:-- 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.
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