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These policies would promote a higher birth rate and proper family buildings, such as a $2,500 investment account for every newborn, tax credits for families with more kids, and the creation of marriage boot camps.

Other policies would safeguard children's mental development, discouraging online dating and banning social media and certain AI chatbots for kids younger than 16.

Bob Weir, the co-founder and baritone vocalist behind the band The Grateful Dead, has passed away.

Daily Wire DC bureau chief Tim Rice has more on Weir's life.

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The widening fraud scandal in Minnesota is now alleged to involve as much as $9 billion in taxpayer money, and it's begun to spark significant political fallout.

Despite the magnitude of the scandal, the legacy media has attempted to downplay it and shift the blame to the people exposing it, including independent journalists.

More violence erupts in Minneapolis after a fatal ICE-involved shooting.

It was an act of domestic terrorism, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Vickley.

It's Thursday, January 8th, and this is Morning Wire.

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