Georgia Howe

The case is the latest in a series of alleged bio-smuggling incidents involving foreign researchers.

Minnesota is currently paying a Somali man indicted for fraud to run assisted living homes.

Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has the story.

The US approved an $11 billion arms sale to Taiwan and now Beijing is responding in anger.

The Pentagon in a statement Wednesday said that the arms sale is intended to help modernize Taiwan's armed forces and maintain credible defensive capability.

The Chinese government, who still declares Taiwan to be their territory under an illegitimate rebel government, responded by saying Taiwan is squandering its people's hard-earned money to buy weapons and turning Taiwan into a powder keg.

The U.S.

sale includes 82 truck-based missile launchers, 60 howitzer artillery platforms, as well as anti-tank drones and other defensive arms.

The U.S.

has maintained ambiguity on the question of intervention if Beijing were to invade Taiwan.

Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis exploded on lawmakers during a grilling in front of a Georgia State Senate committee this week over her actions in her dismissed election interference case against Trump.

According to the reports, Nathan Wade, the man who she appointed special prosecutor in the case while also having a romantic relationship with him, was paid $700,000 for the time he was on the case.

Pressed on the issue, she sounded off.

Those are your drive home updates this evening.

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President Trump declares Venezuela completely surrounded, blockading their sanctioned oil tankers.

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

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