Ceasefire Deal in Limbo & WaPo’s Mission Statement | Afternoon Update | 1.16.25
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I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, January 16th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is once again in limbo while mediators work to salvage the deal. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of reneging on a ceasefire agreement. The deal included releasing 33 hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Netanyahu's cabinet delayed a planned vote on the agreement, citing what it called Hamas's attempt to extort last-minute concessions. Here's Israeli government spokesman David Mensah.
The Israeli cabinet cannot meet to agree this deal. It cannot convene until the mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements of the agreement that were already agreed. Families of our hostages have been informed today that Hamas has added further demands that contradict the agreement with the mediators. As of this time, the details of the agreement have not yet been finalized. Hamas denies the claims, insisting it remains committed to the agreement.
Mediators from the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt are meeting in Cairo to address the crisis, with President Biden emphasizing the humanitarian and diplomatic importance of the deal.
Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum faced questions about key environmental and energy policies during his Senate confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary. Daily Wire reporter Tim Rice reports.
The former North Dakota governor pledged to advance Trump's energy dominance agenda while protecting public lands. Democrats pressed Burgum on wind farming and electric vehicle policies, while Republicans focused on boosting energy production and forest management. Here's a bit of his exchange with Maine Senator Angus King.
In a former life, I developed both baseload and intermittent resources. I don't want the word baseload to be code for no renewables. That's not what you're saying, is it?
No, we need a balance. If you want to call them renewables, it's used as a positive word, but this is a fact of life, is they're intermittent. And when they're intermittent, until we have storage solutions and we're years away from having significant enough cost-effective storage to support that, we need to have the baseload or the intermittent doesn't even have a life.
Burgum emphasized balancing national security, economic growth, and environmental protections. With bipartisan interest in his approach, Burgum's nomination appears on track for confirmation.
The incoming Trump administration is already being pressed to walk back many of the Biden administration's environmental policies. According to an exclusive Daily Wire report, a group of energy experts led by the American Energy Institute sent a memo to Trump EPA nominee and former New York Representative Lee Zeldin, outlining 10 steps they think he should take when his term begins. The list includes freezing all EPA activities pending further review and ending Biden's electric vehicle mandate, among others. Zeldin's hearing before the Senate Committee on Public Works and the Environment took place earlier today.
Southern California is beginning the conversation around rebuilding after the wildfires destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has more.
Estimates for repairs are expected to reach tens of billions of dollars, so many are coming to terms with a recovery process that could take years. Officials now are focusing on clearing toxic debris and planning reconstruction efforts. As things stand now, 25 people have been killed in the fires, with many more missing, and at least 12,000 structures have been destroyed. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has issued an executive order to streamline rebuilding as federal aid begins to provide temporary housing and assistance. Amid the already mounting criticism of Mayor Bass, a new report reveals that she did not deploy L.A. 's crisis response team to help with the fires.
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