Evening Wire: Twin City Church Interrupted & Dolly Turns 80 | 1.19.26
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What happened during the anti-ICE protest at the Twin Cities church?
Anti-ice protesters storm a Twin Cities church with a celebrity guest. HHS digs into the health effects of cell phone radiation. And Dolly Parton turns 80. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Monday, January 19th. Happy MLK Day. And this is Evening Wire.
Anti-ice protesters stormed a Minnesota church on Sunday, including a surprising celebrity guest, Don Lemon. Here's Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce with the details. Dozens of activists, including the former CNN host, disrupted a church service yesterday morning in St. Paul, Minnesota. Activist leader Nakima Levy-Armstrong told Lemon the goal was to, quote, "...disrupt business as usual." The protest lasted roughly 30 minutes, during which Lemon occasionally argued with church members to defend the, quote, free speech of the agitators. Lemon spoke to lead pastor Jonathan Parnell, who was preaching when the protesters barged in on his livestream.
This is unacceptable. It's shameful. It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. Listen, there's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest. We're here to worship Jesus. That's why we're here. That's what we're about. Don't you think Jesus would be understanding and love these folks? We're about spreading the love of Jesus. But did you try to talk to them as a Christian? No one is willing to talk. Okay. I have to take care of my church and my family, so I ask that you actually would also leave this building.
The DOJ is investigating the incident as a violation of the FACE Act, which protects places of worship from threats of violence. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon appeared on the Benny Johnson Show to explain how the Ku Klux Klan Act also applies.
The Klan Act is a law that makes it illegal to terrorize citizens, to violate their civil rights, to get together and conspire to violate the civil rights. The FACE Act is just the start. Like I said, you have material support for disruptive activities. You have conspiracy to violate civil rights. Don Lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility. He went into the facility and then he began, quote unquote, committing journalism. As if that's sort of a shield from being an embedded part of a criminal conspiracy, it isn't.
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to serve on President Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin received, through diplomatic channels, an invitation to join the Board of Peace and that Moscow is hoping to get more details from the U.S. side. Created by an agreement between the U.S., Israel, and Hamas last year, the Board of Peace is to oversee a technocratic government which will run the Gaza Strip.
The state of Florida is rejecting affirmative action programs in hiring and contracting. The Daily Wire can first report that the state attorney general will no longer recognize or defend the dozens of affirmative action programs enshrined in state law. In a legal opinion, Attorney General James Uthmeyer wrote that the programs violate both the Florida and United States constitutions by setting aside opportunities for non-white people. Uthmeyer pointed to the recent Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that struck down the ability of colleges to admit students based on race. That ruling has proved monumental for challenges nationwide to racial preferences embedded in law.
A new study from HHS is underway targeting the health effects of cell phone radiation. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the story.
According to HHS, the study will examine electromagnetic radiation and human health to identify gaps in current scientific knowledge, including risks associated with newer technologies. Following the announcement, eagle-eyed critics have noticed that federal web pages asserting that, quote, cell phones are not dangerous, that's been removed.
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