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Tue, 3 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What military aid is being sent to Ukraine?
The Pentagon is sending nearly a billion dollars in additional military aid to Ukraine. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the numbers.
Chapter 2: What is Secretary Blinken's role in Ukraine aid?
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making good on his promise to rush military and economic aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump takes office. The Pentagon is sending $725 million worth of anti-tank missiles, drones, and landmines. Meanwhile, Blinken is in Brussels today meeting with NATO allies. The State Department says the main goal of this meeting is to shore up support for Ukraine.
Chapter 3: What are Trump's views on U.S. military aid to Ukraine?
Trump says he may cut U.S. military aid to Ukraine and has already appointed retired General Keith Kellogg to help mediate a quick end to the war. Republican Senator Josh Hawley says Trump cannot get into office fast enough.
He's also asking, Biden is, for Congress to appropriate even more money to Ukraine beyond what he's sending him now. He wants billions more. That's in his end of the year funding request. It is totally ridiculous. It's time for him to admit that his Ukraine policy has been a total disaster.
Chapter 4: How much more aid is Biden requesting for Ukraine?
South Korea's president has declared martial law. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.
President Yoon Suk-yeol faced widespread backlash almost immediately for his declaration. The South Korean parliament voted unanimously to lift martial law, and the president acquiesced just hours later.
Chapter 5: What led to the declaration of martial law in South Korea?
Yoon had initially declared martial law in an unscheduled late-night press conference where he accused opposition party leaders of taking anti-state actions and jeopardizing the country's constitutional order.
Chapter 6: What was the public response to South Korea's martial law?
I am declaring martial law to protect a free South Korea from the North Korean communist forces, eliminate shameless pro-North Korean and anti-state forces that prey upon the freedom and happiness of our people, and protect the free constitutional order.
Chapter 7: What actions did President Yoon take regarding martial law?
The president's announcement followed opposition attempts to impeach top prosecutors and block Yul's budget proposal. The situation escalated amid protests and clashes outside the National Assembly.
President-elect Donald Trump says there will be, quote, all hell to pay if Hamas doesn't release all hostages before he takes office. His statement came on Monday, hours after the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed the death of American-Israeli hostage Omer Nutra, who had been held by Hamas since the October 7th attacks.
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Further proceedings in Hunter Biden's gun trial have been halted. Here with the latest in the Hunter Biden saga is Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips.
Following a sweeping pardon granted by his father, President Joe Biden, Judge Mary Ellen Noriega paused the case against Hunter, but stopped short of dismissing it outright. Noriega cited the clemency which shields Hunter from prosecution for offenses committed between January 1st, 2014 and December 1st, 2024.
The pardon, which also covers Hunter's tax evasion charges in California, has sparked a wave of criticism, mainly regarding public trust in the Justice Department. Special Counsel David Weiss rejected the president's justification of the pardon, that Hunter had been selectively targeted, while arguing that the grand jury's charges should stand despite the pardon.
Weiss says he acknowledges that Hunter received an act of mercy, but believes the grand jury's verdict should still stand.
A man was stabbed in New York's Times Square by a 13-year-old migrant boy and his masked friends for refusing to take their picture. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the details.
When the victim refused to take the photo, the suspects punched him in the face and stabbed him in the back and leg with a brass knuckle knife. They also tried to steal his phone, but fled after failing. The teen, who now faces charges of second-degree robbery, was arrested after a search. The other suspects, though, remain at large.
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