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#10 Boxing Star Ebanie Bridges Slams New Policy of Allowing Transgender Women to Compete in Female Category in 2024: 'This is Wrong on so Many Levels' - Isabel Baldwin for Daily Mail
Ebanie Bridges has blasted USA Boxing for a 'Transgender Policy', which will allow male boxers who transition to fight in the female category from 2024. The governing body, which oversees America's amateur and Olympic-style boxing, has announced it will allow transgender athletes to compete under certain conditions. While boxers under the age of 18 must still compete as their birth gender, transgender fighters will be permitted to fight in the category of their choice.
#9 FDA Identified Problems at Moderna Plant Making Substance for COVID Vaccine: Document - Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors uncovered problems at a Moderna plant used to manufacture a substance that is part of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to a newly released document.
Moderna failed to meet multiple requirements, including rules aimed at minimizing the potential for contamination, according to the document. FDA inspectors performed inspections at the plant in Norwood, Massachusetts, from Sept. 11 to Sept. 21, visiting nine times in total. They found that equipment used to manufacture the substance was not cleaned properly before usage, that a mock cleaning done for manufacturing did not adequately simulate the actual process, that written alarm procedures were not followed, and that neither the equipment nor the plant were designed in a way that would make contamination less likely. Inspectors also learned that Moderna used materials beyond their expiration date.
#8 The Entrepreneur Who Bet His Company on a Fight With Apple - Aaron Tilley for The Wall Street Journal
Chief Executive Joe Kiani bet the future of the company he spent three decades building in an expensive legal battle with the world’s most valuable company. So far, he is winning, but it isn’t over. His company, which pioneered a better method for measuring blood-oxygen levels, has spent around $100 million fighting Apple in a dispute that temporarily halted Apple Watch sales. Sales have resumed while a court weighs the company’s request to stay the ban during an appeal. Kiani has vowed to fight on and said he won’t settle with Apple unless the tech giant pays for his technology and agrees to change how it interacts with smaller companies.
#7 A Fraying Coalition: Black, Hispanic, and Young Voters Abandon Biden as Election Year Begins - USA Today
President Joe Biden heads into the election year showing alarming weakness among stalwarts of the Democratic base, with Donald Trump leading among Hispanic voters and young people. One in 5 Black voters now say they'll support a third-party candidate in November. In a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, Biden's failure to consolidate support in key parts of the coalition that elected him in 2020 has left him narrowly trailing Trump, the likely Republican nominee, 39%-37%; 17% support an unnamed third-party candidate.
#6 Japan Rocked by 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake, Multiple Dead - Paul Bois for Breitbart
Japan rang in the New Year with a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that killed at least four people and caused massive property damage.“The quake struck at 4:10 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles) in the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa prefecture, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake collapsed buildings, caused fires, and triggered tsunami alerts as far away as eastern Russia, prompting orders for residents to evacuate affected coastal areas of Japan,” according to CNN. At least 31 smaller aftershocks continued through the day, which will likely continue for days and months to follow. One particularly harrowing story involved 1,400 passengers stranded inside a high-speed bullet train roughly ten hours after the main earthquake.
#5 Report: Bill Clinton to Be Unmasked in Court Documents Linked to Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein - Amy Furr for Breitbart
Former President Bill Clinton (D) will soon be named in court documents linked to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, the New York Post revealed Sunday.
According to the Post, the documents are scheduled to be released in a few days, and those papers will identify 77-year-old Clinton as “John Doe 36.”
#4 Supreme Court Justice Roberts Urges 'Caution,' Predicts AI Will 'Significantly' Impact Legal Field - Madeleine Hubbard for Just the News
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is urging the cautious use of artificial intelligence, and he predicts it will "significantly" impact the legal field.
"As 2023 draws to a close with breathless predictions about the future of Artificial Intelligence, some may wonder whether judges are about to become obsolete. I am sure we are not—but equally confident that technological changes will continue to transform our work," Roberts wrote in an end-of-the-year report published Sunday. "But any use of AI requires caution and humility," he also said before giving an example where attorneys submitted a brief in which AI included a reference to a nonexistent legal case. Roberts also said AI raises concerns about confidentiality as well as due process and bias in criminal cases.
#3 What to Know About the New IRS Tax Brackets for 2024 — and Who Stands to Gain - Breanne Deppisch for The Washington Examiner
The Internal Revenue Service’s new federal income tax brackets and standard deductions took effect Monday, providing a boost to many people via slightly higher, inflation-adjusted paychecks. The IRS adjustments increased federal tax brackets by 5.4% for each type of filer for 2024-2025 in a bid to account for the impact of inflation. The changes were first announced by the IRS in its annual adjustment report published last month.
The IRS adjusts tax brackets each year to help combat inflation and higher consumer prices. These adjustments are crucial to prevent so-called bracket creep, the phenomenon that occurs when inflation pushes taxpayers into a higher income bracket than they should be in due to the higher cost of living. The tax inflation adjustments will apply to tax returns filed in 2025, the IRS said in its report.
#2 Biden Gives Fed Workers Largest Pay Raise in Over 40 Years as Average Americans Struggle Financially - Warner Todd Huston for The Western Journal
Biden declared this giant pay raise on his own hook for more than two million government workers by issuing his Dec. 21 “Executive order on the adjustments of certain rates of pay,” which affects the “the rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems.” As maintained in his fiscal 2024 budget proposal revealed last March, Biden has now implemented a 4.7 percent across-the-board hike in basic pay, according to the website Government Executive. He is also preparing to give the military a 5.2 percent pay raise.
#1 This Lesson From the 1970s Rings True Today - BlazeTV Staff
There’s no doubt that 2023 has been chaotic, and for those born after the '70s, it’s been the most chaotic year yet. But Glenn Beck remembers the '70s and their own struggles weren't a far cry from the trials and tribulations of today: economic turmoil, despair, an energy crisis, and rampant crime.
