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I'm daily WIRE, Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, January second, and this is your Morning Wire, afternoon update.

Embattled Harvard President Claudeen Gay has resigned. This comes after Gay faced of intense scrutiny over her congressional testimony on anti-Semitism and numerous allegations of plagiarism. Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham has more.

Gay's resignation marks the shortest ever presidency in the university's history. According to the Boston Globe, Harvard provost Dr. Alan Garber will serve as interim president. The announcement comes on the heels of six new plagiarism charges. They claim that Gay took several paragraphs from David Cannon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin. Adding in these six new charges, Gay faces nearly 50 plagiarism allegations, or as the Washington Free Beacon puts it, half of Gay's published works. As reported by the Free Beacon, Gay borrowed four sentences from Cannon's 1999 book, Race, Redistricting and Representation: the Unintended Consequences of Black Majority districts without quotation marks and with only minor semantic tweaks.

Senior Hamas leader, Mawad Al-Khael Al-Aroory and two other Hamas officials were killed in Lebanon, the terrorist group confirmed today. Initially, Lebanon state media said the explosion was caused by a strike during a meeting held at Hamas offices in Beirut. So far, Israel has denied any involvement in the strike, but did allegedly note that it was a very precise attack.

Russia launched an attack on several Ukrainian cities, including the capital today. In Kiev, air raid sirens began to go off just before 6:00 a. M. Ukraineon officials say the attacks that hit several cities in the country lasted about four hours, during which Russia launched ballistic missiles and Iranian made drones. According to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalinsky, at least five people are dead and over 100 injured.

In a dramatic scene this morning, South Korea's liberal opposition leader, Lee Jae-Myoung, was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the city of Poussin. Police say the attack happened as Lee walked through a crowd of journalists and others after a tour of the proposed site of a new airport in the city. The attacker approached Lee saying he wanted an autograft, then stabbed him on the left side of his neck. The shocking attack was caught on video.

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59-year-old politician was airlifted to a hospital in Seoul after receiving some emergency treatment on the ground. Lee's political party said in a statement that he is recovering. Democratic party officials quickly subdued the attacker before police officers detained him.

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A new poll shows that more Americans think foreign policy deserves more focus from the US government in 2024. With international concerns and rising immigration taking center stage, here's Daily Wire Senior Editor, Cabot Phillips.

The new poll from APNORK shows roughly four in 10 US adults brought up various foreign policy issues when asked to share up to five issues for the government to work on in the next year. It's nearly twice as many respondents who mentioned those types of topics in the same poll last year. Worries surrounding the economy still overshadowed every other issue, but foreign policy has gained importance on both sides of the aisle. Roughly 46 % of Republicans named it up from 23 % last year, while 34 % of Democrats did the same compared with 16 % a year ago. A law.

In California that bans people from carrying firearms in many public places has taken effect, even as legal challenges against the law continue. A US district judge issued a December 20th ruling that blocked the law from taking effect. The judge said it violated the Second Amendment and deprized California's of the ability to defend themselves. Then over the weekend, a federal appeals court put a temporary hold on that judge's ruling. The law signed by Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom blocks people from carrying concealed guns in 26 different types of places, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos. Supporters of the law say it's about making the Golden State safer.

Do you need a gun to go to your daughter's AYSO soccer game? I would say you need a water bottle, not a gun.

Meanwhile, critics of the bill say it hurts law-abiding citizens.

We're punishing law-abiding people who are simply exercising their constitutional rights and doing nothing about the criminals.

Someone in Michigan could soon be $842.4 million richer after a winning Powerball ticket was sold there on the first day of 2024. This marks the fifth largest Powerball jackpot and the 10th largest US lottery jackpot ever won. And the.

College football teams of Michigan and Washington have both reached the national title game after big wins over Alabama and Texas. The College Football Playoff National Championship game will be played at Houston's NRG Stadium next Monday, January eighth at 7:30 PM Eastern.

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