Monday Afternoon Update: Death Toll Rises After Turkey And Syria Earthquakes, NYC Ends COVID Mandate For Public Workers, And More

Tim MeadsFebruary 6, 2023

This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. Click to listen to the podcast version. Here.

Earthquakes rock Syria and Turkey, leaving thousands dead

Turkey and Syria were both rocked by earthquakes that struck at magnitudes 7.8 and 7.7.5 in the last 24 hours. Untold numbers are trapped in the wreckage with more than 3,000 killed so far – a number that is expected to rise.

China accuses U.S. “Indiscriminate Use Of Force”

In an update to this morning’s episode of Morning Wire, China is now accusing the United States of using “indiscriminate use of force” After the U.S. military downed the Chinese spy balloon, which had been traveling across the country for the past week, China insists the aircraft was a civilian weather device.

Record Amount Of Americans Say They’re Worse Off Today Than When Biden Took Office

A new ABC News/Washington Post survey has revealed that four out of 10 Americans believe they are financially worse off than before President Biden was elected. This is the largest negative response to the poll since ABC/The Post started asking the question 37 year ago. Just days before Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech, the poll was conducted.

Arrest of Power Substation Attackers

FBI arrests a Florida man, and a Maryland woman, for planning to attack power substations in Baltimore. They were believed to be FBI agents “racially or ethnically motivated,” Inflicting quote “maximum harm” on the city’s power grid.

NYC Lifts the Covid Mandate for City Workers

Eric Adams, New York City Mayor, announced that he would end the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers beginning February 10.

Kidnapped Missouri Children Found In Florida

Two children, who were abducted from Kansas City in Missouri in March 2022, were found with their kidnapper in a Florida grocery shop. High Springs police say that they ran a routine tag check on the vehicle outside Winn Dixie and traced it to a fugitive. They then found the woman in the store with the girl and the boy, both aged 12, and the girl, who were abducted in March 2022. They will soon return the brother and sister to their families.

New Jersey Man Hires Hitman to Kill Teenager.

New Jersey police say that a man hired a hitman, paying twenty thousand dollars in bitcoin, to kill a fourteen-year-old boy. The suspect was charged with sexually molestation. According to police, the man wanted to kill the minor in order not to be allowed into a future trial.

Twitch suspends AI-Generated “Seinfeld” Knock-Off

Twitch has taken down the artificial intelligence-generated 24/7 streaming show, modeled after ‘Seinfeld’ After Jerry Seinfeld, the character that was meant to be Jerry Seinfeld, made a transphobic joke during stand-up. The show is titled “Nothing, Forever” Seinfeld’s entire run is programmed and created by the program to create a stream of unending streams using the same style and plot elements, but with modern themes.

“I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness,” The character said. “Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone.”

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Britain’s Nurses, Ambulance Workers Strike

Employees of Britain’s National Health Service started their largest strike in history on Monday. Tens of thousands are striking for higher wages as nurses and ambulance workers demand more. But critics claim that the strike is putting pressure on an already fragile health system and putting U.K. citizens at risk.

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