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Good morning! Today we’re covering former President Donald Trump becoming the projected winner of the 2024 election, Florida voters rejecting referendums on legalizing recreational weed and abortions, and the firing of Israel’s defense minister. |
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| Trump Declares Victory | Former President Donald Trump is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential election, according to Decision Desk HQ. As of 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the president-elect was projected to win the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Wisconsin, while leading comfortably in Michigan and Arizona.
By the time Trump took the stage at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, Republicans had already captured the U.S. Senate with victories in Ohio and West Virginia. Further buttressing his mandate, the former president was on track to win the national popular vote.
"God spared my life for a reason," Trump said, referring to the assassination attempts on his life.
"This was a movement like nobody has ever seen before, and frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There's never been anything like this in this country," Trump said. "We're going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. We're going to fix our borders. We're going to fix everything about our country." | | |
Florida Voters Reject Measures to Legalize Abortion and Marijuana Floridian voters on Tuesday rejected two ballot measures that would have legalized abortion and recreational marijuana.
The outcome of the abortion referendum makes Florida the first state to reject such a measure in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade. The recreational marijuana amendment would have made it legal for adults ages 21 and older to purchase and possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana and use the drug recreationally. FULL STORY |
Israel’s Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, bringing a longstanding conflict to a head.
Netanyahu planned to move Foreign Minister Israel Katz to the position of defense minister and replace him with Gideon Sa'ar, who would be added to the Cabinet. Netanyahu and Gallant had been at odds throughout the war in Gaza, but Netanyahu had held off on firing him. A previous attempt to fire him in March 2023, before the war broke out, sparked widespread street protests after Gallant said the government’s attempts at judicial reform endangered national security.
“My highest duty as prime minister of Israel is to safeguard Israel’s security and lead us to a decisive victory,” Netanyahu said on Nov. 5. “During wartime, more than ever, a complete trust between the prime minister and the defense minister is essential. Unfortunately, while we initially had this trust and accomplished much in the early months of the campaign, over recent months, the trust between me and the defense minister has eroded.” FULL STORY |
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Mr. Li Hongzhi is a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and was nominated by the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He is also the recipient of Freedom House’s International Religious Freedom Award.
The above article has been translated from Chinese and was originally published on FalunDafa.org
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