Stories We're Following - 10 Dec 2023

FreedomCast's Weekly Newswire - a survey of stories driving the week's discourse and worth monitoring as society marches onward.

---

Top Story

Major AI Bill in the EU

• EU Reaches Deal on Landmark AI Bill, Racing Ahead of US (WaPo)

---

The Academy

• Anti-Semitism Hearing Highlights Ivy League Hypocrisy on Free Speech (The Washington Free Beacon)

• No End to Wisconsin’s Higher Ed Budget Standoff (Insider Higher Ed)

• No White Faculty Allowed (City Journal)

---

The Administrative State

• Hunter Biden Indicted on Nine Tax Charges, Adding to Gun Charges in Special Counsel Probe (Ground News)

---

Elections

• Biden Campaign Not Yet Committing to General Election Debates (The Hill)

---

Energy & the Environment

• Black Alabamians Endured Poor Sewage for Decades. Now They May See Justice. (WaPo)

---

The FED, Wall-Street, & the Economy

• None this week.

---

Healthcare & Global Public Health

• Visual Timeline: ‘Proximal Origin’ (US Right to Know)

---

High Courts

• Douglass Mackey Prison Sentence Postponed by Appeals Court in Meme Case (SCNR)

---

International News

• Brazil Deploys Troops to Venezuela Border (BBC)

• China’s Xi Goes Full Stalin with Purge (Politico)

Hamas-Israel War & Global Implications

Updates

• Proof that Gaza Health Ministry Just Makes Casualty Statistics Up (Elder of Ziyon)

• Will Netanyahu Risk a Tunnel Conflict to ‘eradicate Hamas’, Stay in Power? (Al Jazeera)

---

• Secret Indian Memo Ordered “Concrete Measures” Against Hardeep Singh Nijjar Two Months Before His Assassination in Canada (The Intercept)

• New Arrest Highlights How Italy Concealed Migrant Rape By Framing Amanda Knox (The Daily Wire)

---

Legislatures

• The FBI’s Breach of Religious Freedom: The Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Catholic Americans (Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government)

• Here’s How McCarthy’s Resignation Affects House GOP’s Slim Majority (The Hill)

• Republicans Propose New Office To Enforce Affirmative Action Ban (The Washington Free Beacon)

---

Meta-Media & News Malfeasance

• None this week.

---

National Sovereignty & Defense

• None this week.

---

Tech

Artificial Intelligence

• EU Reaches Deal on Landmark AI Bill, Racing Ahead of US (WaPo) - *Top Story*

• Google’s Demo for ChatGPT Rival Criticized by Some Employees (Bloomberg)

• How Should AI-generated Content Be Labeled? (Ideas Made to Matter - MIT Sloan School)

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

• None this week.

Social Media Governance

• Daily Wire and The Federalist Sue Biden State Department Over Censorship Effort (The Daily Wire)

Livestream at 6:00 PM Tonight: #CTIFiles #4, Hamilton 68 Edition

Other Tech Stories

• None this week.

---

The Woke, the Red-pilled, & the Heterodox Counterculture

• Kelsey Grammer’s Interview Cut Short by Studio Rep After Donald Trump Comments, Says Host (The Messenger)

• Riley Gaines Offers to Compensate Women for Prize Money if They Bow Out of Competitions with Trans Athletes. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon Says He'll Double It. (Not the Bee)

• Will It Be Riot Season Again in 2024? (City Journal)

---

Other Trending Stories

• ACLU Has a New Client: The National Rifle Association (NYT)

• Top Abortion Group Faced Wrath of AOC's Office for Neglecting Key Priority to Protect Dem Majority: Book (Fox News)

• Woman Tried to Burn MLK’s Birth Home, but Witnesses Stopped Her, police say [video] (WSAZ)

---

Weekly White Pill(s)

• Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Mental Processes in Alzheimer’s Patients (Good News Network)

---

*** FreedomCast MERCH discounts - use code ‘HOLIDAYS’ for 8% off! ***

See more news & commentary at - FreedomCast.us/what-were-following.

---