Hunter Biden Probe Takes Surprising Turn, New York City Bans Tiktok, Kids Protected From Transgender Surgeries in North Carolina | Aug. 17

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: North Carolina lawmakers override the governor’s veto and vote to protect kids from gender procedure. New York City employees have to delete TikTok from their government issued phones. A Georgia state GOP senator calls for a special session in the state to review the actions of Fani Willis. The House oversight committee is asking for access at the National Archives to Joe Biden's communications as vice president with his son Hunter Biden. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Samantha Cheris, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday,
0:06.9	August 17th, here are today's headlines.
0:21.7	North Carolina lawmakers have overridden a governor veto and voted to protect kids from
0:27.1	gender procedure.
0:28.8	Last month, North Carolina Democrat Governor Roy Cooper vetoed three bills backed by Republicans.
0:35.3	The first bill prevents medical professionals from prescribing hormone therapy or puberty
0:40.1	blockers to anyone under 18.
0:43.0	The bill also prevents doctors from performing gender surgeries such as mastectomies on minors.
0:49.2	When Cooper vetoed the bill in July, he said, we don't need politicians inflaming their
0:53.9	political culture wars by making broad, uninformed decisions about an extremely small number
0:59.4	of vulnerable children.
1:01.4	The North Carolina governor also vetoed two other bills at the same time.
1:05.7	One bill that limits LGBTQ plus curriculum in early grades, and another bill banning men
1:11.4	in women's sports.
1:13.1	But last night, the Republican majority and the North Carolina state legislature overwrote
1:18.2	all three of the governor's videos.
1:20.8	New York City employees have to delete TikTok from their phones.
1:39.2	New York City Hall confirmed to the Hill that all city employees have to remove the app
1:44.2	from their government issued devices within the next 30 days.
1:48.0	The big apple is joining a number of other cities and states that have made similar decisions
1:52.7	in an effort to prevent China from accessing user data on TikTok.
1:58.0	Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have voiced concerns over TikTok and the Chinese
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