{"id":1770897,"date":"2022-12-09T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770897"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:34:09","slug":"friday-afternoon-update-more-electricity-substations-attacked-biden-slammed-for-prisoner-swap-weekly-jobless-claims-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/friday-afternoon-update-more-electricity-substations-attacked-biden-slammed-for-prisoner-swap-weekly-jobless-claims-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Afternoon Update: More Electricity Substations Attacked, Biden Slammed For Prisoner Swap, Weekly Jobless Claims Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffriday-afternoon-update-more-electricity-substations-attacked-biden-slammed-for-prisoner-swap-weekly-jobless-claims-increase%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>This article is a companion piece to today\u2019s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Looking Into Northwest Electricity Substations Attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/authorities-report-five-electricity-substations-targeted-in-pacific-northwest-days-after-north-carolina-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> there have been reports of apparent attacks against at least five electricity substations in Washington State and Oregon in November. The incidents followed what appeared to be deliberate attacks on two substations in North Carolina that resulted in the loss of power for tens of thousands of residents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden Gets Blowback For Prisoner Swap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americas-enemies-have-a-best-friend-in-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered some blowback<\/a> from his own party for his agreement to a one-for-one swap of WNBA star Britney Griner for infamous Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as \u201cThe Merchant of Death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Senator Bob Menendez called it a \u201cdeeply disturbing decision,\u201d saying quote, \u201cThe Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griner\u2019s of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called \u2018Merchant of Death.\u2019 Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Marine Disappointed He Hasn\u2019t Been Freed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Whelan, the former Marine who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-dont-understand-marine-vet-left-in-russian-prison-greatly-disappointed-after-griner-swap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CNN that he doesn\u2019t understand why the Biden administration hasn\u2019t done more to free him, saying, \u201cI am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four year anniversary of my arrest is coming up. I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. I don\u2019t understand why I\u2019m still sitting here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden\u2019s Approval Remains Low<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/biden-approval-rating-holds-underwater-130431600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approval rating<\/a> remains at 43% among U.S. adults, about the same as last month. 55% of people disapprove of the job Biden is doing, while just 25% of people describe the economy as \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Detroit School Board Changes Name Of Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Detroit School Board recently voted to change the name of Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, named for famed neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. The new name will be Crockett Midtown High School of Science and Medicine. Carson commented this week on the name change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s ridiculous that they believe that to solve a problem, you redefine it,\u201d Carson recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/worked-ben-carson-know-canceling-just-not-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cCall it something else and it\u2019s not a problem anymore \u2026 basically it depends on people being less than intellectually strong. That\u2019s a good way of saying stupid. They know exactly what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theranos Executive Sentenced<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Theranos executive Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/07\/tech\/sunny-balwani-theranos-trial-sentencing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company\u2019s blood-testing fraud. That punishment is slightly longer than that given to CEO Elizabeth Homes, who was his accomplice in one of Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest scandals. The 57-year-old was convicted in July of fraud and conspiracy connected to the company\u2019s faulty medical technology that duped investors and endangered patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOJ Claims \u2018Bureaucratic Incompetence\u2019 In Whitey Bulger Killing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerious mismanagement,\u201d \u201cbureaucratic incompetence,\u201d and bad policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/doj-ig-mismanagement-bureaucratic-incompetence-bad-policy-contributed-to-prison-murder-of-former-most-wanted-fugitive-whitey-bulger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributed<\/a> to the death of Boston mob boss James \u201cWhitey\u201d Bulger.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a report from the Department of Justice Inspector General released Wednesday. Bulger was killed in the Hazelton prison by three inmates in West Virginia shortly after being transferred from a federal prison in Florida. Bulger was placed on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted list in 1999 until his arrest in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly Jobless Claims Increase <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, weekly jobless claims <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-jobless-claims-modestly-last-133803693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> by 4,000 to 230,000 and long-term or continuing claims rose by 62,000 to 1.67 million \u2014 a 10-month high \u2014 as the labor market remains tight.<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to the audio version of this podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/morning-wire\/id1576594336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a companion piece to today\u2019s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click\u00a0here. FBI Looking Into Northwest Electricity Substations Attacks The FBI says there have been reports of apparent attacks against at least five electricity substations in Washington State and Oregon in November. 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