HOUR 1

• Who is bringing Fentanyl across the border? / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/08/09/1191638114/fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-border-drugs
• FOX Business host Sean Duffy discusses the Hunter Biden investigation and reacts to outrage from Gold Star families over the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-release-bank-records-hunter-biden-payments-russian-kazakh-oligarchs-total-clears-20m
• Who is Elvis Chan? / https://www.pli.edu/faculty/elvis-m.-chan-i1490041
• Rick Whitbeck from Power the Future / https://powerthefuture.com/

HOUR 2

• CDCP reported a 12.5% increase in the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the last week of July but Alaska’s numbers are looking different / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/08/08/cdc-reports-bump-covid-19-hospitalizations-alaska-sees-case-rates-remain-flat/
• Maui wildfires ravaging neighborhoods / (CBS News) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-hurricane-dora-winds-wildfires-evacuations-power-outages/
• "After buying Barstool Sports in 2020, casino owner Penn Entertainment has sold the media company back to its founder, David Portnoy" / (HR) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/espn-bet-sportsbook-penn-entertainment-barstool-sold-1235559140/
• "Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution" / (AP) https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-rights-constitutional-amendment-special-election-227cde039f8d51723612878525164f1a?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew
• U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan on China's and Russia's Navy in Alaskan waters
• Charles and Tom discuss the threat of China and the U.S.'s response