DeSantis Drops Out of 2024 Presidential Race; U.N. Meeting Exposes China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has officially dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House, endorsing former President Donald Trump in the process. DeSantis’s exit means the GOP field is now down to just two people, with Trump maintaining a comfortable lead over rival Nikki Haley in the latest polls. Supporters of both candidates attended their respective campaign events over the weekend, as they make a final push before the New Hampshire primaries.

The United Nations held its Universal Periodic Review for Communist China on Jan. 22 in Geneva. It’s an examination of human rights records that all U.N. member states have to undergo every four to five years. The meeting highlighted the Chinese Communist regime’s practice of forcibly extracting organs from prisoners of conscience, and selling them for profit.

Much of the U.S, remained gripped by deadly Arctic weather this weekend, with sub-freezing conditions reaching as far south as Texas and Florida. Winter storms this month claimed at least 67 lives around the country, many involving hypothermia or road accidents.

Harvard submitted a trove of documents to House lawmakers who are leading the plagiarism investigation into the university’s former president Glaudine Gay. The documents contain new information about Harvard’s response to the controversy and a detailed review of the allegations.