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  19.      <title>Donald Trump: Elon Musk A ‘TRAIN WRECK,’ Third Party Push Will Cause ‘CHAOS’</title>
  20.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-elon-musk-a-train-wreck-third-party-push-will-cause-chaos</link>
  21.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  22.      <description>President Donald Trump has been “saddened” to watch his former ally, tech titan Elon Musk, go “off the rails,” the president said on Sunday. Trump warned against Musk’s bid to start a new third party to challenge Republicans and Democrats. Trump said the venture was doomed and would prove counterproductive. “I am saddened to watch ...</description>
  23.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump has been “saddened” to watch his former ally, tech titan Elon Musk, go “off the rails,” the president said on Sunday.</span></p>
  24. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump warned against Musk’s bid to start a new third party to challenge Republicans and Democrats. Trump said the venture was doomed and would prove counterproductive.</span></p>
  25. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States — The System seems not designed for them,” Trump wrote in a </span><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114808616176041421"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Truth Social.</span></p>
  26. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION &amp; CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!” he continued.</span></p>
  27. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump attributed Musk’s pique at the administration and the landmark “One Big, Beautiful Bill” to the bill’s abolishment of the tax credits for electric vehicles and the elimination of the electric vehicle mandate.</span></p>
  28. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president said that Musk had previously expressed support for stripping away federal support for electric vehicles.</span></p>
  29. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I have campaigned on this for two years and, quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned Endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV Mandate — It was in every speech I made, and in every conversation I had. He said he had no problems with that — I was very surprised!” Trump posted.</span></p>
  30. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musk on Saturday suggested that his main issue with Trump’s signature legislation is not its impact on EV subsidies, but its overall price tag.</span></p>
  31. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil &amp; gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill. In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful. Everyone knows this!,” Musk </span><a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930660788739698878"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on X.</span></p>
  32. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump’s post on Sunday also referenced his decision to pull the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a friend of Musk&#8217;s who the billionaire wanted heading the federal space agency — which Musk’s SpaceX works closely with on space exploration and Mars colonization.</span></p>
  33. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[W]hile I thought his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn that he was a blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before. Elon probably was, also. I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon’s corporate life,” Trump posted. “My Number One charge is to protect the American Public!”</span></p>
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  40.      <title>Trump Shares Plan To Visit Site Of Texas Flood Damage</title>
  41.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-shares-plan-to-visit-site-of-texas-flood-damage</link>
  42.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  43.      <description>President Donald Trump plans to visit Texas to personally inspect flood damage and meet with local officials and others. Talking to reporters on Sunday, the president said that he had not yet made firm plans for the trip to the Lone Star State, but expected that “probably Friday” would be the day. &amp;#8220;We wanted to ...</description>
  44.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump plans to visit Texas to personally inspect flood damage and meet with local officials and others.</span></p>
  45. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Talking to reporters on Sunday, the president said that he had not yet made firm plans for the trip to the Lone Star State, but expected that “probably Friday” would be the day.</span></p>
  46. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We wanted to leave a little time. I would&#8217;ve done it today, but we&#8217;d just be in their way,” the president said.</span></p>
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  48. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> says he plans to visit Texas later this week:</p>
  49. <p>&quot;Probably on Friday. We wanted to leave a little time. I would&#39;ve done it today, but we&#39;d just be in their way — probably Friday.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LK13OiCXRI">pic.twitter.com/LK13OiCXRI</a></p>
  50. <p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1941985373548089480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  53. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/texas-flooding-camp-mystic-07-06-25-hnk#cmcs5x3na000c3b6rxmty6skf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pledged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> continued federal assistance for those affected by the flooding, as well.</span></p>
  54. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ll continue to be there. And we’re working very closely with representatives from Texas, and it’s a horrible thing that took place, absolutely horrible,” Trump said. “So we say, God bless all of the people that have gone through so much, and God bless, God bless the state of Texas.”</span></p>
  55. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president was noncommittal on assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which took heavy criticism in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last year. The hurricane wrought catastrophic damage in North Carolina in September, and the FEMA response was mired in controversy over accusations that federal officials complicated and slowed the emergency response.</span></p>
  56. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“FEMA is something we can talk about later, but right now, they’re busy working, so we’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.</span></p>
  57. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By Sunday afternoon, the death toll from the Texas flooding had reached at least 80. The majority of those fatalities – 68 – have come from Kerr County in Central Texas. Of those killed in Kerr, 40 are adults and 28 are children, according to local authorities.</span></p>
  58. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The flash flooding caught many by surprise when the Guadalupe River in Texas surged 26 feet in roughly three-quarters of an hour. The surge hit Kerr in early morning during one of the most popular camping weekends of the year. Many staying along the river on Friday did not realize the danger bearing down until the water was already high.</span></p>
  59. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-bless-texas-trump-issues-disaster-declaration-as-texas-reels-amid-devastating-floods?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98GOD+BLESS+TEXAS%E2%80%99%3A+Trump+Issues+Disaster+Declaration+As+Texas+Reels+Amid+Devastating+Floods"><span style="font-weight: 400;">issued</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a disaster declaration for Kerr County on Sunday as more flooding is expected to hit the already beleaguered region.</span></p>
  60. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need. These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “The Trump Administration continues to work closely with State and Local Leaders. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on the ground yesterday with Governor Greg Abbott, who is working hard to help the people of his Great State. Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard, together with State First Responders, have saved more than 850 lives. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!”</span></p>
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  67.      <title>Scott Bessent Schools CNN On What’s Happening With Medicaid: ‘Funding Will Go Up’</title>
  68.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/scott-bessent-schools-cnn-on-whats-happening-with-medicaid-funding-will-go-up</link>
  69.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  70.      <description>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back on Sunday when CNN’s Dana Bash said the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” would result in cuts to Medicaid. “Only in DC is a 20% hike over 10 years a cut,” said Bessent. “Medicaid funding will go up 20% over the next 10 years. The people who Medicaid was designed ...</description>
  71.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back on Sunday when CNN’s Dana Bash said the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” would result in cuts to Medicaid.</span></p>
  72. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Only in DC is a 20% hike over 10 years a cut,” said Bessent. “Medicaid funding will go up 20% over the next 10 years. The people who Medicaid was designed for – the pregnant women, the disabled, and families with children under 14 – will be refocused.”</span></p>
  73. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Treasury secretary said that those who stand to lose benefits are those that do not qualify as “vulnerable.”</span></p>
  74. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Able-bodied Americans are not vulnerable Americans, so a work requirement or a community service requirement, that&#8217;s very popular with the public, and many state programs have that now,” he said.</span></p>
  75. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bash said that regardless of whether or not the American people generally support some work requirements for Medicaid, the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is still a broken promise by President Donald Trump because “the president promised that there would not be changes to Medicaid benefits.”</span></p>
  76. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is no change in benefits. There&#8217;s a change in requirements to get the benefits,” Bessent corrected her. The secretary continued that with the administration’s focus on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States and curbing illegal immigration, jobs will be available for Americans willing to work.</span></p>
  77. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bessent went on to accuse Democrats of infantilizing Medicaid recipients by claiming new registration requirements will be too much for them to handle.</span></p>
  78. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is a group of Democrats who unfortunately seem to think that poor people are stupid. I don&#8217;t think poor people are stupid. I think they have agency, and I think to have them registered twice a year for these benefits, that is not a burden,” the secretary said. “But these people who want to infantilize the poor and those who need these Medicaid benefits are alarmists.”</span></p>
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  80. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bessent on Medicaid cuts: &quot;The able-bodied Americans are not vulnerable Americans &#8230; people can get off Medicaid and get a job that has good healthcare benefits &#8230; I don&#39;t think poor people are stupid. I think they have agency.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/raDM6GQEOU">pic.twitter.com/raDM6GQEOU</a></p>
  81. <p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1941851013826158973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  82. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  83. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump signed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” into law on Independence Day. The nearly 900-page reconciliation bill may be the defining legislative achievement of his second term.</span></p>
  84. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The legislation includes reforms to Medicaid, as well as new funding for administration priorities such as border security and national defense. The legislation also promotes fossil fuel development while cutting tax credits for green energy and electric vehicles.</span></p>
  85. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">House Speaker Mike Johnson, who played a key role in shepherding the legislation through the House, has been optimistic about the bill’s popularity with the American public. Johnson said over the weekend that the GOP will make a point of campaigning on the bill’s passage ahead of midterm elections.</span></p>
  86. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our Republicans are going to be out across the country telling the simple truth, and guess what? It will be demonstrated. Everyone will have more take home pay. They’ll have more jobs and opportunity. The economy will be doing better. And we will be able to point to that as the obvious result of what we did,” Johnson </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yeah-right-johnson-drags-dems-who-claim-theyre-happy-to-run-against-big-beautiful-bill?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98Yeah%2C+Right%E2%80%99%3A++Johnson+Drags+Dems+Who+Claim+They%E2%80%99re+Happy+To+Run+Against+Big+Beautiful+Bill"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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  89.      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:39:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  93.      <title>Bessent: Trump Will Revive Foreign Tariffs If Countries Don’t ‘Move Along’ By August 1</title>
  94.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/bessent-trump-will-revive-foreign-tariffs-if-countries-dont-move-along-by-august-1</link>
  95.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  96.      <description>On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that President Trump is intent on reviving tariffs that were paused if countries don’t “move along” by August 1. Bessent appeared on CNN‘s “State of the Union” with host Dana Bash, who asked what was going to happen when the initial 90-day pause on foreign tariffs expired in ...</description>
  97.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that President Trump is intent on reviving tariffs that were paused if countries don’t “move along” by August 1.</p>
  98. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Bessent appeared on CNN‘s “State of the Union” with host Dana Bash, who asked what was going to happen when the initial 90-day pause on foreign tariffs expired in three days.</p>
  99. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;m not going to give away the playbook, because we&#8217;re going to be very busy over the next 72 hours,” Bessent answered. “President Trump&#8217;s going to be sending letters to some of our trading partners, saying that, if you don&#8217;t move things along, then, on August 1, you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level. So I think we&#8217;re going to see a lot of deals very quickly. “</p>
  100. <p>“So there&#8217;s basically a new deadline?” Bash asked.</p>
  101. <p>“It’s not a new deadline,” Bessent replied. “We are saying this is when it&#8217;s happening. If you want to speed things up, have at it. If you want to go back to the old rate, that&#8217;s your choice.</p>
  102. <p>Bessent explained that the “playbook” is “to apply maximum pressure. We saw that the E.U. was very slow in coming to the table. Three weeks ago, on a Friday morning, President Trump threatened 50 percent tariffs, and, within a few hours, five of the European national leaders had called him. And Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the E.U., was on the phone.”<br />
  103. “We are close to several deals,” Bessent continued. “As always, there&#8217;s a lot of foot-dragging on the other side. And so I would expect to see several big announcements over the next couple of days.”</p>
  104. <p>“The thing about being the deficit country, Dana, is, when you are the deficit country, you have the leverage,” Bessent asserted. “These are surplus countries that they have exported more to us than we export to them. So we have the leverage in this situation.”</p>
  105. <p>When Bash posited that small business owners have told her they are living with uncertainty because of the tariffs, Bessent replied, “I&#8217;d say two things, is, the other thing they would probably have been telling you is, it was the uncertainty around taxes. So, with the One Big Beautiful Bill, they now have great certainty on taxes. &#8230; When I&#8217;m out talking to businesses, they want trade and taxes. So we have certainty on taxes now. All businesses know that they will be getting 100 percent expensing for new plant and equipment. On tariffs, again, it is the 18 important trading relationships. And we&#8217;re moving through those.”</p>
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  112.      <title>‘Yeah, Right’:  Johnson Drags Dems Who Claim They’re Happy To Run Against Big Beautiful Bill</title>
  113.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/yeah-right-johnson-drags-dems-who-claim-theyre-happy-to-run-against-big-beautiful-bill</link>
  114.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  115.      <description>After his key role in getting President Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill passed, House Speaker Mike Johnson outlined his plans for the future, with more reconciliation bills on the way, and offered a succinct, caustic response to Democrats claiming they were happy to run against the bill in 2026. “What deals were made?” Fox News ...</description>
  116.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">After his key role in getting President Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill passed, House Speaker Mike Johnson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/johnson-says-megabill-jet-fuel-economy-teases-2-future-bills-within-next-year">outlined his plans</a> for the future, with more reconciliation bills on the way, and offered a succinct, caustic response to Democrats claiming they were happy to run against the bill in 2026.</p>
  117. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“What deals were made?” Fox News Sunday&#8217;s Shannon Bream asked Johnson on Sunday. “There a couple of members who’ve said they were given assurances outside of this bill of other things  that they would get down the line.”</p>
  118. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t make deals,” Johnson replied bluntly. “Never have since I became Speaker, which is why I’m still surviving with the gavel. You have to find out where people’s red lines are and navigate through that, with what we’ve had is the smallest margin in US history at most points along the way, but we got it done.”</p>
  119. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“No side deals,” he reiterated. “What the extra time was, we needed that for people to process. Remember, we got the Senate bill on a Tuesday. They modified a lot of what we did in the House. We worked on it for over a year, so we needed a couple of days there or everybody to process what all those changes were and ensure that they knew exactly how that was gonna be implemented by the administration.”</p>
  120. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Dean referred to rumored “promises” that had been made outside the bill. Johnson explained, “We’ve been talking about that publicly and privately for a year and a half. We had always planned to do the first big reconciliation bill, which is the big beautiful bill — now it’s done, a huge leap forward for our priorities — but then also we’ve been planning a second reconciliation bill for the fall — it would be attached to the next fiscal year — and then potentially one in the spring. That’s my plan: three reconciliation bills before this Congress is over. I think we can do that, and so you’ll see more of us advancing these common sense principles to deliver that America First agenda for the people. That’s what they elected us to do. This was a huge leap forward.”</p>
  121. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Democrats say they are excited to run on this bill,” Bream said, prompting Johnson to gibe, “Yeah, right.”</p>
  122. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Bream then quoted a DCCC memo saying that Republicans would lose the majority in 2026 because of the big, beautiful bill and the more people knew about it, the less popular it became. “They’re also talking about Democrats holding rallies outside of rural hospitals  and nursing homes this summer to tell people they are going to lose their care,” she stated.</p>
  123. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“As I said on the House floor the other day, it takes a lot longer to build a lie than to tell the simple truth,” Johnson said. “Our Republicans are going to be out across the country telling the simple truth, and guess what? It will be demonstrated. Everyone will have more take home pay. They’ll have more jobs and opportunity. The economy will be doing better. And we will be able to point to that as the obvious result of what we did.”</p>
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  130.      <title>Dana Bash Blames Climate Change, Donald Trump’s Administration For Texas Floods</title>
  131.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/dana-bash-blames-climate-change-donald-trumps-administration-for-texas-floods</link>
  132.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  133.      <description>CNN anchor Dana Bash suggested that climate change and President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s administration were to blame for the disastrous flash flooding in Texas, asking Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) to weigh in on her assessment. Castro joined Bash on Sunday morning&amp;#8217;s broadcast of &amp;#8220;State of the Union&amp;#8221; to discuss the tragic situation that was still unfolding ...</description>
  134.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CNN anchor Dana Bash suggested that climate change and President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration were to blame for the disastrous flash flooding in Texas, asking Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) to weigh in on her assessment.</p>
  135. <p>Castro joined Bash on Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; to discuss the tragic situation that was still unfolding after heavy rains caused massive floods along the Guadalupe River in central Texas — where at least 69 have now been confirmed dead.</p>
  136. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
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  138. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">CNN’s Dana Bash identifies two possible causes for the Texas flooding tragedy in questions to Dem Rep Castro:</p>
  139. <p>Climate change and the Trump administration. <a href="https://t.co/v3SHssccmA">pic.twitter.com/v3SHssccmA</a></p>
  140. <p>— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1941851525942587399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  141. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  142. <p>&#8220;How much do you think the changing climate is part of what we are seeing go on here, not just what we&#8217;re seeing in the pictures that we&#8217;re showing on the screen?&#8221; Bash asked. &#8220;But even the flood that you talked about in San Antonio in June.&#8221;</p>
  143. <p>&#8220;I think climate change is obviously a part of it,&#8221; Castro agreed. &#8220;These floods are happening more often in more parts of the country and really all over the world. And so we have to face that reality and be better prepared for it and combat it.&#8221;</p>
  144. <p>&#8220;And just talking about the federal government and even the local government, two Texas National Weather Service offices involved in forecasting and warning about flooding on the Guadalupe River are missing some key staff members,&#8221; Bash continued, suggesting that the Trump administration had also played a role in any issues with sending out timely warnings to the public.</p>
  145. <p>&#8220;A director of the NWS Union told CNN that the Austin and San Antonio office is missing a warning coordination meteorologist due to the Trump administration&#8217;s buyouts,&#8221; Bash continued. &#8220;Do you have any indication whether those or any other cuts helped play a role in the fact that the people in the flood zone were not prepared and certainly not evacuated?&#8221;</p>
  146. <p>Castro conceded that he could not say that &#8220;conclusively,&#8221; but suggested that he was at least suspicious that was the case.</p>
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  149.      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  153.      <title>‘An Albatross On Him’: New Book Details The Strain Hunter Biden Put On 2024 Campaign</title>
  154.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-albatross-on-him-new-book-details-the-strain-hunter-biden-put-on-2024-campaign</link>
  155.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  156.      <description>President Joe Biden&amp;#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden was &amp;#8220;an albatross&amp;#8221; around the neck of his father during the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a new book coming soon from Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey. Dawsey, during an appearance on Sunday morning&amp;#8217;s broadcast of &amp;#8220;This Week,&amp;#8221; said that Hunter Biden was a &amp;#8220;major figure&amp;#8221; in ...</description>
  157.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden was &#8220;an albatross&#8221; around the neck of his father during the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a new book coming soon from Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey.</p>
  158. <p>Dawsey, during an appearance on Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;This Week,&#8221; said that Hunter Biden was a &#8220;major figure&#8221; in Biden&#8217;s inner circle during the campaign — and how heavily the first son&#8217;s court case had weighed on the president and his family.</p>
  159. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  160. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  161. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hunter Biden was a “major figure” in former Pres. Biden’s reelection campaign, WSJ reporter Josh Dawsey said regarding the reporting in his new book.</p>
  162. <p>&#8220;He would pipe in to calls. He was helping him make campaign decisions. And the president was very concerned about his son.” <a href="https://t.co/9LF549RWtx">pic.twitter.com/9LF549RWtx</a></p>
  163. <p>— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1941907684288016894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  164. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  165. <p>Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Dawsey to elaborate on his claims that the president&#8217;s son had been a &#8220;burden&#8221; on him and his campaign.</p>
  166. <p>&#8220;You also detail how much of a burden Hunter Biden was on President Biden during his campaign,&#8221; Stephanopoulos prompted Dawsey.</p>
  167. <p>&#8220;Right, so one of the scenes in the book is that the President has a big month ahead in June of 2024, he has European travel, he has the first debate with Donald Trump, as you saw, it didn&#8217;t go so well,&#8221; Dawsey began. &#8220;But the thing he&#8217;s telling his friends he&#8217;s plays concerned about is that his son is not convicted in his court case.&#8221;</p>
  168. <p>&#8220;He even offers to testify for his son,&#8221; Dawsey continued. &#8220;And he&#8217;s talking to folks nonstop around him &#8230; about his son, right? And he&#8217;s just constantly worried about him, he said the prosecutors are trying to break him, and as you see ultimately he decides to pardon his son.&#8221;</p>
  169. <p>But what Dawsey really noticed as he did the research for his book was just how prominent a role Hunter Biden had in his father&#8217;s inner circle.</p>
  170. <p>&#8220;He would pipe in to calls. He was helping him make campaign decisions. And the president was very concerned about his son,&#8221; Dawsey said. &#8220;It was one of the things that was an albatross on him as he tried to run for reelection.&#8221;</p>
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  173.      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:20:44 GMT</pubDate>
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  177.      <title>‘GOD BLESS TEXAS’: Trump Issues Disaster Declaration As Texas Reels Amid Devastating Floods</title>
  178.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-bless-texas-trump-issues-disaster-declaration-as-texas-reels-amid-devastating-floods</link>
  179.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  180.      <description>President Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration for Kerr County, Texas, on Sunday after flooding devastated communities along the Guadalupe River in the central part of the state. Trump&amp;#8217;s declaration, first posted to his Truth Social platform came after reports confirmed that 69 people — at least 15 of them children — had been killed ...</description>
  181.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration for Kerr County, Texas, on Sunday after flooding devastated communities along the Guadalupe River in the central part of the state.</p>
  182. <p>Trump&#8217;s declaration, first posted to his Truth Social platform came after reports confirmed that 69 people — at least 15 of them children — had been killed in the flash floods when the Guadalupe River rose more than 20 feet in less than forty-five minutes.</p>
  183. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  184. <p dir="ltr" lang="zxx"><a href="https://t.co/T1NtzlKPeb">pic.twitter.com/T1NtzlKPeb</a></p>
  185. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1941875029932658927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  186. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  187. <p>&#8220;I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need. These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing,&#8221; Trump posted. &#8220;The Trump Administration continues to work closely with State and Local Leaders. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on the ground yesterday with Governor Greg Abbott, who is working hard to help the people of his Great State. Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard, together with State First Responders, have saved more than 850 lives. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!&#8221;</p>
  188. <p>Trump also sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) informing him that the disaster declaration had been issued, opening up federal resources to the areas in Texas who were impacted by the floods.</p>
  189. <p>Underneath the typed text of the letter — which detailed what federal funding would be made available and how it was to be distributed — the president included a handwritten note to Abbott, saying, &#8220;Our wonderful Sec. Kristy Noem is available at all times.&#8221;</p>
  190. <p>According to the most recent reports, the death toll has risen to 69 — and there are still eleven campers and one counselor missing from Camp Mystic. Additional flash flood warnings were issued on Sunday for parts of Tarrant and Johnson Counties, some 150 miles from the initial flooding.</p>
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  193.      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:26:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  197.      <title>‘You May Be Dividing The Forces’: CNN Republican Questions Wisdom Of Musk Third Party</title>
  198.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-may-be-dividing-the-forces-cnn-republican-questions-wisdom-of-musk-third-party</link>
  199.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  200.      <description>CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings responded to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk&amp;#8217;s call for a new, independent political party — and he argued that Musk&amp;#8217;s efforts were likely to do more harm than good. Jennings made the point during a panel discussion on CNN&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;State of the Union,&amp;#8221; arguing that the kind of party Musk was ...</description>
  201.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings responded to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk&#8217;s call for a new, independent political party — and he argued that Musk&#8217;s efforts were likely to do more harm than good.</p>
  202. <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Jennings made the point during a panel discussion on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; arguing that the kind of party Musk was proposing was likely to divide conservatives and Republicans, leaving the door open for Democrats to win — a possible outcome to which he was opposed.</span></p>
  203. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  204. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  205. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Scott Jennings&#8217; thoughts on Elon Musk forming a New America Party: &#8220;You may be dividing the forces of people who want to save Western civilization to the benefit of the people who don&#8217;t.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/5EcPn5Xt5T">pic.twitter.com/5EcPn5Xt5T</a></p>
  206. <p>— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1941865230323314715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  207. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  208. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s harder than it looks to start a political party,&#8221; Jennings began. &#8220;And, you know, we&#8217;ll see where they go with it. My humble advice to Elon, who I admire very much, actually, is that you may be dividing the forces of people who want to save Western civilization to the benefit of the people who don&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
  209. <p>&#8220;And so to the extent that this effort would divide conservatives and Republicans against each other, that wouldn&#8217;t be helpful,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Because it would leave the country to people who want unfettered immigration, who don&#8217;t share your fiscal views, and so on and so forth — so we&#8217;ll see where it goes.&#8221;</p>
  210. <p>Jennings concluded by touting the broad coalition that propelled President Donald Trump to victory in 2024, saying that he&#8217;d prefer to see those people stick together in the days ahead.</p>
  211. <p>&#8220;I sort of hope everybody puts the band back together the way they had it in 2024 because when everybody was working together, things worked quite well,&#8221; Jennings concluded.</p>
  212. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just curious, if they&#8217;re on the side of western civilization, what&#8217;s the other side of civilization that people want?&#8221; another panelist asked.</p>
  213. <p>&#8220;Not western civilization,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;Terrible. Not American values, not western civilization.&#8221;</p>
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  216.      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:16:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  220.      <title>‘An American Hero’: Kristi Noem Praises Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer For Braving Texas Floodwaters</title>
  221.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-american-hero-kristi-noem-praises-coast-guard-rescue-swimmer-for-braving-texas-floodwaters</link>
  222.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  223.      <description>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shared the story of a Coast Guard rescue swimmer on Saturday, praising him for his efforts and crediting him with saving 165 victims of the devastating flash floods that tore through central Texas. Noem said in a post to X that Petty Officer Scott Ruskin was &amp;#8220;directly responsible&amp;#8221; for an ...</description>
  224.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shared the story of a Coast Guard rescue swimmer on Saturday, praising him for his efforts and crediting him with saving 165 victims of the devastating flash floods that tore through central Texas.</p>
  225. <p>Noem said in a post to X that Petty Officer Scott Ruskin was &#8220;directly responsible&#8221; for an incredible number of saves, and noted that Saturday was Ruskin&#8217;s first-ever rescue mission.</p>
  226. <p>&#8220;United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas,&#8221; Noem posted. &#8220;This was the first rescue mission of his career and he was the only triage coordinator at the scene. Scott Ruskin is an American hero. His selfless courage embodies the spirit and mission of the @USCG.&#8221;</p>
  227. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  228. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas.</p>
  229. <p>This was the first rescue mission of his career and he was the only triage coordinator at the scene.</p>
  230. <p>Scott Ruskin is…</p>
  231. <p>— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1941703036725862403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  232. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  233. <p>Coast Guard rescue swimmers, formally known as Aviation Survival Technicians, are trained and must earn National Registry Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT) certification in addition to intense physical training and water rescue techniques in a number of different scenarios. The grueling training lasts approximately one year and has one of the highest attrition rates in the United States military — nearly an 80% fail rate.</p>
  234. <p>The Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer program has been in existence since 1984, and requires trainees to undergo a series of tests monthly that include: push=ups, pull-ups, chin-ups, a one-and-a-half mile run, four 25-yard underwater swims, a 200 yard swim towing a survivor, and a 500 yard timed swim.</p>
  235. <p>Rescue swimmers have been integral to numerous missions since the scchool&#8217;s creation, and saved dozens during the devastating flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.</p>
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  238.      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  242.      <title>Elon Musk Officially Announces New Political Party After Fallout With Trump</title>
  243.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-officially-announces-new-political-party-after-fallout-with-trump</link>
  244.      <dc:creator>Amanda Prestigiacomo</dc:creator>
  245.      <description>Elon Musk on Saturday evening officially announced the creation of a new political party, which he called the &amp;#8220;America Party.&amp;#8221; Musk has been at odds with President Donald Trump over the One Big, Beautiful Bill, which was signed into law on Friday. He has taken to the term &amp;#8220;uniparty&amp;#8221; to describe both Republicans and Democrats, ...</description>
  246.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Elon Musk on Saturday evening officially announced the creation of a new political party, which he called the &#8220;America Party.&#8221;</p>
  247. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doge-is-the-monster-that-might-have-to-go-back-and-eat-elon">Musk has been at odds with President Donald Trump</a> over the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill-at-historic-july-4-ceremony-a-triumph-of-democracy">One Big, Beautiful Bill</a>, which was signed into law on Friday. He has taken to the term &#8220;uniparty&#8221; to describe both Republicans and Democrats, claiming that neither party is willing to deal with spending.</p>
  248. <p>&#8220;By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!&#8221; Musk said on X, referring to a poll the billionaire posted on Friday.</p>
  249. <p>&#8220;When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &amp; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.&#8221;</p>
  250. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  251. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!</p>
  252. <p>When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &amp; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.</p>
  253. <p>Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. <a href="https://t.co/9K8AD04QQN">https://t.co/9K8AD04QQN</a></p>
  254. <p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1941584569523732930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  255. <p>Musk suggested the new party will focus on reducing debt and regulation. It will promote &#8220;responsible spending only,&#8221; free speech, and the modernization of the U.S. Military, among other political issues.</p>
  256. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  257. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Yeah!</p>
  258. <p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1941616039827017825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  259. <p>On Friday, Musk seemed to outline his targeted strategy with the new party. He said it would make sense to focus on &#8220;2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts,&#8221; to effectively swing votes in Congress.</p>
  260. <p>&#8220;One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts,&#8221; Musk wrote. &#8220;Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.&#8221;</p>
  261. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  262. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts.</p>
  263. <p>Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.</p>
  264. <p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1941125459628179641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  265. <p>Musk&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doge-is-the-monster-that-might-have-to-go-back-and-eat-elon">rift</a> with Trump started last month over the bill. Musk went so far as to publicly suggest the president had unsavory ties to Jeffrey Epstein and was repressing the release of the Epstein Files to protect himself, though Musk later said he regretted his attacks on Trump, saying some of them “went too far.”</p>
  266. <p>Last week, Trump suggested he could have Musk&#8217;s brainchild, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), look into the tech billionaire and the massive amount of government subsidies he receives for his businesses.</p>
  267. <p>“DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon,” the president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doge-is-the-monster-that-might-have-to-go-back-and-eat-elon">told</a> the press.</p>
  268. <p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill-at-historic-july-4-ceremony-a-triumph-of-democracy">Trump Signs Big, Beautiful Bill At Historic July 4 Ceremony: ‘A Triumph Of Democracy’</a></strong></p>
  269. <p>The announcement from Musk comes with Trump on a roll politically. Not only has he secured a victory with Congress passing his signature legislation, but he is still riding high from negotiating peace between Iran and Israel. And on July 4, as Trump signed the One, Big Beautiful Bill into law, B-2 bombers flew overhead to honor the successful strike on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, and remind Americans of his achievements.</p>
  270. <p>The last time a third party candidate won the presidency was in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won as a Republican.</p>
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  273.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 23:10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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  277.      <title>American Veterans Injured In Grenade Attack While Distributing Aid In Gaza</title>
  278.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-veterans-injured-in-grenade-attack-while-distributing-aid-in-gaza</link>
  279.      <dc:creator>Kassy Akiva</dc:creator>
  280.      <description>Two American contractors were injured in Gaza on Saturday after terrorists threw two grenades in their direction at the humanitarian aid distribution site where they were working. The United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that the two highly decorated American veterans employed at their site are receiving medical treatment and are in stable condition. According ...</description>
  281.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two American contractors were injured in Gaza on Saturday after terrorists threw two grenades in their direction at the humanitarian aid distribution site where they were working.</p>
  282. <p>The United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that the two highly decorated American veterans employed at their site are receiving medical treatment and are in stable condition.</p>
  283. <p>According to GHF, following the successful distribution of food aid to Gazans, two assailants threw Iranian-made grenades packed with ball bearings at the contractors before running into the crowd of civilians. No civilians or Gazan workers were injured in the attack.</p>
  284. <p>The Israel Defense Forces facilitated the evacuation of the two victims following the attack for medical treatment, <a href="https://x.com/LTC_Shoshani" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> IDF International Spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani.</p>
  285. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  286. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">These are fragments of a grenade packed with ball bearings, two of which were thrown by Hamas at American aid workers delivering food in Gaza.</p>
  287. <p>The men who threw them then ran into a crowd of civilians. </p>
  288. <p>This is what those trying to feed civilians now face.</p>
  289. <p>For the world to… <a href="https://t.co/F00mjhshlW">pic.twitter.com/F00mjhshlW</a></p>
  290. <p>&mdash; Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (@GHFUpdates) <a href="https://twitter.com/GHFUpdates/status/1941452881464291649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  291. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  292. <p>The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation believes that Hamas is responsible for the attack.</p>
  293. <p>“Yesterday, GHF marked the 4th of July with 60 million meals delivered on behalf of America — and a wish for Gaza’s independence from fear and terror,” GHF director Rev. Johnnie Moore wrote on X. “Hamas responded by throwing grenades at two Americans feeding hungry families. Violence is always their answer to hope.”</p>
  294. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-epa-employee-charged-with-threatening-jews-attempting-to-provide-guns-and-money-to-isis?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=California+EPA+Employee+Charged+With+Threatening+Jews%2C+Attempting+To+Provide+Guns+and+Money+to+ISIS" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>CALIFORNIA EPA EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH THREATENING JEWS, ATTEMPTING TO PROVIDE GUNS AND MONEY TO ISIS</b></a></p>
  295. <p>The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says Hamas last put bounties on the heads of its Gazan and American workers.</p>
  296. <p>&#8220;According to these reports, Hamas has placed bounties on both our American security personnel and Palestinian aid workers—offering cash rewards to anyone who injures or kills them,” GHF said last Saturday. “In recent days, Hamas has also pre-positioned armed operatives near humanitarian zones in an effort to disrupt the only functioning aid delivery system in Gaza.”</p>
  297. <p>Last month, a senior Trump administration official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-is-preparing-attacks-on-american-contractors-helping-distribute-aid-in-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Hamas+Is+Preparing+Attacks+On+American+Contractors+Helping+Distribute+Aid+In+Gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed to The Daily Wire</a> that Hamas was threatening the contractors.</p>
  298. <p>“While the GHF has so far provided upwards of 40 million meals, Hamas is threatening violence — this time to humanitarian workers, which includes Americans, at the GHF sites themselves,” the official said. “This administration remains laser-focused on Gaza despite other events in the region.”</p>
  299. <p>The senior official warned that Hamas should “be careful not to miscalculate.”</p>
  300. <p>The threats made against the American contractors were often made indirectly, using intermediaries, including some of the Gazan workers.</p>
  301. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-to-visit-the-white-house?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Israeli+Prime+Minister+Benjamin+Netanyahu+To+Visit+The+White+House" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO VISIT THE WHITE HOUSE NEXT WEEK</b></a></p>
  302. <p>Sources familiar with GHF’s operations told The Daily Wire that several suspicious men have routinely visited GHF’s distribution sites without taking food, and instead appear to be monitoring GHF workers and their security systems. The sources believe that the military-aged men are part of Hamas and enter the sites to “size up” GHF’s security, weapons, and fighting positions.</p>
  303. <p>Individuals entering the aid distribution centers are not subject to security screenings due to food urgency levels, and often come within meters of the American personnel. The American security contractors do not have the authority to detain the suspicious men for questioning and do not share information with the IDF about the suspected Hamas members.</p>
  304. <p>Hamas has routinely, publicly and privately threatened Gazan humanitarian workers at the site and people seeking aid, calling them “collaborators” coordinating in “the enemy’s schemes.”</p>
  305. <p>“All collaborators, thieves, and criminal armed gangs are legitimate targets for the resistance units and security,” Hamas said in a joint statement with other Palestinian factions, according to<a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/06/12/hamas-kills-at-least-8-aid-workers-ghf-reports-source-claims-hamas-trying-to-disrupt-aid-distribution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a>.</p>
  306. <p>Last month, Hamas assassinated around a dozen Palestinian GHF workers while they were taking a bus to aid distribution sites ahead of their first day of work. Seriously injured survivors were reportedly denied treatment at Nasser Hospital, according to GHF.</p>
  307. <p>“Hamas views GHF as a threat to its control,” a source familiar with GHF’s operations said. “GHF’s secure delivery model prevents Hamas from diverting, taxing, or controlling aid. By delivering food directly to civilians without interference, GHF undermines Hamas’s grip over the population and its ability to weaponize aid for political leverage.”</p>
  308. <p>GHF has condemned the majority of the international community for being silent about Hamas’s threats to their aid distribution program.</p>
  309. <p>&#8220;For weeks, we warned this would happen,” the group said in a statement. “We asked the aid community to condemn threats. They stayed silent. We asked the media to stop laundering Hamas lies. They kept printing. Today, Hamas followed through by attacking American veterans with grenades as they delivered food. The silence is deafening. At what point is allowing Hamas to terrorize aid workers and run a propaganda campaign through Western media no longer acceptable?&#8221;</p>
  310. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-has-been-clear-for-14-years-that-iran-cannot-have-a-nuclear-weapon?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Has+Been+Clear+For+14+Years+That+Iran+Cannot+Have+A+Nuclear+Weapon" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>TRUMP HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR 14 YEARS THAT IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON</b></a></p>
  311. <p>Since GHF began operating on May 26, the group has provided more than 62 million free meals to Gazans, with 1.8 million delivered on Saturday.</p>
  312. <p>GHF says it will continue to contribute aid, despite the attack and Hamas’s ongoing threats.</p>
  313. <p>&#8220;With Hamas no good deed goes unpunished,” United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1941426783120916648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted to X</a> following the attack.</p>
  314. <p>State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce condemned the attacks in a statement, claiming it shows the depravity of Hamas.</p>
  315. <p>“This act of violence against the people actually bringing relief to Gazans lays bare the depravity of Hamas,” <a href="https://x.com/statedeptspox/status/1941581176247836798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce said</a>. “GHF has contributed over 62 MILLION MEALS &#8211; nothing will stop these courageous aid workers. We are praying for the rapid recovery of the injured Americans.”</p>
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  318.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:55:49 GMT</pubDate>
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  322.      <title>Ukraine’s Zelensky Says Latest Call With Trump Was ‘Most Productive’ Yet</title>
  323.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraines-zelensky-says-latest-call-with-trump-was-most-productive-yet</link>
  324.      <dc:creator>Reuters</dc:creator>
  325.      <description>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his latest conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump this week was the best and &amp;#8220;most productive&amp;#8221; he has had to date. &amp;#8220;Regarding the conversation with the president of the United States, which took place a day earlier, it was probably the best conversation we have had during ...</description>
  326.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his latest conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump this week was the best and &#8220;most productive&#8221; he has had to date.</p>
  327. <p>&#8220;Regarding the conversation with the president of the United States, which took place a day earlier, it was probably the best conversation we have had during this whole time, the most productive,&#8221; Zelensky said in his nightly video address.</p>
  328. <p>&#8220;We discussed air defense issues and I&#8217;m grateful for the willingness to help. The Patriot system is precisely the key to protection against ballistic threats.&#8221;</p>
  329. <p>Zelensky said the two leaders had discussed &#8220;several other important matters&#8221; that officials from the two sides would be considering in forthcoming meetings.</p>
  330. <p>Trump told reporters on Friday that he had a good call with Zelensky and restated his disappointment at a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin over what he said was Moscow&#8217;s lack of willingness to work toward a ceasefire.</p>
  331. <p>Asked whether the United States would agree to supply more Patriot missiles to Ukraine, as requested by Zelensky, Trump said: &#8220;They&#8217;re going to need them for defense&#8230; They&#8217;re going to need something because they&#8217;re being hit pretty hard.&#8221;</p>
  332. <p>Russia has intensified air attacks on Kyiv and other cities in recent weeks. Moscow&#8217;s forces launched the largest drone attack of the 40-month-old war on the Ukrainian capital hours after Trump&#8217;s conversation with Putin on Thursday.</p>
  333. <p>(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksander Kozhukhar; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Diane Craft)</p>
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  336.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:57:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  340.      <title>A Mexican Boxer Is In ICE Custody After Jake Paul Fight. His Rap Sheet Is Crazy.</title>
  341.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-mexican-boxer-is-in-ice-custody-after-jake-paul-fight-his-rap-sheet-is-crazy</link>
  342.      <dc:creator>Amanda Prestigiacomo</dc:creator>
  343.      <description>Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday and is facing deportation to Mexico for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application. The arrest came just days after Chávez faced off against boxer and influencer Jake Paul in Anaheim, California. Chávez lost the match. Chávez, ...</description>
  344.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday and is facing deportation to Mexico for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application.</p>
  345. <p>The arrest came just days after Chávez faced off against boxer and influencer Jake Paul in Anaheim, California. Chávez lost the match.</p>
  346. <p>Chávez, a Mexican citizen, has committed numerous crimes while staying in the United States and has apparent ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. He&#8217;s facing organized crime charges in Mexico.</p>
  347. <p>“This Sinaloa Cartel affiliate with an active arrest warrant for trafficking guns, ammunition, and explosives was arrested by ICE,&#8221; Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.</p>
  348. <p>McLaughlin noted that Chávez was allowed re-entry into the United States under the Biden administration and emphasized that under President Donald Trump, cartel affiliates will not be allowed to remain in the country.</p>
  349. <p>&#8220;It is shocking the previous administration flagged this criminal illegal alien as a public safety threat, but chose to not prioritize his removal and let him leave and COME BACK into our country,” she said. “Under President Trump, no one is above the law — including world-famous athletes.&#8221;</p>
  350. <p>&#8220;Our message to any cartel affiliates in the U.S. is clear: We will find you and you will face consequences,&#8221; McLaughlin added. &#8220;The days of unchecked cartel violence are over.”</p>
  351. <p>Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/03/dhs-announces-ice-arrest-mexican-boxer-sinaloa-cartel-affiliate-active-criminal">said</a> in a press release that Chávez is being processed for &#8220;expedited removal from the United States.&#8221; The boxer has an &#8220;active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives,&#8221; the department added.</p>
  352. <p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that she hopes Chávez &#8220;will be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico.&#8221;</p>
  353. <p>Chávez&#8217;s B2 tourist visa expired in February 2024. Two months later, he filed an application for Lawful Permanent Resident status, based on his marriage to an American citizen, who is connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.</p>
  354. <p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in December 2024 made a referral to ICE that Chávez is an &#8220;egregious public safety threat.&#8221; However, he was still allowed reentry and was paroled into the U.S. under the Biden administration.</p>
  355. <p>Homeland Security said it determined on June 27 that Chávez was &#8220;in the country illegally and removable,&#8221; following multiple fraudulent statements on his application to become a Lawful Permanent Resident.</p>
  356. <p>The department noted the following from Chávez&#8217;s rap sheet:</p>
  357. <ul>
  358. <li>On January 22, 2012, California Highway Patrol arrested Chavez and charged him with DUI alcohol/drugs and Driving Without a License. On June 23, 2012, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, convicted Chavez for the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days in jail and 36 months’ probation.</li>
  359. <li>On January 14, 2023, a District Judge issued an arrest warrant for Chavez, for the offense of organized crime for the purpose of committing crimes of weapons trafficking and manufacturing crimes, in the modality of those who participate in clandestinely bringing weapons, ammunition, cartridges, explosives into the country; and those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges, and explosives without the corresponding permit.</li>
  360. <li>On January 7, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested Chavez and charged him with Illegal Possession of Any Assault Weapon and Manufacture or Import Short Barreled Rifle. The court convicted Chavez of these charges.</li>
  361. </ul>
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  364.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
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  368.      <title>Trump Set To Send A Dozen ‘Take It Or Leave It’ Trade Deal Offers</title>
  369.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-set-to-send-a-dozen-of-take-it-of-leave-it-trade-deal-offers</link>
  370.      <dc:creator>Reuters</dc:creator>
  371.      <description>President Donald Trump said he had signed letters to 12 countries outlining the various tariff levels they would face on goods they export to the United States, with the &amp;#8220;take it or leave it&amp;#8221; offers to be sent out on Monday. Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he traveled to New Jersey, ...</description>
  372.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump said he had signed letters to 12 countries outlining the various tariff levels they would face on goods they export to the United States, with the &#8220;take it or leave it&#8221; offers to be sent out on Monday.</p>
  373. <p>Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he traveled to New Jersey, declined to name the countries involved, saying that would be made public on Monday.</p>
  374. <p>Trump had earlier on Thursday told reporters that he expected a first batch of letters to go out on Friday, a national holiday in the United States, though the date has now shifted.</p>
  375. <p>Trump in April announced a 10% base tariff rate and additional amounts for most countries, some ranging as high as 50%. However, all but the 10% base rate were subsequently suspended for 90 days to allow more time for negotiations to secure deals.</p>
  376. <p>That period ends on July 9, although Trump early on Friday said the tariffs could be even higher — ranging up to 70% — with most set to go into effect August 1.</p>
  377. <p>&#8220;I signed some letters and they&#8217;ll go out on Monday, probably twelve,&#8221; Trump said, when asked about his plans on the tariff front. &#8220;Different amounts of money, different amounts of tariffs.&#8221;</p>
  378. <p>Trump and his top aides initially said they would launch negotiations with scores of countries on tariff rates, but the U.S. president has soured on that process after repeated setbacks with major trading partners, including Japan and the European Union.</p>
  379. <p>He touched on that briefly late on Friday, telling reporters: &#8220;The letters are better &#8230; much easier to send a letter.&#8221;</p>
  380. <p>He did not address his prediction that some broader trade agreements could be reached before the July 9 deadline.</p>
  381. <p>The shift in the White House&#8217;s strategy reflects the challenges of completing trade agreements on everything from tariffs to non-tariff barriers such as bans on agricultural imports, and especially on an accelerated timeline.</p>
  382. <p>Most past trade agreements have taken years of negotiations to complete.</p>
  383. <p>The only trade agreements reached to date are with Britain, which reached a deal in May to keep a 10% rate and won preferential treatment for some sectors including autos and aircraft engines, and with Vietnam, cutting tariffs on many Vietnamese goods to 20% from his previously threatened 46%. Many U.S. products would be allowed to enter Vietnam duty free.</p>
  384. <p>A deal expected with India has failed to materialize, and EU diplomats on Friday said they have failed to achieve a breakthrough in trade negotiations with the Trump administration, and may now seek to extend the status quo to avoid tariff hikes.</p>
  385. <p>(Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Jasper Ward; Editing by William Mallard and Shri Navaratnam)</p>
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  388.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:26:04 GMT</pubDate>
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  392.      <title>UPDATES: Death Toll Spikes In Texas, As Search For Missing Girls, Others Continues</title>
  393.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/20-girls-remain-missing-from-christian-summer-camp-amid-texas-flooding</link>
  394.      <dc:creator>Amanda Prestigiacomo</dc:creator>
  395.      <description>UPDATE: At least 51 bodies, including 15 children, have been recovered from the flooding that started on Friday in Texas. Meteorologists say it was once-in-100-years rainfall in a very flash flood-prone area. The Guadalupe River reportedly rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes. Rescue efforts are still underway for those missing, including 27 girls from ...</description>
  396.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><strong>UPDATE: </strong>At least 51 bodies, including 15 children, have been recovered from the flooding that started on Friday in Texas.</p>
  397. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Meteorologists say it was once-in-100-years rainfall in a very flash flood-prone area. The Guadalupe River reportedly rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes.</p>
  398. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Rescue efforts are still underway for those missing, including 27 girls from Camp Mystic, a private Christian all-girls camp along the Guadalupe River.</p>
  399. <div id="attachment_943239" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943239" class="wp-image-943239 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2223018766-864x576.jpg" alt="A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on July 5, 2025" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2223018766-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2223018766-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2223018766-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2223018766.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-943239" class="wp-caption-text"><em>A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic via Getty Images</em></p></div>
  400. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><strong>UPDATE</strong>: The record-breaking flooding in Texas has already claimed 43 lives, Texas officials confirmed on Saturday evening.</p>
  401. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  402. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Every press conference update is a gut punch.</p>
  403. <p>43 confirmed dead from Guadalupe flood</p>
  404. <p>4 dead from this morning&#8217;s flood in Travis County</p>
  405. <p>Search and rescue for the missing continues for both disaster areas</p>
  406. <p>— Avery Tomasco (@averytomascowx) <a href="https://twitter.com/averytomascowx/status/1941641807965597900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  407. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Additionally, officials have revealed more details about the flooding near Camp Mystic, a private all-girls Christian camp located near the Guadalupe River. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the camp was packed with 750 girls, and young camp counselors helped usher hundreds of girls to safety during the night. &#8220;There was heroism, yesterday, everywhere,&#8221; he said.</p>
  408. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">&#8220;We&#8217;re not gonna give up looking for them,&#8221; Patrick added, noting that 27 girls are still missing.</p>
  409. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  410. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Texas Lieutenant Governor <a href="https://twitter.com/DanPatrick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanPatrick</a> shares harrowing flood survival story from Camp Mystic: &#8220;The water was at the door. The camp counselor took a rock and smashed out the window. They climbed out the window in bare feet and nothing but a night gown on, in neck high water.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mRQZDk06Xr">pic.twitter.com/mRQZDk06Xr</a></p>
  411. <p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1941626691350143312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  412. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Texas officials on Saturday afternoon confirmed that 32 people have been confirmed dead from the dangerous flooding in Texas. Fourteen of the victims have been identified as children.</p>
  413. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Five bodies of the recovered adults and three children remain unidentified, officials said.</p>
  414. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  415. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 BREAKING: The deathtoll from the Texas floods is now up to 32, including 14 children</p>
  416. <p>This is absolutely devastating.</p>
  417. <p>These poor families need every single prayer you can muster. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers. <a href="https://t.co/FS4JBt0uPf">pic.twitter.com/FS4JBt0uPf</a></p>
  418. <p>— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1941599442299244916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  419. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">The number of fatalities is expected to rise.</p>
  420. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><strong>UPDATE</strong>: At least 27 girls from a Christian summer camp called Camp Mystic are still unaccounted for after record-breaking flooding in Texas, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/05/us/texas-floods">according</a> to The New York Times. The initial estimate of missing girls hovered somewhere around 20 on Saturday morning.</p>
  421. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">It&#8217;s also been confirmed that the death toll has risen to 29, including at least nine children.</p>
  422. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><strong>UPDATE</strong>: President Donald Trump on Saturday addressed the devastating flooding in Texas, offering the support of his administration and his prayers.</p>
  423. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">&#8220;The Trump Administration is working with State and Local Officials on the ground in Texas in response to the tragic flooding that took place yesterday,&#8221; the president posted to Truth Social. &#8220;Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, will be there shortly.&#8221;</p>
  424. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">As secretary of the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Noem oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).</p>
  425. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">&#8220;Melania and I are praying for all of the families impacted by this horrible tragedy,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;Our Brave First Responders are on site doing what they do best. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!&#8221;</p>
  426. <div id="attachment_943211" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943211" class="wp-image-943211 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-05-at-3.08.00-PM-1024x265.png" alt="" width="1024" height="265" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-05-at-3.08.00-PM-1024x265.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-05-at-3.08.00-PM-300x78.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-05-at-3.08.00-PM-768x198.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-05-at-3.08.00-PM-1536x397.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-05-at-3.08.00-PM.png 1618w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-943211" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Donald Trump: Truth Social</em></p></div>
  427. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><strong>UPDATE</strong>: On Saturday, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said the total number of confirmed deaths from the flooding is 27, including nine children. About 850 people had been rescued so far, according to authorities.</p>
  428. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Additionally, one 13-year-old camper from Camp Mystic <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/kerrville-texas-flooding-camp-girls-missing-guadalupe-river-flood-waters-hit-mystic-least-27-dead/16970067/">said</a> the facility was &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; by the flooding. &#8220;A helicopter landed and started taking people away. It was really scary,&#8221; the teen, Elinor Lester, said.</p>
  429. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  430. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Breaking: Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha says the number of fatailities in Kerr County has increased to 27. 18 are adults, and 9 are children. At this time, 6 of the adults remain unidentified, and 1 child remains unidentified.</p>
  431. <p>— Matt Stringer (@WestTxStringer) <a href="https://twitter.com/WestTxStringer/status/1941514058097885228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  432. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true"><em>Original post:</em></p>
  433. <p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">First responders continue to search for at least 20 girls from a private Christian all-girls summer camp in Texas, amid record-setting flooding in the state.</p>
  434. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq550ex0003356nu34gfdty@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">The camp, called Camp Mystic, is located near the Guadalupe River. In less than two hours, the water levels reportedly rose more than 20 feet.</p>
  435. <p>Journalist Nick Sortor posted on X early Saturday morning that two girls from the camp have been found dead.</p>
  436. <p>&#8220;Words cannot begin to describe how heartbroken I am to report this,&#8221; Sortor wrote. &#8220;The bodies of multiple children from Camp Mystic have now been recovered from the floods here in Texas.&#8221;</p>
  437. <p>&#8220;I’ve been sitting on this news for a few hours so that families could be notified,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There are still 20 girls missing from the camp. Absolutely devastating. PLEASE keep praying. And Rest in Peace, Sarah Marsh, Janie Hunt, and the other victims lost tonight.&#8221;</p>
  438. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  439. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Words cannot begin to describe how heartbroken I am to report this.</p>
  440. <p>The bodies of multiple children from Camp Mystic have now been recovered from the floods here in Texas.</p>
  441. <p>I’ve been sitting on this news for a few hours so that families could be notified.</p>
  442. <p>There are still 20… <a href="https://t.co/JiSziRTJ1w">pic.twitter.com/JiSziRTJ1w</a></p>
  443. <p>— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1941391391214444630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  444. <p>A mother named Serena Aldrich <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/weather/mother-rescued-girls-camp-mystic-flooding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation on Friday that her two daughters, ages 9 and 12, were found unharmed after attending Camp Mystic.</p>
  445. <p>“They’re glad to be home and worried about their friends. They are strong,&#8221; Aldrich said, adding that she feels &#8220;blessed&#8221; and &#8220;grateful&#8221; to have her girls back.</p>
  446. <p>It&#8217;s unclear how many girls remain missing from the camp, though some reports pin the number at 23 to 25 girls, while other reports indicate 20 girls remain unaccounted for.</p>
  447. <p>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said they are notifying parents about their daughters and working hard to find the girls. “We will do everything humanly possible 24/7, looking in every tree and turning over every rock, to find your daughter or son,” he <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/camp-mystic-summer-camp-flooding/">said</a>. “The 500 people in the field are looking for your daughter.”</p>
  448. <p>At another girls camp, called Heart O’ the Hills, it&#8217;s been confirmed that camp director and co-owner Jane Ragsdale died in the flooding.</p>
  449. <p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq5e4m30009356nvawbgi7m@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">“We have received word that Jane Ragsdale did not make it,” the camp <a href="https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/texas-flooding-07-05-2025-hnk">said</a> about Ragsdale&#8217;s death. “We are mourning the loss of a woman who influenced countless lives and was the definition of strong and powerful.”</p>
  450. <p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmcq5e4m30009356nvawbgi7m@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Throughout Kerr County, more than 230 people have been rescued or evacuated, according to CNN. The county sheriff said on Saturday that at least 24 people have been confirmed dead.</p>
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  453.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:08:37 GMT</pubDate>
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  457.      <title>‘Live Not By Lies’: A Documentary Whose Warnings We Dare Not Ignore</title>
  458.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-not-by-lies-a-documentary-whose-warnings-we-dare-not-ignore</link>
  459.      <dc:creator>Lois McLatchie Miller</dc:creator>
  460.      <description>There is something chilling about watching Angel Studios’ documentary “Live Not By Lies!”  It is not merely a recounting of history, though it does that with remarkable clarity — testimonies of men and women who survived totalitarian communism in Eastern Europe echo across the decades with a resonance we ignore at our peril.  What is ...</description>
  461.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is something chilling about watching Angel Studios’ documentary “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Live Not By Lies!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">” </span></p>
  462. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is not merely a recounting of history, though it does that with remarkable clarity — testimonies of men and women who survived totalitarian communism in Eastern Europe echo across the decades with a resonance we ignore at our peril. </span></p>
  463. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is most unsettling about the adaptation of Rod Dreher’s bestselling work, however, is the gnawing realization that their warnings have already become our reality.</span></p>
  464. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film introduces us to brave Christians who, under Soviet rule, faced surveillance, intimidation, and prison — simply for refusing to pretend that evil was good. As they share their stories, one can’t help but feel the familiarity of it all: the demand to affirm ideologies we know to be false, the punishment for dissent, the slow corrosion of the conscience. The question is no longer “Could it happen here?” but “How far has it already gone?”</span></p>
  465. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same dynamic Dreher exposes—state and cultural forces colluding to crush dissent — is alive in the contemporary West.</span></p>
  466. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Live Not By Lies | Official Trailer | Streaming April 1 | Angel Studios" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lJh8wJKAnm8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  467. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consider Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a woman who was arrested not for vandalizing property or committing acts of violence, but for the silent crime of praying in her head near an abortion facility in Birmingham, England. No slogans, no placards — only the private communion of her thoughts with God. She was questioned by police, searched, charged, and brought before a court. She was found innocent – but promptly arrested again weeks later for the very same thoughts in the very same place. Thankfully, after a long and grueling investigation, Isabel won compensation from the police with support from ADF International.</span></p>
  468. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there’s Adam Smith-Connor, an army veteran who stood silently and imperceptibly in prayer near another facility in Bournemouth in memory of his lost son. He too was interrogated by police and criminalized for the contents of his conscience – worse, leading to a conviction and a criminal charge. Adam was ordered to pay £9,000 to the court – amounting to perhaps the most expensive three minute prayer in history.</span></p>
  469. <div id="attachment_624329" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-624329" class="size-large wp-image-624329" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-22-at-12.25.15-PM-1024x574.png" alt="Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom." width="1024" height="574" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-22-at-12.25.15-PM-1024x574.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-22-at-12.25.15-PM-300x168.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-22-at-12.25.15-PM-768x431.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-22-at-12.25.15-PM-1536x861.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-22-at-12.25.15-PM-2048x1148.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-624329" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom.</p></div>
  470. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These cases are the canaries in the coal mine. They warn us of what happens when the state arrogates to itself the power to police interior conviction. In the novel “1984,” George Orwell called this “thoughtcrime.” Today in Britain, it is called a “buffer zone,” but the principle is identical: certain beliefs must not merely be suppressed — they must be eradicated from the public square.</span></p>
  471. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Live Not By Lies!” is a clarion call to rediscover moral courage. Dreher draws on the legacy of Vaclav Havel, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and countless ordinary Christians who refused to live by the lie. They were forced to pretend that the Party was infallible, that Marxism was inevitable, that the State was God. Today, our cultural commissars demand our allegiance to a different set of dogmas — that biological sex is a construct, that unborn life is disposable, that faith belongs behind closed doors and never in public life. But the impulse is the same: bow, or be broken.</span></p>
  472. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The documentary is a reminder that resistance begins not with grand gestures, but with the refusal to speak untruth. When the authorities came to interrogate believers in Prague, they demanded not only compliance but confession: “Say that you agree. Say that you believe.” Many would not. For this, they lost jobs, were blacklisted, even imprisoned. Yet their refusal to say what they did not believe was the seed from which freedom eventually grew.</span></p>
  473. <div id="attachment_943085" style="width: 417px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.angel.com/watch/live-not-by-lies"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943085" class="size-large wp-image-943085" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-407x576.jpg" alt="Angel Studios" width="407" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-407x576.jpg 407w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-212x300.jpg 212w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-768x1086.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/MixCollage-04-Jul-2025-12-53-PM-1283-scaled.jpg 1810w" sizes="(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-943085" class="wp-caption-text">Angel Studios</p></div>
  474. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many today are willing to pay that price? We like to imagine ourselves as different — more sophisticated, more democratic, more tolerant. But the evidence mounts that our culture is simply addicted to a softer form of totalism: enforced conformity through the threat of professional ruin, reputational assassination, or — if you dare to pray silently — criminal prosecution.</span></p>
  475. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no more potent illustration of this drift than the prosecutions of Vaughan-Spruce and Smith-Connor. In each case, the state claimed to be protecting “vulnerable women,” yet no evidence was presented that these individuals harassed or intimidated anyone. The real issue was that their mere presence — and their silent prayers — expressed a conviction the state deems intolerable. The Soviets called it “anti-Soviet agitation.” We call it “interference.” In both cases, the thought itself is the crime.</span></p>
  476. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some will say these comparisons are overwrought. They are not. For the Christian who believes God is Lord of both conscience and public life, there is no partition between belief and expression. The attempt to criminalize that wholeness — to tell a person they may think but not manifest their convictions — is precisely what totalitarian systems have always done. Dreher’s work, and this film, make clear that it begins with a creeping fear to speak, and ends with a culture that cannot remember how.</span></p>
  477. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If we are to resist, we must start by telling the truth. No law should compel a citizen to lie — whether about the humanity of the unborn, the nature of marriage, or the sanctity of prayer. And no government has authority over the secret dialogue of the soul with its Creator. To surrender this is to surrender everything.</span></p>
  478. <p>* * *</p>
  479. <p><em>Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) is a Scottish commentator and Senior Legal Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom UK.</em></p>
  480. <p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
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  487.      <title>Are Cigarettes Making A Comeback? How Gen Z Is Staging A Smoking Rebrand</title>
  488.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/are-cigarettes-making-a-comeback-how-gen-z-is-staging-a-smoking-rebrand</link>
  489.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  490.      <description>In just a few decades, smoking all but disappeared from American culture. But now, despite the best efforts of the anti-smoking brigade, cigarettes are back. Though overall smoking rates in the United States remain low, Gen Z has embraced cigarettes as a symbol of rebellion. On film and television, in music and fashion, smoking is ...</description>
  491.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In just a few decades, smoking all but disappeared from American culture. But now, despite the best efforts of the anti-smoking brigade, cigarettes are back.</p>
  492. <p>Though overall smoking rates in the United States remain low, Gen Z has embraced cigarettes as a symbol of rebellion. On film and television, in music and fashion, smoking is cool again. A 2022 <a href="https://truthinitiative.org/lights-camera-tobacco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> found that more than half of the top 15 streaming shows among viewers aged 15 to 24 — like “Euphoria” and “Peaky Blinders” — contained tobacco imagery.</p>
  493. <p>Another report found 80% of the 2025 Oscar Best Picture nominees included tobacco imagery. Then there’s pop star Sabrina Carpenter, who used a fork as a cigarette holder in the music video for her latest single, “Manchild.”</p>
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  533. <p>Other celebrities popular with Gen Z, including Charli XCX, Addison Rae, and Dua Lipa, are frequently photographed or filmed smoking cigarettes in public, onstage, or in fashion campaigns.</p>
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  571. <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBekkYdSmwt/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Cigfluencers (@cigfluencers)</a></p>
  572. </div>
  573. </blockquote>
  574. <p><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p>
  575. <p>On social media, popular accounts like @cigfluencers are standing by to capture these moments, reframing smoking as a high-fashion or edgy lifestyle accessory rather than as a health risk. Cigarettes were spotted at New York Fashion Week and even popped up in editorial spreads as props. This time, there weren&#8217;t any warnings or advisories. Instead, cigarettes are being used to capture a mood, whether it’s glamorous or rebellious or some combination of the two.</p>
  576. <p>For many Gen Z observers, the interest in smoking appears to be driven less by addiction than by aesthetics, nostalgia, or even as a form of protest after decades of cigarette demonization.</p>
  577. <p>Young adults today seem to be saying that smoking is a way to channel “main character energy,” a way to stand out from the hordes of wellness-obsessed, yoga-posing, vegan millennials.</p>
  578. <p>Some smokers blamed their habit on the pandemic, when stress, isolation, and a complete reframing of previously normal behavior led to new routines and new interests, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/style/self-care/smoking-pandemic.html">reported</a> in 2021. It seems new smokers worked cigarettes into their day as a vibe, not a vice.</p>
  579. <p>This renewed interest in cigarettes could be seen as a temporary aesthetic moment, but it’s not stopping public health experts from panicking about future implications. With celebrity influence and the absence of counter-messaging, which tapered off as the number of smokers decreased, they’re afraid smoking could make a real comeback because it is still addictive.</p>
  580. <p>It’s true that cigarette companies still aren’t legally allowed to advertise to youth. However, seeing role models and Instagram influencers smoking is a form of advertisement all its own. When a popular television show includes a smoke break, viewers will be more likely to replicate that behavior in real life. Smoking in shows and movies has a normalizing effect that anti-smoking crusaders have been desperate to eliminate.</p>
  581. <p>Despite its decline, cigarette smoking never completely disappeared. Among older generations, smoking persisted in certain communities and cultures. Among Gen Z, smoking has been quietly evolving into a symbol of defiance and a return to rituals from the past.</p>
  582. <p>Whether this trend results in long-term changes in how the public treats smokers and smoking is still a big unknown. But for now, it’s clear that smoking, once demonized and dismissed, is having its renaissance moment.</p>
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  585.      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  589.      <title>Trump Signs Big, Beautiful Bill At Historic July 4 Ceremony: ‘A Triumph Of Democracy’</title>
  590.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill-at-historic-july-4-ceremony-a-triumph-of-democracy</link>
  591.      <dc:creator>Frank Camp</dc:creator>
  592.      <description>President Donald Trump signed the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law on Independence Day, meeting his self-imposed deadline for the monumental budget bill after a long legislative struggle. Trump — who had urged Congress to pass the bill and send it to his desk by July 4 — walked out onto the South Portico of ...</description>
  593.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump signed the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law on Independence Day, meeting his self-imposed deadline for the monumental budget bill after a long legislative struggle.</p>
  594. <p>Trump — who had urged Congress to pass the bill and send it to his desk by July 4 — walked out onto the South Portico of the White House with First Lady Melania Trump and stood for the national anthem and a military flyover, after which he approached the microphone to offer a few words.</p>
  595. <p>&#8220;I want to wish you a very happy Independence Day, happy Fourth of July. This is gonna be something special. There&#8217;s spirit in this country, we haven&#8217;t seen anything like it in many, many years,&#8221; the president said, later mentioning Operation Midnight Hammer and the military personnel who participated in the operation to destroy Iran&#8217;s nuclear capabilities.</p>
  596. <p>Trump continued, noting his administration&#8217;s successes in recent months.</p>
  597. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  598. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE LAW OF THE LAND! <a href="https://t.co/mOpYN0tiZ0">pic.twitter.com/mOpYN0tiZ0</a></p>
  599. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1941253557665321187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  600. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  601. <p>&#8220;The American people gave us a historic mandate in November&#8230;We made promises, and it&#8217;s really promises made, promises kept. This is a triumph of democracy on the birthday of democracy,&#8221; Trump added, going on to enumerate the details of the Big, Beautiful Bill, and thanking prominent Republicans who helped get the legislation across the finish line.</p>
  602. <p>&#8220;The Golden Age of America is upon us. We are in the Golden Age,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a period of time the likes of which I don&#8217;t think this country has ever experienced before.&#8221;</p>
  603. <p>Trump then descended the stairs, shook hands with various figures, took his pen, and — flanked by House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise — signed the Big, Beautiful Bill.</p>
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  605. <p>The bill makes permanent Trump&#8217;s 2017 tax cuts, increases funding for border security, enacts work requirements for able-bodied recipients of Medicaid and food stamps, defunds Planned Parenthood for a year, funds the “Golden Dome” missile defense program, and ends taxes on tips and overtime.</p>
  606. <p>The legislation was sent to Trump’s desk after being passed by both houses of Congress, where Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-beautiful-and-on-the-way-to-trumps-desk-congress-passes-historic-spending-bill?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=17&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Big%2C+Beautiful%2C+And+On+The+Way+To+Trump’s+Desk%3A+Congress+Passes+Historic+Spending+Bill">overcame</a> significant Democratic opposition and internal Republican hesitancy to hand the president a major legislative victory.</p>
  607. <p>The Republican-controlled House voted 218-214 to pass the measure shortly after Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wrapped up an hours-long speech delaying the bill’s advancement. To reach the final vote, Johnson spent hours working with Republican holdouts to get them to back the measure.</p>
  608. <p>The Senate vote was even closer, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.</p>
  609. <p>Following the bill&#8217;s passage on July 3, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-will-sign-one-big-beautiful-bill-at-fourth-of-july-celebration?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Will+Sign+One+Big%2C+Beautiful+Bill+At+Fourth+Of+July+Celebration">said</a> &#8220;President Trump delivered win after win for the American people, and House Republicans and Senate Republicans delivered these wins with the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law.”</p>
  610. <p><em>Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.</em></p>
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  613.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:10:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  617.      <title>Chestnut Devours 70+ Hotdogs, Dominates Competition In Annual Display Of American Exceptionalism</title>
  618.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/chestnut-devours-70-hotdogs-dominates-competition-in-annual-display-of-american-exceptionalism</link>
  619.      <dc:creator>Jeffrey Cawood</dc:creator>
  620.      <description>Joey “Jaws” Chestnut took back his title at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition on Friday, dominating the event after being booted from last year’s competition over a contract dispute with a fake meat company. “Oh my gosh, I was nervous,” Chestnut told ESPN after reclaiming his crown. “[The] first couple of hot dogs, I ...</description>
  621.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joey “Jaws” Chestnut took back his title at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition on Friday, dominating the event after being booted from last year’s competition over a contract dispute with a fake meat company.</p>
  622. <p>“Oh my gosh, I was nervous,” Chestnut told ESPN after reclaiming his crown. “[The] first couple of hot dogs, I was fumbling a little bit, but I found a pretty good rhythm. My goal was 70 to 77 – I really wanted a little bit more. There’s next year and I’m just happy I am here.”</p>
  623. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  624. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">JOEY CHESTNUT&#39;S DOMINANCE CONTINUES 🐐 </p>
  625. <p>Chestnut downs 70.5 hot dogs to win his 17th Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title 🏆 🌭 <a href="https://t.co/B3TMBrayZ7">pic.twitter.com/B3TMBrayZ7</a></p>
  626. <p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1941180650825879615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  628. <p>Chestnut stuffed himself with 70 ½ hot dogs in 10 minutes, marking the 41-year-old Indiana resident’s 17<sup>th</sup> “Mustard Belt” win in 20 tries – the most any competitor has won. Still, he fell short of his record of 76 hot dogs and buns from four years ago. He won his first Nathan&#8217;s competition in 2007, and an American has won the contest every year since.</p>
  629. <p>He beat 14 other chowhounds from all over the world, including Brazil, Australia, and Europe. Friday’s second-place finisher, Patrick Bertoletti, ate 24 fewer frankfurters than Chestnut. Bertoletti won last year’s competition during Chestnut’s absence, downing 58 wieners and buns. The event has been held annually at Nathan’s Famous restaurant in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on July 4 since 1972.</p>
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  631. <p>Although Chestnut did not compete in Nathan’s 2024 competition, he still holds 55 world records for various eating competitions. According to <a href="https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/106">Major League Eating,</a> the moderating body behind the hot dog eating contest, Chestnut also holds records for eating 121 Twinkies in six minutes, 390 shrimp wontons in eight minutes, and, of course, his hot dog record from 2021.</p>
  632. <p>Major League Eating <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hot-dog-legend-joey-chestnut-signs-with-vegan-brand-gets-booted-from-july-4th-competition">banned</a> Chestnut from the Nathan’s Famous competition last year after he signed a deal with Impossible Foods, a Nathan’s competitor. In a <a href="https://x.com/eatingcontest/status/1800607390636875792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1800607390636875792%7Ctwgr%5Ec0d98868a70172f80ffb323be440b5ea4f586a0d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fhot-dog-legend-joey-chestnut-signs-with-vegan-brand-gets-booted-from-july-4th-competition">statement</a> last year on X, the group said, “We are devastated to learn that Joey Chestnut has chosen to represent a rival brand that sells plant-based hot dogs rather than competing in the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest.”</p>
  633. <p>During his hiatus from Nathan’s Famous 2024 competition, Chestnut set the <a href="https://x.com/joeyjaws/status/1916645992176173327">record</a> for the most Buffalo Wild Wings eaten in one sitting, consuming 14.4 pounds of wings. He also consumed 83 all-beef hot dogs and buns at a Labor Day event in Las Vegas, according to CNN.</p>
  634. <p>Chestnut took home $10,000 for his win on Friday, with the runner-up receiving $5,000, and $2500 for third place.</p>
  635. <p><em>Sam Korkus contributed to this report.</em></p>
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  638.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:16:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  642.      <title>Trump Admin To Adjust National Park Fees To Prioritize American Families Over Foreign Tourists</title>
  643.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-to-adjust-national-park-fees-to-prioritize-american-families-over-foreign-tourists</link>
  644.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  645.      <description>President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would begin charging foreign tourists more to enter America&amp;#8217;s national parks than U.S. residents. The announcement at a rally in Iowa came as he signed two executive orders dealing with national parks, including one that directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to “appropriately” raise prices ...</description>
  646.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would begin charging foreign tourists more to enter America&#8217;s national parks than U.S. residents.</span></p>
  647. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The announcement at a rally in Iowa came as he signed two executive orders dealing with national parks, including one that directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to “appropriately” raise prices of entrance fees and recreation passes for non-residents. </span></p>
  648. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To fund improvements and enhanced experiences across the park systems,” Trump said. “I’ve just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans. And we’re going to do that. The National Parks will be about America First, we’re gonna take it America First.” </span></p>
  649. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  650. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> announces that entrance fees for foreign tourists at National Parks will be raised in order to fund park improvements and enhanced experiences: &#8220;The National Parks will be about AMERICA FIRST&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/fIUB7ET0tC">pic.twitter.com/fIUB7ET0tC</a></p>
  651. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940943247083520128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  652. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  653. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/making-america-beautiful-again-by-improving-our-national-parks/">executive order</a> states that the additional funds raised will be used to enhance park infrastructure and make the parks more accessible and affordable for Americans. </span></p>
  654. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“From the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon to the tranquility of the Great Smoky Mountains, America&#8217;s national parks have provided generations of American families with unforgettable memories,” Trump wrote in the executive order. “It is the policy of my Administration to preserve these opportunities for American families in future generations by increasing entry fees for foreign tourists, improving affordability for United States residents, and expanding opportunities to enjoy America&#8217;s splendid national treasures.”</span></p>
  655. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  656. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The order also directs Burgum to establish rules granting American residents preferential treatment for permitting or in situations where a lottery system restricts entry to certain areas. </span></p>
  657. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In recent years, there has been an increase in tourism at national parks, with a <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-statistics-dashboard.htm">record</a> 331.9 million visitors in 2024. In response, more and more parks, such as Arches in Utah and Rocky Mountain in Colorado, have begun implementing timed-entry programs. </span></p>
  658. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The order also rescinded an Obama-era <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/19/2017-01383/promoting-diversity-and-inclusion-in-our-national-parks-national-forests-and-other-public-lands-and">executive order</a> that called for the National Park Service to promote diversity and inclusion, including in the workforce. </span></p>
  659. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The other executive order signed by Trump on Thursday created the “Make America Beautiful Commission,&#8221; composed of Burgum, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and other cabinet officials. </span></p>
  660. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The commission was tasked with advising the president on how to “responsibly conserve America&#8217;s national treasures and natural resources” and “developing policies to recover fish and wildlife populations through collaboration rather than regulation.”</span></p>
  661. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The commission was instructed “to expand access to public lands, national parks, national forests, and wildlife refuges while promoting a wide range of outdoor recreation opportunities like hunting, fishing, hiking, biking, skiing, climbing, boating, off-roading, and wildlife viewing.”</span></p>
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  664.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:08:51 GMT</pubDate>
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  668.      <title>Flooding In Texas Causes Multiple Fatalities As Guadalupe River Surges To Record Levels</title>
  669.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/flooding-in-texas-causes-multiple-fatalities-as-guadalupe-river-surges-to-record-levels</link>
  670.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  671.      <description>Multiple people are reportedly dead in Central Texas after a flash flood raised the Guadalupe River to its second-highest recorded level in history on Friday morning. The Guadalupe River has now reached its 2nd highest flood stage ever. Kerr County leaders are calling this &amp;#8220;catastrophic flooding.&amp;#8221; pic.twitter.com/ra5isDAO8F — Gage Goulding &amp;#8211; KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) July ...</description>
  672.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">Multiple people are reportedly dead in Central Texas after a flash flood raised the Guadalupe River to its second-highest recorded level in history on Friday morning.</p>
  673. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  674. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Guadalupe River has now reached its 2nd highest flood stage ever.</p>
  675. <p>Kerr County leaders are calling this &#8220;catastrophic flooding.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ra5isDAO8F">pic.twitter.com/ra5isDAO8F</a></p>
  676. <p>— Gage Goulding &#8211; KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) <a href="https://twitter.com/GageGoulding/status/1941131636479041889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  679. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Life-threatening flood on the Guadalupe River this morning. 2nd highest river height exceeding 1987 flood. This video from Kerrville.</p>
  680. <p>🎥 Shelley Parker<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txwx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/natwxdesk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@natwxdesk</a> <a href="https://t.co/8n6vFwqpzN">pic.twitter.com/8n6vFwqpzN</a></p>
  681. <p>— Chris Suchan (@ChrisSuchanWOAI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisSuchanWOAI/status/1941113976567570706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  682. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  683. <p>“This is a very dangerous and life-threatening flood event along the Guadalupe River! Move to higher ground! The National Weather Service in Austin and San Antonio stated. “More than 14 inches of rain have fallen in portions of San Angelo in the last 24 hours,” FOX West Texas <a href="https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/weather/san-angelo-flooding-rain-totals/504-b17e9d18-1660-49a6-85d1-0e41ca62a7bd">reported</a> at 9 a.m. Friday.</p>
  684. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“This is a catastrophic flooding event in Kerr County,” the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office <a href="applewebdata://9A0671C6-77CE-4126-9533-C71B6B14BAB7/v">posted</a> on Facebook. “We can confirm fatalities but will not release further information until next of kin are notified. Our Office is working with a wide variety of local and state agencies to respond to calls and rescues. The entire county is an extremely active scene. Residents are encouraged to shelter in place and not attempt travel. Those near creeks, streams, and the Guadalupe River should immediately move to higher ground.”</p>
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  686. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Guadalupe River reached a level where it crested its banks and even surpassed the level of the famous 1987 flood. “Hundreds of other people along the Guadalupe River and its tributaries that night and morning had to be evacuated. The 1987 Guadalupe Flood is unfortunately known for the tragic loss of 10 teenagers&#8217; lives and 33 other injuries when a bus and van leaving a church camp encountered the flood waters,” the National Weather Service <a href="https://www.weather.gov/ewx/wxevent-19870717">recalled</a>.</p>
  687. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“The police in Kerrville, Texas, about 58 miles northwest of San Antonio, <a href="https://archive.is/o/ANCpA/https:/www.facebook.com/KerrvillePD/posts/1176907247811389?ref=embed_post">said on social media</a> that they were working with the Kerrville Fire Department to evacuate residents, noting that ‘many roads and streets are flooding in town,’” The New York Times <a href="applewebdata://9A0671C6-77CE-4126-9533-C71B6B14BAB7/v">reported</a>.</p>
  688. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The city of Kerrville issued a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1173857168105654&amp;set=a.249339563890757">disaster declaration</a>.</p>
  689. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Our crews are actively working to restore power in areas that are accessible and safe to enter,” AEP Texas stated. “We understand the inconvenience extended outages may cause and apologize to those who may be affected. However, the safety of the public and our personnel remains our top priority.”</p>
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  692.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:04:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  696.      <title>The All-American Director You Don’t Know By Name</title>
  697.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-all-american-director-you-dont-know-by-name</link>
  698.      <dc:creator>Christian Toto</dc:creator>
  699.      <description>Spielberg. Tarantino. The Coen brothers. Nolan. Cameron. Coppola. Kosinski? While Joseph Kosinski may lacks the name recognition, let alone the resume of those cinematic giants, he’s still responsible for two of the most all-American films of the past decade. Three if you count a little-seen gem about our brave firefighters. One film literally saved movies, ...</description>
  700.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spielberg. Tarantino. The Coen brothers. Nolan. Cameron. Coppola.</span></p>
  701. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kosinski?</span></p>
  702. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Joseph Kosinski may lacks the name recognition, let alone the resume of those cinematic giants, he’s still responsible for two of the most all-American films of the past decade. Three if you count a little-seen gem about our brave firefighters.</span></p>
  703. <p>One film literally <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/steven-spielberg-tells-tom-cruise-saved-hollywood-top-gun-maverick-1235522763/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">saved movies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, according to none other than Steven Spielberg.</span></p>
  704. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick” did more than extend the popular ‘80s smash. It brought movie goers back to theaters following the pandemic. And you’d be hard pressed to find a more patriotic, “</span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5K6kkL6powWwpoHy6WFiN2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">America [bleep} Yeah</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” movie over the past decade.</span></p>
  705. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He has a feel for old school Hollywood that could save the industry from itself. Here&#8217;s what makes his film so refreshing.</span></p>
  706. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Top Gun: Maverick” soared higher than even the 1986 original. Tom Cruise returns to play Maverick, the hotshot aviator staring down a different kind of challenge.</span></p>
  707. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Irrelevancy.</span></p>
  708. <div id="attachment_943031" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943031" class="size-large wp-image-943031" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395808441-864x576.jpg" alt="MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - MAY 06: Tom Cruise and Joe Kosinski attend the Mexico Press Day of &quot;Top Gun: Maverick&quot; at The Ritz Carlton Hotel on May 06, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395808441-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395808441-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395808441-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395808441.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-943031" class="wp-caption-text">Hector Vivas/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures</p></div>
  709. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all know what happened next. Maverick dug back for something extra, defied authority, fell for an old flame and gave young pilots the courage to complete a death-defying mission.</span></p>
  710. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kosinski didn’t inject woke into a single frame of his film. Nor did he shy away from American excellence, let alone the “need for speed.” His film hearkened back to old-school Hollywood movies with handsome heroes, lovely ladies and a determination that cannot be denied.</span></p>
  711. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why wouldn’t it earn a whopping $718 million in U.S. theaters alone? It’s the movie audiences were waiting for all along.</span></p>
  712. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Kosinski just did it again.</span></p>
  713. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“F1” stars Brad Pitt as an aging race car driver hoping for one last shot at glory. He’ll have to make nice with a talented rookie (Damson Idris) and defeat old demons to get back in the winner’s circle.</span></p>
  714. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sound familiar?</span></p>
  715. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The parallels don’t end there. Both films offer slick, you-are-there visuals, generational tension and a commitment to the American Dream. If you work hard enough, anything is possible.</span></p>
  716. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“F1” raced to $57 million in its opening weekend stateside, the most for any original film this year.</span></p>
  717. <div id="attachment_943033" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943033" class="size-large wp-image-943033" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1528168594-864x576.jpg" alt="NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JULY 09: Brad Pitt, star of the upcoming Formula One based movie, Apex, and Joseph Kosinski, director of the upcoming Formula One based movie, Apex, talk on the grid during the F1 Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone Circuit on July 09, 2023 in Northampton, England. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1528168594-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1528168594-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1528168594-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1528168594.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-943033" class="wp-caption-text">Dan Mullan/Getty Images</p></div>
  718. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both films feature heroes willing to try new things, to push past conventional boundaries to achieve their dreams. That plays into the entrepreneurial pluck in America’s DNA.</span></p>
  719. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It helps that Kosinski snagged two older movie stars who defy Father Time. Each is given a full-bodied romantic story arc at a time when Hollywood often forgets how much audiences crave that part of the hero’s journey.</span></p>
  720. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scarlett Johansson co-stars with three handsome co-leads in “Jurassic World Rebirth.” There’s not a hint of romance in the film. And that’s more common than ever.</span></p>
  721. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cruise and Pitt lean into their movie-star looks, as does Kosinski. He made their characters vulnerable but undeniably masculine. That’s refreshing.</span></p>
  722. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The films deliver crowd-pleasing thrills without guilt or compromise. They also scored a 99 and 97% “fresh” rating, respectively, from general audiences at RottenTomatoes.com.</span></p>
  723. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The irony? Kosinski’s previous film, 2017’s “Only the Brave,” also served up heroism from a decidedly heartland perspective. The fact-based story recalls the men of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who risked it all to defeat an ominous Arizona wildfire.</span></p>
  724. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly starred in a film that got ignored by audiences at the time. Seen today, Kosinski’s knack for slick visuals and on-screen bravery paved the way for “Maverick.”</span></p>
  725. <div id="attachment_943035" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943035" class="size-large wp-image-943035" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-862568666-864x576.jpg" alt="NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 17: (L-R) James Badge Dale, Josh Brolin, Joseph Kosinski, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Pat McCarty and Taylor Kitsch attend &quot;Only The Brave&quot; New York screening at iPic Theater on October 17, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-862568666-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-862568666-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-862568666-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-862568666.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-943035" class="wp-caption-text">Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic</p></div>
  726. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film’s core themes aren’t an accident. The 51-year-old director told a reporter he has a </span><a href="https://cultmtl.com/2025/06/winning-at-underdog-stories-joseph-kosinski-and-jerry-bruckheimer-on-f1-the-movie-interview/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">weakness for underdog stories</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, another trait of the American Dream.</span></p>
  727. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What’s it like to be at the back, trying to score a win, rather than winning all the time? Who wins all the time in life? Very few people.”</span></p>
  728. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The director isn’t shy about his love for the U.S. Military, an affection that bloomed while preparing for “Maverick.” He spent some time with </span><a href="https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/top-gun-maverick-director-calls-the-movies-production-a-dream-come-true.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">real-life soldiers and came away impressed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  729. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The fact that [servicemen and women] do that for six months or nine months without seeing their families, I was just really blown away by their sacrifice and what they give up to do that job for us…So, I think all of us on the crew walked away with even more respect for all the men and women out there. And that’s another reason we wanted this film to represent them in the best way possible. Because they worked so hard to help us capture all that.”</span></p>
  730. <div id="attachment_943051" style="width: 830px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943051" class="size-large wp-image-943051" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395478961-820x576.jpg" alt="SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 04: (L-R) Kristin Kosinski and Joseph Kosinski attend the Global Premiere of &quot;Top Gun: Maverick&quot; on May 04, 2022 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)" width="820" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395478961-820x576.jpg 820w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395478961-300x211.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395478961-768x539.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-1395478961.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" /><p id="caption-attachment-943051" class="wp-caption-text">SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; MAY 04: (L-R) Kristin Kosinski and Joseph Kosinski attend the Global Premiere of &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; on May 04, 2022 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)</p></div>
  731. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s ironic that the first film to mirror the kind of all-American storytelling “Maverick” offered came from that film’s director. Hollywood traditionally loves to clone successful projects. When “The Blair Witch Project” introduced found-footage storytelling to the masses, we soon saw dozens of lesser copycats.</span></p>
  732. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “John Wick” franchise paved the way for more hitmen movies.</span></p>
  733. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet we haven’t seen a film like “Top Gun: Maverick” for the past three years. Until that film’s director got back to work, that is.</span></p>
  734. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kosinski may never reach the heights of a Spielberg or Tarantino, and his planned “Maverick” sequel has some mighty big shoes to fill. The director’s knack for knowing what audiences crave and his willingness to deliver sans compromise means we’ll be hearing a lot more from him soon.</span></p>
  735. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He may not stay anonymous for long.</span></p>
  736. <p>* * *</p>
  737. <p><em>Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.</em></p>
  738. <p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
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  741.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:18:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  745.      <title>Joey Chestnut Returns To Coney Island, Expected To Dominate Hot Dog Eating Contest</title>
  746.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/joey-chestnut-returns-to-coney-island-expected-to-dominate-hot-dog-eating-contest</link>
  747.      <dc:creator>Sam Korkus</dc:creator>
  748.      <description>Joey Chestnut, the world-famous hot dog eating champion, returns to the Nathan&amp;#8217;s Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition after taking a year off — and is expected to dominate once again. Chestnut, who was booted from last year&amp;#8217;s July 4 competition after taking a deal with fake meat company Impossible Foods, announced his return last month. ...</description>
  749.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joey Chestnut, the world-famous hot dog eating champion, returns to the Nathan&#8217;s Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition after taking a year off — and is expected to dominate once again.</p>
  750. <p>Chestnut, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hot-dog-legend-joey-chestnut-signs-with-vegan-brand-gets-booted-from-july-4th-competition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">booted</a> from last year&#8217;s July 4 competition after taking a deal with fake meat company Impossible Foods, announced his return last month.</p>
  751. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to be returning to the Nathan&#8217;s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest,&#8221; Chestnut <a href="https://x.com/joeyjaws/status/1934612017052336469" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;This event means the world to me. It&#8217;s a cherished tradition, a celebration of American culture, and a huge part of my life.&#8221;</p>
  752. <p>Although Chestnut did not compete in Nathan&#8217;s 2024 competition, he still holds 55 world records for various eating competitions. According to <a href="https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/106" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major League Eating,</a> the moderating body behind the hot dog eating contest, Chestnut also holds records for eating 121 Twinkies in six minutes, 390 shrimp wontons in eight minutes, and, of course, 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes.</p>
  753. <p>Chestnut has earned the &#8220;Mustard Belt&#8221; 16 times since 2008, the most anyone has ever won. He holds a strong lead over the competitor with the next highest number of wins, Takeru Kobayashi, who earned six belts before retiring due to health concerns.</p>
  754. <p>Major League Eating <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hot-dog-legend-joey-chestnut-signs-with-vegan-brand-gets-booted-from-july-4th-competition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> Chestnut from the Nathan&#8217;s Famous competition last year after he signed a deal with Impossible Foods, a Nathan&#8217;s competitor.</p>
  755. <p>In a <a href="https://x.com/eatingcontest/status/1800607390636875792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1800607390636875792%7Ctwgr%5Ec0d98868a70172f80ffb323be440b5ea4f586a0d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fhot-dog-legend-joey-chestnut-signs-with-vegan-brand-gets-booted-from-july-4th-competition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> last year on X, the group said, &#8220;We are devastated to learn that Joey Chestnut has chosen to represent a rival brand that sells plant-based hot dogs rather than competing in the 2024 Nathan&#8217;s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest.&#8221;</p>
  756. <p>During his hiatus from Nathan&#8217;s Famous competition, Chestnut set the <a href="https://x.com/joeyjaws/status/1916645992176173327" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record</a> for the most Buffalo Wild Wings eaten in one sitting, consuming 14.4 pounds of wings.</p>
  757. <p>Patrick Bertoletti, who won last year&#8217;s competition with 58 hot dogs, has expressed his concern over Chestnut&#8217;s return. In an <a href="https://www.sportsbookreview.com/picks/more-sports/patrick-bertoletti-interview-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-2025/?utm_content=336287137&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;hss_channel=tw-174346152" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Sportsbook Review, Bertoletti said, “I want to do better so that I can silence [Chestnut].&#8221;</p>
  758. <p>&#8220;My goal the whole time was to do better than last year, and that&#8217;s always been the case,&#8221; Bertoletti said. &#8220;If Joey&#8217;s not there, then I have a very good shot of winning if I do that. And now that Joey is going, it&#8217;s the same thing.&#8221;</p>
  759. <p>Major League Eating celebrated his return to the Nathan&#8217;s Famous competition by <a href="https://x.com/eatingcontest/status/1940470661396259297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;He&#8217;s back. The legend. The GOAT. Joey Chestnut. Watch him dominate once again at the Nathan&#8217;s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. You don&#8217;t want to miss this.&#8221;</p>
  760. <p>The winner of today&#8217;s competition will take home $10,000. The runner-up will receive $5,000, and third place wins $2,500.</p>
  761. <p>Online prediction market Polymarket already has a few bets on the competition live. Fans have given Chestnut about a 90% chance of <a href="https://polymarket.com/event/nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-winner/will-joey-chestnut-win-the-2025-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning</a>. They are also more divided on how many hot dogs Chestnut will eat, with most <a href="https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-76-hot-dog-record-be-broken-on-july-4-172" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubting</a> he will beat his own record.</p>
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  764.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:27:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  768.      <title>Iran Tries Keeping New Military Commander A Secret. Mossad Offers Guessing Game, Confirms Winner</title>
  769.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-tries-keeping-new-military-commander-a-secret-mossad-offers-guessing-game-confirms-winner</link>
  770.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  771.      <description>After Israel killed the head of the Iranian emergency military command and then took out his successor three days later, the Iranian government decided to keep the name of the new commander of the unit private. Apparently, it didn’t work. The Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, had other plans. On July 13, in the opening strike ...</description>
  772.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">After Israel killed the head of the Iranian emergency military command and then took out his successor three days later, the Iranian government decided to keep the name of the new commander of the unit private.</p>
  773. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Apparently, it didn’t work.</p>
  774. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, had other plans.</p>
  775. <p style="font-weight: 400;">On July 13, in the opening strike of its war with Iran, Israel killed Gholam Ali Rashid; three days later, it killed his replacement, Ali Shadmani, Ynet News <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syavw2grgg">noted</a>. That prompted the Iranian government to keep the name of the next replacement secret.</p>
  776. <p style="font-weight: 400;">But the X account Mossad Farsi (Persian) posted a message on Tuesday asking its followers to guess who the new head of the Khatam al-Anbiya unit was, writing:</p>
  777. <blockquote>
  778. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>The Tasnim news agency announced that the Iranian regime will not publish the name of the new commander of Khatam al-Anbiya in order to protect him. Know that we know his actual name and are well acquainted with him. Unfortunately, such basic information is being hidden from the Iranian people. Please send us your guesses regarding his name.</em></p>
  779. </blockquote>
  780. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  781. <p lang="fa" dir="rtl">خبرگزاری تسنیم اعلام کرد که رژیم جمهوری اسلامی نام فرمانده جدید خاتم الانبیاء را برای محافظت از او منتشر نخواهد کرد.<br />بدانید که ما دقیقاً می دانیم نام او چیست واو را به خوبی می‌شناسیم. <br />متأسّفانه چنین اطلاعات اساسی از مردم ایران پنهان می‌شود.<br />لطفا حدس های خود را در مورد نام او…</p>
  782. <p>&mdash; Mossad Farsi (@MossadSpokesman) <a href="https://twitter.com/MossadSpokesman/status/1940070261472027050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  783. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  784. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“More than 2,300 responses were recorded,” Ynet News reported. “The replies included threats against Israel, mockery of the unusual post, and suggestions such as Ahmad Vahidi, adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; and Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.”</p>
  785. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  786. <p style="font-weight: 400;">But on Wednesday morning. Mossad Farsi replied to a post suggesting that the new replacement was Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi. “The lucky winner who successfully guessed the ‘secret’ name is Mr. Behnam. Please contact us privately to receive your prize,” Mossad Farsi posted.</p>
  787. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  788. <p lang="fa" dir="rtl">برنده خوش‌شانسی که موفق شدند نام &quot;محرمانه&quot; را کشف کنند، جناب بهنام هستند. لطفاً به‌صورت خصوصی با ما تماس بگیرید تا جایزه‌تان را دریافت فرمایید. <a href="https://t.co/AnGdw77UPs">https://t.co/AnGdw77UPs</a></p>
  789. <p>&mdash; Mossad Farsi (@MossadSpokesman) <a href="https://twitter.com/MossadSpokesman/status/1940277576335073659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  790. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  791. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Aliabadi previously served as a deputy minister and governor in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government and, further back, as deputy commander of the IRGC Air Force. He has been sanctioned by the United States,” Ynet News explained.</p>
  792. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The account that had provided the new replacement’s name was apparently frightened that his guess had been verified, later posting,  “I do not receive money or compensation from any individual, institution or organization for the freedom of the Iranian people. I am independent and free. That’s why I can write here freely and without hesitation and be myself. For me, the freedom of the Iranian people is the greatest wish and the best reward.”</p>
  793. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Mossad Farsi later posted that the soldiers in Iran’s military terror arm, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have reached out to them, writing:</p>
  794. <blockquote>
  795. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>We expected it, but not to this extent! Hundreds of active IRGC soldiers and officers, fed up with this regime, are reaching out to us. We promise to contact you, please be patient. P.S.: Anyone who still hasn’t received this month’s salary from the regime will be prioritized for a response.</em></p>
  796. </blockquote>
  797. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  798. <p lang="fa" dir="rtl">ما انتظارش را داشتیم، اما نه به این شدت!<br />صدها سرباز و افسر فعال سپاه پاسداران که از این رژیم خسته شده‌اند، به ما مراجعه می کنند. <br />قول می‌دهیم که با شما تماس بگیریم، لطفاً صبور باشید.<br />پی‌نوشت: هر کسی که هنوز حقوق این ماه خود را از رژیم دریافت نکرده است، در اولویت پاسخگویی قرار…</p>
  799. <p>&mdash; Mossad Farsi (@MossadSpokesman) <a href="https://twitter.com/MossadSpokesman/status/1940757135693885899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  804.      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:14:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  808.      <title>Trump Tears Into ‘Marxist Lunatic’ Mamdani, Honors American Heroes In Bold Rebuke</title>
  809.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tears-into-marxist-lunatic-mamdani-honors-american-heroes-in-bold-rebuke</link>
  810.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  811.      <description>Speaking at the America250 kickoff event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, President Donald Trump took aim at Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor who has made openly communist statements, declaring, “Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to ...</description>
  812.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking at the America250 kickoff event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, President Donald Trump took aim at Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor who has made openly communist statements, declaring, “Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our 250<sup>th</sup> year.”</p>
  813. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani has made openly Marxist statements such as “the end goal of seizing the means of production,” while iterating, “we have to continue to elect more socialists.”</p>
  814. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  815. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zohran Mamdani: &quot;Our end goal, seizing the means of production&quot; HOLY F </p>
  816. <p> <a href="https://t.co/aWfAmj8uNn">pic.twitter.com/aWfAmj8uNn</a></p>
  817. <p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1939516740909621286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  818. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  819. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“As you know, recently we’ve seen some in our political system attempting to overthrow the timeless American principles and pillars of our liberty and replace them with some of the most noxious ideas in human history; ideas that have been proven false,” President Trump stated. “Members of Congress and even former presidents have been openly embracing vile creeds such as socialism, Marxism, and straight-up communism.”</p>
  820. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  821. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Then he turned to Mamdani: “In New York, they’re trying to elect a communist, Zohran Mamdani, the guy who wants to defund the police, take over the stores, and run the stores and have the people hand out goods. And when everything falls apart, it always does; it always works that way; it never has worked any other way, anarchy and dictatorships prevail.”</p>
  822. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“This guy is a communist at the highest level and he wants to destroy New York,” he asserted. “I love New York and we’re not gonna let him do that. Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our 250<sup>th</sup> year.”</p>
  823. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Trump then made a fateful promise, finishing with a flourish: “As President of the United States, I am proclaiming here and now that America is never going to be communist in any way, shape, or form. “</p>
  824. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“And that includes New York City,” he concluded.</p>
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  832.      <title>Justice Jackson Invokes Famous ‘Martian Clause’ In Dissent</title>
  833.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-jackson-invokes-famous-martian-clause-in-dissent</link>
  834.      <dc:creator>Andrew Klavan</dc:creator>
  835.      <description>There’s been a great deal of talk about the Trump vs. CASA decision at the Supreme Court. This, as you know, is the decision that put restrictions on universal injunctions against Trump administration policies issued by federal judge James Boasberg while Boasberg was wearing a cardboard Burger King crown and spinning around the room with ...</description>
  836.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s been a great deal of talk about the Trump vs. CASA decision at the Supreme Court. This, as you know, is the decision that put restrictions on universal injunctions against Trump administration policies issued by federal judge James Boasberg while Boasberg was wearing a cardboard Burger King crown and spinning around the room with his black robe flung out as if it were a pair of wings and simultaneously singing, “Look at me, mother. I am the ruler of the universe. Everyone look at me.” The court decided six to three along ideological lines that Boasberg should not only quit with the injunctions but also possibly see a mental health professional or at least turn down the volume in order to stop disturbing the neighbors. Boasberg responded to the decision by sitting curled up in a corner and sucking his thumb while still wearing the Burger King crown and muttering, “I don’t care what they say. I’m the ruler of everybody,” but in a much softer voice so the Supreme Court wouldn’t hear him and take his cardboard crown away and make him go to bed early.</span></p>
  837. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The court’s decision was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and much of the media attention focused on Barrett’s comments about a dissenting opinion written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Many felt that Barrett’s response to Jackson’s dissent was derogatory, disdainful, humiliating, sardonic, mocking, derisive, sarcastic, belittling, disparaging, denigrating, contemptuous, taunting and even humiliating — and I know I already said that, but it was so derogatory it was actually humiliating twice, and possibly vice versa.</span></p>
  838. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now part of the reaction to Barrett’s comments might have arisen from the fact that, during her confirmation hearing, Barrett answered questions with so much precision and expertise that it gave the impression that she’s a highly intelligent woman and also kind of hot in a wonk-girl Catholic mom sort of way, whereas at </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">her</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> confirmation hearing, Ketanji Jackson couldn’t even say what a woman is, giving the impression that she was a DEI hire, selected because she’s a black woman without taking into account the fact that she’s also a functional idiot.</span></p>
  839. <h3><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show">WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show</a></strong></h3>
  840. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But here at the Andrew Klavan show, we feel we should take Justice Jackson’s dissent seriously because, you know, that would be funnier. So after spending a great many minutes reading the dissent in depth… I’m not sure exactly how many minutes, but it was a lot. Maybe ten even. I lost count around six or seven. But anyway, after spending a great many minutes studying Justice Jackson’s dissent, I have some important observations.</span></p>
  841. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jackson dissents to the court&#8217;s decision on the grounds that it hides behind a “smokescreen” of “legalese,” by comparing the issues involved in the case to legal precedents in American and English jurisprudence. Instead of this process, sometimes known as “applying the law,” or “judging,” Jackson proposes a different standard called the “sassy black woman” test. In this test, also known as the “Jasmine Crockett standard,” all court decisions and other forms of reasoned discourse must be able to withstand a black woman putting her fist against one upraised hip and saying completely incomprehensible things in an aggressive sing-song voice while leaving the g’s off the endings of her words and using foul language to declare herself entitled to be heard despite the fact that she’s obviously a functional idiot. Furthermore, if said sassy black woman ends said tirade with the words “full stop,” any disagreement will immediately be deemed racist even if it can be shown that it’s not her skin color that’s at issue but only her functional idiocy.</span></p>
  842. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justice Jackson also writes in her dissent — and this is a real quote, “A Martian arriving here from another planet would see these circumstances and surely wonder: ‘what good is the Constitution?’” This, of course, is a reference to the famous Martian clause in the founding documents of Planet Zeebeegununu in the Ratchet and Clank Solana Galaxy, which declares that the opinions of fictional extraterrestrials should be given priority, because, honey-child, these space aliens are way smarter than a fool like you, full stop.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
  843. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All in all, I think we can agree that the Jackson dissent is a mind-bogglingly deep dissent, if you spell dissent d-e-s-c-e-n-t.</span></p>
  844. <p>* * *</p>
  845. <p><em>This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”</em></p>
  846. <p><em>Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. </em><em>Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fourth installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613165536?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_thcv_3&amp;storeType=ebooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Woman Underground.</a>” His most recent nonfiction release is “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Cain-Finding-Literature-Darkness/dp/0310368340/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=nMYjR&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_p=bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_r=133-8344803-2786917&amp;pd_rd_wg=7a8J3&amp;pd_rd_r=5791ea0f-6d96-4732-9d6a-3a4e6b348bb5&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.</a>” (May 2025, Zondervan/HarperCollins). Follow him on X: <a href="https://x.com/andrewklavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@andrewklavan</a></em></p>
  847. <p><em>The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
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  854.      <title>This July 4th, Freedom Demands We Bring The Hostages Home</title>
  855.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-july-4th-freedom-demands-we-bring-the-hostages-home</link>
  856.      <dc:creator>Orna and Ronen Neutra</dc:creator>
  857.      <description>For most American families, the Fourth of July is a joyful celebration — grilling burgers in the backyard, watching fireworks light up the summer sky, and reflecting on the freedoms we’re fortunate to enjoy. We honor liberty, independence, and the founding ideals that shape this country. For our family, it’s a reminder of the freedom ...</description>
  858.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For most American families, the Fourth of July is a joyful celebration — grilling burgers in the backyard, watching fireworks light up the summer sky, and reflecting on the freedoms we’re fortunate to enjoy. We honor liberty, independence, and the founding ideals that shape this country.</span></p>
  859. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For our family, it’s a reminder of the freedom that’s been denied to our son for far too long.</span></p>
  860. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Omer is an American citizen — a kind, optimistic, sports-loving 21-year-old who grew up on Long Island. He was the kind of person who lights up a room, instantly makes new friends, and goes out of his way to include everyone. For over 600 days, Omer has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, alongside 49 others. He was taken from his army post on October 7, 2023. And to this day, no deal has brought him home.</span></p>
  861. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Fourth of July was always one of Omer’s favorite holidays. He loved everything about it — the spirit, the energy, the sense of unity it brought. One of his most vivid memories was joining a small-town Independence Day parade in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, during a cross-country Jewish youth trip. He soaked in the atmosphere — the music, the laughter, the feeling of belonging to something bigger than himself.</span></p>
  862. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Omer had every reason to take a traditional path after high school. He was accepted to SUNY Binghamton and could have started a comfortable American college life. But instead, he chose to serve. He took a gap year in Israel and enlisted as a lone soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. His final post was near the Gaza border, where his mission was to protect nearby civilian communities.</span></p>
  863. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The values we honor on Independence Day — freedom, justice, and human dignity — aren&#8217;t just words we say once a year. They are the foundation of this country. And when those values are threatened — when Americans are held by terrorists for nearly two years — they demand more than celebration. They demand action.</span></p>
  864. <div id="attachment_942937" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-942937" class="size-large wp-image-942937" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2199158540-864x576.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: Ronen Neutra and Orna Neutra speak about their son, Omer Neutra, who was killed by Hamas during a roundtable discussion with the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on February 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. Three more hostages were released on Feb. 8 as part of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2199158540-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2199158540-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2199158540-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2199158540.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-942937" class="wp-caption-text">Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images</p></div>
  865. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have witnessed America&#8217;s incredible power in recent months. President Trump and his administration have shown that this nation can achieve the impossible when it sets its mind to it. We watched with profound gratitude as they secured the release of so many hostages, including American Edan Alexander. This is what America does — we fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. We are a nation that stands up for the vulnerable. We leave no one behind.</span></p>
  866. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump recently said it&#8217;s time to bring all the hostages home — and time for the war to end. We agree. Immense strength has been shown over the past 21 months. Incredible military achievements against Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Now, it is time for that strength to deliver peace.</span></p>
  867. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But peace cannot begin until every hostage comes home.</span></p>
  868. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no real end to the fighting in Gaza while 50 hostages remain in underground tunnels, cut off from the world, and while families like ours live in daily anguish. Peace cannot be built on the backs of unresolved suffering.</span></p>
  869. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is not a partisan issue. This is not just an Israeli issue. It is an American issue — and a human issue. Omer is one of our own, but so are the other 49 souls still trapped in darkness. If we mean what we say when we salute the flag or sing the national anthem, we cannot remain silent while any innocent person is held by a U.S.-designated terror group.</span></p>
  870. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Peace through strength&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a slogan. It&#8217;s a principle — one that must now lead to freedom for the living, dignity for the dead, and closure for families still waiting. The United States has influence, and it has leverage. It has shown it can move mountains when it chooses to act.</span></p>
  871. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We call on President Trump to press regional leaders, allies, and stakeholders to come to the table and finalize a comprehensive deal. Not in phases, not with half-measures — but a deal that brings every hostage home. A deal that leaves no one behind — not the Americans, not the Israelis, not the Thai workers, not the elderly, not the men — every single one.</span></p>
  872. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Omer is not a symbol or a headline. He is a son. A friend. A teammate. A young man who has always stood up for others. In that sense, he represents the very ideals we celebrate each Fourth of July. And he represents every hostage still waiting for freedom.</span></p>
  873. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So this year, as Americans gather in backyards and parks, as fireworks light up the sky and flags wave proudly — we ask you to think of Omer. And of the 49 others still waiting to come home.</span></p>
  874. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don&#8217;t just wave the flag. Live its meaning. Call your elected officials. Say Omer&#8217;s name. Say all their names. Remind your representatives that freedom is not complete until it reaches every corner of human suffering.</span></p>
  875. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let this Independence Day be more than a celebration. Let it be a declaration of conviction—and the beginning of the end of this nightmare.</span></p>
  876. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because freedom means nothing if we stop fighting for those who’ve lost theirs.</span></p>
  877. <p>* * *<br />
  878. <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Orna and Ronen Neutra are the parents of American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra.</span></em></p>
  879. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></em></p>
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  886.      <title>Can We Still Agree On America’s Core Values? A Nation Divided On Independence Day</title>
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  888.      <dc:creator>Patrick Lencioni</dc:creator>
  889.      <description>As we celebrate July 4, it’s important to go back a few weeks and recall what happened on June 14. On that day, we saw one portion of our country take time to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of our nation’s army, and a different portion protest what they seem to believe is a rising monarchy ...</description>
  890.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we celebrate July 4, it’s important to go back a few weeks and recall what happened on June 14. On that day, we saw one portion of our country take time to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of our nation’s army, and a different portion protest what they seem to believe is a rising monarchy in our nation’s capital.</span></p>
  891. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, there have always been differences of opinion among Americans. It’s one of the characteristics of a functional democracy. </span>Over the past five years, however, we have experienced a fundamental division in our nation that must be confronted.</p>
  892. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About 30 years ago, Jerry Porras and Jim Collins wrote a book called “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Built to Last</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” chronicling their research on organizations that thrive and survive over long periods of time. One of the most important durability-inducing elements they cite is the adherence to a small set of core values, inviolable traits that define the principles and behaviors around which the company’s founders built the organization. To reject or violate those values is to advocate for the organization’s demise.</span></p>
  893. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While a country is not synonymous with a company, I am convinced that the same concept can be applied to a nation that wants to thrive and survive. I’m also convinced that a difficult conversation about America’s core values is long overdue.</span></p>
  894. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s worth noting that core values are not the drivel that some companies produce using marketing jargon and wordsmithing to come up with a list of sugary, generic adjectives that will be palatable to just about everyone. Core values are the authentic principles that underlie the character of an organization — or a nation — over time.</span></p>
  895. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the better part of the past 50 years, the U.S. has been struggling with an increasing sense of confusion around its core values. Recently, however, that confusion has morphed into a serious and dangerous division, calling to mind Abraham Lincoln’s reference to the words of Christ, reminding Americans that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”</span></p>
  896. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More and more people, like me, are concerned that our country will not be able to stand if we remain so divided. We cannot continue to go forward simply agreeing to disagree, or worse, not even acknowledge our disagreements and allow ourselves to be torn apart. It’s time that we, as a nation, face and answer a few basic questions before it’s too late.</span></p>
  897. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are those questions, the ones that underlie our values? Here are the most obvious ones.</span></p>
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  899. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are we founded upon Judeo-Christian values and dependent on God’s providence, or are we a nation that is essentially agnostic, removing faith in God from public life, education, and the military? It can’t be both.</span></p>
  900. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do we believe in freedom of speech, press, and religion, or are we willing to allow elected and unelected influencers to determine what are and are not acceptable words and beliefs? Again, these are incompatible.</span></p>
  901. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do we believe in a limited central government, or do we prefer a powerful, singular federal provider of rules and services? Pick one.</span></p>
  902. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In light of these questions, I see two ways to move forward.</span></p>
  903. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, we can go back and honestly embrace the core principles that the founders believed would hold us together and keep us united, and then recommit to those principles, without apology. It’s as simple, and sometimes difficult, as that.</span></p>
  904. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or, second, we can dismiss the ideals of our founders and decide, after 249 years, to create a new country. We can roll the dice and bet that we can conceive of a better model than Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson and the others did.</span></p>
  905. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What we </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">can’t</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> do, and what we’ve been doing for too long, is avoid these questions and let our core principles, and an entire nation, die a slow death as we drift further and further apart while the media, academia, and creative judges determine what America really is. We are a democracy, still, and we must choose our own path, or it will be chosen for us.</span></p>
  906. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, there are many differences between companies and countries, not the least of which is the inability of countries to “fire” their own citizens, or even simply facilitate their departure. An organization’s CEO, on the other hand, can say to employees who don’t want to adhere to its core values that it’s time for them to work somewhere else. A nation cannot do that, and rightly so. However, if that nation wants to survive, it also cannot overly accommodate or apologize to those who oppose its values.</span></p>
  907. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s worth noting that this challenge we face today existed at the very beginning of our nation, though to a lesser extent. Even then, there were those who had sided with the British or who would have preferred a monarchy, perhaps one led by George Washington. They were not all forced to leave the country, but they were required to come to terms with the principles of this experimental nation if they wanted to stay.</span></p>
  908. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, if we decide to recommit to our founders’ ideals — and I’m certainly in favor of that path — then we must politely and unequivocally say to citizens who dislike the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or any foundational aspect of American life: “You don’t have to believe what we believe, practice any particular faith, or even celebrate the freedoms upon which we are founded. You don’t. But you </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">do</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have to make peace with the reality of our core values and ideals, which are based on those things. Or you can make plans to live somewhere better suited to your preferences.” </span></p>
  909. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is neither intolerant nor snarky; it is clear. And clarity is kind.</span></p>
  910. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We must stop allowing people to pretend that the nation’s values are something other than they are, because there is nothing kind about that.</span></p>
  911. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s ironic that the nations in the world today that have the most intolerant and unkind values are the ones that won’t even let people opt out and leave. Just look at North Korea and Cuba, though there are others. This is, of course, absurd.</span></p>
  912. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But for a free nation like ours to bend over backward to accommodate those who hate what we stand for is equally absurd. So let’s make a decision so that we can reverse the trend toward divisiveness and disunity, and get back to rebuilding a nation around the values that have served us for 250 years.</span></p>
  913. <p>* * *</p>
  914. <p><em>Patrick Lencioni <span style="font-weight: 400;">is one of the founders of The Table Group and is the pioneer of the organizational health movement. He is the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Patrick-M.-Lencioni/author/B001ILFMB2?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&amp;qid=1751571498&amp;sr=8-2&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true&amp;ccs_id=3de65105-8f38-4be0-90f1-d7c66bb8daa2">author of 13 books</a>, which have sold over 10 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages.</span></em></p>
  915. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></em></p>
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  922.      <title>Americans Say Patriotism Is Fading. One Army Veteran Is Pushing Back With Steely-Eyed Optimism</title>
  923.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-say-patriotism-is-fading-one-army-veteran-is-pushing-back-with-steely-eyed-optimism</link>
  924.      <dc:creator>Simon Olech</dc:creator>
  925.      <description>As the United States prepares to celebrate her 249th birthday, a growing number of Americans say they’ve noticed a marked decline in patriotism. More specifically, 44% of respondents in an Economist/YouGov survey published this week said they believe the U.S. is becoming less patriotic. In comparison, a much smaller 14% said they think the nation is becoming more so. Jesse Parks, ...</description>
  926.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the United States prepares to celebrate her 249th birthday, a growing number of Americans say they’ve noticed a marked decline in patriotism.</span></p>
  927. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More specifically, 44% of respondents in an </span><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/5379913-44-percent-say-us-becoming-less-patriotic-survey/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Economist/YouGov survey</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> published this week said they believe the U.S. is becoming</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> less</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> patriotic. In comparison, a much smaller 14% said they think the nation is becoming more so.</span></p>
  928. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jesse Parks, a former U.S. Army Sergeant who served in Afghanistan, has noticed this shift in attitude.</span></p>
  929. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Seeing] flags being burnt and seeing protests being more frequent,” Parks told the Daily Wire, “it tears down the country.”</span></p>
  930. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Born into a military family, Parks said he was inspired to follow in the footsteps of those who came before him.</span></p>
  931. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“All my uncles, dad, older brother, served. Everybody,” he said.</span></p>
  932. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parks initially applied to serve in the United States Marine Corps, but his application was rejected. Undeterred, he enlisted later in the United States Army, where he was accepted and rose through the ranks.</span></p>
  933. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked why he enlisted, Parks said, “I think you join the military to fight for your country. It opens up a lot of doors, but in the end, you fight.”</span></p>
  934. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He was deployed to Afghanistan in December 2010, where he said his unit’s primary mission was to train and advise the Afghan National Army Basic Training Command Teams, alongside the British and French Armies. He later became an infantry fire team leader.</span></p>
  935. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parks said that patriotism was a major factor in his decision to join the armed forces. He described it as “a love of your country put into action, whether that&#8217;s military, that&#8217;s political, or that&#8217;s civil service.”</span></p>
  936. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But what is “patriotism” anyway?</span></p>
  937. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Patriotism” </span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patriotism"><span style="font-weight: 400;">is often defined</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a “love for or devotion to one’s country.”</span></p>
  938. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, a growing number of Americans say they don’t see a shared sense of admiration for the country they call home. Lightning rod political issues ranging from abortion to illegal immigration, along with a major political realignment that has seen the Democratic Party lurch harder to the left and the Republican Party lurch harder to the right, have revealed a simmering disunity.</span></p>
  939. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Patriotism is] a big part of what allows us to progress,” Parks said. “It is what kind of helps us progress as a society. We don&#8217;t all have to have the same views, but as long as we have patriotism, which is different than nationalism, as long as it&#8217;s there, it allows us to progress.”</span></p>
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  941. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Parks has an expressed love of country, his may not be a shared passion: only 67% of people claim to be extremely or very proud to be American, down from 91% in 2004, according to a 2024 </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646655/american-pride-remains-near-record-low.aspx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gallup</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> survey.</span></p>
  942. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A separate </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646655/american-pride-remains-near-record-low.aspx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> poll likewise found a majority of Americans have noticed this shift, with 52% of respondents stating that the country seems less patriotic than it was just a few years ago.</span></p>
  943. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The disunity and decline may feel all the more evident with the recent riots and attacks on first responders.</span></p>
  944. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[T]here has been a perversion of patriotism,” Parks told the Daily Wire.</span></p>
  945. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Groups like Antifa seem like they don&#8217;t care about this country and want to tear it down,” he said. “January 6 was similar; it was a movement to dismantle the country. It is seen on both sides.” </span></p>
  946. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rather than being complicit in this division, Parks said, groups such as Antifa should “consider the opportunity they have in this time in history to affect the country’s direction, and to act accordingly in a constructive manner.”</span></p>
  947. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite all of this, the Army veteran sees hope for the future.</span></p>
  948. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is a lot of talk about division in the country at the moment, but I don’t think that is anything new,” Parks said. “I hope people will get involved over the issues they think are important.”</span></p>
  949. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participation “will increase their sense of pride and reignite a love for their country.”</span></p>
  950. <p>* * *</p>
  951. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simon Olech is a reporter studying journalism at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p>
  952. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></em></p>
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  959.      <title>The Everyday American’s Guide To The Fourth Of July</title>
  960.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-everyday-americans-guide-to-the-fourth-of-july</link>
  961.      <dc:creator>Gates Garcia</dc:creator>
  962.      <description>Let’s be real: most of us aren’t crossing the Delaware this 4th of July. We’re crossing the backyard in flip-flops to open the cooler. And that’s fine. That’s American, even. But while we’re manning the grill and dodging bottle rockets, we’d do well to remember: this day isn’t just about fireworks and flag-themed cupcakes. It’s ...</description>
  963.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s be real: most of us aren’t crossing the Delaware this 4th of July. We’re crossing the backyard in flip-flops to open the cooler. And that’s fine. That’s American, even. But while we’re manning the grill and dodging bottle rockets, we’d do well to remember: this day isn’t just about fireworks and flag-themed cupcakes. It’s about something far rarer — and far more worth preserving.</p>
  964. <p>Because America didn’t just happen. It was <i>made — </i>and <i>paid</i> for.</p>
  965. <p>Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, a bunch of men in powdered wigs looked at the most powerful empire on Earth and said, “Nah—we’re going to try something different. Hold my beer.” They didn’t tweet about tyranny. They fought it. They signed their names on a document that would’ve earned them a hangman’s rope had things gone south. And then they backed it up — starving, freezing, bleeding, and <i>winning</i>, so that one day you and I could argue over gas prices and post pics on Instagram.</p>
  966. <p>They weren’t fighting for tax credits or better trade deals. They were fighting for the radical belief that our rights come from <i>God</i>, not government. And they risked <i>everything</i> for it.</p>
  967. <p>We, by comparison, are just risking the brisket.</p>
  968. <p>But maybe that’s the point. You don’t have to be Washington at Valley Forge to honor the Spirit of ’76. You just have to be <i>intentional</i>. You just have to <i>remember</i>.</p>
  969. <p>Because the truth is, most Americans today couldn’t name five Founders. Some think the Revolutionary War was a Marvel spinoff. And every summer, like clockwork, the usual suspects try to reduce the Founding to a footnote in oppression — something to apologize for, not admire.</p>
  970. <p>But the American Founding wasn’t a mistake. It was a miracle. Were the Founders flawed men? Sure. We all are. But the system they built — this Constitutional Republic grounded in natural rights and self-government — is still the greatest experiment in liberty the world has ever seen.</p>
  971. <p>And it’s worth celebrating.</p>
  972. <p>So, this Independence Day, take a minute — take <i>five</i> — to appreciate not just the fireworks, but the fire that lit the Revolution.</p>
  973. <p>Maybe take some time to think about Jack Jouett. You’ve probably never heard his name. But when British troops were closing in on Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature, Jouett rode through the night, 40 miles on rough terrain, branches slashing his face, to warn them.</p>
  974. <p>He didn’t do it for fame. He didn’t expect a reward. He was just a regular guy who refused to let tyranny win on his watch.</p>
  975. <p>So too were the legions of cold, hungry, bleeding men in Washington’s army who crossed the icy Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776. They marched barefoot through the snow to launch a surprise attack on a Hessian outpost in Trenton. Some died before the battle even began. But the rest fought, and they won. And with that win, the Revolution roared back to life.</p>
  976. <p>These weren’t abstract ideals on parchment. These were <i>men</i>, enduring literal hell so that future generations could taste Heaven’s gift: liberty.</p>
  977. <p>And that gift has only survived this long because, in every generation, regular people stepped up to keep it alive.</p>
  978. <p>That includes you.</p>
  979. <p>John Adams said, “Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”</p>
  980. <p>So, if you want to make good use of it, here’s your checklist for a meaningful 4th of July:</p>
  981. <ul>
  982. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Read the Declaration of Independence with your kids. Yes, even if they roll their eyes. Especially if they roll their eyes.</li>
  983. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Fly the flag. Not because it looks good on your porch, but because you <i>know</i> what it cost.</li>
  984. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Ask your kids what freedom means to them. Not a lecture — a conversation. They’re starving for meaning. Feed them something real.</li>
  985. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Turn off TikTok. Read a chapter of the Federalist Papers. Or watch <i>The Patriot</i> instead of a reality show about people with fake names and real dysfunction.</li>
  986. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Say grace. And thank God you live in a country where you <i>can</i>.</li>
  987. </ul>
  988. <p>And if you’re Gen Z, no one expects you to recite the Constitution from memory. But maybe — <i>just maybe </i>— start asking questions. Read a book. Volunteer. Serve your neighbor. Build something with your hands. Log some service hours instead of screentime.</p>
  989. <p>Because guess what? Next year is America’s 250th birthday. That’s not just a milestone. It’s a <i>moment</i>. A year from now, when the fireworks explode and the flags wave, don’t be the one just snapping selfies. Be the one who <i>knows why it matters</i>. Let this year be your warm-up lap. Spend the next 12 months loading the intellectual cannons. Read the Founding documents. Relearn the history. Equip yourself with truth.</p>
  990. <p>Because if America is going to survive another 250 years, it won’t be because we got more “progressive.” It won’t be because of people like Barack Obama, who infamously said “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”</p>
  991. <p>No, if America is to survive, it will be thanks to people who fought to conserve who we are: a nation under God. A people forged in sacrifice. A Republic—if we can keep it.</p>
  992. <p>You can’t defend a country you refuse to define. And you certainly can’t celebrate one you won’t even elevate.</p>
  993. <p>So, fire up the Weber. Salute the flag. Tell your kids the truth. Thank the ones who served. And say a prayer for the country that lets you do all five without asking permission.</p>
  994. <p>We don’t need more guilt. We need more <i>gratitude</i>.</p>
  995. <p>We don’t need perfect people. We need <i>present</i> patriots.</p>
  996. <p>And we don’t need another political lecture. We need <i>more parents, more truth, more God, more America</i>.</p>
  997. <p>Now, hold my beer. The brisket is burning.</p>
  998. <p><em>Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast We The People. Follow him on IG and X @GatesGarciaFL</em></p>
  999. <p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
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  1006.      <title>‘Don’t Worry, It’s Only Fireworks – I Hope’: Trump Laughs Off Pops At Iowa Rally</title>
  1007.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-worry-its-only-fireworks-i-hope-trump-laughs-off-pops-at-iowa-rally</link>
  1008.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  1009.      <description>President Donald Trump laughed off loud pops that surprised his rally in Iowa on Thursday evening, telling the crowd that the noise was only from “fireworks – I hope.” The pops interrupted the president as he was discussing the damage the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration under the Biden administration had done to the United ...</description>
  1010.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump laughed off loud pops that surprised his rally in Iowa on Thursday evening, telling the crowd that the noise was only from “fireworks – I hope.”</span></p>
  1011. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pops interrupted the president as he was discussing the damage the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration under the Biden administration had done to the United States, and the Trump administration’s crackdown on the border that has led to historically low levels of illegal immigration.</span></p>
  1012. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Don’t worry, it’s only fireworks – I hope,” the president joked.</span></p>
  1013. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Famous last words. My famous last words: Trump said, ‘Don’t worry it’s only fireworks.’ You always have to think positive. I didn’t like that sound either,” Trump remarked as members of the audience chuckled.</span></p>
  1014. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1015. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">The sound of apparent fireworks briefly disrupted President Donald Trump&#39;s speech Thursday night during the America250 rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. &quot;Did I hear what I think I heard?&quot; he asked. <a href="https://t.co/K7P4Rq8FmN">pic.twitter.com/K7P4Rq8FmN</a></p>
  1016. <p>&mdash; KCCI News (@KCCINews) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCCINews/status/1940942672769794480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1017. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1018. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump survived an attempted assassin’s bullet nearly a year ago at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One man in the Iowa audience apparently recalled the event, yelling during the president’s riff on the pops, “Fight, fight, fight,” a reference to how Trump reacted to assassination attempt in Butler.</span></p>
  1019. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On July 13 of last year, Thomas Crooks was able to set up a sniper’s nest on a nearby building overlooking Trump’s rally stage. Crooks fired eight shots toward Trump, who was then a candidate for president. One shot grazed Trump’s ear. One audience member, 50-year-old volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore, was killed.</span></p>
  1020. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1021. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The assassination attempt ignited a firestorm of criticism around the Secret Service that failed to secure the perimeter of Trump’s Butler rally and allowed Crooks to obtain an unobstructed view of the president’s platform.</span></p>
  1022. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-recounts-assassination-attempt-i-had-god-on-my-side"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recounted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the attempt on his life during a speech about a month later at the Republican National Convention.</span></p>
  1023. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I wanted to do something to let them know I was okay,” Trump said, referring to the crowd in Butler that witnessed the attempt and Trump buried under a pile of Secret Service agents. “I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting, and started shouting, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’”</span></p>
  1024. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Once my clenched fist went up, and it was high into the air – you’ve all seen that – the crowd realized I was okay and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. Never heard anything like it,” Trump said. “For the rest of my life, I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania.”</span></p>
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  1027.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  1031.      <title>Trump Touts Big, Beautiful Bill At Iowa Rally: ‘No Better Birthday President For America’</title>
  1032.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-touts-big-beautiful-bill-at-iowa-rally-no-better-birthday-president-for-america</link>
  1033.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  1034.      <description>President Donald Trump opened his Iowa rally on Thursday touting the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress ahead of his July 4 deadline. The House gave the final Congressional approval to the bill on Thursday afternoon, giving Trump a landmark legislative win for his second term. The legislation was heavily pushed by the president ...</description>
  1035.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump opened his Iowa rally on Thursday touting the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress ahead of his July 4 deadline.</span></p>
  1036. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The House gave the final Congressional approval to the bill on Thursday afternoon, giving Trump a landmark legislative win for his second term. The legislation was heavily pushed by the president and is key to accomplishing many of his key priorities.</span></p>
  1037. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There could be no better birthday present for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago when Congress passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill to Make America Great Again,” said Trump. “In the last election, the people gave us a historic mandate to cut taxes, raise take-home pay, bring back jobs, stop the invasion … deport the illegals, and slash hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing.”</span></p>
  1038. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“With this bill, every major promise I made to the people of Iowa in 2024 became a promise kept,” he added.</span></p>
  1039. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1040. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">“There could be no better birthday present for America” than the One Big Beautiful Bill, says <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>.</p>
  1041. <p>“With this bill, every major promise I made to the people of Iowa in 2024 became a promise kept.” <a href="https://t.co/LJGspOUQBA">pic.twitter.com/LJGspOUQBA</a></p>
  1042. <p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940931619952689284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1043. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1044. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) whipped votes late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning to get the legislation through the House. The House passed the nearly 900-page bill in a 218-214 vote just days after the Senate passed it 51-50, with the tie-breaking vote coming from Vice President JD Vance.</span></p>
  1045. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The legislation includes funding for a host of Trump administration priorities, such as a $150 billion boost to border security and deportation operations, $150 billion in new defense spending, and funding for the “Golden Dome” missile protection system to be built across the United States.</span></p>
  1046. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1047. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bill also includes provisions aimed at boosting fossil fuel energy production while scrapping a host of tax breaks and tax credits for green energy and electric vehicle production. The bill also tightens rules around receiving Medicaid and implements work requirements for recipients.</span></p>
  1048. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just as I promised, we&#8217;re making the Trump tax cuts permanent and delivering no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors,” the president said. “We&#8217;ve got the hottest country anywhere in the world, as said by many, many leaders of other countries. And we will ignite trillions of dollars in economic growth, increase take home pay for the typical family by more than $10,000 a year.”</span></p>
  1049. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And very importantly for Iowa, this bill rescues over two million family farms from the so-called estate tax or death tax,” he continued.</span></p>
  1050. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1051. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;Just as I promised, we&#39;re making the Trump Tax Cuts permanent, and delivering NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY&#8230; very importantly for Iowa, this bill rescues over 2 million family farms from the so-called estate tax, or the Death Tax.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VndTf9Iu9X">pic.twitter.com/VndTf9Iu9X</a></p>
  1052. <p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940933122582802786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1053. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1054. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump is expected to sign the bill at a ceremony scheduled for 5 p.m. ET on Independence Day. The president said earlier that he will be joined by Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), and most Congressional Republicans.</span></p>
  1055. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump summed up his thoughts on the “One Big, Beautiful Bill”: “Very simply, the One Big, Beautiful Bill will deliver the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest military on Earth, and ensure the United States of America will remain the strongest country anywhere on this beautiful planet of ours.”</span></p>
  1056. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1057. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: “The One Big Beautiful Bill will deliver the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest military on Earth… 165 days into the Trump administration, America is on a winning streak like, frankly, nobody has ever seen before.” <a href="https://t.co/tUU2Cxtx95">pic.twitter.com/tUU2Cxtx95</a></p>
  1058. <p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940934078229836168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1062.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:34:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  1066.      <title>‘B-2s And F-22s And F-35s’: Trump Teases Jet-Packed Signing Ceremony For Big, Beautiful Bill</title>
  1067.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/b-2s-and-f-22s-and-f-35s-trump-teases-jet-packed-signing-ceremony-for-big-beautiful-bill</link>
  1068.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  1069.      <description>President Donald Trump has promised an elaborate Independence Day signing ceremony for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” recently approved by Congress. The president teased plans for the ceremony while speaking to reporters on Thursday. Trump said that the ceremony would feature a number of United States military warplanes, including the B-2, F-22, and F-35. Trump ...</description>
  1070.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump has promised an elaborate Independence Day signing ceremony for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” recently approved by Congress.</span></p>
  1071. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president teased plans for the ceremony while speaking to reporters on Thursday. Trump said that the ceremony would feature a number of United States military warplanes, including the B-2, F-22, and F-35.</span></p>
  1072. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump said the ceremony would start around 5 p.m. ET, and he would be joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), and most Republicans in Congress.</span></p>
  1073. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“At about 5:00 o’clock, we&#8217;re going to have B-2s and F-22s and F-35s flying right over the White House,” Trump said. “It’s going to be a great day, so we&#8217;ll be signing with those beautiful planes flying right over our heads.”</span></p>
  1074. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1075. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on tomorrow&#39;s One Big Beautiful Bill signing: &quot;We&#39;re signing at about 5:00p — and at about 5:00p, we&#39;re going to have B-2s and F-22s and F-35s flying right over the White House &#8230; so we&#39;ll be signing with those beautiful planes flying right over our heads.&quot; 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/40CjzwfvF9">pic.twitter.com/40CjzwfvF9</a></p>
  1076. <p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940884169934156005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1077. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1078. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The House gave final approval on Thursday to send the “Big, Beautiful Bill” to Trump’s desk in time for his July 4 deadline. Johnson and Trump whipped votes and met with holdouts in the hours leading up to the vote, securing a 218-214 majority to pass the legislation on Thursday afternoon.</span></p>
  1079. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I think when you go over the bill, it was very easy to get them to a ‘Yes,’” Trump told reporters on Thursday after the bill’s passage. “You know, we went over that bill point after point: biggest tax cut in history, great for security, great on the southern border, immigration is covered – we covered just about everything. Again, it&#8217;s the biggest bill ever signed of its kind.”</span></p>
  1080. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1081. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;I think when you go over the bill, it was very easy to get them to a &#39;Yes.&#39; &#8230; Biggest tax cut in history, great for security, great on the southern border &#8230; we covered just about everything. Again, it&#39;s the biggest bill ever signed of its kind.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/0nfeQ5IDuo">pic.twitter.com/0nfeQ5IDuo</a></p>
  1082. <p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940882245482676660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1083. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1084. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Johnson </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-beautiful-and-on-the-way-to-trumps-desk-congress-passes-historic-spending-bill"><span style="font-weight: 400;">secured</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the votes to pass the massive package at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) then held the House floor for over eight hours, speaking to delay the bill’s passage, but ultimately powerless to stop it.</span></p>
  1085. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“With one big, beautiful bill, we are going to make this country stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before. And every American is going to benefit from this,” Johnson said just before the vote. “Today we are laying a key cornerstone of America’s new Golden Age.”</span></p>
  1086. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bill’s passage is just the latest landmark victory for the president that has seen a </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-mentum-from-iran-to-big-beautiful-bill-prez-scores-landmark-victories-in-past-two-weeks?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=TRUMP-MENTUM%3A+From+Iran+To+Big%2C+Beautiful+Bill%2C+Prez+Scores+Landmark+Victories+In+Past+Two+Weeks"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cascade</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of wins in recent weeks. Just under two weeks ago, Trump greenlit a bomb and missile strike targeting Iranian nuclear facilities that “obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear program at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan.</span></p>
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  1089.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:34:50 GMT</pubDate>
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  1093.      <title>Mamdani Said He Was ‘African American’ On Columbia University Application</title>
  1094.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-said-he-was-african-american-on-columbia-university-application</link>
  1095.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1096.      <description>New York City&amp;#8217;s Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani does not consider himself to be black — but that did not stop him from checking the &amp;#8220;African-American&amp;#8221; box in addition to the &amp;#8220;Asian&amp;#8221; box on his application to attend Columbia University. The New York Times revealed the information — discovered through a hack of the university ...</description>
  1097.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York City&#8217;s Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani does not consider himself to be black — but that did not stop him from checking the &#8220;African-American&#8221; box in addition to the &#8220;Asian&#8221; box on his application to attend Columbia University.</p>
  1098. <p>The New York Times revealed the information — discovered through a hack of the university and then shared with the outlet — in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.dq-_.OgG4Ktak82Hp&amp;smid=url-share">report</a> published on Thursday afternoon, just ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend.</p>
  1099. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1100. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">GIFT LINK: <br />SCOOP: Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application</p>
  1101. <p>I report with <a href="https://twitter.com/danarubinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaRubinstein</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/npfandos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NPFandos</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a><a href="https://t.co/pV7xvNYprB">https://t.co/pV7xvNYprB</a></p>
  1102. <p>&mdash; Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) <a href="https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1940887033804624378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1103. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1104. <p>Though both of his parents are of Indian descent, Mamdani was born in Uganda and spent his early childhood there. He has said that he considers himself &#8220;an American who was born in Africa,&#8221; not black or African American — and instead, he has leaned in to his South Asian ancestry and his Muslim faith.</p>
  1105. <p>&#8220;As the first South Asian elected official, the first Muslim elected official to ever run for mayor, the turnout in those same communities has been incredible to see,&#8221; he said after besting disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary.</p>
  1106. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1107. <p>But, as the hacked data revealed, he did consider himself African American for the purpose of his application to Columbia — and he admitted he&#8217;d done the same on other college applications. His explanation was that the available selections did not paint a complete picture of who he was.</p>
  1108. <p>&#8220;Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” he said. <span style="font-size: 16px;">“Even though these boxes are constraining, I wanted my college application to reflect who I was.&#8221;</span></p>
  1109. <p>The Times even appeared to cast doubt on Mamdani&#8217;s motivation:</p>
  1110. <blockquote><p>Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.</p></blockquote>
  1111. <p>In addition, the Times pressed Mamdani on whether he&#8217;d ever identified as African American on any other occasion: &#8220;The Times could not find any speeches or interviews in which Mr. Mamdani referred to himself as Black or African American.&#8221; Mamdani said that outside of college applications, he could not recall ever doing so.</p>
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  1118.      <title>‘Reservoir Dogs’ Actor Michael Madsen Dies At 67</title>
  1119.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/reservoir-dogs-actor-michael-madsen-dies-at-67</link>
  1120.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  1121.      <description>Actor Michael Madsen, best known for appearing in popular Quentin Tarantino films such as “Reservoir Dogs,” “Kill Bill,” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” has died at the age of 67. His reps made a joint statement noting that the Hollywood star had been found unresponsive in his Malibu home Thursday morning. “In the ...</description>
  1122.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actor Michael Madsen, best known for appearing in popular Quentin Tarantino films such as “Reservoir Dogs,” “Kill Bill,” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” has died at the age of 67.</span></p>
  1123. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His reps made a joint </span><a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/michael-madsen-dead-reservoir-dogs-1236446983/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noting that the Hollywood star had been found unresponsive in his Malibu home Thursday morning.</span></p>
  1124. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In the last two years Michael Madsen has been doing some incredible work with independent film including upcoming feature films ‘Resurrection Road’, ‘Concessions’ and ‘Cookbook for Southern Housewives,’ and was really looking forward to this next chapter in his life,” his managers and publicist said in a joint statement, per Variety. </span></p>
  1125. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Michael was also preparing to release a new book called ‘Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems’ currently being edited,” it went on. “Michael Madsen was one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, who will be missed by many.”</span></p>
  1126. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Madsen was born in Chicago in 1957 and got his start in the theater. He appeared in hundreds of projects over the course of his career, including  “Donnie Brasco,” “Thelma &amp; Louise,” “Sin City,” “The Doors,” “Species,” “Mulholland Falls,” and “Once Upon a Time in Mexico.”</span></p>
  1127. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides acting, Madsen also wrote poetry and had several books published. He was married a total of three times. Madsen was arrested for domestic battery in 2024, the outlet noted, following an altercation with his estranged wife. He has one son who died by suicide and six other children, People <a href="https://people.com/all-about-michael-madsen-family-kids-ex-wives-11766388">reported</a>. </span></p>
  1128. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Madsen’s sister is Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen. She released a </span><a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/virginia-madsen-mourns-michael-madsen-death-1236447027/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the occasion of his death, saying, “My brother Michael has left the stage. He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother — etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.”</span></p>
  1129. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re not mourning a public figure,” the statement continued. “We’re not mourning a myth — but flesh and blood and ferocious heart. Who stormed through life loud, brilliant, and half on fire. Who leaves us echoes — gruff, brilliant, unrepeatable — half legend, half lullaby.”</span></p>
  1130. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’ll miss our inside jokes, the sudden laughter, the sound of him,” Virginia’s statement concluded. “I’ll miss the boy he was before the legend; I miss my big brother. Thank you to everyone reaching out with love and memory. In time, we’ll share how we plan to celebrate his life — but for now, we stay close, and let the silence say what words can’t.”</span></p>
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  1137.      <title>TRUMP-MENTUM: From Iran To Big, Beautiful Bill, Prez Scores Landmark Victories In Past Two Weeks</title>
  1138.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-mentum-from-iran-to-big-beautiful-bill-prez-scores-landmark-victories-in-past-two-weeks</link>
  1139.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  1140.      <description>President Donald Trump has scored some of the biggest wins of his administration in the past two weeks to be capped with what may be his signature legislative win of his second term. Congress passed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” on Thursday, sending the legislation to Trump’s desk in time for the July 4 deadline ...</description>
  1141.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump has scored some of the biggest wins of his administration in the past two weeks to be capped with what may be his signature legislative win of his second term.</span></p>
  1142. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congress passed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” on Thursday, sending the legislation to Trump’s desk in time for the July 4 deadline that the president had set. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called the bill a “key cornerstone of America’s new golden age” after he and Trump worked late into the night whipping votes to get the package through the House on Thursday afternoon.</span></p>
  1143. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The legislation makes permanent Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, as well as eliminating some taxes on tips and Social Security. It also includes a $150 billion boost to border security and deportation measures, and another $150 billion toward new defense spending. The bill encourages a boom in fossil fuel energy production while cutting tax credits for green energy and electric vehicles. The bill tightens rules and implements work requirements to receive Medicaid.</span></p>
  1144. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“President Trump is racking up win after win – making this the best two weeks for everyday Americans in decades. On the world stage and on the home front, President Trump has delivered on his promises like no other President before. It’s clear that President Trump was right about everything, Americans still aren’t tired of winning, and our country has never been HOTTER!” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire in a statement.</span></p>
  1145. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other wins for the president from the past two weeks include:</span></p>
  1146. <ul>
  1147. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The June jobs report </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-effect-u-s-adds-147k-jobs-beating-projections-for-fourth-straight-month"><span style="font-weight: 400;">released</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Thursday showed the United States added 147,000 jobs last month, outpacing expectations and showing positive job growth in the country for four months straight. The U.S. economy has added nearly 700,000 jobs since January.</span></li>
  1148. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Border encounters in the month of June again </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-saw-fewer-migrant-encounters-last-month-than-one-single-day-under-biden-homan-says"><span style="font-weight: 400;">plunged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the lowest level in decades, surpassing a previous decades-long low set in March. Federal authorities tallied just 6,070 encounters with illegal aliens at the Southern Border last month, and stopped all from entering the United States.</span></li>
  1149. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Supreme Court last week </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-fight"><span style="font-weight: 400;">delivered</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a major win to the Trump administration, restricting the ability of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions that have thwarted policies from the White House. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the 6-3 majority that “federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them.”</span></li>
  1150. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-major-trade-deal-with-vietnam-days-before-tariff-increases"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday just days before the president’s 90-day pause on Liberation Day tariffs expires. According to Trump, American producers will have duty-free access to Vietnam’s market while Vietnamese goods will have a 20% tariff to enter the United States. “Transshipped” goods sent to the United States via Vietnam from other countries will be tariffed at 40%.</span></li>
  1151. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The S&amp;P 500 and NASDAQ both </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/us-stock-futures-steady-investors-await-payrolls-data-2025-07-03/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">closed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at record highs on Thursday.</span></li>
  1152. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gas prices hit the lowest level in four years heading into the Independence Day holiday weekend. The national average for a gallon of gas stood at $3.16 on Thursday, a $0.35 drop from a year ago, according to data from </span><a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AAA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
  1153. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, NATO countries </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge"><span style="font-weight: 400;">agreed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP at Trump’s urging, with the lone exception of Spain.</span></li>
  1154. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United States bombers and submarines delivered strikes against three nuclear sites in Iran in a June 21 surprise attack dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer.” The Pentagon has said the strikes “obliterated” nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan and </span><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/07/03/us-strikes-set-back-irans-nuclear-program-up-to-2-years-dod-says/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Iran’s nuclear program back at least one to two years.</span></li>
  1155. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Trump </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-end-of-israel-iran-war-an-important-reset-moment-for-middle-east"><span style="font-weight: 400;">brokered</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and held together a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.</span></li>
  1156. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, Trump </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-brokers-peace-agreement-between-rwanda-and-congo-at-white-house"><span style="font-weight: 400;">hosted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the White House to broker a peace agreement and end a 30-year conflict between the two countries.</span></li>
  1157. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pakistan </span><a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1936235634286268493"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nominated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on June 20 “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis.”</span></li>
  1158. <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump </span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-golden-share-us-steel-nippon-merger.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">secured</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a “golden share” of U.S. Steel last week as part of an $14 billion deal for Japan’s Nippon Steel to acquire the U.S. steel manufacturer. The “golden share,” made official in an amended corporate charter filed with the United States last week, grants Trump and future presidents broad veto power over key decisions made regarding U.S. Steel, including changes to the company name or selling production locations in the next decade.</span></li>
  1159. <li style="font-weight: 400;">Under pressure from the White House, the University of Pennsylvania has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/upenn-agrees-to-strip-medals-from-lia-thomas-as-part-of-sweeping-white-house-deal">agreed</a> to bar males from competing in female sports or using female “intimate facilities.” The school will also adopt “biology-based definitions” for “male” and “female” that comply with the president’s executive orders. The university will also strip trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas of the titles he won on the women’s team while returning “misappropriated” awards to female athletes.</li>
  1160. </ul>
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  1163.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:28:25 GMT</pubDate>
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  1167.      <title>Freed American Hostage Visits White House, Urges Trump To Free Remaining Hamas Captives</title>
  1168.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/freed-american-hostage-visits-white-house-urges-trump-to-free-remaining-hamas-captives</link>
  1169.      <dc:creator>Isabel Garcia</dc:creator>
  1170.      <description>Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old dual citizen who had been fighting as part of the Israeli war effort, met with President Donald Trump today in the oval office after being released by Hamas from a 584-day-long captivity. He credited the president for his release, saying: “I came to thank the person responsible for saving my life. ...</description>
  1171.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old dual citizen who had been fighting as part of the Israeli war effort, met with President Donald Trump today in the oval office after being released by Hamas from a 584-day-long captivity.</p>
  1172. <p>He <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/us-news/freed-hostage-edan-alexander-welcomed-at-white-house-reveals-his-treatment-in-captivity-improved-after-trumps-election/">credited the president</a> for his release, saying: “I came to thank the person responsible for saving my life. It was deeply moving to be in the White House, the same place where my parents had fought for my release so many times, but this time together with them.”</p>
  1173. <p>He also told the president that his captors started treating him better as soon as he came into office.</p>
  1174. <p>“They weren’t too afraid of Biden,” Trump replied.</p>
  1175. <p>He also asked for Trump’s help in securing the release of the remaining hostages: “I told the most powerful man in the world what I went through, what my friends are enduring, and asked him to continue doing everything in his power.”</p>
  1176. <p>“I shared with the president my fear that continued fighting endangers the hostages. I hope he can achieve another historic breakthrough—a comprehensive deal to free all 50 hostages. I told him I am confident he is the person who can make it happen.”</p>
  1177. <p>Hamas released Alexander unconditionally in May, in what was seen as a “goodwill gesture” to Trump to get his help in reviving ceasefire talks with Israel.</p>
  1178. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1179. <p>Trump is scheduled to speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next Monday and said he will be &#8220;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-hopes-gaza-ceasefire-will-be-reached-sometime-next-week/">very firm</a>&#8221; with him on the need to end the war. He said that Netanyahu “wants it, too” and predicts that a ceasefire deal can be reached next week.</p>
  1180. <p>On Wednesday, Hamas announced it was considering the latest hostage-ceasefire deal proposed by Steve Witkoff, Middle East envoy for the Trump administration. Inner sources said that Hamas’ attitude toward it was “<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-hopes-gaza-ceasefire-will-be-reached-sometime-next-week/">generally positive</a>.”</p>
  1181. <p>Israel’s foreign minister likewise made a statement that Israel wants to resume talks “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-cease-fire-trump.html">as soon as possible.</a>”</p>
  1182. <p>Witkoff’s proposal is for Hamas to release 10 living Israeli hostages and return the bodies of 18 deceased hostages in return for a 60 day ceasefire. All hostages would be released if a permanent ceasefire was agreed upon during that time.</p>
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  1185.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:59:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  1189.      <title>Tulsi Gabbard Unloads On Washington Post, Says Reporter Is ‘Actively Harassing’ Staffers</title>
  1190.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-unloads-on-washington-post-says-reporter-is-actively-harassing-staffers</link>
  1191.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1192.      <description>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard took aim at The Washington Post on Thursday, accusing one of the outlet&amp;#8217;s reporters of &amp;#8220;harassing&amp;#8221; her staffers and even &amp;#8220;demanding they share sensitive information.&amp;#8221; Gabbard called out reporter Ellen Nakashima by name, accusing her of using underhanded methods to get sensitive information from staffers at the Office of ...</description>
  1193.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard took aim at The Washington Post on Thursday, accusing one of the outlet&#8217;s reporters of &#8220;harassing&#8221; her staffers and even &#8220;demanding they share sensitive information.&#8221;</p>
  1194. <p>Gabbard called out reporter Ellen Nakashima by name, accusing her of using underhanded methods to get sensitive information from staffers at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and saying that the same reporter had used similar tactics on her and her family when she was in her home state of Hawaii.</p>
  1195. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1196. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">It has come to my attention that Washington Post reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/nakashimae?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nakashimae</a> appears to be actively harassing ODNI staff. Instead of reaching out to my press office, she is calling high level Intelligence Officers from a burner phone, refusing to identify herself, lying about the fact…</p>
  1197. <p>— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/DNIGabbard/status/1940796626735395098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1198. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1199. <p>&#8220;It has come to my attention that Washington Post reporter @nakashimae appears to be actively harassing ODNI staff,&#8221; Gabbard announced in a post on X. &#8220;Instead of reaching out to my press office, she is calling high level Intelligence Officers from a burner phone, refusing to identify herself, lying about the fact that she works for the Washington Post, and then demanding they share sensitive information.&#8221;</p>
  1200. <p>&#8220;Apparently, publishing leaked classified material wasn&#8217;t enough for the Washington Post, so now they’ve decided to go after the Intelligence professionals charged to protect it,&#8221; the former Congresswoman (D-HI) added. &#8220;This is a clear political op by the same outlet and the same reporter who harassed and stalked my family in Hawaii. This kind of deranged behavior reflects a media establishment so desperate to sabotage @POTUS’s successful agenda that they’ve abandoned even a facade of journalistic integrity and ethics.&#8221;</p>
  1201. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1202. <p>&#8220;The Washington Post should be ashamed, and they should put an end to this immediately,&#8221; she declared.</p>
  1203. <p>The Post fired back with a statement from Executive Editor Matt Murray, defending Nakashima and saying, &#8220;For three decades, Ellen Nakashima has been one of the most careful, fair-minded, and highly regarded reporters covering national security. Reaching out to potential sources rather than relying solely on official government press statements regarding matters of public interest is neither nefarious nor is it harassment. It is basic journalism. DNI Gabbard’s unfounded personal attack reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about the role of journalists to report on government officials and hold power to account, without fear or favor and regardless of party. The Post remains committed to that vital and constitutionally protected work.&#8221;</p>
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  1206.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:57:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  1210.      <title>ICE Agents Celebrate One Big, Beautiful Bill: ‘LFG!!! This Is Long Overdue’</title>
  1211.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-agents-celebrate-one-big-beautiful-bill-lfg-this-is-long-overdue</link>
  1212.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1213.      <description>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, from the boots on the ground to Acting Director Todd Lyons, are cheering the passage of President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s long-touted One Big, Beautiful Bill, saying that it will direct &amp;#8220;long overdue&amp;#8221; support to their efforts to secure the border and expel criminal illegals. Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin ...</description>
  1214.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, from the boots on the ground to Acting Director Todd Lyons, are cheering the passage of President Donald Trump&#8217;s long-touted One Big, Beautiful Bill, saying that it will direct &#8220;long overdue&#8221; support to their efforts to secure the border and expel criminal illegals.</p>
  1215. <p>Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin shared a post on X including a few of the initial reactions from his sources at ICE.</p>
  1216. <p>&#8220;<span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">I asked ICE contacts for reaction to OBBB passing w/ massive ICE money,&#8221; he posted. &#8220;Some responses: &#8216;LFG!!! This is long overdue and will give us the resources to ramp it up and give the American people what they voted for. Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8217;; &#8216;This ensures that ICE is the tip of the spear to make America safe again.&#8217;; &#8216;</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">This administration has been fighting non stop to give the law enforcement agents in these dangerous sanctuary communities the tools we need to complete the mission.'&#8221;</span></p>
  1217. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1218. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: I asked ICE contacts for reaction to OBBB passing w/ massive ICE money. Some responses:</p>
  1219. <p>“LFG!!! This is long overdue and will give us the resources to ramp it up and give the American people what they voted for. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”</p>
  1220. <p>“This ensures…</p>
  1221. <p>— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1940845602566557839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1223. <p>Lyons issued an official statement a short time later, offering a similar sentiment.</p>
  1224. <p>&#8220;I speak on behalf of the entire agency when I say that ICE is grateful to President Trump for putting in the hard work necessary to get the Big Beautiful Bill across the finish line &#8211; but the real win is for the American people. The unprecedented funding for ICE will enable my hard-working officers and agents to continue making America safe again by identifying, arresting and removing criminal aliens from our communities,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I’m thrilled to work with Secretary Noem, Congress and the president to protect our families, friends and neighbors.&#8221;</p>
  1225. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1226. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1227. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“I speak on behalf of the entire agency when I say that ICE is grateful to President Trump for putting in the hard work necessary to get the Big Beautiful Bill across the finish line &#8211; but the real win is for the American people. The unprecedented funding for ICE will enable my… <a href="https://t.co/mA5hL4Htu4">pic.twitter.com/mA5hL4Htu4</a></p>
  1228. <p>— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1940856961102405740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1229. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1230. <p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also released a statement on the bill&#8217;s passage, saying, &#8220;Today’s passage of the Big Beautiful Bill is a win for law and order and the safety and security of the American people. This $165 billion in funding will help DHS and our brave law enforcement further deliver on President Trump’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Thank you President Trump!&#8221;</p>
  1231. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1232. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">BREAKING: DHS Secretary <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sec_Noem</a> statement to <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> as the One Big Beautiful Bill has PASSED and is now headed to President Trump’s desk.</p>
  1233. <p>“Today’s passage of the Big Beautiful Bill is a win for law and order and the safety and security of the American people. This $165…</p>
  1234. <p>— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1940841026182345125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1238.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:47:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  1242.      <title>ICE Arrests Boxer Over Cartel Ties, Prepares To Deport Him Days After He Fought Jake Paul</title>
  1243.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-boxer-over-cartel-ties-prepares-to-deport-him-days-after-he-fought-jake-paul</link>
  1244.      <dc:creator>Spencer Lindquist</dc:creator>
  1245.      <description>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Mexican boxer with cartel ties just days after he fought influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul at an arena in Anaheim, California. ICE arrested Julio César Chávez Jr. on Wednesday, four days after he lost to Jake Paul in a match at the Honda Center, with the federal agency now saying ...</description>
  1246.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Mexican boxer with cartel ties just days after he fought influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul at an arena in Anaheim, California.</p>
  1247. <p>ICE arrested Julio César Chávez Jr. on Wednesday, four days after he lost to Jake Paul in a match at the Honda Center, with the federal agency now saying that the Mexican national has ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and will undergo “expedited removal.”</p>
  1248. <p>“On July 2, ICE arrested Mexican boxer and criminal illegal alien Julio César Chávez Jr.,” the Department of Homeland Security said <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1940834653222375456">in a post</a> on X.</p>
  1249. <p>“He is now being processed for expedited removal from the United States. This Sinaloa Cartel affiliate has an active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunitions and explosives,” DHS went on to say. “Our message to any cartel affiliates in the U.S. is clear: We will find you and you will face consequences. The days of unchecked cartel violence are over.”</p>
  1250. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1251. <p>César Chávez Jr. came into the United States legally on a tourist visa in February 2024, but was flagged as an “egregious public safety threat” in December of 2024. The Biden administration’s DHS decided that César Chávez Jr. was not an immigration enforcement priority and allowed him to reenter the United States on January 4, 2025, just before President Donald Trump was inaugurated.</p>
  1252. <p>“This Sinaloa Cartel affiliate with an active arrest warrant for trafficking guns, ammunition, and explosives was arrested by ICE,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin charged. “It is shocking the previous administration flagged this criminal illegal alien as a public safety threat, but chose to not prioritize his removal and let him leave and COME BACK into our country.”</p>
  1253. <p>DHS explained that, in addition to his ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, César Chávez Jr. has an extensive criminal history. The illegal alien was convicted of driving under the influence in 2012 and of illegal possession of an assault weapon in 2024 in addition to being charged with trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives.</p>
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  1256.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:47:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  1260.      <title>Reality And The Fiscal Wake-Up Call From Britain</title>
  1261.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-and-the-fiscal-wake-up-call-from-britain</link>
  1262.      <dc:creator>Ben Shapiro</dc:creator>
  1263.      <description>We are not solving our deficit problem. You can see what&amp;#8217;s going to happen to the United States down the line, because no one takes this problem seriously. Most Republicans don&amp;#8217;t. Most Democrats don&amp;#8217;t. The American people certainly do not.  All you have to do is take a look across the ocean at Great Britain. ...</description>
  1264.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are not solving our deficit problem.</span></p>
  1265. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can see what&#8217;s going to happen to the United States down the line, because no one takes this problem seriously. Most Republicans don&#8217;t. Most Democrats don&#8217;t. The American people certainly do not. </span></p>
  1266. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All you have to do is take a look across the ocean at Great Britain. On Wednesday, there was a shocking and fraught moment that happened there. The Wall Street Journal </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/britains-chancellor-in-tears-as-investors-turn-on-government-22aee17f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjZpkxEZH_qTxXcl-zvbi7np_J3qYRtV5gD99cAFFKx9W04z7JDoMWZ-xkzK3w%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6866caec&amp;gaa_sig=0k3E5u5VSkXj7mYSs0Q3EQLJqtEknleCqra4ptlRa79N59RLrBTHOVLmsAPH4A3zsL6rpF65FSo9B8cDPH9nDA%3D%3D"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
  1267. <blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investors sold off British government bonds and the pound fell sharply on Wednesday after the Labour government abandoned plans to cut ballooning welfare costs and the country’s Chancellor of the Exchequer was seen crying in parliament. The selloff came hours after the government of Prime Minister </span></i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/keir-starmer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keir Starmer</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> shelved a plan to cut disability payments following a rebellion by Labour’s own lawmakers. </span></i></p>
  1268. <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The U-turn raised the prospect of the government hiking taxes or issuing more debt to fund its welfare system. It also casts doubt over the future of Rachel Reeves, the U.K. chancellor, who took the job just over a year ago promising a return to economic stability in Britain by</span></i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-live-01-23-2025/card/u-k-will-stick-to-fiscal-rules-reeves-tells-wsj-lyApDGigeve1oDWxyzwP?mod=article_inline"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> sticking to strict spending rules. </span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The pound sank in value, losing more than 1% to trade at $1.36. U.K. government bonds, too, tumbled in price, sending the yield on 10-year gilts up 0.12 percentage point to 4.581%. That far outpaced the more muted gains for yields in the U.S. and in other major markets. </span></i></p>
  1269. <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Markets have latched onto the idea that Reeves’s departure might be much more imminent,” said </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Dowding, chief investment officer for fixed income at RBC BlueBay Asset Management. “That is unsettling investors in terms of what that means of the Labour government’s commitment to the fiscal framework.”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p></blockquote>
  1270. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, the Labour Party didn&#8217;t have any commitment to the fiscal framework; they are a far-Left party. They were never going to be fiscally responsible. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
  1271. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is demonstrative of a crisis that is eventually going to face every Western government, including the government of the United States. “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The government’s climbdown points to a broader truth for governments across Western Europe,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where weak economic growth means countries are struggling to raise enough revenue to pay for rising costs from an aging population, the Journal stated “With voters largely wary of spending cuts, that leaves higher taxes, which could hurt growth further, as the most likely outcome.”</span></p>
  1272. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Britain is already on course to register the </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/britains-labour-party-bets-on-big-taxes-borrowing-to-boost-economy-5d3eba82?mod=article_inline"><span style="font-weight: 400;">highest tax burden</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> since World War II thanks to big spending during the pandemic and paying out for energy subsidies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile its growth prospects remain meager,” the Journal noted.</span></p>
  1273. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you look into the future for the United States, this sort of thing could happen here, too. The United States is demographically growing only because of immigration.</span></p>
  1274. <h3><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2231?elementPosition=5&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></strong></h3>
  1275. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The reality is that the fertility rate in the United States is actually below replacement levels, at 1.66 births per woman. The United States is not replacing its own population. The only way we are able to do that is through large-scale immigration, which we have stopped, which means we have a shrinking tax base, an aging population, just like Western Europe, slower but similar.</span></p>
  1276. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have the possibility of serious economic stagnation, absent a massive breakthrough in AI that suddenly translates into higher productivity.</span></p>
  1277. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If all of that materializes and we don&#8217;t cut any of the massive welfare state that we have built, we are going to end up inflating our way out of this. That&#8217;s the reality. As I&#8217;ve said myriad times, there are only three solutions to massive debt: inflation, massive tax increases, or austerity. Our population is so used to its benefits that they do not want austerity.</span></p>
  1278. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But eventually, the West is going to have to grow up and recognize that the welfare state has costs attendant upon it. And those costs are going to have to be paid for by someone; they can&#8217;t be kicked down the road indefinitely. You can&#8217;t just magically manufacture money and hope the economy is going to continue to sail forward.</span></p>
  1279. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, what does the United States need? It needs massive economic growth, and eventually it&#8217;s going to need some real cuts to the size and scope of government.</span></p>
  1280. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The kind of cuts in the Big, Beautiful Bill are not going to do it. They need to be a lot larger than that.</span></p>
  1281. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I know that&#8217;s an unpopular view. It also happens to be an economically sane view that very few people in politics are willing to take because most people don&#8217;t want to hear it.</span></p>
  1282. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But we must be willing to listen to reality, even if it’s painful, for one reason, and one reason alone: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the end, reality always wins.</span></p>
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  1285.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  1289.      <title>CNN Reacts To Budget Bill Passing: Trump ‘Figured Out How To Work The System In His Favor’</title>
  1290.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-reacts-to-budget-bill-passing-trump-figured-out-how-to-work-the-system-in-his-favor</link>
  1291.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1292.      <description>A CNN reporter said the quiet part out loud during the moments immediately following the House&amp;#8217;s passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, conceding after a series of major wins for the White House that President Donald Trump had clearly &amp;#8220;figured out how to work the system in his favor.&amp;#8221; The bill&amp;#8217;s passage came on ...</description>
  1293.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A CNN reporter said the quiet part out loud during the moments immediately following the House&#8217;s passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, conceding after a series of major wins for the White House that President Donald Trump had clearly &#8220;figured out how to work the system in his favor.&#8221;</p>
  1294. <p>The bill&#8217;s passage came on the heels of another win — a stronger-than-expected jobs report — and a marathon floor speech from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and the reporter&#8217;s reaction reflected just that.</p>
  1295. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  1296. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1297. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">CNN: &#8220;This could not be a bigger deal for President Trump and this administration because they believe this bill really encapsulates everything President Trump wants to do with his agenda&#8230; They have figured out&#8230; how to work the system in their favor.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kqvZkCC9zF">pic.twitter.com/kqvZkCC9zF</a></p>
  1298. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940843284819333406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1299. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1300. <p>&#8220;This could not be a bigger deal for President Trump and for this administration. They believe this bill really encapsulates everything President Trump wants to do with his agenda, that his legacy is going to be sealed in some of the items that are in this bill, and that&#8217;s why it was so important to President Trump to get this across the finish line.&#8221;</p>
  1301. <p>&#8220;It has been something that has been weighing on the White House,&#8221; she continued, noting the negotiations that had been ongoing to get the bill over the line.</p>
  1302. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1303. <p>&#8220;One of the other parts of this that I think might go unnoticed is how much this time, this second term for President Trump, is different than the first term. They have figured out, in that four years that President Trump was not in office, how to work the system in their favor. That was not something we saw during the chaotic first term.&#8221;</p>
  1304. <p>&#8220;And you know, the last couple days we&#8217;ve been talking about this nonstop: this idea that, oh, is the bill on the verge of collapse — and every time I spoke to White House officials, they said the like their odds,&#8221; she concluded, noting again that Trump has appeared far better equipped to rally Republicans around his agenda in his second term.</p>
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  1307.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:28:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  1311.      <title>Joe Biden Says His Accomplishments Are Disappearing ‘So Rapidly’ Under Trump</title>
  1312.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-says-his-accomplishments-are-disappearing-so-rapidly-under-trump</link>
  1313.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  1314.      <description>President Joe Biden complained Wednesday that what he was able to accomplish during his time in the White House is “changing so rapidly” under President Donald Trump. Biden delivered the keynote speech in front of a conference of human resources professionals put on by the Society for Human Resource Management in San Diego. The former ...</description>
  1315.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Joe Biden complained Wednesday that what he was able to accomplish during his time in the White House is “changing so rapidly” under President Donald Trump.</span></p>
  1316. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden delivered the keynote speech in front of a conference of human resources professionals put on by the Society for Human Resource Management in San Diego. The former president’s roughly hour-long address was his lengthiest public remarks since he announced his cancer diagnosis in May.</span></p>
  1317. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly,” he said, according to </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wall Street Journal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  1318. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden also said he has been advising European leaders on how to handle Trump. The 82-year-old ex-president said that European officials have called him and asked him to get involved in politics again. Biden said he is not involved, but is still talking to and advising U.S. and European lawmakers.</span></p>
  1319. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We strengthened NATO in a significant way,” Biden told the conference, adding that now “I’m getting calls — I’m not going to go into it, I can’t — from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged.”</span></p>
  1320. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m not, but I’m giving advice,&#8221; Biden said.</span></p>
  1321. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The White House pushed back on Biden’s claims. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said that Biden’s leadership left “America weaker than ever before,” according to </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-world-leaders-are-asking-him-for-advice-in-new-trump-era/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daily Beast</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  1322. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1323. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Absolutely no one is calling Joe Biden for advice because his disastrous foreign policy left America weaker than ever before. Thanks to President Trump, NATO allies have made a historic 5% defense spending pledge, Iran’s nuclear capabilities are obliterated, and our country’s standing on the world stage is restored,” Kelly said.</span></p>
  1324. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month, Trump scored a diplomatic win with NATO countries, convincing all but Spain to increase defense spending to 5% of each country’s relative GDP. The 5% target </span><a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">includes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 3.5% dedicated to core defense requirements and at least 1.5% on security and defense-related “critical infrastructure,” including strengthening each country’s “defense industrial base.”</span></p>
  1325. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is absolute conviction with my colleagues at the table that, given this threat from the Russians, given the international security situation, there is no alternative,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the increase.</span></p>
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  1332.      <title>Trump Will Sign One Big, Beautiful Bill At Fourth Of July Celebration</title>
  1333.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-will-sign-one-big-beautiful-bill-at-fourth-of-july-celebration</link>
  1334.      <dc:creator>Mary Margaret Olohan</dc:creator>
  1335.      <description>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sign the One Big, Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared on a call with reporters Thursday. Leavitt spoke within minutes of the bill&amp;#8217;s Thursday passage through the House of Representatives, prompting celebrations from White House officials, who hailed the news as ...</description>
  1336.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sign the One Big, Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared on a call with reporters Thursday.</p>
  1337. <p>Leavitt spoke within minutes of the bill&#8217;s Thursday passage through the House of Representatives, prompting celebrations from White House officials, who hailed the news as a massive victory.</p>
  1338. <p>&#8220;T<span style="font-weight: 400;">oday is a victorious day for the American people,&#8221; Leavitt told reporters. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to the jobs report beating expectations for the 4th month in a row under President Trump, the One Big, Beautiful Bill passed the House of Representatives and will be at the president&#8217;s desk for signature at a big, beautiful signing ceremony tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. on the 4th of July, just as the president always said and hoped it would be.&#8221;</span></p>
  1339. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;And despite the doubters and the panickins,&#8221; she added, &#8220;President Trump delivered win after win for the American people, and House Republicans and Senate Republicans delivered these wins with the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law.&#8221;</span></p>
  1340. <div id="attachment_942833" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-will-sign-one-big-beautiful-bill-at-fourth-of-july-celebration/us-congress-bill-politics" rel="attachment wp-att-942833"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-942833" class="wp-image-942833 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2222675967-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2222675967-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2222675967-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2222675967-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2222675967.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-942833" class="wp-caption-text">US House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, speaks after the House passed the &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill Act&#8221; at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2025.  (Photo by JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP via Getty Images)</p></div>
  1341. <p>The White House is touting the bill&#8217;s passage as the biggest legislative win of the president&#8217;s two terms in office, promising that it will deliver the largest tax cut in American history. The bill also includes increased border security, higher wages, expanded Child Tax Credit, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, savings accounts for newborns, and more.</p>
  1342. <p>&#8220;Again and again,&#8221; the White House said in a Thursday afternoon release, &#8220;President Trump and Republicans fought and won for the American people.&#8221;</p>
  1343. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1344. <p>&#8220;The pro-growth policies within this historic legislation are going to fuel an economic boom like we’ve never seen before,&#8221; Leavitt said in a Thursday statement. &#8220;President Trump looks forward to signing the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law to officially usher in the Golden Age of America.”</p>
  1345. <p>The B-2 pilots <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pilots-who-bombed-iran-will-come-to-white-house-on-fourth-of-july?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pilots+Who+Bombed+Iran+Will+Come+To+White+House+On+Fourth+Of+July">who flew into Iran on a mission to bomb</a> the Iranian nuclear facilities will join Trump at the White House on Friday, The Daily Wire reported earlier this week. The White House celebration will also include a flyover by B-2 Spirit bombers, the jets that conducted the strikes on Iran earlier this month in Operation Midnight Hammer.</p>
  1346. <p>Trump is expected to speak at the event, and additional personnel from the base where the bombers were stationed (Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri) will attend.</p>
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  1349.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:49:18 GMT</pubDate>
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  1353.      <title>‘Plentiful And Inexpensive’: Trump Celebrates As Egg Prices Plummet</title>
  1354.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/plentiful-and-inexpensive-trump-celebrates-as-egg-prices-plummet</link>
  1355.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  1356.      <description>President Trump celebrated on Thursday the return to normalcy for the price of eggs, declaring they were “plentiful and inexpensive.” Trump was responding to a tweet from Waffle House announcing that the 50-cent egg surcharge they had imposed for the last five months was officially off the menu. Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg ...</description>
  1357.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump celebrated on Thursday the return to normalcy for the price of eggs, declaring they were “plentiful and inexpensive.”</p>
  1358. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Trump was responding to a tweet from Waffle House announcing that the 50-cent egg surcharge they had imposed for the last five months was officially off the menu.</p>
  1359. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1360. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding! <a href="https://t.co/xXE6giZhRe">pic.twitter.com/xXE6giZhRe</a></p>
  1361. <p>&mdash; Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WaffleHouse/status/1940040194817696182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1362. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1363. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  1364. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We brought the price of Eggs back to what they were supposed to be,” President Trump exuberated on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114789968096151564">Truth Social</a>. “When I took over on January 20th, the Fake News was screaming that, ‘Egg prices have gone through the roof, quadrupled,’ they said. Now they’re plentiful, and inexpensive. ‘Thank you President Trump!’”</p>
  1365. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In early February, Waffle House <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/04/waffle-house-50-cent-egg-surcharge/78211715007/">instituted</a> its egg surcharge, saying it was the result of the &#8220;continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (Bird Flu)&#8221; that had triggered a &#8220;dramatic increase in egg prices. &#8230; Consumers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions. Rather than increasing prices across the menu, this is a temporary targeted surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg prices.&#8221;</p>
  1366. <p>According to the USDA, the price of a dozen eggs <a href="https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3725.pdf">soared</a> nationally in March to $8.17; it has plummeted to $2.54.</p>
  1367. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1368. <p>Almost exactly concurrent with the apex of egg prices, on February 26, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/02/26/usda-invests-1-billion-combat-avian-flu-and-reduce-egg-prices">announced</a> a $1 billion comprehensive strategy to “curb highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices.” The five-point plan <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/agriculture-secretary-brooke-rollins-my-plan-to-lower-egg-prices-6be0f881">included</a> dedicating up to &#8220;$500 million to helping U.S. poultry producers implement gold-standard biosecurity measures,” making “$400 million of increased financial relief available to farmers whose flocks are affected by avian flu,” “exploring the use of vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens,” removing “unnecessary regulatory burdens on egg producers where possible,&#8221; and considering “temporary import options to reduce egg costs in the short term.”</p>
  1369. <p>On June 26, Rollins <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/26/secretary-rollins-provides-update-bird-flu-strategy-egg-prices-continue-fall">gave an update</a> on the five-pronged strategy, saying, “After reaching a record high due to the Biden Administration’s lack of action, wholesale egg prices have now dropped 64%, with retail prices falling 27% from their peak earlier this year.”</p>
  1370. <p>“When President Trump entered office, the cost of eggs was at a record high, seriously denting consumers’ wallets after years of awful inflation,” she continued. “On my first day as Secretary, we got to work to implement a five-pronged strategy to improve biosecurity on the farm and lower egg prices on grocery store shelves. The plan has worked, and families are seeing relief with egg prices driving food deflation in the April Consumer Price Index.”</p>
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  1373.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:35:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  1377.      <title>Big, Beautiful, And On The Way To Trump’s Desk: Congress Passes Historic Spending Bill</title>
  1378.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-beautiful-and-on-the-way-to-trumps-desk-congress-passes-historic-spending-bill</link>
  1379.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  1380.      <description>The House passed President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” on Thursday, overcoming significant Democratic opposition and internal Republican hesitancy to hand the president a major legislative victory.  The Republican-controlled House voted 218-214 to pass the measure shortly after Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wrapped up an hours-long speech delaying the bill’s advancement. Trump, who imposed ...</description>
  1381.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The House passed President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” on Thursday, overcoming significant Democratic opposition and internal Republican hesitancy to hand the president a major legislative victory. </span></p>
  1382. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Republican-controlled House voted 218-214 to pass the measure shortly after Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wrapped up an hours-long speech delaying the bill’s advancement. Trump, who imposed a July 4 deadline for its passage, is expected to sign the bill at the White House sometime on Friday.  </span></p>
  1383. <p>&#8220;With one big, beautiful bill, we are going to make this country stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before. And every American is going to benefit from this,&#8221; House Speaker Mike Johnson said just before the vote. &#8220;Today we are laying a key cornerstone of America&#8217;s new golden age.&#8221;</p>
  1384. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To reach the final vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) spent hours working with Republican holdouts to get them to back the measure. Once he opened up the vote on advancing the bill to final debate, Johnson said he would keep the vote open as long as needed to secure the votes. </span></p>
  1385. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It will have all been worth it in the end. And we will meet our July 4 deadline, which everybody mocked when I said it,” Johnson told reporters after midnight on Thursday. </span></p>
  1386. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By 3:30 a.m., Johnson had the votes, and the House voted 219-213 to send the bill to a final debate and vote. </span></p>
  1387. <p>After that vote, Jeffries spoke for more than eight hours, utilizing a rule that allows House leadership members to speak for as long as they want. During his speech, Jeffries accused Republicans of imperiling the welfare of Americans who rely on programs like Medicaid and food stamps.</p>
  1388. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the night Trump also pushed Republicans to back the measure, which makes the 2017 tax cuts permanent, increases funding for border security, enacts work requirements for able-bodied recipients of Medicaid and food stamps, defunds Planned Parenthood for a year, funds the “Golden Dome” missile defense program, and ends taxes on tips and overtime. </span></p>
  1389. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Largest Tax Cuts in History and a Booming Economy vs. Biggest Tax Increase in History, and a Failed Economy,” Trump posted on Truth Social late Wednesday night as the legislation stalled. “What are Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY.”</span></p>
  1390. <p><strong><a href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1391. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By morning, Trump was celebrating. </span></p>
  1392. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What a great night it was. One of the most consequential Bills ever. The USA is the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, by far!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social. </span></p>
  1393. <p>Republican leadership also celebrated the passage of the bill.</p>
  1394. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;From the moment President Trump was re-elected, the Republican Study Committee fought tirelessly with conservatives in and beyond the halls of Congress to shape this historic reconciliation process,&#8221; said Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger. &#8220;As a result of that relentless effort, our members secured transformational provisions that advance the RSC&#8217;s core policy priorities and cement President Trump&#8217;s America First agenda.”</span></p>
  1395. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Senate faced a similar marathon legislative process to pass the bill, spending all of Monday night and Tuesday morning considering amendments before holding a final vote. Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 split after three Republicans refused to vote for the bill. The Senate made several major changes as it received the bill from the House, including moving to cut the solar and wind tax and stripping a provision that would have paused all state regulations of artificial intelligence for 10 years.</span></p>
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  1398.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:32:58 GMT</pubDate>
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  1402.      <title>WATCH: Is Far-Left Mamdani The Future For Democrats? Ryan Girdusky Breaks It Down.</title>
  1403.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-is-far-left-mamdani-the-future-for-democrats-ryan-girdusky-breaks-it-down</link>
  1404.      <dc:creator>Mairead Elordi</dc:creator>
  1405.      <description>Zohran Mamdani&amp;#8217;s bombshell upset win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has some wondering if far-Left radicalism is the future of the Democratic Party, which is struggling to find its footing after last year&amp;#8217;s crushing presidential defeat. Ryan Girdusky, host of the podcast &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s A Numbers Game,&amp;#8221; broke it down for ...</description>
  1406.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s bombshell upset win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has some wondering if far-Left radicalism is the future of the Democratic Party, which is struggling to find its footing after last year&#8217;s crushing presidential defeat.</p>
  1407. <p>Ryan Girdusky, host of the podcast &#8220;It&#8217;s A Numbers Game,&#8221; broke it down for The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Wire,&#8221; explaining that urban areas like New York City are &#8220;sponges&#8221; for far-Left radicalism.</p>
  1408. <p>&#8220;If you have purple hair and 36 genders and don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re a boy or a girl, why would you stay in Long Island? Why would you stay in Tennessee? Why would you stay in Ohio? You come to New York,&#8221; Girdusky told &#8220;Morning Wire.&#8221;</p>
  1409. <p>However, Girdusky noted that self-described socialist Mamdani did not receive a majority of first-round votes.</p>
  1410. <p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if in a head-to-head combat, he could have won,&#8221; Girdusky said, &#8220;and he was challenging a very problematic figure, being Andrew Cuomo, who had to resign in disgrace, and he was not considered an ally of progressives, and a lot of other people didn&#8217;t like him because of the COVID response.&#8221;</p>
  1411. <p>Cuomo, former governor of New York, was widely expected to snag the Democratic nomination for mayor before Mamdani&#8217;s win.</p>
  1412. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1413. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zohran Mamdani’s far-left mayoral victory in New York could signal a takeover of the Democratic Party—and a warning for November. Political analyst and native New Yorker <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RyanGirdusky</a> breaks it all down. <a href="https://t.co/jA9fncwcJg">pic.twitter.com/jA9fncwcJg</a></p>
  1414. <p>&mdash; Morning Wire (@MorningWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/MorningWire/status/1940689471118143775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1417. <p>Girdusky noted that over the last year, Republicans have registered more new voters than Democrats have in Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx.</p>
  1418. <p>&#8220;There is an increasing number of people who live without of a five mile radius or eight mile radius of Manhattan who are aligning themselves increasingly with the Republican Party,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1419. <p>Trump won 37% of the vote in Queens and 27% in the Bronx, both the highest for a Republican since the 1980s.</p>
  1420. <p>&#8220;These are astronomical numbers for a Republican, especially a Republican that had no support as far as a ground game or commercials or anything. It&#8217;s completely organic and it&#8217;s really happening,&#8221; Girdusky said.</p>
  1421. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1422. <p>Meanwhile, the people still registering as Democrats look at &#8220;identity-based, Neo-Marxists&#8221; like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) or Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and think, &#8220;this is my kind of party,&#8221; Girdusky said.</p>
  1423. <p>The Democratic Party has changed in New York City because many Democrats who were not far-Left progressives have either moved, died, or become independent or Republican, and now the progressives outnumber them, he explained.</p>
  1424. <p>&#8220;That is the recipe for a lot of parts of our country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In these urban areas where organization, especially around high-propensity voting, college educated, mostly white uber-progressives — when they can coalesce, they vote like it is their religion, mostly because they don&#8217;t have one.&#8221;</p>
  1425. <p>He added that places with high concentrations of ethnic minorities often &#8220;demand elected officials cater to them,&#8221; and this has intensified with mass immigration.</p>
  1426. <p>&#8220;That could be a good thing in some capacity, but when you&#8217;re doing it solely based on left-wing identitarian politics, you almost surely get people who are more like Ilhan Omar, AOC, Cori Bush, and all the rest of them,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1427. <p>Girdusky said that the groups driving far-Left politics are white, college-educated millennials and Gen Z-ers, Southeast Asian immigrants like Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and black women, who often push a narrative that &#8220;all the cancers of society are because of whiteness.&#8221;</p>
  1428. <p>&#8220;Black women are increasingly identity-driven, far-Left radicals. Look at the cast of MSNBC. None of them can read, and it doesn&#8217;t matter,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1429. <p>Also, the children of Southeast Asian immigrants &#8220;usually assimilate very well because they all go to college, but they assimilate to — pardon my French, but s***lib behavior,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1430. <p>Girdusky noted that prominent Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did not immediately embrace Mamdani, and Democrats on Long Island &#8220;openly said this was a mistake.&#8221;</p>
  1431. <p>Powerful Democrats like Schumer, who represent urban areas, are &#8220;all going to be primaried out of this machine,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1432. <p>&#8220;There used to be parameters that kept them in power, the black vote, unions, senior citizens, certain Jewish coalitions. Those are becoming one, less powerful, and two, less organized,&#8221; Girdusky said.</p>
  1433. <p>&#8220;I think that they&#8217;re genuinely worried. There&#8217;s definitely Democratic politicians and political operatives and donors behind the scenes as of right now saying, &#8216;How do we either get Cuomo or Eric Adams to run in the general, and how do we stop this guy now?'&#8221; he said.</p>
  1434. <p>He added that, going into the 2026 midterms, he would advise Republicans to encourage non-college-educated people to vote early.</p>
  1435. <p>&#8220;It is the most essential thing,&#8221; Girdusky said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the only way to counter this very active, very strong minority of the population, but a majority of the voting base, and that is what we&#8217;re going to see around the entire Democratic Party is how they can sit there and cater to them.&#8221;</p>
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  1438.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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  1442.      <title>Hakeem Jeffries Smashes ‘Magic Minute’ Record And No One But C-Span Cares</title>
  1443.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/hakeem-jeffries-smashes-magic-minute-record-and-no-one-but-c-span-cares</link>
  1444.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1445.      <description>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) set a new record on Thursday when his &amp;#8220;Magic Minute&amp;#8221; dragged on for more than eight hours and 33 minutes, challenging even his most ardent supporters&amp;#8217; commitment to keeping their eyes open so that they could watch him meet that milestone. While the House of Representatives does not have ...</description>
  1446.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) set a new record on Thursday when his &#8220;Magic Minute&#8221; dragged on for more than eight hours and 33 minutes, challenging even his most ardent supporters&#8217; commitment to keeping their eyes open so that they could watch him meet that milestone.</p>
  1447. <p>While the House of Representatives does not have the filibuster — a fact that mercifully spares members from stunts of this caliber most of the time — there is a privilege afforded to party leaders known as the &#8220;Magic Minute,&#8221; which essentially allows them to speak uninterrupted for as long as they&#8217;d like. Jeffries made use of that privilege, but only C-Span appeared to notice when he broke the record set by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy when he was the Minority Leader.</p>
  1448. <p>&#8220;MAGIC MINUTE&#8221; RECORD: On Nov. 18-19, 2021, then Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor for a record 8 hours and 32 minutes. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries began his floor remarks at 4:53am ET – 8 hours and 33 minutes ago,&#8221; the post read.</p>
  1449. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1450. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;MAGIC MINUTE&#8221; RECORD:</p>
  1451. <p>On Nov. 18-19, 2021, then Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor for a record 8 hours and 32 minutes.</p>
  1452. <p>Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries began his floor remarks at 4:53am ET – 8 hours and 33 minutes ago. <a href="https://t.co/jHjfBs6njh">pic.twitter.com/jHjfBs6njh</a></p>
  1453. <p>— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1940824776798621849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1454. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1455. <p>Even after it became clear that the Republicans had the votes to pass President Donald Trump&#8217;s One Big, Beautiful Bill, Jeffries continued to speak — turning what was already a stunt of epic proportions into an futile effort to filibuster the inevitable: his party had already lost.</p>
  1456. <p>Jeffries was an outspoken critic of the Senate filibuster when it was being used by Republicans — calling it a &#8220;Jim Crow relic&#8221; among other things — and his record-setting floor speech ultimately accomplished little more than reminding his critics of his own words, which they happily used against him.</p>
  1457. <p><strong><a class="c-link" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-2388">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a></strong></p>
  1458. <p>When Jeffries finally chucked it in after eight hours and 44 minutes, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stepped up for his bite at the apple, but to the great relief of everyone present, he used his Magic Minute to move things along relatively quickly — but he couldn&#8217;t resist a jab at Jeffries.</p>
  1459. <p>&#8220;You know, Ronald Reagan said one time that no speech should be longer than 20 minutes. And unlike the Democrat leader, I&#8217;m going to honor my colleague&#8217;s time and be a little more brief than that,&#8221; Johnson said to laughter and applause.</p>
  1460. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1461. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Speaker Mike Johnson: &#8220;You know, Ronald Reagan said one time that no speech should be longer than 20 minutes. And unlike the Democrat leader, I&#8217;m going to honor my colleague&#8217;s time and be a little more brief than that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/6GroxviLQX">pic.twitter.com/6GroxviLQX</a></p>
  1462. <p>— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1940830215250346097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1463. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1464. <p>He took another shot at Jeffries a short time later, adding, &#8220;It makes no difference whether our colleagues across the chamber speak for 25 minutes or 25 hours. They can&#8217;t change the truth. Today was about performance for some of them, but today for us is about results.&#8221;</p>
  1465. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1466. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a>: &#8220;It makes no difference whether our colleagues across the chamber speak for 25 minutes or 25 hours. They can&#8217;t change the truth. Today was about performance for some of them, but today for us is about results.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Ufxc6CVAna">pic.twitter.com/Ufxc6CVAna</a></p>
  1467. <p>— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1940834391728455706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1468. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
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  1471.      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:28:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  1475.      <title>Here’s How Much Trump White House Staffers Are Making</title>
  1476.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-much-trump-white-house-staffers-are-making</link>
  1477.      <dc:creator>Amanda Prestigiacomo</dc:creator>
  1478.      <description>Dozens of top staffers in the Trump administration are earning nearly $200,000 a year, with average pay hovering around $114,000 annually. The Trump administration has far fewer staffers on the payroll compared to the Biden administration, however, average pay in the Trump White House is about $5,000 higher. The highest paid White House staffer is Jacalynne ...</description>
  1479.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dozens of top staffers in the Trump administration are earning nearly $200,000 a year, with average pay hovering around $114,000 annually.</p>
  1480. <p>The Trump administration has far fewer staffers on the payroll compared to the Biden administration, however, average pay in the Trump White House is about $5,000 higher.</p>
  1481. <p>The highest paid White House staffer is Jacalynne B. Klopp, a senior adviser earning $225,700, <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/white-house-salary-list-reveals-top-earners-here-is-how-much-president-trump-earns/3902044/">according</a> to the White House&#8217;s annual salary report. Following behind Klopp is Edgar Mkrtchian, associate counsel, who earns $203,645 per year.</p>
  1482. <p>Dozens of other staffers, including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Border Czar Tom Homan, Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller, and Trade Counselor Peter Navarro, each make $195,200.</p>
  1483. <p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House employed 564 people in 2024, compared to just over 400 under President Donald Trump. The average Trump White House staffer earns $114,194 per year, compared to $109,166 for Biden staffers.</p>
  1484. <p>Most deputy assistant positions make $155,000-$175,000, and presidential speechwriters earn between $92,500-$121,500 during Trump&#8217;s second term, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/white-house-salaries-trump-administration-2025?utm_source=chatgpt.com">per</a> Axios. More than 108 other employees earn between $59,000-$80,000.</p>
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  1486. <p>Some White House staffers under Trump do not receive compensation from the White House, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who holds a number of positions in the administration, including national security advisor. Rubio, like Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, receives pay from the State Department.</p>
  1487. <p>President Trump in theory receives an annual salary of $400,000, plus additional money for expenses, entertainment, and a redecorating allowance &#8212; totaling around $569,000. However, Trump donated his salary his first term in office.</p>
  1488. <p>His Quarter 1 salary during his first term, for example, was donated to the Department of Interior, specifically the National Park Service to aid in its goal of preserving our country’s national security, <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/president-donald-j-trump-donate-salary-department-education/">according</a> to the White House. <a href="https://www.aol.com/alligator-alcatraz-florida-everglades-photos-192012169.html">According</a> to Forbes, Trump donated at least $1.4 million to various federal agencies during that term.</p>
  1489. <p>Trump will donate his salary this term, too, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-reveals-highest-paid-staffers-8-taking-no-salaries">according</a> to Fox News.</p>
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