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  19.      <title>Trump Files Massive Libel Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Over ‘Fake’ Epstein Letter</title>
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  21.      <dc:creator>Nathan Gay</dc:creator>
  22.      <description>President Trump has filed a federal libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters, court documents revealed on Friday. According to the docket filed in Miami federal court, Trump is suing for libel, assault, and slander following a Thursday Wall Street Journal article claiming a 2003 birthday letter ...</description>
  23.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Trump has filed a federal libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters, court documents revealed on Friday.</p>
  24. <p>According to the docket <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/trump-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein?Date=20250718&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1752873493&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">filed</a> in Miami federal court, Trump is suing for libel, assault, and slander following a Thursday Wall Street Journal article claiming a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman was authored by President Trump.</p>
  25. <p>The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7">claimed</a> that it had obtained a “letter bearing Trump’s name” that was included in a birthday book created for Epstein.</p>
  26. <p>The Journal notably did not include an image of the alleged letter, and President Trump said on Thursday that he “will be suing the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly” over the “fake” story.</p>
  27. <p>“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president said in a Truth Social post.</p>
  28. <p>Trump said that Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, “stated that he would take care of it.”</p>
  29. <p>“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.</p>
  30. <p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-wsj-over-fake-epstein-letter-orders-bondi-to-unseal-testimony?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Threatens+To+Sue+WSJ+Over+%E2%80%98FAKE%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter%2C+Orders+Bondi+To+Unseal+Testimony">reported</a>, although Trump and Epstein were friendly for several years when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2005, about a year after Trump kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago club and the two had a falling out.</p>
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  37.      <title>Trump Admin Secures Release Of 10 Americans Held In Venezuela In Exchange For Hundreds Of Migrants</title>
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  39.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  40.      <description>Ten Americans, some of whom had been held hostage for months by Venezuela&amp;#8217;s socialist government, are heading back home after the Trump administration secured their release on Friday. In exchange for the 10 Americans, over 200 Venezuelan migrants that the United States had sent to El Salvador&amp;#8217;s notorious CECOT prison will be released to Venezuela, ...</description>
  41.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ten Americans, some of whom had been held hostage for months by Venezuela&#8217;s socialist government, are heading back home after the Trump administration secured their release on Friday.</p>
  42. <p>In exchange for the 10 Americans, over 200 Venezuelan migrants that the United States had sent to El Salvador&#8217;s notorious CECOT prison will be released to Venezuela, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/world/americas/venezuela-us-prisoner-swap-migrants-el-salvador.html">reported</a>.</p>
  43. <p>&#8220;Thanks to@POTUS’s leadership, ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom,&#8221; Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href="https://x.com/secrubio/status/1946297566045278405">posted</a> on X. &#8220;I want to thank my team at the @StateDep &amp; especially [Salvadoran] President @nayibbukele for helping secure an agreement for the release of all of our American detainees, plus the release of Venezuelan political prisoners.&#8221;</p>
  44. <p>Bukele said on Friday that his government &#8220;handed over all the Venezuelan nationals detained in our country, accused of being part of the criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TDA). Many of them face multiple charges of murder, robbery, rape, and other serious crimes.&#8221;</p>
  45. <p>The American hostages will make a stop in El Salvador after being released by Venezuela before returning to the United States.</p>
  46. <p>&#8220;This operation is the result of months of negotiations with a tyrannical regime that had long refused to release one of its most valuable bargaining chips: its hostages,&#8221; Bukele wrote in a post shared by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. &#8220;However, thanks to the tireless efforts of many officials from both the United States and El Salvador, and above all, thanks to Almighty God, it was achieved.&#8221;</p>
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  48. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, we have handed over all the Venezuelan nationals detained in our country, accused of being part of the criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TDA). Many of them face multiple charges of murder, robbery, rape, and other serious crimes.</p>
  49. <p>As was offered to the Venezuelan… <a href="https://t.co/teuIT4GiRT">pic.twitter.com/teuIT4GiRT</a></p>
  50. <p>&mdash; Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href="https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1946296384035918284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  52. <p>Among the Americans held hostage by Venezuela is former Navy SEAL Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, who was detained last year while traveling, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prisoner-swap-us-venezuela-el-salvador/">reported</a>.</p>
  53. <p>&#8220;We have prayed for this day for almost a year. My brother is an innocent man who was used as a political pawn by the Maduro regime,&#8221; Castaneda&#8217;s family said in a statement. The family added that several traumatic brain injuries Castaneda suffered while serving his country &#8220;impaired his judgment and risk mitigation&#8221; and &#8220;led him to make a bad decision to travel to Venezuela.&#8221;</p>
  54. <p>Another freed hostage is Lucas Hunter, an American and French citizen, who was on a kite surfing trip in Colombia when he was nabbed by Venezuelan authorities near the border, according to the Times.</p>
  55. <p>A photo posted by the U.S. embassy in Venezuela showed the freed hostages waving American flags.</p>
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  57. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nothing says freedom like the American flag. Ten Americans freed from Venezuelan prisons today are coming home because of <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRubio</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/nayibbukele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nayibbukele</a>.  </p>
  58. <p>America First in action. <a href="https://t.co/pc6bI0Wgnx">pic.twitter.com/pc6bI0Wgnx</a></p>
  59. <p>&mdash; Embajada de los EE.UU., Venezuela (@usembassyve) <a href="https://twitter.com/usembassyve/status/1946299817199653366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  61. <p>The release of the 10 Americans on Friday comes after the Trump administration got six Americans back home from the South American country in late January. After their release, some of the American hostages told the Times that they were beaten and subjected to &#8220;psychological torture.&#8221;</p>
  62. <p>The United States has imposed <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10715">sanctions</a> on Venezuela, which is led by dictator Nicolas Maduro, targeting the country&#8217;s government and oil sector &#8220;in response to Maduro&#8217;s repression.&#8221;</p>
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  65.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:12:19 GMT</pubDate>
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  69.      <title>Tech Company Announces ‘Formal Investigation’ Into CEO After Kiss Cam Drama</title>
  70.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/tech-company-announces-formal-investigation-into-ceo-after-kiss-cam-drama</link>
  71.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  72.      <description>The tech company Astronomer announced on Friday that they were launching an investigation into the situation with their CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot after the two were spotted canoodling at a Coldplay concert. “Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are ...</description>
  73.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tech company Astronomer announced on Friday that they were launching an investigation into the situation with their CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot after the two were spotted canoodling at a Coldplay concert.</span></p>
  74. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” the company said in a </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/astronomer_astronomer-is-committed-to-the-values-and-activity-7352044359338373121-Fwe5"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">posted to LinkedIn.</span></p>
  75. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly.”</span></p>
  76. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The statement also addressed rumors that another HR department employee was the woman captured on video standing beside the couple smiling widely.</span></p>
  77. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Alyssa Stoddard was not at the event and no other employees were in the video,” the LinkedIn statement added. “Andy Byron has not put out any statement, reports saying otherwise are all incorrect.”</span></p>
  78. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comments for the post were disabled.</span></p>
  79. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The update comes days after a video of the two company execs went massively viral online, racking up more than 55 million views on the original TikTok and being shared across all social media platforms.</span></p>
  80. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coldplay-fan-who-posted-video-of-ceo-embracing-his-chief-people-officer-speaks-out">short video</a> shows Byron, who is married, and Cabot embracing one another at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, when the kiss cam landed on them. The couple reacted immediately, with Byron letting go of Cabot and stepping out of frame. Cabot had a similar reaction as she immediately hid her face and turned away from the camera.</span></p>
  81. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coldplay frontman Chris Martin called out their reaction. “Oh look at these two,” the singer can be heard saying. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.”</span></p>
  82. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The popularity of the video spurred many fake reactions, including a faux statement attributed to Byron and images of a fake social media post attributed to Coldplay saying, “Starting with our next show, we’re introducing camera-free audience sections for people and their sidepieces.”</span></p>
  83. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Byron has served as CEO of Astronomer since 2023, and Cabot was hired nine months ago.</span></p>
  84. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, removed her last name from her Facebook account before deactivating it entirely. Byron was on LinkedIn, but appears to have removed his profile as of Friday. They reportedly have two children.</span></p>
  85. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ry Walker, Astronomer’s former CEO, addressed the situation with an X post.</span></p>
  86. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For those asking—I’m no longer involved in @astronomerio—yes I was co-founder and early CEO—not on the team or board since 2022, and have no information on ColdplayGate.”</span></p>
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  89.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:46:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  93.      <title>Obama Admin Suppressed Intel Showing Russia Didn’t Impact 2016 Election, Tulsi Reveals</title>
  94.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-admin-suppressed-intel-showing-russia-didnt-impact-2016-election-tulsi-reveals</link>
  95.      <dc:creator>Nathan Gay</dc:creator>
  96.      <description>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents Friday revealing that the Obama administration changed intelligence assessments after the 2016 election to create a narrative of Russian interference, despite earlier intelligence community findings that Russia &amp;#8220;did not impact&amp;#8221; the election through cyber activities. The intelligence community concluded before the election that Russia was &amp;#8220;probably not ...</description>
  97.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents Friday revealing that the Obama administration changed intelligence assessments after the 2016 election to create a narrative of Russian interference, despite earlier intelligence community findings that Russia &#8220;did not impact&#8221; the election through cyber activities.</p>
  98. <p>The intelligence community concluded before the election that Russia was &#8220;probably not trying … to influence the election by using cyber means,&#8221; according to the declassified records <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-admin-manufactured-intelligence-create-2016-russian-election-interference-narrative-documents-show">obtained</a> by Fox News. However, following Trump’s unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton, their tone appeared to have changed.</p>
  99. <p>“On Dec 8, 2016, IC officials prepared an assessment for the President&#8217;s Daily Brief, finding that Russia ‘did not impact recent U.S. election results’ by conducting cyber attacks on infrastructure,” Gabbard wrote in a thread on X. “Before it could reach the President, it was abruptly pulled ‘based on new guidance.’ This key intelligence assessment was never published.”</p>
  100. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  101. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>, subverting the… <a href="https://t.co/UQKKZ5c4Op">pic.twitter.com/UQKKZ5c4Op</a></p>
  102. <p>&mdash; DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/DNIGabbard/status/1946271402971312514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  103. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  104. <p>The presidential brief prepared for President Obama on December 8, 2016, stated: &#8220;We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure,” noting that any Russian activities &#8220;probably were intended to cause psychological effects, such as undermining the credibility of the election process and candidates.&#8221;</p>
  105. <p>The brief concluded that it was &#8220;highly unlikely&#8221; Russian interference &#8220;would have resulted in altering any state’s official vote result.&#8221;</p>
  106. <p>&#8220;Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes,&#8221; it stated.</p>
  107. <p>The FBI raised immediate objections to the brief and requested that its publication be delayed until the bureau could address its concerns. Under then-Director James Comey, the FBI drafted a formal &#8220;dissent&#8221; to the original briefing.</p>
  108. <p>Subsequently, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence postponed internal publication of the Presidential Daily Brief, citing &#8220;new guidance&#8221; as the reason for the delay.</p>
  109. <p>Just one day later, on December 9, a meeting was called in the White House Situation Room to discuss Russian election interference with top officials, including then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.</p>
  110. <p>Following this meeting, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper threw out the old analysis and tasked intelligence leaders with crafting a new assessment &#8220;per the president&#8217;s request,&#8221; detailing &#8220;tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.&#8221;</p>
  111. <p>Gabbard revealed: “According to whistleblower emails shared with us today, we know Clapper and Brennan used the baseless discredited Steele Dossier as a source to push this false narrative in the intelligence assessment.”</p>
  112. <p>Intelligence sources told Fox News the new report “was based on information that was known by those involved to be manufactured i.e. the Steele Dossier or deemed as not credible,&#8221; and the CIA had previously dismissed it as filled with &#8220;internet rumor[s].&#8221;</p>
  113. <p>By January 6, 2017, a new Intelligence Community Assessment was released that &#8220;directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months,&#8221; the ODNI office told Fox News.</p>
  114. <p>Intelligence officials told Fox News they consider the assessment to have been blatantly &#8220;politicized&#8221; after it &#8220;suppressed intelligence from before and after the election showing Russia lacked intent and capability to hack the 2016 election.&#8221;</p>
  115. <p>&#8220;The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government,&#8221; Gabbard told Fox News. &#8220;Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.&#8221;</p>
  116. <p>&#8220;No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again,&#8221; Gabbard said. &#8220;The American people’s faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it.&#8221;</p>
  117. <p>Gabbard concluded: &#8220;As such, I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.&#8221;</p>
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  120.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:32:52 GMT</pubDate>
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  124.      <title>States Need To Go Further Than The Federal Government On Banning Chemical Abortions</title>
  125.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-need-to-go-further-than-congress-on-banning-chemical-abortions</link>
  126.      <dc:creator>Jennie Bradley Lichter</dc:creator>
  127.      <description>In a landmark decision this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld West Virginia’s near-total ban on chemical abortions — a major win for federalism, health and safety, and the pro-life cause. This ruling affirms what we at March for Life have long believed: states have both a right and a ...</description>
  128.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a landmark decision this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld West Virginia’s near-total ban on chemical abortions — a major win for federalism, health and safety, and the pro-life cause. This ruling affirms what we at March for Life have long believed: states have both a right and a responsibility to protect life and public health, even when it means outpacing the federal government in doing so.</p>
  129. <p>The key question before the court was this: if the federal government, through the FDA, has approved a drug for use nationwide, can a state nonetheless decide to further restrict or even ban that drug within its own borders?</p>
  130. <p>The Fourth Circuit — not a court known for reaching “conservative” outcomes — answered with a resounding “yes.” And that answer has profound implications, both for abortion policy and for the authority of the states to chart their own paths in matters of health and safety.</p>
  131. <p>Let’s break it down.</p>
  132. <p>Plaintiff GenBioPro — a manufacturer of generic mifepristone — argued that the FDA’s approval of the drug should preempt West Virginia’s more stringent restrictions. In other words, GenBioPro wanted the federal stamp of approval for mifepristone to override the state’s pro-life laws.</p>
  133. <p>The court rejected that argument.</p>
  134. <p>The majority pointed out that under our federalist system, states have the authority to regulate matters of health and safety. Congress, therefore, when granting the FDA authority over drug regulation, “intended to create a regulatory floor, not a ceiling.”</p>
  135. <p>In other words, states cannot weaken federal safety standards – but they absolutely can strengthen them.</p>
  136. <p>This matters because abortion drugs like mifepristone are not like ordinary medications. They have the power to end a human life — and increasingly, they do so without any in-person medical oversight. That’s not just a pro-life concern — it’s a basic medical and ethical concern. Chemical abortion carries significant risks, including hemorrhage, infection, and even death, particularly when used outside a clinical setting.</p>
  137. <p>West Virginia’s legislature recognized those risks and chose to act, including chemical abortions in its law prohibiting abortion in most circumstances. Their law protects</p>
  138. <p>unborn children, yes. But it also protects women from the harms of a deregulated chemical abortion industry. The Fourth Circuit’s decision affirms that West Virginia is fully within its rights to do so.</p>
  139. <p>On its face, this is a case about “preemption,” a legal doctrine that determines when federal law overrides state law. But the Fourth Circuit reminds us that preemption isn’t a magic wand that erases the traditional powers of the states every time it’s waved. Preemption applies only when an intention to preempt state authority has been clearly expressed by Congress — and in the case of abortion pills, it hasn’t been.</p>
  140. <p>The court concluded that in defining the FDA’s regulatory authority, Congress never said states must surrender their own traditional authority over abortion regulation or drug safety. And in the post-<i>Dobbs </i>era, the Supreme Court has made clear that regulating abortion is now a matter for the elected representatives of the people, including at the state level.</p>
  141. <p>The outcome of this case about the preemption doctrine is therefore not merely a legal technicality. It’s a moral and political turning point.</p>
  142. <p>The pro-life movement has always believed that the people, through their elected representatives, should have the power to restrict abortion in their communities. <i>Dobbs </i>confirmed this vision. And the Fourth Circuit’s ruling helps make that vision a reality. States that want to defend life and prioritize women’s safety can move forward confidently, knowing they are not hamstrung by FDA decisions shaped by politics, ideology, or abortion industry pressure.</p>
  143. <p>To be clear, this decision affirming that states are free to take a more restrictive approach to chemical abortions does not let the FDA off the hook. We continue to urge the FDA to perform its own rigorous health and safety analysis of mifepristone, consistent with the responsibilities given to it by Congress and its obligations to the American people.</p>
  144. <p>The court says that FDA regulation is a “floor” upon which the states can build – and that floor should be higher than it currently is. But our federalist system of government requires that states be empowered to determine that the interests of their citizens are best served by laws that are more pro-life than the federal “floor,” and then to act accordingly.</p>
  145. <p>Thanks to the leadership of West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, and legal advocates like Alliance Defending Freedom, this case sets a precedent that will impact legislation and litigation across the country.</p>
  146. <p>We at March for Life are encouraged — but not complacent. We know the abortion industry and profit-driven drug manufacturers will continue to fight tooth and nail to</p>
  147. <p>eliminate any limits on chemical abortion, including in states that have chosen to protect life. But with this ruling, the courts have affirmed what is both constitutional and common sense: states can lead the way in defending life.</p>
  148. <p>This is not just a victory for West Virginia. It’s a victory for every state that dares to protect its citizens — born and unborn — with the boldness to stand against a one-size-fits-all federal agenda.</p>
  149. <p><em>Jennie Bradley Lichter is the President of March for Life and former Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. </em></p>
  150. <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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  157.      <title>Brazil Raids Bolsonaro’s Home, Orders Him To Wear Ankle Monitor After Trump Blasts Leftist Country</title>
  158.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazil-raids-bolsonaros-home-orders-him-to-wear-ankle-monitor-after-trump-blasts-leftist-country</link>
  159.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  160.      <description>The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered that police raid former President Jair Bolsonaro&amp;#8217;s home and place an ankle monitor on him on Friday, escalating its targeting of the conservative leader as President Donald Trump defends him. After the Brazilian Supreme Court issued search warrants and restraining orders on Bolsonaro, federal police raided his home, and the ...</description>
  161.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered that police raid former President Jair Bolsonaro&#8217;s home and place an ankle monitor on him on Friday, escalating its targeting of the conservative leader as President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-brazil-over-censorship-bolsonaro-witch-hunt-then-says-country-will-face-50-tariff?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Rips+Brazil+Over+Censorship%2C+Bolsonaro+%E2%80%98Witch+Hunt%E2%80%99+%E2%80%94+Then+Says+Country+Will+Face+50%25+Tariff">defends</a> him.</p>
  162. <p>After the Brazilian Supreme Court issued search warrants and restraining orders on Bolsonaro, federal police raided his home, and the former president was banned from contacting foreign officials, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-court-orders-raids-restraints-bolsonaro-trump-collusion-2025-07-18/">reported</a>. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes cited a &#8220;concrete possibility&#8221; of Bolsonaro fleeing the country when he issued the order.</p>
  163. <p>Brazil&#8217;s increased pressure on Bolsonaro comes shortly after President Trump defended his political ally and blasted the Brazilian Supreme Court for its &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; targeting Bolsonaro. Trump also imposed a 50% tariff on Brazil last week, citing the country&#8217;s &#8220;insidious attacks on Free Elections, and the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans.&#8221;</p>
  164. <p>&#8220;The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace,&#8221; Trump said in a letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. &#8220;This trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!”</p>
  165. <p>Moraes specifically called out Trump&#8217;s tariff on Brazil in his Friday order, arguing that it is intended to create an economic crisis in Brazil and interfere with the country&#8217;s judicial system.</p>
  166. <p>On Thursday, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114870788445875372">posted</a> a letter on Truth Social that he sent to Bolsonaro, which read in part, &#8220;I have seen the terrible treatment you are receiving at the hands of an unjust system turned against you. This trial should end immediately! I am not surprised to see you leading in the polls; you were a highly respected and strong leader who served your country well.&#8221;</p>
  167. <p>Bolsonaro told Reuters that he believes the Supreme Court&#8217;s move on Friday is in response to Trump&#8217;s recent comments. The former Brazilian president called Moraes a &#8220;dictator&#8221; and denied that he had any plans to flee the country.</p>
  168. <p>&#8220;I feel supreme humiliation,&#8221; he added when asked about the ankle monitor. &#8220;I am 70 years old, I was president of the republic for four years.&#8221;</p>
  169. <p>Bolsonaro is being tried over charges that he took part in an alleged coup against President Lula after his 2022 election loss. He has denied the allegations and argued that the charges against him are politically motivated. He has also maintained the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/09/23/brazilians-views-of-lula-and-bolsonaro/">support</a> of millions of Brazilians as he faces the indictment brought against him by Lula’s leftist government.</p>
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  172.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:09:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  176.      <title>Stephen Colbert Is Gone, Laughter Is Back</title>
  177.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-colbert-is-gone-laughter-is-back</link>
  178.      <dc:creator>Ben Shapiro</dc:creator>
  179.      <description>We received welcome and amusing news on Thursday: Stephen Colbert will be done in very short order — and the Left is going nuts. Colbert has not been funny for at least a decade. There was a time when he served as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and he was funny. ...</description>
  180.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We received welcome and amusing news on Thursday: Stephen Colbert will be done in very short order — and the Left is going nuts.</span></p>
  181. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colbert has not been funny for at least a decade. There was a time when he served as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and he was funny. Then he did The Colbert Report, which was him as a left-winger trying to mock and parody Bill O&#8217;Reilly. It was intermittently funny. Then they made him the late-night show host at CBS. </span></p>
  182. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And he was abysmal. </span></p>
  183. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, CBS is announcing that they are done with Stephen Colbert because of the cost of his show and because of his low ratings. CBS executives issued a statement: “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season. We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">”</span></p>
  184. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By “irreplaceable,” do they mean “we will get rid of him and never replace him”?</span></p>
  185. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is not what irreplaceable means. If I say that my wife is irreplaceable, what I mean is that I&#8217;m going to stay married to her forever. I don&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m going to toss her to the side of the road and never get married again.</span></p>
  186. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.”</span></p>
  187. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don&#8217;t think so. In fact, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll make the top ten. </span></p>
  188. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perhaps the top hundred (if there are even that many).</span></p>
  189. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CBS continued: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show&#8217;s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”</span></p>
  190. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Variety </span><a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-cancel-late-show-stephen-colbert-financial-decision-1236464356/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">speculated,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There has been growing speculation that both Colbert and Jon Stewart, who hosts one broadcast of Comedy Central’s ‘Daily Show’ each week, could be under growing scrutiny from executives at Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump, who Colbert and Stewart routinely skewer in monologues and commentary.”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
  191. </span></p>
  192. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So the blue sky Left is going crazy over this. They believe that Paramount is firing Colbert in order to help President Trump in some way, which is really an absurd contention given the fact that Stephen Colbert does not have ratings.</span></p>
  193. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His ratings are trash. He has terrible ratings, period. End of story.  When Greg Gutfeld is eating your lunch on a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">cable network</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, that proves that you&#8217;re not doing a very good job in late-night. </span></p>
  194. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colbert has not been funny for years and years and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">years</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
  195. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think we should all remember Stephen Colbert&#8217;s legacy together. Here are some sterling examples:</span></p>
  196. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We&#8217;ve got our own on Capitol Hill!”</span></p>
  197. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“No one came to Trump&#8217;s big, stupid birthday parade.”</span></p>
  198. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“MAGA stands for Make America Grass Again.”</span></p>
  199. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You attract more skinheads than free Rogaine.&#8221; </span></p>
  200. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin&#8217;s cock holster.&#8221;</span></p>
  201. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What will we do without scintillating jokes like that?</span></p>
  202. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will laugh a hell of a lot more, and life will be better because he was a terrible late-night host.</span></p>
  203. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jimmy Kimmel of ABC  went on Instagram to write, “Love you, Stephen. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">F*** you and all your Sheldons, CBS.”</span></p>
  204. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s an opportunity for ABC to do the funniest thing ever.</span></p>
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  211.      <title>Trump Admin Cheers Lowest Summer Gas Prices In Years: ‘Unleashing American Energy’</title>
  212.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-cheers-lowest-summer-gas-prices-in-years-unleashing-american-energy</link>
  213.      <dc:creator>Catherine Maxwell</dc:creator>
  214.      <description>This summer, gas prices have hit the lowest national average since 2021. Prices dropped to $3.155 per gallon since last week, the American Automobile Association (AAA) reported on Friday. “Prices at the pump keep dropping thanks to President Trump unleashing American energy,&amp;#8221; White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire. &amp;#8220;President Trump ...</description>
  215.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This summer, gas prices have hit the lowest national average since 2021.</p>
  216. <p>Prices dropped to $3.155 per gallon since last week, the American Automobile Association (AAA) reported on Friday.</p>
  217. <p>“Prices at the pump keep dropping thanks to President Trump unleashing American energy,&#8221; White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire. &#8220;President Trump ended Joe Biden’s reckless war on American energy, and he’s making life more affordable for families as a result.”</p>
  218. <p>As of Friday, the nation&#8217;s <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/">highest gas prices</a> are in California, where the average cost is at $4.499 per gallon. Hawaii and Washington were the only other states above $4 per gallon, averaging $4.475 and $4.386, respectively. Mississippi has the country&#8217;s cheapest gas, averaging $2.72 per gallon.</p>
  219. <p>“Summer gas prices are the cheapest they have been in four years thanks to consistently low crude oil prices this year,&#8221; AAA Spokesperson Kellan Howell told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Crude oil supply is currently outweighing demand.”</p>
  220. <p>In June 2022, midway through the Biden administration, AAA found that for the first time since it began tracking prices, the national average for a gallon of gas had reached $5.00. Fuel prices remained elevated for the remainder of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s term, well above the $2.39 figure that marked the start of his presidency.</p>
  221. <p>Gas prices <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-creeps-up-as-trump-prepares-major-tariff-rollout">ticked</a> up 1% in June, according to the most recent Consumer Price Index report. But prices have remained low this summer, despite tensions in the Middle East.</p>
  222. <p>The Trump administration has taken steps to prioritize lower fuel costs. The recently passed &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; encourages fossil fuel development and cuts tax credits and subsidies from green energy. The administration has said, &#8220;Having efficient, reliable, and affordable energy is the key to American security.&#8221;</p>
  223. <p>The Department of the Interior just <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-ends-preferential-treatment-unreliable-subsidy-dependent-wind-and-solar">announced</a> plans to &#8220;[end] preferential treatment for unreliable, subsidy-dependent wind and solar energy.&#8221; The department will end subsidies for wind and solar energy to &#8220;[level] the playing field for … clean coal and domestic natural gas.&#8221; Wind and solar projects will now undergo &#8220;elevated review&#8221; before being approved.</p>
  224. <p>The Trump administration also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/end-the-government-bias-against-coal-trump-signs-order-to-bolster-floundering-american-industry">announced</a> plans to slash regulations and expedite leases for coal mining. A new coal mine in Tennessee was <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/new-coal-mining-permit-approved-tennessee-boost-americas-energy-independence">approved</a> thanks to &#8220;expedited environmental review&#8221; procedures.</p>
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  227.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  231.      <title>Dem Socialist Mamdani Called For ‘Abolition Of Private Property’</title>
  232.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-socialist-mamdani-called-for-abolition-of-private-property</link>
  233.      <dc:creator>Mairead Elordi</dc:creator>
  234.      <description>Video has surfaced showing Zohran Mamdani, the socialist Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, calling for the &amp;#8220;abolition of private property&amp;#8221; during a previous campaign. In a clip that made the rounds on social media Thursday, Mamdani said, &amp;#8220;Every single person should have housing.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8220;The system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? ...</description>
  235.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Video has surfaced showing Zohran Mamdani, the socialist Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, calling for the &#8220;abolition of private property&#8221; during a previous campaign.</p>
  236. <p>In a clip that <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/republican-party-slams-zohran-mamdanis-support-for-abolition-of-private-property/">made</a> the rounds on social media Thursday, Mamdani said, &#8220;Every single person should have housing.&#8221;</p>
  237. <p>&#8220;The system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?&#8221; Mamdani said in the clip, which was from a 2020 podcast interview when he was a Democratic nominee for the New York State Assembly, a race he went on to win.</p>
  238. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  239. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zohran Mamdani says he&#39;d be in favor of the &quot;abolition of private property&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WRs6JEG5tv">pic.twitter.com/WRs6JEG5tv</a></p>
  240. <p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1945845567336153388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  241. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  242. <p>&#8220;If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,&#8221; Mamdani said.</p>
  243. <p>&#8220;People try and play, like, gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it&#8217;s like look, I care more about whether somebody has a home,&#8221; he added.</p>
  244. <p>The New York state assemblyman representing parts of Queens won the Democratic primary last month in an upset that threw the New York City mayor’s race into chaos.</p>
  245. <p>Mamdani has described himself as a democratic socialist and has proposed controversial and expensive policies, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than police in crises. He wants to raise both income and corporate taxes.</p>
  246. <p>In another resurfaced clip, Mamdani talked about &#8220;seizing the means of production,&#8221; a key Marxist concept.</p>
  247. <p>&#8220;We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7HDuoJ0MQ">said</a> in 2021 during a live-streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America.</p>
  248. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  249. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is not terrible AI, it&#39;s a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.</p>
  250. <p>&quot;The end goal of seizing the means of production.&quot;</p>
  251. <p>I can&#39;t believe this is actually happening. <a href="https://t.co/KNxQV2QCX7">pic.twitter.com/KNxQV2QCX7</a></p>
  252. <p>&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1939507833571246584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  253. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  254. <p>&#8220;There are also other issues that we firmly believe in &#8230; whether it&#8217;s the end goal of seizing the means of production where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment,&#8221; he said.</p>
  255. <p>He posted something similar on social media in 2020.</p>
  256. <p>“If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production,” Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1333943646777913346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.</p>
  257. <p>During the Young Democratic Socialists conference, Mamdani also referenced transgender ideology.</p>
  258. <p>&#8220;The ramifications of victory here is the difference between life and death for so many of our brothers, sisters, and family beyond the binary and across this borough of Queens,&#8221; Mamdani said.</p>
  259. <p>Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo are both Democrats running as independents, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa is running against all of them.</p>
  260. <p>Mamdani is currently statistically tied with Cuomo and Sliwa, according to a HarrisX <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harrisx-nyc-poll-tight-race-emerges-in-nyc-mayoral-general-election-but-cuomo-stronger-than-adams-against-mamdani-302506087.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> this week. Mamdani leads at 26%, with Cuomo at 23% and Sliwa at 22%, all within the margin of error. Adams trails at 13%, while 15% of voters remain undecided, according to the poll.</p>
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  267.      <title>Study Shows How U.S. And European Media Parrot Hamas Propaganda, Present It As Truth</title>
  268.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-shows-how-u-s-and-european-media-parrot-hamas-propaganda-present-it-as-truth</link>
  269.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  270.      <description>A new study reveals how media in the United States and Europe simply parroted inaccurate information from the terrorist group Hamas and represented it as truthful. The Network Contagion and Research Institute released their comprehensive report, titled, “The 4th Estate Sale: How American and European Media Became an Uncritical Mouthpiece for a Designated Foreign Terror ...</description>
  271.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">A new study reveals how media in the United States and Europe simply parroted inaccurate information from the terrorist group Hamas and represented it as truthful.</p>
  272. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The Network Contagion and Research Institute released their comprehensive report, titled, “<a href="https://networkcontagion.us/reports/7-15-25-the-4th-estate-sale-how-american-and-european-media-became-an-uncritical-mouthpiece-for-a-designated-foreign-terror-organization/">The 4th Estate Sale: How American and European Media Became an Uncritical Mouthpiece for a Designated Foreign Terror Organization</a>.”</p>
  273. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The report started by illuminating how the media virtually unanimously purveyed a uniform narrative in which they lied about the efforts of the U.S. Department of State’s aid initiative, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was delivering meals and direct food assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.</p>
  274. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Within days of GHF’s first meal deliveries, it became the target of a deliberate narrative assault, driven less by verifiable facts than by the demands of a competing narrative,” the report states. “Reports and evidence of violence at aid sites began to surface, and international and U.S. media outlets, social media influencers, and NGOs started publishing articles that ascribed blame to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) or GHF for intentional violence against civilians, war crimes, and complicity in the crime of genocide. The reports quickly condensed into viral headlines, but the claim that the IDF was systematically murdering civilians was usually sourced from Hamas-run ministries or anonymous accounts, and often unverified. Moreover, evidence that Hamas could be responsible for violence around aid sites – evidence provided by non-Hamas Palestinian sources, by Hamas’s online communications, and by video that in some cases shows Hamas operatives deliberately firing on Palestinian civilians– was almost never suggested.”</p>
  275. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“A core failure of media coverage is the routine elevation of the Gaza Health Ministry, a Hamas-run agency, as a trusted source on culpability for violence. &#8230; many mainstream media outlets remain willing to rely on figures and ‘facts’ taken from the Gaza Health Ministry,&#8221; the report continues. “The media framed a narrative sourced unreflexively from Hamas affiliates – a narrative which aims to uproot any challenge that undermines the terrorist-designated entity’s governance over aid distribution in the Gaza Strip. This effort transformed reporting into narrative laundering: the process of circulating unverified or unreliable information and framing it as a legitimate window into truth.”</p>
  276. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Our results suggest that the GHF was targeted and undermined by a collection of adversarial actors and institutional amplifiers acting synchronously and convergently,” the report continues. “Major media headlines cited Hamas-linked officials more than any other source – making a foreign terrorist organization one of the leading voices shaping news about GHF. Of the high-engagement news articles NCRI analyzed, Hamas-linked officials and organizations, such as the Gaza Health Ministry, were directly cited in headlines more than any other named source. In nearly three-quarters of those cases, it was not disclosed in the headline that the source was a Hamas affiliate.”</p>
  277. <p style="font-weight: 400;">One example from the report: “The Washington Post retracted early versions of a report that explicitly stated Israeli troops killed over 30 Palestinians near a U.S. aid site in Gaza. The original headline attributed to ‘health officials’ the claims about Israeli troops being responsible for the deaths, but the journalists failed to clarify that this attribution solely reflected a claim from the Gaza Health Ministry. This consequently gave readers a false impression that Israeli responsibility had been independently confirmed.”</p>
  278. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Another: “CNN corrected its report of a shooting near a Gaza aid site in which at least 31 Palestinians were allegedly killed. The original article uncritically reported the Gaza Health Ministry’s claim that the Israeli military was responsible without making clear that this accusation had not been independently verified.”</p>
  279. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“A particularly salient example of this occurred when Gazan pharmacist Omar Hamad introduced the conspiratorial narrative that the GHF intentionally laced bags of flour with the narcotic Oxycodone. This claim went viral on X, racking up over 25.7M views across just 21 posts,” the report noted.</p>
  280. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“While originating from traditional sources (NGOs, UN bodies, humanitarian advocates), these narratives are rapidly absorbed by future assassins like Elias Rodriguez or online networks that reframe them through radically different lenses on both the right and left,” the report opines.</p>
  281. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“The belief that Israel is intentionally starving children or deliberately targeting hospitals under the pretense of counterterrorism is not grounded in verifiable fact. These are not legitimate policy critiques; they are fabricated atrocity narratives that reframe Israel&#8217;s actions as genocidal, regardless of evidence to the contrary. What’s most alarming is the shift from political disagreement to dehumanizing conviction. The experimental results show that exposure to these narratives moves individuals to endorse conspiracy-level accusations and adopt a moral framework in which Israel is no longer a flawed actor, but a fundamentally evil one,” the report concludes.</p>
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  284.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  288.      <title>Kristi Noem Accuses Nashville Mayor Of ‘Risking People’s Lives’ With Opposition To ICE</title>
  289.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/kristi-noem-accuses-nashville-mayor-of-risking-peoples-lives-with-opposition-to-ice</link>
  290.      <dc:creator>Spencer Lindquist</dc:creator>
  291.      <description>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell in a Friday morning press conference in the southern city, accusing him of “risking people’s lives” after he doxxed ICE agents. Noem showcased some of the criminal illegal aliens, including rapists and murders, captured in the Nashville area before warning that left-wing politicians ...</description>
  292.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell in a Friday morning press conference in the southern city, accusing him of “risking people’s lives” after he doxxed ICE agents.</p>
  293. <p>Noem showcased some of the criminal illegal aliens, including rapists and murders, captured in the Nashville area before warning that left-wing politicians have sided with illegal aliens and in some cases, even endangered federal law enforcement.</p>
  294. <p>“One of the open border politicians is right here in this state and right here in this city, and I’m specifically calling out the mayor of Nashville,” Noem charged.</p>
  295. <p>“Freddie O’Connell has gone after our ICE individuals and agents who work with HSI,” she said, referring to Homeland Security Investigations. “He’s openly doxxed them, revealed them to the public, and encouraged people to go against them and their efforts to clean up the streets of Nashville.”</p>
  296. <p>“What the mayor is doing to this city is shameful. What he needs to do is participate with us and make sure that he is helping us enforce the rule of law,” Noem said of the Democrat mayor, also accusing him of playing politics and “risking people’s lives.”</p>
  297. <p>Noem’s statements came after O’Connell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashvilles-democrat-mayor-doxxes-ice-agents">doxxed the names</a> of ICE agents involved in raids in Nashville, which The Daily Wire revealed resulted in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dems-rage-over-nashville-ice-raids-that-targeted-rapists-and-gang-members?author=Spencer+Lindquist+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Dems+Rage+Over+Nashville+ICE+Raids+That+Targeted+Rapists+And+Gang+Members">capture</a> of 196 illegal aliens, 96 of whom had criminal histories or pending criminal charges beyond illegally entering the country.</p>
  298. <p>The city’s mayor said that the doxxing was done by accident, but one DHS official charged that there was &#8220;zero chance it was a mistake.&#8221;</p>
  299. <p>The DHS Secretary also told The Daily Wire that she blames the rhetoric of liberal politicians and leftist organizations for the rise in assaults against ICE officers.</p>
  300. <p>“It’s the rhetoric of elected officials, of leaders, of leftist organizations and the media. When they don’t tell the truth, there’s consequences to that,” Noem said. “When they don’t talk about the facts of what’s happening out on our streets and what the American people need, then it gets distorted and the information is used in a way that can undermine what the rule of law is.”</p>
  301. <p>A small group of leftist protesters gathered outside of the Homeland Security Investigations building where Noem held her press conference.</p>
  302. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">
  303. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">A meager crowd of leftist demonstrators showed up to protest DHS Sec. Noem’s Nashville press conference, where she showcased some of the murderers and rapists captured by ICE.</p>
  304. <p>I’m here for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> <a href="https://t.co/y9Ncv809mI">pic.twitter.com/y9Ncv809mI</a></p>
  305. <p>— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1946239336871031267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  306. <p>Noem also told The Daily Wire at a Thursday night press conference that it will refer those who dox ICE agents to the Department of Justice for prosecution.</p>
  307. <p>“We will detain these individuals if the law allows and it&#8217;s up to the Department of Justice if they decide to prosecute … doxxing very much exposes them and their families up to dangerous situations,” Noem said. “We’ve had many of our ICE officers, CBP officers who’ve been victimized, their families have been threatened and attacked.”</p>
  308. <p>“Any elected official, anybody who does this on purpose and causes harm or brings harm to them and their families  … they will be referred to them and the Department of Justice has indicated that they will prosecute them where it is appropriate,” she went on to say.</p>
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  311.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:51:51 GMT</pubDate>
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  315.      <title>‘Ruthless’ Hosts Reflect On Five Years Of Success, Look To The Future</title>
  316.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ruthless-hosts-reflect-on-five-years-of-success-look-to-the-future</link>
  317.      <dc:creator>Christian Toto</dc:creator>
  318.      <description>Josh Holmes remembers the warnings were as clear as day. The political strategist had just started “Ruthless,” a raucous show covering the latest news, when his Beltway colleagues cried foul. &amp;#8220;&amp;#8216;Are you out of your minds?&amp;#8217;&amp;#8221; Holmes recalls of the steady drumbeat during the show’s 2020 launch. The critiques made sense. Holmes and his co-hosts ...</description>
  319.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Josh Holmes remembers the warnings were as clear as day.</p>
  320. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The political strategist had just started “Ruthless,” a raucous show covering the latest news, when his Beltway colleagues cried foul.</span></p>
  321. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;&#8216;Are you out of your minds?'&#8221; Holmes recalls of the steady drumbeat during the show’s 2020 launch. The critiques made sense. Holmes and his co-hosts — Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, and the pundit known as Comfortably Smug didn’t talk like political consultants.</span></p>
  322. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They called themselves “the Fellas,” and, true to the name, they talked like regular guys cracking wise at the bar. Smart fellas, to be sure. But fellas nonetheless.</span></p>
  323. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And funny. Always funny.</span></p>
  324. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Their colleagues may have been right, but the public disagreed. The variety &#8220;progrum,&#8221; as they call it, caught fire despite their unorthodox style and humble roots.</span></p>
  325. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, they’ve sealed a deal with Fox News, bringing the progrum to the next level.</span></p>
  326. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The conventional wisdom that has governed the industry of politics is bulls***,” Holmes tells The Daily Wire.</span></p>
  327. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Longtime fans, also known as “minions,” may fear the corporate partnership, but Smug says the best is yet to come.</span></p>
  328. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For listeners, the only thing this means for them is you get more. More episodes. More content. More capabilities,” Smug said.</span></p>
  329. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nothing’s changing,” Holmes adds.</span></p>
  330. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The show’s comedy veers from ribald banter to signature games like “Dem or Journo” and “King of the Hill.” The latter pits former Republican pundits squaring off for the most unhinged social media hot takes. The competition is fierce, all the better for show prep.</span></p>
  331. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Too many people in politics want to prove how smart they are all the time,” Duncan says. “If you’re not laughing, you’re going to be crying. Politics can be frustrating.”</span></p>
  332. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The satire practically writes itself, assuming you’re paying attention, Holmes says.</span></p>
  333. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Watch the House of Representatives for 10 minutes and not have enough for a full, 30-minute comedy sketch,” Holmes says.</span></p>
  334. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The show’s rise coincides with the country’s shift to the Right, Ashbrook suggests. Comedy mainstays like late-night TV don’t grasp that transition, he adds, consistently avoiding liberal targets in their monologues. “Ruthless” fans crave the comedic parts of the show, a rarity with right-leaning talkers. That’s especially true when digesting some of the heavier news cycles.</span></p>
  335. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The show’s shocking ascent became clear earlier this year. The show joined the White House briefing room as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to expand the pool beyond legacy outlets. Ashbrook represented the progrum with a </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368074243112"><span style="font-weight: 400;">question for spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.</span></a></p>
  336. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a practical side to their high jinks. Pre-election, GOP voters got to know Vance as not just a youthful candidate but a wisecracking dad who could hang with the boys.</span></p>
  337. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other Beltway guests get to let down their guard, too, swapping jokes with the foursome and showing a fresh side of their personas. You won’t see that on C-SPAN. </span></p>
  338. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You can see these folks in an environment that isn’t staid Washington, D.C.,” Holmes says. The Pelosis, Harrises and Buttigieges often visit Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers to show their softer side.</span></p>
  339. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Republicans get “Ruthless.”</span></p>
  340. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The accidental podcasters all have day jobs. Holmes, Ashbrook, and Duncan work at </span><a href="https://cavalryllc.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cavalry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs and communications firm. Smug is a political consultant and hedge fund guru. Together, they’ve joined the podcast revolution at a critical moment.</span></p>
  341. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both sides of the political aisle acknowledge how vital podcasts were in the 2024 presidential election. President Donald Trump dropped by “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Flagrant” with Andrew Schulz, while future Vice President JD Vance visited “The Tim Dillon Show” and “This Past Weekend” with Theo Von.</span></p>
  342. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President Kamala Harris infamously balked at a Rogan sitdown, much to her campaign’s eventual dismay.</span></p>
  343. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Listeners see podcasts as a more realistic source of information,” Smug says, blaming traditional media outlets for that shift. People can’t trust media outlets that told them President Joe Biden was the “sharpest guy around,” he adds.</span></p>
  344. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“People were getting flat-out lied to, adds Holmes.</span></p>
  345. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 2024 election cycle “opened people’s eyes to the way the electorate consumes information,” Duncan says. The Fellas were ahead of the curve.</span></p>
  346. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Legacy Media is entirely captured by the Left, and it is a disease. They’re fundamentally incapable of getting over that disease,” Ashbrook says. Journalists &#8220;care more about what rich people in New York think about them than they do about how the rest of the country views them … will they course correct? I always thought they would, but it’s only gotten worse.”</span></p>
  347. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They’re living in a society that does not exist in America beyond their X feed,” Holmes adds.</span></p>
  348. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Left has been begging to find their own Rogan since November 5, forgetting that the ex-“Fear Factor” host leaned to the Left before Democrats forgot their core principles, like free speech.</span></p>
  349. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There are very funny Democrats in this country. ‘Saturday Night Live’ was the funniest thing on the planet, staffed and written by Democrats,” Ashbrook says. But now, &#8220;they’re not allowed to be funny. They’re handcuffed by the Left.”</span></p>
  350. <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>
  351. <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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  354.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:24:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  358.      <title>Leftists Lash Out After CBS Cancels Colbert, Kimmel Tells Network ‘F You’ And Your Sitcoms</title>
  359.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-lash-out-after-cbs-cancels-colbert-kimmel-tells-network-f-you-and-your-sitcoms</link>
  360.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  361.      <description>Leftists are reacting to the news that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will broadcast its last episode in May 2026. Many comments on social media responded to Colbert&amp;#8217;s posting of a monologue on Instagram, announcing the news. &amp;nbsp; View this post on Instagram &amp;nbsp; A post shared by The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) “The greatest ...</description>
  362.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leftists are reacting to the news that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will broadcast its last episode in May 2026.</span></p>
  363. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many comments on social media responded to Colbert&#8217;s posting of a monologue on Instagram, announcing the news.</span></p>
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  401. <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/DMOhWKsxT_G/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by The Late Show (@colbertlateshow)</a></p>
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  404. <p><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p>
  405. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The greatest to ever do it,” former Late Show band leader Jon Batiste wrote in reply. </span></p>
  406. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My admiration and appreciation for you is bottomless. Excited to see what other brilliance you put into the world,” filmmaker and producer Judd Apatow said. </span></p>
  407. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am so upset about this. I need more information. We love you,” journalist Katie Couric wrote.</span></p>
  408. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Snow White” star Rachel Zegler also shared her thoughts, writing, “I am extremely sad. I adore you, Stephen.”</span></p>
  409. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Love you Stephen. This is absolute bulls***, and I for one am looking forward to the next 10 months of shows,” Adam Scott of “Severance” fame added.</span></p>
  410. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel also </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-blasts-cbs-over-the-late-show-cancellation-as-he-supports-pal-stephen-colbert/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reacted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the news, sharing in his Instagram Stories, “Love you Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons CBS.”</span></p>
  411. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questioned if CBS’s motives for the cancellation had anything to do with politics.</span></p>
  412. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump — a deal that looks like bribery,” Warren </span><a href="https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1946003619821580369"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in an X post. “America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”</span></p>
  413. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) had similar suspicions. </span></p>
  414. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled,” he <a href="https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1945991349339042169">wrote</a>. “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.”</span></p>
  415. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The cancellation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-cans-ultra-leftist-stephen-colberts-late-show-all-just-going-away">announcement</a> marked the end of a nearly 11-year run that Colbert has had hosting “The Late Show,” which first began in 1993 under the former host, David Letterman.</span></p>
  416. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The network said that it is scrapping “The Late Show” franchise and will not move on to another host after Colbert.</span></p>
  417. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘THE LATE SHOW’ franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television,” CBS said in a statement.</span></p>
  418. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” it continued.</span></p>
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  421.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:51:04 GMT</pubDate>
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  425.      <title>Three L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies Killed In Explosion At Training Center</title>
  426.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-l-a-county-sheriffs-deputies-killed-in-explosion-at-training-center</link>
  427.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  428.      <description>Three Los Angeles County Sheriff&amp;#8217;s deputies were killed in an explosion at a training center Friday morning. Local and federal authorities are on the scene investigating after &amp;#8220;a loud noise&amp;#8221; was heard at the sheriff department&amp;#8217;s Biscailuz Center Training Academy, east of downtown, around 7:30 a.m. PT, KTLA reported. Aerial footage from the scene showed ...</description>
  429.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies were killed in an explosion at a training center Friday morning.</p>
  430. <p>Local and federal authorities are on the scene investigating after &#8220;a loud noise&#8221; was heard at the sheriff department&#8217;s Biscailuz Center Training Academy, east of downtown, around 7:30 a.m. PT, KTLA <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/explosion-reported-at-east-l-a-sheriffs-training-center/">reported</a>. Aerial footage from the scene showed damage to the rear windshield of what appears to be an L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department bomb squad truck.</p>
  431. <p>L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna revealed in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/IJJb24ADfgI?si=1-NyZoM0JB9-Uqha&amp;t=10967">press conference</a> that the three deputies killed were assigned to the arson explosives detail. It was previously reported that a fourth person was injured in the explosion and transported to a hospital, but Luna clarified that no one else was wounded in the blast.</p>
  432. <p>&#8220;This is, unfortunately, is the largest loss of life for us as the L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department since 1857. Between all three sworn members, they had served the community proudly for 74 years,&#8221; Luna said.</p>
  433. <p>Authorities are not yet releasing the names of those killed in the blast as family members are still being notified.</p>
  434. <p>Luna said that &#8220;there is a lot more that we don&#8217;t know than what we do know&#8221; about what caused the explosion. He added that homicide detectives are on the scene investigating the deaths with the assistance of the FBI. The LAPD&#8217;s bomb squad successfully &#8220;render[ed] the devices safe,&#8221; shortly before the sheriff took the podium. Luna said there &#8220;is no threat to this community.&#8221;</p>
  435. <p>The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-18/explosion-la-sheriff-training-facility">reported</a> that a bomb squad was moving an explosive ordnance at the time of the explosion. The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad arrived at the scene a little over an hour after the blast.</p>
  436. <p>&#8220;I just spoke to [U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli] about what appears to be a horrific incident that killed at least three at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles,&#8221; U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1946234954620313884">said</a>. &#8220;Our federal agents are at the scene and we are working to learn more. Please pray for the families of the sheriff’s deputies killed.&#8221;</p>
  437. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">
  438. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: 3 KILLED AFTER EXPLOSION AT LA COUNTY SHERIFF FACILITY</p>
  439. <p>A deadly explosion rocked the LA County Sheriff’s S.E.B. compound in East L.A.</p>
  440. <p>It reportedly happened next to a Bomb Squad vehicle and shattered nearby windows.</p>
  441. <p>At least 3 people are confirmed dead.… <a href="https://t.co/BeNFPaill2">pic.twitter.com/BeNFPaill2</a></p>
  442. <p>— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1946230139307819031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  443. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  444. <p>&#8220;The City of L.A. is supporting the @LASDHQ through this horrific incident in Monterey Park. LAFD/ATF arson investigators and members of the LAPD bomb squad are assisting at the training facility,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/MayorOfLA/status/1946243632152846400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1946243632152846400%7Ctwgr%5E131f531b4ebaf2443accd12c347fa8ef63b09541%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7.com%2Fpost%2Fat-least-3-killed-apparent-explosion-lasd-facility%2F17180373%2F">said</a> L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. &#8220;The thoughts of all Angelenos are with all of those impacted by this blast.&#8221;</p>
  445. <p><em>This is a developing story; refresh the page for updates. </em></p>
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  448.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:41:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  452.      <title>Coldplay Fan Who Posted Video Of CEO Embracing His ‘Chief People Officer’ Speaks Out</title>
  453.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/coldplay-fan-who-posted-video-of-ceo-embracing-his-chief-people-officer-speaks-out</link>
  454.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  455.      <description>As the internet continues to obsess over the alleged affair between the CEO of tech company Astronomer and its head of human resources, the woman who initially shared a video of the two appearing to show a public display of affection at a recent Coldplay concert is defending her actions. &amp;#8220;I had no idea who ...</description>
  456.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the internet continues to obsess over the alleged affair between the CEO of tech company Astronomer and its head of human resources, the woman who initially shared a video of the two appearing to show a public display of affection at a recent Coldplay concert is defending her actions.</span></p>
  457. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I had no idea who the couple was. Just thought I caught an interesting reaction to the kiss cam and decided to post it,” New Jersey resident Grace Springer </span><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35903214/coldplay-cheating-concert-fan-filmed/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Sun of her video clip, which amassed tens of millions of views and became the talk of social media after being posted in the early morning hours on Thursday. </span></p>
  458. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;A part of me feels bad for turning these people’s lives upside down, but, play stupid games… win stupid prizes,” she added. &#8220;I hope their partners can heal from this and get a second chance at the happiness they deserve with their future still in front of them.”</span></p>
  459. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I hope, for them, my video was a blessing in disguise,&#8221; Springer added.</span></p>
  460. <blockquote class="tiktok-embed" style="max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@instaagraace/video/7527910323681070367" data-video-id="7527910323681070367">
  461. <section><a title="@instaagraace" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@instaagraace?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@instaagraace</a> trouble in paradise?? 👀 <a title="coldplay" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coldplay?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#coldplay</a> <a title="boston" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/boston?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#boston</a> <a title="coldplayconcert" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coldplayconcert?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#coldplayconcert</a> <a title="kisscam" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kisscam?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#kisscam</a> <a title="fyp" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#fyp</a> <a title="♬ original sound - grace" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7527915447535307550?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">♬ original sound &#8211; grace</a></section>
  462. </blockquote>
  463. <p><script async src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script></p>
  464. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The viral video shows married Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the company’s Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot embracing one another, as was shown on the big screen at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, when the kiss cam landed on them. The couple reacted immediately, with Byron letting go of Cabot and stepping out of frame. Cabot had a similar reaction as she immediately hid her face and turned away from the camera.</span></p>
  465. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coldplay frontman Chris Martin called out their reaction. “Oh look at these two,” the singer can be heard saying. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.”</span></p>
  466. <p>As of Friday, the original TikTok video has more than 55 million views.</p>
  467. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The popularity of the video spurred many fake reactions, including a faux statement attributed to Byron and images of a fake social media post attributed to Coldplay</span><a href="https://x.com/MikeBeauvais/status/1945865732748722537"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> saying</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Starting with our next show, we’re introducing camera-free audience sections for people and their sidepieces.” </span></p>
  468. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Byron has served as CEO of Astronomer since 2023, and Cabot was hired nine months ago. </span></p>
  469. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, removed her last name from her Facebook account before deactivating it entirely. Byron was on LinkedIn but appears to have removed his profile as of Friday. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">They reportedly have two children together. </span></p>
  470. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neither the exec nor the company has issued a public statement. Ry Walker, Astronomer&#8217;s former CEO, did address the situation with an X </span><a href="https://x.com/rywalker/status/1945894506160648514"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
  471. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;For those asking—I&#8217;m no longer involved in @astronomerio—yes I was co-founder and early CEO—not on the team or board since 2022, and have no information on ColdplayGate.&#8221;</span></p>
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  478.      <title>Why Congress Needs To Permanently Dismantle USAID</title>
  479.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-congress-needs-to-permanently-dismantle-usaid</link>
  480.      <dc:creator>J. Marc Wheat</dc:creator>
  481.      <description>This week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “How Leftist Nonprofit Networks Exploit Federal Tax Dollars to Advance a Radical Agenda,” a look into how USAID, which was partially defunded by Congress this week, has been abused for radical causes abroad. Nearly 20 years ago, one such scandal inspired an online database to ...</description>
  482.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “How Leftist Nonprofit Networks Exploit Federal Tax Dollars to Advance a Radical Agenda,” a look into how USAID, which was partially defunded by Congress this week, has been abused for radical causes abroad.</p>
  483. <p>Nearly 20 years ago, one such scandal inspired an online database to try to weed out the worst offenders. American contractors funded by the State Department and local police staged a daring raid on a brothel in India, rescuing a number of young girls from sexual slavery. But within days, a prostitute union funded by USAID pressured the girls to stop cooperating with investigators and return to the brothel, where they were once again subjected to rape for profit.</p>
  484. <p>The ensuing scandal so outraged Congress that USAID was forced to cancel the prostitute union’s funding — but unfortunately, nothing was done to curb USAID’s grotesque culture of corruption, globalist meddling, and left-wing activism.</p>
  485. <p>Finally, two decades later, President Donald Trump has taken decisive action to cut off USAID’s funding. But with liberal federal judges interceding on behalf of the Washington swamp, the battle is far from over. The only permanent solution is for Congress to shut down this rogue agency for good.</p>
  486. <p>USAID was created in 1961 as part of President John F. Kennedy’s effort to win developing countries to America’s cause in the Cold War against the Soviet menace. Despite such lofty intentions, USAID was quickly captured by left-wing ideologues. The agency has spent decades funneling billions of dollars into dubious projects that advance a radical agenda under the guise of “development” aid.</p>
  487. <p>Recent examples of USAID’s depravity include financing a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“transgender opera” in Colombia, producing a “DEI musical” in Ireland</a>, and providing <a href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mast-exposes-outrageous-usaid-and-state-department-grants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$15 million for condoms to the Taliban</a>. These are not anomalies — they are the logical outcome of an irredeemable agency that has long prioritized social engineering over economic development and national security.</p>
  488. <p>Perhaps the most egregious example remains the sex trafficking scandal in India uncovered in 2005. Despite clear evidence that USAID-funded organizations were facilitating child prostitution, agency officials not only denied involvement but actively obstructed congressional investigators. It was only through relentless congressional oversight that investigators exposed the truth.</p>
  489. <p>And yet, even after the revelations, USAID faced no meaningful consequence — no bureaucrats were prosecuted or fired, no structural reforms were enacted, and the agency continued to operate as usual right up to the present day.</p>
  490. <p>The Trump administration has correctly recognized that USAID is beyond reform. By cutting funding, the White House has struck a major blow against this globalist slush fund. But unless Congress acts, USAID will remain an open wound festering in the federal budget, waiting to be revived by activist judges or the next Democratic administration.</p>
  491. <p>USAID has proven, time and again, that it is unaccountable, wasteful, hostile to American ideals, and antithetical to American interests. It is a weapon of ideological warfare masquerading as a humanitarian agency, using taxpayer money to fund left-wing activism abroad while ignoring real global crises that threaten national security.</p>
  492. <p>The solution is simple: Congress must dismantle and permanently abolish USAID. Foreign aid should be administered through highly targeted programs closely monitored by the State Department, ensuring that assistance truly aligns with strategic interests rather than ideological whims.</p>
  493. <p>President Trump has led the way by shining a light on USAID’s corruption and attempting to turn off the spigot of taxpayer dollars. Now, it’s time for Congress to finish the job and eliminate this agency once and for all.</p>
  494. <p><em>J. Marc Wheat is the general counsel of Advancing American Freedom.</em></p>
  495. <p><i data-stringify-type="italic">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</i></p>
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  502.      <title>California Democrats Want The Government To Declare Your Kids Nonbinary</title>
  503.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-democrats-want-the-government-to-declare-your-kids-nonbinary</link>
  504.      <dc:creator>Erin Friday</dc:creator>
  505.      <description>California Governor Gavin Newsom recently struggled to say whether an eight-year-old was too young to undergo transgender procedures. Newsom’s comments came during a conversation with podcaster Shawn Ryan, the governor’s latest appearance seemingly designed to make him seem more moderate in advance of a likely presidential bid in 2028. But Newsom, who once said that ...</description>
  506.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom recently struggled to say whether an eight-year-old was too young to undergo transgender procedures.</p>
  507. <p>Newsom’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newsom-cant-say-whether-eight-is-too-young-to-transition-genders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> came during a conversation with podcaster Shawn Ryan, the governor’s latest appearance seemingly designed to make him seem more moderate in advance of a likely presidential bid in 2028.</p>
  508. <p>But Newsom, who once said that California was a beacon of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqwiHQSq4sU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parental rights</a>, may want to take a closer look at what his fellow Democrats are doing in the California Assembly.</p>
  509. <p>Earlier this month, lawmakers advanced Assembly Bill 1084, which permits a court-appointed lawyer to assist children in changing the name and sex designation on their birth certificates and obtaining a new birth certificate that can designate them as “non-binary.” If the bill passes, court-appointed lawyers or guardians will be empowered to force these changes even if parents have retained custody of the child in question.</p>
  510. <p>The bill essentially places children in positions of power. All that a child needs to do is make a claim of abuse, whether substantiated or not, against his parents, and he will be assigned an attorney who has been trained to accept a child’s gender identity pronouncement at face value.</p>
  511. <p>Authored by Assemblyman Rick Zbur — who compared people fighting to protect women&#8217;s sports to Nazis — the bill is the latest brazen assault on parental rights, another attempt by leftists to replace parents with government agents.</p>
  512. <p>The bill stipulates that, as long as a court rules it “is likely” that the child will remain a ward of the state until they turn 18, court-appointed lawyers have the authority to change the child’s sex and name, as well as their birth certificate. This grants parental rights to third parties, essentially stripping parents of legal control of their child.</p>
  513. <p>In other words, the bill allows a stranger to enable someone else’s child’s desire to “socially transition,” a mental health treatment that is not a neutral act. Children affirmed in their transgender identity are more likely to continue rejecting their sexed bodies if they are confirmed in their delusion.</p>
  514. <p>Parents can contest the petition, but the bill states that a challenge “based solely on concerns  that the proposed change is not the petitioner’s actual gender identity or gender assigned at birth shall not constitute good cause.” Simply, a parent who believes in biological reality and does not believe that the child he raised is the sex that he was at birth cannot contest the name and sex change on his birth certificate.</p>
  515. <p>This bill is unconstitutional, a direct violation of the fundamental right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their beliefs, a right recently affirmed by the Supreme Court in its opinion in <i>Mahmoud</i> v. <i>Taylor</i>. A hundred years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in <i>P</i><i>ierce </i>v.<i> The Society of Sisters</i> that “The child is not the mere creature of the State.” The bill is also a violation of the First Amendment, dismissing any parent’s viewpoint that sex is binary and immutable.</p>
  516. <p>Zbur designated the legislation an “urgency bill,” meaning that it will take effect immediately if the governor signs it.</p>
  517. <p>Should Newsom sign the bill, it will render official records like birth certificates completely unreliable, as anyone in the state of California can petition with little to no opposition that their sex is whatever they claim it to be. This is one of many bills that the California Democrats are advancing that are designed to “Trump-proof” California.</p>
  518. <p>The Democrat-controlled legislature is likely to pass the bill, which means it will likely land on Newsom’s desk soon. When it does, we’ll see if Newsom is really the pro-parent moderate he claims to be, or if California parents only have rights as long as they believe that their children can change sex.</p>
  519. <p><em>Erin Friday leads Our Duty, an organization that advocates for parents with gender-confused children.</em></p>
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  533.      <title>Ex-MSNBC Host Downplays Trump Assassination Attempt: He ‘Supposedly’ Got Shot In The Ear</title>
  534.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-msnbc-host-downplays-trump-assassination-attempt-he-supposedly-got-shot-in-the-ear</link>
  535.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  536.      <description>During a conversation on CNN on Thursday night, former MSNBC host Touré appeared to make the incredible suggestion that President Donald Trump had not really been shot in the ear during an assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attempted assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was killed by ...</description>
  537.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">During a conversation on CNN on Thursday night, former MSNBC host Touré appeared to make the incredible suggestion that President Donald Trump had not really been shot in the ear during an assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.</p>
  538. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The attempted assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was killed by law enforcement at the rally; fire captain Corey Comperatore was fatally shot when he dived on members of his family to protect them.</p>
  539. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The discussion on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip featured Touré, Scott Jennings, Adrienne Elrod, Ben Ferguson, and Elie Honig. It centered on the White House report that President Trump had swelling in his legs, a benign condition.</p>
  540. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Throughout the time that we have seen him on the public stages, this is not the most intelligent person we have,” Touré insisted. “This is not the best analysis of information. He does not have a lot of information at his fingertips as far as things that he knows. So, if there is a cognitive problem&#8230;&#8221;</p>
  541. <p>“They have not always been forthcoming about his health,” Elrod declared.</p>
  542. <p>“He supposedly got shot in the ear,” Touré stated.</p>
  543. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Woah, woah, woah. Did you say &#8216;supposedly&#8217;?” Jennings said, shocked.</p>
  544. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Supposedly, that&#8217;s where we are now?” Ferguson chimed in.</p>
  545. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“All I know is l went to the Republican National Convention and he had a bandage on his ear. He had blood on his face,” Jennings said, later turning to Touré and asking, “Did he &#8212; did he get shot or not? You&#8217;re saying you think he didn&#8217;t get shot?”</p>
  546. <p>“Scott, I know that you want to revisit this issue,” Phillips interjected.</p>
  547. <p>“I think it&#8217;s an important question. Are there still people that are truthers on this?” Jennings persisted.</p>
  548. <p>“Touré, did he get shot? “ Phillips queried.</p>
  549. <p>“I wasn&#8217;t there,” Touré backtracked. “I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. I would like to hear from his doctor. “</p>
  550. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  551. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">UNHINGED: Touré on CNN last night: President Trump &quot;supposedly got shot in the ear.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>:  &quot;Woah, woah, woah. Did you say &#39;supposedly&#39;?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/benfergusonshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benfergusonshow</a>: &quot;Supposedly, that&#39;s where we are now.&quot;</p>
  552. <p>Abby Phillip: &quot;Touré, he was shot in the ear.&quot;</p>
  553. <p>This is where the… <a href="https://t.co/0aSOeVPtg4">pic.twitter.com/0aSOeVPtg4</a></p>
  554. <p>&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1946187441708187652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  559.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:04:03 GMT</pubDate>
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  563.      <title>Republican Attorney General Calls For End To Federal DEI Program That ‘Wastes Money On Purpose’</title>
  564.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-attorney-general-calls-for-end-to-federal-dei-program-that-wastes-money-on-purpose</link>
  565.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  566.      <description>Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador called for an end to a “discriminatory” federal program that costs states millions of dollars by pushing them to go with more expensive “diverse” contractors. In a Wednesday court filing joined by 20 states, Labrador urged a federal judge to accept a proposal from the Trump administration to end an ...</description>
  567.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador called for an end to a “discriminatory” federal program that costs states millions of dollars by pushing them to go with more expensive “diverse” contractors.</span></p>
  568. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a Wednesday </span><a href="https://www.ag.idaho.gov/content/uploads/2025/07/Mid-America-Milling-Amicus-Brief-DBE-Program_As-Filed.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">court filing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> joined by 20 states, Labrador urged a federal judge to accept a proposal from the Trump administration to end an affirmative action program that favors minority- and women-owned businesses for state infrastructure projects. The initiative, known as the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, set aside $37 billion under the Biden administration for “disadvantaged” groups. </span></p>
  569. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The program, which has been in effect since 1983, was originally challenged in September 2023 by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of two Indiana-based companies that claim they lost business opportunities based on the policy. The Biden administration fought back against the challenge, but the Trump administration has asked a judge to side with the complaint and disband the program. </span></p>
  570. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an amicus brief, Labrador and the other plaintiffs urged Federal Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, a George W. Bush nominee, to accept a consent decree proposed by the Trump administration that would end race and sex as components to qualify as a “disadvantaged business.” </span></p>
  571. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This discrimination is expensive. It routinely requires States to reject the lowest bid on a project in favor of a less-efficient DBE-compliant bidder, and even when States can choose the lowest bid, the price is usually inflated because contractors have to use DBE-compliant subcontractors,” the filing says. &#8220;The DBE program wastes money on purpose. When supposedly disadvantaged entities are the lowest bidders, the program has no effect-its whole point is to force States to hire disadvantaged entities when they are not the lowest bidders.”</span></p>
  572. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Labrador told The Daily Wire that the rule has cost his state at least $15.2 million over a 44-month period. In one instance, he said that Idaho had to take a $2.7 million bid instead of a $2.2 million bid. </span></p>
  573. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This federal program has operated like a racial quota system for decades,” he said. “Federal bureaucrats forced states like Idaho to reject better bids from qualified contractors, wasting roughly $15 million in just a few years by requiring states to award a certain percentage of contracts based on race and gender instead of merit.”</span></p>
  574. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2009 MIT </span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25651355?seq=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">study</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> found that affirmative action in contracting can increase the cost when comparing state contracts without preferences to federal contracts with preferences. The study found that bids without preferences were at least 5.6% lower than the preferential contract. </span></p>
  575. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other states that signed onto the legal filing include North Dakota, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and the Arizona state legislature. </span></p>
  576. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“While the Biden Administration defended this system in court, President Trump is working to restore equality under the law,” Labrador said. “My office will continue fighting any federal program that forces states to treat citizens as members of groups rather than individuals with equal constitutional rights.”</span></p>
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  579.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:46:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  583.      <title>EXCLUSIVE: Loudoun County Teachers Don’t Have To Use Trans Pronouns, Court Rules</title>
  584.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-loudoun-county-teachers-dont-have-to-use-trans-pronouns-court-rules</link>
  585.      <dc:creator>Mairead Elordi</dc:creator>
  586.      <description>The Loudoun County school board will no longer force staff to use students&amp;#8217; preferred pronouns after teachers sued over the Northern Virginia school district&amp;#8217;s transgender policy, a court ruled on Thursday. In a free speech victory for several teachers who sued, the Loudoun County Circuit Court officially recognized that Loudoun County Public Schools no longer ...</description>
  587.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Loudoun County school board will no longer force staff to use students&#8217; preferred pronouns after teachers sued over the Northern Virginia school district&#8217;s transgender policy, a court ruled on Thursday.</p>
  588. <p>In a free speech victory for several teachers who sued, the Loudoun County Circuit Court officially recognized that Loudoun County Public Schools no longer requires teachers to use pronouns inconsistent with students’ biological sex.</p>
  589. <p>The court noted that &#8220;on its face, [the transgender policy] does not require teachers or other staff to use a pronoun to refer to a person that a teacher believes is inconsistent with the person’s sex. Instead, [the policy] permits staff to refrain from using any pronouns.”</p>
  590. <p>The transgender <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/loudoun/Board.nsf/files/D7VLH356939A/$file/8040.pdf">policy</a>, which was adopted in 2021, allows &#8220;gender-expansive or transgender students&#8221; to choose their names and pronouns. Originally, officials stated that it required teachers to use them as well.</p>
  591. <p>&#8220;Staff or students who intentionally and persistently refuse to respect a student’s gender identity by using the wrong name and gender pronoun are in violation of this policy,&#8221; the policy reads.</p>
  592. <p>However, the Loudoun County school board backed down on requiring teachers to use pronouns after Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/vlaming-v-west-point-school-board/">won</a> a victory on the same issue for another high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, in a different Virginia school district.</p>
  593. <p>Thursday&#8217;s court ruling affirms the school board&#8217;s new interpretation of its policy.</p>
  594. <p>This is the second victory for Loudoun County teachers in this case.</p>
  595. <p>In May 2021, physical education teacher Tanner Cross spoke at a school board meeting and expressed his concerns that the new transgender policy would violate teachers and parents&#8217; rights and be harmful to students.</p>
  596. <p>A few days later, Cross was suspended by Leesburg Elementary School.</p>
  597. <p>He <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/cross-v-loudoun-county-school-board/">ultimately</a> got his job back when Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys sued on his behalf, and the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that his constitutional rights had likely been violated.</p>
  598. <p>&#8220;Unfortunately, thereafter &#8230; the school board adopted [the transgender policy] without making any revisions or addressing any of the concerns that Tanner or the other parents and teachers addressed,&#8221; Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Wire.</p>
  599. <p>Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys added two more teachers to the lawsuit against the policy — Smart’s Mill Middle School English teacher Kim Wright and Loudoun County High School history teacher Monica Gill.</p>
  600. <p>&#8220;Thankfully, now after several years of litigation, the school has agreed that its policy does not and cannot compel teachers to use pronouns that students request which are inconsistent with the student&#8217;s sex,&#8221; Langhofer said.</p>
  601. <p>Gill, one of the plaintiffs celebrating Thursday&#8217;s ruling, has taught in Loudoun County for nearly 25 years.</p>
  602. <p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I treasure all my students, regardless of whether they identify as the opposite sex,&#8221; Gill said in a statement to The Daily Wire.</p>
  603. <p>However, the transgender policy &#8220;threatened to make me ignore biological reality and lie to my students,&#8221; Gill said.</p>
  604. <p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;This policy jeopardized the dignity of all students,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m pleased that the school district has now honored my constitutionally protected freedom to speak to my students in love and truth.&#8221;</p>
  605. <p>Loudoun County has been a flash point in the national controversy over transgender ideology in schools, starting with The Daily Wire&#8217;s bombshell 2021 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">investigation</a> into a father&#8217;s claim that the school district covered up the rape of his daughter by a male student in a skirt in the girls&#8217; school bathroom.</p>
  606. <p>&#8220;For many, many years, Loudoun County, along with many other school boards across the country, have acted as if they control, that they&#8217;re ultimately responsible for the education of the children rather than parents,&#8221; attorney Langhofer said.</p>
  607. <p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve also acted as if they get to control all of teachers&#8217; speech and that they can punish teachers for disagreeing with the school on really important topics such as human sexuality and gender identity,&#8221; he said.</p>
  608. <p>&#8220;So this ruling is a great victory for teachers who don&#8217;t want to express messages that they think are untrue or are harmful to students and also don&#8217;t want to mislead parents about how their schools are treating the students at school,&#8221; the attorney said.</p>
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  615.      <title>Trump Celebrates CBS Axing Stephen Colbert’s Show: ‘I Hear Jimmy Kimmel Is Next’</title>
  616.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-celebrates-cbs-axing-stephen-colberts-show-i-hear-jimmy-kimmel-is-next</link>
  617.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  618.      <description>President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Friday after learning that CBS had canceled &amp;#8220;The Late Show,&amp;#8221; hosted by leftist comedian and political commentator Stephen Colbert. CBS announced on Thursday that the late-night talk show, which started with host David Letterman in 1993, will air its final episode in May 2026, nearly 11 years ...</description>
  619.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Friday after learning that CBS had canceled &#8220;The Late Show,&#8221; hosted by leftist comedian and political commentator Stephen Colbert.</p>
  620. <p>CBS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-cans-ultra-leftist-stephen-colberts-late-show-all-just-going-away?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=CBS+Cans+Ultra-Leftist+Stephen+Colbert%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Late+Show%E2%80%99%3A+%E2%80%98All+Just+Going+Away%E2%80%99">announced</a> on Thursday that the late-night talk show, which started with host David Letterman in 1993, will air its final episode in May 2026, nearly 11 years after Colbert took over.</p>
  621. <p>&#8220;I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114874422468516376">wrote</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.&#8221;</p>
  622. <p>Trump has ripped Colbert in the past, calling him &#8220;very boring&#8221; and &#8220;a total loser.&#8221;</p>
  623. <p>&#8220;He is not funny, which he gets paid far too much to be, he is not wise, he is VERY BORING, and his show is dying from a complete lack of viewers,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113196110603948496">said</a> last September.</p>
  624. <p>Colbert, whom CBS said &#8220;will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television,&#8221; often used his monologues to take shots at Trump and his supporters. In March, Colbert ripped President Trump&#8217;s address to Congress, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/05/colbert-trump-speech-congress">saying</a>, “Trump’s first address to Congress was much like his first six weeks: filled with useful lies and applauded by useless idiots.”</p>
  625. <p>Earlier this week, Colbert criticized CBS&#8217;s parent company, Paramount, for agreeing to pay a $16 million settlement to Trump over a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, which Trump said was deceptively edited to help the Democratic presidential nominee. Colbert called the settlement a &#8220;big fat bribe,&#8221; adding, “I don’t know if anything will repair my trust in this company. But, just taking a stab at it, I’d say $16 million would help.”</p>
  626. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Paramount’s Trump Settlement: A Big Fat Bribe | Jeffrey Epstein Never Dies | FIFA Trophy Row" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zzvx3L3DQb8?start=127&#038;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>
  627. <p>None of Colbert&#8217;s segments were more roundly mocked than his COVID &#8220;Vax-Scene&#8221; bit in 2021, in which the comedian danced on stage with four people dressed up as syringes.</p>
  628. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="The Vax-Scene - The Box Set" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sSkFyNVtNh8?start=544&#038;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>
  629. <p>Colbert addressed CBS&#8217;s decision to cancel his show on Thursday night, telling his audience, &#8220;Before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending &#8216;The Late Show&#8217; in May.&#8221;</p>
  630. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not being replaced. This is all just going away,&#8221; he added.</p>
  631. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Stephen Colbert Announces The Cancellation Of “The Late Show”" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AuqEZx6TmfI?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>
  632. <p>Democrats lamented the move by CBS, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who was Colbert&#8217;s headliner on Thursday night.</p>
  633. <p>“Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better,” Schiff <a href="https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1945991349339042169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1945991349339042169%7Ctwgr%5E6994272537ceff05d34bbf6eb721334ab9da046f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fcbs-cans-ultra-leftist-stephen-colberts-late-show-all-just-going-away">said</a> in a post on X.</p>
  634. <p>&#8220;CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1946003619821580369">added</a> Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). &#8220;America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.&#8221;</p>
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  637.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  641.      <title>‘Look At The Massacres’: Syrian Priest Posts Desperate Plea As Islamist Attacks Intensify</title>
  642.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/look-at-the-massacres-syrian-priest-posts-desperate-plea-as-islamist-attacks-intensify</link>
  643.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  644.      <description>A Melkite-Catholic priest in Sweida, Syria, issued a desperate plea for help from the outside world as Syrian Islamists have been murdering Druze and Christians in Syria. Father Tony Boutros, a representative of the Melkite-Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See in Rome, was kidnapped in 2015 while driving ...</description>
  645.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">A Melkite-Catholic priest in Sweida, Syria, issued a desperate plea for help from the outside world as Syrian Islamists have been murdering Druze and Christians in Syria.</p>
  646. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Father Tony Boutros, a representative of the Melkite-Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See in Rome, was<a href="https://hcef.org/790796443-syria-kidnapped-melkite-priest-freed/"> kidnapped</a> in 2015 while driving to a church for Mass. He was then serving as the pastor of the Church of St. Philip the Apostle in Shahba.</p>
  647. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking from Sweida, where Islamic forces loyal to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), are attacking and reportedly slaughtering members of that country’s Druze community, Boutros posted an urgent cry for help to prevent Islamists from wiping out the Druze and Christian communities.</p>
  648. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We are not ‘minorities,” he began. “We are components of this Syrian country, and we have been living together for hundreds of years. We are the people of this land. We and our Druze brothers here, and we live with them. We ask the U.S., Europe, the Vatican, and the whole world for international protection for this region of Sweida, all of it, for us and for our Druze brothers, my dear ones, and we condemn every criminal act.”</p>
  649. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We are advocates of peace, my dear ones, we reject excommunication and we reject killing,” he continued. “All of this is condemned for us. And we want international protection from you. We want to stay in our homes. We want to stay with our Druze brothers, with our people, us and them. Not just neighbors; we are brothers and we coexist. Not just coexist; we are one, living together for hundreds of years, and we will not leave our homes and our land.  We demand international protection from the whole world. Look at us. Look at Sweida. Look at the massacres that happened to us in Sweida.”</p>
  650. <p style="font-weight: 400;">He then tacitly thanked the government of Israel, among others, who have come to the rescue of the Druze and Christians, concluding, “And I thank all the people who want to help us and stand with us.”</p>
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  652. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Heartbreaking, Father Tony Boutros, representative of the Greek Catholic Church in Sweida, Syria, makes an appeal to the international community to save Christians and Druze from an Islamist genocide.</p>
  653. <p>“We Christians and Druze are one. Look at the massacre they are committing… <a href="https://t.co/DiBZLMBuze">pic.twitter.com/DiBZLMBuze</a></p>
  654. <p>— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) <a href="https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/1946161112908714112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  658.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:34:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  662.      <title>House Judiciary: Biden Admin Bankrolled Groups Working To Topple Netanyahu</title>
  663.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-judiciary-biden-admin-bankrolled-groups-working-to-topple-netanyahu</link>
  664.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  665.      <description>The House Judiciary Committee is accusing the Biden-Harris administration of providing grant funds to groups that contributed to anti-judicial reform groups seeking to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in 2023. “Documents obtained during this investigation suggest that the Biden-Harris administration potentially funded groups with ties to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations,” the Committee declared. “Israeli ...</description>
  666.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">The House Judiciary Committee is accusing the Biden-Harris administration of providing grant funds to groups that contributed to anti-judicial reform groups seeking to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in 2023.</p>
  667. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Documents obtained during this investigation suggest that the Biden-Harris administration potentially funded groups with ties to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations,” the Committee declared.</p>
  668. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Israeli NGO Blue White Future received funds from NGOs—including some U.S. grant recipients—and funded the coalition headquarters for the anti-Netanyahu judicial reform protest,” the Committee <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/memo-reveals-biden-harris-admin-misused-taxpayer-dollars-fund-anti-netanyahu">noted</a>. “The Biden-Harris Administration provided $42,000 to an Israeli NGO, Movement for Quality Government, to conduct ‘Civic Activism Training’ in Israeli high schools. U.S. nonprofit PEF Israel Endowment Funds provided over $884 million to groups involved in anti-democracy protests in Israel. U.S. nonprofit Jewish Communal Fund (JCF) provided over $42.8 million to the anti-Netanyahu protest headquarters in Israel and the protests’ two main funders.”</p>
  669. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In the Committee’s <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/israel-ngos-funding-memo-final-hjc-2.pdf">memo</a>, it targeted the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors — which received $20 million in grants from USAID between 2021 and 2024 — stating that the group gave $187,000 between 2021 and 2024 to PEF Israel Endowment Funds, which helped fund the NGO Blue and White Future (BWF), a “radical anti-Netanyahu organization.”</p>
  670. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“During this period, RPA donated $557,000 to its affiliate and partner, Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF),” the Committee stated. “In 2023, RBF donated more than $370,000 to groups directly involved in the anti-Netanyahu judicial reform protests &#8230; From 2017 to 2022, RBF donated $190,000 to Defense for International Children Palestine (DCI-P), designated by the Israeli Defense Ministry as a terrorist organization in 2021. DCI-P’s board and staff is made up of ‘numerous individuals with alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization, designated as such by the US,  EU, Canada and Israel.”</p>
  671. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Since 2016, the Bayader Association for Environment and Development, an NGO based in Gaza, has received at least $900,000 in U.S. government funding despite ‘openly collaborating with Hamas officials, including holding joint events with Hamas leaders,” the Committee wrote. “USAID also funded the Unlimited Friends Association (UFA), another Gaza-based NGO that provides financial support to the families of ‘martyrs’ killed while carrying out terrorist attacks in Israel.”</p>
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  678.      <title>Morning Brief: Congress Cuts Funding For PBS &amp; NPR, Biden’s Decline Investigated, Fed Meeting</title>
  679.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-brief-congress-cuts-funding-for-pbs-npr-bidens-decline-investigated-fed-meeting</link>
  680.      <dc:creator>Morning Wire</dc:creator>
  681.      <description>The House pulls the plug on NPR and PBS in a late-night funding fight as President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s plan gets final approval. Another top Biden aide pleads the Fifth in a congressional hearing about the former president’s competency. And we talk to the president of the Chicago Fed about the upcoming interest rate vote and ...</description>
  682.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The House pulls the plug on NPR and PBS in a late-night funding fight as President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan gets final approval. Another top Biden aide pleads the Fifth in a congressional hearing about the former president’s competency. And we talk to the president of the Chicago Fed about the upcoming interest rate vote and the feud between Trump and Powell.</span></p>
  683. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s Friday, July 18, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.</span></p>
  684. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morning Wire is available on video! You can watch today’s episode here:</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
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  688. <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congress Approves Funding Cuts To PBS &amp; NPR</span></h2>
  689. <div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-948759" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_21_19.Still001-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_21_19.Still001-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_21_19.Still001-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_21_19.Still001-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_21_19.Still001-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_21_19.Still001.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></div>
  690. <p><b>Topline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In the early hours of Friday morning, the House gave final approval to President Trump&#8217;s plan to claw back $9 billion in funding to global aid and government-funded media after the Senate narrowly passed a measure early Thursday. It now heads to Trump&#8217;s desk.</span></p>
  691. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June, the White House formally requested that Congress rescind $1.1 billion in funding that had already been allocated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. Early Thursday morning, after hours of debate, the Senate voted 51-48 to approve the measure. </span></p>
  692. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats say NPR and PBS represent America’s commitment to a free press and provide essential services for all people, particularly those in rural communities. They also argue that public broadcasting plays a major role in emergency preparedness and community safety.</span></p>
  693. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When a flood happens, when a tornado touches down, when a hurricane makes landfall, people need immediate, up-to-date alerts to stay safe,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-NY) argued in a speech on the Senate floor. “All too often, public broadcasting is the only way for people to hear what’s going on. It’s a matter of life and death.&#8221;</span></p>
  694. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Republicans say that’s a ridiculous argument given how many ways people now receive warnings about natural disasters.</span></p>
  695. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“All broadcasters are required to broadcast emergency alerts,” Tim Graham, host of NewsBusters at the Media Research Center told The Daily Wire. “Today, everybody&#8217;s going to get emergency alerts on their cell phone. So the idea that you need NPR to learn of a flash flood alert – I mean, first of all, you have to assume that there&#8217;s a huge number of people listening to NPR at 10 p.m. &#8230; It’s just not true.”</span></p>
  696. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Republicans have argued for decades that NPR and PBS are not balanced news sources and that both organizations lean heavily to the Left. “Recently, we counted labels,” Graham told The Daily Wire. “[The PBS Newshour] used &#8216;far-Right&#8217; labels 42 times as often as they used &#8216;far-Left&#8217; … And the interesting thing here was that Donald Trump got elected with a Republican Congress, they could see the writing on the wall, and PBS and NPR made no attempt to move to the center to try to be fairer, to try to be more balanced. If anything, they have doubled down in 2025. They were basically suggesting they didn&#8217;t care what the Republican opinion was on their product.”</span></p>
  697. <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden WH Aide Pleads The Fifth In Congressional Testimony</span></h2>
  698. <div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-948761" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still002-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still002-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still002-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still002-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still002-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still002.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></div>
  699. <p><b>Topline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former first lady Jill Biden’s top aide testified to Congress on Wednesday. Anthony Bernal, who has been close to the Biden family since 2008, pleaded the Fifth seven times in response to investigators&#8217; questions.</span></p>
  700. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bernal, Jill Biden’s chief of staff, refused to answer a slate of questions around former president Biden’s health – instead invoking his Constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination. Bernal was a top trusted aide in the Biden White House – Jill often referred to him as her “work husband.”</span></p>
  701. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked by the House Oversight Committee if President Biden was fit to exercise his duties, Bernal said, “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.”</span></p>
  702. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, Biden’s White House doctor Kevin O’Connor refused to answer questions, citing his Fifth Amendment rights and </span><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/doctor-patient_privilege"><span style="font-weight: 400;">doctor-patient privilege</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Legally, invoking the Fifth is </span><a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/532/17.html"><b><i>not</i></b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> an admission of guilt, and most criminal lawyers </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE"><span style="font-weight: 400;">highly discourage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> their clients from sharing </span><b><i>anything</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with authorities that </span><b><i>might</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> conceivably be used against them. Nevertheless, many Republicans are concerned about the concerted coverup of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and want to know who was running the Biden administration if he wasn’t.</span></p>
  703. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In their book, &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; a deep dive into the Biden White House and his re-election effort, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson described Bernal as “[one of] the Bidens’ eyes and ears, the keepers of the flame, the protectors of the myth. &#8230; As we researched this book, it was difficult to find many Bernal defenders. … He freely trash-talked senior, mid-level and junior aides. … Some described him as the worst person they had ever met.”</span></p>
  704. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite their reticence, Bernal and O’Connor could be compelled to testify by Congress – if they were offered immunity for any crimes revealed by their testimony, then the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination would no longer apply, although in O’Connor’s case, doctor-patient privilege could shield him from certain questions.</span></p>
  705. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Fox News that Bernal could not say that Biden was mentally well without lying under oath, which is why he pleaded the Fifth. Comer also suggested that he would like to see more of Biden’s inner circle testify before his committee, including Jill Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris.</span></p>
  706. <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Federal Reserve Meeting</span></h2>
  707. <div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-948757" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_05.Still003-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_05.Still003-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_05.Still003-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_05.Still003-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_05.Still003-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_05.Still003.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></div>
  708. <p><b>Topline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">As President Trump ramps up pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, the Fed is preparing for a meeting at the end of the month to decide whether to cut interest rates – as the president is demanding.</span></p>
  709. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), spoke to The Daily Wire shortly before the upcoming July 29-30 meeting and offered his perspective on current economic data.</span></p>
  710. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Goolsbee described the latest inflation data as &#8220;a little bit of a mixed bag,&#8221; noting positive trends in services and housing inflation, but expressing wariness about &#8220;actual physical goods&#8221; where &#8220;tariffs are going to increase the prices a bit.&#8221; Despite this, he remains &#8220;still hopeful that we&#8217;re in a pretty solid place on the economy,&#8221; citing sustained growth and &#8220;close to full employment&#8221; as key strengths, with the primary goal being to keep &#8220;inflation on path back to 2 percent.&#8221;</span></p>
  711. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A public dispute between President Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell has brought the issue of central bank independence into sharp focus. Goolsbee, while unable to speak for the entire Fed, voiced his unease about such arguments. He emphasized that the reason &#8220;all the rich countries of the world have an independent central bank – that&#8217;s independent of political interference – is precisely because if you look at places where they don&#8217;t have central bank independence, inflation is higher, unemployment is higher, growth is worse.&#8221; He underscored the imperative that interest rate decisions &#8220;should be rooted in that dual mandate: stabilizing prices and maximizing employment,&#8221; adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s the critical element, should be economic conditions that drive the decisions.&#8221;</span></p>
  712. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regarding the immediate outlook for interest rates, Goolsbee maintained his usual cautious stance ahead of the meeting and further data, stating, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like tying our hands before the meetings.&#8221; However, he indicated a general inclination toward lower rates if conditions allow. He noted that his view prior to April 2 was that &#8220;we got pretty close to stable full employment. We got inflation trending down to 2% — and in an environment like that, I think rates can go down a fair bit more than from where they are today.&#8221;</span></p>
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  719.      <title>The House Delivers: Trump’s $9B Cut To Global Aid And Public Broadcasting Gets Final Approval</title>
  720.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-house-delivers-trumps-9b-cut-to-global-aid-and-public-broadcasting-gets-final-approval</link>
  721.      <dc:creator>Daniel Chaitin</dc:creator>
  722.      <description>The GOP-led House sent a $9 billion rescissions package to President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s desk just after midnight on Friday, a victory for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) drive to defund programs that many Republicans deem wasteful and ideologically driven. Lawmakers in the lower chamber voted 216-213, largely along party lines, in favor of the ...</description>
  723.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The GOP-led House sent a $9 billion rescissions package to President Donald Trump&#8217;s desk just after midnight on Friday, a victory for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) drive to defund programs that many Republicans deem wasteful and ideologically driven.</p>
  724. <p>Lawmakers in the lower chamber voted <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">216-213</a>, largely along party lines, in favor of the rescissions measure, which claws back funds allocated to foreign aid projects and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a funding source for NPR and PBS.</p>
  725. <p>&#8220;President Trump and House Republicans promised fiscal responsibility and government efficiency. Today, we’re once again delivering on that promise,&#8221; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said. &#8220;This package eliminates $9 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221;</p>
  726. <p>He added, &#8220;The American people will no longer be forced to fund politically biased media and more than $8 billion in outrageous expenses overseas. While Republicans continue to deliver real accountability, restore fiscal discipline, and protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats continue to defend waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. We look forward to passing additional rescissions bills throughout the 119th Congress.&#8221;</p>
  727. <p>Previously, the House passed a $9.4 billion rescissions package in line with the White House&#8217;s request in early June. However, the GOP-led Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-republicans-drop-aids-relief-cuts-from-rescissions-package" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled</a> $400 million in cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program as some members had voiced dismay with that part of the proposal.</p>
  728. <p>Under the Impoundment Control Act, any rescissions measure requires only a simple majority in the House and Senate, meaning the filibuster threshold could be ignored. But it also gave Congress just 45 days to deliver legislation in response to a president&#8217;s request. The deadline, in this case, was the end of the day on Friday.</p>
  729. <p>A continuation of the spending reductions is possible if they make it into fiscal 2026 legislation that is being put together now. Sources on Capitol Hill and the White House previously said they expected more requests from the Trump administration to implement so-called DOGE cuts as part of a wider effort to reduce the deficit, which has ballooned past a trillion dollars in recent years, so long as the first bill passed.</p>
  730. <p>Critics of the rescissions package raised <a href="https://x.com/bresreports/status/1945297767649435793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerns</a> about how defunding public broadcasting could <a href="https://x.com/lisamurkowski/status/1945637668479479894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diminish</a> helpful services to Americans, lamented a lack of clarity on the Trump administration&#8217;s plan to implement the cuts, and <a href="https://x.com/SenatorDurbin/status/1945919451678875833" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decried</a> the prospect of cutting back on food and medicine for people in poor countries.</p>
  731. <p>&#8220;Instead of protecting the health, safety and well-being of the American people, House Republicans have once again rubber stamped Donald Trump’s extreme, reckless rescissions legislation,&#8221; Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other Democrat leaders in the House said in a joint statement.</p>
  732. <p>Upon announcing its request, the White House&#8217;s budget office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-insect-powder-and-trans-resilience-trump-unveils-woke-spending-cuts-request" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it wanted to claw back funds steeped in &#8220;waste, fraud, and abuse&#8221; from the CPB, which Trump singled out in an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> seeking to defund NPR and PBS amid claims they were biased, as well as money for foreign aid programs.</p>
  733. <p>Johnson&#8217;s office said the final product &#8220;rescinds $9 billion of wasteful spending uncovered by DOGE,&#8221; including: $1.1 billion for the CPB, $135 million in contributions to the corrupt and dangerous World Health Organization, $18 million to improve gender diversity in Mexican street lighting, $4.4 million for a Melanesian Youth Climate Corps, $3.9 million for LGBTQI+ advocacy programs in the Western Balkans, $2.5 million to teach children how to make environmentally friendly “reproductive health” decisions, $300,000 to fund a Pride parade in Lesotho, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, $500,000 for a gender equality and empowerment hub, and $8,000 for promoting vegan food in Zambia.</p>
  734. <p>Trump had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-warns-republican-senators-defund-npr-and-pbs-or-lose-my-endorsement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> GOP lawmakers that there would be political consequences for opposing the rescissions effort, particularly when it came to PBS and NPR. Among the Senate Republicans who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taking-back-control-senate-votes-to-claw-back-9b-from-foreign-aid-public-broadcasting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> against the measure with the Democrats and independents were Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. The GOP lawmakers in the House who <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1946059570570281055" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> against it, via a rule, were Reps. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).</p>
  735. <p>In an early Friday morning post on Truth Social, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114872393229075156" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclaimed</a> in all caps, &#8220;HOUSE APPROVES NINE BILLION DOLLAR CUTS PACKAGE, INCLUDING ATROCIOUS NPR AND PUBLIC BROADCASTING, WHERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR WERE WASTED. REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND FAILED….BUT NO MORE. THIS IS BIG!!!&#8221;</p>
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  742.      <title>Michael Knowles Destroys Joy Reid In Surprise Appearance On ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’</title>
  743.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-destroys-joy-reid-in-surprise-appearance-on-piers-morgan-uncensored</link>
  744.      <dc:creator>Catherine Maxwell</dc:creator>
  745.      <description>Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles slammed former MSNBC host Joy Reid in a surprise appearance on &amp;#8220;Piers Morgan Uncensored.&amp;#8221; Morgan was interviewing Reid when he asked her to respond to a clip from &amp;#8220;The Michael Knowles Show&amp;#8221; that aired shortly after &amp;#8220;The ReidOut&amp;#8221; was canceled. Knowles said at the time: Joy Reid — probably ...</description>
  746.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles slammed former MSNBC host Joy Reid in a surprise appearance on &#8220;Piers Morgan Uncensored.&#8221;</p>
  747. <p>Morgan was interviewing Reid when he asked her to respond to a clip from &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show&#8221; that aired shortly after &#8220;The ReidOut&#8221; was canceled.</p>
  748. <p>Knowles said at the time:</p>
  749. <blockquote><p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joy Reid — probably the nastiest figure on MSNBC, the most Left, the most vicious against conservatives and white people and men and all the rest — she has just been canned, fired, kicked to the side of the road, her show is over. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This saddens me a little bit, because I did not yet have the opportunity to go on it.</span></em></p>
  750. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am celebrating that there is no longer a market for her disgusting product. That’s what I’m genuinely happy about. There has been a major shift. Her show, and shows like her show, no longer have value. And that’s not just because of Joy Reid’s favorite villains: the evil white man or the Christians or the conservatives. It’s because no one watches her show.</span></em></p></blockquote>
  751. <p>&#8220;So, Joy, <span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve actually got Michael Knowles waiting in the wings,&#8221; Morgan said after the clip aired. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">What did you make of his critique of your show?&#8221;</span></p>
  752. <p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, I mean, the reality is that obviously people watched the show,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;That’s the reason that the show was on for four and a half, nearly five years. So if he didn’t like the show, I guess, sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but I really am not that interested in his views on it.&#8221;</span></p>
  753. <p>Knowles fired right back.</p>
  754. <p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">I guess I would agree with Joy’s take. People watched the show, in the past tense,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;And now there’s no longer a market for that absolutely vile content, and I think that’s good for the culture broadly.&#8221;</span></p>
  755. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  756. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;People watched the show, in the past tense, and now there&#39;s no longer a market for that absolutely vile content.&quot;</p>
  757. <p>Surprise guest <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> joins former MSNBC host Joy Reid on Piers Morgan Uncensored. <a href="https://t.co/MkW1px8HWZ">pic.twitter.com/MkW1px8HWZ</a></p>
  758. <p>&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1945929032542880019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  759. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  760. <p>Reid accused Knowles and Morgan of &#8220;[trading] in grievance.&#8221;</p>
  761. <p>&#8220;W<span style="font-weight: 400;">hite grievance is very good for your bottom lines,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">So having me here to be able to continue to traffic in that, that is your shtick.&#8221;</span></p>
  762. <p>Knowles said Reid&#8217;s accusation was pure projection.</p>
  763. <p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">When she&#8217;s talking about this anger, this grievance — I think, frankly, Piers, you and I are two of the least aggrieved people in the entire media,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;Generally pretty chipper, cheery people.&#8221;</span></p>
  764. <p>Knowles added that while the Left pushed grievance politics, President Donald Trump decided success would be the best form of revenge.</p>
  765. <p>&#8220;He did bring on<span style="font-weight: 400;"> a lot of people, many more than just white people, to his coalition: 46% of Hispanics, one in five Black men, 40% of women under 30,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;So, he built a very large coalition here.&#8221;</span></p>
  766. <p>That coalition, Knowles said, is concerning liberals such as former President Barack Obama, who pushed grievance politics.</p>
  767. <p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">Obama was one of the big promoters of proto-wokeness,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It spun out of control, so now you&#8217;re seeing this run away with them.&#8221;</span></p>
  768. <p>Knowles said the Left is now trying to backtrack on grievance politics.</p>
  769. <p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Democrats got creamed in the 2024 elections. And [Obama&#8217;s] saying, &#8216;Whoa, whoa, guys, bring it back. Don’t seem so aggrieved,'&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I just think it’s a little bit too late. He’s being hoisted with his own petard.&#8221;</span></p>
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  772.      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  776.      <title>Trump Threatens To Sue WSJ Over ‘FAKE’ Epstein Letter, Orders Bondi To Unseal Testimony</title>
  777.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-wsj-over-fake-epstein-letter-orders-bondi-to-unseal-testimony</link>
  778.      <dc:creator>Daily Wire News</dc:creator>
  779.      <description>President Donald Trump forcefully shot down a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday night claiming that he wrote a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman, saying he&amp;#8217;d sue the outlet for claiming otherwise. &amp;#8220;This is not me,&amp;#8221; Trump told the outlet. &amp;#8220;This is a fake thing.&amp;#8221; He followed ...</description>
  780.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump forcefully shot down a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday night claiming that he wrote a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman, saying he&#8217;d sue the outlet for claiming otherwise.</p>
  781. <p>&#8220;This is not me,&#8221; Trump told the outlet. &#8220;This is a fake thing.&#8221;</p>
  782. <p>He followed that up with a lengthy statement a few hours after its publication, stating that the paper&#8217;s owner Rupert Murdoch and editor-in-chief Emma Tucker were &#8220;warned directly&#8221; by Trump that the letter &#8220;was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued.&#8221;</p>
  783. <p>&#8220;President Trump will be suing the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly,&#8221; Trump said.</p>
  784. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  785. <p dir="ltr" lang="zxx"><a href="https://t.co/s4Pd84hb2x">pic.twitter.com/s4Pd84hb2x</a></p>
  786. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1946007571984236634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  787. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  788. <p>The Wall Street Journal article claimed that it had obtained a &#8220;letter bearing Trump&#8217;s name&#8221; that was included in a birthday book created for Epstein. It claims that the letter was part of a leather-bound album, and that Trump framed his letter within &#8220;the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker.&#8221;</p>
  789. <p>Notably, the paper did not include an image of the letter it claimed to have reviewed. It says the letter was part of the trove of Department of Justice papers that have come to be known as the &#8220;Epstein files.&#8221; Neither the DOJ nor the FBI responded to its requests for comment, it disclosed.</p>
  790. <p>Trump has sought to shut down furor surrounding the Epstein disclosures, which started when the DOJ announced nearly two weeks ago that there would be no major release pertaining to Epstein. It also announced that there was no &#8220;client list&#8221; and concluded that there was no evidence calling into question Epstein&#8217;s suicide.</p>
  791. <p>After lashing out at the Wall Street Journal article, Trump publicly stated that he&#8217;d asked his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to release &#8220;any and all&#8221; pertinent Grand Jury testimony on Epstein that a court would allow.</p>
  792. <p>Bondi said she was &#8220;ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.&#8221;</p>
  793. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  794. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump—we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts. <a href="https://t.co/hOXzdTcYYB">pic.twitter.com/hOXzdTcYYB</a></p>
  795. <p>&mdash; Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1946014427670851643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  796. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  797. <p>Trump has already said that he asked Bondi to release any credible evidence on Epstein to the public.</p>
  798. <p>Trump&#8217;s initial post refuting the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s report argues that if the letter was genuine, there is no chance it wouldn&#8217;t have &#8220;been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical left Lunatics years ago.&#8221;</p>
  799. <p>All of the documents in question were in the government&#8217;s possession during the Biden administration.</p>
  800. <p>&#8220;It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for &#8216;TRUMP&#8217; to have won three Elections,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!&#8221;</p>
  801. <p>While it is well-documented that Trump and Epstein were friendly when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein&#8217;s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2006, years after the two had a falling out.</p>
  802. <p>Though headlines on Epstein have driven the news cycle for the last week, with many right-wing commentators and influencers criticizing Trump&#8217;s handling of the situation, it appears to have had no standing on Trump&#8217;s voters. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/x-isnt-real-life-cnn-data-guru-throws-wet-blanket-on-dem-plans-to-leverage-epstein-drama?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98X+Isn%E2%80%99t+Real+Life%E2%80%99%3A+CNN+Data+Guru+Throws+Wet+Blanket+On+Dem+Plans+To+Leverage+Epstein+Drama">Polling shows</a> that Trump&#8217;s approval rating has gone up with Republican voters since the Epstein announcement.</p>
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  805.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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  809.      <title>CBS Cans Ultra-Leftist Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’: ‘All Just Going Away’</title>
  810.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-cans-ultra-leftist-stephen-colberts-late-show-all-just-going-away</link>
  811.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  812.      <description>CBS will pull the plug on late-night comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” next year in a “purely financial decision,” the network announced on Thursday. Colbert’s late-night comedy news show will air its final episode in May 2026, according to a statement released by CBS. The announcement marked the end of a nearly 11-year run ...</description>
  813.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CBS will pull the plug on late-night comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” next year in a “purely financial decision,” the network announced on Thursday.</span></p>
  814. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colbert’s late-night comedy news show will air its final episode in May 2026, according to a statement released by CBS. The announcement marked the end of a nearly 11-year run Colbert has had hosting “The Late Show,” which first began in 1993 under former host David Letterman.</span></p>
  815. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The network said that it is scrapping “The Late Show” franchise and will not move on to another host after Colbert.</span></p>
  816. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘THE LATE SHOW’ franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television,” CBS said in a statement.</span></p>
  817. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” it continued.</span></p>
  818. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colbert announced the news from his host chair at the top of his Thursday episode.</span></p>
  819. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away,” Colbert said.</span></p>
  820. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, who was a guest on Colbert’s program on Thursday night, suggested on social media that the cancelation of “The Late Show” may be about more than purely “financial reasons.”</span></p>
  821. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better,” Schiff said in a post on X.</span></p>
  822. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  823. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled.</p>
  824. <p>If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.</p>
  825. <p>&mdash; Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1945991349339042169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  826. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  827. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  828. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The end of “The Late Show” comes as late-night comedy programming has seen a severe decline in recent years. Colbert’s show has seen a significant </span><a href="https://fortune.com/2024/10/25/late-night-tv-shows-fading-colbert-leading-late-audience-drop-32/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">decline</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  829. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CBS saluted Colbert in its statement announcing an end to “The Late Show” after more than three decades.</span></p>
  830. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The show has been #1 in late night for nine straight seasons; Stephen&#8217;s comedy resonates daily across digital and social media; and the broadcast is a staple of the nation’s zeitgeist,” said CBS. “The accomplishments of ‘THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT’ are memorable and significant in performance, quality and stature. With much gratitude, we look forward to honoring Stephen and celebrating the show over the next 10 months alongside its millions of fans and viewers.”</span></p>
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  833.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:55:56 GMT</pubDate>
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  837.      <title>U.S. Economy Will Boom Under Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda, New Report Shows</title>
  838.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-economy-will-boom-under-trumps-energy-dominance-agenda-new-report-shows</link>
  839.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  840.      <description>President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s energy dominance agenda could raise the United States GDP by up to 1.9% within the next decade, according to a new report. The White House Council of Economic Advisors released a report on the impact of Trump’s energy policies and deregulation on Thursday. Experts estimated that additional energy production alongside deregulatory policies ...</description>
  841.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump&#8217;s energy dominance agenda could raise the United States GDP by up to 1.9% within the next decade, according to a new report.</span></p>
  842. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The White House Council of Economic Advisors released a </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-Economic-Benefits-of-Unleashing-American-Energy.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the impact of Trump’s energy policies and deregulation on Thursday. Experts estimated that additional energy production alongside deregulatory policies could bolster economic growth in the United States, growing GDP “by at least 0.56-1.90 percent by 2035.”</span></p>
  843. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Unleashing energy abundance was key to the historic job, wage, economic, and investment growth that President Trump delivered during his first term,” White House spoeksman Kush Desai told The Daily Wire in a statement. “Energy abundance is again key for President Trump’s second term push to cement America’s dominance in AI and restore our industrial base, and the Administration is committed to pulling every stop to power the restoration of American Greatness.”</span></p>
  844. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The report identified a few key weak points in the United States’ current energy production and distribution system, such as long delays for government approvals, aging infrastructure, and supply chains for critical minerals that run through “unreliable or adversarial sources.” But the United States sits upon a wealth of natural resources that contributed to the country being the “world’s leading producer of petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear power” in 2023.</span></p>
  845. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this month, a Department of Energy report </span><a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-releases-report-evaluating-us-grid-reliability-and-security"><span style="font-weight: 400;">estimated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that blackouts across the United States “could increase by 100 times in 2030 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity.”</span></p>
  846. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration wants to accelerate U.S. energy production in part because the country’s budding AI industry uses massive amounts of electricity.</span></p>
  847. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“By some estimates, executing a ChatGPT prompt can be 10 times more energy intensive than a Google search,” the report states.</span></p>
  848. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By 2030, AI data processing centers in the United States will use more electricity than the “production of aluminum, steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined,” according to the International Energy Agency.</span></p>
  849. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With AI development could come meaningful increases in production.</span></p>
  850. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If half of U.S. businesses engage in widespread use of AI by 2034, the annual productivity growth of labor could be 1.5 percentage points higher starting in 2034 than it would otherwise be without widespread AI adoption. This boost in labor productivity could, in turn, increase GDP growth by 0.4 percent in 2034,” the report states.</span></p>
  851. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The surging demand for electricity by AI data centers could lead to price spikes for energy consumers. In order to prevent that, the report states that the United States needs to build out energy production from relatively inexpensive, reliable sources, such as natural gas.</span></p>
  852. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[C]ombined-cycle natural gas power plants are currently the lowest-cost reliable power generation option in the U.S., with a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of about $30 per megawatt-hour,” the report states. The price for energy output from natural gas is much lower than renewables, which the report priced at “$45-$55 per MWh” because of the additional cost of building batteries to ensure reliable energy when solar panels and wind turbines are not able to generate electricity.</span></p>
  853. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration is also slowing the retirement of nuclear and coal plants to avoid large gaps in electrical production from lost sources. Other plants, such as Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant, may be revived and put back into the U.S. electrical grid.</span></p>
  854. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to protecting, reviving, and building energy production, the administration is also working through a slew of deregulatory plans to streamline government approvals and encourage quicker energy development, including reforms to landmark environmental regulations such as the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.</span></p>
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  857.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:17:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  861.      <title>Shane Gillis Destroys The ESPYs … And Wokeness</title>
  862.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/shane-gillis-destroys-the-espys-and-wokeness</link>
  863.      <dc:creator>Ben Shapiro</dc:creator>
  864.      <description>Not all comedic heroes wear capes. Shane Gillis — who was on SNL and canceled on SNL before he ever did an episode, then was rehabbed because we now live in the post-cancel culture era — has become one of the most famous comedians in the country.  Somehow, some way, Shane Gillis, who is incredibly ...</description>
  865.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not all comedic heroes wear capes.</span></p>
  866. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shane Gillis — who was on SNL and canceled on SNL before he ever did an episode, then was rehabbed because we now live in the post-cancel culture era — has become one of the most famous comedians in the country. </span></p>
  867. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Somehow, some way, Shane Gillis, who is incredibly politically incorrect, who is willing to go all the way to the edge on his jokes, and who probably has some rather conservative leanings, was hired to be the host at the ESPYs.</span></p>
  868. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I just enjoyed the living hell out of this, and I wanted to share it with you because it is really funny and indicative of the fact that if you are a comedian who is not of the radical Left, people on the Left get </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">very </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">angry at you.</span></p>
  869. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They won&#8217;t laugh at you. They leave you hanging. </span></p>
  870. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Shane Gillis simply doesn&#8217;t care, and that&#8217;s what makes him unbelievably charming.</span></p>
  871. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ESPYs are typically an exercise in pandering. Because ESPN is a left-wing network, they go out of their way to play into left-wing social tropes. </span></p>
  872. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shane Gillis didn&#8217;t do that. Instead, he started taking shots, and a bunch of people caught strays. </span></p>
  873. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gillis on WNBA star Caitlin Clark: “When Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she&#8217;s going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most: Fist-fighting black women.”</span></p>
  874. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That was a riff on the fact that the WNBA turns into a hockey game when Caitlin Clark plays because she&#8217;s bullied by various members of the WNBA contingent, who are mostly black, supposedly because she&#8217;s being favored by the league for being white.</span></p>
  875. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even the ESPY crowd couldn&#8217;t help but love that joke.</span></p>
  876. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That wasn’t even his best WNBA joke of the night. The next one was an all-timer: “Four-time WNBA All-Star Brittany Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittney, everybody,&#8221; which was followed by tepid applause. “I&#8217;m joking around. That&#8217;s my friend&#8217;s wife. I knew none of you knew WNBA players.”</span></p>
  877. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ESPN, of course, has a pretty large stake in the WNBA doing well. Thus, Gillis taking an enormous dump on the entire league is pretty spectacular stuff. </span></p>
  878. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also launched a really good immigration joke as well: “Joe Rogan actually wanted me to be here to host this award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because Joe thinks he&#8217;s an alien, and Donald Trump wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto for the same reason. It&#8217;s an alien joke. Who booed up there? Shut up.”</span></p>
  879. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What was funny about this is that people seemed a little bit uptight about it. That&#8217;s not even a right-wing joke. It’s not clear where his sympathies lay in that joke, but people are just so used to left-wing humor that the fact that the joke was not a left-wing joke left them absolutely puzzled.</span></p>
  880. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gillis also did a January 6 joke and an Epstein joke. He said, “Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn. The last time he staged a fight in D.C., Mike Pence almost died. You don’t have to do that &#8230; I didn&#8217;t write it. Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but I guess it got deleted. Probably deleted itself, right? Probably never existed, actually. Let&#8217;s move on as a country and ignore that.”</span></p>
  881. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s worth checking out his full set. He did end with a fitting tribute to Norm Macdonald, who told an </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgHWStNUpvo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">O.J. Simpson joke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the ESPYs long ago that basically got him canceled from ESPN.</span></p>
  882. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There&#8217;s one thing I want to say before I get out of here, and this is a dumb joke,” Gillis said. “You guys aren&#8217;t gonna like it, but it was just a Norm MacDonald joke that I loved when he hosted the ESPYs, and I&#8217;m gonna do it now: ‘Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy this year. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He&#8217;s the first defensive player since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman. Congratulations, Travis Hunter winning the Heisman. That&#8217;s something they can never take away from you unless you kill your wife and a waiter, in which case they can take that away from you.’”</span></p>
  883. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full props to Shane Gillis for doing the thing that nobody at ESPN wanted him to do.</span></p>
  884. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whichever general manager decided that Shane Gillis was going to be the host of the ESPYs doesn&#8217;t have a job today, but you know what, sir or madam, hats off to you. </span></p>
  885. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Excellent. Well done, Shane Gillis.</span></p>
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  892.      <title>Karoline Leavitt Celebrates Closure Of Transgender Hospital Programs For Kids: ‘Barbaric Procedures’</title>
  893.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-celebrates-closure-of-transgender-hospital-programs-for-kids-barbaric-procedures</link>
  894.      <dc:creator>Mary Margaret Olohan</dc:creator>
  895.      <description>WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated news Thursday that multiple hospitals have halted their transgender procedures for children, telling reporters that President Donald Trump &amp;#8220;wants to protect the innocence of children.&amp;#8221; Leavitt highlighted news that the largest provider of so-called &amp;#8220;gender-affirming care,&amp;#8221; the Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Children’s ...</description>
  896.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated news Thursday that multiple hospitals have halted their transgender procedures for children, telling reporters that President Donald Trump &#8220;wants to protect the innocence of children.&#8221;</p>
  897. <p>Leavitt highlighted news that the largest provider of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care,&#8221; the Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/la-trans-youth-center-closing-34d27684692c95b4f7c3266c55a71d38">is closing in response</a> to the Trump administration&#8217;s promise to cut federal funding for institutions that are transitioning children.</p>
  898. <p>That program is one of a number that are shutting down or halting the irreversible treatments for children — Chicago&#8217;s Rush University Medical Center &#8220;paused&#8221; puberty blocker and hormone replacement therapy for children, according to policy documents <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/15/rush-medical-center-rolls-back-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-as-pressure-from-trump-mounts/">covered by a local outlet</a>.</p>
  899. <p>Asked by The Daily Wire during the White House press briefing on Thursday if the nation should expect to see more closures, Leavitt responded: &#8220;The president spoke a lot about this issue, which is a political issue, but also really a cultural issue that impacts children and families. He talked about it a lot on the campaign, and I think he was quite surprised by the uptick we were seeing in the embracement by the Democrat Party when it comes to the chemical castration and mutilation of young, innocent bodies.&#8221;</p>
  900. <div id="attachment_948775" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-celebrates-closure-of-transgender-hospital-programs-for-kids-barbaric-procedures/media-briefing-held-by-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-2" rel="attachment wp-att-948775"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-948775" class="wp-image-948775 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-948775" class="wp-caption-text">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JULY 17: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calls on reporters during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</p></div>
  901. <p>&#8220;The president made it a very early priority to sign very strong executive orders to cut off the funding for any hospital or any medical facility in this country that provides such barbaric procedures,&#8221; Leavitt stressed. &#8220;And, as a result of that strong policy and the president&#8217;s strong common sense position on this issue, we&#8217;ve had such an overwhelming response, which is great for children &#8230;&#8221;</p>
  902. <p>The White House press secretary then listed off a number of these hospitals that have halted their transgender programs for children.</p>
  903. <p>&#8220;Phoenix Children&#8217;s Hospital has stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In California, Stanford Medicine ended sex change surgeries for minors. Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles is closing its center for Trans Youth Health and Development surgical program. In Illinois, Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago stopped sex change surgeries.&#8221;</p>
  904. <p>&#8220;Again, let&#8217;s think about what we&#8217;re talking about here,&#8221; Leavitt told the assembled reporters. &#8220;Sex change surgeries for minors. These are barbaric practices that no children, no child, innocent child should have to endure.&#8221;</p>
  905. <p>&#8220;The president wants to protect the innocence of children, and I know the vast majority of Americans support him in that effort,&#8221; she added. &#8220;This is a wildly popular and common sense endeavor this administration has taken, and we&#8217;ve seen many of these medical institutions have followed through with the president&#8217;s executive orders, but we’ll continue to take further action on this important issue.”</p>
  906. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  907. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">President Trump’s bold executive actions are protecting American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation and the facilities that offer these barbaric services are shutting down as a result.</p>
  908. <p>Thanks to President Trump, gender ideology insanity is over. <a href="https://t.co/ZvXALDaQae">pic.twitter.com/ZvXALDaQae</a></p>
  909. <p>— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1945965076789305807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  910. <p>In an X post following the briefing, Leavitt again celebrated the news, tweeting: &#8220;President Trump’s bold executive actions are protecting American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation and the facilities that offer these barbaric services are shutting down as a result.&#8221;</p>
  911. <p>&#8220;Thanks to President Trump,&#8221; she added, &#8220;gender ideology insanity is over.&#8221;</p>
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  914.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:16:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  918.      <title>Nigel Farage Slams U.K. Labour Push For 16-Year-Old Voters, Plans A ‘Nasty Surprise’ For Starmer</title>
  919.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/nigel-farage-slams-u-k-labour-push-for-16-year-old-voters-plans-a-nasty-surprise-for-starmer</link>
  920.      <dc:creator>Nathan Gay</dc:creator>
  921.      <description>The U.K. Labour government unveiled a controversial plan this week to lower the voting age to 16 ahead of the next general election, in what many conservatives are calling a blatant attempt to sway the next election in their favor. Nigel Farage, leader of Reform U.K., called the move “an attempt to rig the political ...</description>
  922.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.K. Labour government unveiled a controversial plan this week to lower the voting age to 16 ahead of the next general election, in what many conservatives are calling a blatant attempt to sway the next election in their favor.</p>
  923. <p>Nigel Farage, leader of Reform U.K., called the move “an attempt to rig the political system,” but warned they “intend to give them a nasty surprise.” While Labour currently <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2083204/nigel-farage-votes-16-Labour">leads</a> among 16-17-year-olds with approximately 33% support, Reform U.K.’s strong 20% showing suggests the plan could backfire on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.</p>
  924. <p>Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner defended the controversial proposal, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628ep4j5kno">saying</a>, “I was a mum at 16, you can go to work, you can pay your taxes and I think that people should have a vote at 16,” according to the BBC.</p>
  925. <p>The voting age change would affect approximately 3% of the U.K. population aged 16 and over. Labour insists the reform isn’t designed to benefit their party, with Rayner claiming, “This isn’t about trying to rig votes for a particular party. This is about democracy and giving young people an opportunity to have a say.”</p>
  926. <p>Speaking in a video posted to X, Farage expanded on his criticism of the proposal.</p>
  927. <p>“The problem with this is, not only do half of youngsters not want the vote, but they have to stay at school now until they’re 18,” Farage said in a video shared to X. “The educational establishment is full of left-wing prejudice, is full of anti-reform bias, and frankly, if 16- to 18-year-olds at school are going to be able to vote, we’re going to have to make sure that our education system is teaching kids to make their own minds up and not indoctrinating them.”</p>
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  929. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Giving 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote is an attempt to rig the political system. </p>
  930. <p>If this goes ahead, Labour could be in for a shock. <a href="https://t.co/CF9GYfRfFP">pic.twitter.com/CF9GYfRfFP</a></p>
  931. <p>&mdash; Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1945837816727908842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  932. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  933. <p>Conservative shadow minister Paul Holmes slammed the policy in the House of Commons, questioning why the “hopelessly confused” government believes “a 16-year-old can vote, but not be allowed to buy a lottery ticket, an alcoholic drink, marry, or go to war, or even stand in the elections they’re voting in?”</p>
  934. <p>Reform U.K. already maintains significant influence among younger demographics on social media, with Farage commanding 1.3 million TikTok followers compared to Labour’s official account, which has just 231,300 followers.</p>
  935. <p>According to Ofcom, 44% of British TikTok users who get news from the platform rely more on “other people they follow” than traditional news outlets.</p>
  936. <p>YouGov polling from June showed that Labour support among 18 to 24-year-olds has dropped by 11% since last year’s general election, while Reform U.K. has seen corresponding gains in the same demographic, <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2083263/keir-starmer-voting-age-nigel-farage">per</a> Lotti O’Brien of Express U.K.</p>
  937. <p>The voting age change is part of a broader elections reform package introduced by Starmer’s government.</p>
  938. <p>Other measures include expanding acceptable voter ID to include U.K.-issued bank cards and implementing an automated voter registration system that would share data between government agencies — policies the Conservative Party warns could “undermine the security of the ballot box.”</p>
  939. <p>The government, if the legislation passes through parliament, as anticipated, expects to implement these changes before the next general election, which must take place by 2029, but could be called earlier.</p>
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  946.      <title>House Sends GENIUS Act To Trump, Passes Two Other Crypto Bills</title>
  947.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-sends-genius-act-to-trump-passes-two-other-crypto-bills</link>
  948.      <dc:creator>Daniel Chaitin</dc:creator>
  949.      <description>The GOP-led House passed a trio of bills on Thursday that are poised to have a tremendous impact on the cryptocurrency space in the United States. Members voted 308-122 in favor of the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin regulation bill that already passed through the Senate. The legislation now heads to the White House, where President ...</description>
  950.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The GOP-led House passed a trio of bills on Thursday that are poised to have a tremendous impact on the cryptocurrency space in the United States.</p>
  951. <p>Members voted <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">308-122</a> in favor of the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1582/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GENIUS Act</a>, a stablecoin regulation bill that already passed through the Senate. The legislation now heads to the White House, where President Donald Trump is expected to sign it. House lawmakers also approved the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3633/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025</a>, legislation from Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R-AR) that aims to provide a &#8220;system of regulation&#8221; for digital commodity sales by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, by a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">294-134</a> vote.</p>
  952. <p>&#8220;The Web 3 race is here, implementing clear regulations with CLARITY and GENIUS will protect consumers and ensure U.S. leadership in digital assets,&#8221; Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), chairman of the Crypto Subcommittee, <a href="https://x.com/RepBryanSteil/status/1945903351083716903" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.</p>
  953. <p>In addition, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5403/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act</a>, a measure that seeks to prohibit the Federal reserve banks from issuing their own digital currency or using one to implement monetary policy, prevailed in a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">219-210</a> vote. That bill is set to be included in the National Defense Authorization Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2296/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NDAA</a>) as part of a <a href="https://x.com/RepAndyHarrisMD/status/1945681755559924107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal</a> with conservatives who held out during a procedural rule vote that <a href="https://x.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1945677323040354398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lasted</a> a record-breaking nine hours and 45 minutes.</p>
  954. <p>&#8220;Attaching our Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act to the NDAA will ensure unelected bureaucrats are NEVER allowed to trade Americans’ financial privacy for a CCP-style surveillance tool,&#8221; House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) <a href="https://x.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1945677323040354398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;[Trump] has made it clear: our legislation is a key piece of our America First agenda, and we will deliver.&#8221;</p>
  955. <p>Many, but not all, Democrats voted against the bills. In fact, nearly half of them voted for the Genius Act. Those who opposed the proposals warned they would benefit a Trump family crypto venture and possibly cause a financial calamity.</p>
  956. <p>The &#8220;GOP crypto bills don’t just fail to protect consumers, they greenlight Trump’s billion-dollar crypto grift and invite the next financial crisis,&#8221; read a <a href="https://x.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1945151846433140920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking member of the Financial Services Committee.</p>
  957. <p>A handful of House Republicans voted against the GENIUS Act, too, amid concerns about it allowing a <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1945880979949891750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;back door&#8221;</a> to a central bank digital currency one day that could infringe upon financial privacy — if the Senate ends up not approving the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.</p>
  958. <p>For now, Trump has an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> that calls for policies that prevent a CBDC in the United States.</p>
  959. <p>A bipartisan group of senators united in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-vote-pushes-u-s-toward-becoming-the-global-leader-in-crypto?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Senate+Vote+Pushes+U.S.+Toward+Becoming+%E2%80%98The+Global+Leader+In+Crypto%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">68-30 vote</a> in June to pass the GENIUS Act. It seeks to create a framework for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-gop-leaders-pledge-major-crypto-bills-in-first-100-days" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stablecoins</a>, which are significant in digital asset exchanges and pegged to stable assets such as the U.S. dollar.</p>
  960. <p>“The GENIUS Act will cement U.S. dollar dominance, protect customers, drive demand for U.S. Treasuries, &amp; ensure that digital asset innovation happens in the U.S., not overseas,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), the bill&#8217;s sponsor, <a href="https://x.com/SenatorHagerty/status/1935074302396649918" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;With this bill, we are one step closer to becoming the global leader in crypto.&#8221;</p>
  961. <p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that a signing ceremony for the GENIUS Act was being planned for Friday afternoon.</p>
  962. <p>“This piece of legislation is going to make America the crypto capital of the world, and that&#8217;s what the president promised,&#8221; Leavitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxH7sgAzPvM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
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  965.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  969.      <title>Annoying Libs Just Don’t Learn: The Biggest Ways Dems Have Fallen Right Back Into Wokeness</title>
  970.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/annoying-libs-just-dont-learn-the-biggest-ways-dems-have-fallen-right-back-into-wokeness</link>
  971.      <dc:creator>Daily Wire Shop</dc:creator>
  972.      <description>For a brief period of time after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, there was talk of the Democratic Party finally learning from the clear lesson taught by the American people. But in the eight months since the election, Democrats have shown that they didn’t learn anything, and they’re just as annoying and woke as ever.  ...</description>
  973.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a brief period of time after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, there was talk of the Democratic Party finally learning from the clear lesson taught by the American people. But in the eight months since the election, Democrats have shown that they didn’t learn anything, and they’re just as annoying and woke as ever. </span></p>
  974. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From their attacks on Trump’s immigration agenda and ICE agents to their defense of socialism and massive government spending, liberals are doubling down on all of the things that sent them to the woodshed on November 5, 2024. </span></p>
  975. <h3><b>Crying over Deportations</b></h3>
  976. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the entire 2024 campaign, Trump was clear on his goal to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history, and a majority of voters approved of the plan, giving Trump the mandate to get cracking on booting illegal immigrants from the country. Instead of adjusting their position on deportations to fit with the will of the people, Democrats just cried about the issue even louder. </span></p>
  977. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leftists’ temper tantrums over deportations have also turned into referring to ICE agents as “</span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/progressive-dem-rep-faces-backlash-calling-ice-nazi-thugs-defending-ms-13-gang-member"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nazi thugs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” and a </span><a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-ice-acting-director-todd-m-lyons-minnesota-gov-tim-walzs-anti-ice-comments"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“modern-day Gestapo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” </span></p>
  978. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats’ rhetoric on the issue has been blasted by the Trump administration, which has pointed to an </span><a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/15/dhs-announces-ice-law-enforcement-are-now-facing-830-percent-increase-assaults"><span style="font-weight: 400;">800% increase</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in violence toward immigration agents, including armed assaults on Border Patrol and ICE officers. </span></p>
  979. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leftist protesters and rioters opposing the ICE operations have also </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-to-liberate-los-angeles-shut-down-migrant-riots-and-insurrectionist-mobs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clashed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with police officers and agents and </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idiots-massive-drug-bust-impeded-by-anti-ice-protesters-sheriff-says"><span style="font-weight: 400;">impeded</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> law enforcement duties. Talk about annoying … and dangerous! One Arizona sheriff summed it up perfectly: “They don’t have individual thought, they have group think.”</span></p>
  980. <h3><b>Defending Massive Government Spending on Wokeness</b></h3>
  981. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another main goal for the Trump administration has been to strip out unnecessary government spending and dismantle wasteful government agencies and programs. Of course, this too riled up the Democrats, who couldn’t bear the thought of people in Iraq going without their own </span><a href="https://x.com/DOGE/status/1871397453720695148"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sesame Street</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and people in Africa going without </span><a href="https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/us-aid-cuts-leave-dollar11-million-in-birth-control-supplies-for-sub-saharan-africa/jqe9l80#google_vignette"><span style="font-weight: 400;">birth control</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (yes, those were real things your government was spending money on). </span></p>
  982. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most recently, Democrats are upset that the Left-leaning National Public Radio’s government funding is also getting axed. Yeah, the same NPR that </span><a href="https://cloud.house.gov/posts/npr-chief-admits-dismissing-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-a-mistake"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it wasn’t going to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 because it didn’t “want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” </span></p>
  983. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And it gets worse. In 2024, NPR ran a Valentine’s Day segment on “</span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1198909355/valentines-day-relationships-gay-animals-nature"><span style="font-weight: 400;">queer animals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” Two years prior, it </span><a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/01/14/fight-for-dinosaur-emoji"><span style="font-weight: 400;">discussed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the  “whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts” and “trans-ceratops.” Yep, those are your tax dollars hard at work over at NPR. </span></p>
  984. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did Democrats admit that maybe NPR went a little overboard on the leftism? Nope! Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-WI) </span><a href="https://x.com/SenDuckworth/status/1945637648086761889"><span style="font-weight: 400;">claimed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that NPR is vital for public safety, saying that it’s important for “emergency alerts, disaster updates, the weather and other reliable news.” Sure, Tammy. Because everyone you know only ever listens to NPR for breaking news. </span></p>
  985. <h3><b>Pushing Socialism</b></h3>
  986. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leftists already have their attention on the next round of elections in 2025 and 2026. Common sense would suggest that this time around, they’ll push more moderate candidates … but Democrats aren’t big fans of common sense. Instead, they’re pushing a </span><a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/top-videos/zohran-mamdani-divides-democrats-with-socialist-platform-house-leader-chuck-schumer-endorse-president-donald-trump-eric-adams-hakeem-jeffries"><span style="font-weight: 400;">radical socialist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (possibly full-blown </span><a href="https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1940556297021411558"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marxist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">?) candidate in this year’s New York City mayoral race, while </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/23/aoc-mainstream-democrat-dnc-00175955"><span style="font-weight: 400;">socialists</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-apologies-bernie-sanders-221k-spent-private-jets-fighting-oligarchy-tour"><span style="font-weight: 400;">traveled</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the country on a “Fight the Oligarchy” tour, seeking to stir up the leftist base for the Democratic Party. </span></p>
  987. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Assemblymember [Zohran] Mamdani has demonstrated a real ability on the ground to put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers that is strongest to lead the pack,” AOC </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/nyregion/aoc-endorse-mamdani-mayor.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in her endorsement, which helped lead Mamdani to a Democratic primary victory last month. </span></p>
  988. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even after the Red Wave that pushed Trump and Republicans over the top in 2024, Democrats keep whining about conservative policies and running to the Left. And then they wonder why Americans reject their craziness.</span></p>
  989. <h3>***</h3>
  990. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are unkempt, unshaven radicals annoying you? Don’t give in to their leftist myths and reject wokeness with Jeremy’s Razors. </span></p>
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  994. <p><em>Jeremy&#8217;s Razors shares common ownership with The Daily Wire. </em></p>
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  997.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:59:30 GMT</pubDate>
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  1001.      <title>Justice Dept Probing Another University Over Racially-Based Hiring Goals</title>
  1002.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-dept-probing-another-university-over-racially-based-hiring-goals</link>
  1003.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  1004.      <description>The Department of Justice opened up an investigation into George Mason University on Thursday over employment practices that may discriminate against white people and men. In a letter to the university, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stated that the investigation would focus on whether the university had violated ...</description>
  1005.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Justice opened up an investigation into George Mason University on Thursday over employment practices that may discriminate against white people and men.</span></p>
  1006. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1408276/dl">letter</a> to the university, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stated that the investigation would focus on whether the university had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which addresses employment discrimination.</span></p>
  1007. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is unlawful and un-American to deny equal access to employment opportunities on the basis of race and sex,” Dhillon said. “When employers screen out qualified candidates from the hiring process, they not only erode trust in our public institutions — they violate the law, and the Justice Department will investigate accordingly.”</span></p>
  1008. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dhillon’s letter said that the actions of University President Gregory Washington were the focus of the investigation.</span></p>
  1009. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The investigation stems from statements and policies made by the University’s president, which indicate that race and sex are motivating factors in faculty hiring and other employment decisions to achieve ‘diversity’ goals,” the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-investigation-employment-practices-george-mason-university">said</a>. “Multiple emails and internal documents suggest preferential treatment of certain races and sexes in hiring and other employment practices, including promotion and tenure of faculty members.”</span></p>
  1010. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an email from July 23, 2020, Washington said he wanted to “develop” a “renewal, promotion, and tenure process” to help “faculty of color and women in their professional work.”</span></p>
  1011. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In that same email, Washington said that he was working to “develop specific mechanisms in the promotion and tenure process that recognize the invisible and uncredited emotional labor that people of color expend to learn, teach, discover, and work on campus.”</span></p>
  1012. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dhillon also said that the university would intentionally list race on faculty member hiring panels “to ensure greater non-white participation in the hiring process.”</span></p>
  1013. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, the Department of Education also <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-opens-title-vi-investigation-george-mason-university">launched</a> a Title VII investigation into George Mason over its hiring policies. The investigation was launched after the department received a complaint from multiple professors alleging racial discrimination.</span></p>
  1014. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The university denied any wrongdoing in response to the Education Department investigation.</span></p>
  1015. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I can assure you that George Mason has always operated with a commitment to equality under the law, ever since our inception. It is simply the Mason way, and in my experience, it has not discriminated based on race, color, national origin, or otherwise,” Washington <a href="https://www.gmu.edu/news/2025-07/update-university-response-investigations">said</a>. “Our diversity efforts are designed to expand opportunity and build inclusive excellence – not to exclude or advantage any group unlawfully.”</span></p>
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  1018.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:29:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  1022.      <title>‘Every Innocent Life Lost Is A Tragedy’: Netanyahu’s Statement After IDF Mistakenly Hits Catholic Church</title>
  1023.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-innocent-life-lost-is-a-tragedy-netanyahus-statement-after-idf-mistakenly-hits-catholic-church</link>
  1024.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  1025.      <description>On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the deaths of three people killed when a missile launched by an Israel Defense Forces tank inadvertently struck a Catholic church in Gaza. On Thursday morning, a stray missile struck the Holy Family Church; nine people were also injured, one of whom is in critical condition. &amp;#8220;Israel ...</description>
  1026.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the deaths of three people killed when a missile launched by an Israel Defense Forces tank inadvertently struck a Catholic church in Gaza.</p>
  1027. <p style="font-weight: 400;">On Thursday morning, a stray missile struck the Holy Family Church; nine people were also injured, one of whom is in critical condition.</p>
  1028. <p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Israel deeply regrets that a stray ammunition hit Gaza&#8217;s Holy Family Church,&#8221; Netanyahu said, as Israel National News <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411846">reported</a>. &#8220;Every innocent life lost is a tragedy. We share the grief of the families and the faithful. We are grateful to Pope Leo for his words of comfort. Israel is investigating the incident and remains committed to protecting Holy Family Church on Thursday morning. One of the injured is in critical condition. civilians and holy sites.&#8221;</p>
  1029. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Israel expresses deep sorrow over the damage to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City and over any civilian casualty,” Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Oren Marmorstein <a href="https://x.com/OrenMarmorstein/status/1945790701280649412?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">stated</a> on X. “The IDF is examining this incident, the circumstances of which are still unclear, and the results of the investigation will be published transparently. Israel never targets churches or religious sites and regrets any harm to a religious site or to uninvolved civilians.”</p>
  1030. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The IDF issued a statement saying, &#8220;The IDF is aware of reports regarding damage caused to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City and casualties at the scene. The circumstances of the incident are under review. The IDF makes every feasible effort to mitigate harm to civilians and civilian structures, including religious sites, and regrets any damage caused to them.&#8221;</p>
  1031. <p style="font-weight: 400;">A telegram sent by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on behalf of Pope Leo <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-demands-ceasefire-after-gazas-catholic-church-hit-apparent-israeli-strike">read</a>, &#8220;His Holiness Pope Leo XIV was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, and he assures the parish priest, Father Gabriele Romanelli, and the whole parish community of his spiritual closeness.” Pope Leo also apparently called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.</p>
  1032. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The terrorist group still holds roughly 50 hostages from its October 7, 2023, massacre of over 1,200 Israelis. Although only 20 are believed to be alive, Hamas has not released them or the bodies of the dead hostages.</p>
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  1035.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:14:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  1039.      <title>To Celebrate NPR Losing Federal Funds, Here Are Seven Of Its Worst Stories</title>
  1040.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/to-celebrate-npr-losing-federal-funds-here-are-seven-of-its-worst-stories</link>
  1041.      <dc:creator>Catherine Maxwell</dc:creator>
  1042.      <description>The Senate voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to end federal funding of NPR programs deemed wasteful and ideologically driven. Liberals say the move will reduce safety warnings for rural America, while conservatives point out that NPR has a history of pushing leftist narratives. To celebrate ending its federal funding, here are some ...</description>
  1043.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Senate voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taking-back-control-senate-votes-to-claw-back-9b-from-foreign-aid-public-broadcasting?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Taking+Back+Control%E2%80%99%3A+Senate+Votes+To+Claw+Back+%249B+From+Foreign+Aid%2C+Public+Broadcasting">end</a> federal funding of NPR programs deemed wasteful and ideologically driven. Liberals say the move will reduce safety warnings for rural America, while conservatives point out that NPR has a history of pushing leftist narratives.</p>
  1044. <p>To celebrate ending its federal funding, here are some of the worst NPR articles from over the years.</p>
  1045. <h3><strong>Hunter Biden&#8217;s Laptop Is A &#8220;Pure Distraction&#8221;</strong></h3>
  1046. <p>When the New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop in 2020, media outlets rushed to suppress the story. NPR decided not to cover it at all, saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don&#8217;t want to waste listeners&#8217; and readers&#8217; time on stories that are just pure distractions.&#8221;</p>
  1047. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1048. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Why haven&#8217;t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post&#8217;s Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week&#8217;s newsletter➡️ <a href="https://t.co/CJesPgmGvo">https://t.co/CJesPgmGvo</a> <a href="https://t.co/jAi7PnpbZf">pic.twitter.com/jAi7PnpbZf</a></p>
  1049. <p>— NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
  1050. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1051. <p>In an &#8220;analysis&#8221; of the story, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924506867/analysis-questionable-n-y-post-scoop-driven-by-ex-hannity-producer-giuliani">said</a> the Post&#8217;s scoop was &#8220;marked more by red flags than investigative rigor.&#8221;</p>
  1052. <p>In 2022, NPR quietly <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125968090/rents-dropped-last-month-but-will-the-trend-continue-hunter-bidens-laptop">admitted</a> the Hunter Biden story might have been worth paying attention to, after all.</p>
  1053. <h3><strong>Consider The &#8220;Gay Asylum-Seekers&#8221;</strong></h3>
  1054. <p>One story NPR did find worth covering was a 2021 <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/960455101/trump-years-were-terrifying-for-gay-asylum-seeker">piece</a> titled &#8220;Trump Years Were Terrifying For Gay Asylum-Seeker.&#8221;</p>
  1055. <p>The piece explains the life of a gay man afraid of being deported during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.</p>
  1056. <p>Gay immigrants seem to be one of NPR&#8217;s favorite topics. You can read about gay Muslims <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/05/572985673/chechnyas-lgbt-muslim-refugees-struggle-to-cope-in-exile">living</a> in Russia, gay refugees <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084321690/lgbtq-refugees-fleeing-ukraine-face-discrimination-in-countries-with-anti-gay-la">fleeing</a> Ukraine, gay refugees from <a href="https://www.npr.org/2014/02/24/282123664/how-will-ugandan-gay-refugees-be-received-by-u-s">Uganda</a>, or a Mexican shelter for gay immigrants <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1220480721/immigration-lgbtq-violence-asylum">coming</a> to the United States — and that&#8217;s not even half of NPR&#8217;s gay immigrant coverage.</p>
  1057. <p>The Trump administration is deporting illegal immigrants because they broke the law, not because of anyone&#8217;s sexual orientation. Despite being obsessed with the subject, NPR has yet to find one immigrant who was deported for being gay.</p>
  1058. <h3><strong>Everything Is Racist</strong></h3>
  1059. <p>In 2020, NPR ran an interview <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/893006538">titled</a> &#8220;Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present.&#8221; The interview went &#8220;all the way back to the transatlantic slave trade to understand the racial origins of fat phobia.&#8221;</p>
  1060. <p>The interviewee claimed diet culture came from Europeans deciding to &#8220;be slender&#8221; to &#8220;make [them] the premier race of the world,&#8221; and added, &#8220;There are so many problems&#8221; with &#8220;telling people to lose weight.&#8221;</p>
  1061. <p><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For more NPR gems about racism, consider stories such as &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1198909207/racism-minority-health-psychology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Experiencing</a> racism may physically change your brain,&#8221; an article about how &#8220;nice white people&#8221; are <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/873375416?ft=nprml&amp;f=137959638" target="_blank" rel="noopener">still</a> racist, or a long article detailing next steps if you &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/04/416827667/so-you-flunked-a-racism-test-now-what" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flunked</a> a racism test.&#8221;</span></p>
  1062. <h3><strong>Transgender Truckers</strong></h3>
  1063. <p>Have you ever driven past a semi on the interstate and wondered if the driver was transgender? He (or she, or they) might be, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1189580630/trucking-is-getting-more-diverse-partly-due-to-a-nationwide-shortage-of-drivers">explained</a> in an interview about &#8220;diverse&#8221; trucking.</p>
  1064. <p>The interviewer talked to the founder of a company that screens trucking companies to find out if they &#8220;support LGBTQ drivers or if their health insurance covers things like trans health care.&#8221;</p>
  1065. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s trying to bridge the gap between the regular LGBTQ community and trucking community, letting them realize that there is [sic] drivers out here, that it&#8217;s a good option for a job and paying for surgeries and whatever, you know, your personal goal is,&#8221; the company&#8217;s founder said.</p>
  1066. <p>NPR also talked to a trans-identifying man to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112500881/female-truck-driver-tips">learn</a> about the world of &#8220;women truckers&#8221; and what &#8220;they tell us about about living and working alone.&#8221;</p>
  1067. <p>Brandie Diamond describes himself as a &#8220;transgender truck driver/chef/Jill-of-all-trades&#8221; who used his &#8220;windshield time … to explore her [sic] identity as a transgender woman.&#8221;</p>
  1068. <p>Alone time is a great way to plot how to change your gender, NPR seems to suggest.</p>
  1069. <h3><strong>&#8220;What&#8217;s Bugging You?&#8221;</strong></h3>
  1070. <p>In 2013, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/05/13/183676929/maybe-its-time-to-swap-burgers-for-bugs-says-u-n">ran</a> a story with the headline &#8220;Maybe It&#8217;s Time To Swap Burgers For Bugs, Says U.N.&#8221;</p>
  1071. <p>In 2017, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/14/550188017/at-bug-eating-festival-kids-crunch-down-on-the-food-of-the-future">said</a>, &#8220;At Bug-Eating Festival, Kids Crunch Down On The Food Of The Future.&#8221;</p>
  1072. <p>In 2018, the outlet <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/16/628989973/many-of-our-ancestors-ate-insects-so-what-s-bugging-you">mused</a>, &#8220;Your Ancestors Probably Ate Insects. So What&#8217;s Bugging You?&#8221;</p>
  1073. <p>And in 2023, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188237695/this-right-wing-conspiracy-theory-about-eating-bugs-is-about-as-racist-as-you-th">wondered</a> why so many conservatives were refusing to eat bugs: &#8220;This right wing conspiracy theory about eating bugs is about as racist as you think.&#8221;</p>
  1074. <p>One X user summed up the saga perfectly.</p>
  1075. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1076. <p dir="ltr" lang="qme"><a href="https://t.co/aVHK47gXsk">pic.twitter.com/aVHK47gXsk</a></p>
  1077. <p>— Cogent Curmudgeon (@1HonestLiar) <a href="https://twitter.com/1HonestLiar/status/1945707550160142388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1078. <h3><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
  1079. <strong>COVID-19 Was Not Created In A Lab</strong></h3>
  1080. <p>NPR blasted Americans who believed the &#8220;baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China,&#8221; saying &#8220;there is zero evidence for this.&#8221;</p>
  1081. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1082. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">A new poll finds 40% of respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China.</p>
  1083. <p>There is zero evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.<a href="https://t.co/GDTo2geUng">https://t.co/GDTo2geUng</a></p>
  1084. <p>— NPR (@NPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1344588336288190464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
  1085. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
  1086. The problem? The CIA now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-assesses-chinese-lab-leak-responsible-for-coronavirus-pandemic">says</a> COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China.</p>
  1087. <h3><strong>Transgender Dinosaurs</strong></h3>
  1088. <p>NPR once spent 10 minutes <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104266396/lgbtq-communitys-battle-for-the-dinosaur-emoji-key-moments-from-jan-6-hearing">describing</a> the battle between pro- and anti-trans activists over the dinosaur emoji. To help explain the controversy, the outlet spoke to a trans-identifying science writer who <a href="https://x.com/Laelaps">uses</a> she/they/it pronouns.</p>
  1089. <p>LGBT activists love dinosaurs and use terms like &#8220;allysaurus&#8221; and &#8220;transceritops,&#8221; NPR explained between updates about January 6 hearings.</p>
  1090. <p>But then anti-trans activists started using dinosaur emojis.</p>
  1091. <p>&#8220;Dinosaurs are ours,&#8221; the science writer said, even though he admitted he doesn&#8217;t know why the LGBT Subreddit loves dinosaurs so much.</p>
  1092. <p>&#8220;This is a dark day,&#8221; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in response to the NPR cuts.</p>
  1093. <p>Well, maybe it is for the transgender dinosaurs. The rest of us are just fine.</p>
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  1100.      <title>‘I’m Not Even Going To Read That’: Dana Bash Edits Trump Truth Social Post Because He Insulted CNN</title>
  1101.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-even-going-to-read-that-dana-bash-edits-trump-truth-social-post-because-he-insulted-cnn</link>
  1102.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1103.      <description>CNN anchor Dana Bash selectively edited a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump during a Tuesday broadcast, leaving out the part that included a direct swipe at both her network and MSNBC. In the post in question, Trump threatened to not endorse any Republicans who did not support the rescissions bill that would pull ...</description>
  1104.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CNN anchor Dana Bash selectively edited a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump during a Tuesday broadcast, leaving out the part that included a direct swipe at both her network and MSNBC.</p>
  1105. <p>In the post in question, Trump threatened to not endorse any Republicans who did not support the rescissions bill that would pull funding from public broadcasting giants PBS and NPR — but also jabbed at CNN and MSNBC — and Bash read the entire thing aloud, save the insult that apparently hit a little too close to home.</p>
  1106. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  1107. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1108. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">After stopping herself from reading in its entirety Trump&#8217;s Truth Social post blasting PBS and NPR as biased (&#8220;I&#8217;m not even going to read that&#8221;), CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash insists &#8220;rural communities rely on public broadcasting still&#8221;</p>
  1109. <p>Such a backward view of rural America, viewing them… <a href="https://t.co/VrCrdmCcqQ">pic.twitter.com/VrCrdmCcqQ</a></p>
  1110. <p>— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1945200325293392208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1111. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1112. <p>On &#8220;Inside Politics,&#8221; Bash read Trump&#8217;s post from start to finish, omitting only the part that targeted CNN and MSNBC.</p>
  1113. <p>The full post read, &#8220;It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions [<i>sic</i>] Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN &amp; MSDNC put together. Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement.&#8221;</p>
  1114. <p>Instead, Bash pushed ahead with the narrative claiming that &#8220;rural communities rely on public broadcasting still&#8221; in addition to public education.</p>
  1115. <p>Trump has often taken potshots at any media outlet with which he is displeased, but CNN has been a regular target of his for a number of years.</p>
  1116. <p>The president sparred with Bash — indirectly — in April when he lashed out at CNN for failing to give enough coverage to his efforts to stop the flow of illegal immigration across the southern border.</p>
  1117. <p>&#8220;Well, they get out, but the fake news, like CNN over here, doesn’t want to put them out because they don’t like putting out good numbers … because I think they hate our country, actually,&#8221; he said at the time.</p>
  1118. <p>Bash, in response, said during a subsequent broadcast, &#8220;I just want to say for the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN &#8216;hates our country.&#8217; CNN does not hate our country. That should go without saying.&#8221;</p>
  1119. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1120. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash: &#8220;CNN does not hate our country.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/QSnGVqMXWL">pic.twitter.com/QSnGVqMXWL</a></p>
  1121. <p>— TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1911835715253457401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1125.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:54:44 GMT</pubDate>
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  1129.      <title>White House Reveals Medical Condition Causing Swelling In Trump’s Legs</title>
  1130.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-reveals-medical-condition-causing-swelling-in-trumps-legs</link>
  1131.      <dc:creator>Mairead Elordi</dc:creator>
  1132.      <description>The White House addressed speculation around President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s swollen legs and bruised right hand on Thursday. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump underwent medical testing and received a diagnosis of &amp;#8220;chronic venous insufficiency&amp;#8221; in his legs, but remains in good health. &amp;#8220;I know that many in the media have been speculating about ...</description>
  1133.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The White House addressed speculation around President Donald Trump&#8217;s swollen legs and bruised right hand on Thursday.</p>
  1134. <p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump underwent medical testing and received a diagnosis of &#8220;chronic venous insufficiency&#8221; in his legs, but remains in good health.</p>
  1135. <p>&#8220;I know that many in the media have been speculating about bruising on the president&#8217;s hand and also swelling in the president&#8217;s legs,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at Thursday&#8217;s press briefing.</p>
  1136. <p>&#8220;So in the effort of transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today,&#8221; she said.</p>
  1137. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1138. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, following reports of swelling in the President&#39;s legs, per Karoline Leavitt</p>
  1139. <p>Luckily, it&#39;s nothing serious.</p>
  1140. <p>THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE HANDLED. NOT covered up like Joe Biden&#39;s illnesses!</p>
  1141. <p>&quot;An… <a href="https://t.co/Kw2tSxxAWK">pic.twitter.com/Kw2tSxxAWK</a></p>
  1142. <p>&mdash; Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1945905371023020269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1143. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1144. <p>https://x.com/maireadelordi/status/1945933315850055883</p>
  1145. <p>Leavitt read a memo from Dr. Sean Barbabella, a Navy doctor who serves as physician to the president</p>
  1146. <p>Barbabella wrote that in recent weeks, Trump noted &#8220;mild swelling in his lower legs,&#8221; and the president&#8217;s concern was &#8220;thoroughly evaluated by the White House medical unit&#8221; out of an &#8220;abundance of caution.&#8221;</p>
  1147. <p>Ultrasounds to assess blood flow in both of his legs found &#8220;chronic venous insufficiency,&#8221; which the president&#8217;s physician called a &#8220;benign, common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70.&#8221;</p>
  1148. <p>Chronic venous insufficiency involves blood pooling in the legs, sometimes causing varicose veins, and can be caused by prolonged standing.</p>
  1149. <p>Trump also got bloodwork done, including a comprehensive metabolic panel, a complete blood count, a coagulation profile, a blood clot test, a heart failure test, and testing for cardiac biomarkers, his doctor said.</p>
  1150. <p>&#8220;All results were within normal limits,&#8221; Barbabella wrote.</p>
  1151. <p>An echocardiogram also showed &#8220;normal cardiac structure and function,&#8221; the president&#8217;s physician said.</p>
  1152. <p>&#8220;Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease,&#8221; Barbabella wrote. &#8220;No signs of heart failure, renal impairment, or systemic illness were identified.&#8221;</p>
  1153. <p>Trump&#8217;s doctor also addressed recent photos of Trump showing bruising on the back of his right hand and said the culprits are aspirin and the president frequently shaking hands with people.</p>
  1154. <p>&#8220;This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard, cardiovascular prevention regimen. This is a well-known and benign side effect of aspirin therapy,&#8221; Barbabella wrote.</p>
  1155. <p>&#8220;The president remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here,&#8221; Leavitt said.</p>
  1156. <p>The White House&#8217;s detailed report on Trump&#8217;s health comes after the last administration was not as forthcoming about President Joe Biden&#8217;s health.</p>
  1157. <p>Biden&#8217;s behavior during the last years of his presidency sparked concerns among the public that he might already be senile. His disastrous debate performance in June of last year solidified those concerns and led to Biden dropping out of the 2o24 presidential race.</p>
  1158. <p>Last week, Biden&#8217;s former doctor pled the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee, which subpoenaed him to testify in an investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline.</p>
  1159. <p>Invoking the Fifth Amendment means someone is using their right not to be &#8220;compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.&#8221;</p>
  1160. <p>Then on Wednesday, a Jill Biden aide also pled the Fifth in the same investigation and declined to answer questions.</p>
  1161. <p>The Biden officials&#8217; refusal to testify has only fueled speculation about a cover-up and heightened concerns about the legitimacy of executive actions Biden took during his last years as president.</p>
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  1164.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:36:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  1168.      <title>Republicans Just Launched An Open Revolt Against Trump’s Deportation Operation</title>
  1169.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-just-launched-an-open-revolt-against-trumps-deportation-operation</link>
  1170.      <dc:creator>Matt Walsh</dc:creator>
  1171.      <description>As we approach the six-month mark of Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s second term in office, it&amp;#8217;s hard to think of another administration in modern history that&amp;#8217;s faced more resistance from within — that is to say, resistance from within its own party — when it tries to follow through on its single most important and prominent campaign ...</description>
  1172.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we approach the six-month mark of Donald Trump&#8217;s second term in office, it&#8217;s hard to think of another administration in modern history that&#8217;s faced more resistance from within — that is to say, resistance from within its own party — when it tries to follow through on its single most important and prominent campaign pledge. Normally, when presidents take office after making an explicit campaign promise, their party tries to turn that agenda into reality. If nothing else, from a political perspective, it&#8217;s obviously the smart thing to do. That&#8217;s certainly what happened when Joe Biden took office. Every Democrat in the country lined up behind Biden to push every single talking point his administration produced, whether it was about COVID or January 6. There was zero dissent anywhere in the party. But that&#8217;s not happening in the second Trump administration.</p>
  1173. <p>Instead, many Republicans have set out to undermine the immigration platform that Donald Trump ran on. You probably remember Tom Homan at the Republican National Convention, telling illegal aliens — all of them — that they should start &#8220;packing their bags&#8221; because they&#8217;re going to be deported. As recently as last week, Homan <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/border-czar-tom-homan-says-there-will-be-no-amnesty-for-undocumented-farmworkers-00447831" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/border-czar-tom-homan-says-there-will-be-no-amnesty-for-undocumented-farmworkers-00447831&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1zIe1SZSqkg_Lxm9DV7-G6">emphasized</a> the importance of that objective, saying there will be no special protections for any illegal aliens, including farmworkers. Top White House official Stephen Miller, DHS Secretary <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/noem-farm-workers-undocumented/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/noem-farm-workers-undocumented/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2DSaoO_Cb4HOS8atsohXyQ">Kristi Noem</a>, and the president <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSQXrWX-AcA" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DxSQXrWX-AcA&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3PxfYWUxrwGvAoKcB7Dte4">himself</a> have all made that same point in the past few days. But Republicans in Congress, and in various states, have taken the opposite approach. They&#8217;ve been waging a battle against immigration enforcement. And it&#8217;s a more expansive fight than you might realize.</p>
  1174. <p>Earlier this month, six Republican lawmakers in California <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/california-republicans-ask-trump-to-avoid-workplace-raids/3860218/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/california-republicans-ask-trump-to-avoid-workplace-raids/3860218/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3cyBtDVIG0VkCVHpkz8UgP">wrote</a> a letter to the president, urging him to suspend immigration raids at workplaces. Separately, a Nebraska congressman named Don Bacon — who&#8217;s retiring at the end of his current term — <a href="https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraska-congressman-says-there-needs-to-be-a-balanced-approach-with-immigration-enforcement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraska-congressman-says-there-needs-to-be-a-balanced-approach-with-immigration-enforcement/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0KCUAz6zhL2ROnQtnhYk78">called on</a> Trump to adopt a &#8220;balanced&#8221; approach to immigration enforcement, one that allows certain illegal aliens to remain in this country if they haven&#8217;t committed additional crimes after arriving. In Utah, Republican Governor Spencer Cox <a href="https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/12/19/utah-deportation-plan-will-focus-on-those-breaking-the-law-cox-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/12/19/utah-deportation-plan-will-focus-on-those-breaking-the-law-cox-says/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2QrsbdnDBYB-kTiYEe3VVr">has said</a> the same thing. He&#8217;s called on ICE to focus on people who are &#8220;breaking the law and causing harm,&#8221; as he put it. In Washington state, Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse introduced legislation with bipartisan support that would grant temporary legal status to farm workers, even if they arrived in this country illegally. In fact, even if the farmworkers have committed additional crimes after entering the United States, they could still qualify for legal status, as long as they haven&#8217;t committed felonies or &#8220;two misdemeanors involving moral turpitude.&#8221; So we&#8217;re granting legal status to people who have committed multiple crimes in this country, as long as they haven&#8217;t committed too many of them.</p>
  1175. <h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1625-republicans-just-launched-an-open-revolt-against-trump-s-immigration-plan?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
  1176. <p>Meanwhile, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson (another Republican) just wrote an <a href="https://simpson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=401708" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://simpson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID%3D401708&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3vG-MzBOwY79gTjn-9Rqit">op-ed</a> in which he stated, &#8220;Our focus should remain on deporting dangerous criminals, not law-abiding farmers and ranchers. Let me be clear: making meaningful reforms to the H-2A visa program and establishing a strong, legal immigration workforce for agricultural producers is not an amnesty deal. Our country needs a stable labor force to protect our food supply and ensure farmers can continue to do their jobs.&#8221;</p>
  1177. <p>Along the same lines, the Republican in charge of the agriculture committee, G.T. Thompson of Pennsylvania, recently <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/06/gop-house-agriculture-chair-thompson-farm-ice-raids-00403781" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/06/gop-house-agriculture-chair-thompson-farm-ice-raids-00403781&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw08NmBofnHYutEBa-kEy_kt">said</a> that ICE raids on farms and packing plants are &#8220;just wrong,&#8221; and that ICE should &#8220;knock it off.&#8221; As Thompson put it, “Let&#8217;s go after the criminals and give us time to put processes in place so we don’t disrupt the food supply chain.”</p>
  1178. <p>Yes, we have multiple prominent Republicans declaring that illegal aliens are not, in fact, criminals. That people can be “law abiding” even if their first act upon entering the country was to break the law. It would be one thing if these Republican lawmakers said, &#8220;Yes, illegal aliens are criminals, even if they work on farms. But we shouldn&#8217;t deport them anyway, because my constituents love cheap labor and I don&#8217;t care about American workers, even though I&#8217;m supposed to represent the interests of Americans.&#8221; That would at least be honest. To be very clear about this: Any Republican who pretends that illegal aliens aren&#8217;t actually criminals — anyone who talks like G.T. Thompson or Mike Simpson —  does not believe that we have a country. They aren&#8217;t simply undermining the Trump administration. They&#8217;re undermining the entire nation, fundamentally.</p>
  1179. <p>And this isn&#8217;t a fringe sentiment on the Right. We&#8217;re not talking about one or two members of Congress here, who happen to represent states that have a lot of illegal farmworkers. There is now a growing nationwide movement among Republican politicians to sabotage the White House&#8217;s immigration agenda — an agenda that won the popular vote and every swing state. At the moment, the biggest threat comes from Florida Congresswoman Maria Salazar, who&#8217;s just introduced something called the &#8220;Dignity Act.&#8221; Here&#8217;s Maria Salazar to explain:</p>
  1180. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1181. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">GOP Rep. Maria Salazar: &quot;There is another mass of people, most of them Hispanics, who have been here for more than five years contributing to the economy, who do not have a criminal record, and those people deserve some type of dignity and deserve to stay.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/o5t6oXd3G9">pic.twitter.com/o5t6oXd3G9</a></p>
  1182. <p>&mdash; TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1945139301311791444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1183. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1184. <p>She starts by celebrating the Trump administration&#8217;s victory on the southern border, and how it&#8217;s great that we&#8217;re finally enforcing immigration law. And then, in the same breath, she talks about how important it is to grant &#8220;legal status&#8221; to tens of millions of foreign nationals who broke our laws by crossing that border. It&#8217;s a bit like telling your child that stealing is wrong, and then giving him $10,000 because he got away with stealing. In that scenario, they&#8217;re going to get the message that stealing is the most rational course of action. This shouldn&#8217;t need to be said, but I&#8217;ll say it anyway: people respond to incentives. And the incentive that Maria Salazar&#8217;s bill would create is pretty clear. She&#8217;s saying that, if you manage to enter this country, then you&#8217;ll be rewarded. And as much as she claims this isn&#8217;t &#8220;amnesty,&#8221; the fact remains that her legislation would grant legal status — which is renewable, indefinitely — to tens of millions of illegal aliens. As long as they&#8217;ve been here for more than five years, and haven&#8217;t committed any heinous crimes that we know of, then she&#8217;s going to grant them legal status. And for good measure, her bill throws in &#8220;permanent residency&#8221; status for so-called &#8220;Dreamers,&#8221; who entered this country illegally as children. We&#8217;ll get into the specifics of the bill in a moment, but those are the top-line items.</p>
  1185. <p>According to Maria Salazar, all of this makes sense because illegals &#8220;deserve&#8221; to stay here, and that we should allow them to stay in the name of &#8220;dignity.&#8221; Those were the exact words she used. It&#8217;s all very trite, and of course, we&#8217;re not supposed to actually think about what she&#8217;s saying. But I&#8217;ll go ahead and do that anyway, because her legislation has serious implications, even if Maria Salazar herself isn&#8217;t a remotely serious person. So here&#8217;s the relevant question: If foreigners &#8220;deserve&#8221; to disregard our laws, what laws do I, as an American citizen, deserve to disregard? Do I deserve to not pay my taxes? Ignore speed limits? Shoplift? When do I get my &#8220;dignity&#8221;? Or is this an entitlement reserved only for foreign nationals? Why exactly are we awarding these people — who have no right to be in this country at all — a &#8220;get out of jail free&#8221; card, while American citizens are currently being hassled by the IRS for failing to report their $600 Venmo payment?  She says that these illegal aliens have worked hard, and lived here for a long time. And that&#8217;s probably true for some of them. But there are a lot of American citizens who have worked hard too. And they&#8217;ve lived here for a lot longer. So what&#8217;s their payout? A free DUI? A hall pass to punch their annoying boss? What do they get, and when do they get it?</p>
  1186. <p>Once you start granting exemptions to laws — particularly some of the most important laws on the books, like the laws that define our national borders — then you have to answer questions like this. This isn&#8217;t complicated or even controversial. Again, most Americans voted for Donald Trump precisely because he would enforce the law, regardless of whatever sob stories the Left could dream up. It&#8217;s a good bet that, for most of these voters, it seemed hard to imagine that the Right would be coming up with those sob stories instead. But that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening. Here&#8217;s another Republican, a guy named Gabe Evans. He represents a district in Colorado. This is his pitch for the so-called &#8220;Dignity Act&#8221;:</p>
  1187. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1188. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">As the grandson of immigrants, I believe in protecting our nation and the American Dream.</p>
  1189. <p>I’m proud to help introduce the Dignity Act, which helps secure our border and gives positively contributing immigrants in our communities a path to stay. <a href="https://t.co/c1xf2hscpQ">pic.twitter.com/c1xf2hscpQ</a></p>
  1190. <p>&mdash; Congressman Gabe Evans (@repgabeevans) <a href="https://twitter.com/repgabeevans/status/1945279716757553638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1191. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1192. <p>Notice he sort of buries the whole amnesty thing towards the end of his pitch. He begins by saying that this legislation will actually secure the border, although it doesn&#8217;t do that. Congress just passed a massive spending bill that allocates huge amounts of money — tens of billions of dollars — to improve border security. By contrast, this &#8220;Dignity Act&#8221; <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/article/the-dignity-act-of-2025-bill-summary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://immigrationforum.org/article/the-dignity-act-of-2025-bill-summary/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752849941314000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bQyWblhJiZvhZeHLIPvK2">creates</a> something called &#8220;humanitarian campuses&#8221; all along the border. According to one summary of the legislation, when they arrive at these campuses, &#8220;Migrants would have access to medical staff, licensed social workers, mental health professionals, child advocates, and private organizations that provide humanitarian assistance and legal counsel.&#8221; Yes, the &#8220;Dignity Act&#8221; would fund legal counsel and mental healthcare professionals for illegal aliens. That&#8217;s their idea of &#8220;securing the border.&#8221;</p>
  1193. <p>But actually, it gets a lot worse than that. As the lawyer Will Chamberlain pointed out, the &#8220;Dignity Act&#8221; &#8212; by its own terms &#8212; is so expansive that it would grant legal status to some of the most dangerous and depraved criminals in this country. Consider the case of Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 member and wife beater who was the subject of so much Democrat angst in recent weeks. Under the &#8220;Dignity Act,&#8221; Abrego Garcia would be entitled to legal status in this country. That&#8217;s because he entered this country when he was 16 years old, and the bill bans federal and state law enforcement from using databases to determine whether someone is a gang member. That&#8217;s not an exaggeration. It&#8217;s in the bill. Here&#8217;s what that section looks like:</p>
  1194. <div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-948627 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-2.04.13%E2%80%AFPM-469x576.png" alt="" width="469" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-2.04.13%E2%80%AFPM-469x576.png 469w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-2.04.13%E2%80%AFPM-245x300.png 245w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-2.04.13%E2%80%AFPM-768x942.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-2.04.13%E2%80%AFPM.png 1190w" sizes="(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px" /></div>
  1195. <p>It <a href="https://escobar.house.gov/uploadedfiles/dignity_act_2025_text.pdf">reads,</a> &#8220;EVIDENTIARY LIMITATION: Allegations of gang membership obtained from a State or Federal in-house or local database, or a network of databases used for the purposes of recording and sharing activities of alleged gang members across law enforcement agencies, shall not establish the participation described in such paragraph.&#8221;</p>
  1196. <p>So it doesn&#8217;t matter that law enforcement officers recorded Abrego Garcia&#8217;s gang clothing or associations in a database. None of that can be used. Additionally, because Abrego Garcia was merely accused of domestic violence, instead of convicted of it, he wouldn&#8217;t be barred under this bill.</p>
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  1198. <p>That&#8217;s because, as you can see here, the law only excludes convicted felons, or illegal aliens convicted of two or more misdemeanors, excluding cannabis-related crimes for some reason. So even if your wife keeps claiming that you beat her, it doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
  1199. <p>And while Abrego Garcia&#8217;s suspected human trafficking might theoretically be an issue, the bill still allows the DHS secretary to allow him into the country &#8220;for humanitarian purposes, for family unity, or because the waiver is otherwise in the public interest.&#8221; Let&#8217;s put that on the screen.</p>
  1200. <div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-948635 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Bill-screenshot-2-425x576.jpeg" alt="" width="425" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Bill-screenshot-2-425x576.jpeg 425w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Bill-screenshot-2-221x300.jpeg 221w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Bill-screenshot-2-768x1042.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Bill-screenshot-2-1132x1536.jpeg 1132w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Bill-screenshot-2.jpeg 1268w" sizes="(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px" /></div>
  1201. <p>This is what&#8217;s known as a loophole. By itself, this provision should be enough to kill this bill immediately. Just imagine how a Democrat DHS secretary would interpret that provision. It&#8217;s amnesty, in every sense. All Abrego Garcia would have to do is enroll in some educational program, and he&#8217;d qualify for legal status under this bill. And it gets worse, somehow. Take a look at this provision, which was spotted by Walter Curt.</p>
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  1203. <p>It reads, &#8220;LIMITATION ON REMOVAL.—An alien who appears to be prima facie eligible for relief under this division shall be given a reasonable opportunity to apply for such relief and may not be removed until &#8230; a final decision establishing ineligibility for relief is rendered.&#8221; In other words, ICE has to stand down if someone could potentially qualify under this legislation for &#8220;legal status.&#8221; As soon as they file the paperwork &#8212; or even before that &#8212; ICE&#8217;s hands are tied. This would obviously create a major logjam and completely paralyze immigration enforcement, which is the whole point.</p>
  1204. <p>This is an abomination. And Maria Salazar can&#8217;t explain any of it. Here&#8217;s what she said on NBC the other day. Watch:</p>
  1205. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Bipartisan bill to provide legal status to certain migrants is not ‘amnesty’: Republican co-sponsor" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EPmrCg9648Q?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>
  1206. <p>So the new rule is that, even if you break the law, that&#8217;s not a big deal if &#8220;someone gave you a job&#8221; and that job is &#8220;still needed today.&#8221; That&#8217;s the argument. And at the moment, 10 Republicans in Congress have co-sponsored this legislation. They include Mario Rafael Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, David Valadao of California, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Gabe Evans of Colorado, Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, Don Bacon of Nebraska, and Young Kim of California.</p>
  1207. <p>None of these lawmakers should ever receive another Republican vote, for any reason, ever again. Their goal, very clearly, is to use the president&#8217;s success at the border as cover to advance amnesty. They are advancing foreign interests and the demands of a small number of business owners who profit from illegal labor, instead of the interests of this country. The White House should respond by investigating every single one of the farm owners who are pushing this bill, because the odds are about 1,000 percent that they&#8217;re employing illegal aliens instead of American citizens. In order for this country to continue to exist, laws against foreign invaders must be enforced. There cannot be any exceptions. Republican voters understand that, which is why Donald Trump won the last election. Now, the Republicans who are seeking to undermine this administration and the will of the voters need to be removed from office. Don Bacon is already resigning in Nebraska. That&#8217;s a start. Now, every single co-sponsor of this abominable legislation, and every other Republican who voices even a word of support for it, should be run out of office as well.</p>
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  1214.      <title>Steve Miller Band Cancels 31 Future Tour Dates: ‘Blame It On The Weather’</title>
  1215.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/steve-miller-band-cancels-31-future-tour-dates-blame-it-on-the-weather</link>
  1216.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  1217.      <description>The Steve Miller Band recently announced that the rest of their tour is being canceled due to extreme weather events that have been happening around the country. The band had 31 scheduled upcoming dates beginning August 15 in Bethel, New York, and concluding in Anaheim, California, in November. But now fans won’t have the chance ...</description>
  1218.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Steve Miller Band recently announced that the rest of their tour is being canceled due to extreme weather events that have been happening around the country.</span></p>
  1219. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The band had 31 scheduled upcoming dates beginning August 15 in Bethel, New York, and concluding in Anaheim, California, in November. But now fans won’t have the chance to see the “Jet Airliner” recording artists in any of those cities.</span></p>
  1220. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Dear Steve Miller Band fans,” the statement shared to social media says. “You make music with your instincts. You live life by your instincts. Always trust your instincts…”</span></p>
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  1223. <p>&mdash; Steve Miller Band (@SMBofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/SMBofficial/status/1945635867055313343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1224. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1225. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Steve Miller Band has cancelled all of our upcoming tour dates,” it says. “The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable. So …You can blame it on the weather… The tour is cancelled.”</span></p>
  1226. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The statement concludes, “Don’t know where, don’t know when… We hope to see you all again. Wishing you all peace, love and happiness. Please take care of each other.”</span></p>
  1227. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many fans shot back on social media, saying the cancellation of the whole tour seemed extreme. Some followers posted images of available seats for some of the tour stops, suggesting that it was because of low ticket sales.</span></p>
  1228. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Are you serious? I’m a big fan and got tickets for this tour , but next time please find a [better] excuse,” one person </span><a href="https://x.com/marchenajr/status/1945662577012363533"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  1229. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am embarrassed FOR you…” another said.</span></p>
  1230. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You’re canceling all tours …….. because of nature? That is matter-of-fact dumb,” a third </span><a href="https://x.com/NathanMirlywx/status/1945638489690722554"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  1231. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our ticket sales aren&#8217;t exactly buoyant, but at least we can get a little virtue signaling in,” another </span><a href="https://x.com/GlennisWil24642/status/1945818670426378677"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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  1234.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:32:24 GMT</pubDate>
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  1238.      <title>Yankees All-Star Aaron Judge Asked About Fortune And Fame, Directs Fans To Jesus</title>
  1239.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/yankees-all-star-aaron-judge-asked-about-fortune-and-fame-directs-fans-to-jesus</link>
  1240.      <dc:creator>Amanda Prestigiacomo</dc:creator>
  1241.      <description>New York Yankees all-star Aaron Judge this week discussed his faith in God, when asked about money and fame. Judge was asked on Monday by a CBN Sports reporter, &amp;#8220;What would you say to someone who thinks fame and fortune is the answer to all their problems?&amp;#8221; Judge responded by pointing his fans to Jesus. &amp;#8220;Our ...</description>
  1242.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="speakable">New York Yankees all-star Aaron Judge this week discussed his faith in God, when asked about money and fame.</p>
  1243. <p class="speakable">Judge was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DMG2BgGg2QU/">asked</a> on Monday by a CBN Sports reporter, &#8220;What would you say to someone who thinks fame and fortune is the answer to all their problems?&#8221;</p>
  1244. <p>Judge responded by pointing his fans to Jesus. &#8220;Our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. He’s given me this platform, this ability,&#8221; Judge said. &#8220;The fame, getting the chance to do this is great and all, but it’s not fulfilling as much as the relationship I have with Him.&#8221;</p>
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  1288. <p>During the MLB All-Star Game on Monday, Judge showcased a bat that featured his daughter’s name, Nora, and a Bible verse reference.</p>
  1289. <p>&#8220;For we live by faith, not by sight,&#8221; the verse, 2 Corinthians 5:7, reads. Judge&#8217;s bat says, &#8220;Faith, not sight.&#8221;</p>
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  1291. <p>Judge has been open about his Christian faith his whole career. The ball player&#8217;s social media <a href="https://x.com/thejudge44?lang=en">bio</a> reads in part, &#8220;Christian. Faith, Family, then Baseball.&#8221;</p>
  1292. <p>The athlete has spoken specifically about his adoptive parents and how their love informs his faith, as well.</p>
  1293. <p>&#8220;The position I was in, being adopted by my parents &#8212; for them to pick me, choose me, to put me in their lives, it&#8217;s incredible,&#8221; Judge, who was adopted when he was a one-year-old, <a href="https://sportsspectrum.com/sport/baseball/2025/05/01/yankees-aaron-judge-blistering-start-faith-foundation/">said</a> last year. &#8220;Having His blessings, keeping the faith through good times and bad times, knowing He&#8217;s always with me, that&#8217;s definitely helped me get to this position.&#8221;</p>
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  1295. <p>Judge learned he was adopted at age ten. “I knew I didn’t look like them,” he <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/columnists/bob-klapisch/2017/06/23/klapisch-aaron-judge-never-forgot-his-roots/420872001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NorthJersey.com in 2024. “I finally said, ‘Okay, what’s going on?’ And that’s when they told me.&#8221;</p>
  1296. <p>&#8220;I was fine with that, they were the only parents I ever knew,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It actually wasn’t a big deal.”</p>
  1297. <p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dodgers-ace-clayton-kershaw-adds-bible-reference-to-rainbow-hat-for-pride-night">Dodgers Ace Clayton Kershaw Adds Bible Reference To Rainbow Hat For Pride Night</a></strong></p>
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  1305.      <title>‘X Isn’t Real Life’: CNN Data Guru Throws Wet Blanket On Dem Plans To Leverage Epstein Drama</title>
  1306.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/x-isnt-real-life-cnn-data-guru-throws-wet-blanket-on-dem-plans-to-leverage-epstein-drama</link>
  1307.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1308.      <description>CNN&amp;#8217;s chief data analyst poured cold water over Democrat efforts to use division within the Republican Party — over the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — as leverage going into the 2026 midterm elections. Harry Enten said on Thursday that despite some heated discussions in the media world — and on social media — over ...</description>
  1309.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CNN&#8217;s chief data analyst poured cold water over Democrat efforts to use division within the Republican Party — over the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — as leverage going into the 2026 midterm elections.</p>
  1310. <p>Harry Enten said on Thursday that despite some heated discussions in the media world — and on social media — over President Donald Trump and his administration&#8217;s handling of the Epstein case, Republican voters were not quite as divided as Democrats might have hoped.</p>
  1311. <p>&#8220;X isn&#8217;t real life. Post-Epstein saga, Trump&#8217;s approval with the GOP (~90%) may actually be slightly up,&#8221; Enten captioned a video of a recent broadcast. &#8220;He&#8217;s at/or near his apex w/ the GOP. How? Just 1 respondent said Epstein was the top problem facing the U.S. Cong Dems, OTOH, are at their worst standing with Dems ever.&#8221;</p>
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  1313. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">X isn&#8217;t real life. Post-Epstein saga, Trump&#8217;s approval with the GOP (~90%) may actually be slightly up. He&#8217;s at/or near his apex w/ the GOP.</p>
  1314. <p>How? Just 1 respondent said Epstein was the top problem facing the U.S.</p>
  1315. <p>Cong Dems, OTOH, are at their worst standing with Dems ever. <a href="https://t.co/pSMH4BQ8Ou">pic.twitter.com/pSMH4BQ8Ou</a></p>
  1316. <p>— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1945856695395049620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1318. <p>&#8220;Yeah, I mean, look, I think this one surprised me a bit because of all these complaints online going after Trump and the Epstein files, you might think his approval ratings were going down with Republicans. If anything, they’re going up!&#8221; Enten told host Sara Sidner. &#8220;Republicans who approve of Trump, look at our <a href="https://www.cnn.com/polling" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN poll</a>, the prior one, 86%. The one out this week, 88% with Republicans. How about Quinnipiac? The prior poll, 87% approval for Republicans. This week out, 90% with Republicans. If anything, Donald Trump’s approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started. He is at the apex, or close there to, in terms of his popularity with Republican voters, Epstein files complaints or not.&#8221;</p>
  1319. <p>&#8220;Is there any reason that you can find that this hasn’t taken hold and hurt him?&#8221; Sidner asked.</p>
  1320. <p class="qualified qualified-2">&#8220;Yeah, I mean, on X, all you hear about is the Epstein files. But how about out in the real public? Republicans who said the top issue was Epstein case, the answer is one, one, and not 1%. One respondent. This is a great little finding that Ariel Edwards-Levy, who of course is part of our polling unit, found,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;Just one single Republican said that the nation’s top problem is, in fact, the Epstein case. Not much of a surprise that therefore Donald Trump’s approval rating has not suffered with Republicans because of the Epstein case, because the bottom line is most Americans say it’s not up high on their priority list.&#8221;</p>
  1321. <p>&#8220;Still, congressional Democrats have been trying to seize on this,&#8221; Sidner pointed out, noting that Democrats in office were going on and on about the Epstein files even though they couldn&#8217;t be bothered to vote even to subpoena his flight logs when former President Joe Biden was still in office. &#8220;You hear them also parroting what you’re hearing online, saying, &#8216;Release the files, this is terrible, blah, blah, blah.&#8217; I mean, is that working for them?&#8221;</p>
  1322. <p>&#8220;No, I mean, look, here’s what’s so important,&#8221; Enten said, turning to the Democratic side of things. &#8220;You know, we talk about the potential of Republicans leaving Donald Trump. They’re not leaving him. But what about congressional Democrats and problems with their own base? Democrats’ net approval of congressional Democrats, according to Quinnipiac University, in June of 2025, it was their second worst ever at -12 points.&#8221;</p>
  1323. <p>&#8220;Is that not low enough for you? How about we go even lower? In July of 2025, -13 points, their worst net approval rating for congressional Democrats among Democrats ever,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;Donald Trump is not the one who has problems with this political base, it is congressional Democrats that are the ones who have problems with their own political base.&#8221;</p>
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  1330.      <title>White House Explains Trump’s Epstein ‘Hoax’ Claim</title>
  1331.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-explains-trumps-epstein-hoax-claim</link>
  1332.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  1333.      <description>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that President Trump&amp;#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein &amp;#8220;hoax&amp;#8221; comment was in reference to Democrats seizing the Epstein hysteria after showing little to no interest in the case for years. On Wednesday, Trump blasted his “past supporters,” whom he says have fallen for a “hoax” pushed by Democrats by ...</description>
  1334.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that President Trump&#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein &#8220;hoax&#8221; comment was in reference to Democrats seizing the Epstein hysteria after showing little to no interest in the case for years.</p>
  1335. <p>On Wednesday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-epstein-story-is-kept-alive-by-pretty-bad-people-including-fake-news?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Epstein+Story+Is+Kept+Alive+By+%E2%80%98Pretty+Bad+People%2C+Including+Fake+News%E2%80%99">blasted</a> his “past supporters,” whom he says have fallen for a “hoax” pushed by Democrats by focusing on the Epstein case.</p>
  1336. <p>Asked by Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich to clarify what Trump meant by calling the Epstein case a &#8220;hoax,&#8221; Leavitt said during Thursday&#8217;s White House press briefing, &#8220;The president is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make.&#8221;</p>
  1337. <p>&#8220;The Democrats had control of this building, the White House, for four years, and they didn&#8217;t do a dang thing when it came to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes. It was this president who directed the Department of Justice and the attorney general to do an exhaustive review of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, which they did,&#8221; she added.</p>
  1338. <p>Leavitt argued that the investigation into the Epstein files was led by &#8220;great patriots&#8221; and &#8220;some of the most trusted voices in the Republican Party movement,&#8221; referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Last week, the DOJ concluded that it did not find evidence of a client list existing and concluded that Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell in 2019.</p>
  1339. <p>&#8220;They spent many months going through all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, and they concluded what they found in that memo, which they drafted and they released,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;So the president has been transparent. He has followed through on his promises to the American people, but he doesn&#8217;t like to see Democrats and the mainstream media covering this like it&#8217;s the biggest story that the American people care about.&#8221;</p>
  1340. <p>Democrats have <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-put-previous-misgivings-hit-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-rcna218608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latched</a> onto the issue to attack Trump, voting in the House to release the Epstein files, a move that Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-rejects-claims-of-blocking-epstein-files-a-misunderstanding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> a political stunt and a power grab.</p>
  1341. <p>Later during the press briefing, Leavitt said that Trump &#8220;would not recommend a special prosecutor&#8221; to look into the Epstein case, adding that &#8220;the idea was floated from someone in the media.&#8221; The president would be open to revisiting the case further if the DOJ or FBI find any new information, according to Leavitt.</p>
  1342. <p>Earlier this week, Trump called those focusing on the Epstein controversy &#8220;pretty bad people&#8221; and defended Bondi&#8217;s handling of the case. Conservatives criticized Bondi after she said in February that she had Epstein&#8217;s client list on her desk, but then clarified months later that she meant that she was reviewing the Epstein files.</p>
  1343. <p>A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-two-thirds-of-americans-believe-government-is-hiding-details-on-epstein-case-poll?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=More+Than+Two-Thirds+Of+Americans+Believe+Government+Is+Hiding+Details+On+Epstein+Case%3A+Poll">poll</a> conducted by Reuters/Ipsos this week showed that only 17% of Americans approve of Trump&#8217;s handling of the Epstein case. Among Republicans, 35% approved while 30% disapproved, and the rest said they were unsure or didn&#8217;t answer. Additionally, 69% of respondents said that the federal government is covering up details about Epstein’s alleged client list.</p>
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  1346.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:58:48 GMT</pubDate>
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  1350.      <title>Paranormal Investigator Dies While Touring With ‘Demonically Possessed’ Annabelle Doll</title>
  1351.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/paranormal-investigator-dies-while-touring-with-demonically-possessed-annabelle-doll</link>
  1352.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  1353.      <description>Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera, who’s been touring the United States with a supposedly haunted Raggedy Ann doll named Annabelle, died unexpectedly at a hotel, sparking a big reaction online. Rivera, 54, was found dead in his room on Sunday at the end of his three-day stop in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of his “Devils on ...</description>
  1354.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera, who’s been touring the United States with a supposedly haunted Raggedy Ann doll named Annabelle, died unexpectedly at a hotel, sparking a big reaction online.</span></p>
  1355. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rivera, 54, was found dead in his room on Sunday at the end of his three-day stop in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of his “Devils on the Run Tour” with the doll. </span></p>
  1356. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pennsylvania State Police shared a more detailed report on Wednesday.</span></p>
  1357. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Members from PSP Gettysburg responded to a hotel in Straban Township, Adams County for a report of a deceased [man],&#8221; the report </span><a href="https://x.com/psptroophpio/status/1945469138668773605?s=46&amp;t=mwcG9TleShkOgZ4z0YNszA"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. &#8220;The decedent was discovered in his hotel room by workers.</span></p>
  1358. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nothing unusual or suspicious was observed at the scene,” it added. “This case is pending autopsy results.”</span></p>
  1359. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) </span><a href="https://tonyspera.com/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">described</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this particular doll as “demonically possessed.” It was given to a nursing student in 1968, and she claimed that something wasn’t right with it.</span></p>
  1360. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Almost immediately, the roommates noticed strange occurrences with the doll and they were introduced to a medium who told them the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a young girl named Annabelle,” the organization reported. “The two roommates tried to accept the doll’s spirit and please it only to have it reciprocate maliciousness and violent intent.”</span></p>
  1361. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The society’s late founders, Ed and Lorraine Warren, kept the doll stored in a glass case in an effort to “contain the evil spirited entity.”</span></p>
  1362. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The movie “The Conjuring” is based on the story of the “haunted” doll Annabelle. Meanwhile, many people are skeptical of the claims that the doll is possessed. </span></p>
  1363. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A statement from NESPR stated that the tour would continue. “We believe with all our hearts that Dan would have wanted the work to continue — bringing people together, sharing knowledge, and honoring the memory of Ed and Lorraine Warren,” it said. “We will carry his spirit in everything we do.”</span></p>
  1364. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colleagues of Rivera also called out commenters who tried to claim that his death was in some way staged to drum up interest for the tour. </span></p>
  1365. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ghost Hunters” star Jason Hawes shared his thoughts on Facebook, saying, &#8220;The world lost a good man. </span></p>
  1366. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Dan Rivera was an Army veteran, a father of four, a husband, and someone who truly cared about people,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;What’s even harder to see right now are the posts blaming his death on things like the Annabelle doll and attacking places like <span class="html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs">Ghostly Images of Gettysburg Tours</span> and other locations for having events. That needs to stop.&#8221;<br />
  1367. </span><br />
  1368. <span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;His family shouldn’t have to read that kind of nonsense while they’re grieving,&#8221; Hawes <a href="https://www.facebook.com/highlandpara/posts/well-said-jason-hawestaps-it-really-is-horrible-to-see-folk-attempt-to-cash-in-o/1161918589307430/">added</a>. &#8220;Some people are using his passing to push an agenda for profit, and it’s just disgusting. Dan was a family man, a respected paranormal investigator, and he left this world way too soon&#8230;Honor the man. Forget the garbage.&#8221;</span></p>
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  1371.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:52:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  1375.      <title>EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Say America Cannot ‘Sit Idly By’ As Islamic Terrorists Massacre Christians</title>
  1376.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-republicans-say-america-cannot-sit-idly-by-as-islamic-terrorists-massacre-christians</link>
  1377.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  1378.      <description>West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley called Thursday for the Trump administration to use diplomatic means to protect Christians in Islamic nations from persecution. Moore introduced a resolution in the House urging lawmakers to condemn the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries and asks the Trump administration to prioritize the protection ...</description>
  1379.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley called Thursday for the Trump administration to use diplomatic means to protect Christians in Islamic nations from persecution.</span></p>
  1380. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moore introduced a <a href="https://rileymoore.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/rileymoore.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/final-moorwv_021_xml.pdf">resolution</a> in the House urging lawmakers to condemn the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries and asks the Trump administration to prioritize the protection of Christians during peacekeeping efforts throughout the Middle East. Hawley introduced the same resolution in the Senate. </span></p>
  1381. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Around the world, our brothers and sisters in Christ face rampant persecution for simply acknowledging the name of Jesus. That is unacceptable,” Moore told The Daily Wire. “We as lawmakers cannot continue to sit idly by.”</span></p>
  1382. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The resolution includes a list of over a dozen countries, predominantly in Africa and the Middle East, where Christians face intense persecution. A copy of the resolution viewed by The Daily Wire “encourages the President to prioritize the protection of persecuted Christians in U.S. foreign policy, including in the President’s diplomatic engagement with Muslim-majority countries and his efforts to stabilize the Middle East.”</span></p>
  1383. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The resolution also asks to use diplomatic tools like trade and national security discussions to advance the protection of Christians abroad. </span></p>
  1384. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Examples of persecution included killings, forced marriages, kidnappings of girls, and the prohibition of holding worship services or discussing the Gospel. For example, it says that in Algeria &#8220;nearly all evangelical churches have been shut down for years and pastors are regularly arrested and charged for their evangelism&#8221; and that in Egypt &#8220;Christian girls are regularly kidnapped and forcefully converted with impunity.&#8221;</span></p>
  1385. <p>Other countries called out for their treatment of Christians include Nigeria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Turkey, Gaza, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, and others.</p>
  1386. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our country was founded on religious liberty. We cannot sit on the sidelines as Christians around the world are being persecuted for declaring Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior,&#8221; Hawley told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We must condemn these heinous crimes.&#8221;</span></p>
  1387. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Year after year, the number of Christians murdered by extremists in Nigeria has numbered in the thousands. Millions more have been displaced. We cannot allow this to continue,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I urge my colleagues to join me in condemning the persecution of Christians around the world by supporting this resolution.&#8221;</span></p>
  1388. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moore pointed to two specific areas where Christians have been attacked. </span></p>
  1389. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In Nigeria alone, more than 50,000 Christians have been martyred and more than 5 million have been displaced simply for professing their faith. During a Divine Liturgy in Damascus last month, an islamic jihadist opened fire on worshippers and detonated an explosive device — killing at least 30 and wounding dozens more,” he said. “These examples illustrate the violence and death Christians face on a daily basis.”</span></p>
  1390. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month, jihadists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrible-massacre-hundreds-of-christians-killed-by-jihadists">massacred</a> around 200 Christians in Nigeria’s Benue State after a group of militants screaming “Allahu Akbar&#8221; attacked a group who had previously been displaced by Fulani Jihadist attacks.</span></p>
  1391. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moore also said previous American “foreign policy blunders” had made the situation worse for Christians, saying that the failure to stabilize Iraq after the 2003 invasion led to the ethnic cleansing of the Christian population. </span></p>
  1392. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The resolution was endorsed by a number of advocacy groups including Alliance Defending Freedom International, In Defense of Christians, Global Christian Relief, CatholicVote, Advancing American Freedom, The Center for Urban Renewal and Education, Family Policy Alliance, Christians Engaged, and Save the Persecuted Christians.</span></p>
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  1395.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:30:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  1399.      <title>EXCLUSIVE: Texas Sues Swimming Organization For Letting Men Compete With Women</title>
  1400.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-texas-sues-swimming-organization-for-letting-men-compete-with-women</link>
  1401.      <dc:creator>Mairead Elordi</dc:creator>
  1402.      <description>Texas is suing U.S. Masters Swimming over its policy allowing trans-identifying males to compete in women&amp;#8217;s events, The Daily Wire can first report. The lawsuit, which Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Thursday, comes after an investigation determined the amateur sports organization &amp;#8220;engaged in false, deceptive, and misleading practices by allowing men to compete in women&amp;#8217;s ...</description>
  1403.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Texas is suing U.S. Masters Swimming over its policy allowing trans-identifying males to compete in women&#8217;s events, The Daily Wire can first report.</p>
  1404. <p>The lawsuit, which Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Thursday, comes after an investigation determined the amateur sports organization &#8220;engaged in false, deceptive, and misleading practices by allowing men to compete in women&#8217;s events,&#8221; Paxton&#8217;s office said in a press release.</p>
  1405. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1406. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: I&#39;m suing U.S. Masters Swimming for engaging in illegal practices by allowing men to compete in women&#39;s competitions. </p>
  1407. <p>The organization has cowered to radical activists pushing gender warfare, and this lawsuit will hold USMS accountable for its actions. <a href="https://t.co/2E3wr8hnnl">pic.twitter.com/2E3wr8hnnl</a></p>
  1408. <p>&mdash; Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1945905359660441945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1409. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1410. <p>U.S. Masters Swimming holds competitions for adult swimmers across the country and has about 60,000 members.</p>
  1411. <p>In May, Paxton launched an investigation into U.S. Masters Swimming after a trans-identifying male swimmer blew his female competitors away at this year’s Spring Nationals in San Antonio.</p>
  1412. <p>The 47-year-old man who identifies as a woman, Ana Caldas, won five women’s events, sparking angry calls for U.S. Masters Swimming to change its rules.</p>
  1413. <p>Paxton said the new lawsuit aims to hold U.S. Masters Swimming &#8220;accountable to the women that it has harmed and the consumers that it has deceived&#8221; as his team continues to &#8220;fight to protect the integrity of women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;</p>
  1414. <p>&#8220;U.S. Masters Swimming&#8217;s insane policy of allowing men to participate in women&#8217;s competitions is both deeply unfair to female competitors and unlawful,&#8221; Paxton said in a statement.</p>
  1415. <p>&#8220;The organization has cowered to radical activists pushing gender warfare, and it has deprived female participants of the opportunity to succeed at the highest levels by letting men win countless events,&#8221; the attorney general said.</p>
  1416. <p>The suit highlights the organization&#8217;s &#8220;past false, deceptive, and misleading practices of representing that its women&#8217;s sports would be exclusively for females to participate in and win, only to turn around and steal awards and recognitions for women by giving them to men competing in women&#8217;s events,&#8221; Paxton&#8217;s office said.</p>
  1417. <p>After the Texas investigation was launched, U.S. Masters Swimming updated its policy.</p>
  1418. <p>The organization <a href="https://www.usms.org/volunteer-central/policy-and-governance/usms-policies/transgender-swimmer-inclusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously</a> allowed trans-identifying males to compete on the women’s team as long as they had been on estrogen for a year and had testosterone below a certain level. Males who did not meet these requirements were also allowed to swim in the women’s races, but their performance did not count in the competition.</p>
  1419. <p>On July 1, U.S. Masters Swimming enacted a new “interim eligibility <a href="https://www.usms.org/volunteer-central/policy-and-governance/usms-policies/interim-eligibility-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a>,” which bars trans-identifying males from competing in the women’s category, but they may still swim in the women’s races.</p>
  1420. <p>Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who put U.S. Masters Swimming on notice just days before the Texas lawsuit was filed, said the new policy “purports to protect women’s sports, but it does not get the job done.”</p>
  1421. <p>“This is not acceptable. It does not fly with Florida law,” Uthmeier said at a press conference on Tuesday.</p>
  1422. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1423. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, we put U.S. Masters Swimming on notice: Allowing men in women&#39;s swimming competitions is unlawful in Florida.</p>
  1424. <p>Fix the policy, or there will be consequences. <a href="https://t.co/Os32iVNE77">pic.twitter.com/Os32iVNE77</a></p>
  1425. <p>&mdash; Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1945184936308199847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1426. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1427. <p>U.S. Masters must “quickly certify in writing” that they will ensure no men participate with women or face legal action, Uthmeier said.</p>
  1428. <p>Besides fairness in competition, another concern is safety in the locker rooms, the Florida attorney general said.</p>
  1429. <p>“We will not tolerate it. We will hold you accountable if you are going to endanger our women and girls,” Uthmeier said.</p>
  1430. <p>“We will always fight to protect women and girls from being subjected to men trying to compete in female sports — it’s our moral obligation to do so,” Uthmeier said in a statement to The Daily Wire.</p>
  1431. <p>U.S. Masters is based in Sarasota, Florida and has several upcoming events in the state.</p>
  1432. <p>Several athletic organizations have backed down and changed their policies after President Donald Trump, surrounded by smiling young girls wearing sports uniforms, signed an order banning trans-identifying males from girls’ sports.</p>
  1433. <p>One of those was the NCAA, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ncaa-backs-down-changes-transgender-athlete-policy-after-trump-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> its policy to ban trans-identifying males on women’s teams less than 24 hours after Trump’s order.</p>
  1434. <p>The NCAA attracted controversy for its swimming competitions when trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas tied with the University of Kentucky’s Riley Gaines, who has become an advocate for women’s sports. Prior to that, Thomas had placed first in the 500 freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women&#8217;s Swimming and Diving Championships.</p>
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  1441.      <title>‘Harry Potter’ Star Emma Watson Banned From Driving After Speeding Violation</title>
  1442.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/harry-potter-star-emma-watson-banned-from-driving-after-speeding-violation</link>
  1443.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  1444.      <description>“Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson has been banned from driving in the United Kingdom for six months after being caught speeding. The 35-year-old celeb, who played Hermione Granger in the popular film franchise, was clocked doing 38 mph in a 30 mph zone in July of last year. Watson already had nine points on her ...</description>
  1445.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson has been banned from driving in the United Kingdom for six months after being caught speeding.</span></p>
  1446. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 35-year-old celeb, who played Hermione Granger in the popular film franchise, was clocked doing 38 mph in a 30 mph zone in July of last year. Watson already had nine points on her license at the time of the incident, meaning she had previously committed driving offenses, each of which added points to her record.</span></p>
  1447. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly10x7pjplo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BBC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the actress did not attend the hearing, but her lawyer made the statement, “She is in a position to pay the fine,” which was just under $1,400.</span></p>
  1448. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watson has been living in Oxford, England, while pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing at the university there. The actress shot to fame in 2001, at the age of 11, following the release of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”</span></p>
  1449. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She appeared in all eight films over the next decade. </span></p>
  1450. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coincidentally, another Harry Potter actress, Zoë Wanamaker, was in court on speeding charges on the same day as Watson. </span></p>
  1451. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The actress, 76, was caught driving 46 mph in a 40 mph zone and was also charged a fine of almost $1,400 and banned from driving for six months.</span></p>
  1452. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2023, Watson discussed stepping back from her Hollywood acting career.</span></p>
  1453. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m just so glad that I did,” Watson </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-just-so-glad-emma-watson-talks-stepping-back-from-acting-and-why-she-did-it"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> British Vogue of taking a break. “Because I have this feeling of having my own voice and creative space and sovereignty in some way that I don’t think I did before — more autonomy.”</span></p>
  1454. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m so glad that I allowed things to be messy for a minute and to really allow myself to not know [what’s next], because the knowing that I’ve come to, I wouldn’t trade that for anything,” she added.</span></p>
  1455. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I get a front row seat [with] some of the most successful, beautiful, incredible people in the world,” Watson said of being part of Hollywood. “And when you have that seat it becomes very, very clear that there is just absolutely no level of success that will make you in any way happy or content if you do not like who you are or enjoy what you’re doing when no one’s watching.”</span></p>
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  1458.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:23:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  1462.      <title>EXCLUSIVE: Biden State Dept. Accused Vatican Official Of Denying ‘Full Humanity’ Of LGBT People</title>
  1463.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-state-dept-accused-vatican-official-of-denying-full-humanity-of-lgbt-people</link>
  1464.      <dc:creator>Spencer Lindquist</dc:creator>
  1465.      <description>The Biden State Department accused a high-ranking Vatican official of denying the “full humanity” of people who identify as LGBT, internal communications first viewed by The Daily Wire reveal. Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, made the remarks in ...</description>
  1466.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Biden State Department accused a high-ranking Vatican official of denying the “full humanity” of people who identify as LGBT, internal communications first viewed by The Daily Wire reveal.</p>
  1467. <p>Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, made the remarks in advance of a trip to the Vatican, heavily redacted emails obtained by The Daily Wire through the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) indicate.</p>
  1468. <p>Stern, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-lgbt-racial-equity-envoy-profiles-scrubbed-after-trump-takes-office">vacated her position</a> after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">traveled to all six habitable continents</a> to attend pride parades, march alongside a self-proclaimed “transvestite sl*t,” and collaborate with leftist activists as she attempted to influence the policies of foreign governments.</p>
  1469. <p>One of those trips took the LGBT activist-turned-State Department official to the seat of the Catholic Church.</p>
  1470. <p>Biden State Department officials admonished the Catholic official for his stance on LGBT-related issues in an August 1, 2023, email, the subject line of which read “Special Envoy Stern at the Vatican.”</p>
  1471. <p>The email came after Stern was connected with Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Vatican, Laura Hochla, to discuss her future engagements with Catholic officials.</p>
  1472. <p>“Great news! We had a very productive conversation with [REDACTED] … and we wanted to keep you abreast of the latest,” an unnamed senior advisor to Stern wrote in a heavily redacted email to Stern, Hochla, and two other officials.</p>
  1473. <p>The email from Stern’s senior advisor went on to detail the Biden State Department’s posture towards the Vatican, particularly as it concerned LGBT ideology.</p>
  1474. <p>“Something to be mindful of though: [REDACTED] made it clear that he has not seen eye-to-eye with Cardinal Parolin and believes that the Cardinal has yet to see the ‘full humanity’ of LGBTQI+ persons,” the email goes on to say, referencing <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_parolin_p.html">Cardinal Pietro Parolin</a>, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.</p>
  1475. <p>&#8220;CASA has uncovered documents shedding light on far left activist Jessica Stern&#8217;s history of attacking the Catholic Church and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-lgbt-emissary-berated-staff-about-vegetarian-meals-while-globetrotting-on-the-taxpayers-dime">improper use</a> of taxpayer resources during her time as the Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy,&#8221; CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is just another attempt by Biden administration officials advocating to impose their radical LGBT ideology on the teachings of the Catholic Church.”</p>
  1476. <p>The internal Biden State Department email went on to highlight comments made by Cardinal Parolin in an apparent attempt to bolster the case that the Catholic official does not recognize the “full humanity” of those who identify as LGBT.</p>
  1477. <p>“(See the Cardinal&#8217;s comments on the 2015 marriage referendum in Ireland … and a 2023 vote by German bishops to bless same-sex unions),” the email’s author adds.</p>
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  1479. <p>Parolin expressed his disapproval of Ireland’s 2015 referendum, in which 62% of voters cast a ballot in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage.</p>
  1480. <p>“I was deeply saddened by the result,” Parolin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/vatican-ireland-gay-marriage-referendum-vote-defeat-for-humanity#:~:text=The%20referendum%20that%20overwhelmingly%20backed,in%20Rome%20on%20Tuesday%20night.">said in comments</a> reflecting Catholic teaching on the issue. “The church must take account of this reality, but in the sense that it must strengthen its commitment to evangelisation. I think that you cannot just talk of a defeat for Christian principles, but of a defeat for humanity.”</p>
  1481. <p>He also <a href="https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/vatican-responds-to-the-decision-of-the-german-church-to-bless-homosexual-unions-675">spoke out against</a> a decision by the Catholic Church in Germany to bless same-sex couples in a statement that Biden State Department officials similarly appeared to cite in the redacted email.</p>
  1482. <p>“We are working around the birthday party to ensure government interlocuters in Vatican City and Rome know that the USG is of &#8216;one mind on LGBTQI+ human rights,'&#8221; the senior advisor went on to note.</p>
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  1485.      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  1489.      <title>Trump Admin Hits Tren De Aragua Leaders With Sanctions As Venezuelan Gang Infiltrates U.S.</title>
  1490.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-hits-tren-de-aragua-leaders-with-sanctions-as-venezuelan-gang-infiltrates-u-s</link>
  1491.      <dc:creator>Spencer Lindquist</dc:creator>
  1492.      <description>The Trump administration announced sanctions against the leader of Tren de Aragua and other top lieutenants on Thursday amid a broader effort to choke off the transnational criminal organization’s access to cash. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted six leaders of the Venezuelan gang, which has been designated as a foreign terror ...</description>
  1493.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration announced sanctions against the leader of Tren de Aragua and other top lieutenants on Thursday amid a broader effort to choke off the transnational criminal organization’s access to cash.</p>
  1494. <p>The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted six leaders of the Venezuelan gang, which has been designated as a foreign terror organization by the Trump administration, including its leader, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores. Also known as Niño Guerrero, he has led the group as it has evolved from a prison gang into a broader criminal entity with a presence in the United States.</p>
  1495. <p>“Today’s action highlights the critical role of leaders like Niño Guerrero and his lieutenants in Tren de Aragua’s efforts to increase its destabilizing influence throughout the region,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.</p>
  1496. <p>The sanctions require that any Tren de Aragua property or funds in the United States, or those controlled by American financial institutions, be frozen and reported to the Treasury, thereby restricting the flow of funds back into the hands of the criminal enterprise.</p>
  1497. <p>The Treasury notes that Niño Guerrero has been involved in criminal activity for two decades and has led the criminal group as it has become more influential. The State Department is currently offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Guerrero.</p>
  1498. <p>The department also sanctioned Yohan Jose Romero, a “close lieutenant” of Guerrero, who the Trump administration says is “responsible for the group’s illegal mining efforts in Venezuela.”</p>
  1499. <p>“Johan Petrica provides Tren de Aragua with military-grade weapons used to control the streets of Venezuela and fight against Colombian guerrillas,” the Treasury Department notes.</p>
  1500. <p>​​Also sanctioned is Josue Angel Santana Pena, who “is alleged to be involved in homicide, extortion, bombings, terrorism, and theft,” and Niño Guerrero’s wife, Wendy Marbelys Rios Gomez, who the Treasury Department notes is involved in money laundering, terrorism, and terrorist financing.</p>
  1501. <p>The Trump administration also sanctioned Wilmer Jose Perez Castillo, who the Treasury Department said has carried out “murders of a policeman, a Venezuelan military official, and Venezuelan intelligence officials” on behalf of the organization.</p>
  1502. <p>Felix Anner Castillo Rondon, the leader of a Tren de Aragua cell operating in Chile, has also been sanctioned. His crew is implicated in a range of crimes, including homicides, human trafficking, sexual exploitation of women, narcotics trafficking, and money laundering.</p>
  1503. <p>“The Trump Administration will not allow Tren de Aragua to continue to terrorize our communities and harm innocent Americans. In line with President Trump’s mandate to Make America Safe Again, Treasury remains dedicated to dismantling Tren de Aragua and disrupting the group’s campaign of violence.”</p>
  1504. <p>The new sanctions come amid a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-treasury-official-reveals-how-the-trump-admin-is-choking-off-cartels-cash-flow?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Treasury+Official+Lays+Out+How+Trump+Is+Choking+Off+Cash+Flow+To+Cartels">sweeping effort</a> by the Treasury Department to cut off cash flow to cartels and gangs in an attempt to eliminate the financial incentives that drive the criminal entities’ drug and human trafficking operations.</p>
  1505. <p>Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-treasury-dept-launches-sanctions-targeting-sinaloa-cartel">Sinaloa Cartel</a>, the Cartel de Noreste, and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion have all been hit with Treasury sanctions since President Donald Trump took office in January.</p>
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