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  19.      <title>Big News: Pints With Aquinas Is Joining The Daily Wire In 2026</title>
  20.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-news-pints-with-aquinas-is-joining-the-daily-wire-in-2026</link>
  21.      <dc:creator>Matt Fradd</dc:creator>
  22.      <description>Beginning January 2026, Pints With Aquinas is partnering with The Daily Wire. We&amp;#8217;ll kick off our 10th year with a bigger studio, a stronger team, and, God willing, an even wider reach for preaching Jesus Christ and inviting people to join the Church he founded (hint: The Catholic Church). You will see a special Christmas ...</description>
  23.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beginning January 2026, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pints With Aquinas</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is partnering with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daily Wire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  24. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We&#8217;ll kick off our 10th year with a bigger studio, a stronger team, and, God willing, an even wider reach for preaching Jesus Christ and inviting people to join the Church he founded (hint: The Catholic Church). You will see a special Christmas episode in December, then weekly shows begin in the new year.</span></p>
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  26. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Watch me tonight on Friendly Fire at 7pm Eastern on DailyWire+ <a href="https://t.co/UqwXd5uJzd">pic.twitter.com/UqwXd5uJzd</a></p>
  27. <p>— Matt Fradd (@RealMattFradd) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealMattFradd/status/1983556821555232878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  29. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, while my family and I were in Austria, with a little time in Croatia, I seriously considered stepping back from running the show.</span></p>
  30. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I love the conversations, and I love meeting people whose lives have been changed by the podcast. What wore me out was everything around it, production, logistics, thumbnails, flights, the business of it all. When I sat down with Daily Wire CEO Caleb Robinson, I told him exactly that. I wasn’t trying to sell anything. I said, “If I do this, it must stay a fully Catholic show, and I need help with the parts I am not great at.” </span></p>
  31. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His response: “Keep doing exactly what you are doing, we will build the infrastructure around you.”</span></p>
  32. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, here’s what this partnership means, and what it doesn’t mean:</span></p>
  33. <ol>
  34. <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full editorial control. I choose the guests and the topics. Our mission stays the same, to preach Christ and invite people into the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church.</span></li>
  35. <li>No paywall. If you are a casual viewer, nothing changes except you will get more Pints, same channel, better studio, higher output.</li>
  36. <li>More episodes, better reach. With a world-class team handling operations, I can focus on conversations that matter, and release more content each week.</li>
  37. <li>A Catholic team around the show. Melanie Pritchard, who has been with Pints since the basement days, is coming onboard, and we are adding faithful, prayerful professionals who are committed to the mission.</li>
  38. </ol>
  39. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;m excited, because the Lord seems to be opening a door I did not know how to walk through on my own. Over the years, I have seen how far this little show can travel. I have met listeners from Guatemala to Croatia, from airport kiosks to Lego stores, sharing how Pints helped them encounter Christ. Partnering with The Daily Wire lets us put holy gasoline on that fire, without diluting the faith.</span></p>
  40. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you&#8217;re cautious, I get it. If one of my favorite Catholic creators joined a big company, I would ask the same questions you’re asking. So let me earn your trust. Watch the next season. You will see the same show, just louder, clearer, and reaching more souls.</span></p>
  41. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two final requests.</span></p>
  42. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, please pray for me, that I never become a stumbling block, that I stay faithful to Christ, and that every conversation glorifies God. If you are willing, please offer a Rosary for this intention, and let me know, so I can be encouraged.</span></p>
  43. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, invite someone who is Catholic curious to tune in when we launch in January. Ten years ago this began with a microphone in a basement.</span></p>
  44. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By God’s grace, and through your prayers, we are just getting started.</span></p>
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  51.      <title>From Red Guard To Blue Hair: Why Leftists Destroy Womanhood</title>
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  53.      <dc:creator>Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong</dc:creator>
  54.      <description>Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in the five-part series “American Maoists: Warnings From The Cultural Revolution.” In Part II, Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong — both activists, scholars, and survivors of Mao’s communist uprising — broke down the endless cycle of victimization that fuels perpetual revolution, and has been embraced by the American ...</description>
  55.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in the five-part series “American Maoists: Warnings From The Cultural Revolution.”</em></p>
  56. <p><em>In Part II, Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong — both activists, scholars, and survivors of Mao’s communist uprising — </em><em>broke down the endless cycle of victimization that fuels perpetual revolution, and has been embraced by the American Left.</em></p>
  57. <p><em>Today, the authors take up the question of women.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> The American Left, it turns out, is not the first revolutionary movement to encourage androgyny and shame women for being traditionally feminine. Indeed, as our authors, show, destroying womanhood is essential to the revolutionary project.</span></em></p>
  58. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">*** </span></em></p>
  59. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story of women under radical Marxist ideology is the story of beauty turned to beast.</span></p>
  60. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing — known in the West as Madame Mao — was once celebrated as a symbol of feminine beauty. In 1930s Shanghai, the so-called “Hollywood of the East,” she gained fame as a rising movie star, embodying the glamour and grace traditionally associated with Chinese womanhood.</span></p>
  61. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Shanghai was also a hub for progressives, Communist sympathizers, and fellow travelers — and Jiang Qing was soon drawn into their orbit.</span></p>
  62. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1937, at the age of 23, Jiang Qing — like tens of thousands of other progressive youths — traveled to Yan’an, the Communist stronghold in the loess hills of northwestern China, to join the revolution. There she quickly caught Mao Zedong’s attention, leading him to set aside his guerrilla fighter wife and marry the former movie star. </span></p>
  63. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Jiang Qing bound herself to Mao and the Communist revolution, she began to shed her feminine image: cutting her long hair short, trading dresses for shapeless military uniforms, and abandoning the aura of a glamorous actress.</span></p>
  64. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This transformation was not simply personal; it reflected a broader ideological demand. In Yan’an, and later in Beijing, the revolution required individuals to dissolve their identity into the collective. As Mao’s political power grew, Jiang’s own image moved ever further from the ideals of Chinese traditional femininity.</span></p>
  65. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By 1966, when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, Jiang’s metamorphosis was complete. Elevated to unprecedented authority as “Chairman Mao’s greatest standard-bearer,” she emerged as a hardened, gender-neutral revolutionary warrior, wearing a distinctly masculine haircut and clad only in a Mao suit or military uniform.</span></p>
  66. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jiang Qing became the model for all Chinese women to emulate. Feminine qualities were denounced as toxic, bourgeois, and reactionary, and women were expected to abandon not only the ornaments of beauty but the very essence of femininity itself — as lovers, wives, and mothers. Mao himself praised this new ideal in verse: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“China’s daughters hold uncommon resolve; they love not splendid ornaments, but the arms of revolution.”</span></i></p>
  67. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nowhere was this more stark than in the Red Guard movement: thousands of teenage girls, who might once have sung, studied, or courted love, instead shouted slogans, wielded clubs, and became torturers and killers.</span></p>
  68. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Red Guard was responsible for the first murder of the Cultural Revolution — the brutal beating to death of their principal at a Beijing girls’ high school — an act that unleashed the nationwide violence which would claim tens of millions of lives.</span></p>
  69. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was in that era that both of us passed through girlhood, adolescence, and the bloom of youth, devoid of all femininity.</span></p>
  70. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We were told, and we believed, that women could hold up half the sky, and that whatever men could do, we could do even better. We strove to become Iron Girls — the Chinese version of the superwoman — taking on the hardest tasks while training ourselves to look, speak, and act like men. Family, children, and motherhood were pushed from our minds; all that mattered was proving ourselves as revolutionaries.</span></p>
  71. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sadly, defeminization left deep scars on the women of our generation, eroding many of the traditional Chinese virtues of womanhood: tenderness, modesty, nurturing, grace, and devotion to family. Our generation, unlike our Western counterparts, grew up without dreams of a fairytale love story or a perfect wedding. </span></p>
  72. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When some of us later came to the West, we shattered the stereotype of what an Asian woman was expected to be in the eyes of Westerners.</span></p>
  73. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As survivors of Mao’s defeminization, we are horrified to see history repeating itself here in America. Although the process began decades ago with the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1960s, its pace has accelerated dramatically in recent years.</span></p>
  74. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Radicalized young women — especially white female youth in search of identity — have taken defeminization to new extremes. The body itself becomes a canvas of protest against convention and traditional feminine beauty: blue hair, tattoos, piercings, and harsh attire announce open rebellion. One needs to look no further than the Antifa girls on the streets for living proof.</span></p>
  75. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As in Mao’s China, defeminization is more than an outward transformation; in today’s woke culture it is a proud declaration of being the opposite of what family, culture, or faith once revered as good, beautiful, or sacred. In this sense, it is a total reordering of values, inscribed visibly on the body. </span></p>
  76. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is even worse is that the defeminization of women is accompanied by the feminization of men — a topic for another time. Both trends aim to shake the very foundation of a functioning society.</span></p>
  77. <p><strong>READ MORE:</strong></p>
  78. <p><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/license-to-kill-what-turns-normal-people-to-political-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Maoists, Part I: License To Kill: What Turns Normal People To Political Violence?</a></strong></p>
  79. <p><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-wheel-of-misfortune-victims-victimhood-and-victimization?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Xi+Van+Fleet+and+Sasha+Gong&amp;category=Opinion&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=The+Wheel+Of+Misfortune%3A+Victims%2C+Victimhood%2C+And+Victimization">American Maoists, Part II: The Wheel Of Misfortune: Victims, Victimhood, And Victimization</a></strong></p>
  80. <p><em>Xi Van Fleet is a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, activist, and author of “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.”</em></p>
  81. <p><em>Sasha Gong is a writer, scholar, journalist, and filmmaker. A dissident in Mao’s China, she holds a PhD from Harvard University and was previously Director of the China Branch at Voice of America.</em></p>
  82. <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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  89.      <title>‘Yellowstone’ Creator Who Quit Paramount Snubbed U.S. Celebration Pitch, Citing Politics: Report</title>
  90.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-creator-who-quit-paramount-snubbed-u-s-celebration-pitch-citing-politics-report</link>
  91.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  92.      <description>Taylor Sheridan, the Academy Award–nominated creator behind &amp;#8220;Yellowstone,&amp;#8221; will depart Paramount for NBCUniversal when his contract ends in 2028, according to a recent announcement. This is a big deal because Sheridan is responsible for several other Paramount hits, including “1923,” “Tulsa King,” “Special Ops: Lioness,” and more popular projects. Sheridan didn’t give a statement explaining ...</description>
  93.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taylor Sheridan, the Academy Award–nominated creator behind &#8220;Yellowstone,&#8221; will depart Paramount for NBCUniversal when his contract ends in 2028, according to a recent announcement.</p>
  94. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a big deal because Sheridan is responsible for several other Paramount hits, including “1923,” “Tulsa King,” “Special Ops: Lioness,” and more popular projects. Sheridan didn’t give a statement explaining why he’s leaving, but anonymous sources say it was partly due to creative differences with Paramount&#8217;s new leadership.</span></p>
  95. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This includes the director’s reluctance to work on a special project celebrating America’s 250th anniversary next year, which was reportedly requested by the company’s new CEO, David Ellison, whom President Donald Trump has called a good friend. Per The Wall Street Journal, Sheridan didn’t want to make anything “</span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/why-yellowstone-mastermind-taylor-sheridan-decided-to-ditch-paramount-2192d401"><span style="font-weight: 400;">overtly political</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” </span></p>
  96. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s worth noting that while “Yellowstone” was very popular with a conservative audience, especially in the early seasons, the show’s creator explicitly stated that he didn’t want it to be.</span></p>
  97. <p><b>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to </b><a href="http://dailywire.com/Subscribe" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>DailyWire.com/Subscribe</b></a><b> to join now.</b></p>
  98. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state Game of Thrones,’ ” Sheridan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-laughs-at-the-idea-of-series-being-a-red-state-show">told</a> The Atlantic in 2022.</span></p>
  99. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And I just sit back laughing. I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?”</span></p>
  100. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He said the same in 2019, calling the idea of “Yellowstone” advancing conservative ideas “the most ridiculous thing.”</span></p>
  101. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Budgets are clearly a major concern months after the close of the $8.4 billion merger of Paramount and Skydance. Per a </span><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/10/paramount-layoffs-begin-ceo-david-ellison-1236600654/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">memo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from Ellison, 1,000 employees are being laid off this week, and 1,000 more will be let go soon. The CEO told staff, “These steps are necessary to position Paramount for long-term success.”</span></p>
  102. <p>Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, backed his son David Ellison’s company, Skydance Media, in its takeover of Paramount Global. While David serves as CEO, Larry remains the primary financial force behind the deal, operating largely behind the scenes. Ellison, who has a close relationship with President Trump, is also working with him on a deal involving TikTok’s U.S. operations.</p>
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  109.      <title>Insurance Giant Removes DEI Pages From Website, Commits To ‘Meritocracy’</title>
  110.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/insurance-giant-removes-dei-pages-from-website-commits-to-meritocracy</link>
  111.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  112.      <description>One of the largest insurance companies in the country is removing commitments to being “anti-racist” and other DEI-related materials from its website as it promises to embrace a culture of meritocracy.  The Chubb Corporation has deleted or edited numerous webpages in recent weeks to remove information detailing multiple “racial justice” programs and its commitment to ...</description>
  113.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the largest insurance companies in the country is removing commitments to being “anti-racist” and other DEI-related materials from its website as it promises to embrace a culture of meritocracy. </span></p>
  114. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Chubb Corporation has deleted or edited numerous webpages in recent weeks to remove information detailing multiple “racial justice” programs and its commitment to “inclusive hiring.” The changes come after The Daily Wire </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-insurance-ceo-said-bill-barring-men-from-womens-bathrooms-was-a-threat-to-democracy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> earlier this month on the scale of Chubb’s DEI initiatives and highly partisan comments from its CEO attacking </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">North Carolina over a bill to keep men out of women’s bathrooms. </span></p>
  115. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deleted webpages include one called “</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250617162520/https:/about.chubb.com/our-workforce/racial-justice.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advancing Racial Justice</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” which detailed various “racial justice” programs at Chubb.</span></p>
  116. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We believe in being anti-racist because a rejection of racism alone is insufficient. We have a responsibility to do our part – with candor, open minds and a commitment to change,” the company said on the now-deleted page. The page included information on Chubb’s “Race Matters” platform, intended to “facilitate greater consciousness of racism and understanding of the Black experience,” and on “inclusive hiring” practices, which placed a “special emphasis on professionals from underrepresented groups.”</span></p>
  117. <p>Asked to explain the changes, a spokesman for Chubb, the <span style="font-weight: 400;">largest commercial lines insurer in the United States and operating across 54 countries, said they were made to ensure the website “better convey[s]” the company’s culture. </span></p>
  118. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We have always strived to be a meritocracy. We made changes to the content on our website to better convey our culture,” a Chubb spokesman told The Daily Wire of the changes.</span></p>
  119. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many corporations have publicly moved away from DEI in recent years as customers have reacted negatively to corporate leftwing activism. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the last month, Chubb has faced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-insurance-ceo-said-bill-barring-men-from-womens-bathrooms-was-a-threat-to-democracy">national campaign</a> from conservative groups like Consumers’ Research over some of the leftist policies it once highlighted on its website.  </span></p>
  120. <p>A number of major corporations, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-deere-is-latest-company-to-diminish-dei-says-it-wont-join-social-or-cultural-awareness-parades">John Deere</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tractor-supply-reverses-course-backs-out-of-woke-initiatives-following-conservative-backlash">Tractor Supply</a>, have backed away from corporate DEI initiatives since the 2024 election.</p>
  121. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some pages were just edited to remove some information. On its “Rule of Law Fund” </span><a href="https://about.chubb.com/citizenship/rule-law-fund.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">page</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, for example, Chubb </span><a href="https://archive.ph/CbRRA"><span style="font-weight: 400;">removed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> information about $1.1 million in donations it made, in part, to “understand and reduce racial inequities throughout the criminal justice process.” </span></p>
  122. <p><strong>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire.com/Subscribe</a> to join now.</strong></p>
  123. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A video taken down from its YouTube page featured Chubb Corporation CEO Evan Greenberg </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-insurance-ceo-said-bill-barring-men-from-womens-bathrooms-was-a-threat-to-democracy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">attacking</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> North Carolina Republicans over a 2016 bill aimed at protecting women’s privacy.</span></p>
  124. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The rights of individuals, including our personal freedom and right to pursue happiness, are a universal right. We protect them. Actions like those in North Carolina and other states to discriminate against sexual preference and strip citizens of their protections, do not reflect who we are as a nation, and are ultimately, I believe, a threat to democracy,” Greenberg said.</span></p>
  125. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A variety of other DEI-related pages were edited or removed from the webpage. </span></p>
  126. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This included information on its </span><a href="https://www.chubb.com/us-en/individuals-families/our-community/chubb-coal-policy.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">commitment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to no longer underwriting “the construction and operation of new coal-fired plants or new risks for companies that generate more than 30% of their revenues from coal mining or energy production from coal.”</span></p>
  127. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other information that was removed focused on programs </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250815185311/https:/about.chubb.com/our-workforce/advancing-women.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">specifically</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for women, </span><a href="https://archive.ph/YVG04"><span style="font-weight: 400;">its</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Global Climate Business Unit, and </span><a href="https://archive.ph/KabAD#selection-2297.12-2297.106"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sponsorship</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of a DEI festival.</span></p>
  128. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In our journey to become a more equitable workplace, Chubb has developed a series of accelerator programs around the world designed for women at all stages of their career,” it said on a now-removed page on “Accelerating Opportunities for Women.” </span></p>
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  135.      <title>GM’s EV Struggles Trigger Mass Layoffs In Three States</title>
  136.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/gms-ev-struggles-trigger-mass-layoffs-in-three-states</link>
  137.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  138.      <description>General Motors is set to lay off more than 2,000 workers in Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the company announced on Wednesday, citing &amp;#8220;slower&amp;#8221; EV sales. GM&amp;#8217;s Detroit-area electric vehicle plant was hit the hardest, with roughly 1,200 employees being informed that they were no longer needed, The Detroit News reported. The all-electric Factory Zero Detroit-Hamtramck ...</description>
  139.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>General Motors is set to lay off more than 2,000 workers in Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the company announced on Wednesday, citing &#8220;slower&#8221; EV sales.</p>
  140. <p>GM&#8217;s Detroit-area electric vehicle plant was hit the hardest, with roughly 1,200 employees being informed that they were no longer needed, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2025/10/29/gm-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-at-detroit-tennessee-ohio-ev-sites/86962834007/">reported</a>. The all-electric Factory Zero Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center will shut down completely from November 24 until January 5, after which it will operate on a single shift. Around 2,000 employees will stay employed at the plant, and cuts will be based on seniority.</p>
  141. <p>Another 550 employees will be cut at GM&#8217;s Ultium Cells battery plant near Youngstown, Ohio, with 850 more workers expected to be laid off temporarily. At another GM Ultium Cells battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, 700 workers will be temporarily laid off as well, according to The Detroit News.</p>
  142. <p>&#8220;In response to slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment, General Motors is realigning EV capacity,&#8221; the Michigan-based automaker said. &#8220;Despite these changes, GM remains committed to our U.S. manufacturing footprint, and we believe our investments and dedication to flexible operations will make GM more resilient and capable of leading through change. Impacted employees may be eligible for SUB pay and benefits in accordance with the National GM-UAW Agreement.&#8221;</p>
  143. <p>Last week, GM said it would lay off around 200 salaried employees at its global tech campus in metro Detroit as part of a restructuring effort for its &#8220;design engineering teams,&#8221; CNBC reported.</p>
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  145. <p>After President Donald Trump eliminated the Biden administration&#8217;s $7,500 EV tax credit and cut back on regulations for gas-powered vehicles, GM said that it would lose around $1.6 billion related to changes the company would have to make to its EV rollout, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-ev-slowdown-rcna237652">reported</a>.</p>
  146. <p>“Following recent U.S. government policy changes, including the termination of certain consumer tax incentives for EV purchases and the reduction in the stringency of emissions regulations, we expect the adoption rate of EVs to slow,” GM said last month.</p>
  147. <p>During the third quarter of this year, the automaker reported huge sales of EVs, doubling the numbers reported in the same quarter last year. The Q3 bump in EV sales, however, came before the tax credit was terminated on September 30, as part of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill.&#8221;</p>
  148. <p>The elimination of the EV tax credit and regulatory changes have also affected major EV companies, such as Tesla and Rivian, and other auto giants that have focused on producing more electric vehicles. Tesla sales dropped this year, and GM and Ford have <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ceo-jim-farley-predicts-033138695.html">pumped the brakes</a> on EV production. Due to the Trump administration&#8217;s recent actions, Ford CEO Jim Farley predicted that &#8220;EV adoption will now only be about 5% of the U.S. market.&#8221;</p>
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  151.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:29:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  155.      <title>Sudan’s Real Genocide Ignored: El Fasher Falls While The West Looks Away</title>
  156.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/sudans-real-genocide-ignored-el-fasher-falls-while-the-west-looks-away</link>
  157.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  158.      <description>While Western activists chant “From the river to the sea” and governments wring their hands over Israel’s every defensive strike, a true genocide has unfolded in Sudan — and the global chorus of moral outrage has fallen silent. This week, the city of El Fasher, the last government-held capital in Darfur, fell to the Rapid ...</description>
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  165. <div class="user-message-bubble-color relative rounded-[18px] px-4 py-1.5 data-[multiline]:py-3 max-w-[var(--user-chat-width,70%)]">While Western activists chant “From the river to the sea” and governments wring their hands over Israel’s every defensive strike, a true genocide has unfolded in Sudan — and the global chorus of moral outrage has fallen silent.</div>
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  179. <p data-start="310" data-end="723">This week, the city of El Fasher, the last government-held capital in Darfur, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7eyd13ky5t">fell</a> to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — a brutal militia descended from the Janjaweed death squads that terrorized Sudan two decades ago. The RSF, heavily armed and bankrolled by the United Arab Emirates, surrounded the city with an earthen wall, trapping some 250,000 civilians inside. Then came the bombers. Then came the slaughter.</p>
  180. <p data-start="725" data-end="1080">Witnesses describe summary executions, rape, and mass graves. One survivor<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/28/sudan-genocide-double-standards/"> told</a> reporters, “We saw many of our relatives massacred. They were gathered in one place and killed.” Drone footage and social media clips show civilians forced to the ground and executed point-blank. Bodies lie strewn among burned-out vehicles — a modern echo of Rwanda’s horror.</p>
  181. <p data-start="1082" data-end="1600">The United Nations did what it does best: issue statements. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed “grave concern” over “ethnically motivated atrocities.” The World Health Organization condemned attacks on the last operational hospital. And then, predictably, the bureaucratic machine returned to its comfortable paralysis. Meanwhile, Sudanese corpses pile up, the death toll <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/africa/sudan-rsf-takes-el-fasher-intl">surpassing</a> 150,000, with hundreds of thousands of children starving to death in what is officially recognized by the United States as genocide.</p>
  182. <p data-start="1602" data-end="1932">The contrast to Gaza is stark. There are no leaflets warning civilians. No humanitarian corridors. No ceasefire resolutions are cycling through the Security Council every other day. No global protests demanding “Freedom for Darfur.” Just silence — and perhaps the occasional shrug from Western elites too busy moralizing about Israel.</p>
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  184. <p>Governor Minni Arko Minnawi, addressing his nation after El Fasher’s fall, delivered a defiant message: “This is not an end, but a beginning. From El Fasher, we begin again from zero… We are not advocates of war, but we have learned that peace is not a gift; it is built through steadfastness and dignity.” His words, equal parts grief and resolve, accused the international community of complicity through apathy: “Your silence has carved shame into the breast of history.”</p>
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  186. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Minni Arko Minawi: From El Fasher Begins the Dawn of a New Nation in the Face of the UAE-Backed Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed)</p>
  187. <p>In a powerful and emotional address delivered following the fall of El Fasher, Governor of Darfur Arco Mii Minawi vowed that Sudan’s struggle is… <a href="https://t.co/QvIwcQWvsW">pic.twitter.com/QvIwcQWvsW</a></p>
  188. <p>— Sudanese Echo (@SudaneseEcho) <a href="https://twitter.com/SudaneseEcho/status/1983404954531385646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  191. <p data-start="2408" data-end="2736">Sudan’s de facto head of state, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, confirmed the army’s withdrawal, saying it was the only way to “protect the remaining citizens.” His statement amounted to a bitter admission of defeat — and a warning that the RSF now controls all five Darfur state capitals, establishing a de facto regime of terror.</p>
  192. <p data-start="2738" data-end="3089">The Western media’s indifference to this bloodbath would be stunning if it weren’t so predictable. The Telegraph rightly called it “a genocide that dwarfs Gaza,” yet the “Free Palestine” crowd — the self-anointed guardians of human rights — cannot muster a single demonstration for Sudan. Their compassion has borders, and those borders are political.</p>
  193. <p data-start="3091" data-end="3508">The RSF’s campaign is not a war of defense but of annihilation — ethnic cleansing under a new flag. It’s the very definition of genocide. But since it doesn’t involve Israelis or fit the narrative of Western colonial guilt, the world averts its eyes. There’s no outcry from celebrities, no op-eds from Ivy League moral philosophers, no candlelit vigils in London or New York. Just muted headlines and fading interest.</p>
  194. <p data-start="3510" data-end="3779">In his speech, Minnawi called on Sudan’s diaspora to rise up — to “rebuild from the ashes and create life from pain.” But even he must know that, for now, Sudan stands alone. The same global conscience that weeps over Gaza has turned its back on Africa’s dying children.</p>
  195. <p data-start="3781" data-end="3928" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">And so El Fasher burns. The RSF marches on. And the world — the same world that accuses Israel of genocide — watches a real one unfold, in silence.</p>
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  206.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  210.      <title>Scary For The Right Reasons. Six Political Horror Movies.</title>
  211.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/scary-for-the-right-reasons-six-political-horror-movies</link>
  212.      <dc:creator>Christian Toto</dc:creator>
  213.      <description>When Hollywood sends a message, chances are it’s from the Left. Or, in the case of Leonardo DiCaprio’s open borders screed “One Battle After Another,” the far, far Left. The same applies to horror movies. We’ve seen a wave of “socially conscious” horror in recent years, often with depressing results. Think the 2021 “Candyman” reboot, ...</description>
  214.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Hollywood sends a message, chances are it’s from the Left. Or, in the case of Leonardo DiCaprio’s open borders screed “One Battle After Another,” the far, far Left.</span></p>
  215. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same applies to horror movies.</span></p>
  216. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve seen a wave of “socially conscious” horror in recent years, often with depressing results. Think the 2021 “Candyman” reboot, 2020’s “Antebellum,” and 2022’s “They/Them.” </span></p>
  217. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Horror has always let storytellers send a message or two between the scares, often doing so without exclamation points. And, given the industry’s leanings, that rarely aligns with conservative world views.</span></p>
  218. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That doesn’t mean the films in question aren’t worth watching. Some message-minded movies remain essential Halloween fare. A few have themes that aren’t as neatly progressive as one expects.</span></p>
  219. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And, as faith-based movies continue to improve and expand their focus, we’re seeing thrillers that touch on heartland values. Really.</span></p>
  220. <h2>“Nefarious” (2023)</h2>
  221. <div id="attachment_992777" style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/nefarious?row=0&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;rowType=Square+Show+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992777" class="size-large wp-image-992777" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Nefarious-film-370x576.jpg" alt="Soli Deo Gloria Releasing. Believe Entertainment." width="370" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Nefarious-film-370x576.jpg 370w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Nefarious-film-193x300.jpg 193w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Nefarious-film-768x1194.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Nefarious-film-988x1536.jpg 988w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Nefarious-film.jpg 1317w" sizes=" (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-992777" class="wp-caption-text">Soli Deo Gloria Releasing. Believe Entertainment.</p></div>
  222. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This spicy two-hander follows a psychiatrist (Jordan Belfie) trying to gauge a death-row inmate’s state of mind. Sean Patrick Flanery chews up the scenery in the very best ways as a prisoner who claims he didn’t commit the crimes in question.</span></p>
  223. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Devil made him do it. Literally.</span></p>
  224. <p><strong>“Nefarious” is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/nefarious?row=0&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;rowType=Square+Show+Carousel">now streaming on The Daily Wire</a>.</strong></p>
  225. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Based on the book “A Nefarious Plot,” by Steve Deace and backed by Glenn Beck, this indie Christian film eschews blood and gore tactics for spiritual scares. This smart, faith-based shocker shows the power of performance and dialogue over FX. </span></p>
  226. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Produced by Soli Deo Gloria and Believe Entertainment, this is a Heartland friendly film, but still not suitable for younger audiences.</span></p>
  227. <h2><b>“The Hunt” (2020)</b></h2>
  228. <div id="attachment_992787" style="width: 374px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8244784/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992787" class="size-large wp-image-992787" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/The-Hunt-movie-364x576.jpg" alt="Blumhouse Productions.Universal Pictures. " width="364" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/The-Hunt-movie-364x576.jpg 364w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/The-Hunt-movie-189x300.jpg 189w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/The-Hunt-movie-768x1216.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/The-Hunt-movie-970x1536.jpg 970w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/The-Hunt-movie.jpg 1293w" sizes=" (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-992787" class="wp-caption-text">Blumhouse Productions. Universal Pictures.</p></div>
  229. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s the ultimate Culture War movie, but one where the shouting barely reflects what’s seen on screen. A group of privileged liberals kidnap and hunt conservatives for sport. Sound awful? It is, no doubt, and it&#8217;s remarkably bloody.</span></p>
  230. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enter Betty Gilpin as Crystal, a feisty Republican who leads a rebellion after being kidnapped by the Hunt’s handlers. She’s the ultimate Final Girl, a resourceful gal who can’t help but gain the audience’s admiration.</span></p>
  231. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The third act turns silly, but its political message is surprisingly balanced. Let’s lower the temperature on the cultural conversation before it’s too late. Just five years after its controversial release, it seems we need that lesson even more. And, chances are, today’s media would likely skewer the film for that reason.</span></p>
  232. <h2><b>“Get Out” (2017)</b></h2>
  233. <div id="attachment_992789" style="width: 399px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052448/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992789" class="size-large wp-image-992789" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Get-Out-movie-389x576.jpg" alt="Monkeypaw Productions. Blumhouse Productions. Universal Pictures." width="389" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Get-Out-movie-389x576.jpg 389w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Get-Out-movie-203x300.jpg 203w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Get-Out-movie-768x1137.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Get-Out-movie-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Get-Out-movie.jpg 1383w" sizes=" (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-992789" class="wp-caption-text">Monkeypaw Productions. Blumhouse Productions. Universal Pictures.</p></div>
  234. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jordan Peele went from half of a goofy Comedy Central pairing to horror auteur with this gem. An interracial couple (Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams) pays her family a visit, hoping to avoid any awkward exchanges. They get just the opposite as the clan endlessly kisses up to Kaluuya’s character.</span></p>
  235. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I could,” brags Bradley Whitford, cast as the young man’s potential father-in-law. Then, slowly, we realize how this progressive family is using black people for nefarious purposes.</span></p>
  236. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The themes are unabashedly progressive, with whites exploiting blacks anew. Peele’s craftsmanship and affinity for horror shine through from the opening sequence. It’s as good as advertised.</span></p>
  237. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The biggest surprise? The film’s ending sets up a tired, evil white cop trope that never happens. Shocking. Truly.</span></p>
  238. <h2><strong>“Night Of The Living Dead” (1968)</strong></h2>
  239. <div id="attachment_992803" style="width: 385px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992803" class="size-full wp-image-992803" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/nld-film.jpg" alt="Image Ten Productions. Continental Distributing." width="375" height="500" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/nld-film.jpg 375w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/nld-film-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes=" (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-992803" class="wp-caption-text">Image Ten Productions. Continental Distributing.</p></div>
  240. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Director George A. Romero’s zombie classic still has bite, but casting a black actor as its heroic lead (Duane Jones) proved shocking in the turbulent ‘60s. That wasn’t the only reason Jones’ performance left a mark.</span></p>
  241. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film caps with a group of white hunters, disposing of random zombies stalking the land, accidentally shoot Jones’ character in the head. Romero never hid his progressive bona fides, but he suggested in interviews that the ending’s racial connection was unintentional.</span></p>
  242. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subconscious or not, the film’s cultural potency is undeniable. So is its fright factor. The black and white original, shot on a tiny budget with no recognizable stars, remains an essential watch each October.</span></p>
  243. <h2><strong>“Dawn Of The Dead” (1978) </strong></h2>
  244. <div id="attachment_992805" style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992805" class="size-large wp-image-992805" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Dawn-of-the-dead-film-370x576.jpg" alt="Laurel Group Productions. Dawn Associates. United Film Distribution Company." width="370" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Dawn-of-the-dead-film-370x576.jpg 370w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Dawn-of-the-dead-film-193x300.jpg 193w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Dawn-of-the-dead-film.jpg 478w" sizes=" (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-992805" class="wp-caption-text">Laurel Group Productions. Dawn Associates. United Film Distribution Company.</p></div>
  245. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Romero, again, uses zombies for more than just brain-munching kills. This time, the undead have swarmed a Pittsburgh-area mall, forcing a small band of humans to scramble for safety.</span></p>
  246. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The horror guru’s visual masterstroke – stumbling, shuffling zombies roaming through an all-American mall, just as they did in their living years. The commentary on consumerism couldn’t be missed this time around, and it didn’t take a lecture or signpost to share it. He said as much </span><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-george-romeros-progressive-politics-gave-way-to-the-walking-deads-nihilism/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">via a 2010 interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
  247. <blockquote><p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If there’s something I’d like to criticize, I can bring the zombies out … I get the financing that way. So I’ve been able to express my political views through those films.” </span></em></p></blockquote>
  248. <h2>“Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” (1956), (1978)</h2>
  249. <div id="attachment_992817" style="width: 381px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_6_nm_1_in_0_q_Invasion%2520of%2520the%2520body%2520"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992817" class="size-large wp-image-992817" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Invasion-film-371x576.jpg" alt="SoloFilm Productions. United Artists." width="371" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Invasion-film-371x576.jpg 371w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Invasion-film-193x300.jpg 193w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Invasion-film-768x1193.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Invasion-film.jpg 800w" sizes=" (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-992817" class="wp-caption-text">SoloFilm Productions. United Artists.</p></div>
  250. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 1956 original introduced us to “pod people,” replicated humans who looked like our friends and neighbors but without their humor, personality and heart. And they spread so fast across the culture. Social commentators connected the film to the McCarthy-era anxiety infecting the country at the time. They’re all around us! Beware! You could be one, too!</span></p>
  251. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Others suggested the pod people captured the Communist ethos – worker drones who cast humanity aside for the betterment of The State. Some of the best movies allow for any number of interpretations. Either way, the film endures as a horror classic.</span></p>
  252. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 1978 remake is even better – chilling, creepy, and capped by an ending that’s both bleak and perfect. Once again, the story spoke to the paranoia of the times – post-Watergate, post-Vietnam – but could address big city fears and other societal ills.</span></p>
  253. <p>* * *</p>
  254. <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>
  255. <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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  258.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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  262.      <title>Trump’s Asia Tour Delivers: South Korea Deal ‘Pretty Much Finalized,’ China Talks Next</title>
  263.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-asia-tour-delivers-south-korea-deal-pretty-much-finalized-china-talks-next</link>
  264.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  265.      <description>President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had “pretty much” finalized the details of a trade deal with South Korea that is expected to bring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments into the United States.  Trump’s announcement came after he arrived in South Korea to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The regional ...</description>
  266.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had “pretty much” finalized the details of a trade deal with South Korea that is expected to bring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments into the United States. </span></p>
  267. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump’s announcement came after he arrived in South Korea to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The regional economic forum will be the last stop on Trump&#8217;s trade-focused Asia tour before he returns to the United States. </span></p>
  268. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We had a tremendous meeting today with South Korea,” Trump said. “Pretty much finalized a trade deal, and we discussed some other things having to do with national security, etc. And I think we came to a conclusion on a lot of very important items.”</span></p>
  269. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  270. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;We had a tremendous meeting today with South Korea — with lots determined&#8230; We pretty much finalized a trade deal and we discussed some other things having to do with national security.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/I3KWsgAhFf">pic.twitter.com/I3KWsgAhFf</a></p>
  271. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983492447146533227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  272. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  273. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under the terms of the agreement, South Korea is <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/trump-announces-trade-breakthrough-with-south-korea-on-asia-trip.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to invest a total of $350 billion in the United States, including $200 billion in cash and $150 million in shipbuilding. Tariffs on cars will also be slashed from 25% to 15%, according to South Korean officials. </span></p>
  274. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Upon his arrival in South Korea, Trump was given a series of elaborate gifts by officials, including a replica golden crown and a laurel leaf medal. </span></p>
  275. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Later, during a dinner with officials, Trump spoke about the rocky relationship between North and South Korea. </span></p>
  276. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I won&#8217;t forget the trip and we&#8217;ll be working together and you have a little bit of a cloud over your country, and we&#8217;re going to get that cloud solved. You have a neighbor that hasn&#8217;t been as nice as they could be, and I think they will be. I know Kim Jong Un very well, and I think things will work out very well.&#8221;</span></p>
  277. <p>Trump said he was open to meeting Kim during the trip, but the North Korean dictator has so far declined to engage.</p>
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  279. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump’s meeting with South Korea comes ahead of a much-anticipated Thursday meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. </span></p>
  280. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We&#8217;ve been talking a lot over the last month, and I think we&#8217;re going to have something that&#8217;s going to be very, very satisfactory to China and to us. I think we&#8217;re going to have… I think it&#8217;s going to be a very good meeting. I look forward to it tomorrow morning,” Trump said. </span></p>
  281. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump echoed those remarks on Truth Social, saying his Asia trip would bring back trillions of dollars to the United States and that his meeting with Xi would be “great” for both nations. </span></p>
  282. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this month, Trump threatened to cancel his planned meeting with Xi after he accused China of taking “very hostile” actions on trade. </span></p>
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  285.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:42:34 GMT</pubDate>
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  289.      <title>Bill Gates Walks Back Climate Doom: ‘It Will Not Lead To Humanity’s Demise’</title>
  290.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-walks-back-climate-doom-it-will-not-lead-to-humanitys-demise</link>
  291.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  292.      <description>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has done an about-face on climate change alarmism, recently saying that there are more pressing matters people should be worrying about instead. The 70-year-old tech billionaire, who has been an outspoken environmental activist for years, said as much in a &amp;#8220;memo&amp;#8221; published Tuesday titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate.” &amp;#8220;Climate change, ...</description>
  293.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has done an about-face on climate change alarmism, recently saying that there are more pressing matters people should be worrying about instead.</span></p>
  294. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 70-year-old tech billionaire, who has been an outspoken environmental activist for years, said as much in a </span><a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation/reader/helping-the-worlds-poorest-adapt-to-climate-change"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;memo&#8221;</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> published Tuesday titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate.”</span></p>
  295. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems,&#8221; Gates wrote. &#8220;We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause.&#8221;</span></p>
  296. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The businessman admitted that the Earth’s temperature is not the most important factor for improving life on the planet and said the &#8220;doomsday&#8221; view of climate change is “wrong.”</span></p>
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  298. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,&#8221; Gates wrote. &#8220;This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.&#8221;</span></p>
  299. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gates added, &#8220;Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare.&#8221;</span></p>
  300. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He wrote the 17-page analysis ahead of next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Brazil, in hopes of shifting funding away from climate initiatives toward other endeavors he now believes are more important.</span></p>
  301. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gates insisted that climate change remains a major concern but should be moved lower on the priority list. </span></p>
  302. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you think climate is not important, you won’t agree with the memo. If you think climate is the only cause and apocalyptic, you won’t agree with the memo,” Gates </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reporters of his stance, per Associated Press. “It’s kind of this pragmatic view of somebody who’s, you know, trying to maximize the money and the innovation that goes to help in these poor countries.”</span></p>
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  305.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:41:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  309.      <title>Pope Leo Condemns Antisemitism, Cites Anniversary Of Historic Declaration</title>
  310.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-leo-condemns-antisemitism-cites-anniversary-of-historic-declaration</link>
  311.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  312.      <description>Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday bluntly addressed and condemned the current scourge of antisemitism around the globe to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Roman Catholic Church’s declaration, Nostra Aetate. “Sixty years ago, a seed of hope for interreligious dialogue was planted,” Pope Leo began on Tuesday. “Today, your presence bears witness that this seed ...</description>
  313.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday bluntly <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/october/documents/20251028-nostra-aetate.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">addressed and condemned</a> the current scourge of antisemitism around the globe to commemorate the 60<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Roman Catholic Church’s declaration, Nostra Aetate.</p>
  314. <p>“Sixty years ago, a seed of hope for interreligious dialogue was planted,” Pope Leo <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/october/documents/20251028-nostra-aetate.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">began</a> on Tuesday. “Today, your presence bears witness that this seed has grown into a mighty tree, its branches reaching far and wide, offering shelter and bearing the rich fruits of understanding, friendship, cooperation and peace.”</p>
  315. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I am convinced that its message remains highly relevant today,” Pope Leo said of Nostra Aetate. “Let us, then, take a moment to reflect on some of its most significant teachings.”</p>
  316. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We must not forget how Nostra Aetate actually developed,” he recalled. “Initially, Pope John XXIII commissioned Cardinal Augustin Bea to present a treatise to the Council describing a new relationship between the Catholic Church and Judaism. We can say, therefore, that the fourth chapter, dedicated to Judaism, is the heart and generative core of the entire Declaration. For the first time in the history of the Church, we have a doctrinal text with an explicitly theological basis that illustrates the Jewish roots of Christianity in a well-founded biblical manner.”</p>
  317. <p>Nostra Aetate (“In Our Time” in Latin) is a pivotal declaration from the Second Vatican Council, written in 1965, on how the Catholic Church would approach other faiths. In particular, it redefined the relationship between Catholicism and Judaism.</p>
  318. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham&#8217;s stock,” Nostra Aetate <a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html">states</a>. “Thus the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to God&#8217;s saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found already among the Patriarchs, Moses and the prophets. She professes that all who believe in Christ — Abraham&#8217;s sons according to faith are included in the same Patriarch&#8217;s call, and likewise that the salvation of the Church is mysteriously foreshadowed by the chosen people&#8217;s exodus from the land of bondage. The Church, therefore, cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the root of that well-cultivated olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild shoots, the Gentiles.”</p>
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  320. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“The Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures,” the document continued. “Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel&#8217;s spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.”</p>
  321. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Nostra Aetate takes a firm stand against all forms of antisemitism,” Pope Leo continued on Tuesday. “Nostra teaches that we cannot truly call on God, the Father of all, if we refuse to treat in a brotherly or sisterly way any man or woman created in the image of God. Indeed, the Church rejects all forms of discrimination or harassment because of race, color, condition of life or religion.”</p>
  322. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“As religious leaders, guided by the wisdom of our respective traditions, we share a sacred responsibility: to help our people to break free from the chains of prejudice, anger and hatred; to help them rise above egoism and self-centeredness; to help them overcome the greed that destroys both the human spirit and the earth. In this way, we can lead our people to become prophets of our time — voices that denounce violence and injustice, heal division, and proclaim peace for all our brothers and sisters,” he said.</p>
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  325.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:35:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  329.      <title>Trump Puts Third-Term Theories To Bed, Says Constitution Is ‘Pretty Clear’</title>
  330.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-puts-third-term-theories-to-bed-says-constitution-is-pretty-clear</link>
  331.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  332.      <description>President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Constitution is &amp;#8220;pretty clear&amp;#8221; on presidential term limits, putting to rest theories that have been pushed recently about Trump seeking to run again in 2028. While en route to South Korea, Trump told reporters on Air Force One, “I have my highest poll numbers that I&amp;#8217;ve ever ...</description>
  333.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Constitution is &#8220;pretty clear&#8221; on presidential term limits, putting to rest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-third-term-talk-puts-leftists-in-a-tizzy-again">theories</a> that have been pushed recently about Trump seeking to run again in 2028.</p>
  334. <p>While en route to South Korea, Trump told reporters on Air Force One, “I have my highest poll numbers that I&#8217;ve ever had, and, you know, based on what I read, I guess I&#8217;m not allowed to run.&#8221;</p>
  335. <p>&#8220;I would say that if you read [the Constitution], it&#8217;s pretty clear. I&#8217;m not allowed to run. It&#8217;s too bad,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;But we have a lot of great people,&#8221; referring to the potential Republican presidential candidates waiting to take the torch from him.</p>
  336. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">
  337. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;Based on what I read, I guess I&#8217;m not allowed to run.&#8221;</p>
  338. <p>US President Donald Trump conceded Wednesday that it was “pretty clear” the Constitution didn’t allow him to seek a third term as president, despite frequently floating the idea in recent months <a href="https://t.co/3MeLI1D3J8">https://t.co/3MeLI1D3J8</a> <a href="https://t.co/08tM9EfCMu">pic.twitter.com/08tM9EfCMu</a></p>
  339. <p>— Bloomberg (@business) <a href="https://twitter.com/business/status/1983453256715063423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  340. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  341. <p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/article/can-trump-run-for-a-third-term-in-2028-mike-johnson-says-he-doesnt-see-the-path-192522300.html">pushed back</a> against the third-term theories on Tuesday, saying, “It&#8217;s been a great run, but I think the president knows, and he and I have talked about, the constrictions of the Constitution.”</p>
  342. <p>The 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, ratified in 1951, states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” The 22nd Amendment was ratified shortly after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four consecutive terms before he died in office in 1945.</p>
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  344. <p>Theories about Trump running for a third term in 2028 swirled this week after former Trump adviser Steve Bannon said in an interview that &#8220;there is a plan&#8221; to create a path for Trump to run again. Trump would be 82 years old when the 2028 election takes place.</p>
  345. <p>“Trump is going to be president in 2028, and people just ought to get accommodated with that,” Bannon <a href="https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1981393309869215887">said</a> during an interview with The Economist last week. “We need him for at least one more term, and he’ll get that in 2028.”</p>
  346. <p>Trump was asked about Bannon&#8217;s remarks earlier this week and told reporters that he &#8220;would love&#8221; to run in 2028. Trump&#8217;s and Bannon&#8217;s comments sparked rage and trepidation among political commentators on the Left. Some leftists have also argued that Trump&#8217;s tearing down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom is evidence that he plans on staying in office past January 20, 2029.</p>
  347. <p>The president has hinted at a potential 2028 run multiple times in recent months, but has also stated that the idea &#8220;is not something I&#8217;m looking to do.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s official store also sells &#8220;Trump 2028&#8221; hats, keeping alive fears that he could run. But all of the third-term talk appears to just be talk, or possibly a ruse to troll Democrats. Political <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/trump-third-term-politics.html">analysts</a> have also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/politics/president-trump-third-term-2028">suggested</a> that Trump and his allies are keeping third-term theories alive to prevent Trump from becoming a lame-duck president, which could hinder his agenda as he gets closer to the end of his term.</p>
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  350.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:27:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  354.      <title>‘The Problem Lies On The Left’: Michael Knowles Brings The Heat To Senate Political Violence Hearing</title>
  355.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-problem-lies-on-the-left-michael-knowles-brings-the-heat-to-senate-political-violence-hearing</link>
  356.      <dc:creator>Amber Jo Cooper</dc:creator>
  357.      <description>WASHINGTON—Daily Wire Host Michael Knowles called for the federal government to &amp;#8220;stop the consistent and accelerating trend of leftist terrorism&amp;#8221; at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. The Daily Wire’s @michaeljknowles appears before the United States Senate to expose what Democrats refuse to confront, the rise of left wing political violence. https://t.co/DbENR3dySX — Daily Wire ...</description>
  358.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON—Daily Wire Host Michael Knowles called for the federal government to &#8220;stop the consistent and accelerating trend of leftist terrorism&#8221; at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.</p>
  359. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  360. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> appears before the United States Senate to expose what Democrats refuse to confront, the rise of left wing political violence. <a href="https://t.co/DbENR3dySX">https://t.co/DbENR3dySX</a></p>
  361. <p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1983239105140986267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  362. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  363. <p class="p1">Opening Tuesday’s hearing, Subcommittee on the Constitution Chair Eric Schmitt (R-MO) warned that for the past 15 months, political violence “has been a constant fact of American life.”</p>
  364. <p class="p1">&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen assassinations. We&#8217;ve seen murder. We&#8217;ve seen death. None of this is random. It&#8217;s organized, coordinated political terror,” Schmitt said.</p>
  365. <p>The hearing comes just two months after Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk was murdered by a leftist assassin while speaking at a campus event in Utah. Knowles, a friend of Kirk&#8217;s, <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1968365304893030812">announced</a> that Turning Point’s college tour would continue after the tragedy, and he, along with several other conservative speakers, vowed to carry on the mission.</p>
  366. <p>The chairman said he believes the people behind the violence are “determined militant extremists who wield violence for political ends.”</p>
  367. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  368. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">We must confront the threat of left-wing extremism.</p>
  369. <p>For the past two years, America has been plagued by arsons, bombings, armed ambushes, assaults, violent riots, mass shootings and assassinations.</p>
  370. <p>None of this is random. It is organized, coordinated political terror. <a href="https://t.co/TZkmWQ3nMi">pic.twitter.com/TZkmWQ3nMi</a></p>
  371. <p>— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1983259140177666266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  372. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  373. <p class="p1">In addition to Kirk&#8217;s assassination, Schmitt invoked the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump’s life, the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a slew of arsons, bombings, armed ambushes, assaults, sniper attacks, mass shootings, riots, and violent mobs.</p>
  374. <p class="p1">“We are faced with only two paths: Either we confront this political violence and end it, or it will end us,” Schmitt said.</p>
  375. <p class="p1">Ranking member Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) said he is “absolutely horrified by political violence in this country” and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“unequivocally” condemned Kirk’s murder, but cautioned against debating whether there was more political violence &#8220;on one side or the other.&#8221;</p>
  376. <p class="p1">In his opening statement, Knowles blasted Welch for suggesting that we “not try to pinpoint exactly which side the violence comes from.”</p>
  377. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  378. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> calls out <a href="https://twitter.com/SenPeterWelch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenPeterWelch</a> for saying it&#8217;s unproductive to point out that political violence is a left-wing problem:</p>
  379. <p>&#8220;This seems to me confusing and misbegotten as one cannot solve a problem if one does not know where the problem lies.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/CsM7tQZnPr">pic.twitter.com/CsM7tQZnPr</a></p>
  380. <p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1983259013983973673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  381. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  382. <p class="p1">“This seems to me confusing and misbegotten as one cannot solve a problem if one does not know where the problem lies,” Knowles said.</p>
  383. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  384. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> testifies before the U.S. Senate regarding a left-wing attack on his speaking event at the University of Pittsburgh in 2023:</p>
  385. <p>&#8220;I think we should all be able to agree that throwing an explosive at&#8230;people is no mere minor indiscretion&#8230;That&#8217;s attempted… <a href="https://t.co/RgCavh02Bm">pic.twitter.com/RgCavh02Bm</a></p>
  386. <p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1983257094267572518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  387. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  388. <p class="p1">“In light of the murder of my friend Charlie Kirk by a leftist assassin, I am gratified to see that at least some members of our federal legislature are now confronting the consistent and escalating pattern of left-wing terrorism in the country,” Knowles said.</p>
  389. <p>Knowles cited a September 23 Atlantic article which, citing a recent study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, admitted &#8220;that the Left is more violent today than the right.&#8221;</p>
  390. <p>&#8220;Less honest liberals, including members of Congress, continue to deny this fact. Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton, for example, reacted to Charlie’s assassination by blaming the right,&#8221; Knowles said.</p>
  391. <p class="p1">Knowles cited examples of left-wing political violence, including a personal experience from April 2023 when he was invited to participate in a debate at the University of Pittsburgh on the topic of transgenderism.</p>
  392. <p class="p1">He said several hundred left-wing protesters, many dressed in black, gathered to oppose his appearance.</p>
  393. <p class="p1">“They lit the street on fire while burning me in effigy with a little Hitler mustache painted on my face. All because I hold the view, as most Americans do, that men cannot become women,” Knowles said.</p>
  394. <p class="p1">He said an “Antifa operative” rolled smoke bombs under police barricades and then threw a lit firework into police officers — injuring several.</p>
  395. <p>They were forced to end the debate early, Knowles said.</p>
  396. <p class="p1">“Despite popular efforts to deny the existence of organized left-wing terrorism, Brian and Krystal DiPippa were not merely two citizens protesting a speaker with whom they disagreed. Things just got a little out of hand. No. They are members of an extremist cell,” Knowles said.</p>
  397. <p class="p1">Knowles said everyone should be able to agree that throwing an explosive at a group of people is “no mere minor indiscretion.”</p>
  398. <p>The Torch Antifa network has claimed the DiPippas as members, Knowles said, noting they &#8220;raised money for them through a tax-exempt nonprofit organization.&#8221;</p>
  399. <p class="p1">“That is a very serious crime. That&#8217;s attempted murder, the kind of crime that merits life in prison,” Knowles said.</p>
  400. <p>But, he explained, Brian DiPippa was only <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/pittsburgh-couple-sentenced-obstructing-law-enforcement-during-campus-protest">sentenced</a> to jail time. His wife Krystal was sentenced to probation.</p>
  401. <p class="p1">“The federal government must act now to stop the consistent and accelerating trend of leftist terrorism,” Knowles said.</p>
  402. <p class="p1">Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced Daniel Hodges — a police officer who responded to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.</p>
  403. <p class="p1">Hodges said he believed the press release sent out ahead of the meeting from the chair “made it clear this was not going to be an honest consideration of various causes and effects, but rather a ham-fisted attempt to propagate the unsupported notion that liberal ideology is the greatest origin of modern political violence.”</p>
  404. <p class="p1">He added that the hearing was “galling” to him “since every single member of the majority on the subcommittee has either contributed to one of the most infamous examples of conservative political violence of our age or the protection of its perpetrators.”</p>
  405. <p class="p1">“Every majority member who could do so voted to acquit Donald Trump during a second impeachment, and now we find ourselves in a new horrific age of political violence,” Hodges said.</p>
  406. <p class="p1">In a subsequent exchange, Knowles insisted that “any honest Democrat even would have to acknowledge, as the Atlantic magazine did, as even CSIS has acknowledged, that the threats today to the free marketplace of ideas come from the Left.”</p>
  407. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  408. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenEricSchmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenEricSchmitt</a>: How do we solve the problem of increased political violence? <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: &#8220;You can&#8217;t have a marketplace if bandits keep shooting up the marketplace&#8230;We must regulate where the problem is, and today the problem lies on the Left.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Pdsl8NAKfs">pic.twitter.com/Pdsl8NAKfs</a></p>
  409. <p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1983261714608254996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  410. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br />
  411. “And so, in order to restore the open marketplace of ideas, the healthy exchange of ideas essential to our self-government, we must regulate where the problem is, and today the problem lies on the left,” Knowles said.</p>
  412. <p class="p1">Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) questioned Knowles about the violence against “people of faith.”</p>
  413. <p class="p1">Hawley, who said he was friends with Kirk, described him as “incredibly bold” in speaking about his faith.</p>
  414. <p class="p1">“You can’t tell me that that did not play into the reason he was killed,” Hawley said.</p>
  415. <p class="p1">He asked Knowles about the reason for the &#8220;uptick&#8221; in violence.</p>
  416. <p class="p1">“Cardinal Manning wisely observed that all human conflict ultimately is theological &#8211; a lot of our big policy debates in recent years have really been anthropological and religious in nature,” Knowles said.</p>
  417. <p class="p1">Knowles said the attacks on churches, which he called “widespread and increasing” have been “underreported and ignored &#8211; in some cases entirely.”</p>
  418. <p>During the hearing, lawmakers also discussed potential steps to address political violence going forward.</p>
  419. <p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he introduced the “Stop FUNDERs Act” which he said would add rioting as a predicate offense to RICO, to “enable the Department of Justice to use the full tools that have been directed at the mafia to go after the corrupt enterprise.”</p>
  420. <p>Former acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf endorsed the bill during the hearing.</p>
  421. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  422. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">My Stop FUNDERs Act will give the DOJ the tools it needs to go after the financiers of left-wing violence.</p>
  423. <p>I’m glad to see Mr. Wolf joining <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBIDirectorKash</a> Patel and a growing chorus of law enforcement professionals in endorsing this legislation. <a href="https://t.co/BUPynxBmCq">pic.twitter.com/BUPynxBmCq</a></p>
  424. <p>— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1983324505591410690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  425. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  426. <p class="p1">Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) also made a brief appearance.</p>
  427. <p class="p1">“When we hold hearings that come at this issue that reflects the partisanship of our time and the tribalism of our time, we don&#8217;t get to a solution. We are in a crisis right now and there is growing political violence and a glowing justification for it,” Booker said.</p>
  428. <p class="p1">Booker admitted there is political violence including “extremists who have left wing ideologies and right-wing ideologies &#8211; to say it&#8217;s just one and not the other is to deepen the problem.”</p>
  429. <p class="p1">“The only thing that&#8217;s going to get us out of this condition is for courageous leaders, in both parties to start standing up and extending grace — and self introspection,” Booker said.</p>
  430. <p class="p1">Although Booker left the hearing early, Knowles said he made a good point about being &#8220;introspective,&#8221; then brought up Booker’s endorsement of Jay Jones.</p>
  431. <p class="p1">Jones, a Democrat running to be the next Attorney General of Virginia, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-them-virginia-dem-sent-shocking-texts-about-killing-gop-leader-pissing-on-graves">fantasized</a> about murdering a state Republican leader with “two bullets to the head” and “piss[ing]” on the graves of other Republicans.</p>
  432. <p class="p1">Knowles observed that Booker, &#8220;in the spirit of introspection, is standing by this endorsement,&#8221; having already left the room.</p>
  433. <p class="p1">“Senator Booker should practice what he preaches,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;So long as anyone stands by an endorsement such as that, their words are meaningless, they’re shedding crocodile tears on the topic of political violence.&#8221;</p>
  434. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  435. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBooker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenBooker</a>, we know you left the room early, so we wanted to make sure you heard this from <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>:</p>
  436. <p>Sen. Booker endorses a man who called for the murder of a Republican and his children&#8230;</p>
  437. <p>&#8220;So long as anyone stands by an endorsement such as that, their words are… <a href="https://t.co/QDUM5OStYw">pic.twitter.com/QDUM5OStYw</a></p>
  438. <p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1983269416952311901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  439. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  440. <p>Following the hearing, Knowles said he was “grateful” to Schmitt and the members who attended the hearing — noting that Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) didn’t attend.</p>
  441. <p>“He couldn’t make the time while his side is promoting political violence,&#8221; Knowles said.</p>
  442. <p class="p1">“Senator Booker made it in and then ran away as quickly as he possibly could, which makes sense because he is endorsing a man for Attorney General of Virginia who calls for murdering Republicans and their kids,” he added.</p>
  443. <p class="p1">“I think the crocodile tears from the Democrats were preposterous,&#8221; Knowles added. &#8220;They were doing everything they could to avoid accepting the blame that sits squarely with them.&#8221;</p>
  444. <p class="p1">Still, Knowles said he thought the hearing was &#8220;productive, because I think it showed the American people where the problem really lies.&#8221;</p>
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  447.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:24:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  451.      <title>Hurricane Melissa Hits Cuba Hours After Devastating Jamaica</title>
  452.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/hurricane-melissa-hits-cuba-hours-after-devastating-jamaica</link>
  453.      <dc:creator>Reuters and Daily Wire News</dc:creator>
  454.      <description>HAVANA/KINGSTON — Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba early on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation. Melissa hit the southern coast of eastern Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. &amp;#8220;Life-threatening storm surge, flash ...</description>
  455.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAVANA/KINGSTON — Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba early on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.</p>
  456. <p>Melissa hit the southern coast of eastern Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.</p>
  457. <p>&#8220;Life-threatening storm surge, flash flooding and landslides, and damaging hurricane winds are ongoing this morning,&#8221; the center said.</p>
  458. <p>Around 735,000 people were evacuated from their homes in eastern Cuba as the storm approached, authorities said. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned on Tuesday that the storm would cause &#8220;significant damage&#8221; and urged people to heed evacuation orders.</p>
  459. <p>Melissa had weakened to a still dangerous Category 3 hurricane after roaring ashore near Jamaica&#8217;s southwestern town of New Hope on Tuesday, packing sustained winds of up to 185 mph, well above the 157 mph threshold for Category 5, the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.</p>
  460. <p>&#8216;SOME LOSS OF LIFE EXPECTED,&#8217; JAMAICAN LEADER SAYS</p>
  461. <p>In southwestern Jamaica, the parish of St. Elizabeth was left &#8220;underwater,&#8221; an official said, with more than 500,000 residents without power.</p>
  462. <p>&#8220;The reports that we have had so far would include damage to hospitals, significant damage to residential property, housing and commercial property as well, and damage to our road infrastructure,&#8221; Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said on CNN after the storm had passed.</p>
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  464. <p>Holness said the government had not received news of any confirmed deaths from the storm, but given the strength of the hurricane and the extent of the damage, &#8220;we are expecting that there would be some loss of life.&#8221;</p>
  465. <p>As daylight returned to Jamaica early on Wednesday, eyewitness reports and videos on social media showed swaths of downed trees, washed-out roads, and roofs tossed about fields and roadways.</p>
  466. <p>Video of the airport in Montego Bay showed inundated seating areas, broken glass, and collapsed ceilings.</p>
  467. <p>Meteorologists at AccuWeather said Melissa ranked as the third most intense hurricane observed in the Caribbean, after Wilma in 2005 and Gilbert in 1988 &#8211; the last major storm to make landfall in Jamaica.</p>
  468. <p>Melissa&#8217;s winds subsided as the storm drifted past the mountains of Jamaica, lashing highland communities vulnerable to landslides and flooding.</p>
  469. <p>Local media reported at least three deaths in Jamaica during storm preparations, and a disaster coordinator suffered a stroke at the onset of the storm and was rushed to the hospital. Late on Tuesday, many areas remained cut off.</p>
  470. <p>&#8220;Our country has been ravaged by Hurricane Melissa but we will rebuild and we will do so even better than before,&#8221; Prime Minister Holness said early on Wednesday.</p>
  471. <p>In the Bahamas, next after Cuba in Melissa&#8217;s path to the northeast, the government ordered evacuations of residents in the southern portions of that archipelago.</p>
  472. <p>Farther to the east, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic had faced days of torrential downpours leading to at least four deaths, authorities there said.</p>
  473. <p>CUBA BRACES</p>
  474. <p>The storm&#8217;s center, churning with violent wind gusts over 125 mph and heavy rain, slammed into Guama, a rural, mountainous area 25 miles west of Santiago de Cuba, the island&#8217;s second most populous city.</p>
  475. <p>Authorities had shut down power to virtually all of eastern Cuba, evacuated vulnerable areas, and had asked residents to shelter in place in the provincial capital, Santiago, a city of 400,000 people.</p>
  476. <p>Videos posted by local media showed torrents of brown rainwater rushing down roads through dark towns at the base of Cuba&#8217;s Sierra Maestra mountains, not far from the city.</p>
  477. <p>Authorities reported widespread flooding of lowland areas early on Wednesday from Santiago to Guantanamo, where upwards of 35% of the population had been evacuated.</p>
  478. <p>The timing could not be worse for the communist-run Caribbean island. Cuba is already suffering from food, fuel, electricity, and medicine shortages that have complicated life for many, prompting record-breaking migration off the island since 2021.</p>
  479. <p>President Diaz-Canel said Cuba had nonetheless mobilized 2,500 electric line workers to begin recovery immediately following the storm&#8217;s passage across the island later on Wednesday.</p>
  480. <p>The hurricane was not expected to directly affect the capital of Havana.</p>
  481. <p>(Reporting by Dave Sherwood in Havana, Zahra Burton in Kingston, Sarah Morland and Brendan O&#8217;Boyle in Mexico City, David Ljunggren in Ottawa, Emma Farge in Geneva and Anmol Choubey and Ishaan Arora in BengaluruWriting by Andrew HeavensEditing by Frances Kerry and Peter Graff)</p>
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  484.      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:38:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  488.      <title>Israel Says Ceasefire Stands After Striking Back When IDF Soldier Killed By Hamas</title>
  489.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-says-ceasefire-stands-after-striking-back-when-idf-soldier-killed-by-hamas</link>
  490.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  491.      <description>The Israeli military said Wednesday that a ceasefire remained in effect after it carried out a series of strikes in Gaza, following the killing of an Israeli soldier by Hamas terrorists a day earlier. Dozens of terrorists were killed in response to Hamas violations of a ceasefire negotiated by the Trump administration, the Israel Defense ...</description>
  492.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Israeli military said Wednesday that a ceasefire remained in effect after it carried out a series of strikes in Gaza, following the killing of an Israeli soldier by Hamas terrorists a day earlier.</p>
  493. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dozens of terrorists were killed in response to Hamas violations of a ceasefire negotiated by the Trump administration, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) said Wednesday. The strikes came after Israel accused Hamas of lying about the return of the remains of deceased hostages and attacking IDF troops in Rafah. </span></p>
  494. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and following a series of strikes, in which dozens of terror targets and terrorists were struck, the IDF has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire in response to Hamas’ violations,” the IDF said in a statement. “As part of the strikes, the IDF and ISA struck 30 terrorists holding command positions within the terrorist organizations operating in Gaza.”</span></p>
  495. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond firmly to any violation of it,” it added. </span></p>
  496. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The IDF soldier <a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-idf-announces-soldier-killed-in-sniper-attack-in-rafah-2">killed</a> on Tuesday by <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-871996">reported</a> Hamas sniper fire was identified as Master Sergeant Yona Efraim Feldbaum, father of five children. </span></p>
  497. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commenting on the strikes during his Asia trip, President Donald Trump said that Israel had “a right” to retaliate because “they took out an Israeli soldier.” He added that “nothing’s going to jeopardize” the ceasefire and said that Hamas needed to “behave.” </span></p>
  498. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They said they would be good, and if they’re good they’re going to be happy,” Trump said. “And if they’re not good, they’re going to be terminated.”</span></p>
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  500. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-provides-update-on-ceasefire-after-hamas-attack-in-gaza?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Vance+Provides+Update+On+Ceasefire+After+Hamas+Attack+In+Gaza">said</a> Tuesday night that the ceasefire would hold despite the back-and-forth fighting. </span></p>
  501. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The president achieved a historic peace in the Middle East, the ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” said Vance. “We know that Hamas, or somebody else within Gaza, attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite it.”</span></p>
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  508.      <title>DeSantis To NYPD: Don’t Risk Your Life For A Mayor Who Hates You</title>
  509.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-to-nypd-dont-risk-your-life-for-a-mayor-who-hates-you</link>
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  511.      <description>With a strong possibility that New York City might elect anti-police candidate Zohran Mamdani as mayor, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis made a pitch directly to NYPD officers, asking them, “Do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you?” In 2020, Mamdani wrote on social media, &amp;#8220;No, we want ...</description>
  512.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">With a strong possibility that New York City might elect anti-police candidate Zohran Mamdani as mayor, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis made a pitch directly to NYPD officers, asking them, “Do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you?”</p>
  513. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In 2020, Mamdani <a href="https://news.meaww.com/zohran-mamdani-slammed-as-old-defund-police-stance-resurfaces-after-ny-cop-killed-in-manhattan-shooting?utm_source=chatgpt.com">wrote</a> on social media, &#8220;No, we want to defund the police,&#8221; &#8220;Queer liberation means defund the police,&#8221; and accused the NYPD of being &#8220;racist, anti-queer &amp; a major threat to public safety.&#8221; He later wrote, &#8220;There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked and corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence.&#8221; In 2023, he declared that the “boot of the NYPD is on your neck.”</p>
  514. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“If he’s elected, I think it’ll be an example of voters of New York City committing an act of ballistic podiatry because it is going to come back and bite the city,” DeSantis told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum. “He is so far Left and he mixes his leftism with Islamism. He’s going to make the (former NYC Democratic Mayor Bill) de Blasio years look like the golden age.”</p>
  515. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“And I can tell you, in Florida we’re affected by this, just with the law enforcement alone,” he continued. “If you’re working in NYPD, do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you? No, a lot of them are not going to want to do that, and in Florida, we’ve established a $5,000 recruitment bonus. So if you are somebody that doesn’t want to serve under that guy as mayor, you come to Florida, any state or local law-enforcement agency, you get $5000 right at the top.”</p>
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  517. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I will tell you: If you say you’re going to disband the NYPD, if you put the criminals back on the street, if you engage in far-Left policies that would make George Soros blush, people do respond to that,” DeSantis said of the possibility that New Yorkers may leave the city if Mamdani is elected. “And of all the people that have migrated to Florida since I’ve been governor, I would say the number one reason they’ve left places — like New York City under De Blasio, like they’ve left Chicago under this mayor and the previous mayor, like leaving San Francisco and Los Angeles — is public safety. Those leftist politicians turn their backs on the police, turn their backs on the rule of law, and then the citizens were the ones that paid the price.”</p>
  518. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“And I will tell you the disproportionate impact on those far-Left policies that do help the criminal element is actually not even the wealthy people — though they’re affected to a certain extent — it’s the working class people; it’s the middle class. Those are the folks that get affected the most. I do think that he will spark migration out of the city, particularly if he follows through on his far-left, anti-law enforcement policies,” he concluded.</p>
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  520. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, I joined Martha MacCallum on Fox News. <a href="https://t.co/shacUmwYDl">pic.twitter.com/shacUmwYDl</a></p>
  521. <p>&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1983260202397769819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  530.      <title>Morning Brief: Congress Targets Left-Wing Violence, ICE Leadership Shake-Up, &amp; Mamdani Slips</title>
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  533.      <description>A Senate hearing on political violence highlights radical Left ideology, a brewing power struggle within DHS shakes up ICE leadership, and NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani&amp;#8217;s lead slips amid criticism for his polarizing policies and past comments. It’s Wednesday, October 29, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. ...</description>
  534.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Senate hearing on political violence highlights radical Left ideology, a brewing power struggle within DHS shakes up ICE leadership, and NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s lead slips amid criticism for his polarizing policies and past comments.</span></p>
  535. <p>It’s Wednesday, October 29, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251029">the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:</p>
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  537. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Senate Addresses Left-Wing Violence</b></h2>
  538. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-992647" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Left-Wing-Violence-Rising-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Left-Wing-Violence-Rising-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Left-Wing-Violence-Rising-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Left-Wing-Violence-Rising-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Left-Wing-Violence-Rising-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Left-Wing-Violence-Rising.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  539. <p><b>Topline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Daily Wire host Michael Knowles testified in front of members of the Senate on Tuesday about the growing trend of ideologically motivated violence and its threat to the First Amendment.</span></p>
  540. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and his Republican colleagues believe the threat of violence coming from radical leftists, including &#8220;Antifa,&#8221; is on the rise and will only continue to be an issue unless political leaders and the media are forced to face that fact.</span></p>
  541. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The purpose of Tuesday’s Senate hearing was to present extensive evidence to shine a spotlight on the problem. The assassination of Charlie Kirk prompted this hearing, and it has made this issue of political violence impossible to ignore.</span></p>
  542. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But even with legacy media outlets being forced to cover Kirk’s assassination, critics say they’ve worked hard to bury evidence pointing to the ideological motives of the suspect in the case. The suspect was a leftist who called Kirk’s conservative views “hateful” – and who was in a romantic relationship with a male who identifies as a female.</span></p>
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  544. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Schmitt said, there is still a strong need to ensure the efforts to bury that reality aren’t successful. Inviting a high-profile figure like The Daily Wire’s Knowles to speak was part of the strategy, as he has a large platform and firsthand experience with the kinds of threats coming from the Left.</span></p>
  545. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowles specifically spoke to how past administrations refused to list things like the Black Lives Matter riots and massacres by transgender individuals as leftwing violence in official government records.</span></p>
  546. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Consider the Covenant School massacre in Nashville, for instance, in which a trans-identifying shooter murdered Christian children at school after leaving a manifesto outlining ideological motivations, such as gender ideology. That incident, according to authorities, lacked an ideological motive,” said Knowles. </span></p>
  547. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Black Lives Matter riots — overtly leftist demonstrations that left dozens of people dead and over a billion dollars’ worth of property damage — likewise fail to show up on registers of left-wing political violence,” he continued. “Even an attack by Antifa operatives that targeted me personally for my conservative political views appeared in official records and data sets as nothing more than ‘obstructing law enforcement.’”</span></p>
  548. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowles said that the tide has somewhat begun to turn with things like the assassination of Kirk and the multiple attempts on Trump, forcing “honest” liberals to acknowledge the truth about where most of the violence is coming from.</span></p>
  549. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“On September 23, no less an emblem of American liberalism than The Atlantic magazine admitted that fact in an article, based on a recent study, under the headline, ‘Left-Wing Terrorism Is On The Rise,’” said Knowles. “Less honest liberals, including members of Congress, have nevertheless persisted in denying this fact. Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton reacted to a leftist’s assassination of the most prominent proponent of civil debate on the American Right by blaming the Right.”</span></p>
  550. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A YouGov poll just last month </span><a href="https://thehill.com/national-security/5504569-americans-political-violence-poll/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">found</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that 26% of young liberals say it is “sometimes justified” to resort to violence to achieve political goals. Only 7% of young conservatives said the same.</span></p>
  551. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>An Administration Divided On Deportation</b></h2>
  552. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-992649" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/DHS-Divided-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/DHS-Divided-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/DHS-Divided-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/DHS-Divided-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/DHS-Divided-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/DHS-Divided.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  553. <p><b>Topline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A major leadership shakeup at ICE is exposing internal divides over the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort.</span></p>
  554. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ICE leadership is being moved out of multiple offices across the country. They&#8217;re being replaced with Border Patrol leadership. The swaps have happened in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Denver, El Paso, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, and New Orleans.</span></p>
  555. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration has already shifted when it comes to who is in charge of the mass deportation campaign. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino has been put in charge of operations in places such as Los Angeles and Chicago, where Border Patrol agents are making arrests alongside ICE.</span></p>
  556. <p><b>Quality versus quantity:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> There have been significant internal divisions within the Department of Homeland Security over how the administration should conduct its operations and mass deportation arrests.</span></p>
  557. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The division centers on differing priorities: Corey Lewandowski, a senior advisor in a temporary position in the administration, wants to maximize the number of arrests and deportations. ICE Director Todd Lyons and border czar Tom Homan advocate for focusing on arresting hardened criminals.</span></p>
  558. <p><b>Quality camp:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Lyons and Homan’s camp is very concerned about public perception. Border Patrol and ICE are under a lot of scrutiny. They want to show the public that they&#8217;re getting hardened criminals off the streets and keeping Americans safe. It&#8217;s also about making sure ICE officers feel good about the work they&#8217;re doing and that they&#8217;re making targeted arrests.</span></p>
  559. <p><b>Quantity camp:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bovino was involved in some of the more controversial raids, including Home Depot parking lots and car washes. Those raids drew big protests in places like Southern California and Chicago. Bovino has faced significant scrutiny for this. He was testifying in court on Tuesday about his alleged use of tear gas during an operation in Chicago.</span></p>
  560. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ICE is also facing backlash, but it wants to minimize that and get officers back to quality work.</span></p>
  561. <p><b>Who is winning? </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The internal announcement of the Border Patrol takeover of operations came from Lewandowski. He notified Homeland Security officials about the leadership changes at ICE. His being the source of the announcement suggests that his camp is winning the fight.</span></p>
  562. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lewandowski has, in some ways, more power than Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, sources tell The Daily Wire. His control at DHS has become a point of contention for many in the administration.</span></p>
  563. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Mamdani Slips In Final Days</b></h2>
  564. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-992651" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Mamdani-Under-Fire-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Mamdani-Under-Fire-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Mamdani-Under-Fire-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Mamdani-Under-Fire-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Mamdani-Under-Fire-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Mamdani-Under-Fire.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  565. <p><b>Topline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Socialist candidate for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, continues to hold a commanding lead, but Andrew Cuomo’s attacks and other controversies are beginning to chip away at it.</span></p>
  566. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani is up by ten points. Andrew Cuomo, the former New York Democratic governor now running as an independent, was polling 20 points behind Mamdani, but Cuomo recently cut that lead in half. A Suffolk University Poll released Monday </span><a href="https://www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suffolk/documents/academics/research-at-suffolk/suprc/polls/other-states/2025/10_27_2025_new_york_city_press_release.pdf?la=en&amp;hash=29E66C2E3D25A148940F2E3BB98DAC3E5A7C6D6F"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shows</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Mamdani leading Cuomo 44% to 34%. Current NYC Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race and </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/nyregion/adams-endorse-cuomo-nyc-mayor.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">endorsed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Cuomo on Thursday, giving Cuomo a boost.</span></p>
  567. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, the founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, is in third place with 11% of the vote.</span></p>
  568. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opponents of Mamdani, some of whom view him as a communist, have pressured Sliwa to drop out to improve Cuomo’s chances. President Trump is among those who have leaned on Sliwa. But none of the pressure appears to have moved him. The odds are still in Mamdani’s favor, but it&#8217;s a much closer race than it once was.</span></p>
  569. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In-person </span><a href="https://www.amny.com/politics/early-voting-turnout-nyc-mayor-first-day-2025/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">early voting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> started on Saturday, and Election Day is on November 4.</span></p>
  570. <p><b>Mamdani’s controversies:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Mamdani raised eyebrows when he tearfully spoke about his aunt, saying she was victimized in the wake of 9/11 because she is a Muslim and wears a hijab.</span></p>
  571. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab,” </span><a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1981785770659586431"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Democratic candidate.</span></p>
  572. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Mamdani was pressed about the claim, he admitted the story wasn&#8217;t about his aunt but a different relative. He also suggested questioning his story is Islamophobic.</span></p>
  573. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I was speaking about my aunt, I was speaking about Zehra Fuhi, my father’s cousin – sadly passed away a few years ago,” </span><a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1982934087255097421"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Mamdani later when pressed to clarify. “For the takeaway for my more than ten-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and in this city to be the question of my aunt tells you everything about Andrew Cuomo.&#8221;</span></p>
  574. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani has also been accused of being antisemitic. Recently, a 2023 video resurfaced of Mamdani attacking the NYPD: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF,” </span><a href="https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1982974662175752646%7Ctwgr%5Ea02eb94fab946ff40b5eebe5a6f258ab7b2b35b2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fstefanik-rips-hochul-for-backing-raging-antisemite-communist-zohran-mamdani"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Mamdani. “Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”</span></p>
  575. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A segment of New York City is not happy about Mamdani likely becoming mayor. The city is liberal, but Mamdani is seen as radical and outside the mainstream. His proposals include massive tax hikes, a “freeze the rent” policy, replacing cops with social workers in some cases, government-run grocery stores, decriminalizing “sex work,” etc.</span></p>
  576. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As for the frontrunner’s successes in his campaign, Mamdani is doing well with residents under age 40, and he has made genuine efforts to reach out to immigrant communities in the city. The latest numbers show that nearly 40% of all NYC residents are foreign-born. The city&#8217;s changing demographics are definitely a significant factor in this election.</span></p>
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  608.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  609.      <description>Five Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Tuesday in a vote denouncing President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina sided with Senate Democrats in a 52 to 48 vote against the president’s trade policy, ...</description>
  610.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Five Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Tuesday in a vote denouncing President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.</span></p>
  611. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina sided with Senate Democrats in a 52 to 48 vote against the president’s trade policy, exposing a small rift in the GOP between the president and some lawmakers.</span></p>
  612. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Protectionists eagerly celebrate the revenue from tariff duties. But they don’t talk nearly as much about how much of that revenue they’ll spend protecting American growers and producers from the avoidable harm of their policies,” McConnell said in a </span><a href="https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=D1763366-63E6-4404-8FDD-B932A4691CB7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> defending his vote.</span></p>
  613. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule. And no cross-eyed reading of Reagan will reveal otherwise,” he continued, referencing the late President Ronald Reagan, whose support for free trade became news recently because of an anti-tariff advertisement </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sets-10-hike-in-tariffs-on-canada-after-fake-ad-that-aired-during-world-series"><span style="font-weight: 400;">purchased</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the Ontario government.</span></p>
  614. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Senate’s Tuesday resolution against Trump’s Brazil tariffs is symbolic, and it is not expected to receive a vote – much less pass – in the House. Additional resolutions on Trump’s tariffs are expected to receive votes in the Senate this week.</span></p>
  615. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President JD Vance warned Republicans ahead of the vote not to side against the president in the symbolic gesture, calling a move to buck to White House on tariffs a “big mistake,” according to </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3867090/senate-rebukes-trump-tariff-vote-jd-vance-warning/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Washington Examiner</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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  617. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The point that I made to my Republican colleagues, recognizing there’s a diversity of opinions about it, is that the tariffs give us the ability to put American workers first,” said Vance after meeting with GOP senators on Tuesday. “They force American industry to reinvest in the United States of America instead of a foreign country.”</span></p>
  618. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to Trump’s trade wars, U.S. tariffs on Brazil were roughly 3% in line with its status as a Most Favored Nation for U.S. trade. Brazil’s tariffs on U.S. goods were higher at around 11%, according to the </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">White House</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  619. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In April, Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs, placing a minimum 10% levy on all nations, with some receiving a much higher tariff. In July, Trump </span><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114825119138468153"><span style="font-weight: 400;">threatened</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to hike tariffs on goods from Brazil up to 50% because of its treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison after Brazil’s left-wing government accused him of attempting to overthrow democracy.</span></p>
  620. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since coming into office in January, Trump has aggressively sought to remake the world’s trade lines, levying relatively exorbitant tariffs on enemies and allies. Through unilateral action on tariffs, Trump has sought to eliminate U.S. trade deficits and to establish leverage for action on drug trafficking and ending international conflicts.</span></p>
  621. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump has cited emergency authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to issue most of his tariffs. The president’s tariff authority under the act is currently under </span><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/small-businesses-and-states-urge-court-to-strike-down-trumps-tariffs/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">review</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the Supreme Court.</span></p>
  622. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president has </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trumps-dramatic-rhetoric-tariffs-ramps-pressure-supreme-court-rcna238207"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if his administration loses the case, the United States “will be a weakened, troubled, financial mess for many, many years to come.”</span></p>
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  625.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:29:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  629.      <title>Vance Provides Update On Ceasefire After Hamas Attack In Gaza</title>
  630.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-provides-update-on-ceasefire-after-hamas-attack-in-gaza</link>
  631.      <dc:creator>Tim Pearce</dc:creator>
  632.      <description>Vice President JD Vance tamped down concerns about renewed warfare in Gaza on Tuesday after an attack on Israel Defense Forces in the Israeli-controlled territory of the enclave. The IDF reported that Hamas had launched an attack on Israeli forces behind the so-called “yellow line,” or the line behind which Israel agreed to station its ...</description>
  633.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President JD Vance tamped down concerns about renewed warfare in Gaza on Tuesday after an attack on Israel Defense Forces in the Israeli-controlled territory of the enclave.</span></p>
  634. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The IDF reported that Hamas had launched an attack on Israeli forces behind the so-called “yellow line,” or the line behind which Israel agreed to station its troops as part of a ceasefire with Hamas earlier this month. The attack, which was a breach of the ceasefire agreement, reportedly </span><a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1983287827199865230"><span style="font-weight: 400;">killed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> one Israeli soldier.</span></p>
  635. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vance said during a visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday that the ceasefire will hold despite the violent flare up.</span></p>
  636. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The president achieved a historic peace in the Middle East, the ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” said Vance. “We know that Hamas, or somebody else within Gaza, attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite it.”</span></p>
  637. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  638. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">JD Vance on Hamas Ceasefire Violation: &#8220;The ceasefire is holding. That doesn&#8217;t mean that there aren&#8217;t going to be little skirmishes.&#8221;</p>
  639. <p>&#8220;We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond but I think the… <a href="https://t.co/rhV9HB0CzO">pic.twitter.com/rhV9HB0CzO</a></p>
  640. <p>— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href="https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1983265200271741111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  641. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced airstrikes on Gaza shortly after the attack in retaliation.</span></p>
  642. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” an </span><a href="https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-pm281025"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announcement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the prime minister’s office read.</span></p>
  643. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hospitals in Gaza reported that at least 20 people were killed in the Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday. It is unclear how reliable the numbers are after Hamas&#8217; data on the war has repeatedly been </span><a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/04/09/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-admits-to-flaws-in-casualty-data/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">found</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be flawed.</span></p>
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  645. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The violence came after an earlier ceasefire violation from Hamas in which the terror group buried the remains of an Israeli hostage before calling the Red Cross to come and “discover” the body. Israel released drone </span><a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1983154969026146642"><span style="font-weight: 400;">footage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> capturing Hamas terrorists hiding the hostage remains. The footage appears to show members of the Red Cross standing by as dirt is dumped over a white sheet.</span></p>
  646. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The IDF said in a statement that the terror group is “is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies,” according to </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/middleeast/israel-military-strikes-gaza-latam-intl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNN</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  647. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Red Cross also denounced the act in a statement: “It is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged, when so much depends on this agreement being upheld and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.”</span></p>
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  650.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  654.      <title>Trump Administration Hits Deportation Milestone</title>
  655.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-administration-hits-deportation-milestone</link>
  656.      <dc:creator>Jennie Taer</dc:creator>
  657.      <description>The Trump administration has already deported more than 527,000 illegal immigrants from the country, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. At the current pace, federal authorities could deport 600,000 illegal immigrants by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year in office. However, it still falls short of the Trump administration&amp;#8217;s lofty goal of ...</description>
  658.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration has already deported more than 527,000 illegal immigrants from the country, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.</p>
  659. <p>At the current pace, federal authorities could deport 600,000 illegal immigrants by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year in office.</p>
  660. <p>However, it still falls short of the Trump administration&#8217;s lofty goal of deporting one million illegal immigrants each year.</p>
  661. <p>Last month, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trumps-ice-chief-slams-liberal-judges-for-creating-deportation-roadblocks-based-on-personal-opinions?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Trump%E2%80%99s+ICE+Chief+Slams+Liberal+Judges+For+Creating+Deportation+%E2%80%98Roadblocks%E2%80%99+Based+On+Personal+%E2%80%98Opinions%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire that the agency can still make that happen with its push for illegal immigrants to &#8220;self-deport.&#8221;</p>
  662. <p>The Trump administration is offering a $1,000 bonus and free flights home to those who choose to leave on their own.</p>
  663. <p>Roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants have already self-deported, according to DHS.</p>
  664. <p>“I think we’re going to see our number, definitely with the CBP Home app and those that decided to leave on their own,” Lyons said.</p>
  665. <p>Assistant Homeland Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said it&#8217;s &#8220;just the beginning.&#8221;</p>
  666. <p>&#8220;President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years,&#8221; McLaughlin said.</p>
  667. <p>&#8220;In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges and threats to law enforcement, DHS, ICE and CBP, have not just closed the border, but made historic strides to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country,&#8221; McLaughlin said. &#8220;Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence: Migrants are now turning back before they even reach our borders. Migration through Panama’s Darien Gap is down 99.99%.&#8221;</p>
  668. <p>The latest deportation numbers come amid a major leadership change at ICE, led by Homeland Security senior adviser Corey Lewandowski, sources recently told The Daily Wire.</p>
  669. <p>Several ICE offices across the country will now be led by officials poached from Border Patrol.</p>
  670. <p>The shake-up exposed an internal skirmish between DHS senior adviser Corey Lewandowski and Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons over the mass deportation targets, sources said. Homan and Lyons want more criminals arrested, while Lewandowski is only concerned with increasing numbers.</p>
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  673.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:42:39 GMT</pubDate>
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  677.      <title>PLOT TWIST: CNN Commits Two Acts Of Journalism In The Same Day</title>
  678.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/plot-twist-cnn-commits-two-acts-of-journalism-in-the-same-day</link>
  679.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  680.      <description>Thanks to valiant efforts from on-air personalities Kasie Hunt and Kaitlan Collins, CNN managed to deliver two acts of actual journalism in the same 24-hour period — on two different topics. The first came on Monday evening from Collins, who was discussing the political hot topics of the day with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on ...</description>
  681.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to valiant efforts from on-air personalities Kasie Hunt and Kaitlan Collins, CNN managed to deliver two acts of actual journalism in the same 24-hour period — on two different topics.</p>
  682. <p>The first came on Monday evening from Collins, who was discussing the political hot topics of the day with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on &#8220;The Source&#8221; and took a moment to fact-check the Texas Democrat when she played fast and loose with the context of a statement made earlier in the day by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.</p>
  683. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  684. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  685. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jasmine Crockett immediately runs the debunked &#8220;Trump’s main priority is the ballroom” hoax on her CNN hit.</p>
  686. <p>The lie is so egregious, she actually gets fact-checked by Kaitlan Collins. <a href="https://t.co/HRfeoTZ3ys">https://t.co/HRfeoTZ3ys</a> <a href="https://t.co/lvdp4gkuGu">pic.twitter.com/lvdp4gkuGu</a></p>
  687. <p>— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1982988988072722491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  688. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  689. <p>When asked whether she thought the ongoing government shutdown was likely to end any time soon, Crockett attempted to make it look like President Donald Trump was going out of his way to prioritize other things.</p>
  690. <p>&#8220;The president has time to do everything but what he needs to focus on. In fact, we heard the press secretary say his main priority is the ballroom — the ballroom that no one asked for. The ballroom that requires him to destroy historic pieces of the White House. And so it doesn’t seem like he’s interested [in the shutdown],&#8221; Crockett claimed.</p>
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  692. <p>Collins pushed back immediately, noting that Leavitt had said the ballroom was the president&#8217;s top priority — but that she had been specifically referring to construction and renovation projects at the White House.</p>
  693. <p>&#8220;Yeah, and that context of the comment from Karoline Leavitt, she was asked if the president was working on any other renovations when it came to the White House, and she was saying his focus was the ballroom,&#8221; Collins said.</p>
  694. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  695. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  696. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Karoline Leavitt was asked if &#8220;the president is looking at any other renovations&#8221; at the White House?</p>
  697. <p>Karoline answered: &#8220;At this moment in time of course, the ballroom is really the president&#8217;s main priority.&#8221;</p>
  698. <p>This is how easily Democrats lie about stupid stuff. <a href="https://t.co/qGuZkvYYPV">https://t.co/qGuZkvYYPV</a> <a href="https://t.co/1fBzh8sdRN">pic.twitter.com/1fBzh8sdRN</a></p>
  699. <p>— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1981491616591597662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  700. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  701. <p>Less than 24 hours later, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined host Kasie Hunt to discuss the ongoing shutdown — and she pressed him repeatedly on his party&#8217;s evolving position on keeping the government shuttered in order to leverage political gains.</p>
  702. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  703. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  704. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ruben Gallego just got wrecked on CNN for his hypocritical stance on shutdowns reverting to a &#8220;BUT TRUMP&#8221; response:</p>
  705. <p>Host: &#8220;Why is it suddenly right to do it this way?&#8221;</p>
  706. <p>Gallego: &#8220;It&#8217;s DONALD TRUMP &#8230; it&#8217;s all out the window Casey.&#8221;</p>
  707. <p>There is nothing that Democrats have aside… <a href="https://t.co/sZKARGLRKA">pic.twitter.com/sZKARGLRKA</a></p>
  708. <p>— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1983278331157196951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  709. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  710. <p>&#8220;So I think my question is this, I mean, I take your point about these millions of people, the cost of living is incredibly high, but also Republicans control the White House, they control the Senate, they control the House, and in the past, Democrats, when Republicans have tried to do something like this, Democrats have argued that the norms of our government should be that you negotiate policy outside of a government shutdown,&#8221; Hunt confronted Gallego right from the start. &#8220;I mean, over many years covering Washington, people have said that over and over and over again.&#8221;</p>
  711. <p>&#8220;Now I have neighbors in the D.C. area who are both employed by the federal government who are having to use food banks. We are heading into Thanksgiving. Why is it suddenly right to do it this way and to do it for this long when it didn’t used to be the right way in Democrats&#8217; view?&#8221; Hunt asked directly.</p>
  712. <p>&#8220;Oh, that’s an easy answer. It’s Donald Trump,&#8221; Gallego replied, spinning quickly to change the topic. &#8220;You’re talking about norms in the time of Donald Trump? It’s also normal not for you to tear down the East Wing.&#8221;</p>
  713. <p>Hunt did not budge: &#8220;Right, but Democrats have spent so much time arguing about how maintaining those norms is actually incredibly important in the face of Donald Trump.&#8221;</p>
  714. <p>&#8220;It doesn’t. It’s all out the window. It is all out of the window, Kasie,&#8221; Gallego insisted, arguing that because he and Democrats did not like what Trump was doing, they were justified in breaking rules in order to level the playing field. &#8220;No. When you’re doing this time with Donald Trump, this is the man that is extorting people. He’s literally breaking every rule. We’re not going to go back and play by the norms when we know that&#8217;s what’s on the line. What’s on the line is 24 million people are going to have their insurance rates premiums doubled. That’s a new thing, by the way. And the fact is the president and everyone expects us to play by these old norms.&#8221;</p>
  715. <p>&#8220;But didn’t Democrats kind of set that up in the bill that you passed, though, that these subsidies were going to expire?&#8221; Hunt was clearly not convinced.</p>
  716. <p>Gallego admitted that Hunt was, in fact, correct — but once again attempted to spin, blaming Republicans for not wanting to pony up billions of taxpayer dollars to fund endless subsidies, all just to rescue the Affordable Care Act they hadn&#8217;t supported in the first place.</p>
  717. <p>&#8220;When we passed the bills and back in the day, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, of course we were trying to maybe hope for the best that this country and our Republican colleagues would understand that raising insurance rates on people is a bad thing. I’m sorry they don’t see it that way, but it’s also not my job to make their job easier,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My job is to make sure that the premiums of 24 million Americans does not double overnight. And if it makes it harder on the Republicans that we’re putting them in a very difficult position, then they have to answer for that &#8230; But I’m not gonna abide by old norms, especially when you’re dealing with this presidency, this administration, and how the Republicans themselves have been acting.&#8221;</p>
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  720.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:40:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  724.      <title>​​Cuomo Closes The Gap As Mamdani Plays Victim</title>
  725.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-closes-the-gap-as-mamdani-plays-victim</link>
  726.      <dc:creator>Ben Shapiro</dc:creator>
  727.      <description>There is some good news out of New York. It&amp;#8217;s not a lot of good news out of New York, but it&amp;#8217;s some good news. There&amp;#8217;s a brand new poll from Suffolk University showing that in New York, Andrew Cuomo — who is really the only hope of stopping Zohran Mamdani in the New York ...</description>
  728.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is some good news out of New York. It&#8217;s not a lot of good news out of New York, but it&#8217;s some good news.</span></p>
  729. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There&#8217;s a brand new poll from Suffolk University showing that in New York, Andrew Cuomo — who is really the only hope of stopping Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race — is catching up to Zohran Mamdani. The poll found that Mamdani no longer leads Cuomo by 20 points or 15 points, but the lead is down to ten, and Mamdani is stuck at 44%.</span></p>
  730. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Typically, when somebody wins the New York mayoral race, they win well over a majority. Here you have Mamdani at 44%. You have Cuomo at 34%, and you have Curtis Sliwa at 11%. There will be a lot of talk if Mamdani ends up mayor about why Curtis Sliwa stayed in the race.</span></p>
  731. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The reality is that Curtis Sliwa is not going to be the next mayor of New York. And if his vote share is larger than the margin of victory for Mamdani, that will leave some questions to be asked.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
  732. <ol>
  733. <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">   Why is the New York City population so insipid?</span></li>
  734. <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">   Why didn’t Sliwa drop out?</span></li>
  735. </ol>
  736. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, says, Sliwa “is one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome.”</span></p>
  737. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the first poll since Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race.</span></p>
  738. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of his support has bled to Cuomo.</span></p>
  739. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2305-rabbis-for-mamdani-and-other-idiotic-ideas?elementPosition=7&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-974957 aligncenter" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171.webp" alt="DailyWire+" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171.webp 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-300x50.webp 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-768x128.webp 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1536x256.webp 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-2048x341.webp 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
  740. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani is running a terrible final week of this campaign. He has decided that his closing message is going to be that New York City is famous for Islamophobia and if you don&#8217;t elect him, it&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t like Muslims, which is a wild statement in a city that suffered 9/11 (where apparently the only victim of 9/11, according to Zohran Mamdani, was his own female relative, who was wearing some sort of hijab on the subway and somebody gave her a mean look).</span></p>
  741. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So now his final closing pitch is, “Why won&#8217;t you give me the mayoralty? If you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re mean to Muslims.”</span></p>
  742. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is the mark of a person who truly feels entitled to everything. If you won&#8217;t give him the mayoralty of the financial center of planet Earth, it must not be because he&#8217;s a bad candidate, an out-and-out communist, a sympathizer with jihadists, but because </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">you </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">are mean to Muslims.</span></p>
  743. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lest you truly believe that Mamdani is some sort of soft-hearted, wonderful person, I want to point out a </span><a href="https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1982974662175752646%7Ctwgr%5Ea2e8d1de8daa0c8f2de3ff7e8ee90b7b4f37eb71%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2Fzohran-mamdani-bashes-the-cops-and-israel-in-wild-unearthed-video-when-the-boot-of-the-nypd-is-on-your-neck-its-been-laced-by-the-idf%2F"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clip of him from 2023</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You want to know where his ideology comes from? His ideology is deeply, deeply ensconced in the Red-Green alliance between communists and radical jihadists that is characteristic of so much of the Left these days.</span></p>
  744. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  745. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">September, 2023.</p>
  746. <p>Zohran Mamdani: &#8220;We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it&#8217;s been laced by the IDF.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sr8pQyKvCq">pic.twitter.com/sr8pQyKvCq</a></p>
  747. <p>— MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  748. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  749. <p>Credit: @mazemoore/X.com</p>
  750. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That quote from him in September 2023 shows him explaining that basically, his hatred for capitalism springs from his dislike of the “Zionists.” </span></p>
  751. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani stated:</span></p>
  752. <blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things that I’m actually calling for in the next board. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in the struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles. For anyone to care about these issues … We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF. We’re in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.</span></i></p></blockquote>
  753. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So you see, it&#8217;s really the Jews in Israel who are tied to the capitalist interests in New York City. And capitalism, of course, is bad. If you missed it, he said, “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”</span></p>
  754. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was not 15 years ago. This was </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">two years ago</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. He was a full grown-ass man when he said this sort of garbage.</span></p>
  755. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But if you point this out, you’re “Islamophobic.”</span></p>
  756. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He only cares about “affordability.” How is he going to deliver affordability? No one knows. But if he just says “affordability” over and over and over, then affordability will magically appear in New York City. It&#8217;s like Beetlejuice. If you say affordability three times, then magically all of the rents go down.</span></p>
  757. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He has no idea how he&#8217;s going to do </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">anything</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. But that doesn&#8217;t matter. The reason people support Mamdani is because he&#8217;s “fetch” and he&#8217;s “brat.”</span></p>
  758. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are a lot of idiots in New York, and those idiots in New York are fully on board with the idea that if you don&#8217;t vote for Zohran Mamdani, it must be because you are some sort of racist, or because you hate gay people, or because you are one of those “capitalist tools.”</span></p>
  759. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One can only hope that the non-idiots in New York will show up to vote.</span></p>
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  770.      <title>The EBT Program Is A Massive Scam, And The Government Shutdown Just Proved It</title>
  771.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ebt-program-is-a-massive-scam-and-the-government-shutdown-just-proved-it</link>
  772.      <dc:creator>Matt Walsh</dc:creator>
  773.      <description>Ever since the government shutdown began a month ago, it&amp;#8217;s been a challenge to identify anyone in real life — outside of government employees — who has noticed or cared in any meaningful way. Even Democrats don&amp;#8217;t seem particularly bothered by the shutdown. They&amp;#8217;ve been spending most of their time lately complaining about the renovations ...</description>
  774.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever since the government shutdown began a month ago, it&#8217;s been a challenge to identify anyone in real life — outside of government employees — who has noticed or cared in any meaningful way. Even Democrats don&#8217;t seem particularly bothered by the shutdown. They&#8217;ve been spending most of their time lately complaining about the renovations that are underway in the East Wing of the White House — which is the kind of thing you complain about when you desperately need to find something to complain about, but you have absolutely no other options whatsoever.</span></p>
  775. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even if you normally don&#8217;t care much about how the government spends your money, this is the kind of development that might make you sit up and take notice. There are road closures and potholes that have probably caused you more inconvenience this month than the shutdown of the entire federal government. And as a result, for millions of Americans, it&#8217;s now impossible to ignore the fact that the government you&#8217;re forced to pay for — all of the salaries and all of the pensions and so on — doesn&#8217;t actually do very much. In the vast majority of cases, the federal government has zero impact on your day-to-day life, or your week-to-week life. They are not &#8220;public servants&#8221; in the sense that they serve you — in reality, you serve them.</span></p>
  776. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, that&#8217;s not to say that your money only goes to federal government bureaucrats. Most of it goes to welfare programs. And it&#8217;s the people who receive money from those welfare programs — particularly food stamps, otherwise known as SNAP benefits — who are now speaking up, extremely loudly, to complain about the federal government shutdown. </span></p>
  777. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, we&#8217;ve finally found a large group of people who are legitimately upset about the fact that the government is no longer fully operational. The search is over. </span></p>
  778. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And these people are upset because, in a matter of days, federal funding for food stamps is going to run out. Watch:</span></p>
  779. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  780. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ohh my god….</p>
  781. <p>Mainstream media CBS reporting 1 in 8 Americans are on SNAP food stamps</p>
  782. <p>That’s 43.1 million people</p>
  783. <p>The working class is paying to provide EBT for 43 MILLION PEOPLE</p>
  784. <p>Approximately 54% of immigrant households participate in at least one major welfare program <a href="https://t.co/QeDL4JUMFe">pic.twitter.com/QeDL4JUMFe</a></p>
  785. <p>— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) <a href="https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1982683459102621756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  786. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  787. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit: @WallStreetApes/X.com</span></p>
  788. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notice the flagrant inversion of reality here. If you stop subsidizing someone else&#8217;s grocery bill, even for a second, then according to the governor of Massachusetts, you&#8217;re &#8220;taking away&#8221; their food. It&#8217;s just like you robbed them. Of course, the actual robbery occurs when you&#8217;re forced, against your will, to pay for other people&#8217;s groceries every month. That&#8217;s the point where the government is taking something away.</span></p>
  789. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the really striking aspect of that CBS Report was the beginning of the segment, when they casually mentioned that one in eight Americans are on food stamps. That&#8217;s roughly 43 million people who are receiving taxpayer money to buy groceries, costing more than $100 billion a year, in a country of 340 million.</span></p>
  790. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a moment we&#8217;ll get into who exactly is receiving this money, and what they&#8217;re threatening to do in the next few days. (It&#8217;s important information, particularly if you plan on going to a grocery store in the near future without a firearm.) But first, you have to ask yourself: Did you have any idea that 43 million of the 340 million people in this country — again, one in eight — were receiving taxpayer-funded financial assistance to buy groceries?</span></p>
  791. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The sheer scale of this program guarantees that, if we eliminated the food stamp program entirely, then prices at the grocery store would plummet.</span></p>
  792. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is by far the number-one everyday issue that most Americans care about — the rising price of groceries.</span></p>
  793. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And it has a very obvious solution. When the government spends a massive amount of money subsidizing the purchase of a particular product, in any context, then the price of that product will go up. It was true for college tuition. And it&#8217;s true for groceries. The subsidy creates increased demand, but it doesn&#8217;t increase the supply. And therefore, the cost goes up, under the basic principle of supply and demand.</span></p>
  794. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take a look at this data from the Department of Agriculture:</span></p>
  795. <div id="attachment_992509" style="width: 776px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992509" class="size-large wp-image-992509" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Food-Stamp-chart-766x576.jpg" alt="Source: Department of Agriculture" width="766" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Food-Stamp-chart-766x576.jpg 766w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Food-Stamp-chart-300x226.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Food-Stamp-chart-768x578.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Food-Stamp-chart.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px" /><p id="caption-attachment-992509" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Department of Agriculture</p></div>
  796. <p>Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture</p>
  797. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monthly food stamp spending was just $4.5 billion in December of 2019. By December 2022, thanks to a massive expansion by the Biden administration, food stamp spending was $11 billion per month. That&#8217;s a lot of new, artificially subsidized demand. And guess what? In that same period, grocery prices went up.</span></p>
  798. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By some estimates, food prices go up by 1% for every 12% increase in food stamp spending. In this case, we&#8217;re looking at a percentage increase of nearly 150%. So you can do the math on that. It&#8217;s more than a 10% increase in your grocery bill, every single month. This means that if you’re a working American and you aren’t on food stamps, you are actually paying — against your will — for other people’s groceries twice. You’re paying when the government takes the money out of your paycheck. You’re paying again every time you buy groceries for yourself.</span></p>
  799. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So who exactly is benefiting from food stamps? And how much of this spending is actually necessary?</span></p>
  800. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Put another way: How many people would starve to death, on the streets, if food stamps were abolished?</span></p>
  801. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all know that number is much, much less than the total number of food stamp recipients in this country. But how much lower is it? 90%? 100%? If food stamps were abolished tomorrow, how many people, exactly, would end up lying on the sidewalk, rib cages protruding, starving to death? Of the 40 million people on food stamps, how many actually depend on it to live?</span></p>
  802. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These are questions we should probably answer, now that we know the enormous cost of these programs, thanks to the government shutdown. And while we&#8217;re at it, we should answer this question: Has anyone ever starved to death in the modern history of this country because they haven&#8217;t had access to food? Has a single sane person, through no fault of his own, shriveled and died because he couldn&#8217;t afford to buy anything to eat? Has there been a single example of someone with no family, no friends, no other forms of state or federal welfare he can tap into, no food banks or churches he can visit, no panhandling he can perform, no job, no soup kitchens nearby, no charity food drives in his area, nothing at all?</span></p>
  803. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If something like that were ever to happen in the United States, then I&#8217;d be the first in line to say, get that person a taxpayer-funded hotdog. But I don&#8217;t actually think that&#8217;s ever happened in my lifetime. And no one has demonstrated to me otherwise. In fact, if you look at what food stamp recipients are saying — in their own words — you come away with the distinct impression that none of these people actually need food stamps. Instead, you come away with the impression that many of these people are simply entitled, lazy, barely literate, and frankly just very bad people. I’m not saying that describes every adult on food stamps, but it does seem to describe a lot of them. People who, rather than get a job, would prefer to rob grocery stores (and the people shopping inside them).</span></p>
  804. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here&#8217;s just a sampling of the response from food stamp recipients on TikTok. Watch:</span></p>
  805. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="003 EBT V2" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Zw1Tobk4H4?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>
  806. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit to multiple sources: (</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">@AmiriKing/X.com, </span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">@iAnonPatriot/X.com, </span>@smcroasters/X.com, <span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">@ImMeme0/X.com, </span>@not_rekt_11/X.com, @AmiriKing/X.com)</p>
  807. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Among other things, if you are going to shop for groceries during this government shutdown, you have to keep these videos in mind. There are many, many threats like this. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many people receiving food stamps would rather rob you — and even kill you and eat you, apparently — than have to pay for their own groceries, for once in their lives.</span></p>
  808. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;ll highlight a couple more of these clips, mainly because they&#8217;re so over-the-top that it&#8217;s hard to believe they&#8217;re real. </span></p>
  809. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But they are. Watch:</span></p>
  810. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  811. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">EBT recipient says that she’ll be going to jail for a THIRD time, if she doesn’t get her food stamps in November..</p>
  812. <p>👀 <a href="https://t.co/0bnkrjD4V3">pic.twitter.com/0bnkrjD4V3</a></p>
  813. <p>— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) <a href="https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1982863916637270499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  814. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  815. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit: @iAnonPatriot/X.com</span></p>
  816. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As best I could decipher, this individual — who doesn&#8217;t appear to be an American — is threatening to go to prison for the third time, if her — or maybe his, I can’t tell — food stamps don&#8217;t come through in November. And for good measure, you can hear a smoke alarm chirp, mid-rant. In case you missed it, it went like this: &#8220;I don&#8217;t gibba fugg, i&#8217;m not in da mood, my birthday in decembah,&#8221; then there&#8217;s the chirp, and then there&#8217;s the statement that, &#8220;thanksgibbin comin’ up.”</span></p>
  817. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are actively suffering, money is being taken out of your paycheck, and food off of your children’s plate, for the sake of this person. Remember that.</span></p>
  818. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One question, right off the bat, is why someone who&#8217;s been to prison is allowed to receive food stamps in the first place. Why is this something we&#8217;re tolerating? You can commit multiple crimes, resulting in your incarceration, and then when you get out, you can force taxpayers to buy your groceries? That seems like a privilege we should rescind, immediately.</span></p>
  819. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And while we&#8217;re at it, we should implement drug testing as a requirement for SNAP benefits, as this video makes clear. Watch:</span></p>
  820. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="005 Marijuana Fix V2" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dYJ7YiAKQ7A?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>
  821. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  822. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit: @iAnonPatriot/X.com</span></p>
  823. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Can you imagine the horror of having to tap into your weed budget to buy food?</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It&#8217;s just unthinkable, really. No one should have to endure a humiliation like that. Surely, we should just steal the money from people who are actually working for a living. You can look at the saddest of sob stories, and it doesn&#8217;t get any better.</span></p>
  824. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here&#8217;s a report, for example, that aired on a local Fox affiliate this week. Watch:</span></p>
  825. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  826. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;I would&#8217;ve never thought in a million years that I would&#8217;ve been in this position—to have to go to a food bank.&#8221;</p>
  827. <p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want my daughter to see me crying.&#8221;</p>
  828. <p>Democrats have cut off our workers&#8217; paychecks to try to get free healthcare for illegals. It&#8217;s disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/secqt81bkE">pic.twitter.com/secqt81bkE</a></p>
  829. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1982803681478058489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  830. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  831. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit: @RapidResponse47/X.com</span></p>
  832. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So we&#8217;re supposed to feel really sorry for Denise, a federal worker at the Department of Defense. She had to go to a food bank, and barely got any food, all because of the government shutdown.</span></p>
  833. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you look up Denise online, you find that she&#8217;s drawn a taxpayer-funded salary since 2015. Her lowest salary was more than $60,000 a year. Last year, Denise made more than $87,000. That&#8217;s a decade&#8217;s worth of income — and each year, she earned well above the median personal income in this country. She presumably has access to a credit card, given this income. To put this into further perspective, when I first got married, my salary was a quarter of Denise’s. I earned in a year what Denise makes in about four months. And I was never even close to starving. And I wasn’t on food stamps.</span></p>
  834. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no conceivable way that Denise is going to starve to death, either. Even if she&#8217;s been financially reckless to the point of comic-book level absurdity, she doesn&#8217;t need handouts to buy food. She can put it on credit, or tap into her savings account (which she should have been growing for many years). To be clear, I&#8217;m not saying she&#8217;s going to live a life of luxury. I&#8217;m not saying this won&#8217;t be stressful. I&#8217;m not even faulting her for trying to find free food. But I am saying that taxpayers have no obligation, in any universe, to buy her groceries. We&#8217;ve already been paying her bills for a decade and frankly, if we&#8217;re being honest, she probably wasn&#8217;t doing anything for those ten years anyway.</span></p>
  835. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Denise, for all I&#8217;ve dumped on her, is ten thousand times more sympathetic than other alleged &#8220;victims&#8221; of this government shutdown.</span></p>
  836. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, this is a real video that was posted by Senator Amy Klobuchar, after recent testimony in Congress.</span></p>
  837. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here&#8217;s </span><a href="https://x.com/amyklobuchar/status/1932996233137717619"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the caption</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the senator posted.</span></p>
  838. <blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we heard from Felecia, a single mom of four who works up to three jobs at a time to make ends meet. She counts on SNAP to help put food on the table. This is who Republicans in Congress are trying to take food away from. Listen to her story.</span></i></p></blockquote>
  839. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So here it is. This is Felecia, who drives students for the school district. Let&#8217;s listen to her story:</span></p>
  840. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  841. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today, we heard from Felecia, a single mom of four who works up to three jobs at a time to make ends meet. She counts on SNAP to help put food on the table.</p>
  842. <p>This is who Republicans in Congress are trying to take food away from.</p>
  843. <p>Listen to her story. <a href="https://t.co/jEBo2fRPQc">pic.twitter.com/jEBo2fRPQc</a></p>
  844. <p>— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1932996233137717619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  845. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  846. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit: @amyklobuchar/X.com</span></p>
  847. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s just say that this woman could survive for a very, very long time without food. This woman is well over 300 pounds, probably pushing 400. It is the height of absurdity for a U.S. senator to present this woman as someone who urgently needs taxpayers to fund her grocery bill. She can clearly afford major cutbacks to her food spending. Not only that — it would clearly be beneficial to her health. It would be the humane thing to do, to force this woman to think before she spends money on muffins, soda, candy, various slabs of meat and so on.</span></p>
  848. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Again, this is the most sympathetic witness that Democrats could find.</span></p>
  849. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It only gets worse from here. </span></p>
  850. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Illegal aliens are some of the main recipients of food stamps for example. Here&#8217;s a recent admission from the administration of Maine Governor Janet Mills.</span></p>
  851. <div id="attachment_992513" style="width: 690px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992513" class="wp-image-992513 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/SNAP-Savings.jpg" alt="State of Maine, Department of Health and Human Services" width="680" height="162" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/SNAP-Savings.jpg 680w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/SNAP-Savings-300x71.jpg 300w" sizes=" (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /><p id="caption-attachment-992513" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: State of Maine, Department of Health and Human Services</p></div>
  852. <p>Credit: State of Maine, Department of Health and Human Services</p>
  853. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In case you can&#8217;t make it out, Janet Mills acknowledges in this document that Maine provides SNAP benefits to non-citizens, including 5,000 non-citizens with EBT cards who don&#8217;t have jobs, even though they&#8217;re eligible to work.</span></p>
  854. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And EBT cards are very valuable, as you might imagine.</span></p>
  855. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  856. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">An lIIegaI alien in Chicago, Illinois USA still has $7,612 left on his &#8220;refugee&#8221; EBT card. The original amount was $10,800.00. <a href="https://t.co/vPRinXG2qE">pic.twitter.com/vPRinXG2qE</a></p>
  857. <p>— Dane (@UltraDane) <a href="https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1918804532353527905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  858. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  859. <p>Credit: @UltraDane/X.com</p>
  860. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  861. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">An illegal in the US reportedly left behind a receipt showing over $13K EBT Food Stamp balance and over $4K EBT Cash balance <a href="https://t.co/NGd2ybMYJX">pic.twitter.com/NGd2ybMYJX</a></p>
  862. <p>— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1819708447891370195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
  863. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  864. <p>Credit: @Bubblebathgirl/X.com</p>
  865. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some states print your total EBT balance on the receipt. And as you can see, there are people with EBT balances of over $10,000 in some cases. It&#8217;s clearly in excess of what any reasonable person would need for groceries. Watch:</span></p>
  866. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  867. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨 Grocery store worker in Springfield, Ohio says that Haitian migrants have EBT cards with $13,000 for food and $29,000 for cash.</p>
  868. <p>Can you believe this?</p>
  869. <p>👀🔉 <a href="https://t.co/PkbopVrThN">pic.twitter.com/PkbopVrThN</a></p>
  870. <p>— AmericanPapaBear™ (@AmericaPapaBear) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericaPapaBear/status/1839341761820561582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
  871. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  872. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit: @AmericaPapaBear/X.com</span></p>
  873. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is a serious problem, and it gets worse when you realize how many illegal aliens are taking advantage of the system. It&#8217;s not just 5,000 people in Maine.</span></p>
  874. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This </span><a href="https://epicforamerica.org/federal-budget/1-5-million-noncitizens-receive-food-stamps/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">is from</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Economic Policy Innovation Center:</span></p>
  875. <blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Food Stamp program provided benefits to 1.4 million noncitizens in fiscal year 2022, the latest data available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Another 2.2 million children living with noncitizens were also on Food Stamps. … California led the way in enrolling noncitizens on Food Stamps, with 273,000 in Fiscal Years 2022.</span></i></p></blockquote>
  876. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So there&#8217;s a clear incentive here for illegal aliens to have children — not simply so that those children can be citizens, but also so that they can collect food stamps. That may be part of the reason why, </span><a href="https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn"><span style="font-weight: 400;">according to</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Center for Immigration Studies:</span></p>
  877. <blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born).</span></i></p></blockquote>
  878. <p><a href="https://cis.org/Report/Immigrants-Afghanistan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, &#8220;Food stamp use by Afghan households increased the most, from 19 percent to 35 percent between 2010 and 2019, while falling from 11 percent to 10 percent for native-born households.&#8221;</span></p>
  879. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, 35% of Afghan households were on food stamps. A typical family of four will receive around $800 in monthly assistance, which is more than many American families spend.</span></p>
  880. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This isn’t just wasteful spending. This is a direct attack on you and your family. You are being robbed at gunpoint by the state and forced to subsidize foreigners. We are inviting people to come to this country and live off of the labor of its citizens. Words cannot describe how evil this is.</span></p>
  881. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;ve long said that government shutdowns serve no purpose — that they inevitably get resolved, with no meaningful interruption or changes to anyone&#8217;s life — but this particular shutdown presents a clear opportunity for a different result. This time around, it&#8217;s extremely easy to see how much overt waste and corruption is inherent in the SNAP system, largely because the people receiving these benefits can&#8217;t stop posting on TikTok. They&#8217;re revealing — inadvertently — that they don&#8217;t actually need the money. They&#8217;re telling us that they don&#8217;t need the money in about a dozen different ways — by making threats, by highlighting the testimony of morbidly obese women, by admitting that they&#8217;re handing the cash to illegal aliens, and so on.</span></p>
  882. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So let&#8217;s listen to these people, for once. Let&#8217;s abolish the SNAP program altogether. Let&#8217;s make this government shutdown the first shutdown in the history of this country that&#8217;s actually been productive. No one will starve as a result. But a few million people, against their will, might have to learn the all-important twin concepts of budgeting and dieting. And if that happens — which it will, if SNAP is abolished — we&#8217;ll all be much better off as a result.</span></p>
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  885.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:37:38 GMT</pubDate>
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  889.      <title>Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall As Jamaica’s Strongest-Ever Storm</title>
  890.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall-as-jamaicas-strongest-ever-storm</link>
  891.      <dc:creator>Reuters and Daily Wire News</dc:creator>
  892.      <description>KINGSTON — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon as a powerful Category 5 storm and the strongest ever to directly hit the Caribbean nation of 2.8 million people. Melissa made landfall near the town of New Hope, some 62 km (39 miles) south of Montego Bay, packing maximum sustained winds of ...</description>
  893.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KINGSTON — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon as a powerful Category 5 storm and the strongest ever to directly hit the Caribbean nation of 2.8 million people.</p>
  894. <p>Melissa made landfall near the town of New Hope, some 62 km (39 miles) south of Montego Bay, packing maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.</p>
  895. <p>The most powerful level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, Category 5, requires speeds of at least 157 mph.</p>
  896. <p>The slow-moving storm is forecast to remain a powerful hurricane as it crosses the mountainous island, whose highland communities are vulnerable to landslides and flooding, and heads towards Santiago de Cuba, Cuba&#8217;s second-largest city.</p>
  897. <p>The Miami-based hurricane center warned that &#8220;total structural failure&#8221; was likely in Melissa&#8217;s path.</p>
  898. <p>&#8220;The destruction could be unlike anything people in Jamaica have seen before,&#8221; said U.S. forecaster AccuWeather&#8217;s lead hurricane expert, Alex DaSilva. &#8220;The island has never taken a direct hit from a Category 4 or a Category 5 hurricane in recorded history.&#8221;</p>
  899. <p>Melissa is the third most intense hurricane observed in the Caribbean after Wilma in 2005 and Gilbert in 1988, according to AccuWeather.</p>
  900. <p>Gilbert was the last major storm to directly hit the island.</p>
  901. <p>Shortly before landfall, Jamaican electric utility JPS said power outages had affected more than a third of its customers. In its worst-hit parishes, some three-quarters of customers lost power, JPS said.</p>
  902. <p>Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie told reporters that nearly 6,000 people had moved into temporary shelters. The government had issued mandatory evacuation orders for some 28,000 people, but some were reluctant to leave their homes.</p>
  903. <p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t bet against Melissa, because you will lose,&#8221; warned McKenzie, as authorities implored residents to seek protection in shelters and fortify their residences.</p>
  904. <p>JAMAICA&#8217;S &#8216;STORM OF THE CENTURY&#8217;</p>
  905. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a catastrophic situation,&#8221; the World Meteorological Organization&#8217;s tropical cyclone specialist Anne-Claire Fontan told a press briefing. &#8220;For Jamaica, it will be the storm of the century for sure.&#8221;</p>
  906. <p>Storm surges of up to four meters were expected, she said, with rainfall set to exceed 70 cm (2.3 feet), causing &#8220;catastrophic flash flooding and landslides,&#8221; she said.</p>
  907. <p>Nearby Haiti and the Dominican Republic have faced days of torrential downpours leading to at least four deaths, authorities said. At least three people died during storm preparations in Jamaica, local media reported.</p>
  908. <p>After crossing eastern Cuba, still as a powerful storm, Melissa is forecast to head through the Bahamas, where Prime Minister Philip Davis has ordered evacuations for people in southern and eastern parts of the archipelago.</p>
  909. <p>In Cuba, authorities said they had evacuated upwards of 500,000 people from areas vulnerable to winds and flooding.</p>
  910. <p>&#8220;There are no half measures,&#8221; Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a message published in state newspaper Granma, in which he urged people in areas vulnerable to flooding, strong winds, and storm surges to evacuate and accept help.</p>
  911. <p>&#8220;Melissa will arrive with force, and there&#8217;s great concern about what it could destroy in its wake,&#8221; he said.</p>
  912. <p>STORM INTENSIFIED ON APPROACH</p>
  913. <p>Melissa&#8217;s slow movement over unusually tepid Caribbean water had contributed to its ballooning size and strength, NHC forecasters said, threatening Jamaica with days of never-before-seen catastrophic winds and rain.</p>
  914. <p>Melissa could bring up to 30 inches (762 mm) of rain to parts of Jamaica, and up to 12 inches to parts of the island of Hispaniola, the NHC said.</p>
  915. <p>The International Federation of the Red Cross said up to 1.5 million people in Jamaica were expected to be directly affected by the storm.</p>
  916. <p>&#8220;Today will be very difficult for tens of thousands, if not millions of people in Jamaica,&#8221; IFRC official Necephor Mghendi said via video link from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.</p>
  917. <p>&#8220;Roofs will be tested, flood waters will rise, isolation will become a harsh reality for many.&#8221;</p>
  918. <p>To enable swift relief distribution, essential items — tarpaulins, hygiene kits, blankets, and safe drinking water — had been pre-positioned in Red Cross branches on the island, he said, with over 800 shelters set up for evacuees.</p>
  919. <p>&#8216;A DIRE SITUATION UNFOLDING IN SLOW MOTION&#8217;</p>
  920. <p>Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica, which was one of the areas worst-hit by last year&#8217;s Hurricane Beryl.</p>
  921. <p>On Monday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness ordered mandatory evacuations for parts of southern Jamaica, including the historic town of Port Royal.</p>
  922. <p>He warned of damage to farmlands, homes, and infrastructure on the island, which is roughly the size of Connecticut and whose main airports sit close to sea level.</p>
  923. <p>&#8220;There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,&#8221; he said.</p>
  924. <p>Holness said his government was as prepared as possible, with an emergency response budget of $33 million and insurance and credit provisions for damage a little larger than that sustained from Beryl.</p>
  925. <p>Beryl was the earliest and fastest Atlantic hurricane on record to reach Category 5.</p>
  926. <p>&#8220;Slow-moving major hurricanes often go down in history as some of the deadliest and most destructive storms on record,&#8221; said AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter. &#8220;This is a dire situation unfolding in slow motion.&#8221;</p>
  927. <p>(Reporting by Zahra Burton in Kingston, Sarah Morland in Mexico City, Dave Sherwood in Havana, Emma Farge in Geneva and Ashitha Shivaprasad in Bengaluru; Writing by Brendan O&#8217;Boyle; Editing by Kirsti Knolle, Ros Russell and Rod Nickel)</p>
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  934.      <title>‘They’ve Become More Popular!’: CNN Pollster Shocked As GOP Gets Shutdown ‘Bump’</title>
  935.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/theyve-become-more-popular-cnn-pollster-shocked-as-gop-gets-shutdown-bump</link>
  936.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  937.      <description>CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten voiced his own surprise on Tuesday as polls indicate that Republicans are not seeing a drop in popularity due to the ongoing government shutdown. Enten joined CNN host John Berman to discuss the shutdown and how it might eventually come to an end — and Berman predicted that &amp;#8220;political ...</description>
  938.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten voiced his own surprise on Tuesday as polls indicate that Republicans are not seeing a drop in popularity due to the ongoing government shutdown.</p>
  939. <p>Enten joined CNN host John Berman to discuss the shutdown and how it might eventually come to an end — and Berman predicted that &#8220;political pain,&#8221; for one party or the other, would be what ultimately brought people to the table. Enten pushed back, noting that Democrats might be the ones feeling the pain.</p>
  940. <p><strong>WATCH:</strong></p>
  941. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  942. <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Republicans&#8217; polling has improved during Democrat government shutdown</p>
  943. <p>CNN: &#8220;The Republican brand in Congress has actually improved&#8221; incl. with Independents 📈</p>
  944. <p>Plus alarm bells for Democrats: &#8220;The worst position Democrats have been…in the last 20 years&#8221; 🚩 <a href="https://t.co/g0hWYhsChM">pic.twitter.com/g0hWYhsChM</a></p>
  945. <p>— Ben Petersen (@bennpetersen) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennpetersen/status/1983171790601105409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  946. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  947. <p>&#8220;One thing that might end a shutdown is political pain, if parties start to feel that it’s hurting them. So let’s talk about that, starting with Republicans. How has the shutdown seemed to have affected their political standing?&#8221; Berman prompted.</p>
  948. <p>&#8220;Yeah, you might think, given that the Republicans are in charge of both the House and the Senate, that a government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand. But in fact, it hasn’t!&#8221; Enten replied. &#8220;If anything, it’s been helped a little bit! Take a look here, the shift in net popularity versus pre-shutdown. When we’re looking at the Republican Party overall, that brand, actually up two points. That’s within the margin of error, but clearly it hasn’t dropped. Come over to this side of the screen, look at the net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress. It’s actually up five points since pre-shutdown! So what we’re seeing here is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved somewhat compared to where we were pre-shutdown, despite the fact that Republicans control. And that’s the math that John Thune and Mike Johnson are looking at is, &#8216;Hey, why should we give in, electorally speaking, when our brand has actually improved a little bit?'&#8221;</p>
  949. <p><strong>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire.com/Subscribe</a> to join now.</strong></p>
  950. <p>Berman pressed for details, asking whether Republicans were only getting more popular with die-hards or were they making gains across other demographics: &#8220;Now we say their position is getting better, with whom?&#8221;</p>
  951. <p>&#8220;It’s rallying the base for sure. Look at this, the net approval rating up 12 points versus pre-shutdown,&#8221; Enten began — but he did not stop there. &#8220;But it’s not just with the base, it’s also with the middle of the electorate. Look at this among independents, it’s up eight points as well! So we’ve got a situation here where Republicans with the shutdown are actually rallying their base, but it’s also something that’s not hurting them with the folks in the middle. If anything, it’s helping them with folks in the middle, and this is the type of math that if you’re Republicans, you like to see, right? Because something could rally the base, but alienate those in the middle, or something could rally those in the middle, but alienate the base.&#8221;</p>
  952. <p>&#8220;But the truth is, we’re not seeing that. What we’re seeing is the Republican brand has actually gotten better among independents and it’s also gotten better among Republicans as well, that Republican brand when it comes to those in Congress,&#8221; Enten added. &#8220;So again, what’s the electoral reason that Republicans would give in at this point?&#8221;</p>
  953. <p>&#8220;And Democrats, of course, they have their eyes on the midterm elections. Yeah, we have elections one week from today, but what Democrats in Congress are mostly focused on are one year and one week from today, from the midterms. So how do Democrats, how are they positioned right now?&#8221; Berman asked.</p>
  954. <p>Enten broke out the worst news, noting that Democrats were actually losing ground as the midterms crept closer. &#8220;You look at this point back when Trump was president the first time around, Democrats were up 11 points. Look at where it is now. Democrats are ahead, but they’re actually only up three points. This is, in fact, the worst position Democrats have been on in a generic ballot at this time in a midterm when there was a Republican president in the last 20 years. And this is no different from pre-shutdown. So Republicans aren’t losing on this metric either. They’ve become more popular, and they’re in a pretty good position for them historically when it comes to the generic congressional ballot.&#8221;</p>
  955. <p>&#8220;This is a concerning number for Democrats, are you saying?&#8221; Berman tried one more time.</p>
  956. <p>&#8220;This is a concerning number for Democrats, because it’s considerably worse than they traditionally do in midterm elections when there’s a Republican president,&#8221; Enten confirmed the worst.</p>
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  959.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:05:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  963.      <title>‘Am I Racist?’ Celebrates One Year: How Matt Walsh’s One Question Exposed The DEI Grift</title>
  964.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/am-i-racist-celebrates-one-year-how-matt-walshs-one-question-exposed-the-dei-grift</link>
  965.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  966.      <description>One year ago, Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh asked a question that most Americans dared not say out loud: “Am I racist?” That simple yet provocative question became the title of his documentary, which helped to expose the grift of America’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry. What began as a satirical inquiry quickly ...</description>
  967.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One year ago, Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh asked a question that most Americans dared not say out loud: “Am I racist?”</span></p>
  968. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That simple yet provocative question became the title of his documentary, which helped to expose the grift of America’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry. What began as a satirical inquiry quickly evolved into a defining cultural moment. </span></p>
  969. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A year after “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist">Am I Racist?</a>” was released on DailyWire+, it remains one of the most significant and successful pieces of documentary filmmaking in recent history. The film continues to expose hypocrisy, invite reflection, and shake up the status quo like never before. </span></p>
  970. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist"><strong>WATCH &#8216;AM I RACIST?&#8217; ON DAILYWIRE+</strong></a></p>
  971. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the film premiered last fall, fans were delighted with the unexpected humor that came from simply exposing lies. “Am I Racist?” took the DEI movement’s own language, placed it under a microscope, and dared to ask if the people profiting from America’s obsession with race were really solving anything at all.</span></p>
  972. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Walsh interviewed well-known DEI advocates such as Saira Rao and Robin DiAngelo. Some of the comments made by the race-obsessed activists would almost be unbelievable if they hadn’t been filmed and turned into a documentary for the world to see. </span></p>
  973. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one scene, Walsh, sporting a man bun, convinces DiAngelo that she had a “powerful opportunity” to display her commitment to anti-racism by giving his black producer, Ben, money from her purse.</span></p>
  974. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another scene features Rao lecturing her “Race to Dinner” guests about how racist they are. In his disguise, Walsh joins the conversation and makes some hilariously ridiculous remarks that the guests go along with. Rao later called “Am I Racist?” a “fascist Nazi white supremacy film.”</span></p>
  975. <p><b>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to </b><a href="http://dailywire.com/Subscribe" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>DailyWire.com/Subscribe</b></a><b> to join now.</b></p>
  976. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That premise struck a chord not only with conservatives, but also with a surprising number of viewers across the political spectrum who recognized the absurdity of the movement.</span></p>
  977. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The results spoke for themselves. “Am I Racist?” became the top-grossing documentary of the past decade, earning over $12 million domestically after it hit theaters a month before its release on DailyWire+. Critics largely refused to review it, yet audiences responded by watching it anyway. It was one of only 15 documentaries ever to open in over 1,500 theaters and earned the third-highest opening day gross for a documentary in the last decade.</span></p>
  978. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Am I Racist?” was predictably snubbed from the Oscar shortlist despite the film’s record-breaking box office success and massive cultural influence. </span></p>
  979. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film’s near-perfect audience score coupled with a conspicuous silence from the mainstream press only proved Walsh’s point. While regular people were ready to have an honest conversation about race, power, and the industry profiting on outrage, the mainstream media who had been supporting this nonsense wasn’t ready to take a look in the mirror.</span></p>
  980. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film’s success wasn’t an accident. It’s proof that when you strip away buzzwords, Americans still crave truth more than comforting lies.That statement holds up even more today.</span></p>
  981. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twelve months later, the same institutions satirized in “Am I Racist?” are deeply entrenched in many cases, but slowly people are starting to wake up. While DEI initiatives remain fixtures in corporate and academic life, there have also been </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-focused-teams-hit-hardest-in-mass-nbc-news-layoffs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mass layoffs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and elimination of entire departments devoted to identity politics. Even the White House clamped down on DEI being pushed in the federal government and at public schools and universities after President Donald Trump was sworn into office earlier this year.</span></p>
  982. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Walsh’s approach was unorthodox but effective. He didn’t lecture; he listened. He attended DEI training sessions, spoke directly with self-proclaimed “experts,” and treated their jargon with seriousness, allowing the experts to prove out their ineptitude onscreen. Walsh wasn’t mocking them. He was giving them a platform to express their beliefs and letting the results speak for themselves.  </span></p>
  983. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The genius of the documentary lay in its tone. The humor served a purpose as it helped to reveal how the modern language of “anti-racism” often conceals deeper contradictions. What Walsh uncovered was not an effort to heal division, but a lucrative enterprise that profits from keeping it alive.</span></p>
  984. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In January, The Daily Wire </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-streaming-clearing-the-a-i-r-the-making-of-am-i-racist"><span style="font-weight: 400;">released</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Clearing the A.I.R.: The Making of Am I Racist?,” a companion film that pulls back the curtain on how a deceptively simple question became one of the year’s most challenging cultural commentaries. Those behind-the-scenes insights only deepened public appreciation for the documentary’s impact, not merely as entertainment, but as a jumping off point for a cultural movement.</span></p>
  985. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What distinguishes “Am I Racist” from other documentaries is its refusal to moralize. Walsh does not tell the viewer what to think. Instead, he shows them the DEI industry operating in real time and allows viewers to draw their own conclusions.</span></p>
  986. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That restraint is rare in modern media, and it’s part of why the film continues to resonate. At its core, “Am I Racist?” isn’t just about race, and it’s not a political statement either. It’s about discovering the truth and refusing to be quiet. </span></p>
  987. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first anniversary of “Am I Racist?” marks more than a milestone for The Daily Wire or for Matt Walsh’s filmography. It represents a pivotal shift in how the public tackles big ideas that progressive institutions have taken for granted far too long.</span></p>
  988. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The DEI establishment will not vanish overnight, nor will the culture wars end anytime soon. But “Am I Racist?” has shown what’s possible when conservative filmmakers aren’t afraid to ask the questions you’re not allowed to ask.</span></p>
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  995.      <title>AOC Takes Cheap Shot At Riley Gaines, And Gaines Lets Her Have It: ‘Misogynistic Dunce’</title>
  996.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-takes-cheap-shot-at-riley-gaines-and-gaines-lets-her-have-it-misogynistic-dunce</link>
  997.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  998.      <description>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a cheap shot at former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines on Monday, siding with trans-identifying men over women in her desperation to land an attack on Gaines. The spat — which played out on X — began on Sunday with a photo Gaines posted from a New York City political rally. ...</description>
  999.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a cheap shot at former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines on Monday, siding with trans-identifying men over women in her desperation to land an attack on Gaines.</p>
  1000. <p>The spat — which played out on X — began on Sunday with a photo Gaines posted from a New York City political rally. The photo showed Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), both of whom self-identify as democratic socialists, campaigning for a fellow socialist — Zohran Mamdani — in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race.</p>
  1001. <p>&#8220;We&#8217;re being destroyed from within,&#8221; Gaines posted.</p>
  1002. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1003. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">We&#8217;re being destroyed from within <a href="https://t.co/hsD3mYkc6t">pic.twitter.com/hsD3mYkc6t</a></p>
  1004. <p>— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1982654572075360550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1005. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1006. <p>&#8220;Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez jabbed back, referencing the 2022 NCAA championships where Gaines had tied for 5th place with trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas.</p>
  1007. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1008. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">It&#8217;s *always* &#8220;we support women&#8217;s rights!&#8221; until it&#8217;s a woman who wants the right to compete &amp; undress free from less than mediocre men</p>
  1009. <p>Keep your mentally ill men out of our sports, locker rooms, prisons, etc.</p>
  1010. <p>— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1982885793954967637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1011. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1012. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s *always* &#8216;we support women&#8217;s rights!&#8217; until it&#8217;s a woman who wants the right to compete &amp; undress free from less than mediocre men,&#8221; Gaines replied. &#8220;Keep your mentally ill men out of our sports, locker rooms, prisons, etc.&#8221;</p>
  1013. <p><strong>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire.com/Subscribe</a> to join now.</strong></p>
  1014. <p>&#8220;It’s always hilarious when they think they’ve landed a &#8216;gotcha&#8217; by pointing out I was the 5th-fastest woman *in the nation* yet they conveniently forget the mediocre man who ranked 462nd in the men’s division lol. Misogynistic dunce,&#8221; Gaines added.</p>
  1015. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1016. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">It’s always hilarious when they think they’ve landed a “gotcha” by pointing out I was the 5th-fastest woman *in the nation* yet they conveniently forget the mediocre man who ranked 462nd in the men’s division lol</p>
  1017. <p>Misogynistic dunce <a href="https://t.co/d1aiAHHoYQ">https://t.co/d1aiAHHoYQ</a></p>
  1018. <p>— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1982886290912883102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1019. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1020. <p>Gaines, host of OutKick&#8217;s &#8220;Gaines for Girls&#8221; podcast, joined Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Ingraham Angle&#8221; and challenged Ocasio-Cortez to debate her.</p>
  1021. <p>&#8220;I’ll debate her anytime. She can defend socialism — I’ll defend capitalism. She can defend removing God — I’ll defend a biblical worldview. She can defend child sacrifice — I’ll defend the sanctity of life,&#8221; the 12-time All American offered.</p>
  1022. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1023. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨RILEY GAINES CHALLENGES <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> 🚨</p>
  1024. <p>“I’ll debate her anytime. She can defend socialism — I’ll defend capitalism. She can defend removing God — I’ll defend a biblical worldview. She can defend child sacrifice — I’ll defend the sanctity of life.” —<a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> <a href="https://t.co/teaTLDh5Vp">pic.twitter.com/teaTLDh5Vp</a></p>
  1025. <p>— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1982979855772987600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1026. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1027. <p>Ocasio-Cortez tried to jab at Gaines again, responding to her debate challenge by saying, &#8220;And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job.&#8221;</p>
  1028. <p>&#8220;I have a real job. I&#8217;m a mom. It&#8217;s the most important &amp; rewarding job in the world. I think if you had a baby girl like I do, you&#8217;d understand my positions a little better,&#8221; was Gaines&#8217; reply.</p>
  1029. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1030. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">I have a real job. I&#8217;m a mom. It&#8217;s the most important &amp; rewarding job in the world.</p>
  1031. <p>I think if you had a baby girl like I do, you&#8217;d understand my positions a little better. <a href="https://t.co/to8syxkXjP">https://t.co/to8syxkXjP</a></p>
  1032. <p>— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1983009006122684775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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  1040.      <title>WATCH LIVE: Michael Knowles Testifies Before The Senate On Political Violence</title>
  1041.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-live-michael-knowles-testifies-before-the-senate-on-political-violence</link>
  1042.      <dc:creator>Daily Wire</dc:creator>
  1043.      <description>The hearing has wrapped, but you can see all the highlights below! &amp;nbsp;</description>
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  1053.      <title>Ceasefire In Peril: Netanyahu Orders ‘Forceful’ Strikes In Gaza After IDF Troops Attacked</title>
  1054.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ceasefire-in-peril-netanyahu-orders-forceful-strikes-in-gaza-after-idf-troops-attacked</link>
  1055.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  1056.      <description>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to carry out &amp;#8220;forceful&amp;#8221; strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, shortly after troops with the Israel Defense Forces reportedly came under fire from militants. &amp;#8220;Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,&amp;#8221; the prime ...</description>
  1057.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to carry out &#8220;forceful&#8221; strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, shortly after troops with the Israel Defense Forces reportedly came under fire from militants.</p>
  1058. <p>&#8220;Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,&#8221; the prime minister&#8217;s office <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1983207505883803934">said</a>. The military action would mark the first Israeli strikes in Gaza since Israel and Hamas agreed to the hostage deal and ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump on October 9. Hamas has so far failed to hold up its side of the agreement and hand over all of the remaining deceased hostages, while violence in the Gaza Strip has continued.</p>
  1059. <p>Israel is also moving the Yellow Line, which was agreed upon under the ceasefire deal, to expand the area of Israel&#8217;s control in the Gaza Strip, <a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1983213924615872745">according</a> to Israeli journalist Amit Segal.</p>
  1060. <p>Netanyahu made the decision after a militant group fired upon IDF troops stationed in Rafah earlier on Tuesday, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/terror-operatives-fire-at-idf-troops-in-rafah-in-another-apparent-truce-violation/">reported</a>. It&#8217;s unclear if the attackers were tied to Hamas or another terrorist group in Gaza.</p>
  1061. <p>Tuesday&#8217;s reported attack came after two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed in the Rafah area last week, with the Israeli military blaming Hamas. Hamas denied that it was responsible for last week&#8217;s attack. In response to the previous attack, the Israeli military conducted strikes taking out &#8220;six kilometers of underground terrorist infrastructure,&#8221; according to the IDF, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/hamas-violates-gaza-ceasefire-attacking-israeli-soldiers-official-says">reported</a>.</p>
  1062. <p><b>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to </b><a href="http://dailywire.com/Subscribe" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>DailyWire.com/Subscribe</b></a><b> to join now.</b></p>
  1063. <p>Earlier on Tuesday, the IDF accused Hamas of lying about recovering hostages&#8217; remains and released a video showing men re-burying human remains in a different area to &#8220;stage a false &#8216;discovery&#8217; for photographers.&#8221;</p>
  1064. <p>&#8220;Despite claiming difficulty locating the bodies of deceased hostages, Hamas continues to hold and manipulate the remains it refuses to release under the agreement,&#8221; the IDF <a href="https://x.com/IDF/status/1983179859951034576">stated</a>.</p>
  1065. <p>The Israeli military <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-28-2025/">said</a> that the video “clearly shows that the Hamas terror organization is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies, while in fact holding deceased hostages whose remains it refuses to release as required by the agreement.”</p>
  1066. <p>In response to Netanyahu&#8217;s order, Hamas said it would scrap plans to hand over the body of another hostage on Tuesday.</p>
  1067. <p>Late last week, President Donald Trump said that Hamas would &#8220;have a very big problem&#8221; if the ceasefire didn&#8217;t hold. Trump had previously warned the terror group to end the violence in the Gaza Strip.</p>
  1068. <p>“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote on October 16 after Hamas publicly executed Gazans. Trump later added that U.S. forces would not be used to take out the terrorists.</p>
  1069. <p>After the ceasefire went into effect, the Trump administration sent top officials to Israel, where it established a command center to monitor the agreement.</p>
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  1072.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:02:37 GMT</pubDate>
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  1076.      <title>Andrew Klavan’s Newest Mystery Hits The Shelves. Read The Prologue And First Chapter.</title>
  1077.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/excerpt-get-a-sneak-peek-of-andrew-klavans-forthcoming-book-after-that-the-dark</link>
  1078.      <dc:creator>Daily Wire</dc:creator>
  1079.      <description>The following is an excerpt from Andrew Klavan&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;After That, the Dark,&amp;#8221; which hit shelves on October 28 from Mysterious Press. Order Andrew Klavan&amp;#8217;s new book on Amazon or pick up a signed copy at Daily Wire Shop. * * * Prologue Tilda Bach folded the laundry and thought about the devil. The sunlight at ...</description>
  1080.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The following is an excerpt from Andrew Klavan&#8217;s &#8220;After That, the Dark,&#8221; which hit shelves on October 28 from Mysterious Press. Order Andrew Klavan&#8217;s new book on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-That-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries/dp/1613166869/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3UHUZV0KR5ZCL&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y_NI0mDOKeowShheDQTVxyOpeKP3JVNzqVzQEoUqTDYetfnM5jJ-zSdBCnnqJca21IR-wiPqdoDcoeVUJqsuXZxhH1lL7-iHlZuiUP2QZ3bwN5aYdXnxKMqj0aw_faw7tMt89Rfj2P1c2PAycMnxt6PJOMVe5fGMaYWOwqHqQL0LPOjBOKNFWz2EnMhlg1sFpKiIxeqm7J1NnAvi7SYoF_wfqbLVOdIZbJNiWbvR-NVAbWyTcbFhfBUoGz104Y2UrLnNpOec4lCYEhjwuourZ1D8TAK1ZqOSMtgODWNieS8.NFgErijMwSBhec-8g6VDXe24uux7UsRqZtAI2iYHtEQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=andrew+klavan&amp;qid=1759257999&amp;sprefix=andrew+klavan%2Caps%2C146&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon</a> or pick up a signed copy at <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/after-that-the-dark-cameron-winter-mysteries-book-5">Daily Wire Shop</a>.</em></p>
  1081. <p>* * *</p>
  1082. <h3><strong>Prologue</strong></h3>
  1083. <p>Tilda Bach folded the laundry and thought about the devil. The sunlight at the basement window was just beginning to lose its edge of mid-day brilliance. The sun, unseen beyond the left-hand border of the long, narrow pane, had dropped behind the screen of the summer leaves. The sparse grass of the small backyard was darkening.</p>
  1084. <p>Tilda gazed out through the dusty glass. Her hands, moving automatically, worked a bath towel into a tidy square. She set the square down on the pile of towels atop the dryer. She reached into the plastic basket for another. But her eyes remained on the window all the while; the long, narrow window set high on the wall in front of her, just above the level of her head.</p>
  1085. <p>Outside, just visible at the right edge of the glass, lay the dirt path along the border of the lawn. The path led to the doorway of her husband’s storage shed.</p>
  1086. <p>Tilda felt sick inside at the thought of what she was about to do. But what else could she do? The devil was in her house. Or a demon sent by the devil. She didn’t pretend to know the ins and outs of such things. She didn’t even know if she really believed in such things. But she did know this.  Something had gotten inside her husband. Something evil. Something alive. It was taking him<br />
  1087. over. It was eating his soul away. It was turning him into itself.</p>
  1088. <p>At night, in bed, asleep, in dreams, he said things, horrible things, murmured obscenities full of violence. She woke sometimes to find him sitting in her armchair, his laptop on his thighs, the white light from the monitor shining on his face, his face demonic, twisted into a grin. Sometimes he went out at night. For a drive, he said. Sometimes he went into the shed and locked the door and did not come out for hours. It was not like him. It was not him at all. It was something else.</p>
  1089. <p>Whatever it was, she had to stop it. For his sake. For her sake. For the sake of the baby growing inside her.</p>
  1090. <p>She lay another fresh-folded towel on the pile atop the dryer. Then she stopped moving altogether. She stood there, still, gazing out the basement window. Gazing at the shed.</p>
  1091. <p>She knew she needed help. She had to tell someone. Someone at the church, someone who might understand. But no one would believe her unless she brought them proof. Everyone at church knew Martin. Everyone loved Martin. If she went to Pastor Mike or her friend Gretchen, the junior warden on the vestry—if she went to them and started babbling about devils and demons and evil, they would think she had gone crazy. She herself was half-afraid she had gone crazy, thinking about these things. Sometimes she was sure she had. She needed proof, proof to show the pastor, proof to show herself.</p>
  1092. <p>She believed the proof was hidden in that shed.</p>
  1093. <p>For long moments end to end, she stood motionless in front of the dryer, her arms at her sides. She went on gazing out the basement window. Finally, she drew a long deep breath. When she let it out, it trembled. The fear in her chest was a cold fire, an icy flame that made her body feel hollow and weak. She feared that it would stop her heart. She feared that it would hurt her baby.</p>
  1094. <p>But she could not talk herself out of her suspicions anymore.</p>
  1095. <p>It was getting late. She wasn’t wearing her watch, but she knew it had to be four o’clock at least. Martin had left for work early this morning, before eight. He probably wouldn’t be home for another hour or so, but she couldn’t be sure.</p>
  1096. <p>She had to go out there. She had to go out there now.</p>
  1097. <p>Tilda was a small woman, twenty-eight, thin except for the baby bump beginning to show at her center. Her lank yellow hair framed a sharp face with sharp features. As she drifted across the basement floor toward the stairs, she felt her own frailty. She felt insubstantial, like a ghost, like a piece of paper blowing on a breeze. In her flowery blouse and her sandals and her pale blue shorts with the stretchy waist to fit her growing belly. She felt as if there were nothing to her except that icy fear.</p>
  1098. <p>She rose up the stairs as if she were floating, as if she could not stop herself even if she wanted to. Her mouth was open. Her throat was dry. The only sound she heard was her sneakers on the steps. She felt as if she must be whimpering, but she was only whimpering inside, silently.</p>
  1099. <p>She came into the kitchen. She moved a stride across the withering linoleum to the backyard door. She pushed out through the screen into the heat of the day. It was odd. The houses on Linden Street were close together. She could see the Mullers’ house through the leaves of the walnut tree, not far at all, a few yards away. If she turned her head to the left, she would see Bill and Mary Weber’s place across the street, and if she looked over her right shoulder, there would be the side of Jeff and Abbey’s house with nothing but a narrow slate pathway between the wall of her own house, hers and Martin’s. Why did she feel so isolated? The late afternoon was coming on, but it was still bright daylight. Why did she feel like she was swimming in shadows? Why did she feel so utterly alone in a darkness like the dead of night?</p>
  1100. <p>She reached the shed. It was a worn resin box only a couple of feet taller than herself, walls of mock clapboards, dull gray. Her hand went out to it, drifting away from her as if on its own. She wanted to stop herself, but she couldn’t. She gripped the handle, pressed the latch. She drew the door open.</p>
  1101. <p>There was the darkness, the darkness she had felt all around her. It was waiting for her inside the shed.</p>
  1102. <p>She stepped into it, drawing the door shut behind her.</p>
  1103. <p>The shed had no windows but there were vents beneath the eaves. Some light trailed in through these, enough to see by. She found the switch on the wall and flipped it. A bare bulb glared angrily down from the low ceiling.</p>
  1104. <p>She swallowed hard. How could she be so close to home and so afraid? Afraid of her own husband, her own Martin. She could still remember—she would never forget—the sweetness of his smile the first time she had seen him. She was serving drinks in the Bar and Grill, a place so low it had no other name, just Bar and Grill, that’s all. The music there was so loud it had no tune but noise. The walls shook with it. She was moving down the line of customers, looking for empties she could refill. She came upon his smile among the cunning faces and the angry faces and the faces, as she now understood, of men who did not even know they had despaired. There was Martin, his sweet smile, like sudden water mellow in the midst of baking sand.</p>
  1105. <p>“How about you and me go somewhere quiet, darling, and talk about Jesus Christ,” he said.</p>
  1106. <p>He had really said that. It had made her laugh out loud. It had got her talking with him, flirting back and forth, trading lines until she’d made a date with him for after work, good-looking boy that he was, big strong man that he was, muscles outlined in the fabric of his tee, a workingman’s hands, rough and sure. She knew how it would be, but that didn’t matter. It would be the same as it always was in the end, but if it was good for even an hour, that was something, wasn’t it? A little dream of something, floating like a bubble, pink and pretty, in the air. A feeling like someone cared for her or at least thought she was pretty enough to be worth having. So she went with him, same as she always went with all of them.</p>
  1107. <p>Martin drove her in his pickup to the overlook by the lake, the usual lover’s lane. And there, in a surprise as shocking as a scene in a movie, as a ghost-monster jumping out through the glass of a mirror or the killer lurking in the house after the heroine rushes inside and locks the door, he had sat with her in that place of forlorn surrender and talked with her till dawn about Jesus Christ. He really had. Talked and talked about religion and the sadness of worldly things until she heard herself talking back to him, not just the usual jaded cliches, but real talk, just as the stars were fading, about the misery she pretended was “doing okay,” and the pain she had figured was just the way things were. It all came pouring out of her into his gentle eyes and she knew with a kind of childlike wonder: She had found love.</p>
  1108. <p>She stood where she was in the shed. She breathed unsteadily, cold with fear. Her eyes traveled over the space beneath the glaring light from the naked bulb. The red tool chest she had bought him for his birthday. The power tools hung on the wall. The shelves of paint cans and buckets and weed killer. The workbench with its segmented trays of electronic bits and pieces: black boxes and wires and glassy elements. They looked to Tilda like the bodies of some alien robots gathered up for burial after their starship crashed to earth. Martin had a genius for electronics. He could fix things, make things. Toys for poor kids at church who didn’t have any toys. Computer add-ons that could pick up the videos from nearby drones or trace what a neighbor’s computer was doing on wireless. Some of these things—Tilda wasn’t even sure they’d been invented yet. She was always telling Martin he ought to turn this skill into a business somehow. He could make real money at it. But he’d just laugh and say it was only a hobby, nothing special. Then he’d go back to rooting through the pieces splayed out over the workbench, putting them together—at random, it seemed to her—like he was a sorcerer magically transforming junk into technology.</p>
  1109. <p>But all those doodads were stowed away now, each in its compartment, like mashed potatoes and peas in a frozen dinner tray. Fearful as she was, Tilda almost smiled at that. For a big, shambling, sloppy boy, Martin was neat as a prissy old maid. She had always found that kind of adorable. He liked things in their proper places, all just so.</p>
  1110. <p>That’s why she spotted the hiding place right away.</p>
  1111. <p>A cardboard box stuffed with wires, shoved under the workbench where it shouldn’t have been. That was the telltale sign.</p>
  1112. <p>She moved to it slowly. She wasn’t sure she was breathing at all anymore. The fear had gutted her. She felt dead and empty. She knelt down. She wrestled the box to one side. She saw the rectangular gray metal chest hidden behind it. She drew it toward her. It scraped against the floor.</p>
  1113. <p>The chest was locked, but she knew where the key would be. She reached up and pulled open the workbench drawer, right at her eye level. There it was in the front compartment, right in its proper place. She picked the key out and, kneeling there, unlocked the chest.</p>
  1114. <p>Everything came on her all at once: all the horror and all the fear together.</p>
  1115. <p>Tilda lifted the lid of the chest and in the harsh, pitiless glare from the bare bulb she caught a single glimpse of an image—a printed picture—of pornographic brutality. Martin’s nighttime murmurings come to life. The girl’s body. The girl’s face. Her wide-eyed terror. Her mouth strapped shut. There was also a stained T-shirt, bunched in a corner of the chest. Blood—the thought was like a siren going off inside her. <em>That’s blood!</em></p>
  1116. <p>At the same time, at the very same second, there came the sound of tires on the driveway outside. Martin’s pickup. A sound she knew well: her husband had come home.</p>
  1117. <p>A noise escaped her. A single, strangled cry. She shut the chest with a clanking bang. Too loud! He’d hear her. She shoved it back in place. Was it back in place? The right place? Would he notice it had been moved? She put the cardboard box in front of it again and was already rising from her knees as she dropped the key back in the workbench drawer and shut the drawer as quietly as she could. She could hear the door of Martin’s pickup opening.</p>
  1118. <p>The driveway was on the near side of the house. She had seconds—three or four or five, no more than that—to get out of the shed before he stepped from the pickup’s cab and saw the light shining through the vents. He may have already spotted it as he was driving up. She had no way of knowing.</p>
  1119. <p>Another whimpering cry came out of her as she raced to the door and hit the switch. The shed went dark. The darkness seemed to tilt and spin around her. She opened the door the slightest crack. She slipped through the gap like liquid smoke. She shut the door and started walking quickly through the afternoon sunlight. She looked up toward the driveway. An instant—half an instant—later, Martin shut the truck door and turned to see her moving toward him across the lawn.</p>
  1120. <p>How much had he seen? The light in the shed? The door closing? Or maybe just this, just Tilda walking toward him. Maybe she could tell him she’d heard his truck in the drive and had come out the kitchen door to greet him. Maybe. She didn’t know what he knew.</p>
  1121. <p>Her mind was a panicked stampede of images. That girl in the printed picture. That T-shirt stained with blood. And had she put the chest away in the right place? And was her fear visible in her eyes? And was her horror visible on her red cheeks? No way of knowing.</p>
  1122. <p>Tilda smiled brightly, sick at heart. She waved as she walked toward her husband. He towered over her, broad shouldered and muscular in his workingman’s tee, the underarms dark with sweat. He had his toolbox in his right hand. He was smiling over her. His sweet smile. But was he masking something? Suspicion? She couldn’t tell.</p>
  1123. <p>“Hey,” he said. And with his big bear-paw of a hand behind her head, he drew her up on tiptoe into a kiss. Tilda felt as if a whole world inside her was collapsing into dust.</p>
  1124. <p>Martin set her down and grinned and touched her belly.</p>
  1125. <p>“Hey there, baby,” he said to the bump there. “Daddy’s home.”</p>
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  1127. <h3>Chapter 1</h3>
  1128. <p>Cameron Winter paused there, probably for dramatic effect. “So,” Margaret Whitaker broke in. “Let’s talk about Gwendolyn<br />
  1129. Lord?”</p>
  1130. <p>Winter groaned and laughed and raised his gaze heavenward. Margaret was glad to see it. They had crossed a watershed<br />
  1131. in their therapy work. Winter’s crisis was past. She could tell just by looking at him. His eyes—his intelligent, watchful eyes—<br />
  1132. were bright again. The pasty pale complexion of depression was gone from his cheeks entirely. When she compared him now<br />
  1133. to the way he’d been not so very long ago, he looked to her like a patient who had recovered from a long illness—or, really,<br />
  1134. like a corpse that had come back to life.</p>
  1135. <p>“This is important, what I’m telling you,” he said with half a smile. “No kidding. It really is. It’s a big part of my story.”</p>
  1136. <p>“So is Gwendolyn, I think. You came to me because you were living a life without love. Because your past had left you<br />
  1137. feeling unworthy of loving or being loved.”</p>
  1138. <p>“I’m not in love with Gwendolyn, Margaret. I don’t even know her.”</p>
  1139. <p>“You have a date with her this weekend.”</p>
  1140. <p>“Yes, yes.”</p>
  1141. <p>“Finally.”</p>
  1142. <p>“Yes, yes, yes.”</p>
  1143. <p>“After waiting months before you could work up the courage to ask her. Like some thirteen-year-old boy calling a girl for the<br />
  1144. first time.”</p>
  1145. <p>“Do boys and girls still call each other? I thought they just texted each other nude photos and went from there.”</p>
  1146. <p>Margaret couldn’t help but smile. This was the way she liked him best, confident and comical and at war with modernity.<br />
  1147. And dangerous, when you looked more closely, but only then.</p>
  1148. <p>Winter was not her usual sort of client. Not the usual disappointed academic or alienated student or state bureaucrat out of<br />
  1149. love with his wife. He was a former government contract killer trying to rise above a violent past that had lost its meaning for<br />
  1150. him. A sensitive thinker, not yet forty, trying to start life afresh as a professor of literature. Tweedy and startlingly handsome—<br />
  1151. with otherworldly features, she always thought, like an angel in a Renaissance painting. But also—behind the spectacles and<br />
  1152. under the longish light hair—a quick, cold, deadly man. A vital presence in a dull office decorated all in tans and browns to go<br />
  1153. with Margaret’s dull, tan, brown life.</p>
  1154. <p>She’d had an awful crush on him ever since their first session. A transference to the nth power. It left her girly and dreamy,<br />
  1155. old as she was. She thought of herself as old, anyway. She was nearly seventy. She thought of herself as an old, nervous<br />
  1156. widow woman. She even cultivated that image of herself in her own mind, repeated it over and over. It soothed her somehow,<br />
  1157. took the pressure off her. It made her feel as if nothing much were to be expected in the life of such an ancient and fluttery<br />
  1158. biddy as herself, so she could give up on those expectations and it would be okay.</p>
  1159. <p>But sure, yes, she was jealous of this Gwendolyn Lord. She was Winter’s first genuinely romantic interest since he and<br />
  1160. Margaret had started working together. Gwendolyn worked with children in a community center near Chicago. She was a<br />
  1161. therapist like Margaret, which made Margaret’s jealousy worse, as if she were being replaced with a younger model. But<br />
  1162. jealous as Margaret was, she was also glad. Because Winter was her work, and she knew she had done her work well. He<br />
  1163. was better now than he had been since she’d known him.</p>
  1164. <p>“So where are you taking her on this date?” she asked.</p>
  1165. <p>“Just to dinner. There’s a place on the lake that seems nice. No big deal. I figured we ought to keep it short and simple at<br />
  1166. first, find out if we even like each other.”</p>
  1167. <p>“How are you feeling about it?”</p>
  1168. <p>“You want the truth?”</p>
  1169. <p>“No, lie to me. Therapists love that.”</p>
  1170. <p>“I feel like some thirteen-year-old boy calling a girl for the first time. I’m scared out of my wits.”</p>
  1171. <p>“Yes, I sensed that.” Margaret put her hands together, steepled her fingers against her chin. She swiveled back and forth a<br />
  1172. little in her high-backed leather I-am-the-therapist chair. “What’s that about, do you think?”</p>
  1173. <p>“Well, I know what you’d say.”</p>
  1174. <p>“Of course you do. You could jump from your chair to my chair doing the whole therapeutic process on your own. You just<br />
  1175. told me.”</p>
  1176. <p>One corner of his mouth turned up, a wry smile. “God, you’re a pain in the ass.”</p>
  1177. <p>She nodded her thanks.</p>
  1178. <p>“You do good work though,” he said. “I have to admit it. I do admit it. I’ve been feeling . . .”</p>
  1179. <p>“What?” said Margaret, suppressing a smile of her own.</p>
  1180. <p>“Better,” he said. “Much better, in fact. Really different than I felt when I started coming here. More than that. Different than<br />
  1181. I’ve ever felt. Maybe it’s just about what happened with Charlotte. I don’t know. But it’s kind of remarkable. A remarkable<br />
  1182. transformation.”</p>
  1183. <p>“And . . . ?”</p>
  1184. <p>He took a deep breath. Held it. Let it out in a long stream.</p>
  1185. <p>“And, you know, it’s just dinner with a woman. I’m a big boy and all. I’ve gone on dates before. But there is something about<br />
  1186. Gwendolyn. I can’t quite describe it but . . .” Slumped in the client’s armchair, he looked up at her with that plaintive, almost<br />
  1187. childlike look of dependence that came over him sometimes. It was painfully appealing to her, that look. She really did feel a<br />
  1188. gripping pang in her heart at the thought he might fall in love with this Gwendolyn and bring his therapy to its reasonable end.<br />
  1189. She felt like a mother watching her son go off on his own, she told herself. But that was a lie, such a lie. She didn’t feel motherly<br />
  1190. toward him at all.</p>
  1191. <p>She went on watching him, went on swiveling in her chair. Keeping silent, giving him no direction. It was time for him to<br />
  1192. learn to figure these things out for himself.</p>
  1193. <p>“What will I say to her, Margaret?” Winter asked. “What will I tell her about myself? Who I’ve been. What I’ve done.”</p>
  1194. <p>Margaret lowered her steepled fingers so he could see her face clearly. “You’ve told me about those things,” she said.<br />
  1195. “You’ve told me the worst of them anyway. And I’m still here, aren’t I?”</p>
  1196. <p>He averted his eyes. He gazed off into space. He nodded to himself—sadly, she thought. “That’s what I keep telling myself,”<br />
  1197. he said. “You’re still here.”</p>
  1198. <p>Margaret started to speak but hesitated. Her throat thickened and she was uncertain of her voice. It was only for a moment.<br />
  1199. She swallowed hard. The moment passed.</p>
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  1201. <p>* * *</p>
  1202. <p><em>Published by permission of Mysterious Press.</em></p>
  1203. <p><em>Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fifth installment, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-That-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries/dp/1613166869/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EGZUC370LG46&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y_NI0mDOKeowShheDQTVx5NH-fAeimJoCD56_T0Acpl8C0mup7uJf-nGGSRLEItaaekoDnvS2vWLMa4Zd2UBXQ8Y-g-P502jOWz-Y8IX3ZQsdlO7WMLrg1xIhNoKmjCorSWUR4C2l_RbiZ7apJ1MfPzGOrrEf7AdAXX6xwnJRVP_XqUfWuMuVthTWscaU3P4vgmS86-96n-721enHfX12CFQWTajqFbVnrsDkexfUf4.6_gTH6h1Bb9Pn375QdF_VAVZSayDvjQBBKGXE-MTiFo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=klavan&amp;qid=1754049918&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C80&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After That, The Dark,</a> is now available. Follow him on X: <a href="https://x.com/andrewklavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@andrewklavan</a></em></p>
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  1210.      <title>Ted Cruz Issues Grim Warning To New Yorkers If Mamdani Is Elected</title>
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  1212.      <dc:creator>Virginia Kruta</dc:creator>
  1213.      <description>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a dire warning to New Yorkers ahead of the imminent mayoral election, saying that things were likely to get much worse if they elect self-described democratic socialist assemblyman Zohran Mamdani to fill the office. Cruz, during the most recent episode of &amp;#8220;Verdict,&amp;#8221; told cohost Ben Ferguson that he could foresee ...</description>
  1214.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a dire warning to New Yorkers ahead of the imminent mayoral election, saying that things were likely to get much worse if they elect self-described democratic socialist assemblyman Zohran Mamdani to fill the office.</p>
  1215. <p>Cruz, during the most recent episode of &#8220;Verdict,&#8221; told cohost Ben Ferguson that he could foresee several different potential outcomes that might result from Mamdani&#8217;s election — and none of them were good for the people of the Big Apple.</p>
  1216. <p>&#8220;Look, Comrade Mamdani is apparently the future of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is now explicitly, openly, unapologetically communist and unapologetically jihadist,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;This guy is so extreme, and yet the Democrats in New York don&#8217;t seem to care &#8230; Yet, given the choice between a solidly left-wing democrat and a full-on communist and I believe America hating jihadist. It sure looks like I hope these polls are wrong, and maybe a burst of sanity will pull us back.&#8221;</p>
  1217. <p>Cruz followed his opening salvo with a defense of his assessment, saying that he was drawing from Mamdani&#8217;s own previous statements to make his determinations: &#8220;When I call him a communist jihadist, I call him a communist because he&#8217;s called for, among other things, seizing the means of production, which is the very essence of the economic core of communism.&#8221;</p>
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  1219. <p>&#8220;People are going to die if and when Comrade Mamdani is elected, that is going to be the concept,&#8221; Cruz continued.</p>
  1220. <p>He went on to say that there would be some who saw benefits from Mamdani&#8217;s election — but the average citizens of New York City would not be among them.</p>
  1221. <p>&#8220;If comrade Mamdani is elected, I&#8217;m going to make a nomination right now, which is a year from now, I want to name him the Conservative Party of New York Man of the Year, because Comrade Mamdani is going to make more people join the conservative party in New York than anyone has in history, as they realize these people are nuts,&#8221; Cruz explained.</p>
  1222. <p>He then added that the only businesses likely to thrive under the weight of communist leadership were the companies that helped people move away, out of their reach.</p>
  1223. <p>&#8220;Not only is he going to drive New Yorkers to join the Republican Party and the Conservative Party, but he is going to result, he is going to rent more U-Hauls than the very best Willy Loman salesman that has ever been in U-Haul of people moving from New York and coming to Texas and coming to Florida, and anyone with any sense is going to get out of this,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1224. <p>Critics have long been warning that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-mamdani" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mamdani&#8217;s plan</a> to tax the rich and tax corporations that do business in New York — even if they don&#8217;t have offices there — was likely to send everyone who could afford to move running for the hills.</p>
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  1231.      <title>Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Killing Illinois County Official, Wife In Drunk Driving Crash</title>
  1232.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-killing-illinois-county-official-wife-in-drunk-driving-crash</link>
  1233.      <dc:creator>Jennie Taer</dc:creator>
  1234.      <description>An illegal immigrant is accused of killing a county official and his wife while driving drunk on an Illinois road, The Daily Wire has learned. Honduran illegal immigrant Edwin Pacheco-Meza, 34, was swiftly arrested by local cops after allegedly killing Coles County board member Michael Clayton, 71, and his wife, Gail, 66, in a drunk ...</description>
  1235.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An illegal immigrant is accused of killing a county official and his wife while driving drunk on an Illinois road, The Daily Wire has learned.</p>
  1236. <p>Honduran illegal immigrant Edwin Pacheco-Meza, 34, was swiftly arrested by local cops after allegedly killing Coles County board member Michael Clayton, 71, and his wife, Gail, 66, in a drunk driving crash on Friday. Pacheco-Meza snuck across the border illegally at an unknown date, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.</p>
  1237. <p>The couple was pronounced dead at the scene.</p>
  1238. <p>Pacheco-Meza was charged with reckless homicide and aggravated DUI. Local authorities also found an extended magazine, ammunition, and marijuana in his van.</p>
  1239. <p>Illinois state Rep. Adam Niemerg blamed the &#8220;failed leadership&#8221; of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker for the fatal crash in a recent X <a href="https://x.com/adamniemerg/status/1982592201780531429" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>.</p>
  1240. <p><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">&#8220;Gov. Pritzker&#8217;s </span>reckless policies keep putting Illinois families at risk. Instead of protecting citizens, Democrats continue to protect those here illegally — and our communities are paying the price,&#8221; Niemerg wrote.</p>
  1241. <p>Guatemalan illegal immigrant Juan Morales-Martinez, 18, was a passenger in Pacheco-Meza&#8217;s truck during the fatal collision. He was also arrested by local police.</p>
  1242. <p>While ICE quickly lodged a detainer to ensure Morales-Martinez wasn&#8217;t released onto the streets, the local jail still let him walk free on Monday, according to DHS. Luckily, ICE officers were waiting outside and scooped him up.</p>
  1243. <p>Morales-Martinez crossed the border illegally in December 2023 and was released into the United States shortly thereafter, DHS said.</p>
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  1245. <p>Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire that the illegal immigrant pair &#8220;should’ve never been in our country in the first place.&#8221;</p>
  1246. <p>“President Trump and Secretary Noem have unleashed ICE and CBP in Illinois to restore law-and-order and remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities,&#8221; McLaughlin said.</p>
  1247. <p>&#8220;Anyone who is in the U.S. illegally and thinks they can roam free while breaking our laws and harming Americans is in for a rude awakening. If you are in our country illegally and break our laws, we will find you, arrest you, remove you, and you will never return,&#8221; she added.</p>
  1248. <p>The Trump administration commenced &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz&#8221; in September to flood Illinois with immigration officers. The raids have resulted in roughly 3,000 arrests, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-3k-arrested-immigration-crackdown-border-patrol-chief-gregory-bovino-says/18076935/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News on Monday.</p>
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  1251.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:19:56 GMT</pubDate>
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  1255.      <title>The Wheel Of Misfortune: Victims, Victimhood, And Victimization</title>
  1256.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-wheel-of-misfortune-victims-victimhood-and-victimization</link>
  1257.      <dc:creator>Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong</dc:creator>
  1258.      <description>Editor&amp;#8217;s Note: This is the second installment in the five-part series “American Maoists: Warnings From The Cultural Revolution.&amp;#8221; In Part I, Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong — both activists, scholars, and survivors of Mao&amp;#8217;s communist uprising — explain how extremist movements plant the seeds for revolution by slowly acculturating ordinary citizens to political violence. ...</description>
  1259.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This is the second installment in the five-part series “American Maoists: Warnings From The Cultural Revolution.&#8221;</em></p>
  1260. <p><em>In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/license-to-kill-what-turns-normal-people-to-political-violence">Part I</a>, Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong — both activists, scholars, and survivors of Mao&#8217;s communist uprising — explain how extremist movements plant the seeds for revolution by slowly acculturating ordinary citizens to political violence.</em></p>
  1261. <p><em>In today&#8217;s installment, the authors explore something all too familiar to anyone who&#8217;s seen the American Left in action: the endless cycle of victimization, which fuels perpetual revolution.</em></p>
  1262. <p>***</p>
  1263. <p>History is full of paradoxes. None is more striking than the revolutionary promise to rescue the downtrodden, only to end in destruction for all.</p>
  1264. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From the French Revolution to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the pattern is familiar: revolutionaries first elevate “the victims,” granting them moral superiority. Those newly anointed victims are then encouraged to victimize their designated enemies. What begins in the name of liberation almost always degenerates into tyranny.</span></p>
  1265. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is a story as old as revolution itself. The Jacobins invoked the poor and the persecuted, then set the guillotine to work on nobles, priests, and eventually their own comrades. Lenin vowed to free workers and peasants from Tsarist oppression, only to unleash the Red Terror that consumed millions, including many of his followers.</span></p>
  1266. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mao empowered the youths to denounce their teachers, parents, and neighbors. In those frenzied years, almost everyone alternated between being a victim and being a victimizer, and frequently embodied both roles simultaneously. As Georges Danton, himself a leading figure of the French Revolution,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">devoured by the machine he helped build, lamented: “Revolution devours its own children.”</span></p>
  1267. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In China, we witnessed this cycle firsthand. The story of Bian Zhongyun, the first teacher beaten to death by her students in August 1966, illustrates it in all its cruelty.</span></p>
  1268. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bian had been a faithful revolutionary. She joined the Communist Party in 1941 and later helped carry out land reform in a village where she was involved in the stoning to death of four landlords — including a woman who once cared for her child. She was later rewarded with the post of principal at Beijing’s most prestigious girls’ high school, which primarily served the children of CCP elites.</span></p>
  1269. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet her students, daughters of top Party leaders, killed her within hours in the first frenzy of the Cultural Revolution. They were fueled by Mao’s call to “rebel.” That month alone, thousands of teachers across China were killed. Millions more were publicly humiliated and beaten.</span></p>
  1270. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What became of the new victimizers? After serving as Mao’s instruments, the rebelling youths were discarded: the girls were sent into exile in China’s remote regions for grueling labor. The cycle turned anew. </span></p>
  1271. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This wheel of misfortune follows a grim logic. Authorities pick assumed “victims” and designate enemies. The chosen victims are given power beyond the law, while enemies are stripped of any protection. Victimhood becomes not a misfortune but a privilege. People scramble to claim it — often by victimizing others. The scope of enemies then expands endlessly. Eventually, the beast devours everything.</span></p>
  1272. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We would be foolish to believe this tragic dynamic cannot repeat here. In recent years, America has seen smaller but chilling echoes: the #MeToo movement, Black Lives Matter, pro-Hamas and anti-ICE protests, and so on.</span></p>
  1273. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who are the victims? Those once deemed “victimizers” — men, White people, and law enforcement personnel. Though our democracy tempers the scale, the revolutionary zeal is real, and has already produced a vast number of victims. </span></p>
  1274. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger recently exhorted her supporters: “Let your rage fuel you.” Rage justifies escalation: exaggerated allegations, destruction of reputations, looting, even violence. We saw the consequences in the murder of Charlie Kirk.</span></p>
  1275. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The other fuel is thrill. Lenin once called revolution the “festival of the masses.” It is intoxicating to watch hierarchies topple, reputations destroyed, enemies dragged into the public square. Today, whole groups are urged to define themselves by grievances, while the list of oppressors grows without limit. Yesterday’s ally becomes today’s enemy; yesterday’s victim becomes today’s victimizer. Unfortunately, a society built on grievance politics collapses under its own contradictions.</span></p>
  1276. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">China paid dearly: Mao’s Cultural Revolution killed tens of millions of people, including revolutionaries themselves, and brought the country to its knees. In America, Leftist ideology has condemned inner-city communities to crime, drugs, and welfare dependency that deepens poverty rather than relieves it. The paradox endures: revolutions that begin in the name of justice often end in greater injustice. Movements that elevate victims often produce mass victimization. Ideologies that promise to heal history’s wounds often end up deepening its scars.</span></p>
  1277. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lesson is clear. A healthy society must recognize suffering without weaponizing it, redress injustice without creating new ones, and honor dignity rather than grievance. If we fail, the cycle will repeat — as it has so many times before. And once again, revolution will devour everyone, including those who started the revolution.</span></p>
  1278. <p><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/license-to-kill-what-turns-normal-people-to-political-violence">READ MORE: American Maoists, Part I: License To Kill: What Turns Normal People To Political Violence?</a></strong></p>
  1279. <p><em>Xi Van Fleet is a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, activist, and author of “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.”</em></p>
  1280. <p><em>Sasha Gong is a writer, scholar, journalist, and filmmaker. A dissident in Mao’s China, she holds a PhD from Harvard University and was previously Director of the China Branch at Voice of America.</em></p>
  1281. <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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  1284.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  1288.      <title>Here’s What Dropped On DailyWire+ In October</title>
  1289.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-whats-coming-to-dailywire-in-october</link>
  1290.      <dc:creator>Daily Wire</dc:creator>
  1291.      <description>The Daily Wire&amp;#8217;s October lineup of film and television programming features three mission-oriented documentaries and a popular faith-driven horror-thriller. “This year, we’ve been quietly curating a powerful content library that goes far beyond our world-famous podcasts,” said Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment. “What unites our growing slate is a ...</description>
  1292.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s October lineup of film and television programming features three mission-oriented documentaries and a popular faith-driven horror-thriller.</p>
  1293. <p>“This year, we’ve been quietly curating a powerful content library that goes far beyond our world-famous podcasts,” said Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment. “What unites our growing slate is a commitment to telling great stories that speak truth, reflect the values our audience cares about, and give voice to those long underserved by the mainstream.”</p>
  1294. <p>Here’s what was released on DailyWire+ in October and what&#8217;s still to come:</p>
  1295. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-K-Wjin5RJY?si=NBXQSJZj4n_zlhny" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
  1296. <h3><b>USS COLE: Al Qaeda&#8217;s Strike Before 9/11</b></h3>
  1297. <p>This three-episode docuseries from BIG Media chronicles Al Qaeda’s suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole in October 2000. Based on the book “Front Burner” by retired Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, the series tells the untold story of a blast in Yemen that left 17 sailors dead and became the blueprint for 9/11. More than a tragedy, it was the warning America ignored.</p>
  1298. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eTvFDubU86g?si=oNiVtsMzLYn9uaMW" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
  1299. <p>All three episodes are available to stream now.</p>
  1300. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/uss-cole-al-qaeda-s-attack-before-9-11"><strong>WATCH USS COLE: AL QAEDA&#8217;S STRIKE BEFORE 9/11</strong></a></p>
  1301. <h3><b>The 1916 Project</b></h3>
  1302. <p>Over a century ago, Planned Parenthood was built on racist “population control” — targeting the poor, the weak, and the unwanted. This feature documentary, directed and produced by David Coonradt, shows how the organization grew into the behemoth it is today — and reveals how much it still has in common with the eugenic organization it was launched as.</p>
  1303. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u7otoZHOHXY?si=6j6Ag5IsdoP2ruKJ" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
  1304. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/the-1916-project"><strong>WATCH THE 1916 PROJECT</strong></a></p>
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  1306. <h3><b>Nefarious</b></h3>
  1307. <p>On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own. Starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Jordan Belfi, directed by Cary Solomon, and inspired by the novel “A Nefarious Plot” by Steve Deace, this popular Christian thriller is sure to delight DailyWire+ audiences.</p>
  1308. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8vkFMdrtnsY?si=xiZIdNLiy-eYTy2t" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
  1309. <p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/nefarious"><strong>WATCH NEFARIOUS</strong></a></p>
  1310. <h3><b>Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Trafficking Epidemic </b></h3>
  1311. <p>Your children&#8217;s phones could be their greatest danger. &#8220;Hiding in Plain Sight&#8221; takes you inside the shocking world of digital predators who use everyday apps to hunt, groom, and traffic children from their own bedrooms. Produced by Our Rescue, the renowned nonprofit organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking and child exploitation, “Hiding in Plain Sight” offers unprecedented access to undercover law enforcement stings and harrowing survivor accounts. This documentary exposes how traffickers have turned the internet, including social media and online gaming, into hunting grounds — and why no family is safe.</p>
  1312. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AOS9VUHpDpE?si=V5uuOP25kv0e29N2" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
  1313. <p>Directed and executive produced by Nick Nanton and produced by Katie Tschopp, “Hiding in Plain Sight” is streaming free on DailyWire+ starting October 30.</p>
  1314. <h3><strong>Friendly Fire</strong></h3>
  1315. <p>Friendly Fire is the next decade of The Daily Wire — unleashed. Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan go head-to-head in a biweekly clash of ideas, laughs, and cultural combat, joined by special guests like Isabel Brown, Jeremy Boreing, and more.</p>
  1316. <p>It’s unscripted, unfiltered, and the loudest way to launch the next chapter of the movement.</p>
  1317. <p>Another episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire?contentProgram=Friendly%20Fire%20%7C%20Tonight%207pm%20ET&amp;contentType=Show&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">Friendly Fire</a> drops on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. ET.</p>
  1318. <p><a href="https://get.dailywire.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>JOIN DAILYWIRE+ TO STREAM THESE TITLES &amp; MORE. 40% OFF ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS DURING THE FALL SALE</b></a></p>
  1319. <p>Don’t miss other recent DailyWire+ releases, including:</p>
  1320. <ul>
  1321. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-b2-bomber">How to Win a War in 37 Hours</a>,&#8221; a behind-the-scenes look at the top-secret operation that dismantled the Iranian nuclear program.</li>
  1322. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-pope-and-the-fuhrer-the-secret-vatican-files-of-world-war-ii">The Pope and the Führer: The Secret Vatican Files of World War II</a>,&#8221; a 4-part series hosted by Michael Knowles exploring the Pope, Hitler, and the Holocaust from a perspective you’ve never seen before.</li>
  1323. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/journey-to-the-ufc-joe-pyfer">Journey to the UFC: Joe Pyfer</a>,&#8221; a documentary that follows Joe Pyfer’s experiences with homelessness, a toxic family life, and numerous injuries as he made his way to UFC stardom.</li>
  1324. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/ben-after-dark">Ben After Dark</a>,&#8221; a late-night show hosted by Ben Shapiro, featuring unscreened guests, unsolicited opinions, and unchecked sarcasm.</li>
  1325. </ul>
  1326. <p><a href="https://get.dailywire.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>JOIN DAILYWIRE+ TO STREAM THESE TITLES &amp; MORE. 40% OFF ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS DURING THE FALL SALE</b><b> </b></a></p>
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  1329.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:39 GMT</pubDate>
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  1333.      <title>U.S. Takes Out 14 ‘Narco-Terrorists’ In Pacific Drug Boat Strikes</title>
  1334.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-takes-out-14-narco-terrorists-in-pacific-drug-boat-strikes</link>
  1335.      <dc:creator>Leif Le Mahieu</dc:creator>
  1336.      <description>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the United States military took out four more narco-trafficking boats through kinetic strikes in the Eastern Pacific, leaving 14 suspected drug traffickers dead.  Hegseth said that the strikes took place in international waters on Monday and were authorized by President Donald Trump. The boats were operated by ...</description>
  1337.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the United States military took out four more narco-trafficking boats through kinetic strikes in the Eastern Pacific, leaving 14 suspected drug traffickers dead. </span></p>
  1338. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hegseth said that the strikes took place in international waters on Monday and were authorized by President Donald Trump. The boats were operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTOs), Hegseth said. </span></p>
  1339. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics,” Hegseth wrote on X. “A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed during the three strikes, with one survivor. All strikes were in international waters with no U.S. forces harmed.”</span></p>
  1340. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
  1341. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific.</p>
  1342. <p>The four vessels were known by our intelligence… <a href="https://t.co/UhoFlZ3jPG">pic.twitter.com/UhoFlZ3jPG</a></p>
  1343. <p>— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecWar/status/1983164355999883548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1344. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1345. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There were eight male “narco-terrorists” on board the first boat, four on the second, and three on the third, according to Hegseth. He added that Mexican search-and-rescue authorities had assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue of the survivor from the third boat. It was not specified which DTOs were targeted. </span></p>
  1346. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we’re defending our own,” Hegseth said. “These narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same. We will track them, we will network them, and then, we will hunt and kill them.”</span></p>
  1347. <p data-start="1033" data-end="1522"><b>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to </b><a href="http://dailywire.com/Subscribe" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>DailyWire.com/Subscribe</b></a><b> to join now.</b></p>
  1348. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Trump’s direction, the military has taken out dozens of suspected drug-runners throughout the Caribbean Sea and expanded strikes into the Pacific. Two survivors of previous strikes were repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador, where American authorities recommended they face prosecution for drug trafficking. </span></p>
  1349. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Friday, Hegseth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-deploys-largest-aircraft-carrier-to-south-america-as-trump-hints-at-land-strikes-against-cartels?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=U.S.+Deploys+Largest+Aircraft+Carrier+To+South+America+As+Trump+Hints+At+Land+Strikes+Against+Cartels">dispatched</a> the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group toward South America to aid in efforts to fight drug trafficking in the region. </span></p>
  1350. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The enhanced U.S. force presence … will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. “These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs [Transnational Criminal Organizations].”</span></p>
  1351. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have expressed concern about Trump’s strikes on suspected drug runners, arguing that Congress must grant approval before the administration uses the military to target suspected narco-terrorists in international waters. Trump has said that he doesn’t need a declaration of war to target those he says are bringing drugs into the country.</span></p>
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  1354.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  1358.      <title>Erika Kirk’s Viral Video Shows Daughter’s Reaction To TPUSA Poster: ‘I See Daddy’</title>
  1359.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/erika-kirks-viral-video-shows-daughters-reaction-to-tpusa-poster-i-see-daddy</link>
  1360.      <dc:creator>Amanda Harding</dc:creator>
  1361.      <description>Erika Kirk shared a heartbreaking video of her young daughter visiting Turning Point USA’s offices and joyfully recognizing images of her father, slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The widowed mother of two shared the short clip on her Instagram account. In it, her daughter is in a moving car and excitedly says, “I see daddy! ...</description>
  1362.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erika Kirk shared a heartbreaking video of her young daughter visiting Turning Point USA’s offices and joyfully recognizing images of her father, slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.</p>
  1363. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The widowed mother of two shared the short clip on her Instagram account. In it, her daughter is in a moving car and excitedly says, “I see daddy! Charlie Kirk,” when she sees his image on a poster. </span></p>
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  1401. <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/DQU6U9DkhVj/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by E. (@mrserikakirk)</a></p>
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  1403. </blockquote>
  1404. <p><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p>
  1405. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Erika reflected on the moment in the post caption, writing, “Her… saying your name, as she witnesses all you’ve built and continue to build, proves that love never dies, just changes form. It breathes through our children. This is her legacy also.&#8221;</span></p>
  1406. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She continued, “And as she grows up and continues to say your name, I’ll be reminding her that each time Heaven leans in to listen.&#8221;</span></p>
  1407. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I love you Charlie baby, I’m so proud of you,” she concluded. “We all are so proud of you.&#8221;</span></p>
  1408. <p>The post quickly gained traction on social media, with many supporters offering prayers and words of comfort for the Kirk family as they navigate the unimaginable loss.</p>
  1409. <p><strong>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire.com/Subscribe</a> to join now.</strong></p>
  1410. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I can hardly watch this video. They took this sweet baby&#8217;s dad &amp; it&#8217;s inevitable that one day she&#8217;ll see the graphic video of how,” women’s sports defender and two-time NCAA All-American swimmer Riley Gaines wrote in response. “Continued prayers for Charlie&#8217;s family.”</span></p>
  1411. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s the same gut punch all over again. I don’t know how she does it. Takes a great deal of strength that I can’t even imagine,” another comment </span><a href="https://x.com/ChoooCole/status/1982988550724567084"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
  1412. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Oh my this just shatters my heart,” a third person </span><a href="https://x.com/daniel_dinoia/status/1982941911657918498"><span style="font-weight: 400;">replied</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Never stop praying for this beautiful family.” </span></p>
  1413. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a college event in Utah in September. The Turning Point USA founder was shot in the neck before being rushed to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.</span></p>
  1414. <p>Earlier this month, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.</p>
  1415. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We’re here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty, a beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like nobody I’ve ever seen before, and an American patriot of the deepest conviction,&#8221; Trump said during the event in the Rose Garden on October 14,  which would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday. &#8220;He was a champion in every way.&#8221;</span></p>
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  1418.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:26:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  1422.      <title>Trump’s ‘Hot Truck’ Becomes Symbol Of Japan Trade Talks</title>
  1423.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-hot-truck-becomes-symbol-of-japan-trade-talks</link>
  1424.      <dc:creator>Reuters and Daily Wire News</dc:creator>
  1425.      <description>TOKYO — Long associated with American ruggedness, pickup trucks such as Ford&amp;#8217;s top-selling F-150 have now become a symbol of international trade talks, showing how far countries such as Japan will go to win over U.S. President Donald Trump. When Trump met Japan&amp;#8217;s new prime minister and first female premier, Sanae Takaichi, in Tokyo on ...</description>
  1426.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TOKYO — Long associated with American ruggedness, pickup trucks such as Ford&#8217;s top-selling F-150 have now become a symbol of international trade talks, showing how far countries such as Japan will go to win over U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
  1427. <p>When Trump met Japan&#8217;s new prime minister and first female premier, Sanae Takaichi, in Tokyo on Tuesday, an F-150 was parked prominently outside the Akasaka Palace venue.</p>
  1428. <p>Burly U.S. pickup trucks are a rare sight in the Japanese capital, where the streets are narrow and turns can be tight.</p>
  1429. <p>But the placement of the F-150, which is not typically available for sale in Japan, sent a clear message about Tokyo&#8217;s willingness to buy more cars from its ally, an issue that has been a sticking point for Trump for decades.</p>
  1430. <p>Last week, Reuters reported that Takaichi&#8217;s government was working on a package to buy F-150 trucks, an idea originally floated by Trump, as well as soybeans and gas.</p>
  1431. <p>&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s great. She has good taste,&#8221; Trump told reporters on Air Force One, when asked about the report. &#8220;That’s a hot truck.&#8221;</p>
  1432. <p>In August, Trump said Japan was ready to purchase the &#8220;very beautiful&#8221; F-150.</p>
  1433. <p>It was not clear how many F-150s Japan planned to buy.</p>
  1434. <p>Japanese government sources have told Reuters the trucks would probably end up being used as snow plows, given their size.</p>
  1435. <p>Japan and Europe, Trump has often argued, refuse to accept U.S. cars even as Japanese and European automakers sell millions of their vehicles each year in the United States.</p>
  1436. <p>The F-150 won&#8217;t be the first American car brought in to Japan to help ease trade friction. Three decades ago, Toyota responded to U.S. pressure by selling a mid-sized General Motors car under its own brand in Japan.</p>
  1437. <p>The Toyota Cavalier was introduced with much fanfare, sold poorly, and quietly faded after a few years, said John Shook, a former Toyota manager and an auto industry veteran in both Japan and the United States.</p>
  1438. <p>A third of the 3.7 million new cars sold in Japan last year were mini or &#8220;kei&#8221; cars, tiny vehicles that are not produced by American automakers.</p>
  1439. <p>Foreign cars accounted for 6% of new car sales overall, with European brands among some of the top sellers, industry data showed, while Ford itself pulled out of Japan almost a decade ago.</p>
  1440. <p>Separately, Trump said Toyota would open auto plants in the United States to the tune of $10 billion.</p>
  1441. <p>A Toyota spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on Trump&#8217;s remarks.</p>
  1442. <p>(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and David Dolan; Additional reporting by Maki Shiraki; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Ros Russell)</p>
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  1445.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:18:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  1449.      <title>‘Meritless Hoax’: Trump Asks Appeals Court To Throw Out Hush-Money Conviction</title>
  1450.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/meritless-hoax-trump-asks-appeals-court-to-throw-out-hush-money-conviction</link>
  1451.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  1452.      <description>President Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court on Monday to overturn his felony conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, arguing that the trial &amp;#8220;was fatally marred&amp;#8221; by the prosecution using his official acts as president as evidence. Trump&amp;#8217;s lawyers submitted a 96-page legal filing, accusing the trial court of violating the evidentiary ...</description>
  1453.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court on Monday to overturn his felony conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, arguing that the trial &#8220;was fatally marred&#8221; by the prosecution using his official acts as president as evidence.</p>
  1454. <p>Trump&#8217;s lawyers submitted a 96-page <a href="https://static.politico.com/8b/9e/8663b7e849cf87d9220333fb3a36/2025-00648-people-of-the-state-of-v-people-of-the-state-of-appellant-s-brief-66.pdf">legal filing</a>, accusing the trial court of violating the evidentiary presidential immunity, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year &#8220;bars the &#8216;use of evidence about&#8217; a President’s official acts while in office.&#8221; The filing also argues that the district attorney used &#8220;a convoluted legal theory&#8221; to concoct a &#8220;purported felony,&#8221; and that the judge who oversaw the hush-money trial should have recused himself since he made political contributions to Democrats, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/donald-trump-appeal-hush-money-conviction-00624382?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nrid=00000172-d89e-d8b6-abff-fdff182b0000">reported</a>.</p>
  1455. <p>“President Trump’s legal team filed a powerhouse appeal in the Manhattan DA’s Witch Hunt, as the President continues his fight to put an end to the Radical Democrat Lawfare once and for all,&#8221; a spokesman for President Trump&#8217;s legal team said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Supreme Court’s historic decision on Immunity, the Federal and New York State Constitutions, and other established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately overturned and dismissed. President Trump will keep defeating Democrat weaponization at every turn as he focuses on his singular mission to Make America Great Again.”</p>
  1456. <p>If successful, the president&#8217;s appeal to the New York Supreme Court would erase his status as a convicted felon, after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on 34 counts of business fraud. The hush money case was brought by Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and the trial was overseen by Judge Juan Merchan, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-overseeing-trumps-hush-money-case-donated-to-bidens-2020-presidential-campaign">donated</a> to Democratic causes, including to former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 campaign.</p>
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  1458. <p>The hush money trial was held in the middle of Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign, with the May 30, 2024, conviction marking Trump as the first former president convicted of felony crimes.</p>
  1459. <p>&#8220;This is the most politically charged prosecution in our Nation’s history,&#8221; the legal filing begins. &#8220;After years of fruitless investigation into decade-old, baseless allegations—and under immense political pressure to criminally charge President Donald J. Trump for something—New York’s district attorney (DANY) manufactured felony charges against a once-former and now-sitting President of the United States.&#8221;</p>
  1460. <p>The case stemmed from Trump&#8217;s hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, which he made in 2016 to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006. Trump has maintained that he never had an affair with Daniels.</p>
  1461. <p>In Monday&#8217;s legal filing, Trump&#8217;s lawyers argue that prosecutors should have been prevented from pointing to conversations that were held between Trump and his former communications director, Hope Hicks, while Trump was in the White House. During the trial, the DA subpoenaed Hicks, who testified about conversations she held with Trump in the Oval Office, including a discussion she had with the president on “how he would like a team to respond to” a forthcoming Wall Street Journal story. Judge Merchan rejected the defense&#8217;s argument that the prosecution may not use Trump&#8217;s White House conversations as evidence. Weeks later, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling protecting presidential immunity in <em>Trump v. United States.</em></p>
  1462. <p>&#8220;The trial court erroneously held that President Trump’s communications with Hicks were not official because, in the court’s view, they were &#8216;about personal matters involving an alleged affair and a sexual encounter that occurred prior to [President Trump] taking . . . office,'&#8221; Trump&#8217;s legal team argued.</p>
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  1465.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:08:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  1469.      <title>ICE Faces Leadership Shakeup, Exposing Divide Among Trump Officials Over Deportation Goals</title>
  1470.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-faces-leadership-shakeup-exposing-divide-among-trump-officials-over-deportation-goals</link>
  1471.      <dc:creator>Jennie Taer</dc:creator>
  1472.      <description>Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing a massive leadership shakeup, exposing a major internal divide over the direction of President Donald Trump&amp;#8217;s mass deportation effort. ICE leadership in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Denver, El Paso, San Diego, Seattle/Portland, and New Orleans will be replaced with Border Patrol officials, according to sources familiar with the plan. ...</description>
  1473.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing a massive leadership shakeup, exposing a major internal divide over the direction of President Donald Trump&#8217;s mass deportation effort.</p>
  1474. <p>ICE leadership in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Denver, El Paso, San Diego, Seattle/Portland, and New Orleans will be replaced with Border Patrol officials, according to sources familiar with the plan.</p>
  1475. <p>An internal message informing Homeland Security personnel of the changes came from senior adviser Corey Lewandowski, whose role is temporary and similar to that of Elon Musk&#8217;s former position in the White House, sources said.</p>
  1476. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a s*** show &#8230; this is all Corey Lewandowski,&#8221; one source fumed. &#8220;He wants power.&#8221;</p>
  1477. <p>&#8220;Noem isn&#8217;t even in control, it&#8217;s all Corey,&#8221; the source added.</p>
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  1479. <div id="attachment_75114" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-75114" class="wp-image-75114 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/GettyImages-1175378124.jpg" alt="Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill September 17, 2019 in Washington, DC." width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/GettyImages-1175378124.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/GettyImages-1175378124-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/GettyImages-1175378124-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-75114" class="wp-caption-text">Corey Lewandowski serves as a special government employee at DHS (Alex Wong/Getty Images)</p></div>
  1480. <p>Lewandowski is at odds with Trump&#8217;s Border Czar Tom Homan and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons over the mass deportation targets, sources said. Homan and Lyons want more criminals arrested, while Lewandowski is only concerned with increasing numbers.</p>
  1481. <p>Border Patrol has largely made arrests during sweeps of Home Depot parking lots and car washes, facing legal backlash for the operations.</p>
  1482. <p>Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino is set to testify in a federal court in Chicago after he allegedly used tear gas on anti-ICE agitators in possible violation of a court order.</p>
  1483. <p>They&#8217;re &#8220;used to being on the border&#8221; and don&#8217;t have as much experience &#8220;working in the community,&#8221; where they must &#8220;build relationships&#8221; and develop intelligence to target the worst of the worst, said a source.</p>
  1484. <p>However, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on X that &#8220;this is one team, one fight,&#8221; adding that Miller, Homan, Lyons, Bovino, Lewandowski, and ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan are &#8220;patriots who wake up every day to make this country and its people safer.&#8221;</p>
  1485. <p>&#8220;President Trump has a brilliant, tenacious team led by @Sec_Noem to deliver on the American people’s mandate to remove criminal illegal aliens from this country,&#8221; McLaughlin wrote.</p>
  1486. <p>&#8220;As we said, we have no personnel changes to announce right now but we remain laser focused on RESULTS and we will deliver,&#8221; she added.</p>
  1487. <div id="attachment_992229" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992229" class="wp-image-992229 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1707" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2222293764-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /><p id="caption-attachment-992229" class="wp-caption-text">Lewandowski is seen seated next to Noem during a meeting with the president of Guatemala in June. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</p></div>
  1488. <p>Questions have also arisen about Lewandowski&#8217;s ability to call any shots at DHS, since his role has a 130-day limit.</p>
  1489. <p>By mid-August, Lewandowski, who served as Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, had logged 69 days, DHS <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/14/us-news/lewandowski-has-only-worked-69-days-under-noem-with-61-still-to-go-dhs-says-after-concerns-over-his-special-status/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
  1490. <p>Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/white-house-dhs-lewandowski-noem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in August that Lewandowski was serving as Noem&#8217;s &#8220;de facto chief of staff&#8221; who &#8220;has gamed the system by undercounting his work hours to avoid leaving his unpaid job when he should have.&#8221;</p>
  1491. <p>This reporter observed Lewandowski introduce himself to officials in ICE&#8217;s Phoenix office as &#8220;chief of staff&#8221; while on a ride-along with Noem.</p>
  1492. <p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hearing that Corey&#8217;s doing everything — failing to swipe in, working from home, whatever — to undercount his days. It&#8217;s fair to say his work is being watched now,&#8221; a White House official told Axios.</p>
  1493. <p>&#8220;He&#8217;s lying about his special government employee status 100%,&#8221; a source told The Daily Wire.</p>
  1494. <p>DHS, however, dismissed the claims.</p>
  1495. <p>“Such an allegation that Mr. Lewandowski is using other people&#8217;s email and phones is categorically FALSE and bizarre,&#8221; McLaughlin told The Daily Wire.</p>
  1496. <p>&#8220;Mr. Lewandowski is a Special Government Employee. Mr. Lewandowski’s time is kept by a career DHS employee who submits the paperwork on a bi-weekly basis. He has completed all of the required Office of Government Ethics forms, including a full financial disclosure and any investments by his family. Mr. Lewandowski does not receive a salary or any federal government benefits. He volunteers his time to serve the American people. He serves as an advisor. The Secretary, like all previous Secretaries, has various senior advisors,&#8221; she added.</p>
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  1499.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:07:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  1503.      <title>New Japanese Prime Minister Vows Stronger Defense As Trump Hails ‘Cherished Alliance’</title>
  1504.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-japanese-prime-minister-vows-stronger-defense-as-trump-hails-cherished-alliance</link>
  1505.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  1506.      <description>Newly elected conservative Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to hold that position, vowed to increase her country&amp;#8217;s defense and security commitments during a meeting with President Donald Trump on the USS George Washington in Japan on Tuesday. Takaichi joined Trump on the massive U.S. aircraft carrier in front of around 6,000 U.S. ...</description>
  1507.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newly elected conservative Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to hold that position, vowed to increase her country&#8217;s defense and security commitments during a meeting with President Donald Trump on the <em>USS George Washington</em> in Japan on Tuesday.</p>
  1508. <p>Takaichi joined Trump on the massive U.S. aircraft carrier in front of around 6,000 U.S. service members as Trump continued his week-long Asia tour, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/trump-hails-golden-era-in-japan-relations-63888687?mod=hp_lead_pos5">reported</a>.</p>
  1509. <p>&#8220;As the two commanders-in-chief of Japan and the United States stand together once again, I have renewed my determination &#8230; to make the Indo-Pacific free and open so that it will serve as the foundation of peace and prosperity for the entire region,&#8221; Takaichi <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983075074174238770">told</a> the crowd of U.S. military members. &#8220;Now, we are facing an unprecedented severe security environment. Peace cannot be preserved by words alone. It can be protected only when there is unwavering determination and action.&#8221;</p>
  1510. <p>Trump praised Takaichi, whom he called &#8220;a winner,&#8221; and said, “The cherished alliance between the United States and Japan is one of the most remarkable relationships in the entire world.&#8221;</p>
  1511. <p>&#8220;Born out of the ashes of a terrible war, our bond has grown over eight decades into the beautiful friendship that we have,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;It&#8217;s the foundation of peace and security in the Pacific.&#8221;</p>
  1512. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">
  1513. <p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;This woman is a winner!&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> welcomes Japanese Prime Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/takaichi_sanae?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@takaichi_sanae</a> on stage aboard the USS George Washington. <a href="https://t.co/rzOsyQNPd8">pic.twitter.com/rzOsyQNPd8</a></p>
  1514. <p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983073765803131230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1515. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1516. <p>Trump also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-says-missiles-japans-f-35s-arrive-this-week-during-visit-uss-george-washington">said</a> on Tuesday that he had just approved a &#8220;batch of missiles&#8221; for Japan&#8217;s F-35 fighter jets, which are set to arrive later this week. The president has been pushing U.S. allies worldwide to boost their defense spending as he seeks more favorable trade deals and security arrangements for the United States.</p>
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  1518. <p>Last week, during Takaichi&#8217;s inaugural address as prime minister, she vowed to ramp up Japan&#8217;s defense spending more quickly. Instead of increasing defense spending to 2% of the country&#8217;s gross domestic product by 2027, Takaichi said she wants to jump to 2% by the end of the upcoming fiscal year in March, The Wall Street Journal reported. Japan currently spends 1.4% of its GDP on defense.</p>
  1519. <p>Japan&#8217;s new leader made the security spending promises as the United States and its allies face the continued Chinese threat in the region. Trump is set to meet with Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping on Thursday in South Korea, where he hopes to nail down a trade deal.</p>
  1520. <p>The Trump administration is also seeking to secure rare earth mineral supply chains to counter China&#8217;s stranglehold on critical minerals. Trump and Takaichi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-trump-trade-wins-u-s-and-japan-strike-rare-earth-pact-announce-strategic-investment-deal?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=More+Trump+Trade+Wins%3A+U.S.+And+Japan+Strike+Rare+Earth+Pact%2C+Announce+Strategic+Investment+Deal">announced</a> on Tuesday that they had reached a rare earth deal, which establishes a mutual stockpiling arrangement and stipulates that the United States and Japan will cooperate with international partners to protect the supply chain.</p>
  1521. <p>Japan and the United States also released a list of proposed projects to boost Japanese investment in the U.S. economy by more than $500 billion. The proposed investments included projects in the energy and artificial intelligence sectors.</p>
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  1524.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:50:30 GMT</pubDate>
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  1528.      <title>How Can The World Still Deny Nigeria’s Christian Genocide?</title>
  1529.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-can-the-world-still-deny-nigerias-christian-genocide</link>
  1530.      <dc:creator>Brad Brandon</dc:creator>
  1531.      <description>The Christian genocide happening in Nigeria has finally started to come to light. After 10 years of working amid the violence, I have never seen more attention drawn to this crisis than right now. Recently, the media, government, and religious institutions seem to be waking up and finally getting the message that there is a systematic ...</description>
  1532.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Christian genocide happening in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nigeria">Nigeria</a> has finally started to come to light. After 10 years of </span><a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">working</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> amid the violence, I have never seen more attention drawn to this crisis than right now.</span></p>
  1533. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recently, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the media, government, and religious institutions</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> seem to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-exposes-nigerias-christian-genocide-in-47-seconds?author=Brad+Brandon&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Bill+Maher+Exposes+Nigeria%E2%80%99s+Christian+Genocide+In+47+Seconds">waking up</a> and finally getting the message that there is a systematic targeting of Christians in Nigeria, particularly in the Northern regions. These areas are approximately 90% Muslim and largely controlled by Boko Haram, ISIS-WA (ISWAP), and various other </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-silent-slaughter-inside-nigerias-christian-persecution-crisis"><span style="font-weight: 400;">terrorist groups</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  1534. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of right now, Nigeria is the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian. More Christians are killed every year in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world. In fact, of all those martyred for their faith in the entire world, </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-silent-slaughter-inside-nigerias-christian-persecution-crisis"><span style="font-weight: 400;">70% were killed in Nigeria</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In the first 220 days of 2025, over 7,000 Christians were killed in Northern Nigeria.</span></p>
  1535. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a part of the world where </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-silent-slaughter-inside-nigerias-christian-persecution-crisis"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christians are second-class citizens</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. They often are not allowed access to food, clean water, and medical treatment, simply because they are Christians.</span></p>
  1536. <div id="attachment_939723" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-939723" class="size-large wp-image-939723" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2210691166-864x576.jpg" alt="A worshipper prays as she attends a mass at Church of the Assumption in Lagos on April 21, 2025. African leaders praised the &quot;legacy of compassion&quot; and &quot;commitment to inclusivity&quot; of Pope Francis as they joined global mourning over his death on Monday. Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died aged 88. The chairman of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, praised &quot;the Pope's courageous engagement with the African continent, amplifying the voices of the voiceless, championing peace and reconciliation, and standing in solidarity with those affected by conflict and poverty&quot;. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2210691166-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2210691166-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2210691166-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2210691166.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-939723" class="wp-caption-text">OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images</p></div>
  1537. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, when the </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/edengordonmedia/july-29-brad-brandon-across-nigeria-yelwata-massacre-200-christians-murdered"><span style="font-weight: 400;">village of Yelwata</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was violently attacked, 250 Christians were killed in a single night. The media largely ignored the massacre, and no one was held accountable. There were no arrests, no prosecutions. It was as though nothing happened. I visited Yelwata shortly after the attack. One man, who lost 20 members of his family in the violence, described Muslims setting fire to homes and shooting women and children as they tried to escape the flames.</span></p>
  1538. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After working in Northern Nigeria for so long, I knew this was far from an isolated event, and it was just a matter of time before the next massacre took place. I also knew that as soon as the truth about what’s happening to Christians in Nigeria came to light in America, the genocide deniers would start to emerge.</span></p>
  1539. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shortly after Bill Maher’s </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-exposes-nigerias-christian-genocide-in-47-seconds?author=Brad+Brandon&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Bill+Maher+Exposes+Nigeria%E2%80%99s+Christian+Genocide+In+47+Seconds"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clip went viral</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, prominent and trusted </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-christian-killings-claims-ted-cruz-insecurity-e9d2fb7ae02bd3169194fb60872bb3d4"><span style="font-weight: 400;">media outlets</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> as well as Nigerian government </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/2/no-bill-maher-there-is-no-christian-genocide-in-nigeria"><span style="font-weight: 400;">officials</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> began vehemently </span><a href="https://www.arise.tv/christians-muslim-leaders-unite-to-refute-us-genocide-claim-in-nigeria/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">refuting the claims</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
  1540. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nigeria’s Foreign Minister called it a </span><a href="https://punchng.com/false-genocide-claims-threaten-nigerias-global-image-minister/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNnAyhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFZZDFaUDI4WktjODlzQkRUAR6M8Zo7XUMIpTqH8Mz_C8qpBcl22mRk1aR1peN4iVuxFYkLoN6ut4N12b_XZQ_aem_EWmRYzEx9RSR6Iox3QRocg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“gross misrepresentation,”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> saying that such claims are a threat to Nigeria’s global image and to foreign investments. Because nothing says “we’re not committing genocide” like whining about bad press and lost investment funds.</span></p>
  1541. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Sen. Ted Cruz introduced the “</span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2747"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2025</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” the Nigerian government doubled down, claiming it was merely a crisis of narrative. They maintain that Muslims are being killed in the violence as well, which means that claims of a “Christian genocide” are unfounded.</span></p>
  1542. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As in all things, the best lies are partial truths. Yes, Muslims are being killed alongside Christians. However, the number of Muslim deaths when compared to Christian deaths is grossly disproportionate, and many of the Muslims killed are a result of collateral damage during targeted attacks on Christians. Also, Muslims who do not hold the radical beliefs of Boko Haram and other terrorist groups are targeted as well.</span></p>
  1543. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media outlets like Al Jazeera featured op-eds saying “</span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/2/no-bill-maher-there-is-no-christian-genocide-in-nigeria"><span style="font-weight: 400;">there is no Christian genocide</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” and “simplistic genocide claims fuel propaganda.” More frustrating, </span><a href="https://von.gov.ng/u-s-presidential-advisor-dismisses-religious-persecution-claims-in-nigeria/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Massad Boulos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a Muslim and Senior Advisor to President Trump on Arab and African affairs, has dismissed the claims as well.</span></p>
  1544. <div id="attachment_992269" style="width: 873px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992269" class="size-large wp-image-992269" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-863x576.jpg" alt="Kajdi Szabolcs. Getty Images. Source: &quot;World reference atlas&quot;" width="863" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-863x576.jpg 863w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-768x513.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-187791736-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px" /><p id="caption-attachment-992269" class="wp-caption-text">Kajdi Szabolcs. Getty Images. Source: “World reference atlas”</p></div>
  1545. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Genocide denial, like genocide itself, is nothing new.</span></p>
  1546. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During World War II, Holocaust deniers actively dismissed the claims that Jews were being targeted. Even now, the Jewish Holocaust has deniers who still actively propagate the idea that the intentional and targeted imprisonment, torture, starvation, and execution of over 6 million European Jews (plus another 6 million “undesirables”) ever took place.</span></p>
  1547. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 1970s, international media and governments denied that there was genocide happening in Cambodia under Pol Pot. Even during the Rwandan genocide, the world was told that the Tutsi people were not being targeted for mutilation, sexual abuse, and execution.</span></p>
  1548. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We now know those denials were categorically false.</span></p>
  1549. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During every genocide throughout history, we were told, like Dorothy and her crew in the “Wizard of Oz,” “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” It’s a convenient way for those who are committing genocide to continue their violence and persecution under the cover of darkness. Genocide deniers always take the same approach and tell us to ignore what we see and just believe what they say.</span></p>
  1550. <h3><strong>WATCH: The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown confronts the genocide in Nigeria head-on:</strong></h3>
  1551. <p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Nigeria’s Silent Genocide: 7,000 Christians Killed This Year &amp; Why NO ONE’s Talking About It" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HiIxRUHhsDM?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>
  1552. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As someone who has seen it with my own eyes and lived it for many years, I’d find the deniers of the Nigerian genocide claims laughable if it weren’t so horrible. There is a concerted effort to wipe out the Christian population in Northern Nigeria. I have stood at the mass graves. I have buried my friends. I have prayed with the grieving widow who begs God for the salvation of her husband’s murderer.</span></p>
  1553. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All the while, we are being told not to believe what we see and to blindly believe what we’re told.</span></p>
  1554. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just last week, a delegation of American fact finders was invited by Nigeria’s National Security Advisor to investigate allegations of persecution against Christians.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> What <a href="https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/21/american-fact-finding-team-confirms-religious-killings-nigeria-group-makes">they found</a> should surprise no one. Their fact-finding mission confirmed what those of us who live it already know. Their findings substantiate the claims of the ongoing persecution and slaughter of Christians in Nigeria. The investigators went so far as to say it is “a calculated and long-running genocide.”</span></p>
  1555. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The genocide is real. It is calculated. And it’s been going on for a long time. Now, it’s time for all of America to stop burying our heads in the sand. The world has stood by and watched genocide happen time and again, without taking action. This is our opportunity to stop the genocide of Christians now, before it’s too late.</span></p>
  1556. <p>* * *</p>
  1557. <p><a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/ourfounder"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brad Brandon</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the founder and CEO of </span></i><a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Across Nigeria</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Since 2018, he has been actively serving in the foreign mission field. He serves predominantly in high-risk, highly persecuted areas like Northern Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. Through Pastor Brad and the </span></i><a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Across Nigeria</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> team, ground-breaking work is being done to bring the gospel into areas with the most intense opposition. His passion is to reach people in these areas with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to help persecuted Christians who live under the constant threat of violence because of their faith in Christ.</span></i></p>
  1558. <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></em></p>
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  1562.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:42:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  1566.      <title>STORM OF THE CENTURY: Hurricane Melissa Set To Slam Jamaica With Record-Breaking Power</title>
  1567.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/storm-of-the-century-hurricane-melissa-set-to-slam-jamaica-with-record-breaking-power</link>
  1568.      <dc:creator>Reuters</dc:creator>
  1569.      <description>GENEVA (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa was expected to bring catastrophe as it makes landfall in Jamaica with storm surges, flash floods and landslides in the worst storm to hit the Caribbean island this century, a U.N. weather official said on Tuesday. The Category 5 storm, the strongest possible on the Saffir-Simpson scale, will bring wind gusts ...</description>
  1570.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GENEVA (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa was expected to bring catastrophe as it makes landfall in Jamaica with storm surges, flash floods and landslides in the worst storm to hit the Caribbean island this century, a U.N. weather official said on Tuesday.</p>
  1571. <p>The Category 5 storm, the strongest possible on the Saffir-Simpson scale, will bring wind gusts of over 186 miles per hour and widespread devastation to the island, where authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations.</p>
  1572. <p>&#8220;It’s a catastrophic situation expected in Jamaica,&#8221; the World Meteorological Organization&#8217;s tropical cyclone specialist Anne-Claire Fontan told a Geneva press briefing. &#8220;For Jamaica, it will be the storm of the century for sure.&#8221;</p>
  1573. <p>Storm surges of up to four meters were expected, she said, with rainfall set to exceed 70 cm (2.3 ft), causing &#8220;catastrophic flash flooding and landslides,&#8221; she said.</p>
  1574. <p>The U.S. National Hurricane Center expects the storm to hit Jamaica early on Tuesday, and then cross eastern Cuba to move over the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos by Wednesday.</p>
  1575. <p>STORM INTENSIFIED ON APPROACH</p>
  1576. <p>Melissa&#8217;s slow movement over unusually tepid Caribbean water had contributed to its ballooning size and strength, NHC forecasters said, threatening Jamaica with days of never-before-seen catastrophic winds and rain.</p>
  1577. <p>The International Federation of the Red Cross said up to 1.5 million in Jamaica were expected to be directly affected by the storm.</p>
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  1579. <p>&#8220;Today will be very difficult for tens of thousands, if not millions of people in Jamaica,&#8221; IFRC&#8217;s Necephor Mghendi said via video link from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.</p>
  1580. <p>&#8220;Roofs will be tested, flood waters will rise, isolation will become a harsh reality for many.&#8221;</p>
  1581. <p>To enable swift relief distribution, essential items — tarpaulins, hygiene kits, blankets and safe drinking water — had been pre-positioned in Red Cross branches on the island, he said, with over 800 shelters set up for evacuees.</p>
  1582. <p>&#8216;A DIRE SITUATION UNFOLDING IN SLOW MOTION&#8217;</p>
  1583. <p>On Monday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness ordered mandatory evacuations for parts of southern Jamaica, including the historic town of Port Royal.</p>
  1584. <p>He warned of damage to farmlands, homes and infrastructure on the island, which is roughly the size of Connecticut and whose main airports sit close to sea level.</p>
  1585. <p>&#8220;There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,&#8221; he said.</p>
  1586. <p>Holness said his government was as prepared as can be, with an emergency response budget of $33 million and insurance and credit provisions for damage a little larger than that sustained from last year&#8217;s devastating Hurricane Beryl.</p>
  1587. <p>Beryl was the earliest and fastest Atlantic hurricane on record to reach Category 5, but scientists warn that storms are becoming stronger faster as a result of climate change warming ocean waters.</p>
  1588. <p>&#8220;Slow-moving major hurricanes often go down in history as some of the deadliest and most destructive storms on record,&#8221; said AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter. &#8220;This is a dire situation unfolding in slow motion.&#8221;</p>
  1589. <p>&#8216;WE CAN&#8217;T MOVE&#8217;</p>
  1590. <p>Damian Anderson, a teacher from Hagley Gap, a town nestled in Jamaica&#8217;s Blue Mountains, said on Monday impassable roads had already cut off his community.</p>
  1591. <p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t move,&#8221; Anderson, 47, said. &#8220;We&#8217;re scared. We&#8217;ve never seen a multi-day event like this before.&#8221;</p>
  1592. <p>Nearby Haiti and the Dominican Republic have faced days of torrential downpours leading to at least four deaths, authorities said.</p>
  1593. <p>“Melissa will continue to track towards South Cuba and then the Bahamas, bringing again, a lot of rain and destructive wind as well as storm surges,” said the WMO&#8217;s Fontan.</p>
  1594. <p>Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis ordered evacuations for people in the southern and eastern parts of the archipelago.</p>
  1595. <p>In Cuba, authorities said they had evacuated upwards of 500,000 people from areas vulnerable to winds and flooding.</p>
  1596. <p>(Reporting by Emma Farge in Geneva, Zahra Burton in Kingston, Dave Sherwood in Havana and Sarah Morland in Mexico City; editing by Kirsti Knolle, Ros Russell and Bernadette Baum)</p>
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  1599.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  1603.      <title>GOP Targets Biden’s Autopen Use – Pardons, Orders In Legal Jeopardy</title>
  1604.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-targets-bidens-autopen-use-pardons-orders-in-legal-jeopardy</link>
  1605.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  1606.      <description>House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has unleashed what may be the most scathing Republican report yet on Joe Biden’s presidency — accusing the former president’s aides of orchestrating a cover-up of his mental decline and suggesting that key executive actions, including pardons, may not even be legally valid. In a blistering 100-page report, ...</description>
  1607.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p data-start="260" data-end="584">House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has unleashed what may be the most scathing Republican report yet on Joe Biden’s presidency — accusing the former president’s aides of orchestrating a cover-up of his mental decline and suggesting that key executive actions, including pardons, may not even be legally valid.</p>
  1608. <p data-start="586" data-end="991">In a blistering <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-unleashes-biden-demands-doj-probe-autopen-use-scathing-new-report">100-page report</a>, the GOP majority on the Oversight Committee charged that Biden’s inner circle “hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office” as his cognitive faculties waned. The report claims that staffers relied on an autopen to sign documents, executive orders, and pardons without confirming that Biden himself had made or even understood the decisions.</p>
  1609. <p data-start="993" data-end="1286">“Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides—at the direction of the inner circle—hid the truth,” the report declares. It concludes that any actions taken without Biden’s clear personal authorization “do not carry the force of law and should be considered void.”</p>
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  1611. <p data-start="1288" data-end="1746">That statement represents a seismic escalation in the House GOP’s confrontation with the Biden legacy. Comer and his allies are urging the Department of Justice to conduct a “comprehensive review” of every executive action Biden signed from January 20, 2021, through January 19, 2025 — especially acts of clemency. The report pointedly suggests that if Biden lacked awareness or intent in granting those pardons, Congress or the courts could deem them invalid.</p>
  1612. <p data-start="1288" data-end="1746">With the report’s release, Comer and House Republicans are signaling that they may go further — potentially moving to void or challenge Biden’s executive acts, particularly his controversial pardons. That could set the stage for an unprecedented legal and constitutional battle over whether a president’s diminished capacity can nullify his official decisions.</p>
  1613. <p data-start="1748" data-end="2096">The committee’s findings paint a portrait of chaos inside the Biden White House, citing what it calls a “haphazard documentation process” surrounding the flurry of last-minute pardons — including the extraordinary clemency Biden granted to his own family members, such as his son, Hunter, his brother, James, and two sisters, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and even members of the January 6th Committee, which included now-Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). <strong> </strong></p>
  1614. <p data-start="2098" data-end="2471">Particularly explosive are revelations that Hunter Biden, according to testimony from former Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, participated in pardon discussions involving his relatives. “Zients testified that President Biden included his son, Hunter Biden, in the decision-making process,” the report says — suggesting a conflict of interest unprecedented in presidential history.</p>
  1615. <p data-start="2473" data-end="2852">Comer also zeroed in on Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime physician, blasting him for invoking the Fifth Amendment during questioning and calling on the D.C. Board of Medicine to investigate whether O’Connor issued “false or misleading” medical reports. The committee accuses him of bowing to “political pressure” and participating in a “cover-up” of Biden’s health condition.</p>
  1616. <p data-start="2854" data-end="3116">Comer insists the evidence points to a coordinated deception. “The American people deserve to know who was actually calling the shots in the Biden White House,” he <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/landing/the-biden-autopen-presidency/?highlight=autopen">said</a>. “It wasn’t Joe Biden.”</p>
  1617. <p data-start="2854" data-end="3116">As Comer bluntly put it, “They propped up a man unfit to lead — and lied to the American people while doing it.”</p>
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  1621.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:51:34 GMT</pubDate>
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  1625.      <title>Trump: ‘We’ll Send More Than The National Guard’ To Keep Cities Safe</title>
  1626.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-well-send-more-than-the-national-guard-to-keep-cities-safe</link>
  1627.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  1628.      <description>Speaking aboard the USS George Washington at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, President Donald J. Trump delivered a thunderous message on combating crime in American cities. “We have cities that are troubled,” Trump declared, his tone equal parts steel and resolve. “And we’re sending in our National Guard — and if we need more ...</description>
  1629.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="421" data-end="989">Speaking aboard the USS George Washington at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, President Donald J. Trump delivered a thunderous message on combating crime in American cities.</p>
  1630. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We have cities that are troubled,” Trump declared, his tone equal parts steel and resolve. “And we’re sending in our National Guard — and if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more than the National Guard, because we’re gonna have safe cities. We’re not gonna have people killed in our cities. Whether people like that or not, that’s what we’re doing.”</p>
  1631. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="991" data-end="1520">In September, Chicago suffered one of the bloodiest Labor Day weekends in its recent history — nearly 60 shot, at least nine killed — under Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson’s watch. For the thirteenth straight year, Chicago topped the nation in homicides, with 572 murders in 2024 alone. Yet, instead of seeking help, Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker continued to defy federal offers of assistance. “Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis,” Pritzker had claimed, while insisting that “big cities have crime.”</p>
  1632. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="1522" data-end="1900">But the Trump administration wasn’t buying it. “Despite pleas from residents, city council members, and even MSNBC hosts,” the White House stated, “Governor Pritzker is too blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome to act in the best interest of his constituents.” Trump put it bluntly: “We’re going in. I didn’t say when we’re going in. This isn’t political — I have an obligation.”</p>
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  1634. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="1902" data-end="2526">By early October, that obligation took form. The War Department, under Secretary Pete Hegseth, authorized 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal agents and facilities under siege in Chicago. Pritzker immediately dubbed the move “Trump’s Invasion,” railing that “federalized members of the Illinois National Guard” were being deployed “against our wishes.” The administration responded that the troops would defend ICE agents and federal buildings under violent threat — a duty clearly allowed under 10 U.S.C. §12406, which authorizes the president to act when federal law cannot be executed by regular forces.</p>
  1635. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="2528" data-end="2866">“Everybody knows Chicago is a hellhole right now,” Trump said. “We’re going to straighten it out.” Operation Midway Blitz followed — a sweep that netted hundreds of illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds, including gang members and murderers. Meanwhile, the Texas National Guard began preparing to bolster the Illinois deployment.</p>
  1636. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="2868" data-end="3155">Trump didn’t stop there. As riots erupted in Portland, Oregon, he authorized the deployment of 200 California and Oregon National Guard members, describing cities like Portland and Chicago as “burning.” When a federal judge blocked the order, Trump fired back, calling the decision “shameful.”</p>
  1637. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="3157" data-end="3370">“I believe the politicians are under threat,” Trump said. “There’s no way someone can say things are wonderful in Chicago. We’re going to straighten it out. And I think Pritzker — he’s afraid for his life.”</p>
  1638. <p style="font-weight: 400;" data-start="3372" data-end="3557">Trump’s message from Japan was unmistakable: under his leadership, law and order will no longer be optional. “We’re gonna have safe cities,” he vowed. “Whether people like that or not.”</p>
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  1642.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:44:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  1646.      <title>More Of Mamdani’s Anti-NYPD, Anti-Israel Rhetoric Resurfaces As Critics Warn Of Dangerous Extremism</title>
  1647.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-of-mamdanis-anti-nypd-anti-israel-rhetoric-resurfaces-as-critics-warn-of-dangerous-extremism</link>
  1648.      <dc:creator>Hank Berrien</dc:creator>
  1649.      <description>Speaking in 2023, Zohran Mamdani&amp;#8217;s hyper-antisemitism, intertwined with his socialist contempt for police and the capitalist system, was amply displayed in a comment about the NYPD and Israel. Mamdani referred to the “boot of the NYPD” being on the neck of New York City residents, adding that the “boot” was “laced by the IDF.” In ...</description>
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  1651. <p>Speaking in 2023, Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s hyper-antisemitism, intertwined with his socialist contempt for police and the capitalist system, was amply displayed in a comment about the NYPD and Israel.</p>
  1652. </div>
  1653. <div>
  1654. <p>Mamdani referred to the “boot of the NYPD” being on the neck of New York City residents, adding that the “boot” was “laced by the IDF.”</p>
  1655. </div>
  1656. <div>
  1657. <p>In a gobbledygook statement that was redolent with his completely anti-Western views, Mamdani stated, “The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things that I’m actually calling for in the next board. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in the struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles. For anyone to care about these issues &#8230; We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it&#8217;s been laced by the IDF. We’re in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”</p>
  1658. </div>
  1659. <div>
  1660. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
  1661. <p lang="en" dir="ltr">September, 2023. </p>
  1662. <p>Zohran Mamdani: &quot;We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it&#39;s been laced by the IDF.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/sr8pQyKvCq">pic.twitter.com/sr8pQyKvCq</a></p>
  1663. <p>&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
  1664. <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
  1665. </div>
  1666. <div>
  1667. <p>In 2020, Mamdani <a href="https://news.meaww.com/zohran-mamdani-slammed-as-old-defund-police-stance-resurfaces-after-ny-cop-killed-in-manhattan-shooting?utm_source=chatgpt.com">wrote</a> on social media, &#8220;No, we want to defund the police,&#8221; &#8220;Queer liberation means defund the police,&#8221; and accused the NYPD of being &#8220;racist, anti-queer &amp; a major threat to public safety.&#8221; He later wrote, &#8220;There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked and corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence.&#8221;</p>
  1668. <p><strong>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire.com/Subscribe</a> to join now.</strong></p>
  1669. </div>
  1670. <div>
  1671. <p>In May 2025, Mamdani, who supports the BDS movement targeting Israel, <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/05/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-candidate-forum-uja-jcrc-ny-cuomo-jewish-israel/">refused to say</a> whether Israel had a right to exist as a Jewish state. He has <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-nyc-mayoral-frontrunner-zohran-mamdani-has-said-about-jews-and-israel/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">repeatedly referred</a> to Israel’s war against Hamas as a “genocide.”</p>
  1672. </div>
  1673. <div>
  1674. <p>Mamdani has sponsored a bill that would fine Jewish groups at least $1 million for donating to “unauthorized” charities operating in Israel. The legislation would ban Jewish synagogues and charities from donating to groups such as United Hatzalah and ZAK. These nonprofit groups specialize in emergency response and treatment of victims of terrorism, according to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-859627?dicbo=v2-puQTs4k#google_vignette">The Jerusalem Post</a>.</p>
  1675. </div>
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  1677. <p><i>Tim Pearce contributed to this article.</i></p>
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  1681.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:43:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  1685.      <title>Morning Brief: Shutdown Fallout Mounts &amp; Congress Probes Political Violence</title>
  1686.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-brief-shutdown-fallout-mounts-congress-probes-political-violence</link>
  1687.      <dc:creator>Morning Wire</dc:creator>
  1688.      <description>The consequences of the government shutdown rear their ugly heads, a congressional hearing to examine the origins of political violence, and Trump continues his Asia tour as the Left melts down over his East Wing renovations. It’s Tuesday, October 28, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s ...</description>
  1689.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The consequences of the government shutdown rear their ugly heads, a congressional hearing to examine the origins of political violence, and Trump continues his Asia tour as the Left melts down over his East Wing renovations.</span></p>
  1690. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s Tuesday, October 28, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251028">the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:</span></p>
  1691. <p><iframe style="width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;" src="https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shutdown-fallout-mounts-congress-probes-political-violence/id1576594336?i=1000733841804" height="175" frameborder="0" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe></p>
  1692. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Government Shutdown Repercussions</b></h2>
  1693. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-992091" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Shutdown-Turbulence-Builds-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Shutdown-Turbulence-Builds-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Shutdown-Turbulence-Builds-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Shutdown-Turbulence-Builds-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Shutdown-Turbulence-Builds-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Shutdown-Turbulence-Builds.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  1694. <p><b>Topline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The government shutdown is dragging on, and pressure is mounting on Democrats to end it.</span></p>
  1695. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About 13,000 air traffic controllers are set to miss their first paycheck on Tuesday, which is bound to make a bad situation significantly worse. Some reports say air traffic controllers are taking second jobs as DoorDash drivers to supplement their income.</span></p>
  1696. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roughly 18,700 flights were delayed on Sunday. On Monday, more than 3,000 flights were delayed, and more than 100 were canceled. Airports have become a flash point of the shutdown. Air traffic controllers and TSA agents were some of the first employees to see their pay disrupted, and Americans are generally united in hating flight delays.</span></p>
  1697. <p><b>Uh-oh, Democrats: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">A couple of major airline pilot unions last week called for an end to the shutdown, and that turned out to be only a precursor of what was to come. Now, the largest union representing 800,000 federal workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, has issued a statement calling for the Senate to pass a continuing resolution to end the shutdown.</span></p>
  1698. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Union President Everett Kelley said it&#8217;s time for leaders to focus on solving problems for the American people rather than on who is going to get the blame for the shutdown. He is calling for back pay for every single employee who has been forced to stay home.</span></p>
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  1700. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AFGE is a Democratic stalwart. It pushed to stop the Trump administration from making federal workers return to the office, it endorsed Joe Biden for president, and just last week, it blamed Trump and congressional Republicans for keeping the government closed. But while this statement doesn’t lay the blame on one party in particular, the union calls for a clean CR, which Republicans have put forward over a dozen times and Democrats keep rejecting.</span></p>
  1701. <p><b>Oh SNAP:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In addition to flight delays and organized labor turning against them, Democrats also have to contend with the fact that food stamps benefits will lapse starting on Friday.</span></p>
  1702. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The expiration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will impact 40 million people. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said on Monday that not only is this affecting airports, but that some states, such as his own, will now have to be forced to cut off SNAP benefits—an example of SNAP becoming one of the big talking points this week.</span></p>
  1703. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food stamps are not an explicitly partisan issue, and lawmakers from both parties will have to explain this disruption in benefits to their constituents. Democrats are working to shift the blame to Republicans. The California Department of Social Services is texting residents, blaming the imminent SNAP disruption on Trump and the GOP.</span></p>
  1704. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Republicans dismissed the attack, as California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is using taxpayer money to spread political propaganda. But each new disruption is likely going to hit Democrats harder than Republicans, increasing the likelihood that some members of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s caucus break ranks in the coming days.</span></p>
  1705. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Hearing On Politically Violent Attacks</b></h2>
  1706. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-992089" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Exposing-Political-Violence-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Exposing-Political-Violence-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Exposing-Political-Violence-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Exposing-Political-Violence-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Exposing-Political-Violence-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/Exposing-Political-Violence.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  1707. <p><b>Topline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The assassination of Charlie Kirk has prompted a congressional hearing for Tuesday, organized by </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), on &#8220;Politically Violent Attacks.” The hearing seeks to examine the origins of political violence and extremism, which have come mainly from the Left in recent years. </span></p>
  1708. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morning Wire spoke with Sen. Schmitt and Michael Knowles, host of “</span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Michael Knowles Show</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” on The Daily Wire, about the nature of political violence in the United States today. (The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.)</span></p>
  1709. <p><b>Morning Wire: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senator, you’ve organized this hearing, and this issue is obviously a high priority. What are the goals of the proceedings today?</span></p>
  1710. <p><b>Schmitt:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The assassination of Charlie Kirk brought left-wing political violence really front and center, and I think it needs to be exposed. This isn’t a one-off thing. This is sort of an ideology that’s taken hold now. When you have 25% of those who describe themselves as “very liberal” believe political violence is justified, over 55% of those on the left believe it&#8217;s at least somewhat justifiable to assassinate President Trump, there’s a problem. And I think if we’re ever going to get on the other side of this and get to healing – where we can say, free speech, yes, political violence, no – we have to expose the truth, which is that this is overwhelmingly coming from one side.</span></p>
  1711. <p><b>Morning Wire: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senator thanks for joining us. Among those testifying at the hearing today is Daily Wire host Michael Knowles. Michael, good to have you back on. You obviously were invited to this hearing for specific reasons – tell us about that, and what you plan to address.</span></p>
  1712. <p><b>Knowles: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was invited largely because I was the target of leftist violence on a few occasions, but of organized leftist violence, specifically two years ago. This was at the University of Pittsburgh. I was doing a debate on the topic of transgenderism, and there was a large demonstration. They burnt me in effigy, lit the street on fire, and then two Antifa operatives showed up and threw smoke bombs at the attendees and the police. And then threw a large explosive firework at the police and seriously injured one female police officer, gave her life-altering injuries that took her out of work for at least a year – and also injured other police officers as well. … Happily, there was one intrepid FBI agent in the crowd, and he had noticed the uptick in left-wing violence at these conservative speaker events. … It was only because he really pushed this up through the DOJ that any charges were brought at all. … So these are two people who are members of an anarchist cell, part of the Torch Antifa Network. The guy had set off TSA scanners with explosive material multiple times. It’s an illustrative example of violence because if you look up left-wing ideologically motivated violence in any of the databases that concern it or at the federal government level, you won&#8217;t find it. It won&#8217;t turn up. That just doesn&#8217;t exist, and this is true for a lot of examples of left-wing violence, perhaps most notably the BLM riots, which are just simply not classified as left-wing violence. … So we’re going to call attention to that fact, as well as to the fact that now even the honest liberals can not hold up the lie that the violence is coming from the right.</span></p>
  1713. <p><b>Morning Wire:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> What do you think the federal government’s role should be in addressing politically motivated violence — is there a line which they should not cross?</span></p>
  1714. <p><b>Knowles:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I don’t think we’re at fear of over-policing left-wing terrorists, okay? I think we’re barely policing them at all. And so then the question becomes, well, what tools are at the federal government&#8217;s disposal? And there are plenty. You know, President Trump has said that he will classify Antifa as a domestic terror organization. Now, the government is more limited in its resources to go after domestic terrorists as opposed to foreign terrorists. However, we&#8217;ve done it before. The federal government has successfully dismantled the Ku Klux Klan, has successfully dismantled organized crime using all sorts of statutes; going after them for RICO, for conspiracy, for all manner of things all the way up to tax evasion, I suppose. President Trump putting this renewed focus on it is very important because the Left has dismissed this as a concern by lying and saying that the political violence is a right-wing phenomenon, and it has allowed this problem to fester so much so that we saw its tragic apotheosis in the murder of Charlie Kirk – and we cannot allow that to continue anymore.</span></p>
  1715. <h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Trump Hunts For A Deal</b></h2>
  1716. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-992087" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/More-Deals-Inbound-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/More-Deals-Inbound-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/More-Deals-Inbound-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/More-Deals-Inbound-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/More-Deals-Inbound-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/More-Deals-Inbound.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  1717. <p><b>Topline</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: President Trump continues his swing through Asia as Democrat and media backlash builds following his White House renovation.</span></p>
  1718. <p><b>Japan: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">After signing a big peace deal Sunday between Thailand and Cambodia and rolling out new trade deals elsewhere, Trump headed to Japan, where he received royal treatment. Famous landmarks across Tokyo were lit up with red, white, and blue displays.</span></p>
  1719. <p>The Trump administration and Japan reached a deal on rare earth minerals on Tuesday and unveiled a list of projects included in a $550 billion investment proposal stemming from a July trade agreement.</p>
  1720. <p>The rare earth deal, which President Donald Trump signed alongside Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, establishes a mutual stockpiling arrangement and stipulates that the United States and Japan will cooperate with international partners to protect the supply chain, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-takaichi-agree-rare-earth-critical-minerals-supply-2025-10-28/">reported</a>. Trump has been pushing to better secure the rare-earth supply chain and cut into China&#8217;s stranglehold over rare-earth minerals.</p>
  1721. <p>Along with the rare-earth deal, the United States and Japan released a list of proposed projects to boost Japanese investment in the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983119054983287061">said</a> at a press conference alongside Trump on Tuesday that the proposals &#8220;are driven by the Japanese strategic investment initiative, which was created by [Trump&#8217;s] tariff policy and by [Trump&#8217;s] historic trade agreement with Japan.&#8221;</p>
  1722. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The White House credited the threat of tariffs with pushing our trading partners to make deals favorable to the United States. Deals were announced with Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam on Sunday, and now Japan has been added to the list on Monday. But the world is still waiting to see what will come of this meeting with China on Thursday. </span></p>
  1723. <p><b>China</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Officials from both sides have continued to meet to hammer out the framework of a deal. The White House says it&#8217;s confident both sides will agree to dramatically lower tariffs and possibly strike a permanent solution to the battle over TikTok ownership.</span></p>
  1724. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump put it more bluntly: “I think we&#8217;re going to come away with a deal.”</span></p>
  1725. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Trump’s optimism has not always preceded deals, investors seem to think this is good news. Gold, cryptocurrency, and oil prices all spiked on Monday as global markets rallied to all-time highs across Asia.</span></p>
  1726. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Wall Street, the DOW, NASDAQ, and S&amp;P 500 all hit record highs on Monday. Leading the way were tech companies like Nvidia, which have been hobbled this year by massive tariffs on semiconductors. Stateside, shares of domestic mining companies fell, a sign that investors believe China is about to reopen the flow of rare earth minerals as part of a looming deal.</span></p>
  1727. <p><b>White House remodel</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: The East Wing of the White House has now been demolished to make way for a 90,000 square foot ballroom. The administration says it’s a matter of practicality and safety, noting that in the past, if a president wanted to hold a large event honoring foreign dignitaries, they were often forced to erect makeshift tents on the White House lawn.</span></p>
  1728. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former presidents such as Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, FDR, Harry S. Truman, Richard Nixon, and Barack Obama added items to the White House, made renovations, or removed items. Though that has not stopped criticism from being leveled at Trump over his plans for a ballroom.</span></p>
  1729. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are already some on the Left attempting to mount a legal challenge to block the project. A Virginia couple filed a motion in a D.C. federal court last week seeking a temporary restraining order against the demolition, arguing it violates the National Historic Preservation Act. The administration says it’s well within its authority to make renovations, the same way so many presidents have done before.</span></p>
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  1736.      <title>More Trump Trade Wins: U.S. And Japan Strike Rare Earth Pact, Announce Strategic Investment Deal</title>
  1737.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-trump-trade-wins-u-s-and-japan-strike-rare-earth-pact-announce-strategic-investment-deal</link>
  1738.      <dc:creator>Zach Jewell</dc:creator>
  1739.      <description>The Trump administration and Japan reached a deal on rare earth minerals on Tuesday and unveiled a list of projects included in a $550 billion investment proposal stemming from a July trade agreement. The rare earth deal, which President Donald Trump signed alongside Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, establishes a mutual stockpiling arrangement and stipulates ...</description>
  1740.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration and Japan reached a deal on rare earth minerals on Tuesday and unveiled a list of projects included in a $550 billion investment proposal stemming from a July trade agreement.</p>
  1741. <p>The rare earth deal, which President Donald Trump signed alongside Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, establishes a mutual stockpiling arrangement and stipulates that the United States and Japan will cooperate with international partners to protect the supply chain, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-takaichi-agree-rare-earth-critical-minerals-supply-2025-10-28/">reported</a>. Trump has been pushing to better secure the rare-earth supply chain and cut into China&#8217;s stranglehold over rare-earth minerals.</p>
  1742. <p>Along with the rare-earth deal, the United States and Japan released a list of proposed projects to boost Japanese investment in the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983119054983287061">said</a> at a press conference alongside Trump on Tuesday that the proposals &#8220;are driven by the Japanese strategic investment initiative, which was created by [Trump&#8217;s] tariff policy and by [Trump&#8217;s] historic trade agreement with Japan.&#8221;</p>
  1743. <p>Lutnick added that the initial investment totals $490 billion, which he called the &#8220;launch phase,&#8221; Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/trump-hails-japan-alliance-offers-takaichi-anything-you-want">reported</a>. After the &#8220;launch phase,&#8221; more projects would then be considered for the total $550 billion project. The proposed Japanese investments were a key part of the U.S.-Japan trade deal agreed upon in July, when President Trump lowered tariffs on Japanese auto imports from 27.5% to 15%, and in exchange, Japan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/business/japan-investment-trump-tariffs.html">agreed</a> to invest $550 billion in the United States.</p>
  1744. <p>The two allies announced numerous investment projects spanning energy and critical minerals, as well as artificial intelligence development. Among the proposed projects is a plan to invest up to $100 billion for the construction of nuclear reactors and small modular reactors in the United States. That proposal would involve the American manufacturing company Westinghouse and include the &#8220;involvement of Japanese suppliers and operators, such as Mitsubishi, Heavy Industries, Toshiba Group, and IHI,&#8221; according to a Japanese government <a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/press/2025/10/20251028002/20251028002-a.pdf">handout</a>. Another $100 billion energy proposal would build more small modular reactors in the United States with some investment from Japanese companies.</p>
  1745. <p><strong>Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire.com/Subscribe</a> to join now.</strong></p>
  1746. <p>“These are great companies, many of them household names — that you would expect — that are going to build infrastructure and improve the national economic security of the United States,” said Lutnick.</p>
  1747. <p>President Trump also <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1983080708055900442">said</a> that Toyota planned to invest more than $10 billion in U.S. auto plants. During a speech to U.S. troops in Japan, Trump said, &#8220;I was just told by the prime minister that Toyota is going to be putting auto plants all over the United States to the tune of over $10 billion.&#8221;</p>
  1748. <p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s a lot to do with because we have all the AI plants, we have so many things happening in the United States,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;And it&#8217;s because of November 5th election day, but it&#8217;s also because of tariffs.&#8221;</p>
  1749. <p>The Toyota investment was not mentioned in the government fact sheet released on Tuesday.</p>
  1750. <p>Other investment proposals mentioned included a $30 billion proposal for Mitsubishi Electric to supply generators, transmission, and distribution systems, as well as equipment for AI data centers. A $15 million proposal included Panasonic supplying &#8220;energy storage systems, and other electronics, to contribute to strengthening supply chains in the U.S.&#8221;</p>
  1751. <p>The major U.S.-Japan announcements on Tuesday come just two days before Trump is expected to meet with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, a meeting Trump hopes will lead to a trade deal.</p>
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  1754.      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:39:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  1758.      <title>When Algorithms Turn Deadly: Five Fixes For Preserving Free Speech In A System Out Of Control</title>
  1759.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/when-algorithms-turn-deadly-five-fixes-for-preserving-free-speech-in-a-system-out-of-control</link>
  1760.      <dc:creator>Gregg Hurwitz</dc:creator>
  1761.      <description>From State Rep. Melissa Hortman’s murder to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto to Charlie Kirk’s assassination to whatever fresh horror will have meteor-impacted the news cycle between my typing these words and their publication, it has never been clearer that online radicalization is leading to real-world consequences. My team at US the Story last year analyzed just ...</description>
  1762.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From State Rep. Melissa Hortman’s murder to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto to Charlie Kirk’s assassination to whatever fresh horror will have meteor-impacted the news cycle between my typing these words and their publication, it has never been clearer that online radicalization is leading to real-world consequences.</span></p>
  1763. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My team at </span><a href="https://usthestory.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">US the Story</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> last year analyzed just a handful of the most vile posts from 14 of the top full-blown hate accounts on one platform. These 14 posts showed a combined view count of over 50 million. The accounts themselves had a reach of 6,450,000,000 impressions. Engagement — the number of times people actually interacted with the content in total to like, quote, or share — crossed 448 million over the course of roughly 10 months.</span></p>
  1764. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These posts, their volume, and their reach create a permission structure for more and more hatred. It’s a quickening descent into violence and chaos; the more it becomes fair game to denigrate and threaten “the other group,” the more blaming and attacking that group becomes normalized.</span></p>
  1765. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One way of looking at this is as a network contagion issue. Debates around social-media-facilitated social contagions have raged in the culture wars for years. Young women in particular have been targeted by bots and accounts promoting anorexia, gender dysphoria, and more. Viral events such as the 2023 explosion of bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and widespread </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/tiktok-effects-on-mental-health-in-focus-after-teen-suicide"><span style="font-weight: 400;">messaging encouraging suicidality</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> caused immediate concern in the broader culture. At this point, we shouldn’t be surprised that algos designed to maximize virality for profit at any cost fuel the most toxic, contagious, and sticky topics.</span></p>
  1766. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Studies have consistently shown that violent crime follows a Pareto distribution, with 1% of criminals committing up to 60% of crimes. The same is true of hateful content strategically riding the algos in the service of encouraging real-world violence. Do we really want our social media platforms taken over by psychopaths in a full-blown network contagion? And more importantly, what happens if we do?</span></p>
  1767. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most contagions left unimpeded spread enough to damage and threaten the entire system. That’s why many such cases are fueled by foreign PSYOPs.</span></p>
  1768. <div id="attachment_992051" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992051" class="size-large wp-image-992051" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-864x576.jpg" alt="cream_ph. Getty Images. Young hacker working in the dark room and using laptops to steal private information" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1171004713-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /><p id="caption-attachment-992051" class="wp-caption-text">cream_ph. Getty Images.</p></div>
  1769. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The aim of these contagions is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">never</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the stated topic at hand. They aren’t actually about trans rights or Jews or vaccinations or immigration. They’re about, first, setting Americans against one another in radicalized tribal conflicts, and, second, making these topics impossible or even dangerous to discuss productively (eliminating sane discussion, an obvious precondition for solving problems). During the Cold War, for instance, the KGB provided financial and logistical support to the Black Panthers while also sending forged menacing letters from the Ku Klux Klan to black leaders in order to stoke racial tensions.</span></p>
  1770. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The point is to poison both sides in order to sow maximum chaos to undermine and destroy Western democracies.</span></p>
  1771. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s nearly impossible to withstand algorithmically-driven content engineered to maximize rage, fear, and anxiety in the service of keeping people glued to their screens. It is indeed a type of mind control. This level of nervous-system hacking and the deluge of toxic messaging can trigger terrible instincts and behavior, especially in young people whose prefrontal cortexes are literally not yet fully developed.</span></p>
  1772. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On top of hostile regime influence and outrage algorithms maximized for profit, there are also bad-faith domestic players urging America along its path of destruction. Most of these behind-the-scenes manipulators exhibit the Dark Tetrad traits of sadism, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. These nefarious individuals are using sophisticated and furtive onboarding techniques to hijack the platforms.</span></p>
  1773. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, our team recorded a live conversation on a prominent social media platform between self-avowed neo-Nazis, one of whom has a sizable account with millions of views and reach. The conversation was a strategy session about how to manipulate larger non-ideologically aligned influencer accounts to share Nazi content. The strategy entails using carefully selected words, phrasing, and arguments that may be polarizing but aren’t explicitly antisemitic or racist. They target certain specific influencers and thought leaders’ interests that are political but outside the “Nazi diet.” When another large account interacts with a seemingly benign post by these Nazi accounts, it boosts that account algorithmically so the Nazi account gains followers, views, and increased power to change the culture on the platform and elsewhere. It’s the Nazi equivalent of algorithmic grooming.</span></p>
  1774. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same holds true with radical leftist techniques. An April study by our partner group, </span><a href="https://networkcontagion.us/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NCRI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, found that more than 50% of self-identified people on the left of the political spectrum believed it at least somewhat acceptable to assassinate President Trump. And a whopping 78% of BlueSky users expressed some level of support for Luigi Mangione’s cold-blooded assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The biggest predictor of Mangione support? BlueSky usage.</span></p>
  1775. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heavy social media use is indeed the one constant. Increasingly, when we dissect the social media diet and posts of those onboarded to radicalism, we are finding a toxic blend of ideologies. This is because the aim is not to support liberal or conservative politics. The aim is to get as many (especially young Americans) to arrive where far left and far right meet at the horseshoe of nihilism: the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">No Lives Matter</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cohort. Once the conditions are set for, say, a young man’s radicalization, it doesn’t matter to our </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hostile foreign adversaries whether the next bus he boards is filled with violent trans-Antifa-types or your-body-my-choice groypers.</span></p>
  1776. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have no intention of vilifying the social media platforms (aside from those purposefully running full-blown foreign PSYOPs) or undermining free speech. In our informal engagements with leaders at these platforms, we have found them concerned and receptive to discussing ways to counter this. Vilifying CEOs, big tech, and the workers within these corporations not only forecloses on cooperative progress, but will likely shove them into a defensive posture. There are plenty of good people in tech leadership who have expressed a willingness to address this problem.</span></p>
  1777. <div id="attachment_992053" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-992053" class="size-large wp-image-992053" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1383963898-1024x576.jpg" alt="Outflow Designs. Getty Images. Technology icons transfer data through programming codes, artificial intelligence concept." width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1383963898-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1383963898-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1383963898-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1383963898-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1383963898-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-992053" class="wp-caption-text">Outflow Designs. Getty Images.</p></div>
  1778. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So how might we approach this?</span></p>
  1779. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are five concrete recommendations to turn down the temperature on destructive social media trends while protecting freedom of speech and steering clear of government overreach and censorship.</span></p>
  1780. <h3><strong>1. Make algorithms transparent.</strong></h3>
  1781. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citizens, parents, and the free market (advertisers and content producers) have a right to know if they or their children are participating in platforms feeding suicidality, hate-mongering, violent pornography, anti-American propaganda, or anything else damaging. This is not about control or censorship but about allowing people to know what they are engaging with so they can make informed choices for themselves, their companies, and their children. We aren’t making a demand that the platforms publish their proprietary trade secrets in terms of the algorithms. Rather, we are suggesting to allow independent researchers access to the data required to assess algo impacts in relation to illegal activity and whether the platforms are enforcing their own rules as defined in their terms of service. That is indeed the contract with the user—and the free market.</span></p>
  1782. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a valid argument too for the right of Americans to explore fringe and even perilous ideas and viewpoints. The world is a dangerous place and neither the government nor corporations should foreclose on the rights of citizens to explore beyond the bounds of what is considered widely acceptable (excluding, of course, illicit materials). But contact with the terrible and extreme should be done knowingly, not as a result of covert algorithms that are optimized for profit and forced into your feed. Ideally, dipping into dangerous arenas should be inoculating, not poisoning. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
  1783. </span></p>
  1784. <h3><strong>2. Reward those on social media who identify themselves as verified users and stand behind their words in the public square.</strong></h3>
  1785. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media participants who use their real identities deserve to have their opinions elevated above those who post anonymously and have zero accountability. A free marketplace of ideas should privilege a modicum of courage, transparency, and responsibility.</span></p>
  1786. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are certainly arguments to be made for anonymous accounts, with whistleblowers being oft-cited. That’s fair enough. They can still post their information in a second tier of engagement below verified users. It just won’t be elevated to the top along with every anonymously cited conspiracy theory.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
  1787. </span></p>
  1788. <h3><strong>3. Differentiate freedom of speech from freedom of reach for profit.</strong></h3>
  1789. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a vehement free speech advocate, I believe in the right for people to explore what they want and express themselves how they wish. But algorithms pushing hatred, lies, and violence are waging an asymmetric war on the truth. Freedom of speech is one thing. Distortion of speech and covert manipulation of the free marketplace of ideas is another.</span></p>
  1790. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant for bad ideas but light of day is insufficient to combat targeted deep-machine-learning computing power designed to elevate lies above all else and compounded by the machinations of psychopathic actors. This level of skew on the playing field makes a competition of ideas nearly impossible. Why hide the truth at the bottom of a cesspool? A hierarchy of values and a hierarchy of information is necessary for any endeavor that hopes to produce anything beyond chaos and ruin.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
  1791. </span></p>
  1792. <h3><strong>4. Preserve human judgment at social media companies.</strong></h3>
  1793. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, humans have biases and can fall victim to corruption. But that doesn’t mean that we should eliminate human good from the decision-making process. Shouldn’t we encourage and reward that which moves us toward greater truth and health? Rather than encouraging and rewarding the opposite? Every playing field needs a referee and every company should have stewards of common sense and common decency who assess the automated content moderation systems to ensure they’re not being gamed and to help enforce the agreed-upon rules of the game. Corporations are certainly equipped to encourage free speech, social engagement, and network health while ensuring that the tiny percentage of psychopathic accounts are not rocket-fueled by algos to infect the entire platform.</span></p>
  1794. <h3><strong>5. Identify and combat bot swarms and inauthentic coordinated material.</strong></h3>
  1795. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Users, advertisers, and the platforms themselves should know whether they are engaging with real accounts and ideas or with manipulative bad actors and swarms of bots from a Saint Petersburg troll farm. Independent research access to the data can bring additional resources to the table when it comes to identifying these threats to users and the platforms themselves. A bigger ecosystem of transparency is to our collective benefit. </span></p>
  1796. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These five concrete recommendations will go a long way toward tamping down chaos, lies, and sadism online and in the real world.</span></p>
  1797. <p>* * *</p>
  1798. <p><em>Gregg Hurwitz <i>is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 26 thrillers including the Orphan X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, and is an award-winning documentary producer. Gregg also wrote comics for AWA (including the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink), DC, and Marvel, and poetry. Currently, Gregg is working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end, he’s penned dozens of Op/Eds and pieces for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark, Salon, and others, and pieces of creative content which have won numerous industry awards and achieved several hundred million views on digital TV platforms. He also helped write the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup.</i></em></p>
  1799. <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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  1807.      <title>We Have Our First Major Tylenol Lawsuit</title>
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  1809.      <dc:creator>Amanda Prestigiacomo</dc:creator>
  1810.      <description>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol for marketing the drug to pregnant mothers despite allegedly knowing that early exposure to the drug leads to an increased risk of autism, The Daily Wire can exclusively report. Paxton has filed suit against Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson and its former subsidiary, Kenvue, &amp;#8220;deceptively marketing ...</description>
  1811.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol for marketing the drug to pregnant mothers despite allegedly knowing that early exposure to the drug leads to an increased risk of autism, The Daily Wire can exclusively report.</p>
  1812. <p>Paxton has filed suit against Johnson &amp; Johnson and its former subsidiary, Kenvue, &#8220;deceptively marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers despite knowing that early exposure to acetaminophen, Tylenol’s only active ingredient, leads to a significantly increased risk of autism and other disorders,&#8221; a statement from Paxton&#8217;s office reads.</p>
  1813. <p>“Big Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of the risks,&#8221; Paxton said. &#8220;These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets.&#8221;</p>
  1814. <p>Paxton&#8217;s office accused Johnson &amp; Johnson of attempting to &#8220;silence the science&#8221; about the apparent association between prenatal and early childhood exposure to their acetaminophen products and autism and ADHD. It also said the company marketed Tylenol as a &#8220;completely safe pain medication for pregnant women,&#8221; while knowing about the association, which the office said is in violation of Texas’ consumer protection laws.</p>
  1815. <p>Texas is the first state to sue the makers of Tylenol after the Department of Health and Human Services trumpeted a link between prenatal acetaminophen consumption and the incidence of autism and ADHD in newborns.</p>
  1816. <p>“Taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good,” President Donald Trump said last month at a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</p>
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  1818. <p>In the lawsuit, Paxton accuses Johnson &amp; Johnson of trying to &#8220;escape responsibility&#8221; for its actions by breaking off Kenvue as a separate entity after becoming aware of the Trump administration&#8217;s impending announcement.</p>
  1819. <p>“Seeing that the day of reckoning was coming, Johnson &amp; Johnson attempted to escape responsibility by illegally offloading their liability onto a different company,&#8221; Paxton writes. &#8220;By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again.”</p>
  1820. <p>Paxton&#8217;s office says the pharmaceutical company &#8220;violated the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act by fraudulently transferring liabilities arising from Tylenol to a separate company, Kenvue, in order to shield their assets against lawsuits arising from the harmful impact Tylenol had on children.&#8221;</p>
  1821. <p>“We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism,&#8221; Kenvue <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/trump-tylenol-autism-announcement-kenvue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement last month. &#8220;We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”</p>
  1822. <p>Paxton has taken on other large pharmaceutical companies, suing Pfizer over the COVID vaccine and Eli Lilly for allegedly bribing providers to prescribe its medications.</p>
  1823. <p>In 2024, Paxton — along with dozens of other states — secured a $700 million settlement with Johnson &amp; Johnson for misleading and deceptive claims related to its baby powder products that contained talc.</p>
  1824. <p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-cause-treatment-of-autism-revealed-by-trump-rfk-jr?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Cause%2C+Treatment+Of+Autism+Revealed+By+Trump%2C+RFK+Jr.">Potential Cause, Treatment Of Autism Revealed By Trump, RFK Jr.</a></strong></p>
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  1831.      <title>‘It’s A Bad Day For Chuck Schumer’: Dems Waver As Fed Union Calls For End To Shutdown</title>
  1832.      <link>https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-bad-day-for-chuck-schumer-dems-waver-as-fed-union-calls-for-end-shutdown</link>
  1833.      <dc:creator>Amber Jo Cooper</dc:creator>
  1834.      <description>WASHINGTON—The largest union of federal employees is pushing for an end to the government shutdown, dealing a major blow to Democrats as the funding fight drags on. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 federal workers, on Monday urged the Senate to approve a “clean” continuing resolution to end the stalemate. The union, usually ...</description>
  1835.      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1">WASHINGTON—The largest union of federal employees is pushing for an end to the government shutdown, dealing a major blow to Democrats as the funding fight drags on.</p>
  1836. <p>The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 federal workers, on Monday <a href="https://www.afge.org/article/its-past-time-to-end-this-shutdown/">urged</a> the Senate to approve a “clean” continuing resolution to end the stalemate. The union, usually a dependable Democratic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-aligned-union-breaks-ranks-demands-end-to-govt-shutdown?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Dem-Aligned+Union+Breaks+Ranks%2C+Demands+End+To+Govt+Shutdown">stalwart,</a> all but endorsed Republicans&#8217; plans to end the shutdown in a statement.</p>
  1837. <p>“It’s time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people, rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said, calling the shutdown “an avoidable crisis that is harming families, communities, and the very institutions that hold our country together.”</p>
  1838. <p>Kelley did not lay blame with either party, but did call for the Senate to pass a &#8220;clean&#8221; continuing resolution — which Republicans have called for from the beginning of the shutdown fight.</p>
  1839. <p class="p1">About 1.4 million federal workers missed a paycheck last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson said at a press conference Monday morning, urging Senate Democrats to approve the House-passed continuing resolution.</p>
  1840. <p class="p1">Johnson added that the House had “done its work” by passing the measure a month ago.</p>
  1841. <p class="p1">“The Army nurse in San Antonio, the TSA officer in Atlanta, the USDA food safety inspector in Iowa, and hundreds of thousands more like them are being asked to keep our country running without the paychecks that keep their own households afloat,&#8221; Kelley said.</p>
  1842. <p class="p1">Kelley said the workers are &#8220;patriotic Americans – parents, caregivers, and veterans – forced to work without pay while struggling to cover rent, groceries, gas and medicine because of political disagreements in Washington. That is unacceptable.&#8221;</p>
  1843. <p class="p1">Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said AFGE calling for an end to the shutdown “has a lot of impact,&#8221; Semafor&#8217;s Burgess Everett <a href="https://x.com/burgessev/status/1982902515013186033">reported</a> on X.</p>
  1844. <p class="p1">“It’s something we will be discussing this week,&#8221; Durbin told the outlet. &#8220;I’m not announcing any change in my position at this time. They&#8217;re our friends. We take them seriously.”</p>
  1845. <p class="p1">Bloomberg News reporter Erik Wasson <a href="https://x.com/elwasson/status/1982857696937496756">reportedly</a> asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about the union’s statement, but Schumer declined to comment.</p>
  1846. <p class="p1">The House Freedom Caucus weighed in Monday on X, responding to an NBC report on the union’s stance.</p>
  1847. <p class="p1">“It’s a bad day for Chuck Schumer when even the AFGE…a union that routinely endorses and supports Democrats…sees how bizarre the Democrats’ position is,” the caucus <a href="https://x.com/freedomcaucus/status/1982858175117484057">wrote on X.</a></p>
  1848. <p class="p1">House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told The Daily Wire that AFGE is “rightly calling Democrats out on their political games, and hopefully Senate Democrats will listen.”</p>
  1849. <p class="p1">“Lawmakers are sent to Washington to govern, but Democrats seem to think their job is to obstruct the agenda of the President of the United States and to jeopardize the livelihoods of the American people,” Emmer said.</p>
  1850. <p class="p1">Emmer said Americans on “both sides of the aisle are seeing right through the Democrats’ lies and they will be held accountable for their hostage tactics.”</p>
  1851. <p class="p1">Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (PA) said <a href="https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1982809715831628084">on X</a> that AFGE is “firmly on the right side of this and we should absolutely listen.”</p>
  1852. <p class="p1">“Our servicemembers, federal workers, and Capitol Police are hurting. It’s one of many reasons why I’ve continuously voted to open our government. We need to end this chaos,” Fetterman said.</p>
  1853. <p class="p1">Fetterman sided with Republicans on the House-passed continuing resolution to reopen the government, as did Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Angus King (I-ME).</p>
  1854. <p class="p1">This week, many politicians have highlighted the looming November 1 expiration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which will affect more than 42 million people.</p>
  1855. <p class="p1">The SNAP <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program">website</a> currently cites Democrats for failing to reopen the government, stating, “Bottom line, the well has run dry.”</p>
  1856. <p class="p1">There are currently discussions of a potential bill to pay “certain” federal workers between Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), as reported by <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1982861472968376606"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Punchbowl News</span></a>.</p>
  1857. <p class="p1">As of Monday evening, a spokesman for Johnson’s office confirmed talks are “ongoing.”</p>
  1858. <p class="p1">On the Senate floor Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer <a href="https://x.com/AmberJoCooper/status/1982908995909382282">claimed</a> the Trump administration is “making an intentional choice not to fund SNAP this weekend.”</p>
  1859. <p class="p1">“The emergency funding is there — the administration is just choosing not to use it. And for those who say the money can’t be moved around so easily, that’s a load of bunk. If the administration can cough up $40 billion for Argentina, they can find money for SNAP by this Saturday,” Schumer said.</p>
  1860. <p class="p1">Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href="https://x.com/LeaderJohnThune/status/1982893996847555019">maintained</a> that the Senate can reopen the government this week if five “courageous” Democrats vote with them, adding there will be another opportunity to vote to reopen in the coming days.</p>
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