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--:-- John Bickley: Good evening, I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, September 30th. This is Evening Wire.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The federal government is rapidly approaching a shutdown. The current fiscal year ends tonight, and negotiations for a new budget are at a standstill. Barring an 11th-hour intervention from Democrat and Republican leadership, the government will run out of authorized funding at 12.01 a.m. tomorrow morning.
--:-- John Bickley: Our team will continue to follow this story. During today's meeting of hundreds of generals in Virginia, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave America's top brass a blunt ultimatum, get on board or get out of the way.
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--:-- John Bickley: If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.
--:-- John Bickley: Newly minted Daily Wire DC reporter Amber Jo Cooper has more. Hegseth declared the Pentagon's woke era dead, vowing no more DEI offices, no more gender politics, and no more lowered standards.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: Hegseth unveiled 10 sweeping directives, including combat standards reset to pre-2015 levels, gender-neutral fitness tests twice a year, bans on beards and long hair, and a return to scary, tough basic training.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: Hegseth blasted diversity programs as foolish and reckless, saying that weak men and women alike would be cut if they couldn't meet the bar. As he said, an entire generation of generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, our diversity is our strength.
--:-- Amber Jo Cooper: He also gave the following warning to our adversaries: F around and find out. His closing words, you kill people and break things for a living. You are warriors. Today is Liberation Day.
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--:-- John Bickley: While there's reportedly been some pushback behind the scenes among Arab leaders, Trump's 20-point plan to bring peace to Gaza is getting mostly positive responses from the region.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Eight countries issued a joint statement welcoming Trump's sincere efforts in crafting the plan, though without offering full support for it, at least not yet.
--:-- John Bickley: Signing onto that statement were foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
--:-- John Bickley: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has put in a formal request for 1,000 state National Guardsmen to help fight crime.
--:-- Jeff Landry: Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rouge and others, so we can continue to reduce the amount of violence on our streets.
--:-- Jeff Landry: Why would you not want your citizens to be safe?
--:-- John Bickley: Per Landry's request, the National Guard would protect critical infrastructure and supplement police presence in high crime areas across Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Shreveport.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Washington has reportedly struck a deal to return 400 Iranian nationals to their home country.
--:-- John Bickley: The first plane load of Iranians took off from Louisiana on Monday night. An Iranian foreign ministry official told Iranian press that Tehran had agreed to accept a number of citizens who are in the U.S. illegally, most of whom immigrated through Mexico.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The reported agreement comes amid heightened tension between Tehran and Washington. Over the summer, the U.S. Air Force delivered the final blows to three Iranian nuclear sites. The attack is estimated to have set back Iran's nuclear program at least two years.
--:-- John Bickley: A New York City woman who sucker punched a pro-life activist will avoid prosecution, as Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office admitted to botching the case.
--:-- Alvin Bragg: The case against Breanna J. Rivers was dismissed by a court in July after our office missed a deadline to submit evidence to the defense team.
--:-- John Bickley: The DA's office admitted to committing an unacceptable error in the case, but a veteran NYPD officer told the New York Post that Bragg's office possibly botched the case intentionally for political reasons.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, Antau is looking to file a lawsuit against the woman who punched her, according to the New York Post. The Thomas More Society is planning to sue Rivers on the pro-life activists' behalf.
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--:-- John Bickley: Elon Musk and others on the right are blasting the Anti-Defamation League as a hate group after it smeared TPUSA.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The ADL's page on Turning Point USA accuses the group's leadership and activists of having made, quote, multiple racist or bigoted comments and supposedly being linked to a variety of extremists.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: In response, Musk posted to X, quote, The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is a hate group.
--:-- John Bickley: The ADL's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, responded to the growing criticism of his group among Christians. He said in a statement, quote, The idea that the ADL is anti-Christian is offensive and wrong. Many of our staff members are Christian. Many of our supporters are Christian.
--:-- John Bickley: A grieving North Carolina father's congressional testimony has gone viral.
--:-- Steven Federico: In an emotional statement in front of lawmakers in Charlotte on Monday, I highlighted the lengthy criminal record of the man who murdered my 22-year-old daughter Logan during an armed invasion in South Carolina.
--:-- Steven Federico: Despite dozens of felonies, her murderer was allowed to roam the streets. Forced on her knees, with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father, me, that couldn't be there.
--:-- Steven Federico: She was 5'3". She weighed 115 pounds. Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickey, who was arrested 39 goddamn times, 25 felonies, was on the street.
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--:-- John Bickley: A 24-year-old illegal immigrant dad was caught posing as a high school kid in the U.S. through one phone call.
--:-- Virginia Cruta: A high schooler in Ohio faces decades in prison following a shocking discovery. He's actually a 24-year-old illegal immigrant man.
--:-- Virginia Cruta: Anthony Emanuel Labrador Sierra reportedly faked his identity, including a birth certificate, and lived for over a year with legal guardians in the town of Perrysburg under the assumed persona of a human trafficking victim.
--:-- Virginia Cruta: He was exposed when his fiancée called the house where he lived. Police searched Labrador Sierra's room and found a burner phone, a fake ID, and a pistol with loaded magazines.
--:-- John Bickley: In another big legal win for Donald Trump against big tech, YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by him back in 2021.
--:-- Joel Needler: Then-candidate Trump sued YouTube and its CEO over its suspension of his account after the Capitol riot in 2021.
--:-- Joel Needler: The settlement makes Google, which owns YouTube, the third big tech company to settle lawsuits by Trump shortly after he left office.
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--:-- John Bickley: Canada has begun the rollout of their controversial gun buyback program following comprehensive bans on what they call assault weapons.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The bans came in 2020 when then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used executive authority to prohibit the sale or ownership of more than 1,500 firearm models.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The government offered an amnesty period to comply, but that time has now run out, prompting the buyback program.
--:-- John Bickley: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently shared a letter he received from Charlie Kirk earlier this year.
--:-- Andy Valdez: In the letter, Kirk expressed his solidarity with Israel and his concern about rising anti-Israel and anti-Semitic trends.
--:-- Andy Valdez: Kirk admitted that Israel is losing the so-called information war, particularly among young people. But he believed Israel could better communicate with this age group where they are most active, social media.
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--:-- John Bickley: Another superstar couple is splitting up.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban are divorcing after almost 20 years of marriage.
--:-- John Bickley: Kidman filed for divorce on Tuesday amid allegations that Urban is involved with another woman.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The couple share two teenage daughters, Sunday and Faith, both born in Nashville.
--:-- John Bickley: Urban was already living apart from Kidman in a rented home in Nashville for the past several months.
--:-- John Bickley: And Jimmy Kimmel's post-suspension rating surge fizzled fast.
--:-- Georgia Howe: After Disney briefly pulled the late-night host off the air over his false claim that Charlie Kirk's assassin was, quote, MAGA, his return last Tuesday drew 6.5 million viewers.
--:-- John Bickley: But by Thursday, that audience tapered off by 64 percent to just 2.3 million.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In the key 25 to 54 demo, Kimmel shed 73%, while his 18 to 49 numbers collapsed as well.
--:-- John Bickley: Critics blasted his refusal to apologize fully, while Turning Point USA accused him of smearing conservatives.
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--:-- John Bickley: Those are your drive-home updates this evening. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including Trump working high-stakes deals on the government shutdown and a Gaza peace agreement, anti-ICE riots in Portland, and a foster care scandal in Maryland.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.
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