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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, September 2nd, and this is Evening Wire. A Clinton-appointed judge ruled that President Trump broke the law by deploying troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Judge Charles Breyer ruled Tuesday that employment violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th century law barring federal troops from engaging in domestic law enforcement. The Clinton appointee issued a limited injunction applying only in California, restricting troops to protecting federal property and employees, not participating in arrests, searches, or riot control.
--:-- John Bickley: The case stemmed from Governor Gavin Newsom's lawsuit after Trump federalized 2,000 National Guard troops during protests over immigration raids in June. Breyer warned Trump's actions risk creating a national police force with the president as its chief. The order takes effect September 12th unless the administration wins on appeal.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro says the U.S. is attempting to overthrow him as American warships and Marines venture into the Southern Caribbean.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: President Trump says Navy ships and Marine personnel are on their way to combat drug cartels. He announced this afternoon that at least one drug boat has already been destroyed by U.S. forces. For his part, Maduro told reporters his country is, quote, super prepared to defend itself and accused Washington of seeking regime change, quote, through military threat.
--:-- John Bickley: The Trump administration has accused Maduro of ties to a sprawling narcotics operation, recently labeling Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang and Cartel de los Soles as foreign terrorist groups. The U.S. has also raised the bounty on Maduro to $50 million. The White House has recognized opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as Venezuela's rightful president after what it called a rigged 2024 election.
--:-- Georgia Howe: New York Democrat Jerry Nadler is stepping down after decades in Congress.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The 78 lawmaker who was heavily involved in both impeachment efforts against President Trump actually leading the first announced he will not seek re next year. Nadler told the New York Times that watching Joe Biden's struggles convinced him that it was time for generational change in the Democratic Party.
--:-- John Bickley: Nadler is the longest-serving representative from New York, but he recently lost his post atop the Judiciary Committee and was expected to face progressive primary challenges in his Manhattan district.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump may declare a national housing scarcity emergency this fall.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The housing market has been hit hard by high interest rates at the Fed, and housing costs remain a top concern for many Americans. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson told Reuters that while rents are now dropping, many homeowners are reluctant to sell if they are locked into a low rate, leading to market stagnation.
--:-- John Bickley: Aside from trying to bring rates down, John Besant said the Trump administration was also exploring ways to simplify permitting and encourage standardization to boost construction that would hopefully boost housing supply and help bring high costs down.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump is putting pressure on Pfizer to release their data on the covid vaccine.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has more.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Trump says the company showed him very impressive numbers back in 2020 when the jab was first greenlit, but that they never made those numbers public. His call for transparency comes after the White House fired CDC director Susan Menara's following her clash with HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the approval of COVID vaccines.
--:-- John Bickley: Trump posted, quote, it is very important that the drug companies justify the success of their various COVID drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved millions of lives. Others disagree with the CDC being ripped apart over this question. I want the answer and I want it now.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Lawmakers are sending warning shots to Wikipedia over left-wing political bias.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler has the details.
--:-- Joel Needler: The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Wikipedia over alleged pro-Kremlin, anti-Western, and anti-Israel bias, raising serious concerns given that AI chatbots heavily rely on the site's information.
--:-- John Bickley: CyberNews reported in June that a recent analysis found that ChatGPT, quote, shows a clear preference for Wikipedia, which accounts for nearly half of its top citations within its top 10 most cited sources.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in a letter to the CEO of the Wikipedia Foundation that, quote, multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for anti and pro propaganda aimed at Western audiences
--:-- John Bickley: Rudy Giuliani is set to be honored with the highest honor a civilian can receive.
--:-- Tim Pierce: President Trump says he's going to give Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social this Labor Day, calling Giuliani the greatest mayor in the history of New York City and an equally great American patriot.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The news comes just two days after 81-year-old Giuliani was hospitalized with serious injuries from a car crash.
--:-- John Bickley: Authorities say another vehicle struck his car from behind at high speed. Trump said Giuliani's decades of service and loyalty to America merit the award.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Former New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed socialist Zoran Mamdani for mayor.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Daily Wire reporter Zekjul has more.
--:-- Zekjul: De Blasio says that Mamdani offers New Yorkers the right ideas and that he, quote, cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.
--:-- John Bickley: De Blasio is backing Mamdani over incumbent mayor Eric Adams, former New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa, who founded NYC's Guardian Angels.
--:-- Georgia Howe: De Blasio defended Mamdani's radical positions, saying that it's time for the city to, quote, go even further by electing a socialist.
--:-- John Bickley: Here's de Blasio on MSNBC touting Mondani's idea for free buses.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A three-judge panel from the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration's effort to slash $20 billion in EPA climate grants.
--:-- Tim Pierce: In a two-to-one decision, the court ruled that a lower district court had overstepped its authority when it issued an injunction preventing the rescission.
--:-- John Bickley: Meanwhile, dozens of climate scientists have condemned a July report by the U.S. Department of Energy, which de-emphasized the importance of carbon emissions on the global climate.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Trump administration has argued that the threat posed by man-made climate change is vastly overstated, while climate researchers argue that the government report is biased and filled with methodological errors.
--:-- John Bickley: NFL legend Bill Belichick's leap to college football got off to a hot start on Monday night, but it quickly devolved into an embarrassment.
--:-- Tim Pierce: His North Carolina Tar Heels were totally stomped in front of a home crowd by Texas Christian University.
--:-- Georgia Howe: There going to be a little bit of a spring in the step of the Horned Frogs after this performance Josh Hoover and company dominant on a night with Bill Belichick goes to college football.
--:-- John Bickley: Belichick, who won six Super Bowls with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots between 2000 and 2023, said the Tar Heels have a lot to improve on, but he insisted that he believes his team is, quote, a lot better than that.
--:-- Georgia Howe: He also praised TCU's performance.
--:-- John Bickley: After 37 years, Vogue US has a new young editor.
--:-- Tim Pierce: 39-year-old Chloe Maul will replace 75-year-old Anna Winter. Winter famously inspired the icy film character Miranda Priestley from The Devil Wears Prada.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Winter will continue on with leadership roles with Vogue and Condé Nast Global Magazine Empires.
--:-- John Bickley: Maul, who is the daughter of actress Candace Bergen, previously served as the editor of Vogue.com.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The appointment marks a rare changing of guard at the iconic fashion brand and a pivot toward a younger, social media-savvy generation.
--:-- John Bickley: Harry Potter director Chris Columbus says there's never going to be a cast reunion for the franchise.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The reason? J.K. Rowling's stance against the transgender movement.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Columbus, who directed the first two films, said that differences of opinion on certain political issues would prevent the whole group from ever working together again, and he clearly hinted that Rowling was the odd one out.
--:-- John Bickley: It's never going to happen, he said in a recent interview. It's gotten so complicated with all the political stuff.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible.
--:-- John Bickley: And an Army football player helped rescue a stranger from a burning car and carried him away just before it was engulfed in flames.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Larry Pickett Jr., a sophomore safety at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, joined his father Sunday in rescuing a man from a burning car that had smashed into power lines.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The heroic moment was caught on video that quickly went viral.
--:-- John Bickley: ESPN reports that the car smashed into a utility pole in Fort Montgomery, New York, roughly four miles from West Point.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Pickett Jr. was driving back to the campus with his dad and sister Lauren, who took the video.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates. 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 versus Chicago escalating amid the president's crime crackdown. China making moves to fortify its role as America's chief competitor, and the FDA attempting to prevent the fourth wave of the opioid crisis.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.
