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--:-- John Bickley: President Trump may soon meet with Putin, if one condition is met. The Army praises the bravery of several soldiers for subduing yesterday's shooter. And, new data suggests that if you've had your car stolen recently in DC, there's a good chance the perp was underage. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Thursday, August 7th, and this is Evening Wire.
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--:-- John Bickley: As Trump's peace deadline for Russia is coming to an end, The president is drawing another hard line in the sand. He says he will not meet with Putin unless the Russian president agrees to also meet with Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky. Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has the details.
--:-- Zach Jewell: The Kremlin had earlier claimed a Trump-Putin summit was agreed upon in principle, but the White House says nothing has been finalized, while pushing for a trilateral meeting, including Zelensky, that would follow the meeting between Putin and Trump. Trump has expressed growing frustration with Putin, accusing him of offering peace talks while escalating attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
--:-- John Bickley: Meanwhile, Russia's stock market jumped over 4% on hopes for the meeting. Trump says he'll know within weeks whether Putin is serious, but for now, Zelensky must be at the table.
--:-- Zach Jewell: Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs have officially taken effect. The tariffs taking effect today will affect goods from more than 60 countries and the European Union with duties of 10% or more. The move follows months of negotiations after Trump first unveiled the plan on April 2, later to be known as Liberation Day.
--:-- John Bickley: While new trade deals were secured with partners like Japan, the UK and South Korea, India and Canada took the biggest hit. India faces massive tariff hikes over its continued purchase and resale of Russian oil, while tariffs on Canadian imports rose 35 percent, fueling tensions between the close allies.
--:-- Zach Jewell: Speaking of those steep tariffs being hurled at India, the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he will not back down. The news follows Trump raising tariffs on Indian goods to 50% over the country's continued purchase of Russian oil.
--:-- John Bickley: While speaking in New Delhi, Modi vowed that he won't compromise the interests of India's farmers, even if he'll, quote, pay a heavy price. Previous trade talks collapsed after five rounds with Washington demanding greater access to India farms and dairy markets Modi is now reportedly planning his first visit to China in over seven years
--:-- John Bickley: President Trump is taking action to stop what he calls politically motivated debanking As we reported this morning, the White House has been preparing an executive order banning banks from cutting off customers based on their religious or political beliefs.
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--:-- John Bickley: Under the order, regulators must remove such language from guidance manuals, and banks will be urged to reinstate accounts that have been closed unlawfully. The Treasury Department will also be tasked with developing long-term safeguards. The president also says he's ordering a brand new U.S. census. This one will exclude undocumented immigrants.
--:-- John Bickley: In a social media post today, Trump directed the Commerce Department to begin work on what he calls a highly accurate census, based partly on data from the 2024 election. The move could shift political power nationwide as census figures determine congressional seats and electoral college votes.
--:-- John Bickley: Critics say it's unconstitutional that the Census Bureau currently counts all residents, legal citizens or not.
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--:-- John Bickley: Army officials are praising the bravery of six soldiers who subdued yesterday's active shooter on Fort Stewart in Georgia. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll says quick-thinking troops tackled the alleged gunman, preventing further bloodshed.
--:-- Dan Driscoll: One of the soldiers tackled the person, so just think about this. They were unarmed and ran at and tackled an armed person who they knew was actively shooting their buddies, their colleagues, their fellow soldiers.
--:-- John Bickley: Another soldier jumped on top of the person to subdue them until federal law enforcement was able to arrive. The shooter, who was assigned to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, was arrested and is now in pre-trial confinement.
--:-- John Bickley: Five soldiers were injured in the attack. So far, three of them have been released from the hospital while the other two remain in stable condition.
--:-- John Bickley: Terrorists aligned with the Islamic State are attacking Christians in South and Central Africa. Two groups have posted photos showing the burning of churches and homes, one of the groups boasting of beheading Christians in Mozambique.
--:-- John Bickley: The UN reports that attacks in northern Mozambique displaced 46,000 people in just eight days. Speaking to Fox News, former U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez described the situation as a, quote, silent genocide.
--:-- Alberto Miguel Fernandez: The fact that jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa, take over the whole country or most of several countries, is dangerous. It's very dangerous for the national security of the United States, let alone the security of the poor people who are there, Christians or Muslims or whoever they are.
--:-- John Bickley: The Associated Press has come under fire for an article sympathizing with Hezbollah. The report published yesterday highlights members of the terrorist organization who quote struggle to recover from a covert Israeli attack that caused the terror group pagers and other communication devices to explode
--:-- John Bickley: The article tells the stories of injuries to fighters and family members, but fails to mention that Hezbollah is a known terrorist organization, instead referring to the body as a, quote, militant group or Shiite political party. The report ignited criticism online from the right, including media and Congress members alike.
--:-- John Bickley: So far, the AP has stood by its story.
--:-- John Bickley: A Minnesota man accused of killing the state's top House Democrat and her husband has pleaded not guilty in federal court. The 58-year-old faces six charges, including murder and stalking, after allegedly killing Melissa and Mark Hortman and wounding Senator John Hoffman and his wife in June.
--:-- John Bickley: Prosecutors say he wore a fake police uniform and drove a mock squad car during the attack. No trial date has yet been set.
--:-- John Bickley: Startling police data reveals that more than half of all carjacking arrests in Washington, D.C. over the last two years were minors. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce breaks down the numbers.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The arrestees range in age from 17 years old down to 12. Following the brutal beating of a former Doge staffer by a group of teenagers on Sunday, President Trump has called on D.C. leadership to clean up the city and try minors as young as 14 as adults for such crimes.
--:-- John Bickley: Trump said in a True Social post, quote, If D.C. doesn't get its act together and quickly, we will have no choice but to take federal control of the city and put criminals on notice. D.C.'s Attorney General Brian Schaub has long opposed charging minors as adults, saying this in 2023. Kids are kids, and when you're talking about teenagers, in particular, their brains are developing, their minds are developing, and they're biologically prone to make mistakes.
--:-- John Bickley: The Texas attorney general is probing Beto O'Rourke's political group after it allegedly footed the bill for the Democrat legislators who fled the state. The representatives left to stall votes on the state's redistricting map.
--:-- John Bickley: Attorney General Ken Paxton says O'Rourke's group may have violated bribery and other state laws by funding the Democrats. The group funded travel, lodging and other expenses for the representatives.
--:-- John Bickley: Paxton said the probe is the first stage in the investigation. We're going to find out if they've done anything inappropriate, whether it's a bribe or whether some type of other campaign finance laws were broken.
--:-- John Bickley: Zoran Mamdani's proposed war against charter schools is sparking outrage from parents. Daily Wire reporter Moreta Lordi has more.
--:-- Moreta Lordi: The socialist and New York City mayoral hopeful says if he's elected, he would fight efforts to open more charter schools, which, according to The New York Post, largely educate minority and working class students.
--:-- John Bickley: Mamdani also said he would audit charter schools and claim they received too much public funding. Charter school parents and operators said Mamdani plan would hurt students who deserved a choice in education One charter school director said the schools helped Mamdani platform by providing free education to families that cannot afford private school tuition
--:-- John Bickley: Charter school students usually score higher on standardized tests than public school students.
--:-- John Bickley: Overnight, a glitch grounded more than 1,000 United Airlines flights at airports across the country. The United system that calculates weights and balances and tracks flights went down yesterday evening.
--:-- John Bickley: The FAA says that delayed flights headed to Chicago, Denver, Houston, New Jersey, and San Francisco. 35% of flights were delayed and an additional 6% canceled. As of this morning, more than 100 flights were still delayed.
--:-- John Bickley: It's not yet clear what caused the outage.
--:-- John Bickley: According to findings by the CDC, the majority of Americans get more than half of their calories from ultra-processed foods. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presa Giacomo explains.
--:-- Amanda Presa Giacomo: Some of the top sources of processed foods are things like burgers and sandwiches, sweet bakery products, savory snacks, pizza, and even sweetened beverages.
--:-- John Bickley: American youth get more than 60% of their calories from ultra-processed foods, and for adults, it's more than 50%. According to the CDC, ultra-processed foods are associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality.
--:-- John Bickley: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that ultra-processed foods are poisoning Americans. These kind of chemicals are designed to make us insatiable, continually eating all day, never full, never satisfied, and getting less and less healthy.
--:-- John Bickley: We're literally eating poison.
--:-- John Bickley: And it's a bird, it's a plane, it's actor Dean Cain taking you into custody for entering the U.S. illegally. That's the joke of the day.
--:-- John Bickley: The Lois and Clark star, who is already a sworn law enforcement officer, says he's joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And now Cain is encouraging his fans to join the agency as well.
--:-- John Bickley: In a video posted to social media, he mentioned the pay and benefits for joining, including a recently announced $50,000 signing bonus.
--:-- John Bickley: Cain said joining ICE is one of the best ways to help American citizens. I felt it was important to join with our first responders to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it. So I joined up.
--:-- John Bickley: So if you want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing them from America's streets.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- John Bickley: And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including the big White House Russia sit down, Trump's executive order banning debanking and NASA's plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.
