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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, October 15th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Israel's military has discovered a Hezbollah compound filled with weapons and motorcycles beneath a home in a Lebanese border village. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce details the finding.
--:-- Tim Pierce: IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari says the bunker, only a few miles from Israel's border, was used by Hezbollah's Radwan forces to plan a large-scale, October 7-sized attack on Israel. Footage released by the IDF shows weapons and ammunition scattered across a facility, which Hagari says was recently occupied. He pointed out fresh food and coffee. He emphasized Israel's commitment to dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure to protect its citizens and prevent future attacks.
--:-- Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari: Here, I'm calling on the UN to enforce a 2006 resolution to create a buffer zone between Lebanon and Israel. This was supposed to be here 1701 should have prevented it. We need to impose a 1701 fully so Hezbollah can never be next to our border with such infrastructures that can do a conquer Galilee plan like he planned.
--:-- John Bickley: A welfare check in Virginia turned into a nightmare for one police officer after the woman he was checking on charged at him with a large knife. Disturbing body cam footage shows the fatal shooting of 33-year-old Sidney Wilson by veteran Fairfax County officer Peter Liu after she reportedly slashed him with a knife.
--:-- Peter Liu: Oh, yeah. Back up, back up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hey, man. I got some of the dude. Please back up. Oh, yeah. Back up. Back up. Back up.
--:-- John Bickley: Despite Liu's effort to de-escalate, Wilson continued her attack in a dead-end hallway, prompting Officer Liu to shoot. He's recovering from non-life-threatening injuries. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
--:-- John Bickley: Violent Venezuelan prison gang Tran de Aragua has been linked to a spree of robberies in New York's Times Square and other city landmarks. NYPD officials report that juvenile gang members, some as young as 11, are exploiting lenient laws to avoid jail. Some of these young immigrants have committed over 50 crimes with some involving weapons.
--:-- John Bickley: Despite efforts to crack down on the gang authorities say the group's growing boldness and use of social media to flaunt their crimes make it challenging to deter them.
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--:-- John Bickley: The Virginia governor's office is criticizing what it calls an unprecedented lawsuit by the Justice Department over Governor Glenn Youngkin's executive order to remove non-citizens from voter rolls. The DOJ claims this effort escalates the National Voter Registration Act's quiet period, which prohibits systemic voter roll changes within 90 days of an election.
--:-- Governor Glenn Youngkin: To me, this is unprecedented. And I think it represents a Department of Justice that is trying to achieve something other than fair and free elections. And I have to say, my job as governor is to make sure that the election in Virginia will be fair, will be accurate and will be safe. And that's exactly what I am doing. And I will continue to do it because the Department of Justice is wrong here.
--:-- John Bickley: Former President Donald Trump also called out the DOJ's lawsuit against Virginia during an appearance before the Economic Club of Chicago. I just haven't gotten over something the Justice Department did yesterday, where Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes, and the Justice Department sued them that they should be allowed to put those bad votes and illegal votes back in.
--:-- John Bickley: The lawsuit is part of ongoing national debates over voter integrity and non-voting.
--:-- John Bickley: An investigation and legal proceedings are expected to follow.
--:-- John Bickley: The University of Nevada is distancing themselves from their women's volleyball team's decision to forfeit a game against a team with a trans-identifying male player. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the latest.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The university said in a statement that the team's decision to forfeit against San Jose State was made independently and does not reflect the school's position and also affirmed their commitment to inclusion under state and federal law.
--:-- John Bickley: The statement comes as one of the trans players' teammates at SJSU, Brooke Slusser, publicly praised Nevada's decision to forfeit. Slusser took to social media and said that what Nevada players did took courage, adding that this is a, quote, great step in the right direction for women's sports.
--:-- John Bickley: Walgreens announced plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years. The company, which operates around 8,700 locations, revealed that a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Walgreens has had a tough time weathering high inflation and its stock has dropped 65% this year. CEO Tim Wentworth is leading a turnaround effort, including executive changes and cost reductions. Despite challenges, Walgreens narrowly beat Wall Street's fourth quarter profit expectations.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth reporting on the biggest stories of the day, tune in to our full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
