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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday unanimously rejected the Biden administration’s challenge to a Texas law requiring mail-in ballots to include a state identification number or partial Social Security number.The law invalidates mail-in ballots that do not include the information.In September 2021, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed the Election Integrity and Protection Act into law. It was immediately challenged by the Biden administration and other leftist groups, includ...| www.dailywire.com
The State Department is rolling out a new pilot program that will require some foreign visitors to the United States to pay bonds up to $15,000 for entry. The trial program, announced on Monday, is intended to crack down on the hundreds of thousands of visa overstays that occur every year. The notice from the State Department said that the 12-month pilot program will primarily impact those “who are nationals of countries identified by the Department as having high visa overstay rates” a...| www.dailywire.com
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) may soon move to boot newly-elected Vice Chair David Hogg following a complaint from Native American Kalyn Free, who lost the vice chair race to the Parkland school shooting survivor in February and is now claiming that the election had been discriminatory toward women of color.The DNC, according to a report published Tuesday by Semafor, will meet virtually on May 12 to consider the challenge.“DNC could vote to oust David Hogg. Will hear a challenge n...| www.dailywire.com
The University of Maryland will allow the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine to take over a massive chunk of its campus on October 7, the anniversary of Hamas’ slaughter of 1,200 Israelis.Rabbi Ari Israel, director of the university’s Hillel chapter, told The Daily Wire he expressed concerns about the event to university leadership. SJP held a similar event on Tuesday, the university’s second day of classes, setting up 15,000 flags in the center of campus to “honor the 150,...| www.dailywire.com
Actress Eva Longoria told “The View” co-hosts on Tuesday that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is “good for business” and remains a priority for her.Co-host Joy Behar asked Longoria about her production company as DEI initiatives are being “stripped away” by President Donald Trump’s administration. The former “Desperate Housewives” actress said DEI is both a smart business practice and a “moral” way to push back against “historical exclusion.”“We have to reme...| www.dailywire.com
Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), was convicted on Monday of accepting bribes in a scheme that involved her husband while he was chairing one of the most powerful committees in the Senate.The 58-year-old wife of the former senator was found guilty on 15 counts in the same New York courtroom where her husband was convicted last year, Bloomberg reported. Prosecutors said that Nadine and her 71-year-old husband, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison, were “partner...| www.dailywire.com
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set the record straight on Monday after multiple media outlets had blamed President Donald Trump’s administration for what they claimed was a lack of necessary staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS).Multiple reports have circulated — in the wake of devastating flash flooding in central Texas — suggesting that Trump’s efforts to shrink the size of the federal government through the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had led t...| www.dailywire.com
David Hogg, freshly minted into leadership at the Democratic National Committee, is warning that he plans to push primaries against some members of his own party.Hogg co-founded and is president of Leaders We Deserve, a group dedicated to electing young progressives, which is launching a push to primary House Democrats they view as “out-of-touch” and “ineffective.”The $20 million effort will reportedly attempt to oust House Democrats in deep blue districts and elect younger leaders wh...| www.dailywire.com
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is on the defensive over her direction of $400,000 federal dollars to a youth services organization that gave chest binders to young girls who identify as boys.A new ad from Baldwin’s campaign claims that the senator, who is locked in a tight race with Republican challenger Eric Hovde, “didn’t give funding to a transgender clinic,” but rather secured funding for “a youth homeless shelter.” The ad also claims that children do not undergo sex change s...| www.dailywire.com
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may access sensitive systems in the Department of Treasury after a weeks-long battle.U.S. District Court Judge Jeannette Vargas said that one member of the DOGE team may access sensitive payment and data systems at Treasury as long as that member undergoes training. The member, Ryan Wunderly, would also need to submit a financial disclosure.Vargas’ Friday ruling came nearly two months after she blocked DOGE ...| www.dailywire.com
President Donald Trump’s White House has decided to ignore all emails from reporters who include preferred pronouns as part of their email signatures, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated.“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt wrote in response to an inquiry from a New York Times reporter.Leavitt is not the only Trump administration official who has adopted such a stance. According to a New York Times report, Katie Miller — seni...| www.dailywire.com
Trump ally Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is set to launch her campaign for New York governor, giving Republicans new hope of flipping the traditionally deep blue Empire State, two sources familiar with Stefanik’s thinking told The Hill.“It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,” one source close to Stefanik told The Hill, noting that the congresswoman will announce “at the time and place” of her choosing.As The Daily Wire previously reported, Stefanik has been considering a r...| www.dailywire.com
An illegal alien and suspected member of foreign terror organization Tren de Aragua has been charged with attempted murder of a federal officer after he violently resisted arrest and attacked FBI and Homeland Security agents.The 30-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was hit with the federal charge after he attacked an FBI agent and Homeland Security Investigations agent who attempted to apprehend him in Bellevue, Nebraska.The Department of Justice (DOJ) explained that H...| www.dailywire.com
City comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents on Tuesday at a federal immigration court in Manhattan.Lander, who is running in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary next week, was taken into custody at the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza.Moments before his arrest, Lander had demanded to see a judicial warrant for a man leaving an immigration hearing. Lander grabbed the man’s shoulder and refused to let go as ICE agents tried to drag the man away.“I will let go when ...| www.dailywire.com
R&B recording artist R. Kelly was taken to the hospital after experiencing symptoms of an overdose while spending time in solitary confinement, per an emergency motion for his release.“Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount of medication that significantly exceeded a safe dose and caused Mr. Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy,” the third supplement to the emergency motion filed by his attorney Beau Brindley says.The document also notes how the singer “takes medi...| www.dailywire.com
A female announcer on Iranian state TV had her anti-Israel rant truncated in a spectacular way when the Israel Defense Forces bombed the area near her studio.“What you heard was the voice of the invader of the homeland,” the announcer declared. “The voice of the invader against the voice of truth and justice. What you saw was the voice you heard.”Then, all hell broke loose.An Israeli strike on Iran was caught live on air. pic.twitter.com/EyHI02B45Q— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) June 16...| www.dailywire.com
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been ordered to broaden the “single largest Mass Deportation Operation” in U.S. history, targeting “crime-ridden and dangerous” areas in large Democrat-led cities, President Donald Trump declared on Sunday.Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social after teasing a few days ago that he would ease up on farmers, hotels, and leisure businesses who say they have been hurt by his administration’s immigration crackdow...| www.dailywire.com
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said this week that President Donald Trump’s goal is to significantly cut taxes across the board, and completely eliminate the federal income tax on Americans making under $150,000 annually — which could impact 93% of Americans.Lutnick said the administration wants to have other nations chip in through tariffs and closing overseas tax loopholes so Americans can pay less in taxes. “His goal is to have external revenue,” Lutnick said of Trump, on CBS t...| www.dailywire.com
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota dismissed a reporter on Thursday after she was asked to comment on what FBI officials are calling a terror attack in Washington, D.C.A gunman shot and killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, both members of the Israeli Embassy staff, on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum. Lischinsky and Milgrim, who were soon to be engaged, were at the museum to attend a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee.“I’m going to go for...| www.dailywire.com
On Thursday, the GOP-led Senate voted to overturn a Biden administration move that powered California’s green energy agenda for cars and trucks that 11 other states have sought to adopt.Fifty Republicans and one Democrat banded together to revoke the Clean Air Act waiver the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted in December to the Golden State that allowed it to proceed with a plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered light-duty vehicles by 2035.Because the Republican-controlled House...| www.dailywire.com
More than two weeks after President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive order on Tuesday that she says will cut red tape and make it easier for entertainment professionals to film in her city.The move comes after production has shifted dramatically toward different locations outside the city, including U.S.-based filming spots and foreign countries where it’s cheaper and easier to m...| www.dailywire.com
Former FBI Director James Comey embarked on a media tour to save face after an Instagram post landed him in hot water, and he doubled down on claims that he’d had nothing to do with creating the shell formation he’d photographed during a casual “beach walk” — and that he’d had no idea the term “86” might imply a threat.Comey first found himself at the center of heated conversation when he shared a photo from the beach, showing seashells that “someone” had arranged to form ...| www.dailywire.com
President Trump continued trolling recording artist Bruce Springsteen this week as part of an ongoing feud.The post shared Wednesday morning from his verified X account showed a video clip of Trump swinging his golf club spliced with footage of Springsteen stumbling up a flight of stairs during a concert in 2023.pic.twitter.com/ZuagVWL4KS— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2025This move comes after several days of back and forth. While the two have never been fans of each other, Sp...| www.dailywire.com
Los Angeles and surrounding areas have exploded in riots as anti-immigration enforcement demonstrators, many touting foreign flags, set fires and attack federal officials.The Department of Homeland Security posted a video to social media on Saturday displaying some of the scenes from Los Angeles-area riots that have broken out over immigration enforcement operations taking place.The chaotic scenes from the riots are overlaid with remarks from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass accusing federal immi...| www.dailywire.com
A CNN panel discussion went off the rails on Monday as Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky refused to address a question about former President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive and physical decline — and the lengths to which his White House went to cover that up — without pivoting to complain about current President Donald Trump.As the panel discussed Biden’s term in the White House — in the context of “Original Sin,” the book written by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter A...| www.dailywire.com
This week, the Republican-controlled Senate aims to dismantle the former Biden administration’s move giving California room to implement a green agenda for cars across the country, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) announced on Tuesday.During remarks on the Senate floor, Thune said the upper chamber will take up Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions to overturn Clean Air Act preemption waivers the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted to California, which allowed it to proceed ...| www.dailywire.com
President Trump confirmed on Wednesday evening that some U.S. personnel are moving out of the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.“Well they are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place and we’ll see what happens, but they are— we’ve given notice to move out,” Trump said.He added that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon.”“We are not going to allow that,” he said.Major developments began unfolding in the Middle East on Wednesday, following the announcement ...| www.dailywire.com
University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines threatened to call the police on a Jewish woman for emailing criticism of the school’s response to anti-Semitism, the same week he said freedom of speech meant he couldn’t stop an anti-Israel group from reserving a campus quad on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire.The emails show that on August 24, Pines emailed the woman — the mother of a student, who had never emailed the presi...| www.dailywire.com
The finding of significant past plagiarism comes after Pines this month presented what he said was “faculty research” defending a pro-Palestine rally planned for October 7, but which actually came from ChatGPT.| www.dailywire.com
A new study on “climate anxiety” found that famed child activist Greta Thunberg is not the only young person who has suffered from severe stress as a result of taking dire predictions about the planet by climate alarmists to heart. “Climate anxiety: Survey for BBC Newsround shows children losing sleep over climate change and the ...| www.dailywire.com
President Joe Biden said during an interview that was released on Wednesday that he will consider dropping out of the presidential race if doctors came to him and diagnosed him with a “medical condition.” The 81-year-old, who has insisted that he does not have any major medical issues, is continuing to face calls from within ...| www.dailywire.com
A transgender sprinter, who formerly competed against males in high school, is now competing on his college’s women’s track and field team, and earlier this month set a school record. Sadie Schreiner, who formerly went by Camden Schreiner, is permitted to compete with and against female track and field athletes at Rochester Institute of Technology ...| www.dailywire.com
The majority of voters support state laws banning sex change surgeries on children and trust parents more than teachers on issues of gender and sexuality, according to a poll exclusively shared with The Daily Wire. The poll, conducted by CRC Research for the 85 Fund, found that 67% of voters supported laws that prohibit minors from being put on cross-sex hormones and undergoing sex change surgeries. The poll surveyed 1,600 registered voters across the country from January 3 to 7 and was comp...| www.dailywire.com