YouTube announced Friday that it will demonetize videos from creators that instruct viewers how to create or promote pornographic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> videos.
The new policy will ensure that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> creators teaching viewers how to use AI to create sexually explicit content will not earn ad revenue off the videos. With the explosion of AI in recent years, there have been increasing concerns from lawmakers about the dangers of AI-generated pornography. At the same time, there has been a growing market for individuals to post AI-generated content on pornographic platforms like OnlyFans.
YouTube updated its advertiser-friendly <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidelines</a> to clarify that “promoting the creation or distribution of content that has been digitally altered or generated to be sexually explicit or to contain nudity” is not ad-friendly.
This includes videos “providing instructions on how to create or distribute sexually explicit synthetic content or synthetic content containing nudity” and “promoting the creation of sexually explicit synthetic content or synthetic content containing nudity, such as endorsements or comparisons of deepfake pornography services.”
This would include videos that instruct people how to make AI-generated OnlyFans accounts. According to the third-party plugin vidIQ, there are 800,000 average views per video found when searching &#8220;AI only fans business.&#8221; The highest views for a video with those guidelines is over 5.1 million, and the average subscriber total for channels featuring related content is nearly 700,000.
Current videos on YouTube on related content <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ai+only+fans+creator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">include</a> titles like “$30k+ with Ai OnlyFans Models | is this Legal? (how to create ai onlyfans models &amp; avoid jail),” “$5 Million per Month AI Side Hustle Video on Onlyfans using SORA!,” and “AI influencers are getting filthy rich&#8230; let&#8217;s build one.”
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YouTube also added an updated definition of “deepfakes,” defining it as “synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated to replace one person&#8217;s likeness convincingly with that of another.”
“We are updating the YouTube <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en">Advertiser-friendly guidelines</a> to make it clear that we do not allow ads to run on any content promoting services that create synthetic sexually-explicit content,” a YouTube spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The spokesman added that much of this content was already prohibited under YouTube’s Community Guidelines.
The updates to its advertiser guidelines come as lawmakers have grown increasingly wary of the potential dangers of AI. Earlier this year, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cruz-introduces-bill-protecting-victims-from-deepfake-revenge-porn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a bill that would criminalize the publication of non-consensual AI-generated deepfake pornography, while <a href="https://fox59.com/news/national-world/what-state-laws-protect-kids-against-ai-generated-deepfakes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many states</a> have moved to ban AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery.

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Federal authorities have arrested a leftist Democratic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-boston-city-councilwomans-rhetoric-is-so-vitriolic-that-it-disturbs-democratic-colleagues-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">city councilwoman</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston</a> after being accused of defrauding the city and giving kickbacks to a family member on her staff. 
Tania Fernandes Anderson, who immigrated to the U.S. illegally from Cape Verde, was <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/12/06/boston-city-councilor-arrested-by-feds-on-corruption-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> by the Justice Department with five counts of wire fraud and one count of stealing federal funds, including a charge for providing a $13,000 bonus to an unnamed relative she employed at city hall. The two allegedly shared the money.
&#8220;The charges stem from an alleged kickback scheme she orchestrated to obtain several thousand dollars in taxpayer money in exchange for bribes paid,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-city-councilor-tania-fernandes-anderson-arrest/3570143/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy on Friday. 
The indictment alleged that at the time of the illegal activity, Fernandes Anderson was “facing personal financial difficulty,” including missing rent and car payments and a civil penalty from her previous ethics violation, in which she was fined for hiring her sister and son.
Prosecutors say that Fernandes Anderson hatched a scheme to hire a family member and pay them a $13,000 bonus. An email included in the indictment shows her falsely claiming to a Boston official that the staffer was not related to her. Investigators said Fernandes Anderson took $7,000 in cash during a drop in a city hall bathroom.
&#8220;On or about June 9, 2023, at approximately 4:11 p.m., Staff Member A texted Fernandes Anderson, ‘Bathroom’ to let Fernandes Anderson know that Staff Member A was waiting in the bathroom to hand the $7,000 cash to Fernandes Anderson,&#8221; the indictment said. &#8220;Within seconds, Fernandes Anderson texted Staff Member A, ‘Ready&#8217; to confirm that Fernandes Anderson was ready to accept the $7,000 cash kickback from Staff Member A.”
&#8220;When they met in that bathroom, Ms. Fernandes Anderson put $7,000 in her pocket,&#8221; Levy said. &#8220;All of that money was funded by the taxpayers of Boston.&#8221;
The indictment also accused Fernandes Anderson of embezzling money from a federal grant program meant for the city of Boston. 
On Wednesday, after news broke that she may have been under investigation, Fernandes Anderson <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-city-councilor-tania-fernandes-anderson-reacts-to-reported-federal-probe/3567998/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she couldn’t comment on the allegations. 
&#8220;To my people, District 7 constituents: You know that I am always transparent with you and always available. My job is to show up and fight for you, and I will continue to do just that&#8211;the people&#8217;s work,&#8221; the city councilor said. &#8220;Unfortunately, I am not able to comment on this matter at this time. As soon as I can, I will be sure to share more with you.&#8221;
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Fernandes Anderson, who was elected in 2021, has become known for her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-boston-city-councilwomans-rhetoric-is-so-vitriolic-that-it-disturbs-democratic-colleagues-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially charged rhetoric</a> and calls for “a revolution” to combat “systemic racism.” 
“I can’t even call you cowards because desperation deserves mercy. Your votes here sometimes are racist … I am here to represent every black woman and man in the community … What the f*** do I have to do in this f***ing council to get respect as a black woman,” Fernandes Anderson said to fellow council members during a meeting in August 2023.
She was set to appear before a federal judge Friday afternoon.

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced Thursday evening two new picks to help carry out his planned crackdown on illegal immigration and secure the border. 
Trump said Rodney Scott would be the Customs and Border Protection commissioner, and Caleb Vitello would be the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He previously announced that former acting ICE Director Tom Homan would be his &#8220;border czar&#8221; and oversee mass deportation operations. 
Scott, who has almost three decades of experience with Border Patrol, would be back in the same position he held during Trump’s first term. Under Trump, Scott implemented policies like Remain-in-Mexico, where asylum seekers would have to stop in the first available country, and Title 42, a measure to turn back illegal immigrants due to concerns about COVID. 
“As the Chief, he led over 22,000 personnel, and was responsible for securing the International Borders of the U.S. between the official ports of entry,” Trump posted. “After retiring, Rodney has continued to educate politicians and the public about the importance of meaningful Border Security.”
Scott left the position during the Biden administration and later endorsed Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign. 
“President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice,” Scott <a href="https://www.bpchiefscott.com/speaking-the-truth-with-facts-and-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in an October letter. “When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted.”
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In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump said that Vitello would serve as the acting director of ICE. As ICE&#8217;s assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs, Vitello currently assists with training, equipment, safety, and policy. Previously, he was the chief of staff for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, supervising all daily operations and communications. 
“Caleb’s exceptional leadership, extensive experience, and commitment to ICE’s mission make him an excellent choice to implement my efforts to enhance the safety and security of American communities who have been victimized by illegal alien crime,” Trump posted 
Trump has vowed to secure the border and enact the largest deportation operation in American history, starting with those illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories who have entered the country unlawfully.

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Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban doctors from performing life-altering and irreversible <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender procedures</a> on kids across the country.
Marshall put forth the “<a href="https://www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/KEN245791.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Safeguarding The Overall Protection of Minors Act</a>’’ to block doctors from giving kids puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which can cause infertility, reduce bone density, and damage heart health. The legislation would also ban transgender surgeries for kids, including genital surgeries and removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys.
According to the text of the bill, doctors could be assessed a civil fine of up to $100,000 if they “knowingly perform, attempt to perform, conspire to perform, or provide a referral for any gender transition procedure on a minor.”
“Americans resoundingly rejected the Left’s dangerous transgender agenda. Let’s call it exactly what it is: child abuse,” Marshall, a doctor, said in a statement. “The days of demented doctors and activists getting rich off of mutilating, sterilizing, and castrating children are over.”
“Our legislation keeps children’s safety paramount by prohibiting anyone from performing, facilitating, or even conspiring to give these irreversible therapies and procedures to minors,” Marshall added. “This bill is just the beginning of what’s to come with President Trump at the helm and our unwavering commitment to protecting children from transgender activists’ twisted and criminal agenda.”
The proposed legislation would also allow anyone on whom a gender procedure was performed to sue in United States district court for proper relief. Additionally, the bill would authorize the attorney general to set up a grant program for individuals attempting to undo the impacts of transgender procedures.
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Marshall has been an opponent of transgender ideology, previously introducing bills to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-sen-marshall-pushes-to-define-male-and-female-in-biological-truth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">define male and female</a> in biology and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-republicans-demand-who-chief-disband-activist-panel-on-transgenderism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushing back</a> on the World Health Organization’s embrace of transgender activists. His bill was introduced the same day that Tennessee defended its ban on transgender procedures for minors before the Supreme Court.
While over two dozen states across the country have moved to protect kids from transgender medical procedures, Republicans in Kansas have so far failed. Earlier this year, they came just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kansas-ban-on-child-transgender-medicalization-fails-to-beat-veto-after-two-gop-lawmakers-flip-votes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two votes short</a> in the state House of overriding Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of their legislation.
Stop the Harm, a <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/state/kansas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">database</a> that tracks where transgender procedures have been done on children across the country, records that there have been 71 puberty and cross-sex hormone child patients in Kansas and 22 surgery patients since 2019.

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The House Homeland Security Committee plans to interview a second FEMA employee about a former supervisor&#8217;s instruction for relief workers to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fema-fires-official-who-told-hurricane-relief-workers-to-skip-trump-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skip homes</a> in Florida displaying Trump flags or signs, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-TN) sent the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/2024-12-05-Green-et-al-to-Hershey-re-Transcribed-Interview_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> Thursday afternoon to Chad Hershey, the supervisor of  former FEMA employee Marn&#8217;i Washington, who ordered workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” The request to Hershey comes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-to-question-fired-fema-supervisor-over-guidance-to-skip-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one day</a> after the committee interviewed Washington, who issued the Trump home guidance both verbally and in a text message. 
“The Committee seeks to uncover the complete nature and extent of FEMA’s misconduct in withholding federal assistance from Americans based on political affiliation,” Green wrote. “Your observations and experience as Ms. Washington’s Task Force Lead for the Disaster Survival Assistance Task Force are vital to the Committee’s investigation.”
The letter was also signed by Reps. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY). 
Citing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">reports</a> from The Daily Wire, Green wrote that Hershey should schedule a transcribed interview with the committee by December 9. Green indicated that the committee wanted to ask Hershey about comments she made in interviews after she was fired over the guidance, saying that he had directed her to issue the guidance. 
“In an interview following her termination, Ms. Washington claimed that her instructions to FEMA workers were not exceptional, but rather that you, as her direct supervisor, instructed her to avoid homes that had signs bearing support for President-elect Donald J. Trump to avoid ‘community trends of political hostility,’” Green wrote. 
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When first contacted by The Daily Wire, Hershey said that he was “aware” of the situation with the Trump guidance, and that it was being looked into. 
“We are aware of it and we are taking proper action in this situation currently,” Hershey said last month, adding that “we are taking action at this moment regarding the situation that you’re talking about.” 
Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped due to the guidance. Those homes have since been visited by relief workers, according to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. 
Since the first story broke, other whistleblowers have alleged FEMA misconduct toward Trump supporters in Georgia and North Carolina.

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CNN interviewed three transgender-identifying children and their moms on Wednesday as Tennessee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-appears-poised-to-uphold-tennessee-law-protecting-kids-from-trans-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended its ban</a> on irreversible transgender procedures on minors before the Supreme Court. 
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/video/transgender-kids-parents-supreme-court-arizona-kafanov-digvid?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel,</a> hosted by CNN’s Lucy Kafanov, featured the parents of the gender-confused children repeating transgender activist talking points and expressing fear about the incoming Trump administration. Kafanov prompted the panelists with questions about the $200 million Republicans spent on “anti-trans” ads during the last election, and asked them how they were “coping” with Trump’s election.  
“I don’t know what kind of care my kids are going to need in the future, but I also believe in body autonomy and parental rights and so my kids deserve access to the same life-saving care that other cisgender kids are receiving without politicians interfering,” Hazel Heinzer claimed. 
The claims about “live-saving” care were echoed by another mom who pointed to the “suicide rate of trans youth.”
Activists often tell parents that they can either have a living child with the procedures or a dead child without. But research <a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actually shows</a> that the procedures can actually increase the likelihood that minors will attempt suicide.
Paul Dupont, the communications director of the American Principles Project, told The Daily Wire that the entire segment was a dishonest push for transgender ideology.
&#8220;If there&#8217;s anyone still wondering why people are increasingly abandoning outlets like CNN, this segment should be Exhibit A,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a perfect example of the blatant propaganda still being pushed by legacy news on an issue where public opinion has moved strongly against them.&#8221;
Michelle Callahan-Dumont, another one of the moms, said her child asked her three “frightening” questions after Trump won. She said that the child asked, “Are we going to have to move?&#8221;, &#8220;Are they going to take me away from you?” and “Am I not going to be able to get my medicine?”
Callahan-Dumont later told The Daily Signal that her child, a 10-year-old boy who identifies as a girl, “knew since birth” that he identified as transgender. 
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After yesterday&#8217;s SCOTUS hearing determining if states can ban trans procedures for kids, <a href="https://twitter.com/DailySignal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailySignal</a> interviewed a family who claimed their son knew he was a trans girl since BIRTH🤱
Little did we know the family had already used their child for <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> stardom. <a href="https://t.co/ytyWVk77Qn">https://t.co/ytyWVk77Qn</a> <a href="https://t.co/ikwF8sme5l">pic.twitter.com/ikwF8sme5l</a>
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Callahan-Dumont’s child told CNN that he was scared of being shot in the street because of his identity. He said that he was afraid “that I’m going to be murdered, like one day I’m going be walking down the street and somebody&#8217;s going to come up and shoot me or something.”
The child said it made him “literally dead inside” when Republicans campaigned against performing transgender procedures on kids. 
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Kafanov later asked the panel how it impacted their childhood by having “to fight for your right to exist.”
One of the kids responded, “my childhood is honestly kind of ruined” by having to deal with &#8220;so many like racist, anti-trans” people.
Lizette Trujillo said that her 17-year-old child has been lobbying since the age of 9, saying that she had spent the “majority” of her life “defending” her &#8220;existence.&#8221; 
“I think that they would focus on real things, like climate change, instead of using our identities as a pawn just to get votes or just to stay in an office,” the child said about what she wished politicians would work on. 
Dupont told The Daily Wire that Kafanov&#8217;s framing of the issue was a cynical effort to use distressed children.
&#8220;The saddest part about this segment is that it is &#8216;journalists&#8217; like Kafanov who have been central in convincing transgender-identifying children like these that their lives are in danger,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;By framing conservative efforts to protect kids as threatening their &#8216;right to exist,&#8217; Kafanov and her ilk have done more to terrorize these children than anyone else. And CNN&#8217;s decision to put these clearly distressed kids on national television only serves to validate concerns that they are being used to advance the cause of gender ideology with zero regard for their own well-being.&#8221;

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Texas Congressman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> demanded Thursday that the FBI and Justice Department preserve all records of its prosecutions of peaceful pro-life protesters across the country.
Roy said in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/2024-12-05-Roy-Biggs-to-Garland-Wray-re-FACE-Act-follow-up.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland that lawmakers had “serious questions” about the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that made it a federal crime to block the entrance of an abortion facility. Thursday’s letter, first shared with The Daily Wire, comes after the FBI ignored a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chip-roy-demands-biden-harris-admin-preserve-records-of-peaceful-pro-lifers-prosecutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar request</a> from Roy in October. 
Roy, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, said that the need to keep records was “imperative” with the outgoing Biden administration and incoming Trump administration. The letter was also signed by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Surveillance. 
“Congress has a sacred duty to preserve the rights of the American people, including the First Amendment, against any overreach by the Executive Branch,” Roy and Biggs wrote. “As we examine how to best protect Americans’ fundamental freedoms, the Subcommittees must first understand how the DOJ and FBI enforce the FACE Act.”
As written, the FACE Act is meant to protect both churches and crisis pregnancy centers. However, the Biden administration has disproportionately used it to go after pro-lifers despite an increase in targeting of pregnancy centers after Roe v. Wade was overturned. 
“However, since January 2021, the Civil Rights Division has brought a total of 24 FACE Act cases against 55 defendants, with only two of these cases — consisting of five defendants — concerning attacks on pregnancy resource centers,” Roy wrote. “You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry.” 
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Pro-lifers are imprisoned across the country, including in Washington, D.C.. and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifer-spending-thanksgiving-in-prison-grateful-for-opportunity-a-doj-sponsored-mission-trip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a>, after they were successfully prosecuted by the Biden administration under the FACE Act. 
During his time in Congress, Roy has consistently pushed for the FACE Act to be repealed and has introduced legislation to end the law. Data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-doj-seeks-jail-time-for-pro-lifers-convicted-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> that 97% of all prosecutions of the FACE Act since its inception have been against pro-lifers.

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Acting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a> Director Ronald Rowe is set to testify Thursday morning before a House task force investigating the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Rowe will be questioned by a 13-member independent panel that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-finds-secret-service-responsible-for-preventable-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a report</a> in October finding the Secret Service responsible for the “preventable” attempt on Trump’s life. Rowe is expected to tell lawmakers that disciplinary actions are being taken for the lapses that allowed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to get within 150 yards of Trump and shoot him in the ear during a rally in Butler on July 13.
&#8220;Employees receiving proposals of discipline will be provided due process under agency policy as well as any applicable laws and regulations. But, let me be clear, there will be accountability, and that accountability is occurring,” Rowe will say, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/accountability-occurring-us-secret-service-director-house-panel/story?id=116467833" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a copy of his prepared remarks shared with ABC. “Consistent with applicable laws and regulations, I cannot comment further on specific disciplinary actions underway or being considered.&#8221;
Rowe will also say that the agency has made several major changes to securing locations, including more coordination with law enforcement partners. At the Butler rally, numerous communication errors delayed law enforcement&#8217;s response to Crooks, who had been identified as a person of interest more than an hour before he opened fire. 
&#8220;My goal is to improve our mission effectiveness and rebuild public trust,&#8221; according to Rowe&#8217;s written testimony. &#8220;One of the key systemic changes was the directive to mandate a unified command in a singular location for all protective sites, something that was not done on July 13th in Butler. This co-location enhances our communications and intelligence-sharing mechanisms with state, local and federal partners to better anticipate threats and respond to them more swiftly.&#8221;
Other changes implemented, according to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-assassination-attempt-secret-service-acting-director-reveals-numerous-changes-agency-has-implemented" target="_blank" rel="noopener">copy</a> of his remarks shared with Fox News, included using more drones, ensuring radios are in order, and increasing staffing levels for agents protecting Trump.
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Rowe’s prepared testimony says the Butler rally, where Trump was shot, supporter Corey Comperatore was killed, and two other rallygoers were injured, exposed &#8220;critical gaps” in the Secret Service’s operations and was an &#8220;abject failure.&#8221; 
&#8220;July 13th was a failure of the Secret Service to adequately secure the Butler Farm Show site and protect President-elect Trump,&#8221; Rowe is expected to say. &#8220;While I cannot undo the harm that has been done, I am committed to doing everything in my power to ensure that the Secret Service never has a failure like this again.&#8221;
In its report, the House panel faulted the Secret Service for failing to secure the roof from where Crooks fired at Trump and setting up a security perimeter that allowed people to get within around 150 yards of the stage where Trump was speaking without going through security screening. 
Investigations by both the Senate and an independent panel formed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have also found the Secret Service liable for the attack.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> seems poised to reject a challenge from the Biden administration and the ACLU to Tennessee’s law shielding minors from irreversible transgender procedures, according to comments made by justices <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proponents-of-transgender-procedures-make-shocking-admissions-before-scotus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during oral arguments</a> on Wednesday.
Throughout oral arguments on Wednesday morning, the conservative justices were skeptical of arguments from U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and the ACLU, who argued that Tennessee’s law violated the 14th Amendment. The law prevents doctors from giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which come with a variety of long-term health risks.
Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito strongly pushed back against Prelogar and the ACLU, with Alito pointing to data contradicting claims that transgender procedures were necessary to keep kids from committing suicide. Alito also pointed to recent decisions in the United Kingdom to restrict transgender procedures for minors.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts also seemed hesitant to weigh in against Tennessee.
&#8220;It strikes me as a pretty heavy yellow light, if not red light, for this court to come in, the nine of us, and to constitutionalize the whole area, when the rest of the world, or at least the people who the countries that have been at the forefront of this, are pumping the brakes on this kind of treatment,&#8221; Kavanaugh said.
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Both Kavanaugh and Roberts said that it seemed like it might be best to leave the issue to the states.
&#8220;If the Constitution doesn&#8217;t take sides, if there&#8217;s strong, forceful, scientific policy arguments on both sides in a situation like this, why isn&#8217;t it best to leave it to the democratic process?&#8221; Kavanaugh asked.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not the best situated to address issues like that,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t that make a stronger case for us to leave those determinations to the legislative bodies rather than try to determine them for ourselves?&#8221;
The liberal justices on the court, including Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, both seemed like they would move to strike down Tennessee&#8217;s law. Jackson tried to compare the law to old laws that prevented interracial marriage.
Headlines from the legacy media predicted that the law would be upheld. NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-tackles-state-bans-treatments-transgender-youth-rcna182517">wrote</a>, “Supreme Court skeptical of challenge to Tennessee ban on transgender youth treatments,” while CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/scotus-transgender-care-ban-12-04-24/index.html">wrote</a>, “During arguments, SCOTUS conservative majority appears ready to endorse Tennessee law.”

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Proponents of transgender procedures on children made three stunning admissions on Wednesday as they argued against a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> law protecting children from the irreversible procedures before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court.</a> 
The admissions — that cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, that people regret the procedures, and that transgender procedures aren’t associated with lower suicide rates — undercut leftist activists&#8217; core arguments that the procedures are necessary and lifesaving. 
These revelations were made as justices heard oral arguments in the case brought by the Biden administration and the ACLU against Tennessee for a law that shields children from transgender procedures like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. 
The outcome of the case could have nationwide implications and affect the over two dozen states that passed similar laws. The ACLU and the Biden administration argue that Tennessee’s law is a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. 
During arguments, Justice Brett Kavanaugh pressed Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about the side effects of putting children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. 
“I want to acknowledge gender-affirming care with respect to hormones can have some impacts on fertility,” Prelogar said in response to Kavanaugh. “With respect to hormone use, there are effects on fertility.” 
She then claimed that a lower court “found” that “many individuals who are transgender” can maintain their fertility. 
“There are measures they can undertake and they have to be counseled on those risks. As I said before, I can understand that could be a hard tradeoff but it’s not unique to this care,” she asserted. 
Cross-sex hormones have been shown to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
Later, during arguments, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, a woman who identifies as a man, admitted that the data on suicide and transgender procedures wasn’t as clear as pro-transgender activists have previously claimed. Proponents of transgender ideology have claimed that so-called “gender-affirming care” is life-saving, and told parents that they can either have a living child with the treatments or a dead child without. 
This claim was referenced by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, but Justice Samuel Alito pressed Strangio on the link to suicide and what the available data showed. 
Strangio first claimed that it was “clearly established in the science” that the medications reduced the risk of suicide. 
In response, Alito pointed to research from the Cass Review produced by the NHS in the United Kingdom that said that “there is no evidence that gender-affirming treatments reduce suicide.”
Strangio replied by saying that &#8220;there is no evidence in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide” but claimed that the procedures would reduce suicidal thoughts.
Recent research <a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide">has shown</a> that, contrary to these claims, transgender procedures can actually increase the likelihood that minors will attempt suicide.
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During oral arguments, both Strangio and Prelogar admitted that there are people who regret undergoing transgender procedures. They both claimed that this was a “smaller” number of people than “those who benefit and find it medically necessary.” 
This would contradict a growing movement of “detransitioners” who have come out and opposed transgender procedures on children. 
Chloe Cole, who was put on cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and had a double mastectomy as a teenager, has become one of the most outspoken advocates against transgender procedures on women. 
“This case really means everything to me,” Cole <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-transgender-supreme-court-case-means-everything-to-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire before the case, “because if a law like this were in place in my state while I was growing up, if this were just federally banned across the board when I was going through this, this never would have happened to me.” 
After the arguments wrapped, analysts predicted that the Court would likely not overturn Tennessee&#8217;s protections.

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The House Homeland Security Committee will interview the fired FEMA supervisor who ordered relief workers in Florida to skip homes with Trump flags or signs, a committee spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
The committee on Tuesday will interview Marn’i Washington, who was fired last month by FEMA after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that she had ordered relief workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump&#8221; as they canvassed after Hurricane Milton. Since the story broke, Washington has claimed that FEMA made her a scapegoat, and that it is agency policy to skip “politically hostile” homes. 
Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-to-question-fired-fema-supervisor-over-guidance-to-skip-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> Friday that Washington schedule a transcribed interview to discuss her accusations against FEMA and her guidance in Florida. 
“While FEMA may maintain that this was an isolated incident, you suggested in a recent interview that this practice of discrimination was widespread throughout FEMA, including in disaster response efforts in North Carolina,” Green wrote. &#8220;Government discrimination against American citizens based on a political sign or flag promoting a particular candidate is not only an outrageous abuse of power and a serious betrayal of the public trust, but a direct violation of the First Amendment.&#8221;
Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped in Lake Placid due to Washington’s guidance. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell confirmed this number during congressional testimony and said that agency staff had visited the neglected homes to register survivors after the story broke. 
Criswell told lawmakers that the incident was isolated, contradicting Washington’s comments in media interviews and allegations from other whistleblowers. One whistleblower <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-alleges-fema-advised-georgia-hurricane-victims-to-remove-trump-signs-comer-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the House Oversight Committee that a FEMA supervisor in Georgia directed a family to remove Trump campaign signage from their home, saying it was not “looked kindly” on by the agency. 
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On Tuesday, lawmakers on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-ask-for-probe-into-allegations-fema-skipped-entire-neighborhoods-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> in a letter to Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari that they had heard whistleblower reports from North Carolina alleging whole neighborhoods had been skipped over if there were three or more Trump signs in them. 
“In North Carolina, the Committee is aware of reports of FEMA employees skipping any home that displayed a ‘Make America Great Again,’ ‘Drain the Swamp,’ ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or Trump campaign sign. If the FEMA field team encountered three or more of these signs, the field team could abandon the entire neighborhood without notifying hurricane victims of assistance available to them,” Committee Chair Sam Graves and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) wrote. 
FEMA has yet to respond to any of the follow up allegations, but maintain that they are still investigating Washington’s guidance.

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House Republicans on Tuesday called for the inspector general to open up an “immediate” investigation into FEMA over allegations that relief workers skipped the homes of Trump supporters throughout Florida and North Carolina, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves (R-MO) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/2024-12-03-Letter-to-DHS-IG-re-FEMA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari probe allegations that fired FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington&#8217;s instructions to “avoid homes advertising Trump” in Lake Placid, Florida, may have been part of a broader agency policy. 
“The Committee is requesting that you immediately open an investigation into the multiple allegations of the deliberate avoidance of homes with Trump campaign or political signs during the agency’s response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton,” Graves and Perry wrote, citing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> from The Daily Wire. 
Aside from Washington’s guidance, the lawmakers said that they were aware of allegations that FEMA workers bypassed entire neighborhoods in North Carolina where Trump supporters lived.
“In North Carolina, the Committee is aware of reports of FEMA employees skipping any home that displayed a ‘Make America Great Again,’ ‘Drain the Swamp,’ ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or Trump campaign sign. If the FEMA field team encountered three or more of these signs, the field team could abandon the entire neighborhood without notifying hurricane victims of assistance available to them,” the lawmakers wrote. 
This information came from whistleblower conversations with lawmakers on the committee.
“The Committee is increasingly concerned that this discriminatory practice of avoidance was more widespread than reported, and could have harmed victims who may still be unaware of the Federal relief benefits available to them,” they added. 
Testifying on Capitol Hill last month, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said that she believed the incident in Florida to be isolated and denied that FEMA had any &#8220;proactive&#8221; policies that would lead employees to skip homes. 
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When <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whos-lying-top-republican-not-satisfied-with-fema-answers-on-trump-home-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> by Perry during her testimony before the subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, Criswell said that she would request an investigation from the inspector general. Later that same day, Criswell told the House Oversight Committee that she had requested an “independent” investigation from Cuffari’s office. 
On Monday, the inspector general&#8217;s office told The Daily Wire it couldn’t comment on any potential investigation. 
“To protect the integrity of our work, and consistent with federal guidelines, DHS OIG does not comment on investigative matters,” a spokesman for the office said.

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