Former NFL head coach Jon Gruden spoke at President Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, urging voters to back Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH).
Gruden was born in Sandusky and played quarterback at the University of Dayton. He told the crowd at Vandalia-Butler High School that his home state was what brought him there.
&#8220;I came back for one reason,&#8221; Gruden said. &#8220;I&#8217;m from Ohio. My mom and dad are from Cleveland. I was born in Sandusky and I went to the University of Dayton and I&#8217;m damn proud of it, man!&#8221;
Gruden won Super Bowl XXXVII with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He and Husted played together on Dayton&#8217;s 1985 team. Gruden described the senator as a skilled defender — &#8220;He intercepted 17 passes on the gridiron&#8221; — and said Husted&#8217;s work ethic carried over into public life. &#8220;He will never quit on you or anybody,&#8221; Gruden said.
He then made a pitch for turnout. &#8220;Early voting starts Tuesday,&#8221; Gruden said. &#8220;Get your friends and get their friends and their friends and let&#8217;s get Husted back in action!&#8221;
Trump has golfed with Gruden and called him &#8220;one of my favorite coaches in the whole world.&#8221; He also called him &#8220;a winner.&#8221; Trump joked that he hadn&#8217;t known about Husted&#8217;s football career until Gruden brought it up. &#8220;Nobody told me you were a great athlete,&#8221; the president said.
The stop was part of Trump&#8217;s pre-midterm tour, which has taken him to Oklahoma and Alabama this week. Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy also spoke. He faces Democrat Amy Acton, Ohio&#8217;s former health director.
Husted was appointed in January 2025 to the seat Vice President JD Vance left open. He is now in a close special election against former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost Ohio&#8217;s other seat to Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024. Brown&#8217;s campaign drove a mobile billboard around Dayton on Saturday blaming Husted for higher gas prices tied to the Iran war.
The appearance was a rare move into electoral politics for Gruden. He resigned as Las Vegas Raiders coach in October 2021 after the publication of emails he had written years earlier that contained non-politically correct language. He later sued the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, alleging that the league leaked the messages to force him out. The league denies this, and a jury trial is scheduled for May 2027 in Las Vegas.

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The co-pilot accused of attacking his captain aboard an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight last week used the cockpit&#8217;s own emergency crash axe and was attempting a terrorist attack, United Arab Emirates authorities said Saturday.
UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi <a href="https://www.emirates247.com/uae/uae-attorney-general-terrorist-plot-behind-flydubai-flight-fz1073-incident-co-pilot-attacked-pilot/6297">told</a> the country&#8217;s state news agency that investigators had determined the co-pilot set out to commit a &#8220;terrorist act&#8221; aboard Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30. It was the first time officials had identified the weapon. Initial passenger accounts had reportedly pointed to a knife.
Large commercial aircraft generally carry a crash axe that crews can use to cut their way out of the cockpit during an emergency.
About two and a half hours into the trip, the Boeing 737 MAX dropped sharply and broadcast a general emergency code before switching to the code for unlawful interference, or hijacking, Israel scrambled fighter jets, and once the cockpit was secured the plane diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. There were 174 passengers on board, 27 of them children, nearly all of them Israeli, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLPZ1NJav4o">according</a> to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-bloodied-pilot-stabbed-in-terror-attack-who-kept-fighting-to-save-passengers">reported</a> that Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, got the cockpit door open despite his wounds, letting in two off-duty pilots who landed the aircraft. Passengers restrained the co-pilot.
Machchhar joined FlyDubai in 2022 after 11 years at SpiceJet and has logged more than 9,750 hours on Boeing 737s, <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyeibn9qgx">according</a> to Ynet Global.
He was airlifted to Abu Dhabi after initial treatment in Tabuk, and the Indian embassy in the UAE said Thursday he was recovering well. Speaking to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi by video from his hospital bed, he said he was on the floor, injured, when he felt the plane descending.&#8221;I told myself to go for one last push to open the door from inside,&#8221; he said.
Netanyahu has said the attacker was an Omani national. CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/world/flydubai-attacker-pilot-intl">reported</a> his name as Hamam al-Hammami, but officials have not confirmed it. The outlet also reported that Oman Air pulled him out of flight training over concerns about radical views. Netanyahu told Fox News that once subdued, the man begged the crew to kill him, and he said it appeared highly likely the co-pilot meant to bring the plane down.
FlyDubai has suspended all flights to and from Israel until the investigation is finished, and UAE authorities say they are still working to establish the attacker&#8217;s motives and any wider conditions.

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The U.S. Coast Guard is combing the Atlantic off Nantucket for a medical transport jet with six people aboard after air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston.
The Federal Aviation Administration alerted the Coast Guard at roughly 2 a.m. that it could no longer reach the aircraft, a Gulfstream G100 with the tail number C-GRJP, according to the Coast Guard&#8217;s Northeast District. FlightAware <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/CGRJP/history">data</a> shows the jet left Bermuda International Airport at 11:41 p.m. Eastern on Friday.
&#8220;Air &amp; surface crews have launched in search of the aircraft. Updates will be provided here as info becomes available,&#8221; the district posted on X.
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The search includes an HC-144 Ocean Sentry patrol plane and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Brant Point on Nantucket.
The &#8220;C-&#8221; prefix on the tail number marks the jet as Canadian-registered. The jet belongs to Latitude Air Ambulance, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coast-guard-searching-nantucket-missing-jet-bermuda-boston-rcna601265">according</a> to NBC10 Boston. The company, based at Hamilton International Airport in Ontario, specializes in long-distance medical evacuations and patient repatriations. A listing with EURAMI, a European air ambulance accreditation body, describes Latitude&#8217;s fleet as five aircraft, three of them Astra SPX or G100 jets equipped for intensive care.
The G100 is a twin-engine business jet originally developed in Israel.
Authorities have not released the names of those on board or said whether a patient was among them. No wreckage has been publicly reported as of Saturday morning.
This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.

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President Donald Trump shared a video of Ben Shapiro&#8217;s weekend interview with Mark Levin that begins with a full-throated endorsement of Run Hide Fight: Infidels, the Daily Wire&#8217;s latest action film that was produced by Shapiro.
At the top of the interview, Levin calls the film &#8220;fantastic&#8221; and praises it for avoiding the sort of political correctness that plagues almost everything coming out of Hollywood today. Levin also says in the clip that he &#8220;cannot recommend it enough&#8221; and calls it a &#8220;tour de force,&#8221; before asking Shapiro to lay out why the Daily Wire made it.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of fun, and it also makes a really important point,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;It is the only movie that I think that&#8217;s been made in the last twenty years, essentially, that tells the truth about what radical Islam actually does, but does it in a fun and entertaining way.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump?gsid=0ef48d72-f8ab-4c33-ab4e-1f2472204583">posted</a> the full clip on Sunday morning to his 13 million followers on Truth Social, which also includes discussion of the Republican midterm strategy and the Iran war. The president, a frequent cable news viewer, has been known to post clips from news coverage that he endorses, often after watching it air.
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Shapiro said a friend had likened the film to a cross between Red Dawn and Blazing Saddles. In the story, terrorists commandeer a pro-Hamas student protest, seize an American university, and set up a &#8220;mini caliphate&#8221; on campus. Jonathan Majors stars as Clay Saunders, a retired Delta Force operator who teams up with a band of students to fight back.
&#8220;The point of view of the movie is that radical Islam is indeed a real threat, and the radical Muslims in the film act like actual radical Muslims,&#8221; Shapiro said, citing a widely shared clip in which the terrorists throw a gay student from a rooftop. &#8220;That&#8217;s what would happen if ISIS were to take over an American campus. &#8216;Queers for Palestine&#8217; would end up at the bottom of the building, in reality.&#8221;
Levin ends the interview praising The Daily Wire for using entertainment to get a message out there to new audiences. Shapiro told viewers that it is the first entry in the company&#8217;s new entertainment strategy. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got much more coming,&#8221; he said.
Trump has since his first run for president consistently railed against &#8220;radical Islamic terrorism.&#8221;
Infidels premiered on September 16. It is written and directed by Kyle Rankin, and produced by Shapiro and Dallas Sonnier. It is a standalone follow-up to 2020&#8217;s Run Hide Fight, which was the Daily Wire&#8217;s first feature film.
Majors, who played a starring role in Marvel&#8217;s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jonathan-majors-stands-behind-his-run-hide-fight-infidels-role">told the New York Post last week</a> that he saw the role as a chance to grow as an artist. Majors said his character has big responsibilities in the film, and that he thought, “I’d love to play that.”
“Run Hide Fight: Infidels” is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently streaming on The Daily Wire</a>.

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Two mass shootings carried out roughly four hours apart left at least 27 people dead in South Africa over the weekend, pushing the death toll from township massacres this week to at least 38.
The deadlier attack began around 9:30 p.m. Saturday in Wedela, a township in Gauteng province&#8217;s West Rand mining district. Police said eight men carrying AK-47s and handguns fired on patrons drinking outside a tavern, then went inside and kept shooting. Seventeen people — 13 men and four women — were killed and 15 others were wounded. The gunmen took cellphones from some victims before leaving in two vehicles. Two other cars were set on fire at the scene.
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Shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, attackers struck a shisanyama — a barbecue spot that doubles as a bar — in Lwandle, near Somerset West outside Cape Town, killing 10 and wounding 11. Police have not said how many gunmen were involved.
No arrests have been made in either case. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-police-launch-manhunt-after-17-killed-tavern-shooting-2026-09-27/">reported</a> that investigators are examining a turf war among illegal gold miners, known locally as &#8220;zama zamas,&#8221; as a possible motive in one shooting and a business rivalry in the other. A senior Gauteng police official <a href="https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/police-issue-stern-warning-to-wedela-mass-shooting-perpetrators/">said</a> one of the Wedela victims had been wanted in connection with an earlier shooting at the same tavern last month.
Police have given no indication that race played a role in any of the attacks, which struck township residents — South African and foreign nationals alike at Wedela — and which investigators have tied to gang feuds and the illicit gold trade. The violence is distinct from the pogroms against white-owned farms that President Donald Trump has repeatedly highlighted.
The weekend&#8217;s bloodshed came days after three gunmen killed 11 people, among them a pregnant woman, at a Tuesday night house party in KwaMakhutha.
&#8220;It cannot go on like this,&#8221; President Cyril Ramaphosa <a href="https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/crime-stats-show-areas-progress-criminal-threats-remain">told</a> local media Sunday, adding that security forces had been ordered to intensify their efforts against violent crime.
In March Ramaphosa sent 2,200 soldiers into high-crime areas across five provinces, including around Johannesburg and Cape Town, in a yearlong operation targeting gangs and illegal mining. South Africa recorded 5,427 homicides between April and June — close to 60 a day — according to police figures, with shootings the most common cause.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military would not and could not hide a combat death, pushing back on a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/18/more-us-troops-have-died-amid-iran-war-has-disclosed-publicly/">report</a> that American fatalities in the Iran war exceed what the Pentagon has publicly disclosed.
&#8220;Even if we wanted to attempt to hide a combat death, we never would and we never could,&#8221; Hegseth told an OAN reporter. &#8220;We never would because of how much we cherish the lives of our service members — every single one of them.&#8221;
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The Post reported Friday, citing six officials familiar with the War Department&#8217;s internal casualty accounting, that at least 22 troops have died since the war with Iran began in February — four more than 18 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/pentagon-removed-four-official-iran-war-death-toll.html">listed</a> in the Pentagon&#8217;s public Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS. One official put the toll at 23 and said some of the additional deaths were not directly caused by combat but involved personnel deployed to the Middle East during the fighting. The Post said the Pentagon declined to address the discrepancy before publication.
Hegseth denounced the story on X the day it ran, calling it &#8220;DISGUSTING and FAKE&#8221; and &#8220;a complete LIE&#8221; and said the paper was &#8220;worse than Iranian state media.&#8221; A Washington Post spokeswoman said afterward that the outlet stands by its reporting.
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Shame on the Washington Post — they’re worse than Iranian state media. <a href="https://t.co/vU9OkSOnLB">https://t.co/vU9OkSOnLB</a>
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2101054654033359122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The clash reopens a fight over the Pentagon&#8217;s bookkeeping that first surfaced in July, when the DCAS&#8217;s public death toll briefly dropped from 18 to 14 after the four most recent fatalities were reclassified. Acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez attributed* the change to &#8220;temporary data disruptions&#8221; on the department&#8217;s website. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2080462422838505555">accused</a> the Pentagon of splitting the conflict into two wars on paper to sidestep congressional reporting requirements, and Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats separately <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/28/pentagon-shifts-4-iran-war-deaths-overseas-operations-category-senate/">asked</a> Hegseth for a complete accounting of the dead and wounded. DCAS now lists 14 deaths under the war&#8217;s original designation, Operation Epic Fury, and four more under a newer &#8220;Overseas Operations&#8221; category covering fatalities since fighting resumed in July.
The identities of the additional service members named in the Post&#8217;s reporting, along with the timing and circumstances of their deaths, have not been made public.

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Saudi Arabia said Saturday that its air defenses destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels at Riyadh, the first strike on the Saudi fighting with the Iran-backed group reignited this summer.
The Saudi-led coalition <a href="https://apnews.com/article/yemen-saudi-arabia-b1286cad816dd3e553f50f6dd5205972">confirmed</a> the interception hours after the dawn launch. Residents reported hearing an explosion, and journalists saw firefighters extinguish a blaze on the Aramco-branded fuel tank at a depot near King Khalid International Airport. No casualties were reported.
Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said the Houthis also tried to hit civilian infrastructure in Yanbu — the Red Sea terminus of a key Saudi oil pipeline — as well as Taif, Baysh and Farasan, all of which were thwarted. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260919-smoke-flames-seen-near-riyadh-airport-major-flight-disruptions-reported">claimed</a> missile, cruise-missile and drone strikes on &#8220;sensitive sites&#8221; in Riyadh and on Aramco facilities in Yanbu, calling them retaliation for a Saudi attempt to hit Sanaa.
The attack is the latest turn in a monthslong escalation. Houthi forces launched a ground offensive on September 3 and within roughly a week had overrun most of Yemen&#8217;s Red Sea coastline, including the port city of Mokha and islands controlling the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical artery for global shipping. The United Nations <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973810/houthi-attacks-saudi-oil-world-markets">says</a> the fighting has displaced around 125,000 people.
Strikes on the kingdom itself have grown more frequent. A Sept. 8 barrage wounded 73 people and set Saudi oil facilities on fire. Days later, Riyadh <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/middleeast/saudi-arabia-houthis-mecca-attack-intl-hnk">accused</a> the group of flying a drone toward Mecca, calling the city&#8217;s security a &#8220;red line&#8221;; the Houthis denied it. On Thursday, Saudi officials said debris from an intercepted drone killed a Yemeni resident of the kingdom — the first fatality reported on Saudi soil since the latest fighting began.
Saudi Arabia is running short on interceptor missiles, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/yemen-saudi-arabia-b1286cad816dd3e553f50f6dd5205972">according</a> to regional officials cited by the Associated Press, and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt for air defense assistance. The United States, its principal arms supplier, has been depleted by six months of its own war with Iran and has so far limited its response to intelligence-sharing rather than direct strikes on the Houthis.

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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Saturday denied a sworn ethics <a href="https://media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Boebert_Complaint_REDACTED_For_Publication_Redacted.pdf">complaint</a> accusing her of sexual relationships with three congressional aides, conduct that would breach House rules if substantiated.
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m not a lesbian or bisexual, and I have never, ever been in any inappropriate relationship, nor have I ever been sexually involved with any staff,&#8221; Boebert <a href="https://x.com/juliegraceb/status/2101374905673568404">told</a> Sources Say News.
David Wheeler, head of American Muckrakers, a political action committee that has pursued Boebert for years, filed the complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Thursday. Its central claim involves Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, a former Colorado state lawmaker who ran Boebert&#8217;s district office from 2021 until January 2025, plus two further alleged relationships with a current and a former senior aide.
Boebert&#8217;s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The filing describes encounters in a district office, a campaign-reimbursed vehicle, and campaign-billed hotel rooms. It also claims Boebert arranged a roughly $200,000 payment to Navarro Ratzlaff in March 2025, after she left the office and indicated she would file her own complaint. Wheeler says he does not know the money&#8217;s source, and the passage describing how he confirmed the payment is redacted in the public version.
Navarro Ratzlaff <a href="https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/09/complaint-filed-with-house-ethics-committee-alleges-boebert-slept-with-three-of-her-congressional-staffers/81792/">called</a> the allegations &#8220;entirely false, defamatory, and beyond ridiculous,&#8221; according to the Colorado Times Recorder. Boebert&#8217;s ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, labelled them &#8220;propaganda&#8221; in a message Wheeler released. While the complaint cites House payroll and campaign finance records, its account of the relationships rests on unnamed sources whose underlying notes were not made public.
A House <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/publications/code-official-conduct/">rule</a> adopted in 2018, after a string of Capitol Hill harassment scandals, bars members from sexual relationships with employees under their supervision; the Ethics Committee cited it in a 2019 investigation of then-Rep. Katie Hill.
The complaint lands months after Boebert <a href="https://x.com/VinaySimlot/status/2044841060317216944">told</a> reporters in April that Congress should &#8220;go to church, find Jesus,&#8221; asking why colleagues were &#8220;so horny&#8221; following to misconduct-related resignations — remarks that drew renewed scrutiny given her own history: <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/12/lauren-boebert-removed-beetlejuice-musical-denver/">Boebert was ejected from a September 2023 Beetlejuice performance</a> at Denver&#8217;s Buell Theatre after security footage showed her and then-boyfriend Quinn Gallagher groping each other, vaping, and taking flash photos.

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The White House began enforcing President Donald Trump&#8217;s threatened media ban Saturday, deactivating the press badges of CNN and MS NOW journalists a day after he vowed to bar the networks and Politico from the building.
MS NOW correspondent Akayla Gardner <a href="https://www.ms.now/news/trump-ban-ms-now-cnn-politico-white-house">said</a> a guard at the White House gate took her badge Saturday morning and told her it had been disabled, adding only that the decision came from &#8220;above him.&#8221; A photographer with her was also turned away, through a producer&#8217;s badge still worked. CNN&#8217;s Betsy Klein <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/media/trump-msnow-cnn-politico-white-house-ban">reported</a> the same treatment about an hour later and was referred to the press office, which offered no explanation. It is unclear whether Politico staff faced the same block.
Trump announced the ban Friday on Truth Social, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/trump-white-house-ban-msnow-cnn-politico.html">writing</a> that the three outlets &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES&#8221; about him. Pressed on his timing, he told reporters, &#8220;No reason,&#8221; and described the ban loosely: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want them in my office. I don&#8217;t want them here.&#8221; He suggested other major outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, could follow. He also faulted Politico over roughly $8 million in federal subscription payments in 2024; the outlet <a href="https://x.com/POLITICOPress/status/2101060630254137735">denies</a> receiving government subsidies. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said his department &#8220;fully supports&#8221; the ban.
CNN and MS NOW both called the move an unconstitutional violation of press freedom and pledged to keep reporting on the administration.
The dispute echoes past fights over White House access. A 1977 federal appeals <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/569/124/35083/">ruling</a> held that once the White House opens its press facilities to credentialed reporters, it cannot revoke that access based on the content of their coverage. A federal judge <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-restore-cnn-reporter-jim-acostas-white-house-press-pass.html">cited</a> similar reasoning in 2018 when he ordered CNN reporter Jim Acosta&#8217;s credential restored after it was pulled, and the Associated Press is still litigating its exclusion from the Oval Office and Air Force One over its refusal to drop &#8220;Gulf of Mexico&#8221; from its style guide.

President Trump Threatens To Ban CNN, MS Now, and Politco From White House

CNN, MS NOW Reporters Turned Away From White House As Ban Takes Effect

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A viewer of the Daily Wire&#8217;s new film Run Hide Fight: Infidels says Letterboxd pulled his positive review and then locked him out of his account for two days, even as profane reviews of the movie remained visible on the site.
The viewer told The Daily Wire he began receiving hostile messages after posting the review. He said a moderator took it down. The fan reposted it with a disclaimer at the top, but shortly after, it was taken down yet again — this time with a suspension slapped on his account as well.
A notice he provided says Letterboxd&#8217;s community managers restricted his ability to sign in for two days. It cites a warning for &#8220;offensive and abusive language in one or more of your reviews&#8221; and says further violations could bring longer restrictions or termination. The notice does not say which review prompted the action. A screenshot of his review contains no profanity and praises the film&#8217;s action and willingness to portray Islamic terrorism directly.
The suspension could reflect a coordinated reporting effort rather than an individual moderator&#8217;s review. Letterboxd, like most platforms, relies heavily on user reports to flag content, and a review drawing a wave of hostile responses — as the viewer says his did — can trigger an automated or fast-tracked suspension without a human necessarily weighing the review&#8217;s actual content against the platform&#8217;s policy.
The Daily Wire contacted Letterboxd on Friday with questions about the removal and the suspension. The company had not responded at the time of publication.
Letterboxd&#8217;s community policy lets moderators remove content the platform considers offensive or objectionable, and its help pages <a href="https://letterboxd.com/legal/community-policy/">say</a> the site has zero tolerance for &#8220;hate&#8221; or communication meant to marginalize people over &#8220;protected attribute[s]&#8221; — though the policy does not specify whether reports alone can trigger an automatic suspension, or whether a moderator reviews flagged content before restrictions are applied.  Members who believe a removal was mistaken can appeal through the support team, <a href="https://letterboxd.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15179289067151-My-review-was-removed-Do-I-have-any-recourse">according</a> to the site.
Several negative reviews were listed among the most popular on the film&#8217;s Letterboxd page at the time of reporting. Some contain profanity, <a href="https://letterboxd.com/dawsonejoyce/film/run-hide-fight-infidels/">including one</a> that insults &#8220;the soy boy beta cucks over at the Daily Wire&#8221; and <a href="https://letterboxd.com/kingnp414/film/run-hide-fight-infidels/">another</a> that uses an expletive to condemn anyone who enjoys the genre.
Written and directed by Kyle Rankin and starring Jonathan Majors, the film is a standalone sequel to the 2021 Daily Wire release Run Hide Fight. It follows a group of students, a security guard and a Delta Force veteran who fight back after Islamic terrorists take over a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. It debuted September 16 on DailyWire+, less than a week after the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-reviews-hidden-on-letterboxd-social-networking-platform">reported</a> in June 2022 that Letterboxd hid reviews of Matt Walsh&#8217;s documentary What Is A Woman? from non-subscribers. The platform attributed that decision to a high volume of moderation traffic.

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Daily Wire Fan Says Letterboxd Deleted His Praise For ‘Infidels,’ Then Suspended Him

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CNN said Friday that any attempt to shut its reporters out of the White House would be unconstitutional, after President Donald Trump declared he was banning the network, MS NOW, and Politico from the premises.
&#8220;CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting,&#8221; the network said in a statement posted to X. &#8220;We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do that reporting without hindrance or interference from the government. Should the ban which President Trump threatened go ahead, it would be an illegal assault on that fundamental and constitutionally-protected [sic] right.&#8221;
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— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) <a href="https://x.com/CNNPR/status/2101046410577588701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Trump announced the ban on Truth Social, calling for it to take effect immediately and promising that other outlets would &#8220;follow.&#8221; Asked in the Oval Office how the move squares with the First Amendment, he answered, &#8220;Because they&#8217;re fake news.&#8221; He said there was &#8220;no reason&#8221; for the timing and pointed instead to years of accumulated coverage he considers unfair.
The White House has not explained how the ban would be enforced. Reporters from all three outlets were still on the grounds as of 4:45 p.m. ET, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-banning-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house/">according</a> to CBS News, and CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/media/trump-claims-ban-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house">said</a> its staff remained at its workspace near the briefing room.
Politico and MS NOW had not publicly responded as of Friday afternoon, and the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association had not commented.
Trump&#8217;s post singled out Politico over federal subscription payments, a subject The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-cut-off-politico-from-federal-funds-press-sec-says">covered</a> when then-Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced in February 2025 that the government would end them.
ACLU attorney Arthur Spitzer <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/trump-white-house-ban-msnow-cnn-politico.html">called</a> the ban unconstitutional. Attorney Alan Dershowitz <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cnn-banned-white-house-access-politico-12462184">told</a> Newsweek that presidents have long excluded outlets over viewpoints and that he sees no constitutional violation here.
The dispute follows earlier access fights. In 2018, the White House pulled the credentials of CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta, and a federal judge ordered them restored after CNN sued. This year, the administration&#8217;s restrictions on the Associated Press remain in litigation, with an appeals court letting some limits stay in place for now.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) surprised the crowd at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington on Saturday night, taking the stage during Chris Brown and Usher&#8217;s joint &#8220;R&amp;B Tour&#8221; to formally recognize both artists&#8217; careers in the U.S. Congressional Record.
Crockett appeared on stage alongside Texas state Rep. Venton Jones and producer Roccstar, telling the crowd she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t miss&#8221; the hometown show. She said the honor was meant to permanently document both singers&#8217; decades of influence on R&amp;B music and entertainment.
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Jasmine Crockett honors Chris Brown and Usher with an official entry into the U.S. Congressional Record recognizing their artistry. <a href="https://t.co/PHXolnMisI">pic.twitter.com/PHXolnMisI</a>
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Brown embraced Crockett after the announcement, thanking Dallas-area fans for their support. Crockett also worked in a swipe at Washington, telling the audience there are &#8220;a few scammers&#8221; in the capital compared with the &#8220;real one&#8221; standing on stage.
The gesture drew immediate pushback online, largely tied to Brown&#8217;s 2009 felony conviction for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna, for which he pleaded guilty and served probation. Critics circulated posts accusing Crockett of hypocrisy, noting she has previously criticized fellow Texas Democrat James Talarico&#8217;s standing with Black voters while publicly celebrating a musician with a domestic violence record. Crockett&#8217;s office had not responded to the criticism as of Sunday.
Brown and Usher launched the co-headlining &#8220;R&amp;B Tour&#8221; — a name nodding to both the genre and the performers&#8217; shared initials — in June, and the run has generated a series of viral clips beyond Saturday&#8217;s political cameo, including audience interactions during both artists&#8217; sets.
Crockett, who represents Texas&#8217;s 30th Congressional District, lost the state&#8217;s Democratic Senate primary to Talarico in March by an eight-point margin.

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