Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt weighed in briefly on her successor, Katie Zacharia, who ended up leaving the post after just five days.
During a Fox News digital interview Wednesday evening, Leavitt made it clear she wished Zacharia well and noted that sometimes it&#8217;s impossible to know whether someone can handle the rigors of the job until they step into the briefing room.
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Karoline Leavitt says she&#8217;s helping President Trump find his next White House press secretary after her replacement, Katie Zacharia, lasted just five days in the role — the shortest stint in U.S. history.
Leavitt, who stepped down in August to focus on her two young children, told Fox News Digital that the job &#8220;obviously was not for&#8221; Zacharia but wished her well. She said Trump &#8220;is continuing to look over options&#8221; and that &#8220;a lot of people want that job.&#8221;
Leavitt also shut down any speculation about a future run for office, saying she has no plans to seek elected office &#8220;in the near future at all, or in the future at all.&#8221; She officially becomes a Fox News contributor in November.
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&#8220;White House press secretary is a tough job. I know that because I did it, obviously for almost two years, and many people say it&#8217;s one of the hardest jobs in politics,&#8221; Leavitt said, adding that the job required &#8220;a lot of preparation.&#8221;
&#8220;Sometimes you don&#8217;t know how someone will perform until they go out there,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We wish Katie the best. The job obviously was not for her, but we wish her and her family well.&#8221;
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Leavitt said she offered to assist President Donald Trump as he began searching for a permanent replacement.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve offered my help to the president to help him select someone who can serve him and the country well.&#8221;
Trump, she said, &#8220;is continuing to look over options. There&#8217;s a lot of people who want that job. It&#8217;s an amazing job. It provides you with incredible opportunities.&#8221;
Leavitt also reflected on her own appointment during an appearance on TPUSA&#8217;s &#8220;Make Heaven Crowded&#8221; tour.
&#8220;When he [President Trump] offered me the position, he said, ‘Karoline, a lot of people have called me and told me not to give you this job because you&#8217;re too young, but I told them when I was your age, I was building buildings in Manhattan and you can do it,'&#8221; she said.
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Karoline Leavitt: “When he [President Trump] offered me the position, he said, ‘Karoline, a lot of people have called me and told me not to give you this job because you&#8217;re too young, but I told them when I was your age, I was building buildings in Manhattan and you can do it.’”
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Leavitt held the job from the beginning of Trump&#8217;s second term in January 2025 until the end of August, and is set to join Fox News as a contributor in November.

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A Scottish museum has removed ancient Egyptian mummies from display because there is no documented consent from the deceased or their descendants.
A sign posted at Glasgow&#8217;s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, according to a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/22/mummy-removed-from-exhibition-over-its-lack-of-consent/">report</a> from The Telegraph, states that staffers have “removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect.&#8221;
Glasgow Life, a nonprofit that oversees cultural institutions throughout the city, said the decision reflected &#8220;contemporary&#8221; museum views on displaying human remains.
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&#8220;The International Council of Museums’ revised Code of Ethics, published in June 2026, states that museums ‘should uphold the inherent dignity of human remains and promote respect for their significance.&#8217; Glasgow Life Museums’ draft Human Remains Policy proposes that human remains should only be displayed where there is documented and informed consent from the deceased individual or, in appropriate circumstances, their descendants,&#8221; the statement read.
&#8220;In the absence of such consent, we believe removing ancient Egyptian human remains from display is more respectful to the deceased individuals,&#8221; it continued.
In addition to the remains of a priest named Nekt, the museum removed a mummified right hand, foot, and head belonging to an unidentified male, reportedly uncovered in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
During a GB News panel discussion, Will Kingston had a simpler assessment: &#8220;How absolutely insane.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve been wondering where the woke brigade will turn to next,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Gaza, trans, climate change, it&#8217;s all running out of steam a bit, and we&#8217;ve found the next cause celebre: it&#8217;s mummies&#8217; rights!&#8221;
&#8220;The dead can&#8217;t give consent,&#8221; one of the presenters replied.
&#8220;Nekt was unavailable for comment,&#8221; Kingston added. &#8220;How absolutely insane, and it just goes to show that this sort of stuff, there&#8217;s no lengths that they can&#8217;t go to with regard to how ludicrous this stuff is. It&#8217;s incredible.&#8221;
&#8220;That is bonkers,&#8221; the presenter agreed.
Even the liberal on the panel — who stipulated that he did not believe climate change was &#8220;woke&#8221; agreed that the museum&#8217;s actions were &#8220;just mad.&#8221;

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be testing out a new oratory style, and it&#8217;s not great.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-delivers-another-brutal-word-salad">Harris</a>, speaking to a group of Culinary Workers Union members in Las Vegas, sounded more like she was talking to young children as she lowered her voice and dramatically slowed her cadence.
&#8220;That era of feeling powerless, like what can we do, this just keeps happening, that era is over because we are now 13 days away from doing something about it to stop the pain,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;So that&#8217;s where we are right now, and that&#8217;s kind of exciting, right?&#8221; she continued, her tone equal parts airy and condescending. &#8220;This is some good stuff. Like, we&#8217;re taking our power, we&#8217;re using it, to determine who will hold offices like being the governor of Nevada. Which is so important for the people everyday on the most basic issues that affect our lives. Who will continue to walk those halls of Congress being an extraordinary fighter.&#8221;
Harris has often been mocked for her speaking style — and her penchant for word-salad-style answers to even the most basic questions.
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Changes to her overall speech patterns have often been attributed to &#8220;code-switching,&#8221; or adopting different mannerisms based on the audience in front of her. Harris is far from the only politician to do that — and she&#8217;s also not the only one to net disastrous results from it.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example, was roundly mocked for adopting a southern accent despite growing up in Chicago.
One memorable example came during a 2007 speech at a black church in Selma, Alabama, as she campaigned for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel no ways tired,&#8221; she drawled, reciting the words of James Cleveland&#8217;s classic freedom hymn. &#8220;I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don&#8217;t believe he brought me this far to leave me.&#8221;

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While Sunday&#8217;s NFL game in Paris is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-sticks-with-plans-for-paris-game-amid-muslim-riots">still </a>on as planned, a fan event for the Pittsburgh Steelers has been canceled following unrest in the city.
ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50250407/steelers-fan-event-paris-canceled-amid-civil-unrest">reported</a> on Thursday that the event — planned for a bar in the Bastille neighborhood — was canceled because of safety concerns.
&#8220;Following recent events in the Bastille neighborhood, and after careful consideration, we felt it appropriate not to move forward with the planned Steelers House fan event in Paris,&#8221; a statement shared with fans said. &#8220;Preparations for Sunday&#8217;s NFL Paris game at Stade de France continue as planned, with the NFL working closely with local authorities and partners on all operational and security matters.&#8221;
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The team also told The Associated Press that there had been no disruptions at league sites and described the cancellation as precautionary.
&#8220;As a precautionary measure, the Steelers designated bar that had been planned in Bastille — an area that has experienced recent disruptions — will not proceed.&#8221;
League Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in regular contact with French officials and was keeping the league informed of potential security threats.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve made all the preparations. Protests are not unusual in France, as you know, and that&#8217;s something that we will be aware of and make sure that the appropriate arrangements are made,&#8221; he said.
The violent protests — which have swept across Paris and other cities in France — reportedly stemmed from student dissatisfaction with the education system, but quickly grew into broader demonstrations, including blockades of the Louvre and looting of high-end stores in popular shopping districts.

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Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she&#8217;s planning to vacate her Washington, D.C., home, claiming that a number of threats have made her feel like remaining there would be unsafe.
Omar made the declaration in her first televised interview since federal law enforcement agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-raid-approved-after-feds-seized-sisters-phone">executed a search warrant</a> at that home, taking a number of electronic devices and documents related to the ongoing investigation into the congresswoman&#8217;s citizenship status.
&#8220;Obviously, I can’t continue to live there,&#8221; Omar told <a href="https://www.ms.now/news/ilhan-omar-raid-interview-trump">MS Now</a> host Chris Hayes. &#8220;So we have to figure out where to move to because our address has been public, and with the death threats that I deal with, it’s no longer going to be feasible to be in that house and have my kids visiting off and on, having people track them.&#8221;
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Omar, who has repeatedly insisted that she has done nothing wrong, ignored the fact that former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration first opened an inquiry into her and claimed that President Donald Trump was behind all of it. She told Hayes that she believed the raid was designed to do two things — first, to terrify her and her family and second, to prove to Trump&#8217;s supporters that the administration was actually doing something to &#8220;get&#8221; her.
&#8220;You don’t show up to somebody’s house that early in the morning unless you’re trying to freak them out. And you know it obviously did freak all of us out,&#8221; Omar said, adding, &#8220;It sounded like an urgent evacuation sort-of situation. So it took us a while to figure out what was actually happening.&#8221;
Omar told Hayes that the agents had showed her the warrant and had also asked her to sign a document waiving her constitutional protections as a sitting member of Congress.
&#8220;That was obnoxious. I couldn’t understand why they would think that I would sign such a thing,&#8221; she said.
The Minnesota congresswoman said that she believed Trump had been promising to take action against her for so long that his supporters were starting to wonder if things would ever move forward.
&#8220;I think a lot of their Right-wing influencers, who seem to have direct connection to not just the president but his orbit, I think they were starting to lose faith that these were empty promises and they had to do something I believe to say, ‘Hey, look, we raided her house,’&#8221; Omar continued.
She laughed off the efforts to dig into her records for evidence of possible immigration fraud, saying, &#8220;It would be a huge undertaking to, I suppose, indict a 12-year-old for being so cleverly conspiring to defraud immigration services to come to the United States. I’m sure there are a lot of smart 12-year-olds, but that seems like a leap.&#8221;
The assertions about Omar are not about her actions at age 12, however. Rather, questions remain about Omar&#8217;s actual birth date — and by extension, her claim to receiving her citizenship as a minor through her father&#8217;s naturalization. In addition, a 2023 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services search failed to find any evidence that her father had actually been naturalized when she says he was.

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Young adults are cutting off their parents in increasing numbers, and some experts are pointing the finger at the therapists — who traditional wisdom suggests should be healing family rifts rather than reinforcing the divides.
Citing varying degrees of &#8220;trauma,&#8221; &#8220;toxicity,&#8221; and &#8220;abuse,&#8221; people in their 20s and 30s are cutting ties with the family members they&#8217;ve accused of participating in those behaviors — often their own parents — and claiming that their mental health would be at risk if they didn&#8217;t do so.
The Wall Street Journal published a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/why-are-so-many-adults-cutting-off-their-parents-d4e1190c">report</a> in late September on the alarming trend, noting a connection between the rise in younger Americans in therapy and the rise in family estrangement — along with several cultural changes that also appear to be contributing factors — and the perfect storm that followed.
It is certainly not a new concept for young adults to set boundaries or even cut ties altogether with their parents or other family members — and in some cases, particularly where physical or emotional abuse is a factor, it might be warranted — but the numbers have grown steadily in recent years, particularly since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The pandemic itself caused a number of people to cut ties with family members as some were convinced — with help from legacy media — that anyone who refused to get one of the vaccines, or even went outside without a mask, was actively and intentionally putting others at risk. Family members who would willingly pose a public health risk, they argued, should be cut off if only for the sake of self-preservation.
And that logic quickly spilled over into the mental health space, as teens and younger adults increasingly began adopting new gender identities. Parents or other family members who did not immediately accept and accommodate those new identities were labeled &#8220;abusive&#8221; and &#8220;toxic&#8221; — first socially and then, in some states, legally.
And while it&#8217;s certainly nothing new for young adults to rebel against their parents — nor is it new for parents to push back — the overall family dynamic has changed dramatically. Even a generation or two ago, the Journal noted, parents were typically &#8220;viewed as people with a shared history who disagree.&#8221; Now, as soon as parents cross into &#8220;non-affirming&#8221; territory, they&#8217;re seen as an enemy to be dispatched.
&#8220;Influencers&#8221; flooded TikTok and other platforms with videos about how they&#8217;d cut off a non-affirming parent for the sake of their own mental health. According to the Journal&#8217;s report, TikTok users shared more than 138,000 videos about going &#8220;no-contact&#8221; or &#8220;low-contact&#8221; with a parent in the past month — about 10 times the number posted during the same month in 2020. The vast majority of the content — more than 80% — was posted by women.
But how did it become &#8220;toxic&#8221; or &#8220;abusive&#8221; to simply voice a differing opinion?
Over time, the definitions of several key words have broadened almost beyond recognition — particularly for parents of those in their 20s and 30s today, most of whom were raised in the 1980s and 1990s.
The word &#8220;trauma,&#8221; for example, used to be reserved for &#8220;rare and uncommon&#8221; events that were by definition &#8220;outside the range of usual human experience.&#8221; Today, someone might describe being scolded at work by a supervisor as &#8220;traumatic.&#8221;
&#8220;Toxicity&#8221; and &#8220;abuse&#8221; have undergone similar metamorphoses, now being used as catch-alls to describe anyone who voices disagreement or challenges the beliefs held by the person using the terms.
Those broadened definitions, coupled with a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250522-should-you-ever-cut-ties-with-your-parents">hyper-focus</a> on individual identity — to the point that protecting that identity supersedes relationships with others — have led to a culture in which blood is no longer &#8220;thicker than water.&#8221;
Joshua Coleman, a psychologist specializing in estrangement explained some the reasoning behind the decisions to cut ties with family.
&#8220;There’s this idea that if you don’t endorse or embrace my identity, you are no longer an ally,&#8221; Coleman said. &#8220;And from that perspective, cutting you off becomes a virtuous act of self-care and protecting my mental health.&#8221;
&#8220;Once the culture picked up on the idea of trauma that is everywhere, therapists really responded to that,” added the University of Minnesota’s William Doherty, a therapist and professor emeritus of family social science. &#8220;We also have a culture that blames parents for everything.&#8221;
Therapists, beginning as far back as the 1990s, were already moving to treat &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; by validating the patient&#8217;s feelings about their own identity rather than treating any underlying pathology. By 2013, gender identity disorder was officially reclassified from a mental health disorder to a sexual health issue.
So when parents — seeking answers and help for children dealing with those feelings — took their children to therapists for help, the results were predictable: therapists affirmed the children&#8217;s feelings, and if the parents didn&#8217;t agree, they became the problem.
The Cleveland Health Clinic even has a page on its website dedicated to helping children understand whether or not they should cut off their parents.
&#8220;Family conflicts can draw your attention away from your needs, goals and priorities. Many people who go no-contact end up taking better care of themselves because they have more time and energy to devote to their own health and well-being,&#8221; Psychologist <a class="text-brandBlue-500 print:text-black underline underline-offset-[5px] print:no-underline decoration-1 break-words hover:text-blue-800 transition" href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff/25858-chivonna-childs" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-identity="link">Chivonna Childs, PhD</a>, advises.
&#8220;Therapists gave estrangement the professional, authoritative stamp of approval,&#8221; Doherty said.
Pastor Andrew Packer of <a href="https://www.goodshepherdcollinsville.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Shepherd Lutheran Church</a> noted that the shift in family dynamics came from a move away from Biblical principles in culture generally and in the therapy space.
&#8220;On the one hand, there are some really abusive and terrible parents, and I do not blame children who cut off contact with them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;On the other hand, our culture has completely forgotten that all relationships are difficult and take work. They involve bearing one another&#8217;s burdens in love — and bearing one another&#8217;s weaknesses, annoying habits, opinions we disagree with, etc., in love too.&#8221;
&#8220;Therapists and the self-therapy that labels anyone who disagrees with you or doesn&#8217;t affirm all of your opinions and choices as &#8216;toxic&#8217; is creating an environment where the 4th Commandment and the honor owed to parents is rejected swiftly,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Time and time again, I have seen loving, well-meaning parents treated like monsters. It&#8217;s another issue where we need our reality shaped by a Biblical view of things so that we can see clearly to properly address it.&#8221;
Packer went on to say that it was especially difficult for Christian parents to navigate that particular space, adding, &#8220;I think the hardest part for Christian parents is that we want our children to know the love and grace and mercy God has for them in Christ — and even that can be seen as &#8216;toxic.&#8217; Love shaped by Christ and His Word should be central for all Christian parents.&#8221;

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele warned Haitian gangs that his military could &#8220;finish with you too&#8221; after four Salvadoran aviation technicians were taken hostage following an ambush Sunday.
The four technicians, whom Bukele described as &#8220;non-combatants,&#8221; were in Haiti as part of the United Nations-backed international Gang Suppression Force. Salvadoran officials initially said the men had escaped an ambush on their armored vehicle on foot. Bukele later confirmed that they were being held hostage.
&#8220;To the gang leaders and gang members holding our four compatriots hostage in Haiti: Our kidnapped men are not combatants. They are aviation technicians who are part of our mission in Haiti, within the framework of an international mission,&#8221; Bukele explained in his message, <a href="https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/2112981920741310695">posted to X</a> in Haitian Creole.
&#8220;Our mission consists only of pilots and technical personnel, whose primary job is to carry out medical evacuations and save lives, not to wage war,&#8221; Bukele continued. &#8220;However, they were kidnapped in a cowardly manner while returning after buying food at a market in the area.&#8221;
Bukele went on to note that the Salvadoran military was already moving to rescue the four hostages, and warned the gang members that they would not stop until all four were safely returned.
&#8220;Today, we have launched a military operation to rescue them. We have a single objective: to bring our four compatriots back home alive, without any harm. However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today&#8217;s attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too. We still have time to avoid this. Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was before the kidnapping. The decision is in your hands.&#8221;
The initial attack, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/americas/haiti-el-salvador-ambush-latam-intl">reported</a>, was an ambush and marked the first real attempt by local gangs to strike the GSF. It took place in Croix-des-Bouquets, a small, once-peaceful neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, the island nation&#8217;s capital city.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz pledged to help secure the technicians&#8217; rescue, adding, &#8220;To the gangs and gang leaders who carried out this cowardly attack, if you think you’re going to intimidate this coalition into retreat, you have made a terrible mistake.&#8221;

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin admitted during a recent panel discussion that she&#8217;d been trying to throw former Vice President Kamala Harris a lifeline when she unintentionally pulled the pin on a political grenade.
The liberal hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; were talking with producer Brian Teta during a special broadcast of their &#8220;Behind the Table&#8221; podcast, and he brought up a few of their more embarrassing exchanges. In one such exchange — during the 2024 presidential campaign — Hostin had asked Harris, &#8220;Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?&#8221;
Harris, after an uncomfortable pause, replied, &#8220;There is not a thing that comes to mind.&#8221;
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“Thanks for showing that, Brian &#8230; You know. It became so infamous. People wrote books around that question,&#8221; Hostin laughed, thanking Teta for bringing up such an uncomfortable memory.
Teta asked what she thought about the way that scene had played out, now that she had the benefit of hindsight.
&#8220;I thought it was a gift. I thought — I was looking at [Biden&#8217;s] numbers, his approval ratings were so low, and I thought she&#8217;s got to distance herself from him. Right? And so, what better venue in front of three million people that are her people than to ask her —&#8221; Hostin explained.
&#8220;If you have an answer. It&#8217;s a good audience,&#8221; Sara Haines interjected.
&#8220;Yeah, you know, that then to ask her what would you do differently?&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;And I actually thought the answer was going to be: &#8216;You know, we had a lot of wins in this administration. I was there for those wins. But I, as a woman of color, as a child of immigrants, as — I have a different lived experience and I intend to bring that lived experience with me into the White House. I will do this. I will do that. I will do this. I will do that. I will do that.&#8217; That was what I was expecting. I was not expecting ‘not a single thing comes to mind.'&#8221;
Teta noted that Harris later wrote about the exchange, saying that she&#8217;d had no idea at the time that Hostin had effectively &#8220;pulled the pin on a hand grenade.&#8221; Hostin, however, said she knew immediately that Harris&#8217; answer would be a major problem for the candidate.
&#8220;We all did,&#8221; cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed.
Cohost Ana Navarro said Harris&#8217; staff came out to the table during the commercial break and warned Harris that she needed to do some serious damage control, and fast.
&#8220;They knew immediately that she needed to come back and do damage control. Which she tried, but it never — she didn’t control the damage,&#8221; Navarro said.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has not been seen publicly since new details came out about the federal investigation into her citizenship status, emerged from her cocoon briefly to beg her supporters for financial support.
Omar, ignoring the fact that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-crimes-that-could-be-behind-the-ilhan-omar-raid">investigation</a> began under former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, has consistently referred to any and all questions about her immigration status as politically motivated and has accused President Donald Trump of attacking her specifically because of her race, gender, and religion — and because she has been one of his more vocal critics.
In her video message, Omar thanked her supporters for donations that she said would be used to help her “fight Trump and his administration for trying to intimidate me and so many other people right before the midterm elections.&#8221;
&#8220;We know that they’re running scared, we’re not going to be intimidated, we’re not going to be silenced, we’re not going to be scared,&#8221; she added, promising, &#8220;I’ll be out there campaigning alongside all of you and making sure that we beat back all of this and that we win in the midterms — win the House, win the Senate and hold this administration accountable.&#8221;
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&#8220;Thank you so much again and please continue to support us,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;It is going to be a very expensive and challenging time and so we appreciate whether you’re able to send $5, $10, $20. &#8230; Thank you.&#8221;
Omar&#8217;s Washington, D.C., home was the subject of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-raid-approved-after-feds-seized-sisters-phone">federal search warrant</a> and was raided over a week ago, with Homeland Security Investigators taking documents and electronics from the home. Reports indicate that agents were looking for documents related to her father&#8217;s immigration and naturalization — in part because <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omars-staff-altered-her-birthdate-after-she-was-elected-heres-why-that-matters">Omar&#8217;s claim to obtaining citizenship</a> at the age of 17 hinges on the information contained in those documents. No record of Omar&#8217;s father&#8217;s citizenship could be found at all during a 2023 search by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Omar has since demanded that they return everything that was taken.

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The 16-year-old shooter who killed three children and one teacher on October 15 at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, had a family history marked by his father&#8217;s violence and alcohol abuse, according to a new report.
The gunman, who was shot and killed by an armed parent during the attack and is not being named per The Daily Wire&#8217;s mass shooter policy, was a former student at the school. The shotgun he used was a birthday gift from his mother, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bend-oregon-elementary-school-shooting-gun-birthday-gift-mom/">reported</a>, citing sources.
According to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/oregon-school-shooter-griffin-john-came-from-broken-violent-family/">report</a> published Tuesday by The New York Post, the gunman&#8217;s father had a history of alcohol abuse. He was arrested and sentenced to serve 48 months in prison after assaulting the boy&#8217;s mother and threatening her with a knife, but was released early and petitioned a judge to lift the restraining order against him so that he could see his son.
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In letters to a judge following his domestic violence arrest, the father acknowledged a history of alcohol abuse and said he had previously been jailed several times. After his early release, he was arrested again for allegedly head-butting a police officer and for using alcohol and marijuana in violation of the terms of his parole. The Post reported that it was unclear whether he was convicted in that case.
Police said the teenager shot his way into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-people-including-children-shot-at-oregon-elementary-school">Silver Rail Elementary School</a> and opened fire in a special education classroom. He had previously received special education services at the school. He killed three students — aged 5, 8, and 11 — and 25-year-old teacher Megan Lambert. He also reportedly shot a 7-year-old student in the face. That student, who was in a wheelchair, was hospitalized. A 54-year-old teacher was also shot.
The shooting ended when an armed parent, Kaylub Giamanco, followed the gunman into the school and shot and killed him. By then, a teacher had tackled the shooter and was grappling with him for control of the weapon.
Giamanco called his mother shortly after shooting the gunman, she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-school-shooter-bystander-identified-silver-rail-elementary/">told</a> CBS News Sacramento.
&#8220;He said, ‘Mom, I just shot and killed somebody.’ I said, ‘Kaylub, tell me about it.’ He said, ‘A man went into my daughter’s school and shot kids,’ and he said, ‘and I looked at him point-blank, and I shot and killed him, Mom,'&#8221; Kenda Freeman, Giamanco&#8217;s mother, told the outlet.

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A New Jersey school district on Monday agreed to rescind a policy that allowed teachers and school officials to keep parents in the dark about their children&#8217;s &#8220;gender identities.&#8221;
The School District of the Chathams in 2024 ruled that counselors could determine &#8220;whether, and to what extent, parents/guardians can be involved&#8221; after students expressed a desire to identify as a different gender. In August, Moms For Liberty and the Thomas More Society sued the school district, <a href="https://newjerseyglobe.com/education/moms-for-liberty-sues-chathams-school-district-over-transgender-student-policy/">alleging</a> that the policy violated parents’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
&#8220;No school has the authority to transition a child behind his or her parents’ backs, and the Supreme Court made that unmistakably clear,&#8221; Christopher Ferrara, senior counsel at the Thomas More Society, said.
Citing two recent Supreme Court cases, the Thomas More Society wrote to the school district demanding it rescind the policy. On June 15, school board President Ann Ciccarelli claimed that at least one of those cases did not apply to New Jersey schools.
&#8220;This board told New Jersey parents the ruling didn’t apply to them, kept its secret transition policy on the books, and forced families to go to federal court to protect their own children,&#8221; Ferrara said.
&#8220;The Chathams Board of Education had every opportunity to fix this policy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Instead, its own president stood up at a public meeting and told parents that Supreme Court precedent simply doesn’t apply to them. That is not a legal argument; it is defiance of the law of the land.&#8221;
Moms For Liberty asked the court to declare the policy unconstitutional and block its enforcement unless and until it was amended to require parental notice and consent before a student is allowed to adopt a new name or pronouns, or engage in any other activities based on a newly asserted gender identity.
The school board voted unanimously to settle the suit, which it did on October 15. As part of the settlement, the district agreed that it would not implement a similar policy in the future.
&#8220;Now that the policy is gone for good, every teacher and counselor in the district will receive a copy of the board’s written commitment to respect parents’ rights,&#8221; Ferrara said. &#8220;Districts that choose to still hide children’s gender transitions from their parents can follow the Chathams’ lead and change course now, or they can explain themselves to a federal judge.&#8221;

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Actor Matthew McConaughey faced accusations on Sunday that he used artificial intelligence to write a 6-minute video urging Americans to give independent candidates a serious look ahead of the midterms.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh was among those who suggested the actor&#8217;s words sounded like they were written by AI.
&#8220;&#8216;That’s not indecision. It’s judgment&#8217;; &#8216;That’s not competition. It’s a scrimmage.&#8217; This is the most ChatGPT speech I&#8217;ve ever heard,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/2112183427692671066">he wrote</a>. &#8220;Why? You&#8217;re Matthew McConaughey. You have a very distinct and recognizable way of speaking. Why outsource that to AI? I don&#8217;t get it.&#8221;
McConaughey, who often weighs in on individual issues, intentionally does not take sides with either political party. In the video, he argued that there should be someone on the ballot who represented &#8220;independents&#8221; like him.
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&#8220;So they&#8217;ve been telling us for years that an independent vote is a wasted vote,&#8221; McConaughey began, quipping, &#8220;Well, a great question for our times is, how&#8217;s that &#8216;unwasted&#8217; vote been working out for you?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah. Now before we go any further, I want to let you know, this is not about me right now. This is about the upcoming ballot,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I am not here today to endorse a candidate or party. I am here endorsing two things: fairness and reality. See, I believe in a fair fight, and a fair fight is not just two fighters throwing the same punches at each other for 50 years. A fair fight is when the fighters who oughta be represented in the fight are actually in the fight! That&#8217;s fair.&#8221;
McConaughey argued that more Americans identify as independents than as Republicans or Democrats, and that independents deserved representation just as members of the two major parties did.
&#8220;Independents belong in the fight. not as a protest, not as a spoiler, but as a real and potential winner on the ballot and considered seriously by us. Independent does not mean you’re middle of the road. Independent is the original road,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Before there was ever a Republican or Democrat, there was an American &#8230; a true independent is not a fence sitter.&#8221;
The Oscar-winning actor further explained that a true independent would not hate either Republicans or Democrats, but would weigh their positions and take what was best and workable from both parties.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not indecision, that&#8217;s judgment,&#8221; he said.
He argued that the extremes on either side of the aisle were not good for the country, and said that if more people were willing to risk voting the way they really felt, Americans would have a Congress that better reflected what they needed.
&#8220;America&#8217;s brand was never R or D. It&#8217;s independent,&#8221; he declared.
Other viewers echoed Walsh&#8217;s criticism.
&#8220;Another casualty of AI psychosis. Listen to Matthew McConaughey read 6 minutes of Claude output pretending it’s his own words. He says &#8216;it’s not X it’s Y&#8217; like 10 times. No comment on the subject matter, but sad to see smart people letting themselves become meat proxies,&#8221; another <a href="https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/2111904936070197589">posted</a>.
Former reality television star <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2111889925872435495">Spencer Pratt</a> (&#8220;The Hills&#8221;) also reacted to McConaughey&#8217;s video, but addressed the content rather than how it may have been written.
&#8220;Republicans vs dems isn’t the issue, man. It’s people who hate America vs people who love it…that’s what counts. There are people in both parties who have no love for their country. A 3rd party doesn’t fix that. There is no political solution for cultural rot. Stop pretending,&#8221; he said.

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