Andrew Tate’s secretive online program allegedly taught members how to infiltrate the circles of wealthy and powerful people, exploit their vulnerabilities, and use compromising information to blackmail them, according to newly leaked course materials.
The massive data leak, obtained by a security researcher and provided to <a href="https://san.com/cc/manosphere-influencer-andrew-tate-faces-sexual-misconduct-charges-a-data-leak-is-exposing-his-secrets/">Straight Arrow News</a> and leak-archiving organization <a href="https://ddosecrets.org/article/tate-media-library">DDoSecrets</a>, exposes previously little-known courses inside Tate’s “War Room,” a membership program marketed as a network for men seeking wealth, influence and personal development.
One course, titled “Penetrating the Elite,” or “PTE,” instructs members to operate like intelligence agents targeting wealthy individuals. 
“Think of yourself as an intelligence officer,” one course slide says, “but instead of going out and trying to recruit foreign politicians or foreign embassy staff, you’re going out, you’re trying to recruit ultra-high net worth individuals.” 
The objective is put crudely elsewhere in the course: “Penetrate them, get paid.”
The course teaches members to identify vulnerabilities among wealthy targets, including potentially compromising sexual behavior, and exploit those vulnerabilities to gain influence or financial advantages. One slide claims that women are a particularly common weakness among members of the elite and encourages participants to engage in taboo activities with targets to establish trust. 
The material claims the techniques have been successfully used on a major Hollywood director, a famous UFC fighter, an Arab billionaire, and a Fortune 500 CEO.
The revelations come as Tate and his brother, Tristan, are being held at the Federal Detention Center in Miami as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tate-brothers-slapped-with-38-new-charges-in-expanding-sex-trafficking-case?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tate+Brothers+Slapped+With+38+New+Charges+In+Expanding+Sex+Trafficking+Case">they face a combined 59 criminal charges</a> that include allegations of rape, sexual assault, human trafficking and offenses involving indecent images of children and extreme pornography. Both brothers have denied wrongdoing and accused British authorities of politically motivated persecution.
The leaked data includes more than 12 terabytes of material discovered by a security researcher who asked to remain anonymous. The researcher said the information was not obtained through hacking, but rather by analyzing publicly accessible source code and files that Tate’s online infrastructure had inadvertently exposed.
The researcher found code identifying 235 privileged War Room accounts across seven levels of access, including a small group of administrators and members who had paid for access to hidden courses. 
Another course, called “Operator,” teaches participants techniques such as bribing foreign officials, resisting interrogation, and detecting surveillance.
The leaked material also reportedly contains instructions for controlling women. One section teaches members to establish “complete control” over a woman’s daily routine, clothing, friends, and diet, while describing punishment for violating the rules. Another course, the “Date Magnet System,” teaches members to categorize women into “exploitable types,” manufacture the appearance of an authentic lifestyle, and conduct large-scale outreach to women.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-tates-own-lawyers-say-his-whole-image-is-a-fraud?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Tate%E2%80%99s+Own+Lawyers+Say+His+Whole+Image+Is+A+Fraud">Court filings acknowledged</a> that luxury cars and yachts featured in their social media content were rented, borrowed, or used for promotional purposes. The brothers’ attorneys argued that “they are playing a role” and that their exaggerated displays of wealth were part of a business model designed to attract followers who would then purchase courses teaching them how to become wealthy themselves. 
Tate’s War Room currently costs members $2,400 annually, down from a previous price of as much as $8,000. 
The Tate brothers also face separate criminal proceedings in Romania, where they have denied allegations of human trafficking and other crimes.

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An Ohio mother and her two trans-identifying live-in lovers stand accused of torturing her 7-year-old to death after he was found bound with duct tape inside a closet at the family’s home.
Veteran homicide detective Kyle Smith testified in court on Friday, calling this case one of the worst he’s seen in his career, as FOX56 reported.
“In my 21 years of law enforcement experience, this is probably one of the most disturbing examples of child abuse that I’ve witnessed: physical beatings and blunt force injuries from striking devices on the face, torso, back, and upper and lower extremities,” Smith <a href="https://fox56.com/news/nation-world/kaitlin-evans-nessa-keaney-kirby-rankin-three-people-charged-murder-young-boy-death-oakley-endangering-children-hamilton-county-coroner-autopsy-madison-road-home-investigation-suspicious-death-court-friday-cincinnati-crime-criminal-acts">said</a>.
Seven-year-old William Evans, who was developmentally disabled, was reportedly beaten, burned, and held underwater for extended periods of time.
Kaitlin Evans, 38, and her live-in lovers Nessa Keaney, 23, and Kirby Rankin, 33, have been charged with abusing and murdering the child. Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday that she “opened the closet door” and “just froze for a while” upon encountering the scene.
William’s cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head. The child’s skull was fractured, and his arm was broken, according to the coroner. Investigators were reportedly searching for a weapon associated with the abuse, and as of the latest reporting, sexual abuse had not been ruled out.
Sammarco said the child had likely been dead for &#8220;at least a day&#8221; before he was found.
The boy’s father did not live in the home. Per FOX56, he was openly sobbing in court and said to Evans, &#8220;Willie was my life. I trusted you to care for him.”
He added, “They kept him from me for the past nine months over lies.&#8221;
Evans’ lawyer said that the evidence will prove that “another individual who has been charged with this crime caused the death of this child.”
“We believe the state’s theory as it relates to Ms. Evans will be a failure to act,” the attorney <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/11/us-news/mom-trans-lovers-accused-of-killing-disabled-7-year-old-son/">said</a>, per The New York Post, claiming that Evans had not committed the crime herself but had failed to stop the person who did.&lt;
Evans, Keaney, and Rankin have each been charged with murder and child endangerment. They are currently behind bars as they await trial, with bond set at $1 million, with an additional $100,000 for all three of the accused.

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Senator Bernie Moreno and Congressman Max Miller traded blows on social media Sunday, with the former Ohio Republican accusing the latter of abusing his daughter, allegations the congressman denies.
For weeks, Miller has been dogged with rumors that he was abusive towards his ex-wife, Emily, Moreno&#8217;s daughter. On Saturday, Miller announced on X that he would make a public statement Sunday morning, which took the form of a <a href="https://x.com/MaxMillerOH/status/2083923492676706663">livestream</a> in which he denied the accusations against him, including a claim that he had thrown hot water on Emily Moreno. Miller dismissed the incident as &#8220;horseplay,&#8221; saying the water was not as hot as alleged. Miller also said that child welfare agencies had found accusations he had abused the couple&#8217;s two-year-old daughter &#8220;unsubstantiated.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not getting out of this race, and I&#8217;m winning in November,&#8221; said Miller, who faces a tight re-election race in November.
In response, Moreno said that he feared for his daughter and granddaughter when they were with Miller, and argued that the congressman&#8217;s actions rendered him unfit for public office.
&#8220;As a father and husband, I can tell you the last two years have been pure hell for my wife Bridget, our daughter Emily, me, and our entire family in the aftermath of Emily&#8217;s divorce,&#8221; Moreno wrote in a lengthy statement on X. &#8220;It has been horrific to watch this play out in full public view, all while knowing an innocent two-year-old girl is caught in the middle.&#8221;
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&#8220;As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter,&#8221; Moreno continued.
&#8220;If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives. I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake. I believe he should not be free to continue endangering others until he does,&#8221; he added.
Miller responded by sharing a <a href="https://x.com/MaxMillerOH/status/2083939064462422509">number of files</a> he said would substantiate his claims. He also fired back at Moreno, saying &#8220;If my daughter said the same thing to me, I personally wouldn’t wait two years before holding him accountable.&#8221;
&#8220;You know this isn’t true and the only reason you are speaking out now is to hide from your own media circus,&#8221; Miller added. &#8220;This is all political.&#8221;
The family struggle has a political dimension, as both Moreno and Miller are strong allies of President Donald Trump. Trump endorsed Moreno in his 2024 Senate race, and Miller in his current re-election bid. The Times reports that some close to Trump are worried about Miller&#8217;s decision to publicly attack Moreno, which they think could imperil his chances at winning in November. Republicans have until Wednesday to replace Miller on the ballot, should they so choose.
Emily Moreno alleges that, during their marriage, Miller slammed her against the wall, held a gun to her head, and broke their daughter&#8217;s collarbone. Emily Moreno has since filed a restraining order against Miller, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/us/elections/max-miller-ohio-republican-moreno-election.html">according</a> to the New York Times, which also reports that the senator&#8217;s daughter is petitioning to end her shared parenting agreement with Miller. The case is expected to go to court in November.
Miller responded in his own court filings by calling his ex-wife &#8220;mentally ill,&#8221; and claiming that she was the one putting their daughter at risk. He also took the argument public, telling Spectrum News that she &#8220;sadly isn’t all there&#8221; and claiming in court that she was actively engaged in a smear campaign against him.
Telling the court that Moreno owned at least one firearm, Miller claimed that he feared for his own personal safety. He also asserted that their daughter&#8217;s broken collarbone had been the result of Moreno&#8217;s driving.
“It is shameful that Max Miller decided to go on a bizarre and lie-filled rant about his ex-wife to desperately try to save his political career,&#8221; Emily Moreno&#8217;s spokesman, Stefan Mychajliw, said in a <a href="https://x.com/stefanmychajliw/status/2083947202490114530?s=46">statement</a> Sunday. &#8220;There is a documented trove of evidence that Miller has a history of violent and dangerous behavior and no amount of victim shaming will change that.&#8221;
&#8220;It is despicable and abhorrent that Miller lied on an unhinged and humiliating video for their daughter to watch one day,&#8221; the statement went on. &#8220;No loving parent would have ever used their daughter as a PR pawn to save their own political career.&#8221;

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Earlier this year, when child-welfare officials in Santa Clara County, California, determined that two-year-old Jaxon Juarez’s biological father was unable to care for him, they placed him under the care of his father’s relative — a situation commonly referred to as a “kinship foster home.” The placement proved fatal for “Baby Jaxon,” who was sexually assaulted by his foster mother’s 17-year-old son on Easter Sunday and <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-jose-baby-jaxon-case-what-we-know">died several days later from his injuries</a>.
Many are questioning whether county officials ignored red flags to place the child with relatives. One such warning sign: Jaxon’s foster mother — a cousin of his biological father — had a felony conviction for child endangerment.
Unfortunately, questionable placements like Jaxon’s are increasingly common, as advocacy groups have pushed federal leaders and state child-welfare agencies to adopt a “kin-first” culture, which <a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/casework-practice/kin-first-culture/?top=1569">prioritizes</a> “preventing unnecessary family separation, partnering with families at every stage of decision-making, and supporting families holistically.” Santa Clara County, once considered a <a href="https://mackcenter.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/chi-2016-05-06/CHI/TOC-CHI-130.pdf">model</a> for how to expand kinship care, is not alone in ignoring warning signs to ensure that foster children stay with kin.
In 1988, Ronald Reagan proclaimed May National Foster Care Month, <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5820-national-foster-care-month-1988">asserting</a> that our policies must focus on “the well-being of the child” and placements that provide “actual care and not mere custody.” Too many of our leaders and child-welfare officials have lost this focus, confusing their views about what is best for “<a href="https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/ACYF-CB-IM-23-07.pdf">communities</a>” with what is best for children. The movement toward a “kin-first” culture is illustrative. Keeping families together is important, of course, but the culture of foster care should be singularly focused on the welfare of the child.
Kin-first culture is ostensibly about removing non-safety-related barriers to placing children with relatives. The coalition behind this concept is powerful because its message resonates with the public: most parents would prefer that their children be cared for by a relative or close friend over a stranger.
In fact, the law already makes provision for kinship care. For decades, federal law has given known relatives favorable treatment for <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/867/text">placement</a> and <a href="https://www.casey.org/media/FosteringConnectionsSummary.pdf">licensing</a>. States have long permitted foster children to be placed in unlicensed kinship care homes and have licensed kin as caregivers under modified standards.
Current advocacy efforts <a href="https://stateline.org/2024/05/24/states-shift-toward-kin-first-foster-care">highlight</a> “easing certain housing requirements” and “streamlining paperwork,” but the continued push to expand kinship care has made it easier for dangerous individuals to gain custody of vulnerable children — and to get paid as foster parents.
Child-welfare agencies now set arbitrary benchmarks for kin placements. Connecticut, for example, has set a goal of placing <a href="https://insideinvestigator.org/dcf-falling-short-of-family-reunification-goals-per-state-audit">70%</a> of foster children with kin. To meet these goals, agencies must approve kin who would normally trigger safety concerns or loosen definitions of who counts as kin. It’s easy to find evidence of the harm both strategies have caused across the country.
Federal foster care licensing standards already lack clear rules against placing children with people on child-abuse registries or with non-felony family-violence convictions, but kinship advocacy groups have encouraged states to go even further, stripping away the modest safety standards that licensure provides. For example, the federally funded <a href="https://www.grandfamilies.org/Portals/0/Kin-Specific_Foster_Home_Approval_Standards_2025.pdf">Grandfamilies &amp; Kinship Support Network</a> points out that, though background checks are still required, kin caregivers with disqualifying federal convictions — including felony child abuse, child pornography, and rape — are merely ineligible for federal reimbursement. Incredibly, agencies can <a href="https://dcfs.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/dcfs/documents/about-us/policy-rules-and-forms/documents/procedures/procedures-415.pdf">place</a> children in the care of such individuals; they just need to use state, not federal, dollars. The same <a href="https://www.grandfamilies.org/Portals/0/Kin-Specific_Foster_Home_Approval_Standards_2025.pdf">guidance</a> reminds agencies that federal background check requirements don’t extend to any adults in the home other than the applicant caregiver.
Under President Joe Biden, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) <a href="https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/ACYF-CB-IM-23-07.pdf">encouraged</a> states to require no more than minimum standards to license kinship foster homes. Current ACF leadership has issued similar <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/%5dhttps:/acf.gov/system/files/filefield_paths/im-26-02.pdf">instruction</a>. Relaxing standards allows unlicensed kinship foster parents (a <a href="https://tableau-public.acf.gov/views/afcars_dashboard_main_page/entries-livingarrangement?%3Aembed=y&amp;%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y">majority of kinship caregivers</a> in many states) to become licensed and thus eligible to receive foster-care maintenance payments. Federal <a href="https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/ACYF-CB-IM-23-07.pdf">guidance</a> characterizes these payments as a progressive income redistribution to kin from “communities in which long-term systemic factors such as poverty hamper families from making intergenerational progress.” Efforts to leverage federal funding to pay relatives for care services with little screening and oversight have already proved harmful in other contexts, as recent Medicaid fraud <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-in-home-supportive-services-program-fraud-gavin-newsom">investigations</a> reveal.
The public may be surprised to learn that the definition of “kin” also <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20260326/119093/HHRG-119-AP07-Wstate-FontS-20260326.pdf">includes</a> those who self-identify as relatives, ex-spouses of third cousins, or anyone with a relationship with the child’s parent. For example, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-mexico-foster-placement-child-welfare-kinship-care">New Mexico</a> applied “kin” status to a 22-year-old Good Samaritan who happened upon a teenager living on the street.
When tragedies foreseeably follow lax placement policies, few realize that the children often died in poorly vetted kinship-care homes rather than traditional foster homes. After the estate of toddler <a href="https://livescutshort.org/the-children/pa_22_10-hope-jones">Hope Jones</a> received a $6.5 million settlement following her death at the hands of a foster mother who had a “history of aggravated assault,” the plaintiff’s <a href="https://www.klinespecter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fostercare-legalintel-122123-Copy.pdf">press release</a> didn’t mention that the foster mother was the 21-year-old cousin of Hope’s father. The Minnesota lawmakers who sought to raise the bar for placing black children in foster care — especially non-kin foster care — titled one version of their bill the <a href="https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/minnesota-governor-expected-to-sign-bill-raising-bar-for-taking-african-american-or-disproportionately-represented-children-into-foster-care/249509">“Layla Jackson Law”</a> as a “tribute to a 17-month-old black infant who was <a href="https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/lawsuit-alleges-fatal-lapses-emergency-foster-care/53051">killed</a> by her white foster parent.” That child was killed by “fictive kin” caregivers approved by her biological mother, but it was no doubt politically expedient to let the public believe that the foster parent was a non-relative.
A primary justification for placing with kin is a strong prior relationship with the child. Yet, neither law nor practice requires such a relationship. Ironically, some <a href="https://us01.z.antigena.com/l/adXlg7EQ8_IKy_GRc_GHY8Woo_0OyxS7F5Sd-7AgLRdTTOmkNcWhIdXop-FaRO~OMOPw-0l2SwMUVfpYFq5w2bVQmAfW6xMxU~_~JEMYX2dAyVNbkGXovyrIBtI_VLKMjIS9fvMBuL21034rH57MRECx3C4tYx~a3F-w5OOa2k92RUUWquBcILSISLWeBquk6u6">proponents</a> of kinship care use the derogatory term “stranger care” to refer to non-relative foster parents, eliding the reality that kin can also be strangers to a child. Officials placed <a href="https://us01.z.antigena.com/l/Gy8IAuFmr-S0q3d9MaTBNm9Vb4sHg1PyKeP5tpYAGt~Syo3cKnhRk5BY8P~YyQdgMMeTfT7zvrwdEcIVzr9xsdhInmc~5_878BvQMTQXo9T-cakDyc3YD4OzjA1QkHZQbbfHmy9yB-px3pM8Vdt1jOQMe33AAVlP7jh9M6S6Doh6cyAtoSRu8~AGI8snkbEtUPEeKHsuk1orhjHtyOessuDfZp">A’layah Joyner</a> of Georgia with relatives whom she reportedly had never met. She was killed by her foster parent’s boyfriend, who had a long history of domestic abuse and other crimes.
Placement with “kin,” no matter how distant or troubled, has become the default for overburdened agencies. As part of kin-first culture, the American Bar Association <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/child_law/resources/child_law_practiceonline/child_law_practice/vol-36/july-aug-2017/creating-a-kin-first-culture-">recommends</a> a “kinship firewall,” in which agency leadership must individually approve every non-kinship placement. This means that a caseworker doesn’t need to offer any justification to place a child with distant relatives or relatives with criminal and child abuse records — but must seek special approval to bypass those relatives. And once placed, agencies can quickly move these children into “relative guardianships” — in which monthly payments continue, but state oversight ends.
Kinship care is the right choice for many children, but it should not be a benchmark of success. Children’s well-being is the standard that matters.
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This is republished with permission from the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. The original can be found <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/foster-care-families-kinship-homes">here</a>.
<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/person/sarah-a-font">Sarah Font</a> is a professor at Washington University’s Brown School who studies the effects of the child welfare system and the criminal and juvenile legal systems on children and families. <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/person/emily-putnam-hornstein">Emily Putnam-Hornstein</a> is the John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need at UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work.

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In what appears to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-feds-investigating-alleged-china-linked-rent-a-womb-surrogacy-scandal-in-california?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Feds+Investigating+Alleged+China-Linked+%E2%80%98Rent-A-Womb%E2%80%99+Surrogacy+Scandals+In+California">a surrogacy scandal in California</a>, 21 children, who were reportedly all born by surrogate mothers, were removed from a home and placed in protective custody.
The children were discovered when authorities went to investigate the suspected child abuse of a 2-month-old infant who suffered a traumatic head injury, ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7.com/post/surrogacy-scandal-21-children-surrogate-mothers-taken-arcadia-couple-amid-investigation/17140359/">reported</a>.
&#8220;We discovered numerous children &#8212; 15 children to be specific &#8212; ranging in ages from 2 months old to 13 years old,&#8221; Arcadia police Lt. Kollin Cieadlo said. &#8220;Many of the children were birthed through surrogacy and then the male and female at the residence took legal guardianship of those kids.&#8221;
&#8220;The discipline, both verbally and physical, was severe to the point where it supported the beliefs that child abuse was occurring inside the home,&#8221; Cieadlo added.
Authorities later confirmed to the outlet that 21 children were in the home, 17 of whom are three years of age or younger, according to witnesses. All 21 children are in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services.
The children were under the legal guardianship of Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38 &#8212; both of whom were residing at the home. The pair were initially arrested for felony child endangerment, but reportedly released from custody.
An arrest warrant has been issued for the nanny, Chunmei Li, 56. The woman was viewed on surveillance footage by authorities. Li remains at large.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-feds-investigating-alleged-china-linked-rent-a-womb-surrogacy-scandal-in-california?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Feds+Investigating+Alleged+China-Linked+‘Rent-A-Womb’+Surrogacy+Scandals+In+California">READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: Feds Investigating Alleged China-Linked ‘Rent-A-Womb’ Surrogacy Scandals In California</a>
The FBI confirmed this week that they are investigating the matter, but declined to comment further on the case. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-feds-investigating-alleged-china-linked-rent-a-womb-surrogacy-scandal-in-california?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Feds+Investigating+Alleged+China-Linked+‘Rent-A-Womb’+Surrogacy+Scandals+In+California">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Mary Margaret Olohan</a>, on July 3, was first to confirm that the feds were investigating allegations of the apparent China-tied, for-profit baby selling operations.
Executive director of the nonprofit Center of Bioethics and Culture, Kallie Fell, said the scandal appears to be a surrogacy scheme.
&#8220;Anything goes,&#8221; Fell told ABC 7. &#8220;And these clinics, these agencies are not regulated by any governing body.&#8221;
&#8220;That to me smells of trafficking, child trafficking,&#8221; she added. &#8220;What are the intentions of having that many children at home through these assisted reproductive technologies?&#8221;
Earlier this month, Fell told The Daily Wire, “For years, we’ve warned that the commercial surrogacy industry operates in legal and ethical gray zones, creating conditions ripe for abuse. This case isn’t just about one agency or one couple; it reflects a deeper pattern of treating women as wombs-for-hire and children as commodities.”
“We believe this case points to a form of organized reproductive trafficking, and the public should be outraged,” she added. “And it won’t stop unless we hold the fertility industry accountable and close our borders to international surrogacy arrangements.”

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Left-wing activists on Friday allegedly tipped off an illegal alien, who&#8217;s a convicted child rapist, helping him escape from landing in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
&#8220;This morning ICE &amp; [FBI Denver] were attempting to arrest Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a criminal alien from El Salvador who is convicted of and wanted for child rape in Italy,&#8221; ICE&#8217;s Denver field office posted to X. &#8220;During our surveillance of Leon, members of Colorado Rapid Response arrived on scene and alerted him to law enforcement&#8217;s presence which allowed him to escape arrest.&#8221;
Colorado Rapid Response is a far-Left anti-ICE <a href="https://www.coloradorapidresponsenetwork.com">organization</a> that&#8217;s been responding to immigration raids. The group&#8217;s website says the organization is &#8220;committed to responding to raids, deportation, and any Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity happening across the state in our communities.&#8221;
The group has a hotline asking for tips from people who &#8220;witness ICE activity or if you want to document an experience with ICE.&#8221;
Documentation of ICE activity, the Colorado Rapid Response says, &#8220;monitors police/I.C.E. collaboration detects patterns that can guide our legislative efforts, and builds a robust statewide network of people resisting deportations in their communities.&#8221;
ICE Denver condemned the group and others like it, writing, &#8220;Groups like this interfere with ICE’s ability to keep communities safe. If you know his whereabouts, do not approach, if seen, instead report all info to ICE at 1-866-347-2423.&#8221;
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to law enforcements presence which allowed him to escape arrest. Groups like this interfere with ICE’s ability to keep communities safe. If you know his whereabouts, do not approach, if seen, instead report all info to ICE at 1-866-347-2423 <a href="https://t.co/fGrTnWc81C">pic.twitter.com/fGrTnWc81C</a>
— ICE Denver (@ERODenver) <a href="https://twitter.com/ERODenver/status/1936226810003362278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
Protests and riots against ICE agents have popped up in liberal cities across the nation as President Donald Trump continues to fulfill his campaign promise to deport illegals, prioritizing immigrants who&#8217;ve committed serious crimes in addition to illegally crossing our border.
The Justice Department this past week announced it&#8217;s pursuing more charges against suspects accused in taking part in the violent anti-ICE riots, specifically those in California, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-coming-for-you-feds-reveal-more-charges-against-anti-ice-rioters">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-dared-tom-homan-to-come-after-her-for-helping-illegals-heres-his-response">AOC Dared Tom Homan To Come After Her For Helping Illegals. Here’s His Response.</a>

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Last month, Marvin Lee Mutch, a convicted child murderer who was charged with drowning 13-year-old Cassie Riley in 1974, was arrested for possessing child sex abuse material, an illegally owned firearm, ammunition, and a controlled substance. After 40 years in San Quentin Prison, Mutch was released in 2016, thanks to the efforts of an organization called the Innocence Project. This isn’t the first time the group has argued for the release of a criminal who has gone on to harm new victims.
Consider Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate whose 2024 case flooded headlines. Described by the Innocence Project as a “child-like” autistic father, Roberson gained the sympathies of many prominent figures on both sides of the political aisle. Days before Roberson’s set execution date of October 17, 2024, CNN’s Jake Tapper conducted a sympathetic interview with the detective who worked on Roberson’s case, who called for Roberson to be spared the death penalty. Dr. Phil, RFK Jr., and Bret Weinstein, conservative allies whom I believe to be well meaning, also defended Roberson and called for a stay of his execution. The Innocence Project led the charge on Roberson’s behalf, persuading the public and Texas lawmakers that a grieving, autistic father had been wrongly blamed for the 2002 murder of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki. The group claimed Roberson’s conviction was based on “debunked” Shaken Baby Syndrome and an accidental bed fall. Who can blame one for rushing to Roberson’s defense when presented with this story? It tugs on the heartstrings and demands justice. However, to maintain this narrative that captivated so many well-meaning people, the Innocence Project left out the damning details that actually led to Roberson’s conviction.
Nikki, just 2 years old, died in Roberson’s care. According to the testimonies delivered during Roberson’s trial, Nikki’s injuries were consistent with brutal abuse. ER Nurse Andrea Sims testified Nikki had a handprint on her face, a “mushy” skull, and her entire brain shifted from trauma. Dr. John Ross, the pediatrician who examined Nikki, testified that he ruled out a fall, insisting the trauma had to have been caused intentionally. Nurse Kelly Gurganus described Nikki’s blue skin, unlike anything she’d seen, even in drownings. Dr. Thomas Konjoyan, the ER physician who examined Nikki, confirmed her brain was pushed to death by uncal herniation — an injury no bed fall could cause. 
It gets worse. Nurse Sims found three anal tears and abnormal rectal laxity, signs of sexual assault. Roberson confessed to a cellmate he put his penis in Nikki’s mouth and rubbed it on her. His ex, Della Gray, testified he abused her children, leaving bruises and a hickey on one. His own mother warned he’d kill Nikki. With 17 arrests, including felonies, Roberson is no victim. Yet the Innocence Project paints him as a misunderstood Forrest Gump.
Now, Roberson’s fate hangs in the balance as he awaits his new execution date. Attorney General Ken Paxton has signaled that he’ll continue seeking justice for Nikki. Will Texas legislators join him in this fight, or will they cave to IP’s anti-justice demands?
So why would the Innocence Project defend such a man? The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by O.J. Simpson’s lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, is a radical left-wing organization that uses these kinds of misleading cases of supposed wrongful convictions to erode public confidence in capital punishment. They freed O.J. despite blood evidence and use the same tactics to pursue their ultimate goal of abolishing the death penalty at all costs. And it seems to be working: since 1992, public support for the death penalty has dropped from 80% to 53%, fueled by their sob stories about “wrongly” convicted killers like Roberson. They erode trust in our courts, claiming a “broken system” while ignoring victims like Nikki.
Their leadership exposes their bias. Executive Director Christina Swarns, a former NAACP lawyer, saved cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose guilt is undeniable. Board member Alondra Nelson praises Black Panthers and pushes DNA testing for slave reparations. Yusef Salaam, of Central Park Five fame, campaigned for Kamala Harris. Cedric Alexander, an Obama advisor, demonizes January 6 protesters. Ekow Yankah wrote he won’t let his children befriend white people. Bankrolled by George Soros’s Open Society, Mackenzie Scott, and even taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance, they’re activists, not impartial advocates.
Conservatives should view The Innocence Project like BLM: a radical leftist group using toxic empathy to twist our compassion and godly desire for justice, just to push a dangerous agenda.
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Allie Beth Stuckey is a conservative commentator, host of the podcast “Relatable,” and New York Times bestselling author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Empathy-Progressives-Christian-Compassion/dp/0593541944/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UANYF7F4G527&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SR4Z9YTZBiD-LIyJWIe2NqrPQSJrs7v_SeJwqdKhprgz4bRzXt9yi_yz87GrsiKreKNDkh5cktyvWqnwYqCvq-AAWTJyW9idmKxIIFSxmJU.Q-uGoH9skFCMDxfjq4I70mRhShGY4nULiXDRrFrj1Nw&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Toxic+Empathy%3A+How+Progressives&amp;qid=1749579102&amp;sprefix=toxic+empathy+how+progressives%2Caps%2C55&amp;sr=8-1">Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion</a>&#8220;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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WASHINGTON—The FBI has nabbed hundreds of child abusers in a coordinated enforcement to protect children in Texas, The Daily Wire has learned.
Agents held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon to announce the results of Operation Soteria Shield, a coordinated Crimes Against Children enforcement operation across Texas, the FBI shared with The Daily Wire, including more than 70 local, state, and federal partners.
Over 100 children were rescued during the enforcement operation, 244 offenders were arrested by authorities, and 368 total charges were filed, both federal and state. The operation — which was jointly managed by the FBI Dallas Division, Dallas Police Department, Plano Police Department, Wylie Police Department, and Garland Police Department — also involved 165 search warrants and the seizure of 1,130 digital devices, an FBI spokesman shared.
“FBI leadership has made it crystal clear: If you harm children in America, there will be no place for you to hide,&#8221; FBI spokesman Ben Williamson told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The FBI will spare no effort to pursue you, find you, and bring you to justice.&#8221;
&#8220;We are proud of our Dallas teams and local partnerships in the region for once again delivering a successful operation and making American neighborhoods safer,&#8221; Williamson added.
This marks the tenth year that Operation Soteria Shield has been conducted in April, which is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
<a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/more-than-100-children-rescued-month-long-north-texas-operation">According to Fox4Dallas</a>, this year&#8217;s operation included 124 cyber tip cases, 73 chat-based undercover operations, 30 responses to calls for service that were direct leads to child rescues, and 23 high-risk victim rescues.
“Operation Soteria Shield brought together over 70 agencies from across the state of Texas, including police departments, federal agencies, state and federal prosecutors, children’s advocacy centers, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,&#8221; FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Joseph Rothrock explained. &#8220;We had a common goal, which was to rescue children from abuse and exploitation.&#8221;
&#8220;This was not an easy operation, but a necessary one,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The FBI and our law enforcement partners will continue to protect the children in our communities and we will hold child predators accountable for their crimes.”
The FBI also said Tuesday in a release that in addition to their law enforcement actions, investigators &#8220;seized extensive volumes of digital evidence, including terabytes of illicit data stored on electronic devices that were used in the commission of these crimes.&#8221; Those devices are reportedly undergoing forensic analysis and &#8220;may lead to further arrests and the identification of additional victims.&#8221;

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Shortly before leaving office in January 2021, President Donald Trump signed bipartisan<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr6100" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> legislation</a> called the “Strengthening the Opposition to Female Genital Mutilation Act of 2020.&#8221; It was a proud day for those of us at Independent Women who had worked for years to put an end to this barbaric practice.
Female genital mutilation is the partial or total removal of female external genitalia for non-medical reasons. Held by certain cultures as a way to ensure young girls remain “pure” before they marry, the traumatic process causes extreme emotional and physical consequences and has no health benefits.
During my service as the director of the International Women’s Issues Office at the State Department, the suffering of young women and girls caused by female genital mutilation haunted me.
The STOP FGM Act<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr6100" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> increased</a> penalties for committing this heinous practice, expanded the scope of punishable offenses, and required government agencies to submit an annual report to Congress that includes the estimated number of American women and girls who have undergone or are at risk of genital mutilation.
It is estimated that there are over<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26957669/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 513,000</a> women and girls who have experienced or are at risk of genital mutilation in the United States. The STOP FGM Act did more than offer protection to these vulnerable young girls and women. It showed the world that in the United States, there will be no tolerance for this sort of human rights abuse.
Yet while westerners recoil at the idea that girls would be subjected to genital mutilation — irreversible harm under the guise of social or moral good — we enable a different form of abuse on our own girls.
When<a href="https://www.iwfeatures.com/documentary/mentally-ill-teen-betrayed-by-health-professionals-who-recommended-testosterone-and-top-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Prisha Mosley</a> was a teenager, she believed that changing her body would bring her peace. She was struggling with trauma, mental illness, and a desperate desire to escape herself. Instead of addressing the root of her pain, adults in positions of authority affirmed her self-diagnosis and sent her down a path of hormones and surgeries that would leave Prisha permanently scarred.
What medical professionals did to Prisha and too many other young adolescent men and women — permanently disfiguring their healthy bodies in the name of health care — is no different than what we rightly condemn as female genital mutilation.
In Western hospitals, under bright lights and with institutional backing, minors are being prescribed puberty blockers, injected with testosterone, and undergoing irreversible surgeries to remove healthy breasts or even alter their genitalia — all in the name of “gender affirmation.”
One of the most common prescriptions in gender medicine — testosterone, which Prisha was prescribed at 17 — literally leads to female genital mutilation by causing vaginal atrophy and painful clitoral growth and chafing.
This is without even mentioning phalloplasty, which is a surgery to create an appendage that looks like a penis for trans-identifying females. Surgeons hack off a portion of the woman’s arm for skin to use to create the pseudo-penis, leaving her with an irreversible and highly visible scar, and, once it is created and attached, it is<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38340965/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> rife with complications</a>, including urinary problems, fistulas, strictures, wounds, and infections.
If a girl in another country were subjected to genital mutilation surgery because her community believed it would make her more acceptable or &#8220;pure,&#8221; we’d be outraged. We’d call it a violation of her bodily autonomy. But when it’s done in the name of identity, we call it “care.”
This double standard is dangerous.
Female genital mutilation and gender-transition surgeries on minors share critical features: they’re performed on healthy bodies, often before the individual is mature enough to understand the full consequences, and they result in lifelong physical and emotional harm. In both cases, young people are manipulated by adults into believing that their value or wholeness depends on altering their bodies irreversibly.
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We have laws protecting girls from female genital mutilation, as we should. So why is it controversial to suggest we also need laws to protect vulnerable children from irreversible gender procedures?
At the end of the day, this issue goes beyond politics: it isn’t partisan to want to safeguard children from adult agendas and ideologies that demand lifelong fealty and commitment from confused, traumatized youth. There’s nothing compassionate about a scalpel, nothing healing about cross-sex hormone injections that lead to a lifetime of complications and pain.
Americans like Prisha live every day with the consequences of decisions they’ve made when they were too young and too broken to understand them. If we truly care about protecting children’s rights and bodies, we must be willing to speak uncomfortable truths. And one of those truths is this: female genital mutilation and gender transition surgeries on minors are more alike than we dare admit. Both should be outlawed.
Andrea G. Bottner is the vice president for external relations at Independent Women, former director of the International Women’s Issues Office at the U.S. Department of State, and former acting director of the Office on Violence Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan &#8220;Take It Down Act&#8221; into law on Monday, surrounded by First Lady Melania Trump and lawmakers who helped advance the bill.
The &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/can-you-help-me-why-the-take-it-down-act-is-a-lifeline-for-victims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Take It Down Act</a>&#8221; makes publishing non-consensual intimate imagery, real or AI-generated, a federal crime. It requires social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook to remove content that features explicit images or videos of minors, known as “child sexual abuse material,” or CSAM, or “revenge porn,” within 48 hours of the content being flagged.
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President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in the Rose Garden for the signing of the Take It Down Act. 🌹🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/lHYAVO5xTS">pic.twitter.com/lHYAVO5xTS</a>
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1924546236234744254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Mrs. Trump has been a fierce advocate for the &#8220;Take It Down Act,&#8221; encouraging lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to push the legislation forward. FLOTUS opened the signing with remarks about the bipartisan effort to protect Americans, especially children, before introducing President Trump.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> gives remarks prior to the signing of the &#8216;Take It Down Act&#8217; to protect children from online exploitation: &#8220;This legislation is a powerful step forward in our efforts to ensure that every American, especially young people, can feel better protected from their image or… <a href="https://t.co/EJFVHppTi1">pic.twitter.com/EJFVHppTi1</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1924546390560068037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Republican South Carolina Rep. Brandon Guffey, who was thanked by President Trump on Monday, worked with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on the legislation. Cruz and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, were the sponsors of the bill.
Tragically, Guffey&#8217;s 17-year-old son Gavin Guffey took his own life three years ago after he was the victim of an online sexual extortion scam &#8212; <a href="https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250306">a growing trend</a> the FBI has recently warned parents about.
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I have posted before about the passing of TAKE IT DOWN and the roundtable with FLOTUS. On Friday, I received an invite to go to the White House for the signing on the bill and as I made plans, I found out that the other members of the original “Porch Caucus” will be in DC Monday… <a href="https://t.co/Qr4518YEKu">pic.twitter.com/Qr4518YEKu</a>
— Brandon Guffey (@brandonguffeysc) <a href="https://twitter.com/brandonguffeysc/status/1922142423880204581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
Guffey told The Daily Wire on Monday that the law &#8220;will save so many teens from feeling the shame that my son faced.&#8221;
&#8220;In addition to having the tool to have the images taken down within 48 hours, the person posting can also face up to 3 years in prison,&#8221; the lawmaker continued. &#8220;With the evolution of criminals using AI and morphed images/videos, this will be the first bill to my knowledge to address Artificial Intelligence.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m so thankful for all of the coalitions behind this and the advocacy of the FLOTUS,&#8221; Guffey added. &#8220;The bravery of young teens such as <a href="https://19thnews.org/2025/05/take-it-down-act-signing-explicit-images/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elliston and Francesca</a> can’t be commended enough.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_905661" style="width: 867px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-905661" class="wp-image-905661 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1968507123-857x576.jpg" alt="South Carolina state Rep. Brandon Guffey, holds a picture of his son Gavin Guffey, 17, who died by suicide after being entrapped in a sexual extortion scam on Instagram, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled &quot;Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,&quot; in Dirksen building on Wednesday, January 31, 2024." width="857" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1968507123-857x576.jpg 857w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1968507123-300x202.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1968507123-768x516.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1968507123.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px" />Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images</div>
Guffey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/the-sextortion-crisis-claiming-the-lives-of-teen-boys-4-12-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Daily Wire</a> last month that he wants social media companies to have protections stripped from them over their lack of action concerning CSAM material.
“I think the number one thing that we have to do is to remove Section 230, or revisit Section 230, which was written in 1996,” he told The Daily Wire. “It gives these companies — who are the richest companies since the inception of man — it absolves them from being sued. So we can sue them, but things get thrown out before discovery because they just say, ‘We’re not responsible for anything online because this is a public forum.’”
Guffey is currently suing Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over his son’s death. “I filed a suit directly on my own, not demanding money, but demanding change.”
Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-country-star-john-rich-teamed-up-with-kristi-noem-to-combat-child-sextortion?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=How+Country+Star+John+Rich+Teamed+Up+With+Kristi+Noem+To+Combat+Child+Sextortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> is currently taking on the uptick in sexual extortion, or &#8220;sextortion,&#8221; cases against minors with its initiative <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/know2protect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Know2Protect</a>. Recently, country star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-country-star-john-rich-teamed-up-with-kristi-noem-to-combat-child-sextortion?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=How+Country+Star+John+Rich+Teamed+Up+With+Kristi+Noem+To+Combat+Child+Sextortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Rich</a> teamed up with the department to educate parents and teens about the issue.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-teen-boys-take-their-own-lives-as-online-sextortion-cases-spike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dozens Of Teen Boys Take Their Own Lives As Online Sextortion Cases Spike</a>

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Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went on an absolute tear during Thursday morning&#8217;s White House press briefing, reaffirming President Donald Trump&#8217;s commitment to ending &#8220;barbaric&#8221; child gender transitions — whether chemical or surgical — saying that they amounted to &#8220;child torture&#8221; and &#8220;medical malpractice.&#8221;
Miller began with the executive orders issued by President Trump early on — ending policies supported by former President Joe Biden and the Democrats that had allowed men to play women&#8217;s sports and change in their private locker rooms — and then pivoted to more recent moves aimed at ending all gender transition procedures for minors.
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>: &#8220;It is CHILD ABUSE to change a child&#8217;s gender &#8230; Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/AMNM6eXTau">pic.twitter.com/AMNM6eXTau</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917934253418877091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This administration ended the Biden administration&#8217;s policy and the Democrat Party&#8217;s policy of allowing men into women&#8217;s sports, men into women&#8217;s spaces,&#8221; Miller began. &#8220;We are using every single legal and financial tool we have at President Trump&#8217;s direction to make it clear that schools and universities are and will lose federal funds, as you&#8217;ve seen in Maine, if you allow men to invade women&#8217;s sports and women&#8217;s spaces.&#8221;
Miller went on to say that the administration&#8217;s policies applied to every school in the K-12 system, adding, &#8220;The Department of Justice is also coordinating with state and local law enforcement to fight child abuse in our school system. It is child abuse to change a child&#8217;s gender, particularly if you do not inform the parents. In other words, if a five-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school, or a seven-year-old goes to school, and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl and a girl into a boy, that is child abuse, and this administration is treating that as child abuse. And it is a gross violation of parental rights.&#8221;
Miller then directed the message from the administration to hospital systems across the country, saying that they would not be able to funnel taxpayer dollars into gender transition programs.
&#8220;Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;It is child torture. It is child abuse. It is medical malpractice.&#8221;

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Russia <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/europe/russia-strikes-ukraine-trump-vladimir-intl-hnk/index.html">reportedly</a> continues to hit Ukraine with deadly strikes after President Donald Trump issues a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin. A group of religious parents sue their school district over their children&#8217;s forced exposure to LGBTQ content. And, the White House is warning parents and teens about the rise in child exploitation, enlisting the help of country music star John Rich.
It’s Friday, April 25, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>Russia Bombs Ukraine, Frustrates Peace Efforts</h2>
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Topline: Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with a series of missiles and drones on Thursday, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/europe/russia-strikes-ukraine-trump-vladimir-intl-hnk/index.html">according</a> to CNN, inflicted another round of strikes on Friday. The surprise attacks have derailed United States-led ceasefire negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.
Thursday’s attack on Kyiv left at least a dozen dead and dozens more wounded, and also killed what momentum there was toward a ceasefire. The following night, Moscow reportedly launched another round, killing at least eight more people. Before the attacks, the White House had sounded optimistic about a deal, but after Russia&#8217;s Thursday attacks, the President <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioT5YuxsrU8&amp;t=4m">appeared</a> much less sanguine.
<blockquote>TRUMP: We’re in the midst of talking peace and missiles were fired, and I was not happy with it…
REPORTER: …If the bombs keep falling, will you consider additional sanctions for Russia, or what will you do?
TRUMP: I’d rather answer that question in a week, I want to see if we can have a deal. No reason to answer it now, but I won’t be happy, let’s put it that way. Things will happen.</blockquote>
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been willing to work with the United States on peace terms – more willing since his disastrous White House meeting in February. Since then, Zelensky has agreed to sign a minerals deal with the United States, and last month, he said Ukraine would agree to a full ceasefire to set up peace negotiations. But Moscow never bought in – all they could agree to was a 30 day pause on attacks against energy infrastructure.
Over the weekend, diplomats released a proposed peace deal constructed by the United States and Europe that recognized Russian control of Crimea and accepted Russia’s control of land in Ukraine’s east. It would also ban Ukraine from NATO membership and start the United States and Russia on a path of economic normalization – with all sanctions lifted from Russia. The proposal didn’t set limits on Ukraine’s military – something Moscow had wanted – and it included the minerals deal with the United States. Notably, it did not include any security guarantees from either the United States or Europe for Ukraine. Vice President JD Vance called it a “very fair proposal.”
Zelensky has already said that giving any occupied territory over to the Russians would be a red line. Zelensky has also taken issue with how the Trump administration has approached the negotiating table. “We would like to have this common understanding that Russia is the aggressor, not [Ukraine],&#8221; Zelensky told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro in an interview this week.
<h2>SCOTUS Hears Case On Religious Opt-Outs From LGBTQ Curriculum</h2>
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Topline: The Supreme Court looks poised to rule in favor of religious parents who want the right to opt their kids out of LGBTQ material at school.
In 2022, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school district, introduced a new gender and sexuality curriculum. At first, they allowed parents to opt their kids out, but then, the school district decided it was too difficult to allow opt outs and made attendance mandatory. In response, a group of parents that included Muslims, Catholics, and a Ukrainian Orthodox Christian brought a case against the school district.
One of the books in the new curriculum is called “Prince and Knight,” about a prince who rejects princesses and falls in love with a knight. Another book is called “Born Ready” about a boy named Penelope, and another book tells the story of a girl attending her uncle’s same-sex wedding, and yet another book is called “Pride Puppy” about a puppy who gets lost during a Pride parade.
“They can keep the books,” one plaintiff said on the steps of the Supreme Court. “They can read it to their children if there are parents who feel this is appropriate for their 3-year-old, 4-year-old and elementary kids, they can teach it to them, but we don’t think it’s right. We don’t want it read to our kids.”
The more conservative justices seemed highly skeptical of the school district’s arguments. Justice Brett Kavanaugh quizzed the lawyer for the school superintendent about why it’s supposedly too hard to let parents opt out their children from reading LGBTQ books in class. “The plaintiffs here are not asking the school to change its curriculum. They’re just saying look, we want out. Why isn’t that feasible?”
Even some of the usual critics seemed sympathetic to parents in this case. Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten of the ​​American Federation of Teachers admitted she would not actually recommend these books to elementary schoolers, although she still called for “inclusivity.”
<h2>John Rich Promotes Awareness Of Sextortion</h2>
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Topline: Country music star and entrepreneur John Rich has teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security to warn Americans about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-teen-boys-take-their-own-lives-as-online-sextortion-cases-spike">dangers of child sexual extortion</a>.
The Department of Homeland Security has a campaign called “Know2Protect” – you can find that on the DHS website. Its goal is to raise national public awareness about a rapidly growing crime called sexual extortion – also known as sextortion. Sextortion is when a predator coerces or tricks a minor into sending them sexually explicit images or video footage, and then threatens to release that material unless the minor either produces additional explicit content or gives them money. A Daily Wire investigation covered this topic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-teen-boys-take-their-own-lives-as-online-sextortion-cases-spike">in-depth</a> earlier this month, but in summary, there were 36 million reports of suspected online child exploitation in 2023 alone.
John Rich is amplifying DHS’ awareness effort. The country star heard about sextortion a few months ago, after his wife and 15-year-old son attended a related talk from DHI Special Agent Dennis Fetting. Immediately, Rich reached out to DHS with ideas to get out something more accessible to the public. This week, Rich, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Agent Fetting hosted a livestream event on sextortion. It was <a href="https://x.com/johnrich/status/1915190100058923202">reposted</a> online by President Trump, and so far, it has racked up millions of views.
“I&#8217;m fully aware of the dangers that are out there for our kids right now,” Rich said. “They are being targeted on apps, video games, social media – places you would never dream of, like innocent sounding games like Roblox, Minecraft, things like that, where predators are acting like they&#8217;re another kid and they&#8217;re creating a relationship with your kid, and then they lower the boom, then they start to extort and extort. They do everything from force the kids to send nude pictures of themselves, to take pictures of their parents&#8217; credit cards front and back so they can extort money. They threaten them with killing their family, burning their house down, posting the pictures all online. It results in kids, some of them becoming suicidal – it’s a major, major problem. So to me, millions of parents needed to hear about this.”

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