Hamas terrorists were quietly building a sprawling European terror network for years — stockpiling guns, scouting targets, and even filming a martyrdom-style video — as they plotted a massacre on the continent to mirror the horrific October 7 attack on Israel, according to a bombshell investigation released last week.
The chilling scheme, <a href="https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-hamas-nimmt-den-westen-ins-visier-und-plante-wohl-einen-zweiten-7-oktober-in-europa-ld.10014753">uncovered</a> through a joint probe by European intelligence agencies and reported by Swiss outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung, spanned at least seven countries: Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Poland, and Britain. The terror group eyed the second anniversary of its 2023 rampage, October 7, 2025, as a possible attack date, according to the report.
The plot first cracked open in early June, when a 37-year-old Egyptian man of Palestinian descent was busted on the Greek island of Crete. Cops raiding his apartment found bomb-making chemicals, and investigators say he&#8217;d been coordinating with two Cyprus-based Palestinians on a plan to blow up an Israeli cruise ship. The sting was fittingly code-named &#8220;Odin.&#8221;
But the real nerve center of the operation, authorities say, was Germany. Since last fall, federal prosecutors have ordered the arrest of nine suspected Hamas operatives across the country, accused of targeting Jewish and Israeli institutions. Investigators recovered a pre-recorded propaganda video claiming responsibility for attacks that never came to pass.
German officials say Hamas had turned the country into a weapons pipeline, smuggling at least 13 handguns, an assault rifle and more than 900 rounds of ammo through Denmark, Berlin, and Vienna. It wasn&#8217;t the first bust, as four Hamas members were already convicted in Berlin earlier this year for stashing weapons caches across Europe.
The network&#8217;s roots go back even further. Federal investigators say a Hamas cell was ordered from Lebanon back in 2019 to start hiding weapons across Europe, with caches later dug up in Bulgaria and Denmark. More were feared buried along the German-Polish border. Suspects were finally <a href="https://lab.imedd.org/en/hamas-weapons-in-bulgaria/">caught</a> after guards noticed them repeatedly crossing that border toting shovels, apparently hunting for their own buried arsenal. Arrests came in December 2023.
By the spring of 2023, prosecutors say, the same cell was ordered to haul the weapons into Germany and prep strikes on Jewish, Israeli, or American sites. Those sites included the Israeli embassy in Berlin, the U.S. airbase in Ramstein, and Berlin&#8217;s Tempelhofer Feld park.
Investigators say the whole operation was run out of Lebanon, with Berlin cell members spotted at the funeral of slain Hamas military commander Khalil al-Kharaz.
Hamas has <a href="https://www.counterextremism.com/roundup/eye-extremism-july-20-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com">denied</a> any role in the alleged plot, insisting its fight is limited to Israel. But terror expert Hans-Jakob Schindler called that claim hard to swallow, warning a weakened Hamas may increasingly look to strike outside the Middle East for maximum shock value.

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A knife-wielding man injured three women, including a pregnant woman, during a stabbing spree in central Paris, reportedly shouting that Allah had ordered him to do it.
The suspect attacked three women, ages 19, 24, and 36, on Monday morning with two kitchen knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris, severely wounding two of them, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/french-police-arrest-man-after-knife-attack-paris-2026-07-27/">told reporters</a>. Police have not yet released the identities of the suspect or victims. 
Two of the women remain in critical condition, <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/paris-stabbing-pregnant-woman-three-injured-knife-attack">according to GB News</a>. One woman was stabbed in the lower back, while another suffered a stab wound to the abdomen. An off-duty police officer is said to have detained the disturbed man at the scene.
<a href="https://x.com/ScopeReport_/status/2081701503203455484?s=20">Multiple videos</a> circulating on social media appear to capture moments before and after the attack. Footage shows the suspect, who has long black hair and is wearing a cream-colored tracksuit, carrying two large knives. In one clip, he is seen running down a street before appearing to lunge at a woman who is walking alone.
French outlet Le Figaro reported that the suspect shouted, “It is Allah who ordered me.&#8221; At the scene, however, police urged caution, insisting the man made &#8220;incoherent&#8221; statements and that investigators had not yet identified a motive.
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2081736070643757447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">posted</a> on X: &#8220;What was his motive? We may never know.&#8221;
The Paris stabbing spree came roughly 40 hours after another Islamic terror attack rocked a neighboring European country.
German police on Sunday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/known-islamic-terrorist-on-the-run-unleashed-machete-attack-after-plowing-van-into-crowd?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Known+Islamic+Terrorist+On+The+Run+After+Deadly+Berlin+Car-Ramming+Attack">shot and killed</a> a Muslim man who previously tried to join the Islamic State after he rammed a vehicle into Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday and then attacked bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
The Associated Press reported 21-year-old Abdul Ballout was shot and killed by police at a complex in Spandau, one of Berlin’s boroughs.
Police said Ballout fled the “horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to radical Islamist ideology.
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> was a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin’s “Islamist scene” and had previously “<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.” Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout was a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. Ballout was previously arrested in Lebanon after he was accused of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was arrested by German authorities and sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.”
“Horrendous attack in Berlin last night,” Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.’s Right-wing Reform UK party, said of the attack. “The strange left-wing alliance between Islamists and the LGBT community in this country cannot last.”

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German police shot and killed a Muslim man who previously tried to join the Islamic State after he rammed a vehicle into Berlin&#8217;s Pride festival on Saturday and then attacked bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
<a href="https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2026-07/anschlag-auf-csd-mutmasslicher-attentaeter-abdul-b-offenbar-erschossen">Die Zeit</a>, a national German newspaper, reported that 21-year-old Abdul Ballout was shot and killed by police at a complex in Spandau, one of Berlin&#8217;s largest boroughs. The Associated Press also confirmed the report a short time later.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/known-islamic-terrorist-on-the-run-unleashed-machete-attack-after-plowing-van-into-crowd?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Known+Islamic+Terrorist+On+The+Run+After+Deadly+Berlin+Car-Ramming+Attack">Police launched a massive manhunt</a> for Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin&#8217;s Tiergarten park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festivalgoers with what authorities said may have been a machete. Ballout is said to have fled the &#8220;horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to radical Islamist ideology.
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> is a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Islamist scene&#8221; and had previously &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.&#8221;Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout is a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. German authorities previously arrested Ballout in Lebanon after accusing him of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he was returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.”
This is a breaking story. Stay with The Daily Wire for updates.

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A Muslim man with known Islamist associations reportedly rammed a vehicle into Berlin&#8217;s Pride festival on Saturday before attacking bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured, according to German authorities.
A massive manhunt is underway for 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin&#8217;s Tiergarten Park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festival goers with what authorities said may have been a machete.
Ballout is said to have fled the &#8220;horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to Islamist ideology, according to CBS News. 
&#8220;Everything we see here indicates that this was an Islamist terror attack,&#8221; Dobrindt said at the scene. 
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> is a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Islamist scene&#8221; and had previously &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.&#8221; Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout is a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. German authorities previously arrested Ballout in Lebanon after accusing him of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he was returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.” Prosecutors had sought a sentence of two years and 10 months, the newspaper reported. He was released just months prior to Saturday&#8217;s attack.
With the manhunt underway, German authorities warned the suspect may be armed and dangerous, and issued a stark warning to the public. 
&#8220;We cannot rule out the possibility of copycat attacks,&#8221; the interior minister said, announcing the country’s threat level will be raised as a result, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt">BBC</a>. 
The terror attack left Pride attendees reeling, including Ricarda Hofmann, a presenter at one of Europe&#8217;s largest LGBTQ celebrations.   
“What happened today has changed something in me,” she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbPTNq6iDz4/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">wrote on Instagram</a>.
International leaders across the political spectrum swiftly condemned the attack, with some arguing it highlighted what they described as a growing alliance between Western LGBTQ activist groups and Islamist ideology.
&#8220;Horrendous attack in Berlin last night,&#8221; Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.&#8217;s right-wing Reform UK party, said. &#8220;The strange left-wing alliance between Islamists and the LGBT community in this country cannot last.&#8221;
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WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump threatened the European Union with &#8220;substantial&#8221; tariffs on Friday after regulators hit Google with another $1 billion antitrust fine, accusing Europe of treating the United States like its own &#8220;PIGGYBANK.&#8221;
Trump accused the EU of &#8220;taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!&#8221;
&#8220;After having fined Apple, for no reason at all, 15 Billion Dollars, Meta, 3 Billion Dollars, Amazon 2.5 Billion Dollars, and many others, we have just been informed that Google, a truly advanced and amazing group, has been fined yet another 1 Billion Dollars, without explanation,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116976043318889040">posted</a> on Truth Social.
The latest penalty brings Google&#8217;s total EU fines to more than $18 billion, the president said.
&#8220;This illegal and highly discriminatory practice started at these high levels during the first year of the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, but it’s not going to continue during the Trump Administration,&#8221; Trump said, adding: &#8220;The United States of America is not a &#8216;PIGGYBANK&#8217; for Europe, nor will we allow it to be!&#8221;
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Trump warned that the EU&#8217;s actions would trigger a strong response from the United States.
&#8220;Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that we will immediately initiate a 301 Investigation into the practice of &#8216;ROBBING&#8217; American Companies and, in turn, the American Taxpayer,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about.&#8221;
&#8220;The penalties will be entirely reversed and, we anticipate, a substantial TARIFF to be placed on them at the earliest possible moment,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Stay tuned!&#8221;
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

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In a blistering face-off with The Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, the world’s richest man brushed off claims he’s widely despised and flipped the script, insisting it’s the media that’s truly hated.
After Beddoes criticized him for his involvement in European politics, saying, “Why should you be able to shape European politics? You don&#8217;t even live there,” Musk responded mildly, “I think of it as sort of the West collectively.”
“But do you see why this makes people think that this man who has all this power, he&#8217;s the world&#8217;s richest man, he thinks he has a right to influence our politics,” Beddoes pressed. “It makes people, it&#8217;s why, you know, we started this conversation saying superlatives. It&#8217;s why people loathe you. I mean, some people do loathe you.”
Musk then took the gloves off: “Yes, some people do. &#8230; Maybe some people do loathe me, and that&#8217;s probably true. I don&#8217;t care. But the fact that as you pointed out, a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people actually like me than don&#8217;t. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize. Do you realize the media is despised?”
“The shoe is on the other foot,” Musk said, citing rock-bottom trust in journalism. “They hate you far more than they hate me.”
Beddoes had challenged Musk over his vocal support for what she described as far-Right parties across Europe. Musk rejected the label outright, arguing he’s simply backing “normal people” and mainstream policies like border security, safe cities, and controlled spending.
“What you call the far-Right falsely … these were completely normal positions 10 or 15 years ago,” he said, accusing critics of rewriting the political center.
He also took direct aim at journalists, warning that their portrayal of Right-leaning movements as extremist is “false and misleading and nonsense.”
The clash intensified over Musk’s repeated warnings about the United Kingdom — including his claim that “civil war in Britain is inevitable.” Beddoes pushed back hard, citing falling crime rates and her own experience living in London, calling Musk’s depiction exaggerated and harmful.
Musk stood firm.
“If current trends continue, it is,” he said, pointing to what he described as a growing population with values “antithetical to the West,” which he believes will inevitably spark conflict.
The two also sparred over free speech, with Musk condemning European governments for prosecuting social media posts and warning that censorship is a growing threat.
“That’s the sort of thing that I think is bad,” he said, while accusing the media of ignoring these issues.

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Austria has opened a police station inside the house where Adolf Hitler was born, transforming the property in an effort to prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.
The building’s conversion comes as Jewish communities across Europe continue to report high levels of antisemitism and growing concerns about their safety, Semafor <a href="https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/07/23/2026/semafor-flagship-the-assault-as-barely-begun?utm_source=nowshare&amp;utm_medium=flagship&amp;utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered10#l">reported</a>.
A stone memorial outside the newly converted police station commemorates the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. Austrian officials hope the building’s new purpose will discourage neo-Nazis from treating Hitler’s birthplace as a place to gather or pay tribute.
The move comes amid persistent antisemitism across Europe, including sharp increases reported by Jewish organizations following Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed.
A 2024 survey from the <a href="https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2024/jews-europe-still-face-high-levels-antisemitism">European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights</a> (FRA) found that 80% of Jewish respondents believed antisemitism had increased in their country during the previous five years. Ninety percent said they had encountered antisemitism online during the year before the survey, while 37% said they had been harassed because they were Jewish.
The survey included nearly 8,000 Jewish people across 13 European Union countries, including Austria, France, and Germany. It was conducted between January and June 2023, before the October 7 attack, though the agency also collected more recent information from 12 Jewish community organizations.
Some of those organizations reported that antisemitic incidents had risen by more than 400% since October 2023, according to the agency.
The survey also found that many European Jews have changed how they live because of safety concerns. Seventy-six percent said they concealed their Jewish identity at least occasionally, while 34% said they avoided Jewish events or locations because they did not feel safe.
More than half of respondents said they worried about their own safety, and 60% expressed concern for the safety of their families. Three-quarters said they believed people held them responsible for the actions of the Israeli government simply because they were Jewish.
The agency said antisemitism affected Jewish people both online and in their daily lives. Fifty-six percent of respondents said they had encountered offline antisemitism from people they knew during the previous year, while 51% said they encountered it in the media.
The problem has remained particularly severe in several major European countries.
France recorded <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/macron-calls-stronger-measures-against-antisemitism-france-2026-02-13/">1,320 antisemitic acts</a> in 2025. Those incidents represented 53% of all anti-religious acts recorded in the country that year.
Although the number declined by 16% from the previous year, France’s Interior Ministry said antisemitic incidents had remained at historically high levels for three consecutive years. France is home to Europe’s largest Jewish community.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for stronger action against antisemitism during a February ceremony commemorating Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in 2006.
Macron said schools, the justice system, and elected officials all needed to take part in confronting antisemitism. He also condemned online hatred and urged the European Commission to hold large technology platforms accountable for antisemitic content.
“In the France of the Enlightenment, ‘free speech’ stops at antisemitism and racism,” Macron said.
Other European countries have reported similarly high numbers.
Britain recorded 3,700 antisemitic incidents in 2025, a 4% increase from the year before and the second-highest annual total on record, according to data cited by Reuters.
Germany recorded 8,627 cases of antisemitism during the same year, nearly twice its previous total. The cases included violence, vandalism, and threats connected to the conflict in Gaza, Reuters reported.
The FRA has urged European governments to strengthen security for Jewish communities, improve the reporting and recording of antisemitic incidents, and ensure that national strategies against antisemitism receive adequate funding.
The agency has also called on online platforms to address illegal antisemitic content and comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
“Europe is witnessing a wave of antisemitism, partly driven by the conflict in the Middle East,” FRA Director Sirpa Rautio said when the agency released its findings.
Against that backdrop, Austria’s decision to change Hitler’s birthplace into a police station is intended to prevent the property from becoming a gathering place for those seeking to celebrate or glorify the Nazi dictator.
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The European Broadcasting Union just dropped new guidelines telling cameras how to film female athletes. No more low angles from behind or beneath. No prolonged close-ups of body parts. No slow-motion replays that don’t “contribute to the understanding of the sporting action.” All in the name of preventing the “sexualization” of women on screen.
I reject it. I think it’s stupid. 
These guidelines treat ordinary athletic movement as inherently suspect when it comes from a woman. A low angle under a high jumper or pole vaulter isn’t automatically pornographic. It’s often the best way to show the height and the technique. Slow motion isn’t automatically leering. It’s how we see elite skill and athleticism. 
When we decide that certain shots of women require special moral scrubbing while the same shots of men are just “good television,” we are not protecting women. We are reinforcing the idea that their bodies are the problem.
Film athletes playing their sports. That’s it. That’s the job. Capture the leap, the strain, the power, the precision, the moment she clears the bar and the moment the finish line breaks. 
Do it for the men. Do it for the women. Same cameras. Same angles. Same standards. 
The idea that we need a special rulebook because women’s bodies might make someone somewhere have a thought is exhausted, condescending nonsense.
What’s next? Hijabs and total body coverings for female athletes so no bad men get distracted? 
For years there have been cries to change the uniform for gymnasts — the leotard — to something more demure. But that is the uniform for good reason. I know this firsthand. I was a gymnast. The 1986 U.S. National Champion, in fact. The leo, as we called them, provides the most comfortable, least interfering outfit for an athlete flipping and flying through the air. Nothing gets caught on the bar or the beam. Nothing flies over the athlete’s head. Anything looser would be dangerous. If it covers the legs, it’s a problem on bars, where the thighs hit the bar for casting to handstand. Anything covering the legs can be slippery against the fiberglass in a way that skin, covered in chalk, is not.
The leotard exists because it works. It is functional. It is the tool that lets the athlete do her thing at the highest level. Just like the swimsuit. Should swimmers not wear bathing suits now because they are too revealing and show women’s bodies? 
The argument in gymnastics always comes up when a pedophile coach is arrested. Like it is somehow the athlete’s fault that he’s a sexual assaulter and abuser and serial rapist. It’s her outfit, you see. It’s the “what was she wearing?” approach. No. Just no. 
It’s his fault for abusing young girls. Whoever he is. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-victims-of-usa-olympic-team-doctor-larry-nassar-to-be-be-paid-380-million-in-settlement">Larry Nassar</a>, Don Peters (the 1984 Olympic coach now banned from the sport for allegedly assaulting three gymnasts) — the list of gymnastics creeps goes on and on.
While of course nothing should be gratuitous in shooting female athletes, we don’t need separate rules for men and women. Film the athletes. Film what they do: their athleticism, their feats, their leaps and jumps and strength and flair.
Should athletes be offered more modest uniforms if they prefer? Sure. Why not. But we don’t need to upend the world of sport so that pervy men don’t perv. I’ve got news: Pervy men are gonna perv no matter what. You can dress every female athlete in a potato sack, and the creeps will still find a way to ogle. The solution is not to hide the athlete. It is to stop treating her body as the story and start treating her performance as the story.
I spent a career in a sport where the uniform is skin-tight for good reason. I know what it feels like to have people fixate on the outfit instead of the work. The answer was never to make us cover up. The answer was to demand that people look at the gymnastics. Look at the performances on bars and beam and floor exercise. Look at the amazing thing that a remarkable athlete just did. And, yes, rid the sport of pedophile coaches and instate a governing body that actually cares about its athletes. 
These new guidelines treat women’s bodies as the problem. The irony, of course, is that in the name of protecting women’s sports, they implement silly camera guidelines while these same broadcasters won’t take a stand to ensure women’s sports are actually for women only. 
Give us our sports back. And stop the special rules. Stop the pearl-clutching about athletic uniforms. Film the athletes. All of them. The same way. Their bodies are not the scandal. Their excellence is the point.
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Jennifer Sey is the CEO of XX-XY Athletics. She is an author, filmmaker, and retired national champion gymnast.
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The Belgian national team on Monday morning was granted the right to appeal FIFA&#8217;s last-minute decision to reverse a one-game suspension that had been imposed on U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun after he received a phantom red card in America&#8217;s round of 32 victory.
FIFA&#8217;s decision to overturn Balogun&#8217;s suspension on Sunday, which came after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-thanks-fifa-for-reversing-great-injustice-as-european-rivals-rage-at-world-cup?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Thanks+FIFA+For+Reversing+%E2%80%99Great+Injustice%E2%80%99+As+European+Rivals+Rage+At+World+Cup">phone call</a> between President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino, outraged the soccer elites of Belgium and other European nations. Belgium&#8217;s soccer officials <a href="https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/belgium-astonished-folarin-balogun-ruling-investigating-potential-options">said</a> they were &#8220;astonished.&#8221; Belgium soccer coach Rudi Garcia also took a shot at FIFA after the reversal.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that in the FIFA offices the 5th of July corresponded to the 1st of April &#8230; it was a discovery for me,&#8221; Garcia <a href="https://www.foxsports.com/watch-vertical/fmc-8t88x881kprva0ge">said</a>.
Belgium also <a href="https://x.com/BrentScher/status/2073898775257530664">reportedly</a> &#8220;lawyered up&#8221; to fight FIFA&#8217;s decision to overturn Balogun&#8217;s suspension. After the outrage, Belgium was granted an appeal, which will ultimately leave it up to one member of the FIFA appeals committee to decide whether Balogun&#8217;s suspension should be upheld. A decision on Belgium&#8217;s appeal could be handed down before the game between the United States and Belgium starts at 7:00 p.m. ET, but Belgium was not guaranteed that a ruling would come from FIFA before the game, The Athletic reported.
The appeals committee member selected to hear the appeal is not a member of the European soccer association, UEFA, or of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football to ensure the appeals process is unbiased. The UEFA released a statement Monday morning, siding with Belgium, and blasting FIFA&#8217;s decision to allow Balogun to play Monday night.
&#8220;Yesterday’s decision to suspend for a probationary period of a year the implementation of the one-match automatic suspension following the red card issued to the player Folarin Balogun crossed a red line,&#8221; UEFA wrote in a statement, adding, &#8220;When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined. Equally, such decision creates a precedent in the ongoing tournament, where similar situations will now require an equal treatment, to the detriment of the competition.&#8221;
Norway&#8217;s coach Ståle Solbakken, whose team advanced to the quarterfinals on Sunday, also <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/sports/norway-coach-blasts-fifas-really-bad-folarin-balogun-decision/">ripped</a> FIFA over the decision.
“I think it is not a great conclusion. [Balogun] got a red card and the VAR concluded that it was a red card. He was sent off. That means you are suspended for one game,&#8221; Solbakken said. “I think what is really bad about that situation is it will be [hanging] over the United States now. Because if they beat Belgium, it will always have that extra thing about it. Maybe he scores a goal, maybe he plays a good game, and the Belgians will be furious.”
FIFA reversed Balogun&#8217;s suspension after the White House put together a team of elite lawyers to challenge soccer officials&#8217; use of replay review in determining Balogun&#8217;s red card last week, Outkick founder Clay Travis reported. Balogun was given a red card for his contact with a defender for Bosnia and Herzegovina after the referee used video replay to determine that the U.S. star&#8217;s cleat scraped the back of the defender&#8217;s ankle.
Trump also called FIFA&#8217;s president to better understand why a red card had been issued, but Trump did not push FIFA to overturn the suspension, according to Axios. During that phone call, Infantino informed Trump that a review of the red card had already begun.
America&#8217;s star player, who leads the team with three goals so far in the tournament, is preparing to play Monday night as the United States looks to advance to its second-ever quarterfinals. Team USA was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-team-lit-after-red-card-reversal-news-thought-it-was-ai-at-first?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=U.S.+Team+%E2%80%98Lit%E2%80%99+After+Red+Card+Reversal+News%3A+%E2%80%98Thought+It+Was+AI+At+First%E2%80%99">ecstatic</a> on Sunday after hearing the news that Balogun could play.

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The last few years have tested the NATO alliance like few periods in its history. Divisions over burden-sharing, threat perceptions, and sharp disagreements on conflicts beyond Europe have strained the alliance. But America should not turn away from NATO. We need a strong, capable NATO more than ever — one that is modernized and reformed to meet today&#8217;s threats, not abandoned over the frustrations of the moment.
NATO has weathered deep divisions before. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, the United States strongly opposed the military actions of Britain and France in Egypt, exposing sharp transatlantic rifts and prompting European accusations of American unreliability. In the early 1960s, French President Charles de Gaulle, frustrated with American dominance, withdrew France from NATO&#8217;s integrated military command structure in 1966, ordered U.S. and NATO troops to leave French soil, and developed an independent French nuclear force. During the Vietnam era, there was strong European opposition to the war, with massive protests across the continent and open criticism from NATO governments. And in 2003, the alliance fractured bitterly over the Iraq War: France and Germany led the opposition, blocking NATO consensus on providing direct support to Turkey and prompting Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s famous distinction between &#8220;Old Europe&#8221; and &#8220;New Europe.&#8221;
But each time, predictions of NATO&#8217;s demise were proven wrong. The alliance endured — and emerged stronger — because its core strategic logic remains sound: American security depends on a secure Europe.
That logic was never clearer than in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. For the first time in its history, NATO invoked Article 5 — the collective defense clause — on behalf of the United States. European allies joined American forces in Afghanistan to dismantle al Qaeda and deny these terrorists a safe haven. More than 1,100 troops from NATO allies made the ultimate sacrifice in that conflict, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. forces. When our homeland was attacked, the NATO alliance came to America’s aid.
Recent tensions have been painful. I regret that many NATO states failed to support the United States and Israel during the 2026 war against Iran. Some went further, refusing to allow the use of NATO bases and facilities for American operations. This was a serious mistake that badly damaged trust and deepened divisions within the alliance. Allies should support one another when vital interests are at stake, not selectively opt out.
Critics of an open-ended U.S. commitment to NATO have made serious arguments that decades of American security guarantees have given Europe little incentive to invest seriously in its own defense, leaving European militaries plagued by fragmented procurement, duplicated systems, hollowed-out logistics, and critical shortfalls in airlift, air defense, and precision munitions — gaps that spending percentages alone cannot fix. Past efforts at reform, such as the 2014 Wales pledge, produced little until Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine created an immediate threat to Europe, lending credence to the view that only a firm U.S. drawdown could force European capitals to invest sufficiently in their own defense. But this argument has a serious flaw: it assumes that a significant European buildup will automatically follow an American withdrawal, when in reality it could create dangerous gaps that Russia would exploit.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also has firmly rejected any notion that the alliance can move on without the United States. Speaking earlier this year, Rutte warned European leaders: &#8220;If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can&#8217;t.&#8221; He emphasized that Europe would lose the vital U.S. nuclear umbrella and would need to more than double its defense spending to even approach strategic autonomy — goals that remain unrealistic in the near term.
Despite recent tensions in the alliance, real progress is being made. For the first time in NATO&#8217;s history, every one of its 32 members met or exceeded the 2% of GDP defense spending target in 2025 — a dramatic improvement from just three countries in 2014. In response to strong pressure from President Trump, European allies and Canada increased defense spending by 20% last year, bringing the collective total to more than $574 billion. NATO&#8217;s frontline states have gone even further: Poland reached 4.48% of GDP, while Lithuania and Latvia both exceeded 3.7%.
Our NATO allies did not stop at 2%: at the 2025 Hague Summit, members agreed to a far more ambitious target of 5% of GDP by 2035, with 3.5% dedicated to core military spending and the remaining 1.5% directed toward broader security-related infrastructure and civilian resilience. That commitment, if honored, would represent the most significant peacetime increase in allied defense investment in the alliance&#8217;s history. Many long-neglected NATO militaries are finally receiving major new investments in modern equipment, munitions stockpiles, and overall readiness.
Support for Ukraine has also broadened and deepened, with European states and Canada providing more total aid than the United States since the Russian invasion began and committing billions more through mechanisms such as the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL). These steps matter because a stronger European security pillar reduces the burden on U.S. forces and makes the alliance more resilient.
And let&#8217;s be clear: the United States is not pulling out of NATO or Europe. At the Munich Security Conference in February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made this explicit, declaring that &#8220;America is not retreating but reimagining and modernizing its relationship with the alliance.&#8221; Polls consistently show broad support among the American public for NATO, and Congress has repeatedly reaffirmed that commitment with overwhelming bipartisan margins. There is simply no realistic path toward withdrawal.
What must change is the NATO distribution of labor. European NATO members need to take primary responsibility for defending their region against Russia. At the same time, the United States must reposition some of its forces to address urgent security challenges in other areas of the globe — in the Western Hemisphere and to deter China and North Korea in the Indo-Pacific. America cannot be everywhere at full strength simultaneously. A capable Europe frees American resources to focus on priorities only Washington can fully address.
Far from obsolete, NATO today is stronger than it has been in decades, serving as a bulwark against Russian aggression. Ukraine&#8217;s recent battlefield gains, including the effective use of long-range drones that have struck Moscow, St. Petersburg, and crucial oil refiners across Russia, would have been impossible without the sustained training, intelligence, equipment, and logistical support provided through the NATO framework. That backstop has imposed real costs on Moscow while demonstrating the alliance&#8217;s value in deterring wider war.
The United States and Europe must redouble their efforts to strengthen and modernize the alliance. The Trump administration should continue pressing NATO members on defense spending targets and capability gaps. European members need to build credible conventional forces, expand munitions stockpiles, and revitalize their defense industrial bases. Together, both sides of the Atlantic should update NATO’s command structures, accelerate the integration of emerging technologies, and establish clearer divisions of responsibility for out-of-area contingencies.
This work will be put to the test at the NATO Summit in Ankara next week, NATO’s first gathering in Turkey since the landmark 2004 Istanbul summit. Secretary General Rutte has signaled that alliance members will use the summit to announce tens of billions of dollars in new defense industrial contracts and to press European members to make their 5%-by-2035 pledge a binding commitment rather than an aspirational target.
The Ankara summit&#8217;s opening day will be a “Defense Industry Forum” aimed at addressing the fragmentation, bureaucracy, and slow pace of production that have long hampered European arms production. How NATO members handle Ankara, whether they agree to concrete procurement deals and a roadmap for closing Europe&#8217;s capability gaps, or leave without agreement on many commitments, will say a lot about whether the new NATO reform is durable.
NATO has never been perfect. It has always required hard bargaining and mutual compromise. But in a world of growing threats, this transatlantic alliance remains America&#8217;s most valuable force multiplier. A stronger, fairer, more capable NATO serves U.S. interests, protects shared democratic values, and can deter conflicts.
This is no time for America to walk away from the crucial NATO alliance. It is time to renew and reinforce this alliance that has kept the peace in Europe for three-quarters of a century.
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Fred Fleitz previously served as Chief of Staff of the Trump National Security Council. He is the author of North Korea, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Oval Office, which was just released by Texas A&amp;M Press.

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Years of open-door policies and unchecked immigration have resulted in a rise of radical Islamism across Europe — and some countries are looking to reverse course.
In the United Kingdom, migrant rape gangs have victimized at least 250,000 British girls over the past several decades, a recent report conducted by Restore Britain, led by Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, found. A disproportionate number of attackers came from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds, according to the report, which cited court records, previous inquiries, and witness testimonies.
Roughly 87% of those convicted in major group-based child sexual exploitation cases also had distinctively Muslim names, the report said of previous analyses.
&#8220;Britain is not a unique case,&#8221; the report noted. &#8220;This sort of thing goes on anywhere that either welcomes mass migration from Muslim countries or contains long-established Muslim populations. There is a consistent pattern of sexual violence directed against non-Muslim minorities in settings where Muslims form the majority.&#8221;
In many instances, authorities were reluctant to address the issue due to potential racism accusations or concerns about community relations.
&#8220;They are certainly trying to shut down any speech towards Islam, any criticism of Islam. I don&#8217;t understand why people are so afraid of Islam. I think it&#8217;s an awful religion, it&#8217;s violent, sexist,&#8221; Sammy Woodhouse, a survivor of such brutal attacks, told The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles in a recent interview.
Woodhouse said the grooming gangs&#8217; activities would escalate during Muslim holidays when they would throw &#8220;parties.&#8221;
&#8220;If you look at all the murders that&#8217;s been committed, the terrorist attacks &#8230; there is a clear problem with Islam,&#8221; she said.
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/migrant-arrested-after-attempted-beheading-caught-on-video">Sudanese migrant</a> allegedly attempted to behead another man in the streets of Belfast earlier this month. The gruesome incident was captured on video, showing the moment the foreign suspect pinned another man down and repeatedly stabbed the victim in the face and neck.
In the wake of the brutal stabbing, Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long said she was scared about backlash against minorities and said the attack should not be used to fuel &#8220;dangerous narratives.&#8221;
&#8220;I also know there are many people in our community people from ethnic minority backgrounds who are terrified today about any kind of retaliation or backlash against them, which we have seen in the past,&#8221; she told the BBC.
The attack also sparked protests in Northern Ireland, with demonstrators taking to the streets to condemn the country&#8217;s immigration policies.
A Syrian asylum seeker who swore allegiance to ISIS went on a stabbing spree in Villach, Austria, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring five others in February 2025.
In the aftermath of the attack, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner called for &#8220;mass checks without cause in many areas&#8221; since the foreign attacker was not previously known to authorities.
But in some countries, the tide is turning.
Roughly 8% of Sweden&#8217;s population in 2020 was Muslim, up from around 4% in 2010, according to Pew Research.
Sweden, which previously had an open-door policy toward Syrian refugees, recently passed legislation to expedite deportations by requiring public sector workers to report illegal immigrants to the police.
The country&#8217;s parliament also enacted the &#8220;good behavior&#8221; law to rescind the residency permits of foreigners who are affiliated with extremist groups, have unpaid debts, or are doing undeclared work.
The European Union has also shifted its policies, with member nations entering into a new pact to speed up deportations and to better vet immigrants at their borders.
Migrants from &#8220;safe&#8221; countries or those posing a &#8220;security threat&#8221; will have a three-month asylum process instead of six, <a href="https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/eus-new-rules-migration-asylum-effect-133807585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC News. Border authorities will also be able to keep some migrants at the border until their cases are processed.
Migrants will also have only one chance to appeal their rejected applications for asylum.
The pact will expedite deportations by automatically issuing applicants return orders when their asylum cases are denied.

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Today, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Chris Pope warns against unwieldy entitlement expansion, arguing that the tailored nature of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security has kept America more prosperous than Europe, without sacrificing care for the neediest among us.
The piece is adapted from Pope&#8217;s forthcoming book, <a href="https://manhattan.institute/book/the-american-way-of-welfare-providing-for-those-who-cant-provide-for-themselves">The American Way of Welfare: Providing For Those Who Can&#8217;t Provide For Themselves.</a> As the title suggests, this is not a book that denigrates welfare recipients or rambles on about the dangers of big government. This is serious policy analysis, the goal of which is to chart a better, healthier, and more affordable future for Americans. — Tim Rice
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After 250 years, the United States remains a nation unlike any other — particularly when it comes to the role of government. Whereas Europeans turn first to the state to assure their welfare, Americans expect the government to step in only when they cannot provide for themselves.
This approach deserves some credit for America’s superior economic performance. But it has also proven to be more effective at aiding those in need.
Americans’ everyday political fights obscure an underlying ideological consensus. In his 2012 State of the Union address, Barack Obama told Congress: “I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: that government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.”
Yet, America has drifted away from the principle set out by Lincoln. Entitlement expenditure is increasingly dominated by Social Security and Medicare, whose benefits go disproportionately to the middle class, despite greatly exceeding prior payroll tax contributions. Proposals for a Universal Basic Income, Medicare for All, and Universal Free Childcare would altogether abandon the targeted approach that has yielded success for America.
Socialists have rarely found favor at the ballot box in the United States. Their schemes are obviously inefficient, and even partially implementing them would disrupt a vast array of cherished freedoms. Making workers provide for others who could provide for themselves would be widely viewed as unjust and would require tax increases, which politicians understand would provoke a fierce voter revolt. The nation’s entitlements therefore tend to be limited to filling specific unmet needs.
Why is this not the case in Europe? Until the mid-20th century, it was. The continent’s publicly funded entitlements were largely reserved for the poor. But two world wars brought widespread destruction, foreign conquest, and hyperinflation. These devastated private savings and insurance arrangements — creating a need for public assistance which extended across social classes. With normal democratic politics suspended, universal, publicly funded health and retirement schemes were established, which prevented the reemergence of privately financed systems upon the return of peace.
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This left European countries with much broader welfare states than the United States. In 2023, public spending accounted for 49% of GDP in the European Union, compared with 39% in the United States. The difference is largely due to the scale of middle-class entitlements, rather than levels of assistance for the poor, which are similar. In 2023, EU countries spent 12% of GDP on public pensions, compared with 7% in the United States.
Europe’s larger entitlements serve less to improve standards of living than to crowd out private provision for healthcare and retirement. This leaves the continent’s healthcare systems underfinanced and without such broad access to cutting-edge medical treatment. It also deprives European countries of significant pre-funded retirement savings, which enable Americans&#8217; pensions to grow through investment rather than being threatened by demographic change.
The more entitlements are expanded beyond the poor, the more taxes must be increased beyond the rich. Whereas the richest American households pay a larger share of their income in tax than those with incomes below the median, in European countries the poor typically bear a higher average tax rate than the rich. Net of taxes, the United States redistributes more than any other developed country to households with incomes below the median.
The merits of America’s targeted welfare state are clear in comparison with Denmark — a wealthy nation often cited as the model for broad welfare eligibility. Although the poorest quintile of working age Danes obtain benefits worth twice as much as their American counterparts; this is largely offset by the much higher taxes they owe. As this aid also serves to deter employment, these poorest Danish households earn less than their American counterparts — and so have lower disposable incomes, after accounting for taxes and transfers.
Improving the focus of entitlement programs could allow more to be done to assist the needy, while reducing the tax burden on enterprise and employment. Congress should allow younger workers to forego future Social Security benefit increases in return for lower payroll taxes and permit them to borrow from past contributions when they are unable to work. To rein in the cost of healthcare, legislators should empower employees to switch to more cost-effective coverage by extending the tax-exempt purchase of insurance to plans that individuals buy for themselves.
Americans from both parties believe that the government should only provide for people who can’t provide for themselves. That principle has served America well, and the nation’s public policy would be greatly improved if it adhered more consistently to it.
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Chris Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of <a href="https://manhattan.institute/book/the-american-way-of-welfare-providing-for-those-who-cant-provide-for-themselves">The American Way of Welfare.</a>
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