Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory in the state&#8217;s legal battle against an alleged Chinese birth tourism center, forcing it to shut down.
Earlier this year, the Daily Wire visited the three homes and one apartment allegedly operated by De’Ai Postpartum Care Center in Houston. The state said the homes were used to house pregnant Chinese women looking to give birth to American citizen babies.
The State of Texas sued De’Ai Postpartum Care Center in April, accusing it of &#8220;exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals … for the sole purpose of giving birth.&#8221;
De&#8217;Ai Postpartum Care Center has allegedly facilitated the births of more than 1,000 American-born babies.
&#8220;I will do everything in my power to stop foreign nationals from unlawfully exploiting our immigration system through the scam of &#8216;birth tourism,'&#8221; Paxton said in a statement Friday.
&#8220;This operation helped Chinese foreign nationals come to Texas to evade our laws. Now, we have to shut it down,&#8221; the Republican Senate nominee added.
During the Daily Wire&#8217;s earlier visit to one of the homes, an Asian man sporting a “Make America Cowboy Again” shirt identified himself as Lai Wan Lin-Chan, who was named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Lin-Chan said he needed a lawyer in order to talk about the lawsuit and shooed this reporter away.
One of the center’s TikTok videos urged women to apply for American tourist visas &#8220;before pregnancy,&#8221; adding that the federal government &#8220;will strictly investigate birth tourism&#8221; and that &#8220;it is easy to be rejected if you sign after pregnancy.&#8221;
The center &#8220;claims to offer a variety of options for tourism while expectant families await the birth of their child,&#8221; including a &#8220;luxury chauffeured black-car service across the Houston area for its high-paying guests, purportedly to visit the variety of different locales advertised on its social media page, including the spring bluebonnets in Brenham, Texas, the Houston Rodeo, Christmas light shows in Houston, and the Louvre Couture exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts,&#8221; according to Paxton&#8217;s lawsuit.
Some neighbors reported seeing multiple vehicles crammed into the driveways of the center&#8217;s homes.
David, who declined to share his last name out of concern for his safety, said he’s observed many different people going in and out of one of the homes.
The closure of the center comes as the Trump administration continues its efforts to crack down on the abuse of birthright citizenship.
In June, the Supreme Court shut down President Donald Trump&#8217;s first attempt to end birthright citizenship.
The president then signed executive orders in August seeking to end the exploitation of birthright citizenship through birth tourism and certain surrogacy arrangements. A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked one of the orders earlier this month.

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Smugglers tried to get creative in their efforts to move illegal migrants into the country past President Donald Trump&#8217;s sealed border.
In a recent case, Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, discovered a group of four illegal migrants whom smugglers had trapped in a water tank placed in the bed of a 2007 Ford F-150 pickup truck, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told The Daily Wire. The incident occurred on the evening of September 14 as agents were patrolling a rural highway.
&#8220;Smugglers don’t care for the safety of those they see as mere human cargo,&#8221; Border Patrol Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony “Scott” Good said in a statement.
&#8220;Putting people in confined spaces with no means of escape is dangerous and barbaric. If not for the actions of our highly trained agents, this incident could have resulted in tragedy,&#8221; Good added.
The migrants had no way of escaping the small portable water tank, and the border agents had to use power tools to free them.
Two of the migrants were from Bolivia, one was from Cuba, and another from Colombia. The group declined medical attention and was taken into Border Patrol custody for processing.
The driver was identified as a 19-year-old American man. Border agents turned him over to Homeland Security Investigations to face a charge of alien smuggling.
Since his return to the White House, Trump has ushered in a series of policies, including ending the Biden administration&#8217;s catch-and-release of illegal border crossers, that have resulted in historically low border encounters.
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As a result, smugglers have sought more creative and often inhumane ways to move their customers across the border to keep their profits.
Border Patrol agents recently discovered &#8220;a modified utility truck&#8221; that smugglers filled with 31 illegal migrants. The driver fled the scene for Mexico, where Mexican authorities nabbed him.
In April, Border Patrol agents from across the country were pulled to assist their colleagues in Laredo, Texas, in handling an uptick in illegal immigrants trying to run from authorities, Department of Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire at the time.
Smugglers have also loaded small boats with large groups of migrants in recent months in attempts to reach the coasts of California and Florida.

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The University of Texas at Austin is eliminating several race- and gender-focused majors, marking the latest and most significant step in the university’s ongoing overhaul of its liberal arts curriculum.
UT-Austin will no longer offer majors in African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American and Latino Studies, or Women&#8217;s, Sexualities and Gender Studies. The university is also eliminating the Race, Indigeneity and Migration major, according to faculty emails obtained by the <a href="https://thedailytexan.com/2026/09/16/office-of-the-provost-rejects-department-proposal-to-keep-existing-ethnic-gender-studies-majors/">Daily Texan</a>.
Students already enrolled in the affected majors will be allowed to finish their degrees, according to UT-Austin spokesman Mike Rosen. The university is instead asking faculty in the newly created Department of Social and Cultural Analysis to develop a new major that would consolidate some of the department’s academic interests.
The decision is a significant reversal. Earlier this year, UT-Austin consolidated several departments focusing on race, ethnicity, and gender into larger academic units. Students already enrolled would be able to continue their degree programs. President Jim Davis said at the time that the university was reviewing which majors, minors, and courses would ultimately remain. Now, those majors are gone for incoming students.
Danielle Clealand, interim chair of the Social and Cultural Analysis Department, told faculty this week that the provost’s office had rejected the department’s proposal to retain the existing majors. “The provost’s office rejected our proposal to keep our majors,” Clealand wrote.
Faculty members have characterized the move as politically motivated and accused the university of suppressing particular areas of study. Julie Minich, a professor of Mexican American and Latino Studies, called the elimination “censorship” and “viewpoint discrimination.” American Studies professor Lauren Gutterman said the changes amounted to an administrative attack on the programs. 
UT-Austin, meanwhile, has framed the broader restructuring as an effort to create more coherent academic programs and reconsider how its curriculum is organized. Daniel Brinks, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, previously said the college had become “overly fragmented” and that restructuring would improve “intellectual coherence.”
The university’s restructuring is taking place against a broader overhaul of its undergraduate curriculum. UT is moving toward a new 36-hour core curriculum and is reviewing more than 100 courses for continued core designation. Courses that lose their core designation can still remain available as electives or as part of individual majors.
The changes also follow a May policy overhaul within the University of Texas System that gave university presidents greater authority to close academic programs under circumstances including low enrollment, insufficient demand, redundancy, cost, or a determination that a program does not align with an institution’s mission. Faculty cannot appeal those decisions under the new process, according to the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/university-texas-austin-cuts-race-gender-majors/">Texas Tribune</a>.
That broader shift has produced particularly sharp changes in programs centered on race, ethnicity and gender. UT-Austin consolidated several such departments into the Social and Cultural Analysis Department earlier this year. Texas A&amp;M eliminated its women’s and gender studies degree program in January, while the Texas Tech University System has imposed additional restrictions on teaching and research involving race, gender and sexuality.

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A small Texas police department is being shut down after a state investigation found it failed to meet minimum law enforcement standards, mere months after its officers arrested a local mother over a Facebook post criticizing the town’s troubled drinking water.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement notified Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws on September 9 that the city’s license to operate its own police department was being revoked. Investigators determined that the department “failed to meet minimum standards” and “was unable to provide evidence that the agency provides public benefit to the community.”
The decision comes after the five-officer department became the center of a national controversy in May, when officers arrested Jennifer Combs and jailed her overnight over a Facebook post concerning Trinidad’s water supply.
Combs had written that she had seen reports that people had been hospitalized after drinking the city’s water. Police charged her with felony false alarm or report, arguing that the post had created “fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community.” The charge was later dropped after a Henderson County grand jury declined to indict her.
On April 21, the city issued a notice advising residents to boil their water to “avoid harmful bacteria,” according to reporting on the dispute. A separate investigation by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality subsequently found problems with Trinidad’s water supply, which city officials have said they intend to address.
The department’s handling of the controversy soon generated additional scrutiny. The day after Combs’ arrest, police arrested Winston Noles after he stood outside City Hall holding a sign criticizing the police. Noles was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. That charge was also later dropped.
Police Chief Charles Gregory, who defended Combs’ arrest and called the case against her “cut and dry,” resigned in June, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/texas-police-department-that-arrested-mom-over-dirty-water-facebook-post-ordered-to-disband-by-state/">New York Post</a>. He had previously told the Trinidad City Council that he had “nothing to hide” regarding the arrests.
After Gregory’s resignation, the judge who approved the search warrant in Combs’ case questioned the “accuracy, completeness, and reliability” of the information Trinidad officers presented to him.
The Henderson County District Attorney’s Office then <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/henderson-county-wont-take-trinidad-police-cases-after-controversial-arrests">announced</a> in August that it would no longer accept cases from the Trinidad Police Department following the controversy and state investigations.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement’s investigation ultimately found problems extending well beyond the arrests. The department lacked 18 required policies, including policies governing professional conduct, use of force, vehicle pursuits, and even active-shooter situations. The state also found that the department could not demonstrate that it provided a public benefit to the community.
Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws said he was not surprised by the state’s decision. “There’s been a lot of neglect through the years,” Haws told <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/not-shock-trinidad-mayor-reacts-shuttering-citys-police-department">Fox 4</a>. “We are moving in a positive direction. We’ve got to get past all of this.”
The department’s law-enforcement responsibilities will be transferred to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office while Trinidad considers a permanent arrangement.
For Combs, however, the state’s decision closes a remarkable chapter that began with a Facebook post about the town’s drinking water. “For months, citizens who questioned this department were dismissed, attacked and in my case arrested,” Combs wrote after the state ordered the department shut down. “We were never the problem. We were exposing it.”

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U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) suggested a new plan for how to &#8220;run our world&#8221; — and the internet thus far appears to be more creeped out than inspired by his idea.
Talarico, who is battling Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for the seat currently occupied by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wondered in a direct-to-camera shot how things might change if the American people were viewed and treated more like a classroom full of unruly five-year-olds than like independent adults.
&#8220;What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren&#8217;t we all just really big kindergartners?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;He’s just so … soft. I hate it,&#8221; Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet replied.
&#8220;How is it possible that a grown man thinks this is a winning idea? Where have all the men gone? It’s baffling,&#8221; The Blaze contributor T.J. Moe added.
&#8220;Really Big Kindergartner is actually the best description I&#8217;ve heard of what Talarico looks like,&#8221; another added.
Conservative pundit Chris Loesch warned, &#8220;Never let this gelatinous creep around a kindergartner regardless how he identifies.&#8221;
Talarico has raised a number of red flags throughout his campaign — not least of which have been his attempts to run away from his record of support for trans-identifying individuals.
His vocal support for giving young children access to cross-sex hormones and body mutilation includes a vote for a bill that would classify parents declining to accommodate their children&#8217;s wishes regarding gender identity as having committed child abuse.
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&#8220;Some of us, I think, really do consider this abusive behavior … an unwillingness to identify, or, to acknowledge a child&#8217;s gender identity, we consider that abusive to the child, abusive and destructive,&#8221; he said in 2019.
During a recent Fox News interview, however, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/talarico-visited-mosque-weekend-after-9-11-defends-it-as-solidarity-moment">Talarico</a> claimed that he&#8217;d seen the light and no longer thinks there are six genders — and claimed that he would oppose allowing biological males to participate in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports if their presence impacted &#8220;safety and fairness.&#8221;

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

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A Texas engineer who became a friend to several Fox News personalities was brutally murdered on a park bench last week, prompting an outpouring of tributes from the people who knew him.
Andrew James Wimsatt, 62, of Austin, was killed September 7 in what authorities believe was a random attack in Round Rock, Texas. Wimsatt had been sitting on a park bench shortly after visiting his mother at a nearby nursing home when a stranger allegedly approached him from behind and stabbed him repeatedly in the neck.
Williamson County deputies arrested 26-year-old Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu and charged him with murder and theft. Surveillance footage captured the attack, according to court documents obtained by <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/news/round-rock-murder-affidavit-new-details">Fox 7 Austin</a>.
But as news of Wimsatt&#8217;s death spread, his connection to Fox News personalities revealed a very different picture of the man who was killed. Wimsatt was a longtime fan of Greg Gutfeld&#8217;s former show “Red Eye” and later “Gutfeld!” He would clip segments from the shows, attend live events, and regularly send clips to members of the cast. Over the years, that fan relationship developed into genuine friendships.  Gutfeld said he initially assumed Wimsatt had ulterior motives when he began helping promote the show and its personalities. “At first, I was suspicious, because I always assume people do things because they want things,” Gutfeld said. “I was wrong with Andrew. He did stuff for people — lots of people — because he enjoyed being of service, and promoting stuff that he genuinely enjoys and believes in.”
“The crime, to me, is so heinous and shocking that I’m still trying to comprehend it,” Gutfeld told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-remembered-fox-news-hosts-repeat-offender-arrested-savage-park-bench-slaying">Fox News Digital</a>. “I may never.”
Kat Timpf <a href="https://x.com/KatTimpf/status/2098167127970603316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2098216311268499456%7Ctwgr%5E2cde0f656276e53a20947478357c11d152c4f0c2%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Ftexas-man-remembered-fox-news-hosts-repeat-offender-arrested-savage-park-bench-slaying">described</a> Wimsatt as “a fan who became a friend.” The two reportedly stayed in contact weekly for years, and Timpf said Wimsatt consistently encouraged her during difficult moments in her career. She and her husband had lunch with Wimsatt in Fort Worth in June, when he drove from Austin to see her return to the stage following the sudden death of her father.
“He was so kind and generous it almost seems impossible,” Timpf told Fox News Digital. “He always supported me … whether that was sending me clips I wanted to post or offering truly helpful words of encouragement during the times throughout my career that the internet was piling on me.”
Timpf also <a href="https://x.com/KatTimpf/status/2098216311268499456">shared a photo</a> of Wimsatt receiving merchandise she sent him, writing that he was “so excited and grateful” despite, in her words, having done “way, way more for us and everyone he’s ever met.”
Tyrus, another personality on “Gutfeld!,” remembered Wimsatt as a longtime supporter who attended his stand-up shows. “He took care of his mother… always positive… he was kind man, 62 years old, fragile-looking, but had a monster laugh,” Tyrus said. “I was honored to know him I was honored he cared so much and honored that my jokes and thoughts brought him joy.”
Wimsatt&#8217;s life extended well beyond his connections to television personalities. He held a Ph.D. in civil engineering and worked for the Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute, remaining with the organization part-time after retiring. He was also credited as an executive producer on Penn Jillette&#8217;s horror-comedy “Director&#8217;s Cut.” His social media reflected interests ranging from wildlife and cityscapes to vintage storefronts and art.
His final moments, meanwhile, were captured by surveillance cameras at the park. According to the arrest affidavit, Wimsatt sat down on the bench at approximately 10:55 a.m. A man investigators identified as Ogbodiegwu then allegedly approached him from behind and began stabbing him. Wimsatt attempted to fight off the attacker, but was unable to do so. The suspect allegedly wiped the knife and fled toward the park&#8217;s pool area.
Investigators later tracked the suspect to a nearby home. A search allegedly uncovered the clothing seen in the surveillance footage and a 5.5-inch knife with a wooden handle. The affidavit says the sweatpants contained red stains and the knife tested presumptively positive for blood. When questioned, Ogbodiegwu allegedly acknowledged that a photograph from the crime scene showed him but claimed he had not been at the park. He then allegedly told investigators he had a twin brother but could not provide the supposed twin&#8217;s name.
Authorities have said Wimsatt and Ogbodiegwu did not know each other and that preliminary evidence indicated the attack was random. Ogbodiegwu, who has prior arrests in Williamson County dating back to 2017, remains jailed on $1 million bond. His next court appearance is scheduled for October 8.

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The surrogate mother who refused a California couple’s demand to abort a baby after he was diagnosed with a heart defect is taking her extraordinary custody battle to the U.S. Supreme Court.
McKenna West, an Alaska nurse who carried and gave birth to the baby in Texas, <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/mw-california-surrogate-custody-fight.pdf">filed an emergency application</a> Wednesday asking the Supreme Court to block a California ruling recognizing the biological parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, as the child’s legal parents. West’s attorneys have asked Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees urgent matters from the Ninth Circuit, to block the California ruling temporarily. 
Kagan has not yet ruled on the request. In most cases on the court’s emergency docket, justices will refer the matter to the full court for review. An order in West&#8217;s favor would not resolve the custody issue, but rather hit the brakes on the California ruling and bring the surrogate mother back into the fold as the infant child fights for his life. 
The remarkable custody battle case centers around a bitter dispute over abortion, surrogacy, and parental rights. West says the California ruling has left her unable to advocate for the medically fragile newborn, whom she calls Gabriel. His genetic parents named him Rumi.
West’s attorneys argue that the existing court orders are inflicting “irreparable harm” — a legal term for damage or injury that cannot be remedied without immediate intervention from the high court.
“The child could be removed from the Texas hospital and taken to California for hospice — despite his treatable condition — around September 17, if not sooner,” the filing reads. “Without a stay, the Commissioning Parties may halt life-saving care for Baby G. before this Court can even consider a petition for certiorari, much less rule on the merits.”
At 20 weeks, the baby was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital heart defect that typically requires three staged surgeries. With treatment, babies with HLHS can survive into adulthood, according to <a href="https://www.nyp.org/pediatrics/heart/hypoplastic-left-heart-syndrome-hlhs/treatment">NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital</a>. The diagnosis prompted the biological parents to seek an abortion. West initially agreed but changed her mind and fled to Texas, where she sought medical care in a state with sweeping abortion restrictions. 
“This is my body, and I absolutely don’t want to go through this. Nothing was scarier than questioning my own soul and knowing what would happen to this baby boy,” she previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-state-comes-to-rescue-of-surrogate-mom-facing-pressure-to-kill-baby?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Red+State+Comes+To+Rescue+Of+Surrogate+Mom+Facing+Pressure+To+Kill+Baby">told</a> Live Action. “His life doesn’t have a price tag on it. There’s nothing that they could try to come after me for that would be worth his life.”
The baby was born on August 12 and has undergone at least one complex life-saving surgery to treat his heart condition, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/baby-fights-for-life-as-genetic-parents-battle-surrogate-who-refused-abortion">The Daily Wire reported</a>. 
In a Dallas courtroom last month, the genetic parents Gilkar and Ahmed told a judge they were reeling after West defied their demand to get an abortion. 
“He’s our child,” Gilkar said, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/baby-surrogacy-mckenna-ivf-texas-heart-surgery-3df649dd00acd9fec8324687be557044">the Associated Press</a>, which reported that the California woman wiped away tears on the witness stand. Referring to the surrogate sitting across the courtroom, Gilkar added, “She’s unstable. She’s trying to take him from us.”
Jeff Domen, an attorney for West, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/baby-surrogacy-mckenna-ivf-texas-heart-surgery-3df649dd00acd9fec8324687be557044">repeatedly pressed</a> Gilkar about her desire to terminate the pregnancy after the baby heart defect diagnosis. 
“Would you trust somebody to care for your child that wanted your child dead?” Domen asked.
Gilkar said she did not know how to answer.
In earlier court filings, the biological parents accused West of initially agreeing to terminate the pregnancy before reversing course, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/couple-surrogate-claims-wanted-baby-aborted-break-silence-as-red-state-steps-in?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Couple+Surrogate+Claims+Wanted+Baby+Aborted+Break+Silence+As+Red+State+Steps+In">The Daily Wire</a> reported. They have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/surrogate-baby-saga-takes-dark-new-turn-after-mom-chose-life">sued West for more than $100,000</a>, alleging she violated a <a href="https://dam.tmz.com/document/3f/o/2026/08/14/3fb808514e0747bca9785de19a7b2472.pdf">surrogacy agreement</a> that included an abortion provision.
“It is undisputed that West initially agreed and that she herself made the initial appointment. She then unilaterally changed her mind, cut off all contact with A.B. and C.D., and withdrew medical releases allowing A.B. and C.D. to have contact with all medical providers,” the filing said.
In August, a Dallas judge granted the biological couple’s request for a temporary restraining order against West and blocked her from making any medical decisions for the child she was carrying. On September 2, the Texas judge upheld the California ruling and removed West from the case, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/surrogate-refused-abortion-takes-fight-supreme-court-babys-life-hangs-balance">Fox News reported</a>.
West is now shut out of the baby’s life and largely in the dark about his medical care and prognosis as the appeals process unfolds. Her attorneys allege the biological parents have begun challenging the medical-care order, despite previously agreeing to the baby’s first round of life-saving surgery.
Now, West’s attorneys are pleading with the nation’s highest court to intervene and restore her ability to advocate for the child.
“Unless this Court provides relief from that judgment, M.W. will have no access to information about Baby G.’s condition as the Commissioning Parties seek to overturn the Texas order requiring him to receive ongoing life-saving care,” West’s attorneys said.

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A previously deported illegal immigrant is accused of killing a young father while driving drunk in a stolen Audi the wrong way down a North Texas highway.
Alexander Nunez, 26, allegedly struck a vehicle carrying Kenan Ellis and two of his cousins shortly before midnight on September 3 on Highway 67 in Duncanville. Ellis had recently celebrated his 29th birthday.
Ellis was returning home from a music video shoot for popular rapper BigXThaPlug when the crash occurred, his uncle, Xavier Hicks, told The Daily Wire. Hicks said the rapper was driving close behind. Ellis is survived by his 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.
Federal authorities previously deported Nunez, who later illegally re-entered the United States without being encountered at the border, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman told The Daily Wire.
Nunez faces charges of intoxication assault, intoxication manslaughter, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a $110,000 bond.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also lodged a detainer in the case, asking local authorities to transfer him to federal custody if they release him.
&#8220;Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.,&#8221; the DHS spokesperson said.
When Hicks learned of Nunez&#8217;s previous deportation, he reacted with one word: &#8220;Wow.&#8221;
&#8220;Honestly and truthfully, that&#8217;s unfortunate. But my faith keeps telling me that it was God&#8217;s timing,&#8221; Hicks said.
&#8220;I hold no malice in my heart for Alexander Nunez,&#8221; he added.
Ellis&#8217; cousins were left with multiple broken bones, while one is expected to be in a wheelchair for several months, <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/suspect-faces-intoxication-manslaughter-immigration-hold-after-fatal-duncanville-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox 4. Both are expected to recover.
The three men were roughly five minutes from home when the crash occurred, according to reports.
Authorities determined that Nunez was intoxicated after he failed field sobriety tests, Fox 4 reported.
Ellis&#8217; sister, Siniya Allen, described her late brother as &#8220;a great dad,&#8221; &#8220;an amazing brother,&#8221; and &#8220;an amazing son.&#8221;
&#8220;He was there for all his friends. He was just a great person,&#8221; she told Fox 4.
Allen said Nunez&#8217;s alleged actions left her family with an overwhelming loss.
&#8220;He took something important from us. I lost a brother. My mom lost a son. I have another brother. He lost his sibling. His kids have to grow up without a dad. No kid should have to do that at the expense of somebody else&#8217;s actions,&#8221; Siniya said.

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Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony posed with guns, ranted about other black people, and accused gay people of “f—king everything up” months before fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet. 
A never-before-seen 75-page document dump reveals alarming texts between Anthony and his then-girlfriend, depicting a teenager spiraling before resorting to violence and ultimately facing a decades-long prison sentence. 
<a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16103373/Karmelo-Anthony-racist-texts-girlfriend-Austin-Metcalf.html">The Daily Mail first reported</a> images of Anthony flashing a handgun in a November 2024 video, just months before he fatally stabbed Metcalf in the heart at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. Another image from May 2024 catches Anthony holding an AK-47-style rifle with three other teenagers. A third video has Anthony aiming a gun at an unknown residence and then running away on Jan. 4, 2025, The Mail reported.
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Beyond the incriminating selfies, Anthony also left behind profanity-laced text messages revealing negative views of his own community. A week before the killing, Anthony reportedly sent multiple texts to his girlfriend, Valeria Perez, expressing deep disdain for other black people.
“I f—king despise Black b*tches,” he said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/karmelo-anthony-seen-holding-guns-spewing-hateful-rants-in-newly-unearthed-docs/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost">according to a screenshot.</a>“F—king n—ers,” he wrote, according to the documents. “They need to go die.”
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In the trove of documents, Anthony also turned his ire toward gay people, writing to a friend in June 2021, “These f—king gay people are f—king everything up.” He also said he hated then-President Joe Biden because he’s “Gay ASB [as balls],” <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/karmelo-anthony-seen-holding-guns-spewing-hateful-rants-in-newly-unearthed-docs/">according</a> to the New York Post.
The uncovered dossier never made it to trial and was not shown to jurors, despite revealing additional alleged criminal activity unrelated to the stabbing that sent shockwaves across the country. In an October 2024 text, he told his girlfriend he “might gt [go to] jail” after claiming he had broken into a neighbor’s home and stolen a watch. He also boasted about bringing a gun and knife to school, according to The Post.
In August, a Texas judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karmelo-anthony-denied-new-murder-trial">rejected</a> Anthony’s long-shot bid for a new murder trial, dealing a major setback to his appellate team, who alleged several errors during the trial. The Collin County District Attorney’s Office has maintained that prosecutors acted ethically throughout the trial,<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/convicted-killer-karmelo-anthony-gets-big-break-in-fight-for-new-trial?utm_source=chatgpt.com"> The Daily Wire previously reported</a>.
Evidence presented at trial showed that Anthony refused to leave another team’s tented area and, when confronted by the unarmed Metcalf, stabbed him directly in the heart. A Texas jury rejected his self-defense claim and sentenced Anthony to 35 years in prison.
The case quickly drew national attention, fueled in part by a narrative peddled by the Anthony family and what critics described as a glaring lack of coverage from legacy media outlets, which routinely highlight and escalate white-on-black incidents. The high-profile trial began June 1 with jury selection and wrapped up just nine days later. Anthony broke down in tears and visibly shook as the verdict was read, and he again became emotional when his 35-year sentence was announced.
When Metcalf’s family delivered victim impact statements to the court, Anthony reportedly kept his head down and refused to look them in the eyes, even when asked to do so. 
“You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f*cking son,” the victim’s father, Jeff Metcalf, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/convicted-killer-karmelo-anthony-files-appeal-one-day-after-sentencing?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Convicted+Killer+Karmelo+Anthony+Files+Appeal+One+Day+After+Sentencing">said</a>.

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Karmelo Anthony Flashed Guns, Ranted About Black People Months Before Metcalf Stabbing

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Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much these days. But they do agree that “affordability”  is the biggest issue in the electorate, and solving it may determine the winners and losers of the upcoming election.
That is where the agreement ends.
The solutions for dealing with affordability could not be any different.
For proof, look at the proposals coming from deep-blue California and Texas, which is still a red state despite the wishes of the New York Times.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently unveiled his six-point plan to increase affordability in Texas. According to the most cited affordability index of the 50 states (C2ER COL Index), Texas is already the 15th most affordable state. Still, the governor, up for reelection this year to a 4th term, recognizes the issue&#8217;s importance and wants to move Texas higher in the rankings.
His proposal includes:
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<li class="li1">Reducing property taxes by capping annual appraisal growth and making it harder for governments to increase spending.</li>
<li class="li1">Rather than rely on government bureaucrats to give building permits, allow third-party permitting and create pre-approved home designs that would automatically be permitted.</li>
<li class="li1">Allow a new “essential benefits” health insurance plan to reduce those costs.</li>
<li class="li1">Create competition for municipally owned monopoly electric utilities and forbid governments from diverting utility revenue to pay for unrelated spending.</li>
<li class="li1">Continue the freeze on state college tuition.</li>
<li class="li1">Expand safe driving discounts to lower auto insurance costs.</li>
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It’s a brilliant plan. Much of the increase in costs for the average person has been caused by increased government spending, taxes, and regulation. Or, in some cases, regulation that prevents the private sector from offering a more cost-effective product. This plan is aimed directly at improving those conditions.
And it makes changes that should affect housing and energy costs, insurance, and tuition – things that will impact virtually every Texan.
How is California dealing with affordability?
Apparently, not well. According to the same C2ER COL affordability index, California is the 3rd least affordable state. Only Hawaii and Massachusetts have a higher cost of living than California. Without question, the affordability problem is much, much greater in California than in Texas.
Therefore, California must have a much bigger and more aggressive plan to deal with the problem than Texas, right?
Oh, ye of little blue state understanding.
Accepting the gravity of the issue, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-San Benito) gave an address at the start of the current legislative session, vowing to tackle the problem. In April 2025, he created three select committees to recommend ways to lower costs. The titles of these committees are instructive and vary quite significantly in what Texas is focused on. Those titles are: CalFresh Enrollment and Nutrition; Child Care Costs; and Housing Finance and Affordability.
Sixteen months later, those select committees have produced…nothing.
Governor Gavin Newsom, distracted while trying to become your president by moving to the Left of AOC, has touted some bond issues on the November ballot that will give handouts to certain Democrat constituencies and will no doubt be loaded with fraud like every other California program, and a housing bill that slows down the next set of expensive housing regulations but removes few of the existing ones.
The problem for Democrats is simple. Their policies on climate, unions, government spending, taxes, and regulation are the very things that drive up the cost of everything. Only two of the 20 most affordable states are blue states (New Mexico and Minnesota). For California to truly address the problem, it needs to undo much of what the legislature and governor have done in the last 20 years. But that would be an admission of failure. One trait of Democrats is that they never admit that a policy has failed. If it isn’t working, it is only because they didn’t do enough of it.
So, California Democrats will continue to talk about affordability and blame high costs on Trump, while doing nothing except make the situation worse. Maybe they’ll look to New York for additional ideas on how to implement bad policies, perhaps government-run grocery stores?
In Scottsdale, Arizona, a few years ago, I bought my go-to McDonald’s meal I have been buying for decades: a quarter-pounder with cheese, medium fries, and a milk. Then I got on a plane and bought the exact same meal in Costa Mesa, California, the next day. It cost 70% more in California. The ingredients are the same. The difference, though, is the additional insurance, regulatory, legal, tax, and other costs the California franchisee has to build into the price of that burger, which will probably get even cheaper in the Lone Star State.
God bless Texas.
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John Campbell was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a Certified Public Accountant, businessman, and former member of Congress who served from 2005 to 2015. He also has a 25-year career in the retail automotive industry, progressing from Corporate Controller to owner/operator and dealer principal, and represented 15 franchises during his career.

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Why The Battle For The Middle Class Runs Through Austin And Sacramento

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Texas Democrat James Talarico has wanted to blow up the American economy, but he couldn’t even untie himself from his mother’s apron strings.
Resurfaced video from a 2020 Sierra Club virtual forum shows the radical Senate candidate going full-blown socialist, branding free-market capitalism an “oppressive system” right alongside white supremacy and climate change. Swooning over far-Left youth activists, Talarico declared, “Young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them.”
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In a private Zoom meeting with Austin Sierra Club activists, James talarico says capitalism is an oppressive system he wants to dismantle:
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While Talarico was busy bashing the free market and accusing everyone else of stealing, how was he managing his own finances?
By letting Mom handle the checkbook.
According to his official 2026 Senate personal financial disclosures, as The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/texass-james-talarico-37-shares-his-only-checking-account-with-his-mom/">reported</a>, Talarico relied heavily on his parents. Talarico’s financial disclosures listed just one checking account: a Wells Fargo account containing between $15,000 and $50,000 that he shares with his mother, according to the Free Beacon. No other checking account appeared anywhere on his filing.
In 2021, Talarico’s parents pumped $5,000 each into his campaign for state representative. That same year, when Talarico was 32 years old, campaign records show his parents gave an &#8220;in-kind&#8221; $1,437.84 contribution to pay for his &#8220;moving expenses.”
To top it all off, state disclosures from 2024 and 2025 reveal Talarico listed his parents&#8217; home address as his place of business for his self-employed &#8220;Education Consultant&#8221; gig. This was despite him buying a three-bedroom Austin home for over $400,000 back in 2022. Why is a sitting lawmaker using his parents&#8217; address for his private business?
Fast forward to his 2026 Senate campaign launch, and the woke wonderkid was still railing against the system that made America great. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQAacvvIv8">Speaking</a> at a rally in Arlington, Talarico whipped up the crowd by attacking pro-growth policies as a &#8220;false gospel&#8221; and throwing around the Left&#8217;s favorite dirty phrase: “trickle-down economics.”
“Trickle-down economics is not a theory. It is theft,” Talarico sneered.
The term &#8220;trickle-down&#8221; is nothing more than a leftist slur used by economic illiterates to attack supply-side economics, a system that works. Supply-side economics is built on the basic logic that when you cut taxes and red tape, you make it cheaper for businesses and entrepreneurs to invest and produce. When businesses grow, they hire more workers, create better products, and expand the entire economic pie. A booming, rising economy lifts all boats, putting more money in the pockets of everyday working families.
It’s easy to preach about &#8220;dismantling capitalism&#8221; when you’ve got a family safety net catching your every fall.

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