Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended White House adviser Stephen Miller move into a hotel for two weeks after his wife, Katie Miller, tested positive for COVID-19 while 10 weeks pregnant, according to newly released diary entries.
The entries were released Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf">obtained</a> them during his investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and gain-of-function research ahead of Fauci&#8217;s planned testimony on Capitol Hill in the coming week.
&#8220;COVID-19 hits the White House!!&#8221; Fauci wrote on May 8, 2020. &#8220;Yesterday, it was revealed that the personal valet of the POTUS tested positive for Sars-CoV-2. However, today it was noted that Katie Miller tested positive. She was negative yesterday and positive X2 today!!!&#8221;
&#8220;She had sxs (sic) in the Sit room yesterday and sat next to Steve Hahn and behind Azar,&#8221; Fauci continued, listing a number of officials who had all attended the same briefing. &#8220;I was on the other side of the room from her, but she was coughing in the room. She sat next to Olivia Troye when she was coughing and, in the afternoon, yesterday, Olivia sat right next to me in the Ward Room of the West Wing for 45 minutes. In the room were Deb Birx, Steve Hahn, Bob Redfield, Tyler Ann, Seema Verma.&#8221;
Fauci went on to note that White House adviser Stephen Miller had tested negative even after his wife had tested positive — a relief for the White House chief medical adviser because he&#8217;d spent some time in close proximity to Miller.
&#8220;I spent much time on phone this evening advising Katie and Steve Miller as to what they should do,&#8221; Fauci continued. &#8220;She is 10 weeks pregnant. I advised that Steve must move out of the house into a hotel; he still has to self-isolate for 14 days. If he stays in the house, whether or not he gets infected, he still must self-isolate for 14 days after Katies (sic) tests negative. His clock will start after he separates from Katie and so he should start the clock now.&#8221;
Fauci explained that because he was a &#8220;low risk exposure,&#8221; he self-imposed a &#8220;modified quarantine&#8221; in which he would &#8220;get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing.&#8221;
He also noted that he was monitoring Katie Miller via phone, noting that she&#8217;d been very anxious about her health and that of her unborn child.
&#8220;She is very anxious about getting very ill since she is 10 weeks pregnant. Tonight she had an anxiety reaction. I calmed her over the phone. Her pulse Ox is fine and she is afebrile,&#8221; he wrote.
His other main concern was the fact that some of those who&#8217;d been seated close to Katie were not doing enough to mitigate the potential spread of the virus.
&#8220;Marc Short and others close to Katie really should do some sort of quarantine (even if modified), but they are not even wearing masks. Not a good metric,&#8221; he complained.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) lashed out at White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday after she said the president’s &#8220;patience is running out&#8221; over the failure to pass the SAVE America Act.
The back-and-forth began with a question from The Daily Caller&#8217;s Reagan Reese during the White House briefing.
“Look, the president spoke about this directly yesterday. His patience is running out. He wants to see as much of the SAVE America [Act] passed as possible by the August recess,” Leavitt said to reporters. “The American people elected overwhelmingly Republicans to lead, not just this White House, but also the House and the Senate. The House did its job. The Senate needs to do its job, too.”
A few miles away on Capitol Hill, Thune fired back, telling the White House to pick up the phone and whip the votes. 
&#8220;Well, maybe she or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes. Right? It’s 50 around here. And, so, instead of pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats,” Thune <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/2080339641119473680?s=20">told</a> reporters in the halls of the Senate Thursday.
“And if there are Republicans that they think are gettable, get on the phone,” he added. “Let’s get them to ‘yes.’&#8221;
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THUNE: &#8220;Well, maybe she or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes. Right? It’s 50 around here. And, so, instead of pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats. And if… <a href="https://t.co/lRL2Yl0Pd9">https://t.co/lRL2Yl0Pd9</a>
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It’s the latest escalation after Trump on Wednesday ramped up his pressure campaign against Thune, urging supporters to flood his office with calls demanding action on the popular election security legislation. 
“We have to pass the SAVE America Act to defend American elections. And I have to say, Mike Johnson and Congress have done a great job, but we’re having a hard time in the Senate,” Trump said at a <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2080034029487685876?s=20">rally</a> in Georgia. “It’s like the Senate is a place where you send things when you want them to die.” 
“We’re not going to take this any longer … I’m trying to be nice,” Trump added. “Everybody call John Thune at the Senate. He’s the leader of the Republican party, and tell him to get this stuff approved!”
Trump also renewed his call to eliminate the filibuster, arguing Democrats would quickly abolish the 60-vote threshold themselves if they regain power.
“The Democrats are going to terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance, and then they’re going to approve Puerto Rico and D.C. as a state. They got four more senators. They’re going to end up with 12 more congressmen. They’re going to get like 40 electoral votes,” the president said. 
Trump’s remarks came hours after the House passed a third version of the election integrity measure by attaching it to the GOP-backed Stop Insider Trading Act, legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying and selling stocks.
The combined bill passed 232-198, with 13 Democrats joining Republicans to advance the measure, marking the first congressional stock-trading ban to receive a House floor vote, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-turns-up-heat-on-thune-over-save-act?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Turns+Up+Heat+On+Thune+Over+SAVE+Act">reported</a>. 
Frustration with Thune isn’t limited to the White House. House Republicans who have repeatedly passed the legislation have also grown increasingly vocal about the Senate’s inaction.
“If John Thune has shown that he does not want to put the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor, he should step aside,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) <a href="https://x.com/RepOgles/status/2080028930518495258?s=20">said</a> on social media. “There are plenty of other options in the Senate capable of securing our elections as Majority Leader.”

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The White House came to the defense of WNBA star Sophie Cunningham Thursday after the Indiana Fever guard faced criticism for saying that men should not compete in women’s sports or share women’s locker rooms.
When asked about the issue by Daily Wire White House Correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/mary-margaret-olohan">Mary Margaret Olohan</a>, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump is aware of Cunningham’s comments and shares her concerns about protecting female athletes.
“I don’t believe he has reached out to her,” Leavitt said when asked whether Trump had contacted Cunningham. “I know he is following the story.”
Leavitt said the backlash against Cunningham demonstrated what she described as a disconnect between leftist activists and the broader American public. 
“This is something the president feels strongly about as well, and the American people do too,” Leavitt said. “That men should not be playing in women’s sports. It’s completely ludicrous that anyone could support that.”
“It’s even more ludicrous that you do have Sophie Cunningham, a female athlete herself, very accomplished in her own right, coming forth and speaking that truth that men shouldn’t play in women’s sports,” she continued.
Leavitt called the criticism Cunningham has received “astonishing” and argued that the administration’s position reflects widespread public opinion.
“They are clearly very out of touch with the American public on this issue, which again is an 80-20 issue,” Leavitt said. “It’s common sense. It’s rooted in basic biological fact that men should not be competing against women on playing fields across the country.”
Cunningham, who has become one of the WNBA’s most recognizable players since joining the Indiana Fever, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-star-breaks-with-league-on-explosive-issue">said</a> in an interview with ESPN earlier this week that she felt compelled to speak out about biological differences in sports despite backlash from critics who accused her of being anti-transgender. 
“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham said. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest.”
Cunningham said her concern was protecting female athletes, particularly young girls. “I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men,” she said.
The comments drew criticism online, with some labeling the Missouri native as a conservative or “MAGA Barbie,” a characterization Cunningham rejected. “I really am right in the middle [politically],” Cunningham said, adding that she agrees and disagrees with positions on both sides of the political spectrum.
Cunningham’s comments come as the WNBA and its players’ union have taken a different position on transgender inclusion. The WNBA Players Association has previously voiced opposition to restrictions on transgender participation in sports and pledged support for transgender athletes.
The Fever guard has also drawn attention in recent weeks for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-star-sophie-cunningham-wont-diss-trump-after-white-house-meme">refusing to join criticism</a> of President Trump after the White House used a viral clip of her pointing at an opponent during a game as a social media meme.
When asked about the White House using the clip, Cunningham said she viewed it as part of a broader internet trend. “Everyone around the world is posting it, every company has done it,” Cunningham said. “They’re just the ones also to get on board and I don’t really think twice about it.”

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President Donald Trump offered his thanks to FIFA — while Belgian officials fume and vow to evaluate &#8220;all potential options&#8221; — after the organization lifted a one-game suspension for U.S. star-striker Folarin Balogun.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform to express his thanks, saying, &#8220;Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!&#8221;
A White House source confirmed to The Daily Wire that the president had made a call to FIFA President Gianni Infantino regarding the red card. Multiple reports suggested that during that call, Trump had informed Infantino that attorneys were preparing to challenge the use of slow-motion instant replay — which he said violated FIFA rules — and that the red card had been excessive.
Outkick founder Clay Travis said sources had told him that &#8220;President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers — from outside the government — to challenge the Flo Balogun red card.&#8221;
&#8220;Specifically they challenged the use of slow motion instant replay to give the red card, which they argued violated FIFA rules. The president also conveyed to Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s president, that the appeal had been filed and he believed the red card penalty was excessive,&#8221; he added. &#8220;FIFA’s independent committee reviewed the decision and agreed the penalty was incorrectly given, rescinding it under their rule 27 authority.&#8221;
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Sources: President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers — from outside the government — to challenge the Flo Balogun red card. Specifically they challenged the use of slow motion instant…
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The rule in question states that the slow-motion replay is only to be used to determine facts — where players were at the time of the offense or how contact occurred — and not to judge the severity of the offense. That, the rule states, should be determined by a replay at normal speed.
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The Royal Belgian Football Association registered its displeasure with the decision in a statement published on Sunday: &#8221;
FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction.&#8221;
&#8220;However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team’s next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup,&#8221; the statement continued.
The precedent was already set at the beginning of World Cup play, when Portugal&#8217;s star player <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/sports/the-cristiano-ronaldo-precedent-that-changed-folarin-baloguns-red-card-fortunes/">Cristiano Ronaldo</a> had a suspension overturned in favor of a probationary period. Ronald, who was shown a red card and given a three-match suspension last November, only missed one match before FIFA suspended the remaining two-match ban, placing him on probation but allowing him to play in his team&#8217;s opening World Cup match.
The United States is set to play Belgium on Monday, July 6, in the Round of 16.

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The White House is renewing the pressure on federal immigration agents to massively increase arrest numbers.
Multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources told The Daily Wire that they&#8217;re back to working seven days a week as the Trump administration pushes for higher arrest numbers. ICE made more than 10,000 arrests during a recent five-day period, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.4-MU.0gsS0EAOfQGH&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Wednesday.
Over the weekend, ICE agents across the country were &#8220;called into work on a mandatory 100% manpower work week surge effort,&#8221; one agency source said, adding that the &#8220;huge effort&#8221; was &#8220;pushed super last minute, destroying officers&#8217; personal lives in the meantime.&#8221;
The all-gas, no-brakes approach is &#8220;exhausting,&#8221; another agency source said.
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The goal of the new effort is to sustain 2,000 arrests per day, up from 1,000 earlier this year, according to The New York Times.
A White House official confirmed that &#8220;numbers&#8221; are &#8220;increasing&#8221; as a &#8220;result of continued work by the administration on many different fronts.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the White House works with their partners at different agencies to ensure the President’s agenda is being enacted. At the same time, the Secure America Act guaranteed funding for 3 years, hiring has continued to increase, the immigration courts are more streamlined, and ICE is operating more efficiently every day,&#8221; the official said.
ICE was instructed to focus on increasing arrest numbers under the leadership of then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, leading to aggressive and flashy sweeps across cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
When Markwayne Mullin took the helm at DHS, he indicated there would be a softer approach to how the agency carries out its mass deportation plan. The shift came after two fatal shootings of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.
&#8220;We&#8217;re still enforcing immigration laws, we&#8217;re still deporting illegals that shouldn&#8217;t be here, we&#8217;re still going after the worst of the worst, but we&#8217;re doing it in a more quiet way because my goal in six months is to not have DHS on the lead story everyday,&#8221; Mullin said in April.
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During a press conference Wednesday, Mullin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_pqoUGWpU&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that arrests and deportations are surging.
&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing our arrest numbers come up, we&#8217;re seeing our deportation numbers continue to increase,&#8221; Mullin said. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re deporting on average over 3,000 individuals, actually the average has been for several weeks now over 3,200 individuals a day, 70% of those individuals we&#8217;re deporting have outstanding criminal charges on them or they&#8217;ve already been charged with a felony.&#8221;
&#8220;So when we go after the worst of the worst, which is exactly what we&#8217;re doing, we&#8217;re saving lives,&#8221; Mullin said.
In a statement, DHS said &#8220;since day one&#8221; they&#8217;ve been &#8220;delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.&#8221;
&#8220;Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. More than 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country and counting. Our message is clear: if you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you,&#8221; an agency spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, ICE&#8217;s detention population increased by 4,000 detainees with the facilities holding more than 63,000 illegal immigrants as of Tuesday, The New York Times reported.
ICE leadership has applauded agency personnel for supporting the latest effort.
“I want to personally thank each of you for your extraordinary efforts this past weekend,” Marcos Charles, Executive Associate Director of ICE&#8217;s Enforcement and Removal Operations, wrote this week in an email to agency staff, according to The New York Times.
“Through your dedication, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our mission, enforcement and removal operations achieved remarkable operational results,&#8221; Charles wrote.
Last Year, White House adviser Stephen Miller instituted a 3,000 daily arrest quota for ICE, which tanked agency morale.
ICE has since more than doubled its staffing levels by hiring thousands of new officers. The agency has also received a flood of billions of dollars in funding.

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President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, recently took her followers on a tour of the White House, describing the famous landmark with nonchalance and a hint of sarcasm.
The Gen-Z internet personality showed off the White House in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxV0P0602M">video</a> posted on Wednesday and gave some more behind-the-scenes perspective of the White House UFC fight.
As she entered the White House, which she called &#8220;my house,&#8221; she gestured towards a portrait of George Washington, saying, “We got my best friend, George Washington. We’re real tight.” 

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Kai also described the newly-installed statues of Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin in the Rose Garden as if they were old friends.
“This is my friend Alexander Hamilton. What a chiller,” Kai said. “Over here we have Benjamin Franklin, who’s also my dear friend. Old Boy Benji. We call him Benji. What a nice guy.”
As she walked through a hallway adorned by paintings, glass lamps, and an old grandfather clock, Trump&#8217;s granddaughter commented that she &#8220;used to play soccer in these halls.&#8221;
After dodging aides who were moving furniture on the second floor, Kai found a podium.
“I’m about to do a speech in front of everyone. Look, look at my crowd,” she joked to the few people filming her.
She continued showing other rooms in the White House, commenting with her deadpan sense of humor.
“This is the Red Room. As you can tell, it’s red and that’s why it&#8217;s called the Red Room.” Kai joked. “This is the Blue Room. As you can tell, it’s also blue.”
To conclude her White House tour, Kai went into the Oval Office, showing off the Declaration of Independence on the wall, the portraits, Trump’s Sharpies, and the various articles of gold in the office.
“All right guys. We’re in the Oval Office right now,” she said. “So everything is gold because my grandpa hates gold so he actually decided to add a lot of gold to the Oval Office. That’s a joke. He loves gold. It’s like his favorite thing on the planet if you guys haven’t noticed.&#8221;
“He has a very good attention to detail, so everything that he thought should be gold, he made gold,” Kai added. 
Kai has over three million followers on Instagram and 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube. She is attending the University of Miami this fall, where she is <a href="https://miamihurricanes.com/roster/kai-trump/">joining</a> Miami&#8217;s golf team.

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The Daily Wire obtained police audio of a phone call a concerned mother made to law enforcement that led to the discovery of a plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. 
In the phone call with law enforcement, the mother of 19-year-old Tycen Proper is heard voicing concerns about her son’s stockpile of ammunition and his plan to “fight the corrupt government.” Proper was arrested last week and charged in connection with an alleged plot to unleash sniper fire on attendees of the White House UFC event. 
“I don&#8217;t, we don&#8217;t even know what he&#8217;s wanting to do. He’s wanting to leave this weekend and go with a group of people to help fight the corrupt government,” Proper’s mother said in a phone call released by the Knox County Sheriff’s Department.   <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; max-width: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/sc01Lup8SLBT8MTNvsMHz1016R3JA1r6gS?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=b0a565d4-ec24-46dc-a78c-1685b8fc4f55&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-06-23%20UFC%20Terror%20Plot%20911%20Call&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2Fd6bc7707-0749-4f99-bd8a-4e6c7c182353.png&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
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“I wanted to file a report just to have it on record,” Proper’s mother said. “And I&#8217;m in Danville, so I wasn&#8217;t sure if there was somebody in Danville that was on duty that I could just talk to. I could even go down to the police station and meet them.”
“I believe that we already have people en route to you,” the police dispatcher replied. 
“We took all the guns and ammo out of his room … and got it off our property,” Proper’s mother said. “He just came inside, and he&#8217;s probably going to discover it&#8217;s not in his room.”
An earlier call from a family member gave the Knox County Sheriff’s Department a heads-up about the situation. 
“They are having some issues with their son, and I think, I don&#8217;t think anybody&#8217;s in immediate danger as in this second, but I know that she has some concerns with weapons and ammo and a particular mindset that her oldest boy is in right now,” a caller said in a police call obtained by The Daily Wire. 
The incident report from the police revealed that they showed up at Proper’s home on June 10 because the mother was concerned about him “purchasing firearms and meeting random people online.” After officers arrived, Proper was admitted to a hospital and they began coordinating with federal officials on an investigation. 
Proper was eventually charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
When authorities searched Proper’s phone, they found Signal groups “that laid out detailed plans” to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., with intricate maps highlighting sniper locations and potential drone launch locations.

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The man accused of being the ringleader of a group planning to attack the UFC Freedom 250 White House event last weekend is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. 
Abraham Alvarez, who the Justice Department said was “responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the planned attack,” overstayed his visa after being brought into the country as a child. He was first granted deportation relief under former President Barack Obama in 2014, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-ufc-terror-plot-ringleader-mexican-illegal-immigrant-dhs-confirms">reported</a> Thursday. 
Alvarez came on a B2 visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A B2 visa typically is given for tourism or medical reasons and the one issued to Alvarez expired in 2001.
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&#8220;This illegal alien from Mexico should never have been allowed in our country,&#8221; DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News. &#8220;He was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House.&#8221;
&#8220;He will face justice and swiftly be removed from our country,&#8221; she added of Alvarez.
The alleged plot would have involved using explosive drones to cause panic at the UFC event before snipers opened fire. Alavarez has been charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States.
Alvarez wanted to target President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and trillionaire Elon Musk, according to the criminal complaint from the FBI. Neither Musk nor Netanyahu were at the event.
The FBI said that Alvarez went by the moniker &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; in a group chat where the attack was planned.
&#8220;This is the best action I see. Position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area) (great shot) Easy out into the river,&#8221; Shepherd posted on June 10 alongside maps of the D.C. area, according to the FBI.
Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old charged in the attack, allegedly identified “Shepherd” as “the primary individual involved with planning” and “directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning.”
“From his home here in Nebraska, Alvarez allegedly directed and recruited others across the country to conduct a horrific attack against government officials in a mass casualty event. Our team worked around the clock to locate and apprehend Alvarez, take him into custody, and collect crucial evidence,” said FBI special agent Eugene Kowel on Tuesday. 
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Illegal Immigrant Masterminded UFC White House Drone Attack Plot, DHS Says

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One of the alleged ringleaders of the plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend was seen in his mugshot flashing a creepy smile after his arrest.
The smiling suspect, 31-year-old Omaha resident Abraham Alvarez, allegedly posted his sinister plans to target President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and trillionaire Elon Musk in a Signal chat dubbed &#8220;Hunters&#8221; where he used the moniker &#8220;Shepherd.&#8221; Law enforcement arrested Alvarez, who is reportedly not an American citizen, on Sunday at an old church in the town of Western, Nebraska, according to NBC’s Omaha, Nebraska, affiliate WOWT.
“i. Targets confirmed ii. 1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk,” he wrote in the chat, according to a criminal complaint.
Neither Musk nor Netanyahu appeared to have attended the event.
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The group allegedly planned to carry out the attack by detonating drones rigged with explosives over the event last Sunday before setting off a secondary strike on those evacuating with snipers.
In calling the shots, Alvarez allegedly assigned roles within the group, classifying certain members as “Sniper 1,” “Sniper 2,” “Sniper 3,” and “Drone Operator,” adding that he was “working” on drones “as we speak.”
Alvarez also shared his plans on June 10 for &#8220;the best action I see,&#8221; instructing members of the group to &#8220;position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area) (great shot) Easy out into the river&#8221; with a map of the nation&#8217;s capital attached, according to the complaint.
“They will try to close down the highways stick to meeting near the 495 bridge. Take the river south, there are back roads, you can also take the river,” he allegedly said in a follow-up message featuring a screenshot of the Potomac River.
He allegedly directed others to take back roads or the river to meet at a &#8220;pick up location&#8221; and pinpointed sites for drone launches and snipers. He also identified the Thomas Jefferson Memorial as the best escape route.
When other members of the conversation asked Alvarez about a &#8220;second wave&#8221; attack, he replied that &#8220;Several factions and militia have been notified,&#8221; according to the complaint.
&#8220;They will be the teeth and the Shepherds. I also sent out a mass call to action to all protest groups, that will bring numbers.(working on arming them). They will engage when they see the signal. Told them they know will know when they see it,&#8221; he wrote, according to the complaint, adding &#8220;at the same time, this day, several other ops are happening all at once. Keeps the enemy distracted while we cut the arteries.&#8221;
Alvarez identified an old church in Nebraska as a “fall back location” for the group, according to the complaint.
“They can grow the camp, and make a training ground we have the go ahead from the owner,” he allegedly wrote in the chat, adding, “grow your numbers, I will build your teams.”
“Train them, fall back location is NE in an old church,” he wrote, according to the complaint.
Another alleged attack plotter, 19-year-old Tycen Proper, said he learned of &#8220;an anti-government protest in Washington, D.C.,&#8221; through a TikTok from the user &#8220;Shepherd,&#8221; according to the complaint. It is not clear whether that was also Alvarez, who used the nickname in the Signal communications.
Proper also allegedly identified “Shepherd” as “the primary individual involved with planning” and “directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning.&#8221;
Authorities arrested both Alvarez and Proper, along with three others, for their alleged roles in forming the attack plans.
Some members of the group were said to have “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.”

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The Chilling Grin Of The UFC Explosive Drone Terror Plot Suspect

A concerned mother called authorities over her son&#8217;s alleged role in plotting an attack at the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend after she noticed alarming behavior.
Officers responded to the family&#8217;s home on the evening of June 10 after the mother, Danielle Proper, called about a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; involving her son Tycen Proper, according to a criminal complaint. She grew concerned over his recent firearms purchases and communications with random individuals online who claimed to be military veterans and Christians.
The 19-year-old allegedly used $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase “several boxes of ammunition (estimated by law enforcement to be in the thousands of rounds of ammunition), two plate carriers with AR-style magazines, an AR-style rifle, and a bullpup rifle painted with an American flag.&#8221; The weapons were turned over to law enforcement.
Proper later admitted that he and multiple others were plotting to execute an attack involving explosive drones and snipers at the White House event Sunday, according to the complaint.<iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/DtijUF01TWHV6XwVU3BFOpWQJ4lC01CHrK?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=33a8430f-ed29-41d4-80e2-a98082a95a9d&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-16%20TikToks%20surface%20of%20White%20House%20UFC%20suspect&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F9836b883-a12d-4398-b27b-174ce8e6d166.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
The suspect&#8217;s mother, an Ohio-based cosmetologist, broke her silence Wednesday, posting a Bible verse to her Facebook page.
&#8220;Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand,&#8221; the post read.
One user commented: &#8220;I can&#8217;t begin to imagine how difficult your choice, the right one, was, but you undoubtedly saved untold numbers of lives, including Tycen&#8217;s. You know we&#8217;re praying &#8230; We love you guys!&#8221;
Another wrote, &#8220;You have done the hardest thing but the Lord will hold you tightly in His tenderest care because of it!&#8221;
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She also shared a video of a Christian musician singing about her desperation for &#8220;help.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh God, I&#8217;m desperate, down on my knees, send help from heaven cause that&#8217;s what I need. Redeem this wreckage, restore my peace. I&#8217;m not asking I&#8217;m begging, Lord come through for me,&#8221; the musician sang.
Proper was arrested in Ohio and hit with four criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
Law enforcement authorities also arrested four others for their alleged roles in the plot.
Proper&#8217;s parents told authorities that the 19-year-old had recently quit his job and begun messaging online with unknown individuals about plans to carry out “missions” and “recons,” according to the complaint.
Proper&#8217;s family members said he had become increasingly isolated and recently made “sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler” while “posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook,” the complaint said.
Proper&#8217;s mother said her son&#8217;s conversations with his alleged coconspirators online led him &#8220;to lean heavily into his religion,&#8221; adding that &#8220;she believed that those individuals were using religion to manipulate and influence her son.&#8221;
Upon searching Proper&#8217;s phone, authorities found Signal groups “that laid out detailed plans” to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., featuring maps of sniper positions and potential drone launch sites, according to the complaint. Proper later confessed to his leading role in “planning … a coordinated attack” during the UFC event at the White House.
Proper wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he “got a possible target,&#8221; whom he identified as &#8220;Marsha Blackburn &#8230; senator for Tennessee,” saying they should target her for taking “money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them,&#8221; according to the complaint.
On May 31, he allegedly sent messages saying, “These are people we’re going to focus on,” before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Carol Miller, and Rep. Riley Moore. The four images appeared to have been taken from the website “TrackAIPAC.com,” which shows how much cash each lawmaker received “from pro-Israel PACS.”

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Mom Who Turned In Son Over UFC White House Plot Shares Heartbreaking Message

Now liberals are equating UFC with porn and lynching. God, they ruin everything.
They&#8217;ve gone completely off the rails. These people hate men. They hate women who like men. They hate patriotism, marriage, babies, traditional entertainment, and anything that looks like unapologetic joy. Except Joy Reid&#8217;s version of it, maybe. And did I mention they loathe men? This is where the Democratic Party stands in 2026: proving every single day that there&#8217;s no crawling back to sanity.
They&#8217;re not moderating. They&#8217;re not reflecting. They&#8217;re doubling down on the sneering, joyless, elitist nonsense that already cost them working-class voters by the truckload.
Take the recent White House UFC event on the South Lawn. Conservative writer Marc Thiessen <a href="https://x.com/marcthiessen/status/2066172759823065239">praised</a> it as Trump opening the doors to regular Americans — the kind who enjoy motocross rallies and monster truck shows. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/ufc-freedom-250-fight.html">responded</a> by sneering that if you&#8217;re okay with that, you&#8217;re an elitist snob in reverse. Then she went nuclear: &#8220;Like Ultimate Fighting, porn is extremely popular, but I somehow doubt Thiessen would defend a Democratic president who invited a bunch of OnlyFans creators to the Oval Office while he was losing a war.&#8221;
Wild comparison. Is she on Hunter Biden’s crack? But somehow it got worse.
On Jim Acosta&#8217;s show, historian Heather Cox Richardson — the same one who treats every Republican breath as a constitutional crisis — actually said <a href="https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2066680661025468757/video/1">this</a> with a straight face: &#8220;It&#8217;s not really a stretch to say that the same impulse that created the UFC fight on the White House lawn is the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century.&#8221;
Lynching! And Perma-victim-Acosta just hmmed in agreement, like she&#8217;d dropped profound historical wisdom instead of a brain-melting false equivalence.
UFC fights equal lynching. UFC fights equal porn. Motocross rallies equal baskets of deplorables. Got it. By this logic, anything popular with normal Americans is automatically suspect or sinister.
They despise us. Not in the polite &#8220;we disagree on policy&#8221; way. The Left genuinely believes all Republicans are flannel-wearing hillbillies who enjoy combat sports, big trucks, and rowdy crowds, and that we’re the moral and cultural scum of the earth.
They would rather die than be caught enjoying the same things the rest of the country finds entertaining.
Motocross rallies are awesome. So are monster trucks. UFC is about as American as it gets — a nation born from fighters, revolutionaries, risk-takers, now celebrating disciplined, high-level athletic competition in a ring. Neither has a damn thing to do with lynching or porn. One is a consensual sport between trained professionals. The other was a racist mob murder. (Smells like the abortion movement in America if you ask me.)
Goldberg should sit this one out. The party lecturing America about sexual liberation has produced exactly what you&#8217;d expect. Gallup data shows Republicans are dramatically more likely to be married than Democrats, especially in prime family-forming years. The gap has widened over decades as Democrats have embraced lifestyles that de-emphasize marriage and family <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646793/why-marriage-became-partisan.aspx">formation</a>. Institute for Family Studies <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-growing-link-between-marriage-fertility-and-partisanship">research</a> consistently finds that conservatives and Republicans have higher fertility rates and are far more likely to have children. Liberal women, by contrast, show markedly lower completed fertility and higher rates of childlessness.
This isn&#8217;t random. It tracks with broader attitudes. Liberals have long led the charge on &#8220;sex-positive&#8221; culture that celebrates casual sex, delayed or rejected marriage, and the normalization of platforms like OnlyFans. Democrats poll more favorably toward expansive views on sexual liberation and non-traditional arrangements. The party that claims to champion &#8220;joy&#8221; and &#8220;inclusion&#8221; has produced a demographic reality of more single adults, lower marriage rates, and fewer babies — while sneering at the people who still value the opposite.
That&#8217;s why Democrats keep bleeding support. They&#8217;re <a href="http://substack.com/redirect/e3f842fc-a20e-4d7a-ac91-84c95c092ca6?j=eyJ1IjoiMjk0dHMifQ.cmJkfm0X0r0SrUjdPQSLO8z8KA2siPUsFk8HgV3kFag">hemorrhaging non-college </a>voters, men, and anyone who doesn&#8217;t want to be lectured about their entertainment choices or family decisions. The party that once claimed the lunch-bucket crowd now looks down its nose at them from coastal enclaves.
When Trump leaves office after his third term, they’ll have nothing left but the same tired hatred of the next guy. No positive vision. Just more pearl-clutching at monster trucks and cage fights and happiness.
Meanwhile, UFC is thriving. It&#8217;s one of the fastest-growing sports globally, with massive viewership, huge revenue, and broad appeal — especially among young men who need exactly the discipline, fitness, and male camaraderie it provides. Training in martial arts builds confidence, respect, and resilience. Plenty of guys who were drifting have found purpose in the gym and the cage. It&#8217;s popular across every demographic the Left pretends to speak for.
Of course they would hate it.
If liberals could drop the snobby nonsense for five minutes, they might notice that millions of normal Americans — including plenty who aren&#8217;t hardcore conservatives — enjoy UFC precisely because it&#8217;s raw, competitive, and unfiltered. It celebrates toughness and skill instead of fragility and grievance. But they can&#8217;t. They&#8217;re too far gone. They represent an increasingly angry, single, low-fertility, joy-allergic class that thinks the height of sophistication is comparing a sporting event to historical atrocities.
New York Times. Heather Cox Richardson. Jim Acosta. You suck at this. You don’t understand the country you claim to analyze. You don’t even like it. And every time you open your mouths to equate cage fighting with lynching or porn, you just remind the rest of us why normal people tuned you out years ago.
America was built by fighters.

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