The 98th annual Academy Awards on Sunday was the least-watched broadcast since 2022, attracting just 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu, marking a 9% decline from last year. Hollywoods biggest night was emceed once again this year by former late-night host Conan OBrien. He mostly avoided hot-button political topics as promised, but did make ...

Legendary New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter delivered a sharp rebuke of the participation-trophy culture creeping into professional sports, dismantling the notion that the World Baseball Classic holds more weight than a World Series title. Appearing on FS1s pregame show, the five-time World Series champ fired a direct shot at his successor, Aaron Judge. ...

Activist actor Sean Penn raised eyebrows for skipping the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, especially after he won the award for Best Supporting Actor in One Battle After Another. It was later revealed that Penn was in Ukraine at the time. Per Page Six, Penn was meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on ...

I do not personally know Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, so I cannot speak to his character or private motives. But as someone who has publicly claimed friendship with Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, I find it hard to see how detonating an atomic bomb on the eve ...

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled his Republican colleague, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), for appearing to “justify” a violent attack he experienced in 2017 and showing a “pattern” of aggression. The confrontation occurred on Wednesday during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Mullin’s nomination to be secretary of the Department of ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said he regretted calling Alex Pretti a “deranged individual” after he was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis in January. Mullin made the statement during a Wednesday Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on his nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security. If confirmed, the Oklahoma ...

Joe Kent has resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He should never have had the job to begin with. Kent explained in his resignation letter that he believes Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation and that Israel with the help of Israels powerful lobby is behind the United States starting the ...

A Democrat candidate reiterated her call to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday shortly after winning her partys primary for a United States Senate seat in Illinois. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won the Democratic nomination to replace outgoing Sen. Dick Durbin, winning 40% of the vote and defeating Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin ...

Republican Senator Rick Scott is set to introduce legislation that would spell major financial losses for sanctuary cities and states, The Daily Wire has learned. The Florida senator introduced the bill dubbed the Unifying American Security Interests Act to explicitly tie eligibility for federal grants to cooperation with Immigration and Customs ...

Hospitals across the country are still pushing woke policies, despite a nationwide backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), a watchdog warned Congress. Consumers Research said lawmakers must hold hospitals receiving federal tax privileges accountable for pushing racially-focused initiatives and transgender procedures on kids, according to a ...

El Centro Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, who was known for his aggressive roving patrols in major American cities, will soon retire. Bovino was tapped to lead aggressive raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans, and Minneapolis, where he was eventually replaced after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January. ...

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The Israeli military said Wednesday that Iranian intelligence chief Esmaeil Khatib was killed in a targeted overnight strike in Tehran. Khatib was appointed Irans Minister of Intelligence in 2021 by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after holding several roles in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Khatib would be the latest senior ...

This article is part ofUpstream,The Daily Wires new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories from our featured writers to you. *** In 1980, the free market economist Julian Simon made a bet with environmentalist Paul Ehrlich. The author of “The Population Bomb,” Ehrlich believed population growth would doom humanity. ...

An Illinois congresswoman wants to address a hidden danger to the American public tied to the spike in abortions facilitated by the fatal drug mifepristone. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) introduced a proposal on Tuesday that would make it illegal to take an abortion pill without the physical presence of a healthcare provider and prevent the ...

James Talarico is having a moment. The Texas state representative and Democratic Senate candidate has gone viral more times than most politicians manage to in a full career, partly because hes young and articulate, and partly because he does something unusual for a Democrat: he talks about Jesus. A lot. He quotes Scripture on the ...

Recent polling and national defense surveys underscore a period of robust Republican alignment with President Trumps more assertive foreign policy, particularly regarding military action in Iran. Data from CNN analyst Harry Enten highlights a near-unanimous consensus within the GOP base, revealing that 89% of MAGA voters approve of the current war against ...

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * We’re not supposed to say anything but good about people who’ve just died. As the saying goes, speak no ill of the dead. This man, however, left a wake of death, destruction, and catastrophe wherever he went. And most people ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used a St. Patrick’s Day event to complain about “genocide” in Gaza, arguing that the Irish and Palestinians could relate over their shared histories marked by oppression. Mamdani joined former Irish President Mary Robinson at a breakfast honoring Irish New Yorkers, and he used his remarks to praise Robinson ...

They didn’t get much attention, for obvious reasons but believe it or not, a handful of white people actually managed to win major civil rights lawsuits during the BLM revolution. As the largest companies on the planet began discriminating against white employees denying them promotions, firing them, putting their resumes at the bottom ...

Don’t fall for the propaganda: Iran is losing. They are getting scorched. One by one, the leaders of the Islamic Republic are being eliminated. Generals, security chiefs, regime powerbrokers. All gone. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, was dead on day one. No biggie, right? The regime had a backup plan. They proclaimed his ...

A small town in Georgia announced that it has cut off water to a planned federal immigration detention center. The city of Social Circle, Georgia, said it placed a lock on the water meter connected to the warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently purchased to detain more illegal immigrants, according to CBS News. City ...

Content warning: The following article contains details that readers will find disturbing. A trans-identifying 25-year-old man who sat on a taxpayer-supported youth board has been arrested and charged with the first-degree rape of a 6-to-7-month-old baby girl. William Kelso Flournoy IV, who goes by Isabelle or Izzy and presents as a woman on social media, ...

An Iraqi-born man who was arrested after entering a Texas elementary school clad in tactical gear and carrying a gun has been released back onto the streets. Kyle Najm Chris, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm, showed up at Zwink Elementary School in Spring, Texas, last Tuesday and walked into the front office with a ...