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Episode Date: July 10, 2025

Vigils are held across Texas to mourn those lost in the floods, a new law in Massachusetts seeks to unmask ICE agents, and for the second night in row, Russia pummels Ukraine with hundreds of strikes. Get the facts first with Evening Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vigils are held across Texas to mourn those lost in the floods. A new law in Massachusetts seeks to unmask ice agents. And for the second night in a row, Russia pummels Ukraine with hundreds of strikes. I'm Georgia Howe. John is on vacation this week. It's Thursday, July 10th, and this is evening wire. In Kerrville, Texas, hundreds gathered at Antler Stadium last night to mourn victims of last week's catastrophic floods. the state's second deadliest on record. We're going to lead into a time of intercessory prayer.

I'm going to call upon our requests, our petitions, our intercessions. We're going to lift those to God this evening, to pray with one another, to pray for one another, and to trust that all of those prayers are heard. The vigil honored over 100 lives lost, including a special tribute to those who lost their lives at Camp Mystic. Through gospel music, prayer, and silent tears, the community found strength in faith and fellowship. A wooden cross from Michigan stood tall above the crowd, symbolizing hope. The evening ended with laughter, music, and play. Small steps towards healing a devastated town. Vigils popped up all around the state in support of those lost in the disaster.

The Trump administration's dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to be challenged, including by those very close to the case. Alan Dershowitz is a lawyer who at one point represented Epstein and says he knows for a fact that certain documents are being suppressed. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them. But I'm bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases, and I can't disclose what I know.

But I pan to God. I know. I know the names of people whose files are being. being suppressed in order to protect them. And that's wrong. Nearly a year after the assassination attempt on then presidential candidate Donald Trump, six Secret Service agents have been suspended without pay. Daily Wire Deputy Managing editor, Tim Rice has the latest. According to the agency, the agents received suspensions raging from 10 to 42 days and

will return to roles with reduced responsibilities. Trump was grazed by a bullet last year during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, killed one attendee and injured two others before a sniper took him out. A Senate report blames the Secret Service for numerous failures. Agency officials say new procedures are in place to prevent future lapses. Morning Wire spoke to journalist and author Salina Zito as the anniversary approaches. She was there that day. If you go back and watch it, I can't watch it.

But if you go back and watch it, you can see him flinch. You know he's hit. and he takes himself down, which was important. This is the first thing I'm noting in my head. Okay, he's not knocked down. He took himself down. This means he may not be gravely injured. He's surrounded by a sea of Navy blue suits, the Secret Service,

and then I hear the next four shots. I still don't take myself down. I'm in this moment believing that I have a purpose. Lawmakers in Massachusetts are attempting to unmask immigration officers during public interactions. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more. A new bill in the Commonwealth seeks to prohibit masks or disguises by law enforcement, except for medical or protective gear during emergencies and makes violations of misdemeanor. ICE officials are pushing back. Director Todd Lyon said, we're not going to put our officers at risk just because

some people don't like immigration enforcement. He also noted that families of some agents have received death threats and have been doxed. Similar legislation, known as the Visible Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate this week by Democrats Corey Booker and Alex Padilla. A federal judge in New Hampshire has slammed the brakes on President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. District Judge Joseph LaPlante says stripping citizenship from children born on U.S. soil violates the 14th Amendment.

His injunction, however, only applies to infants and excludes their parents from the case. The Supreme Court recently ruled such challenges must, proceed as class actions but did not weigh in on the order's legality. DOJ attorneys told the courts they still plan to begin enforcement July 27th. The Trump administration is eyeballing additional third country deportation agreements, including with nations in West Africa. The Wall Street Journal reports that five countries received requests from the State Department to take in migrants in advance of their leader's visits to the White House.

President Trump met with leaders on Wednesday for an economic and security summit and seemed to reinforce these requests. Immigration will also be on the agenda and I hope we can bring down the high rates of people, overstaying visas and also make progress on the safe third country agreements. Russia launched more than 400 drones into the Ukrainian city of Kiev in a Blitzkrieg attack Wednesday night, claiming two lives and injuring dozens. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian authorities during his trip to Asia on Thursday and expressed frustration at the lack of progress towards peace in the Ukrainian conflict.

Rubio hinted at legislation in the works that would enact additional U.S. sanctions on Russia. We've been engaging with the Senate in particular over the last week on what that bill will look like. And the leaders of both chambers have said that they're prepared to begin to move forward on that. We've expressed this to the Russians weeks ago. We told them that at the moment would come or something like this could happen. And we'll continue to express it because that's the reality. The U.S. has sanctioned a U.N. special rapporteur for her efforts to prompt ICC action against U.S. and Israeli officials and previous anti-Semitic remarks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says under Executive Order 14203, Francesca Albanese is barred from the U.S.

Her assets are frozen and Americans are prohibited from doing business with her. UN Watch, which led a campaign calling for action, hailed the sanctions as justice. Morningwire spoke to UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, and here's what he told us. The U.S. is saying, no, this person is beyond the pale, and other countries ought to do the same. And that's what we're calling for. We're calling for France, Germany, Canada. Countries that did make some statements condemning her a few times, they should also ban Albanese. So should all other decent, civilized countries should ban this preacher of hate, this preacher of terrorism.

Israel and Hamas seemed to be closing in on a ceasefire deal. The agreement would exchange 10 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of 18 others in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody. It's believed there are 20 living Israeli hostages in Gaza, leaving the Israeli government with a choice of which 10 men would come home. A previous ceasefire, which included an exchange of hostages and prisoners, ended in March. It's been determined that the Travis Decker citing in Idaho was a false alarm. Decker has been accused of murdering his three young daughters and has eluded authorities for more than a month.

Decker is an army veteran and an expert outdoorsman with experience camping off grid. The girls' bodies were found at a campsite in Washington in early June. Last weekend, a look-alike was spotted in Idaho hiking through Sawtooth National Forest. On Wednesday, authorities found and interviewed the doppelganger and confirmed, he was not Decker. The U.S. Marshal Service is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to Decker's capture. In economic news, the Defense Department became the largest shareholder in a rare earth mining company. The company, MP, Materials, operates the only rare earth mine in the United States. The mine extracts minerals that are vital to the U.S. military. The company's shares jumped 50%

at the news. The move as part of the Trump administration's plan to break dependence on China for rare earth minerals. Interior Secretary Doug Bergam said the government has plans for multiple mining projects. There's a special under the powers of the emergency authorities, the energy emergency have, which includes the critical minerals that President Trump wisely put in place on day one. There had been only two mining projects ever that had put on an unearthority called Fast 41, which is an accelerated permitting. President Trump added 10 more mining projects to that this week. And all of these things are going to help us in the competition. against China who's really cornered the world market around many of these important minerals.

A space startup is raising millions in funding to make drugs in orbit. Varda said it raised $187 million in funding to launch missions to space and then return with drugs that were made there. It says medicines crystallize differently in orbit, which allows them to produce drugs faster. The company has completed three successful missions so far. Meanwhile, a fourth launch is in orbit. Amazon is disputing, claims that their Prime Day sales have dropped a massive 41% compared to last year. Momentum Commerce, which manages Amazon's sales for popular retailers, reported the numbers after the first day of Prime Day week. This is the first year that Prime Day has moved away from a two-day event to a whole four days of deals. Jessica Martin, a spokesperson for Amazon, says the numbers

are highly inaccurate. According to her, they were made by a third-party consultancy without access as to all of the data. And Tech Titan Elon Musk just launched Grok 4 on X, despite concerns about the AI's recent string of anti-Semitic statements. The company demoed the new model in a live stream that was nearly an hour long, during which Musk claimed it's the smartest AI in the world, even smarter than nearly all graduate students. The launch comes just a day after Grok's controversial statements, which included praise for

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, which were quickly taken down by XAI. Musk did not address the controversy, but claimed he was committed to making sure GROC is maximally truth-seeking. Those are your drive-home updates this evening. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including the continued questions surrounding the Epstein case dismissal, the Supreme Court clearing the way for federal layoffs, and the concerning parasite moving toward the U.S. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire. Thank you.