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Episode Date: March 25, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Get a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash morningwire. That's Shopify.com slash morning wire. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Monday, March 25th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The homes of Sean P. Diddy Combs were raided today by law enforcement agencies in connection with a sex trafficking investigation. Video showed dozens of law enforcement officers swarming Combs' homes.

in the exclusive Beverly Hills neighborhood of Holmby Hills. According to TMZ, his Miami home was also rated today. Cassie Ventura, who had a decade-long relationship with Combs, had filed a civil lawsuit against him last year claiming sexual abuse and trafficking. The rapper has denied all charges. An appeals court has significantly decreased Donald Trump's $454 million judgment, down to $175 million. The former president has 10 days to pay.

post the bond. The 11th hour ruling means state attorney general Letitia James's office cannot yet begin collecting on the judgment. Trump gave the following remarks after the ruling. I think that New York State was helped a lot today by the decision. I'll give you an example of truth social is doing very well. It's hot as a pistol. I'm doing great. And it's going public. And the New York Stock Exchange wants to have us badly. And I told them we can't do the New York You're treated too badly in New York. Trump says he will post the bond using cash. In a separate New York courtroom, a judge set Trump's hush money trial for April 15th.

Two suspects have pleaded guilty following Friday's deadly terror attack at a Moscow concert venue. At least 137 people were killed in the attack and many others were injured. The four suspects who have been linked to ISIS K were all charged with committing a group terrorist attack resulting in the death of others. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. A Mexican drug cartel known for brutally killing people in public are also behind a timeshare scam that's drained millions of dollars from many elderly Americans. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the details.

According to FBI statistics, the Helisco New Generation Cartel uses its timeshare network to target elderly U.S. citizens and steal their life savings. The Courier Journal investigated the cartel scheme and found one man who lost just shy of $1.8 million. In that case, the victim was lured in by a promise of healthy profit from a time share. Then after the scam, the cartel came back with promises of reimbursement from a seemingly legitimate Mexican lawyer. In the end, the man had made 99 wire transfers. There were about 150 people involved in around 12 Mexican bank accounts. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her department remains committed to the administration's whole-of-government effort to disrupt the cartel's

revenue sources and ability to traffic deadly drugs like fentanyahu. Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a diplomatic trip to Washington after the U.S. failed to block a UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The U.S. abstained from a vote, a move Netanyahu called a clear retreat from the position they've held on the Security Council since the beginning of the war. The result of the voting is at Sporos. 14 votes in favor. Zero vote against.

One abstention. The draft resolution has been adopted at Resolution 27, 28, 224. The resolution demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for the remaining days of Ramadan, a Muslim holy month. It also demands an unconditional release of hostages being held by Hamas terrorists. Before the vote, an Israeli delegation was slated to travel to Washington to discuss Israel's plans for Rafa, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. This episode is brought to you by NetSuite. Download NetSuite's popular KPI checklist designed to give you consistently excellent performance absolutely free at netsuite.com slash morning wire. That's net suite.com slash morning wire.

Several senior Boeing executives, including the company's CEO, have announced that they're stepping down. The company made the announcement today as it continues to grapple with an ongoing scandal and federal investigation into the safety of its passenger jets. Boeing CEO David Calhoun released a statement in which he confirmed he was leaving the company by the end of the year. This all comes after a slew of negative stories since a door panel blew out on a Boeing 737 Max plane flown by Alaska Airlines earlier this year. Here's Calhoun on why he's not leaving right away. We have another mountain decline. Let's not avoid what happened with Alaska Air. Let's not avoid the call for action. Let's not avoid the changes that we have to make in our factory. Let's not avoid the need to slow down a bit and let the supply chain catch up. We've got to get

at that, just like we got it the rest. And we will get through that. We will get through that. And I've committed myself to the board to do exactly that. A man has died and another was injured in California's first fatal mountain lion attack in two decades. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, they received a call on Saturday from a man reporting that he and his brother had been attacked by a mountain lion. Police say the caller at the time was separated from his brother and had suffered traumatic injuries to his face. His 21-year-old brother died by the time first responders. reached him. Shortly after their search started, they located a man down, and next to that individual

was a mountline in a crouched position. And the space weather prediction center in Boulder, Colorado, has issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday. They say there is no reason for the public to be concerned, but high-frequency radio transmissions could be affected if there's an outburst of plasma from a solar flare. He also noted that such conditions could make for great Aurora viewing for people living at higher latitudes. Radio interruptions could affect aircraft communication,

but most commercial flights use satellites as backup. Those are your drive-home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.