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25-year-old Christy Mirack was murdered.

This quiet neighborhood is in disbelief that such a tragedy could happen so close to home.

25-year-old Christy Mirack was murdered.

To find her.

In a dramatic turn of events, federal investigators raiding two homes owned by hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs.

Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs arrested in a New York City hotel by federal agents with Homeland Security investigations after being indicted by a grand jury.

And again, you can see a lot of activity here, a lot of law enforcement. Again, Homeland Security out of New York is handling this, and they're being assisted by Homeland Security here in Los Angeles.

I don't know what's going on. How old are you?

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Now, all they're saying is that the investigation has been ongoing for several months. Right now, they're not saying anything about any arrests or imminent, so we're waiting for them to give us more information.

We begin this hour with disturbing video. It's truly disturbing when you see it. This is exclusively obtained by CNN, and it really seems to support at least some of the abuse claims against Sean Diddy Combs.

It's graphic surveillance footage that appears to show Combs repeatedly hitting his then-girlfriend Cassie inside of a hotel. This is back in 2016, and we do want to warn you, what you're about to see is very disturbing.

It's all happening right there behind me. Now, the searches are being carried out at Diddy's properties as part of a federal investigation into human trafficking.

Hundreds of miles away in Ensenada, Mexico, another piece of the puzzle has been found, the Hawks' SUV. This was the first break in the case, and they were pretty excited about it.

Police have arrested 25-year-old Skyler DeLeon on suspicion of money laundering after he bought the couple's boat.

Police have arrested 25-year-old Skyler DeLeon. Skyler DeLeon is now in custody. Arrested yesterday at his home in Long Beach, police won't say if DeLeon is a suspect in the hawk's disappearance.

Still no sign of Thomas and Jackie Hawks, but bit by bit, police are slowly beginning to unravel the mystery surrounding their disappearance.

Apparently the whole family's been shot.

It was a very unusual thing because you don't see American workers right here in a little town in Mexico.

He was a nice person.

He told us that he was a soldier.

Police say a masked gunman shot the Whitaker family as they returned home from dinner. Mother Patricia and son Kevin were killed. Father Kent and son Bart were shot but survived.

He remarries Carol Weintraub. When did that start? Now, the version we've gotten is that they started dating after April was found murdered. Now, that's some romance.

There was breaking news, and I just remember them at a lake. And my phone was blowing up. Is this happening? Is this her? I felt like everything stopped in that moment when it was her.

He was under oath in a civil deposition. They could ask him anything.

A lot of people wondered why five years passed and no recognizable work had been done.

I do.

That was the first time he could be compelled to talk.

The pagan outlaws are the equivalent of the hell's angels. They are felons of the most dangerous sort.

So they show up at Kaufman's clinic just to look at his records.

What does he do instead of ushering them in as most of us would with the feds? No. He grabs a 9 millimeter Ruger.

After the standoff with Jim Kaufman, he goes to jail, not for murder, but for weapons charges. He fights to try to get out. The judge would not let him out based on his conduct, and that gives the new prosecutor, Tyner, a chance to really dig into the murder case.

What a bombshell. This straight-laced doctor that everyone had respected was part of a pill mill, a drug ring. And not only that, with the pagan outlaw motorcycle gang. And April Kaufman found out.

Murder charges just filed against Dr. James Kaufman in a plot that police say involved members of a motorcycle gang.

Officials with the Hudson County Correctional Facility confirmed that he died at 920 this morning.

He realized it had all caught up with him.

Bottom line, he had his wife murdered. And the only way out for him was suicide.

Even in that jail cell, when he killed himself, he had to write this very lengthy suicide note to be in control at the very end, to get the last word. Kaufman adamant that he didn't kill April.

Throughout the note, he quotes Latin, including phrases that Roman gladiators would say to the emperor before they fought in the Colosseum.

Police are searching for a couple from Essex and they're calling their disappearance suspicious. Bill and Lorraine Currier were last seen around 5 o'clock last night.

A family member called police Thursday morning after discovering that neither Bill or Lorraine showed up for work, telling police this was out of character for the couple.

The Currier's green Saturn sedan is also gone. Police say the Essex couple disappeared from their home sometime between 5 o'clock Wednesday evening and 10 Thursday morning.

The couple's car turned up abandoned at an apartment complex a few miles from their home.

It's been nearly two months since an Essex couple mysteriously vanished from their home.

Now, while police say that the disappearance is suspicious and they do suspect foul play, investigators have not gotten the big break that they need.

No one could imagine who would have shot April Kaufman. Beautiful, blonde, glamorous, and she was fun. No one had any idea what was going on behind those closed doors.

April dropped out of school when she became pregnant, but she got her GED. She clawed her way back. She opened a salon, a catering business, a cafe, a charity worker.

For April Kauffman, no one could believe what had happened.

Take a close look. He steps into the scene. He smiles one time for the camera to flash. Then he goes back to a very taciturn demeanor and steps out. No hugging, no kissing, no warmth, nothing.

Jim hires a lawyer. Not only a lawyer, but the lawyer, a mob lawyer.

He loves defending high profile criminal cases. His walls in his office are covered with news clips of himself.

Students will be gathering at Central High School tonight to remember the life of a classmate who recently died.

An investigation right now underway this afternoon in the death of a Knox County teen.

Das war ein extrem dramatischer Moment am Trial. Niemand sah es kommen. Die Gerechtigkeit ist schnell.

Es musste extrem aufregend sein für einen Jungen aus suburban New Jersey. Er geht zum ersten Mal in die große Stadt. Und es werden einige Mädchen da sein, die er von der Schule kennt.

Mark Fischer war jedes Elternsdienst. Ein großer, gutaussehender Studentenathlet, der Prom-König in seiner Hochschule, ein phänomenaler Fußballspieler.

Mark geht mit einer Frau zur Schule. Sie bringt viele von ihren Freunden mit.

Er folgte ihr, wo auch immer sie that night went.

No. Some members of the group that were unable to get into the bars. So 20-year-old John Juka comes up with a plan. He says, my parents are away for the weekend. Why don't we go to my house and have a party?

An einem Punkt, nachdem Mark seine Wohnung für eine Stunde gegründet hat, ist es glaubt, dass John Jukka ihn als Mutscher verurteilt hat. Er trinkte ihre Bier, er trinkte ihre Pfanne, er war nicht auf dem Weg.

Kurz nach 5 Uhr ging Mark Fischer in eine ATM-Maschine und verkaufte eine 6-Pack-Bier.

Mark Fisher's body is found almost in front of the house of one of the other partygoers.

Das ist Jukka, der Wannabe-Aktor, der die Schauspielerin Joan Cusack ausübt. Wir nennen ihn Shady, weil er blaue Haare hatte, wie Eminem damals.

Er hatte Dreadlocks, die er jahrelang kultiviert hatte. Also war es für ihn sehr unwahrscheinlich, sie zu scheren. Und dann nimmt er sie aus für Kalifornien, ein paar Tage später.

Albert Cleary wird der Hauptsatz, weil er einen aktiven Fall in der Bronx hat, wo er in einer ziemlich furchtbaren Verletzung von einer Person auf dem Boden war.

Es wurde ein Fall gegeben, von dem, von wem, wann und wie. Und alles war ein Hörsaal.

Two of entertainment's biggest stars spent much of this Monday after Christmas in a New York City police station. Jennifer Lopez and the rap mogul Sean Puffy Combs were held for possessing a stolen gun.

Today's indictment on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon carry a possible 15-year prison sentence if Combs is found guilty.

Many are asking, does trouble find him or does he go looking for it?

Columnist Jack Newfield writes for the New York Post. He says the latest incident is merely the most recent event in a string of brushes with the law. There are those who say he's a target, he's a rich black man, he's an easy prey.

The FBI is joining the search for a missing Mississippi college student. Latasha Norman disappeared last Tuesday.

Latasha was last seen leaving class last Tuesday afternoon around 2 o'clock.

He worked at CVS. He lived right there. He was hiding in plain sight.

I think what they were banking on was a call from a family member to say, that's my dad, that's my brother, that's my uncle. I know how he walks. I know how he sounds.

He came up early because apparently he was catfishing a lot of girls in the area by going under the name Anthony Schatz.

Exactly. With other young girls and using, you know what catfishing is, using a picture that's clearly not him. This was a young guy, a model, who then became a cop, who was interviewed years later after the girls were murdered and said,

And the day of the funeral, Tara, Libby's aunt, went into CVS to blow up pictures of Libby for the day of the funeral and is crying, gives it to Richard Allen. He said, it's on me. I got this.

What is the worst that happens?

Then you get to Abby. She was dressed in Libby's clothes, Libby's jeans, Libby's zip-up jacket, Abby's shirt, her same shirt, Libby's bra, her bra, dressed, redressed, Libby no clothes. She remained in a position with her sweatshirt like this, which was Libby's sweatshirt.

Richard Allen then says, I think maybe I've lost my mind. And his wife Kathy says, are you sure you want to talk over the phone? Richard says, I need you to know I did this. And this was in a whisper. And Kathy says, no, you haven't, you're unwell.

Everyone, of course, in the court was leaning forward to try to hear every single word of that. And those confessions are something that I believe, if I was on the jury, I would take those into consideration because of the way he sounded.

The defense has an argument there saying he shouldn't have been there. He wasn't in sound mind. He was in solitary for 30 days is the rule there. But for him, it was more than a year.

I believe, depending on who you ask, those gun enthusiasts who I've spoken to say it absolutely is like a fingerprint. That's the key piece of information. Other people I talk to say, hmm, Junk science. I don't know if you could really connect that unspent bullet with the markings to that particular gun. But that was a pivotal moment.

Everyone and anyone. Mainstream media is trying to get in. YouTubers are trying to get in. Locals are trying to get in.

I believe Richard Allen, who says he's guilty. I believe that he was laying in wait. I believe he followed the girls on the bridge. I believe he led them down the hill. I believe his intent was to rape. I believe he was interrupted. I believe he forced them across the creek. I believe he slit their throats and murdered them.

And I believe, as he said, he went on to live his life, his everyday life. I truly feel the evidence points to Richard Allen, but we'll see what the jury decides.

We have his face, his voice, his image, the way he walks, what he sounds like.

It was horrific.

Everybody became a suspect. I mean, everybody.

He worked at CVS. He lived right there. He was hiding in plain sight. So my first thoughts are, how'd you miss this guy?

Yes, absolutely 100%.

They go down the hill. He forces them. And according to the investigators, he killed them within minutes. 20 minutes. And according to a blood expert, Abby was forced to put on Libby's clothes before she was murdered. So Libby's naked. But what happened between the guy on the bridge on Libby's phone saying, guys down the hill, they go down the hill? What interrupted him?

We have his face, the way he walks, what he sounds like, and still no one's in custody.

This town is so small. Right. Less than 3,000 people. When you really see it and understand how small that really is, how really everyone knows everyone, they weren't used to such a massive undertaking and such a big case, if you will, to be here in Delphi.

Never.

Oh, it was, oh my gosh, we have this evidence. The superintendent, Doug Carter, said, never in my life, Susan, have I had this much evidence. We have his face, his voice, his image, the way he walks, what he sounds like, and still no one's in custody. Did that feel crazy? It did. It did. To everyone thinking, why can't they get this guy?

Twelve-year-old Julie Harris has been on missing person posters since her disappearance last March.

Detectives found her two artificial limbs on the shore of the Colville River just last week. Investigators all weekend were sifting through the dirt looking for more evidence. But so far, they've turned up no suspects.

On Saturday, children playing in these woods found the skeleton of a girl.

At a local bar called Twin Peaks. She's not just missing.

An active scene is unfolding as detectives search for Lintel Washington.

It's remote, it's rural, it's farmland, it's sugarcane fields. It was a massive search effort. In the air, on ATVs, and on foot.

Even after the trauma of Lintel Washington being shot in the head, the coroner believed that the child in there would have been able to be saved.

We know that Robert Marks texted Lintel Washington. He said he wanted to meet up. She drove from her house up to Baker.

Within a couple of days of Robert Marks being arrested, he had two lawyers. They, of course, have to go to work.

Lintel Washington, teacher at a middle school. And no one heard from her. She just didn't show up to teach her class.

And there are things worse than the death penalty. In Louisiana, they call it Angola.

This is a guy from the north side of Baton Rouge who was successful. He had a PhD in education.

Lintel Washington is still considered missing tonight.

The investigation started Thursday when Washington's three-year-old daughter was found wandering around a parking lot.

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Still no arrests tonight of the shooting death of a College of Charleston student.

Still no arrests tonight in the shooting death of a College of Charleston student.

The man accused of killing a Norfolk woman and her mother now faces a capital murder charge. In Norfolk yesterday, a grand jury indicted David Wayne Hosha.

A packed room at the Student Union tonight filled with shaken students and their concerns.

Who committed this bloody double murder?

The woman found bludgeoned inside this campus apartment, died on her way to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Her name is Timwanika Lumpkins.

Police notified her grandmother this afternoon.

Saturday morning, students at this on-campus apartment building awoke to find the area cordoned off.

At this hour, there are more questions than answers.

Without making a sound, Keyes jumped the railing where family and friends of Samantha Koenig were seated together.

James Koenig, Samanthas Vater, declined to comment outside the courtroom. Die Marshalen untersuchen, wie Israel Keyes die Steine aus der Röhre abkoppeln konnte, bevor er über die Röhre fliegte. Wie er aus den Steinen kam, bleibt ein Geheimnis.

Israel Keys' Familie steckte aus ihrem Van raus und fiel in das Gebäude vor dem heutigen Service. Seine Mutter, vier Schwestern und ihr Mann waren dabei. Keys' sechs anderen Brüder und ehemalige Kohlville-Nachbarn haben es nie geschafft.

Police arrested the fiance of a mother of three found murdered inside her home in November.

Bond is set at $3 million for a man accused of paying two employees to kill his bride-to-be.

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They were separated inside the store, and they both were seen to go to the counter and get refunds off previous purchases.

April 16th. The kidnappers plundered meticulously. If money is what it takes to get her back, we're going to pay it. The secrets they hide. You can't talk about this. You can't write about it. Are the clues.

To find her.

The Stolen Girl series premiere April 16th on Freeform and stream on Hulu.

The former University of Virginia student was extradited by British authorities.

Where is June Osborn? Rise up and fight for your freedom.

The bodies were only discovered this afternoon at their home on Holcomb Rock Road.

We have team coverage on these breaking developments. Bart Halderson and his wife Krista have not been seen since July 1st. What happens next?

Bart and Krista Halderson of Windsor had plans for the fourth.

Their son, Chandler Halderson, who asked to be off camera, says whoever his parents were traveling with from this neighborhood were to do the driving. He says he received a text from his mother.

The human remains found Thursday are connected to the missing couple Bart Halderson and Krista Halderson.

Their son Chandler was arrested Thursday for allegedly providing false information to investigators.

Sheriff's personnel tonight remain at the Halderson home in Windsor.

The continued presence of sheriff's personnel at the Halderson home has become almost background for this neighborhood here. Krista Halderson remains missing.

Chandler Halderson is now officially charged in the death of both of his parents.

What's up? Welcome to New York!

Federal investigators raiding two homes owned by hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs.

Yes.

On August 17th, 2014, it's a Sunday.

Breaking news, a 12-year-old girl is stabbed. The girl was lured to the area by two of her classmates who allegedly stabbed her 19 times.

What's up? Welcome to New York!

Federal investigators raiding two homes owned by hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs.

Major search by ground.

One of Gary Triano's friends from high school met with Gary Triano the day before he died. Gary was trying to get him and his father to give him a $50,000 loan. His friend described him as anxious and desperate. That loan never happened and tomorrow never came.

There were a lot of rumors going around about threats that Gary may have received. A lot of the early focus was on people that invested, then Gary lost the money.

Neil McNeese was, by all accounts, a billionaire by inheritance. He was sort of a trust fund baby, if I could use that term, and he had a lot of money. His own Learjet, I think it was, traveled a lot.

He became acquainted with Gary Triano. They probably frequented the same clubs or things of that nature. And Neil McNeese was somebody who had a lot of money to invest or spend on people.

So Gary Triano gave Neal McNeese Pam Phillips's supposed diamond ring that Gary represented was worth a quarter million dollars.

Ron Young was someone who was, even for the mid-90s, fairly adept at computers and establishing an online presence even back then.

La Paloma Country Club is nestled in the Tucson foothills. It's absolutely beautiful.

What happened was that police in California find an abandoned van, and it's a rental van out of Aspen.

There's divorce documents between Gary Triano and Pam Phillips. There are maps of Tucson. There are lists of names of associates with Gary Triano.

Morning, everybody. So today we got a recreation shot of a 1996 bombing in Arizona. It's going to be a pipe bomb. Once the bomb goes off, we're going to wait until for Merkel to give it the all clear. It's the desert. It's hot. So, you know, drink plenty of water. We got snakes. We got scorpions. We got spiders. So watch out for all that.

It was something that absolutely shook Tucson to its core. It was horrific. It was violent.

So it took until January of 1997 before the insurance company paid. Pam got a little over $2 million.

Sure enough, Ron Young shows up in time for his appointment.

So there's all this stuff that's coming together. There's the suspicions about the life insurance policy. Now we've got Ron Young, who's an associate of Pam Phillips, and all these things in the van in California. The names and a notepad of people associated with Gary Triano. Maps of Tucson. Receipts from a hotel in Tucson near where Gary was living at the time.

What Ron did, he's not proud of.

The trial began February 2014. There was a ton of attention and anticipation. All eyes were on Pamela Phillips.

Prosecutors argued that the main reason that Pamela Phillips orchestrated this murder on her ex-husband was the $2 million life insurance policy.

The bulk of our evidence came from Ron Young. The FedEx receipts, the phone calls, the emails that Ron Young had saved.

Pamela Phillips was very elegant. She played the part of a socialite. She always looked very put together.

The last line has your name on it again, correct? Yes. Melissa Triano. Just above your name, what does it say there?

Oh yeah, that for the jury was our smoking gun.

Lawrence D'Antonio was called to the stand, and this was really the crutch of the defense's argument.

It makes for an interesting story. They're saying, oh, look at this, Neil McNeese was the real killer and Capuano was the person who made the bomb. All of them are deceased, so we're not able to follow up on this.

But I mean, the bottom line is we don't have any question whatsoever that Pam Phillips hired Ron Young to kill Gary.

Pamela Phillips never testified during the entire trial. We got glimpses of her personality, right? During the trial, she would look at the camera, she would smile at the camera, even mouthing the words at one point, I love you, to the camera during court proceedings.

Quiet cries of joy and justice. Triana's family says today's verdict has been a long time coming.

Gary's family was relieved by all this. The murder was in 1996. Our trial was now 18 years later. I mean, I don't think they wanted it to be Pam, but they knew it was.

Pamela Phillips was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Okay? This is hard. It's so hard for me. It's a nightmare. She showed no remorse. She actually turned around to the gallery for the first time. At this point, she was just pandering to the camera.

Never any mention as to the loss of life, but everything came back to the impact it had on her personally.

Pam and Gary knew Donald Trump, Marla Maples. Donald and Marla came to a University of Arizona basketball game with Gary and Pam.

They rub shoulders with people in high society.

Investigators set their sights on Gary Triano's financial dealings because he owed large sums of money to a lot of people.

There were any number of suspects that the Sheriff's Department was looking at. There were Chinese investors, there were Mexican investors, there were mafia investors, all of whom Gary purportedly owed money to.

Pam had sort of had enough. She had married this man who was worth millions, and now he wasn't.

Eleven of the survivors now face murder and conspiracy charges in connection with the killing of four federal agents.

The Hewitt preacher's wife was found dead. Her death originally ruled a suicide. But is that how the mother of two really died?

A Hewitt preacher's wife was found dead in her home. Her death originally ruled a suicide. But now, nearly a year and a half later, a judge has set a hearing to try to determine if that is how the mother of two really died.

A former preacher charged with the murder of his wife.

Gabby Petito. Search for a missing woman, Gabby Petito.

I've been covering the Gabby Petito case since day one. We do know that on August 27th, at Mary Piglet's restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming, witnesses reported a lot of screaming, him yelling at the restaurant staff, going in and out of the restaurant.

And then people saw them get into this van and leave.

Lights, cameras, reporters. We are everywhere.

The neighbors saw the van in the driveway. One of the neighbors told me, I did think it was strange that I didn't see Gabby. But what do I know? I'm just a neighbor here. The Laundrie family is going about their business.

Tonight her boyfriend is now a person of interest, but he's not talking. The new pleas for him to share what he knows.

When we got that alert that Brian Laundrie was missing, my stomach dropped. I remember looking at my phone and not being able to believe what I was reading.

North Port police told us that they had been surveilling the house and had surveillance on the house during this time. But at some point, Brian left.

The Carlton Reserve is a 25,000-acre wildlife reserve. It is massive. And I can tell you from being there, it is a rough environment. We do know that Brian Laundrie has quite a lot of experience camping.

Earlier today, human remains were discovered consistent with the description of Gabrielle Gabby Petito. The cause of death has not been determined at this time.

The search continues for Gabby Petito. Grand Teton National Park, where Gabby spoke directly with her family for the last time before she disappeared.

A urgent search for a missing woman, Gabby Petito.

He offered $200 to drive a few miles and they thought that that was a little odd.

He got very upset about that, said, please let me out of the car. He got out of the car, and as Miranda Baker states, about 10, 15 seconds later, he was gone.

It's the freakin' Tetons! She did not know at that time. They were just driving through the Teton National Forest, and this van is on the side of the road.

She doesn't think much of it until many weeks later.

Earlier today, human remains were discovered, consistent with the description of Gabrielle Gabby Petito.

Human remains were discovered consistent with the description of Gabrielle Gabby Petito.

the attorney for the Laundrie family, releases the actual pages from Brian Laundrie's notebook. Now people can read for themselves what Brian Laundrie says happened.

And then it goes from this beautiful sort of love letter to this very serious, scary situation

Brian says he killed Gabby as a form of mercy.

The Petitos release a statement saying that they don't believe anything that's in this notebook.

Spottings throughout Florida, as far north as the Appalachian Trail.

I want this out of my life. And I feel sorry for Abraham. But I, I'm, I, it has hardened my heart. I don't know if I'll ever help anybody out anymore.

But the very next day... Hey, Didi, they're calling you a murderer. Are you a murderer? No.

Tonight, it would terrify any parent, a shooting in a preschool parking lot.

Just what motivated Hemi Newman to kill a man outside of that Georgia daycare depends on who you believe.

Right now, they are out actively searching for the man that shot this father. Rusty Snyderman's car was parked right there where you see that orange spray paint.

And Andrea Snyderman successfully petitioned to have her last name changed as well as those of her two children. That's our program for tonight. Thanks for watching. I'm David Muir.

The school and several of the businesses in this complex do have security cameras. Dunwoody police tell me right now they are actively looking at that video to see if they can get a better description of the suspect.

Nobody said it's 10 o'clock and the kidnappers haven't called? Nobody said that.

Were you at that point giving him perhaps a little bit of distraction, busy work?

Jean Benet Ramsey, the little girl in Colorado, was murdered.

Beauty queen Jean Benet. Jean Benet's murder has frightened residents of Boulder.

It's now been 12 days since Jean Benet Ramsey was murdered. Officers have spent more than 3,000 hours processing evidence and interviewing more than 90 people.

There is high anticipation in Boulder right now for a Ramsey decision, and we are about to hear an announcement from Boulder DA Alex Hunter.

Chad, Lori, can you tell me where your kids are?

Would you tell me what happened to JJ? You know the grandparents are very worried.

Lori, tell us where your kids are.

Would you tell me what happened to JJ? You know the grandparents are very worried?

Lori, tell us where your kids are. Everybody wants to know.

He tells us JJ is safe. That's really all he wants to know. And finally, Lori is arrested.

Lori Vallow was taken into custody without any incident by detectives of the Kauai Police Department.

Convicted killer Lori Vallow Daybell is set to face new charges in Arizona.

Robbie was a very, very hard worker, but his love life was a little bit tangled.

And just when you thought you heard the most shocking part, there was another part, Emily.

And he's charming, too, in person, isn't he?

A few months after Larry met Mandy, he moves into her home. Mandy's daughter, Mary, was also living at the house.

Larry Richmond Sr., at the age of 17, was convicted of murder, spent 22 years in prison, was released in 2018 out on his own. Did you know at the time that he had been convicted of shooting a seven-year-old man and killing him?

We actually livestreamed it on our website for our viewers to watch because there was such a community interest in this story.

So after doing an autopsy, police learned that a tourist judge revolver possibly had been used to shoot and kill Robbie Doerr, which just so happens to be the same style of gun that was stolen from a pawn shop in Evansville.

Every step was shocking. And just when you thought you heard the most shocking part.

New developments tonight in the murder of a firefighter in Indiana, gunned down in front of his home.

One person was shot and killed here tonight, and police still looking for a suspect. We have a beloved first responder, a firefighter who is dead.

I didn't realize who it is. Robby! Robby!

It's not supposed to be this way.

Larry Richmond's senior son, Larry Richmond Jr., worked at River City Pawn Shop in Evansville. He's accused of stealing a Taurus Judge revolver, which, ironically, is the same style gun police said was used to kill Robby Doar.

Robby!

Becky was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice, but she pleaded not guilty to those charges. So many are wondering, who committed the murder?

Tonight, a beloved firefighter gunned down in his very own driveway.

So while Becky is being questioned by investigators at the police station, her son Nathan makes a discovery at the home.

One person was shot and killed here tonight, and police still looking for a suspect. Normally, the media will stage in a certain area. Police officers will chat with us, will tell us a little bit about what's going on. That didn't happen that night, so I knew that this was a big deal. Police say that just after 7 o'clock tonight, they had several calls come in reporting shots fired.

But does the evidence to convict someone all come down to a single deleted phone call? A brand new 2020 begins right now.

They do know who the victim is, but they are not releasing his name just yet. We were just hearing that night that it was a firefighter, and by the amount of firefighters showing up to the scene kind of confirmed to us this is a first responder.

We thought here police were onto something, had made an arrest, and then suddenly they're letting her go. What do they know they're not telling us?

At this point, police do not have a suspect. They do not have a murder weapon. And we're wondering, what is the next step?

Becky's son, Nathan, meets with detectives again, and he tells them that she already has a new man in her life.

had a relationship with the Doerr family at the time Robert was executed. Richmond came on our radar back in March of last year after police say that some guns were found buried outside of his home in his backyard. Now, as we've reported, Richmond was convicted of murder more than 20 years ago.

Investigators are finally able to get inside of Larry Richmond Sr. 's phone to see what's inside of it. And what they said they find is pretty interesting.

Larry Richmond Sr. and Becky were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They pled not guilty to all the charges.

The public, these are details that they have wanted to know for years are finally coming to light because there are cameras in the courtroom. Did it make it much harder that this was all televised?

So we're now at Becky's trial, but because she is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, the jury is hearing a lot about Larry Richmond Sr., who has his own separate trial scheduled for next year.

A handwriting expert for the prosecution claims that the handwriting on the condolence card matches that of the handwriting on the ramen packet addressed to Barbie.

Correct. One big bombshell in this case, Becky's son is about to take the stand.

Objection. Overruled. Could he be the one to actually send her to prison?

unfortunately. Something Nathan said to the jury had many wondering, could money be a motive for Robbie's murder?

90 years in prison. So basically, she will be spending the rest of her life behind bars. And the sentence?

Becky Fox-Doerr is currently in prison. She says she's planning on appealing her conviction.

Her alleged lover and the accused gunman, Larry Richmond Sr., is scheduled to go to trial in May of 2025. He declined to be interviewed. That's our program for tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Deborah Roberts.

And I'm David Muir from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night.

The first step is trying to figure out what happened and the main players involved. The people who live on that street were telling me, I can't believe this happened here. Yes, we do have crime in Evansville, but nothing like this.

This is you?

The big mistake that the perpetrator made is by using a weapon that is easily identifiable.

Inside of the home, investigators found a nine-page letter

Police have DNA, fingerprints, and a lot of physical evidence. What they don't have is the person who murdered a 19-year-old Three Rivers woman in 1988.

Bloody fingerprint left on a phone and a footprint.

New developments tonight on the murder of a beloved BOMA teacher.

53-year-old Robert Waters, a former Three Rivers resident, now a plumber, husband, father, and accused killer.

A major breakthrough in a cold case murder out of Three Rivers.

The verdict is in 29 years of waiting came down to seven days of testimony and ultimately 52 minutes of deliberation.

And a man lost at sea with his mother for eight days has been found alive in good condition.

Nathan Carman and his lawyer saying absolutely nothing, heading to Providence Federal Court this morning for the first day of the civil trial against Carman.

Nathan Carman is still on that freighter. He's expected to arrive in Boston tomorrow night.

Park rangers recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Park rangers recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. Authorities say that victim was from Littleton. She was in her 50s. She'd been hiking in the area with a family member.

It looks like Miriam might be the next target. The killer was now after her.

It looks like Miriam might be the next target. The real killer was now after her.

A millionaire match? Millionaire match.

Now there was an urgency.

That video really did undermine Miriam's credibility.

Why not?

A lot of media attention? Yes. This was a big deal in that town, I guess.

For the shooter, the morning starts at 530 in the morning when he leaves the hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

leapfrogging over one camera, over another, over another. They were able to track this guy to this youth hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam. So at the youth hostel, they find this amazing piece of video. As he's checking into the youth hostel, the lady behind the counter asks him to drop his mask to see his face, to see his smile, and he obliges. And that was the picture that went viral.

The city was about to come alive for the day. It was a routine Wednesday. It was a clear morning. It was cold out. And you see this shooter walking up 54th Street wearing a hood that was up. He had a mask on in the vicinity of the Hilton on 54th Street.

On social media, there was this eruption of cheer about it because people are so angry at the healthcare industry.

This police officer shows up. He said, have you been to New York recently? And police say he started to shake. He started to get visibly nervous. And that's when the police took him into custody.

They find the computer. They find the passport. They find a 3D-printed silencer and a 3D-printed gun. So this was what the police referred to as a ghost gun, which means basically it has no serial number. They also found a spiral-bound notebook that Mr. Mangione allegedly wrote talking about computer-aided design, or CAD.

He has a bachelor's and a master's in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and the implication is that he designed, printed, put this gun together, and then used it to commit the crime.

He went to the University of Pennsylvania, the engineering school where he majored in computer science.

So it's about an hour of the shooter making his way around this small slice of midtown Manhattan. He goes to a Starbucks and gets a snack and a bottle of water. He walks west a block. He then walks east a block. He's clearly passing time as he waits for Brian Thompson to make his appearance.

He really just stopped communicating with people. And then two weeks before the shooting, his own mother filed a missing persons report referring to him in San Francisco.

The main tragedy here is the death of Brian Thompson, the loss that his family has to endure. But there's also a tragedy here about Luigi Mangione, who had such a brilliant life ahead of him. And something happened to spiral him into this dark place where he allegedly executed someone. Why?

Luigi Mangione arrives in court, and all anyone's actually seen of him up till now is the smiling surveillance image. His social media is out there with his shirt off, and he's a happy kid with an ear-to-ear grin. That's all anyone's ever seen of him until he arrives at court.

And police say that he kind of ruminated on ways in which to carry out this attack on the healthcare industry. He considered a bomb, but then decided that he didn't want to kill innocents, and so he wanted instead to target an individual.

At 6.44 in the morning, you see Mr. Thompson walking down the block from his hotel to the Hilton.

There are cameras everywhere. There are people everywhere. Even at 6, 7 in the morning, there are people.

New York is a connected city. We know that there are cameras. We know there are thousands, tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of cameras all around New York City.

The first video that we get, which is the most sensational of the videos, is of the actual shooting.

I think what was most jarring about the shooting was how calm the shooter seemed to be. He seemed to be methodical.

The police determined that the victim is the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson. He's a 50-year-old husband, father of two.

People were cheering the demise of this person they'd never met, who was a father of two and a husband and had a life and was just doing a job, no matter how distasteful that job might be to a certain segment of the population.

It's very unusual for someone to be shot in that neighborhood at any time of day.

After the shooting, we know that the shooter runs across 54th Street. We know he goes up this alleyway called the Ziegfeld Alley right by the Ziegfeld Theater, which is a real landmark in midtown Manhattan. And then he gets on a bike at this point, and he rides up Sixth Avenue up to Central Park.

The cameras lose sight of him because he goes into the park. And one big blind spot in the city, you talk about cameras everywhere, there really aren't cameras in Central Park. There are trees, there are heavily wooded areas.

There's this amazing shot, and he peers through the partition that separates the driver from the passenger.

We know that he takes the cab up to a bus station, which is on the New York City side of the George Washington Bridge.

So immediately, police announced a reward of $10,000 for anyone who would provide information that could lead to his arrest and conviction. And, you know, the Crimestoppers line in New York did start to get a lot of calls. But the real question is, where did he go?

I think we all learned that it's a lot easier to disappear in New York than we thought.

He was guilty of, quote, unethical and potentially illegal conduct. Joe Gow under fire for hiring a porn star to give a speech. It seemed to be really well received by students, not as well received by system officials.

We grabbed it, headed for the airport, and flew over here.

You have no right to trespass and litter on someone's property. You have no right to graffiti someone's property. You have no right to block someone's access to their religious institution or deface it.

Hannah, what does it mean to be working with Blake again?

Well, in fact, Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khalil, and I'm glad you brought this up. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who serve or are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America.

And Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation's finest universities and colleges. And he took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege, by siding with terrorists Hamas terrorists who have killed innocent men, women, and children.

This is an individual who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda Flyers with the logo of Hamas. That is what the behavior and activity that this individual engaged in. And I have those flyers on my desk.

They were provided to me by the Department of Homeland Security. I thought about bringing them into this briefing room to share with all of you, but I didn't think it was worth the dignity of this room to bring that pro-Hamas propaganda. But that's what this individual distributed on the campus of Columbia University.

And this administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans. We have a zero tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period.

Attorney General Bondi said a truckload of FC files had been delivered to her office from the SDNY. When can we expect those files to be released to the public? I would defer you to the Department of Justice. I don't have a timeline here. Do you have any update on the JFK files? I don't at this moment. Again, I would defer you to our DNI director, Tulsi Gabbard, and also the Department of Justice.

I know that they are working on that diligently, as the President requested them to do.

Incoming transmission.

from every other screen that you have ever used. And that is because it is not actually a screen. It is a completely new kind of display architecture with these tiny projectors in the arms of the glasses that shoot light into wave guides that have nanoscale 3D structures etched into the lenses so they can diffract light

You put holograms at different depths and sizes into the world in front of you. And all of that is directed by custom silicon and sensors that we designed and powered by a battery that fits in the arm of the glasses. It is an absolutely incredible amount of technology To be able to miniaturize and fit into a pair of glasses and a small puck that goes with it to help power the whole thing.

For their part, the European Union also responded with retaliatory tariffs this morning, proving 25% duties on American goods like almonds, orange juice, and steel. EU officials say a second round of countermeasures is expected next week.

A federal judge has ruled that the White House's ban on the AP from Oval Office events is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled yesterday that the White House violated the First Amendment by discriminating based on a viewpoint. The dispute is over the AP's refusal to use the term Gulf of America instead of the now officially defunct Gulf of Mexico.

McFadden, who is a Trump appointee, wrote that the administration offered no other plausible explanation for how it treated the AP and that the Constitution forbids viewpoint discrimination even in a non-public forum like the Oval Office.

While the president paused tariffs for other countries, he upped the ante on China. raising duties on goods from the country to 125%. The move comes after Beijing slapped an 84% tariff on U.S. goods in response to the president adding a 50% tariff on Chinese imports on top of several others.

Trump took to Truth Social saying he hopes China will soon realize that, quote, the days of ripping off the U.S.A.,

are over earlier today china's commerce ministry vowed to quote fight to the end while slapping export bans on several u.s companies including shield ai and sierra nevada corporation on fox news this morning treasury secretary scott besant dismissed the move from china as a quote losing proposition for beijing

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced a new illegal alien registry. It would require fingerprinting and enforce long-ignored immigration laws from 1952. DHS says migrants who fail to register or self-deport could face criminal charges, fines, or imprisonment. The administration hopes self-deportation will be a safer alternative. Here's Noem on Fox News.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is warning Maine to get with the program on protecting women's sports or face consequences. Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan has the latest.

President Trump convened his first cabinet meeting of his new term today with a special focus on Elon Musk's Doge overhaul. Musk has defended his push for accountability after some agency leaders resisted his directive asking employees to justify their weekly work. Trump backed Musk, warning noncompliant workers they could be fired.

All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some big stories, including the budget battle in the House, the NSA's shift away from their mission, and New York's corrections officer strike. Thanks for tuning in.

We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.

Today's meeting comes as the administration issued a memo to all federal agencies directing them to plan for sweeping layoffs of federal workers.

Trump said the call focused on aligning both Ukraine and Russia's needs after Putin agreed yesterday to halt attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. But Russia is accused of breaking the partial ceasefire overnight after it hit two hospitals and energy infrastructure in the Sumy region of Ukraine. Still, Trump remains optimistic about reaching a ceasefire soon.

For his part, Zelenskyy condemned Putin's broken promise, while other global leaders accused the Russian president of playing games with international diplomacy. Meanwhile, Zelensky also confirmed a significant prisoner exchange and called for further action to pressure Putin toward ending the war, such as additional sanctions on Russia.

The two also said they'll discuss giving American taxpayers a $5,000 tax refund known as the Doge Dividend.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is suing after the Trump administration effectively slammed the brakes on New York City's congestion pricing plan. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.

At least one person is dead following a mid-air plane collision at an Arizona regional airport. The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating. Today's incident follows a series of recent air travel disasters, including the deadly collision at Reagan National Airport last month. In response, the Trump administration has pledged a nationwide review of air traffic control systems.

Lawyers for Sean Diddy Combs are claiming a prostitution charge is racist and are petitioning to have it dropped. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo explains.

Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today to protest cuts made by the Trump administration. The protests centered on advocating for federal workers and funding for what they say is critical research. Democrats like Senator Chris Van Hollen say this has nothing to do with making government more efficient.

Actress Cynthia Erivo has been cast as Jesus in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl this summer. The decision has sparked controversy online. Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham has more.

Meanwhile, last night in an interview with Fox's Sean Hannity, both Trump and Musk hit back against the left's, quote, absurd and politically motivated claims. They say critics are projecting their own wrongdoing onto the administration.

Why does it have to be a classified briefing if these are just hobbyist drones? They're not military drones. Why is it a classified briefing on the Capitol Hill?

The three and a half year nightmare for the Fogle family that started during the Biden administration has finally ended. After watching the previous administration prioritize more famous detainees like Brittany Griner, the Fogle family clung to hope that he would be released. The main source of that enduring hope was Donald Trump.

who famously met with Mark's 95-year-old mother, Malfeen, at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally. She was actually set to take the stage until the would-be assassin began shooting. President Trump did indeed remember Mark's name and welcomed him to the White House late last night.

In exchange for Fogle, the U.S. released Russian prisoner Alexander Vinik, who pled guilty to money laundering $4 billion through a cryptocurrency exchange platform that he operated. He had been facing a 20-year prison sentence.

Despite protests and a lawsuit from opposing teams, the Colorado federal judge cited legal protections under Title IX and the 14th Amendment, rejecting claims that the player, Blair Fleming's participation unfairly disadvantages women. San Jose State says it is following NCAA guidelines.

Riley Gaines, who has been fighting to protect women in sports, expressed disappointment in the decision, saying, Plaintiffs in the case have appealed the decision.

Rhodes and Tarrio were convicted of seditious conspiracy, though neither of them actually entered the Capitol building. Tarrio was serving out a 22-year sentence, and Rhodes was nearly two years into his 18-year term. Trump defended the pardons, saying that these individuals had been destroyed.

In addition to the pardons, Trump has directed the Justice Department to ask for the dismissal of about 450 cases that are still being litigated. Here's Trump making those actions official.

ICE had prepared a large-scale crackdown targeting illegal immigrants deemed threats to public safety. Meanwhile, migrants in New York City have left shelters in anticipation of these raids. Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed the delay and said the administration wants to keep some element of surprise to the raids.

As ICE gets ready to move in, Congress is working on legislation to keep non-citizens convicted of theft and other crimes in detention. The Lake and Riley Act that passed the Senate last night could be one of the first bills to land on President Trump's desk. It still needs final approval in the House. The bill allows states to sue the government for failing to enforce immigration laws.

Throughout the hearing, Democrats routinely criticized Hegseth's previous comments regarding women serving in the military, particularly in combat roles. Here's Senator Elizabeth Warren in one heated back and forth.

Standards are what it's always been about, Senator. Warren also noted that Hegseth had in the past supported banning retired military generals from lobbying and then asked him to make the same pledge for himself, to which he replied, I'm not a general, Senator. Following Warren, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville jokingly addressed the nominee as General Hegseth.

Hegseth also committed to upholding the, quote, rule of law when grilled about whether he would abide by the Geneva Convention. During the exchange, Senator Angus King had asked Hegseth if he thought torture was okay while referencing past comments from Hegseth on the topic. Here's some of that answer.

The city of Asheville went for almost two months without water, and FEMA failed to answer nearly half of the calls from people that were asking for assistance.

The disaster after the disaster ended when President Trump came in and visited this community and in less than 20 days secured over 54 million dollars for families in need. President Trump is ensuring that communities aren't forgotten and he launched the first major initiative to connect farmers with recovery assistance as well.

Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?

I'm standing at the location where an illegal criminal lit a woman on fire. He lit her on fire as she was sleeping on a subway car and then sat down on this bench and watched her burn alive. Listen, it's the most grave act that a human being can commit against another person. And with the leadership of President Trump, we're going to make sure it never happens again.

Part of any investigation, we look at the human, the machine, and the environment. So we will look at all the humans that were involved in this accident. Again, we will look at the aircraft. We will look at the helicopter. We will look at the environment in which they were operating in.

The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe injuries. intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website.

The Senate is set to take up a bill aimed at keeping men from competing in women's sports. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which was introduced by Senator Tommy Tuberville, would define sex in Title IX compliance based on reproductive biology at birth. The cloture vote is expected today, needing a three-fifths majority to advance.

The House has already passed a similar bill, but its future remains uncertain.

The deaths of legendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa are being investigated and are considered suspicious. Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham has the details.

And the battle over New York City's congestion pricing is heating up. Governor Kathy Hochul says if President Trump wants to scrap the $9 toll for drivers entering Manhattan, he'll need to find $15 billion in federal funds to fix the city's subway system. Hochul says she delivered the ultimatum during a White House meeting, insisting the toll revenue is critical for transit upgrades.

Here she is on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

The Trump administration has ordered the state to halt the toll collection by March 21st. But Hochul vows to fight back in court. MTA officials say they won't stop unless a judge steps in.

Make America Healthy Again champion RFK Jr. was grilled on Capitol Hill this week as part of his confirmation process to become Health and Human Services Secretary. Despite fierce opposition from some senators, parents and health advocates on both sides of the aisle have lined up to support him.

Yeah, Georgia. I mean, obviously, this was a very emotional atmosphere. It was a reverent atmosphere, one of profound emotion. There were an estimated 250,000 people filling the square and surrounding streets and millions more watching at home worldwide to pay their respects to Francis. The funeral was held at 10 a.m.

local time in Rome, and it was very much a blend of tradition and the simplicity that Francis was so well-known for championing. Just a bit about him. During his papacy, he chose to live in a simple guest house rather than in the papal palace. He also chose to live without internet and was famous for reading only one Italian newspaper a day.

And he vowed to give up television 30 years ago and kept that vow until his death. And that simplicity very much guided his final wishes. His open wooden coffin was a departure from the traditional triple casket. It lay at ground level in St. Peter's Basilica because... Pope Francis wanted to be at ground level to show that he was with the people and not above them.

And he also chose to be buried in his old black shoes rather than in the traditional, more elegant red shoes. Saturday's mass was led by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Ray, whose homily called Francis a pope among the people, really highlighting his warmth. He was the first pope from Latin America. He was also the first Jesuit pope.

And after the service, his coffin was carried in a modest procession to the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, where Francis was laid to rest. And that was also a departure from tradition, but it fulfilled his personal wish to be buried at a site that he held personally very dear.

Yes, as Cabot alluded to, this was a significant diplomatic gathering as well with some 170 foreign dignitaries gathered. It included dozens of heads of state, just a few, of course, President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump. Ukrainian President Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron was there, Argentine President Javier Millay representing Francis's native country.

And then arriving in Rome, this was what Vice President J.D. Vance, himself, of course, a Catholic, had to say to C-SPAN when they asked about his being one of the very last people to meet with the Pope.

And then another notable moment here, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, was also among the mourners. He attended with his family to thank Francis for supporting him during his imprisonment.

Yeah, very much. His nickname was the Great Reformer, and we do have to note that those reforms did tend to lean towards the progressive side. So we're going to see if the College of Cardinals selects a new pope who continues to follow in Francis's footsteps. Now, about that process, how does that work?

Well, the conclave, of course, is a centuries-old tradition, and it takes place inside that sacred Sistine Chapel. It typically begins about 15 to 20 days after the death of the previous pope. So we're expecting it to start to take place somewhere between May 5th, May 11th. Only cardinals under the age of 80 can vote. So this time, there are going to be about 135 eligible cardinals.

And their first meeting, again, we'll see it in early May. And they will be under a strict oath of secrecy. These cardinal electors are sworn not to discuss anything that happens in that room. They are not to communicate with the outside world. No news media, no... computers, nothing online.

So when they've reached that two-thirds majority, indicating that they have selected a new pope, we will know by the white smoke coming out of the Sistine Chapel.

Of course, my pleasure.

Carney cites what he calls an unprecedented crisis sparked by President Trump's tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty. The former central banker and political newcomer claimed Trump is trying to break Canada and warned against forgetting the betrayal. Here's Carney.

The election, which will likely take place on April 28th, sets up a fierce contest between Carney's centrist liberals and conservative leader Pierre Palliev. Recent polls show the race is now neck and neck after the liberal party gained some ground. Palliev today took aim at Trump's tariff policies and the liberals he says handed over control to Trump.

According to CBS, the CDC is planning to bring back Title 42. That's the order from Trump's first term that classified illegal migrants as public health risks over diseases such as tuberculosis. Title 42 was first implemented in 2020 under Trump and later ended by President Biden in 2023. It remains unclear when the measure will take effect.

Meanwhile, border crossings have plummeted since Trump's return to office. Earlier this month, just 396 illegal aliens were encountered across sections of the once-overwhelmed southwest border.

Iran is taunting the U.S. and Israel, saying they can in no way prevent Tehran's nuclear ambitions. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson declared, quote, This comes after a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israel's prime minister, in which Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to weaken Iran's influence.

The meeting coincides with a shipment of bombs from the US to the Jewish state following Trump's decision to lift the Biden-era hold on heavy munitions.

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought two federal cases against Trump, is back in the headlines, this time over a $140,000 gift. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the details.

A federal judge appeared skeptical today of an effort to block the Department of Government Efficiency.

All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. 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 fallout from Vance's big speech in Germany, colleges responding to the dismantling of DEI, and Doge's progress report. Thanks for tuning in.

We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.

A U.S.-flagged tanker carrying jet fuel was struck by a Portugal-flagged cargo ship in the North Sea, triggering multiple explosions.

Officials say 37 crew members were aboard, with one hospitalized while the rest were safely evacuated. Tanker Stena Immaculate, part of a U.S. military fuel supply fleet, was at anchor when it was hit, causing a cargo tank rupture and fuel leak. British rescue teams responded as thick black smoke billowed from the burning ships.

It's not immediately clear what caused the crash, but investigations are ongoing.

D.C. is revamping Black Lives Matter Plaza with the giant yellow letters set to be removed. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the plaza's, quote, evolution, inviting students and artists to contribute new artwork across all eight wards. The District Department of Transportation says work will take six to eight weeks to with temporary closures affecting commutes.

Meanwhile, a Republican-backed bill in Congress seeks to rename the site Liberty Plaza and remove all references to Black Lives Matter. Here's Bowser on the bill.

The organizer of last year's anti-Israel protest at Columbia University has been busted by ICE. This comes as part of President Trump's executive order cracking down on anti-Semitism. Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler has the details.

The Trump administration has officially axed more than 80% of USAID programs. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce has more.

All right, there's your drive home updates this afternoon. 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 Trump administration's attempts to bring back merit-based hiring in government and Speaker Johnson working against the clock to pass a funding bill. Thanks for tuning in.

We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.

No tax on tips. No tax on senior social security. No tax on overtime pay. Renewing President Trump's 2017 middle class tax cuts. Adjusting the SALT cap. Eliminate all the special tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners. Close the carried interest tax deduction loopholes. Tax cuts for Made in America products. The president is committed to working with Congress to get this done.

President Donald Trump is blaming last week's deadly mid-air collision near Washington, D.C. on what he calls an obsolete air traffic control system. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump vowed to push for a complete overhaul, saying the U.S. has spent billions trying to fix a broken system instead of replacing it.

Federal officials have long warned about air traffic controller shortages and aging technology. Now, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk say a government task force will work to rapidly upgrade aviation safety.

There is a massive discrepancy in Chinese and American data on the importation of e-cigarettes and vapes. More than 90% of all Chinese vapes and e-cigarettes the Chinese Communist Party recorded sending to the United States do not appear in American import data.

Experts say that the huge discrepancy is due to widespread intentional mislabeling by Chinese companies to dodge duties, tariffs, and FDA regulations. The Daily Wire revealed that one Chinese freightliner that specializes in importing vapes even bragged about facing a, quote, low inspection rate. Another company offers compensation to vape manufacturers if their product is seized by customs.

Attorney generals from 27 different states recently wrote to the Trump administration asking for assistance in combating the flood of these Chinese products.

Judge William Oreck of California issued the ruling on Thursday saying that withholding funds could harm local budgets. The judge said it was nearly identical to an earlier Trump policy, which he also blocked back in 2017. The order affects 16 cities and counties in California, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Connecticut.

This is just one of the legal challenges faced by the Trump administration in its efforts to fight against illegal immigration.

Mr. President, who reports that you're considering doing something for moms across the country, giving them some kind of bonus? Sounds like a good idea to me.

Axel Rudacabana pleaded guilty to murdering three young girls and injuring 10 others, and was sentenced to at least 52 years in prison. The attack, which took place in Southport, England, was described by the judge as extreme violence of the utmost seriousness, leaving the community devastated.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who initially tried to silence protests over the stabbings, has finally admitted his government failed the families, saying there are grave questions to answer as to how the state failed in its ultimate duty to protect these young girls. Families of the victims called the sentencing a small measure of justice for the horrific loss.

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will all align in a breathtaking parade that will be visible throughout the month of January. NASA says that the planets will be visible to the naked eye and they can be best viewed 90 minutes after sunset.

Astronomers are calling this a must-see event and urging stargazers to step outside for a view of the planet's spectacular dance around the heavens. If you miss this extraordinary alignment, a similar though less spectacular one will occur at the end of February.

He should not be out because he killed three people, and he was on death row. That's not right. It's not right for anybody who's on death row to be free.

When did he tell you that?

All right, thank you very much, Tracy. I'm standing just outside the Luby's Cafeteria, the scene of today's mass killing. It has been an incredible day for Central Texas, and the incredible story is still unfolding as we talk now. Even at this hour, the Central Texas town of about 50,000 residents is still trying to grapple with the events, the cause, the aftermath of this mass killing.

Tonight, the grim process of removing the bodies from the restaurant began around 8 o'clock, about two hours ago. The bodies are being transported to Dallas for autopsies by the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. Now, for Bell County authorities, this is routine in murder cases. What's not routine, of course, is that the number of victims is very high.

The horror began during the lunch hour today at 1240. Suddenly, with no warning, a blue pickup truck came crashing through the big glass window of the restaurant's dining room. It was no accident. The driver meant to crash into the dining room and he kept on accelerating, running over several tables and the people who were sitting at them.

The truck finally came to rest completely inside the dining room. When the truck stopped, witnesses say the man started shooting before getting out. He then walked over and shot two people he had just run over.

Something obviously snapped today in the brain of a 35-year-old Belton resident, Belton being about seven or eight miles from here. 35-year-old George Henard, no prison record, but unemployed and apparently a very angry man. He was the subject of numerous complaints to the Belton Police Department from neighbors who complained the man was screaming and seemed to be mentally deranged.

He was an angry man who let that anger spill over today at a crowded cafeteria dining room here on Highway 190.

As Murray was telling us, some of his neighbors had also complained to police, saying the man would be screaming out loud in the middle of the night, waking them up. He lived in a fairly well-to-do neighborhood, but many of the neighbors called police and said something is wrong with the man. He continues to yell and scream. He's talking to himself.

So he does have a record of some mental aberrations.

Okay.

Doug and Shelley, it's unsurprisingly a very emotional scene here at Arroyo Villa's apartment complex. People, as you said, placing flowers and stuffed animals, saying prayers. There have been a lot of tears today as New Mexico mourns.

mourners donned in purple attire victoria's favorite color to honor and remember her short life her body was cremated and the remains were given to her grandparents songs of worship filled copperpoint church saturday a fitting way to remember 10 year old victoria martins because those who knew her best say she loved to sing and she was always full of energy.

She would often run around her grandparents lawn and do her gymnastics. More than 600 people came to celebrate Victoria's life at the public memorial service. Those who knew her. She was just an amazing girl and I'm so so blessed and happy that we got to meet her and got to know her. And those who wished they did.

The horrific details of that little girl's death shocked the nation. Victoria was murdered in August. Police say by her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and his cousin. Governor Martinez, Attorney General Hector Balderas, and APD Chief Gordon Eden all speaking at the service today, saying the state must learn from what happened to her.

Many people wore purple to the ceremony, which was Victoria's favorite color. Purple teddy bears were also handed out to the children that came. Parents say today was a somber reminder. Hold our kids closer every day. And as the doves released after the service flew high into the sky, her loved ones say they're sure Victoria's in a better place. She was one of God's borrowed angels.

Soyoung Kim, KRQE News 13.

7 has uncovered new information about this case, new information that is extremely disturbing. This afternoon, her autopsy was released, detailing how the 10-year-old was murdered, her own mother, one of the suspects in Victoria's rape and death.

Our medical expert, Dr. Amo, reviewed the autopsy and says he has never seen one like it. We do want to warn you again, what Target 7's Nancy Laughlin found is upsetting.

Welcome back today marks 10 years since the disappearance of eight year old Relisha Rudd. Tonight, community members gathered to pass out flyers highlighting the unsolved case. And in an interview you'll see only on Fox 5, our Jacqueline Matters spoke exclusively with her stepfather on this 10 year anniversary. Jacqueline.

Yeah, guys, we had protesters out here. They were on the curb over here. They went all the way around the building chanting. They went back to the stairs right behind me here, just feet away from the entrance, protesting for justice for Vanessa Guillen. While most of Guillen's family were inside during the hearing, the family

Sister Lupe Guillen was outside, leading about a dozen protesters in front of the federal courthouse in Waco. They chanted, they marched, they demanded justice, and they weren't just from Central Texas. We had protesters out here that were from San Antonio, Arlington, and even Kansas. Vanessa Guillen's story has gone so far and wide, one woman even decided to drive nine hours to be here.

The trial of Cecily Aguilar may have not started yet, but the protesters wanted to let everyone in the courthouse know they believe they know where it should end.

South Korean auto giant Hyundai will announce a $20 billion investment in the United States when its chairman visits the White House today. Sources say that that pledge includes $5 billion set for a steel plant in Louisiana with plans to hire 1,500 employees and produce next-generation steel for Hyundai and Kia cars.

That move comes after similar investment commitments from SoftBank and chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor earlier this year.

First up this morning, a brand new exclusive CNN poll that paints a brutal reality for Democrats as they struggle to mount a unified opposition to President Trump. Americans' favorable views of the Democratic Party's brand are at a record low, just 29%. That's compared to 36% for Republicans. It is the lowest ever recorded for Democrats in CNN polling, going back more than 30 years.

As you can see, the party's number is dropping a staggering 20 points in just four years. The CNN SRSR's poll also found 57% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters are more interested in seeing their party leaders stop the GOP agenda compared to 42% who are more interested in cutting bipartisan.

Send them before the show next time. Nice.

No, I am with you.

You're so dumb.

Mr. Hammond and Secretary Noem, can we ask you a few questions here, please? Would you guys gaggle with reporters for a few moments? You are both the top immigration advisors to President Trump, in addition to Stephen Miller. He just announced that he's signing an executive order to put 30,000 detention beds at Guantanamo Bay.

I know, Mr. Homan, you've talked about needing more beds, but how exactly would that work and when do you expect it to open?

care shooting, the shooting of the CEO. Can you give us your thoughts about that? And what do you make of the reaction around the suspected shooter? Does that tell you anything about how people think about health care?

It was a male and a female. They were accosted by approximately 13 to 15 armed individuals. They were pistol whipped. They were beat. They were mistreated. One of the male was actually stabbed. He had a stab wound. So does that fall in the category of torture for me? Yeah, it does. There is a high assumption that they may be affiliated or affiliated with the TDA gang.

I had a discussion with an individual from the White House, and that occurred back on September the 23rd, I believe. And that person basically told me that, hey, once these immigrants get across the border, that's all we really care about. And to me, that's a problem.

Finally, we have some good news on the economy and really the number one issue for many Americans, the cost of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in February increased by 2.8 percent year over year, 0.2 percent month over month. Both of these figures were a step in the right direction and both were. were better than expected.

So this is definitely very encouraging to see because it's going to, I think, relieve some fears that inflation was perhaps re-accelerating because this actually breaks a streak of four straight months where I think you could see it on the chart all the way to the right where the inflation rate was going in the wrong direction, right? It was going higher and higher. Finally, we're seeing it dip.

Finally.

Signal chat with his wife on it where he's discussing that attack in Yemen. There's another signal chat discussing the attack on Yemen. There's a reporter accidentally involved. You said the other day that you had a talk. with the secretary. Did you take him to the woodshed?

It's right here. You are a one-on-one? My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before.

People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying... I didn't sign up for this. So how do you answer those concerns?

Do you think the reputation of the United States? has gone down under your presidency.

Go ahead. 145% tariffs on China. And that is basically an embargo. They deserve it.

California Senate Bill 560 would decriminalize, you're right, welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000. It would also delete a provision for criminal penalties for any attempt at welfare fraud below $950. The legislation not only...

uh prevents prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud it also stops someone from being charged with perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud the bill also by the way stops counties from pursuing criminal action for overpayment if they did not provide timely notice to the recipient California.

Critics of the bill say people who cheat the system should be held accountable, not protected. Now there's a concept. The next hearing on this bill, hopefully it's not going to go anywhere.

News out of the state capitol. Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in the latest fight over child sex trafficking. Thanks for joining us at 4. I'm Lisa Gonzalez.

And I'm Curtis Mayer. The governor's office is speaking up after lawmakers today blocked an effort to crack down on the buyers of the child sex trafficking industry, specifically those who buy 16 and 17-year-olds for sex. Let's get to KCRA 3 Capitol correspondent Ashley Zavala, who was first to report the governor's involvement.

Curtis, this is now the third time the governor's office has gotten involved in this kind of fight between Democrats over this issue. The governor signaling his support for that proposal to make it an automatic felony to purchase a 16 year old or 17 year old for sex. In a statement exclusively to us this afternoon, really just within the last hour, the governor's office said, quote,

the law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same as a felony, regardless of the intended victim's age, full stop. This comes after the Assembly Public Safety Committee this morning blocked this proposal from moving forward that targets the buyers of the child sex trafficking industry. It's written by Assemblymember...

A Democrat who has spent the last two decades working on this issue. Now, before getting elected to the Assembly, she was a prosecutor for the California Department of Justice. But Democratic leaders say they have concerns about possible unintended consequences with this, how the automatic felony for the purchase of the teens could impact the LGBTQ community, people of color, and older teens.

Here's what the chairman of the committee, Assemblyman Nick Schultz and Krell, had to say right after the hearing. are forced to stand. People keep asking that. Why can't Democrats immediately get on board with something like this?

Yeah, so I would emphasize two things. First of all, the exploitation of any children, as we heard in there in the comments I made in the dais, it's already unlawful to do anything like that in the state of California.

What we're talking about is a very specific, narrow issue of whether or not the stiff penalties that apply in, say, a human trafficking context should apply in a non-human trafficking context involving a 16- or 17-year-old. As you know, under Senate Bill 1414, which passed last year, that's a mandatory sex offender registration.

And that doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least entertain that conversation. But how that might apply to an 18 and 17-year-old in a relationship might be different from what we might see, from what we think about people that are out here trying to get somebody off the blade and exploit them. So I think that these are important conversations we have to have.

But the thing that we are working with Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH director on with, as well as Secretary Kennedy, is looking at the gain of function research that in the case of the Wuhan lab, as well as many of these other bio labs around the world, was actually US funded and leads to this dangerous kind of research that in many examples

has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health crisis.

Let me ask you specifically, because we already know that EcoHealth Alliance was partnering with this Wuhan lab to create, to do gain-of-function resets. We just have never been able to have somebody say, and it was that exact experiment that led to this COVID bug. But have we gotten there? What's the new thing that you're digging in on?

We are working on that with Jay Bhattacharya and look forward to being able to share that. She doesn't want to give the info. Hopefully very soon. Okay. That specific link. Correct. Between the gain of function research and what we saw with COVID-19.

I mean, that would be extraordinary because just so the audience knows, if that's true, if it was Peter Daszak's research with the Wuhan so-called bat lady that caused this pandemic, then we did fund it. Then Anthony Fauci helped fund the pandemic.

The thing that he denied over and over and over to Senator Rand Paul's questioning. That's right, under oath. Under oath, exactly. So is it any wonder that he sought a preemptive pardon for anything during a certain period of time by President Biden before he left office?

And then strong-armed and smeared people like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

Anybody who came out and said I don't know if that's natural this actually smacks of lab And and the reason why this is so important is not just what happened in the past It's because this gain-of-function research is happening in bio labs around the world I got attacked and I think you saw this we've probably talked about on your show before when I warned against US funded bio labs in Ukraine

when the Russia-Ukraine war kicked off for this very reason. Who knows what kinds of pathogens are in these labs and if release could create another COVID-like pandemic. And you hit the lab and you open it up and all the stuff goes out. And for that, I was called a Russian asset. You're, you know, trumpeting Putin's talking points. All of this nonsense.

simply for speaking the truth and stating facts that, by the way, are still on U.S. Embassy Ukraine's website today about how the U.S. has funded these bio labs in Ukraine. But in order to my point is in order to prevent another covid like pandemic or another major health incident that could affect us in the world.

We have to end this gain-of-function research and provide the evidence that shows exactly why and how it's in our best interest, the American people's best interest, to bring about an end to it. I love it.

Fraud is a crime. There have been no referrals to the Justice Department at any. Well, you don't know that, do you? How do you know that? Have there been referrals?

That there were no referrals? I think there were referrals. There's been no investigation from the Justice Department.

I'm asking you, sir. No, you're not asking me.

He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let's move on.

He did not have the letter MS-13.

He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine.

When he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go on.

He says he won't leave even if you ask him to.

Ja, also, ich kam, wir waren in der Laufbahn hier nebenan und haben angefangen, alle zu sehen, die Mieter sagten allen, dass sie aus dem Gebäude rauskommen. Also haben alle angefangen, nach hinten zu kommen und ich meine, wenn sie wahrscheinlich 20 Meter weiter gegangen wären, wären sie auf dieser Seite des Gebäudes gewesen, wo er rausgegangen ist.

Er kam raus, ja, er kam aus dieser Tür hier raus und dann hat er gesehen, Und dann kam der Maintenance-Mann, der alle wackelte, und ich glaube, er hörte ihn wahrscheinlich. Und er drehte sich und schoss in diese Richtung, in unsere Richtung, in seine Richtung. Da ist eine Golfkarte da drüben mit einem Blutkopf drin.

Das blockierte es. Also das war für ihn geplant. Und dann, nachdem das, hat er sich in diese Richtung gedreht und angefangen, auf grün zu schießen. Er hat nicht viele Schüsse geschossen, als er draußen war. Es waren etwa vier oder fünf Schüsse. Er hat zwei auf unsere Richtung gefangen und zwei in diese Richtung gefangen.

Das ist die Frau, die sich in den Arsch gefangen hat, die sich hier vor einiger Zeit aufgedreht hat. Sie haben sie ausgestreckt. Sie sah so aus, als wäre sie lebendig, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher. Ich hoffe, dass sie lebendig ist. Aber dann ging er wieder rein. Ich hätte es wahrscheinlich geschlagen. Ich habe mein Handy ausgeschaltet und angefangen, alles zu filmen und bin wieder rausgekommen.

I heard that there was a shotgun that never fired that they saw, so they had me looking in the bushes for a shotgun.

But what's the evidence that was brought up in deportation proceedings that he's an MS-13?

It seemed like you and Russ weren't on the same page on that interception against the Chiefs. How does that happen, and what do you guys do to address it?

Yeah, well, that's what he said.

Yeah.

That's what he said.

How do you just address that?

Yeah.

Okay.

Can you explain the rationale in having the U.S. vote against the U.N. resolution that Ukraine proposed and also the U.S. proposed?

All right.

Yeah.

Do you plan to ask President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported? The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?

Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him?

Mr. President, you said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed to be returned, that you would abide by that. You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago. And they said that it must be facilitated.

But 90 days could be a rolling deadline, is what I hear you saying.

Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you? Why not leave it behind?

Thank you, Ben. That's right. We are standing by live in Corpus Christi right across the street from the Days Inn where the shooting did occur earlier today.

For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the president had something to do with that. This was in the midst of him praising Doge. The Doge cuts, among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.

Is that the only thing that you're protesting?

And you said that the president right now is with the trade and tariff team. They are very confident that this is all going to work. But what if they're wrong?

We are three weeks into the second Trump presidency, three weeks, and tonight there are warnings that the U.S. is dangerously close to a constitutional crisis.

Now, the first shoe on this dropped when a federal judge today said the White House is defying his order to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal aid, marking the first time that we've had a judge expressly accuse the Trump administration of ignoring a court ruling.

And in a separate case today, federal employees here in Washington told a judge that the administration was defying another order by not reinstating workers who had been put on leave. Now, this all has prominent Democrats and many of the nation's top constitutional scholars declaring that the U.S. is on the brink of a reckoning.

Senator Rand Paul today said that doge cuts will ultimately need a vote in Congress. Do you agree with that? Is that the plan?

On the tariffs, is there any room left for Canada and Mexico to make a deal before midnight? And should we expect those Chinese tariffs, the extra 10% to take?

So to back up, during the Biden administration, they received 170 911 calls to that club alone. That club we were just watching, 170 calls. Wouldn't you think that would have been a red flag? Nothing happened. Guns, shootings, ag batteries, nothing happened.

Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you? Why not leave it behind?

Can you say definitively that no one will lose their jobs? No one will lose their job at all because of this signal situation.

Why aren't.

Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight. EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds. We will review every penny that has gone out the door.

I'll be referring this matter to the inspector general's office and we'll work with the justice department as well.

Now, I find it ironic, of course, that our chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is in charge of running this committee. Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our oversight congressional hearing. So I thought I'd bring one as well. Now, this, of course, we know is President Elon Musk. He's also the world's richest man.

He was the biggest political donor in the last election. He has billions of dollars in conflicts of interest.

Does Elon Musk have power of the presidency?

Absolutely not. That's a ridiculous question.

I ask that question because, you know, the Democrats have been hurling insults at Elon Musk, hurling attacks, calling him President Musk. Most recently, Jamie Raskin, the congressman, took it a step further, calling for Musk's impeachment, saying that he somehow usurped the power of the presidency. What's your response?

It's utterly ridiculous. Elon Musk addressed this in the Oval Office yesterday. The President addressed it as well. Elon Musk is serving at the pleasure of the President. Just like everybody else on this team, he takes directives directly from the President of the United States.

How soon do you want the Department of Education to be closed?

Does that mean you are not sending any more aid to Ukraine?

When would the U.S. stop sending funding?

Do you see any future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?

feel like the US is on your side, that President Trump is on your side at this moment?

Why don't you wear a suit? I will wear a costume after this war will finish.

The Baltics.

So I'm not hearing from you, Mr. President, a thought that you owe the president an apology.

Mr. President, is there anything China, Canada and Mexico can do tonight to forestall your implementation of tariffs tomorrow?

No, not a negotiating tool.

Is there a concession you're looking for, sir?

You said that you were going to cut aid from South Africa. Will you plan to cut aid across other African nations? And why South Africa?

The experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about this story completely. What I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined. Take a look. One, two, three, four, five, at least five lights, six lights. I didn't believe what I was seeing, but what was I seeing? We're here in Central Jersey. We've been looking for the past hour.

I think we've seen about 40 or 50 of these drones. In fact, there's one over my shoulder right there. One after another, after another, these drones appeared in the night sky. If you look real close, they look like fixed-wing aircraft, about 8 to 10 feet wide, colorful, white blinking lights. That is not a plane. Definitely not an airplane, but what was it?

Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida today on a private jet after being released from custody in Romania. They are accused rapists, human traffickers, not thought of as good people in many circles. Did your administration pressure the Romanian government to release them? And if so, why?

He's back. They already picked him.

It sounds as though one of you completely trusts President Putin, and one of you doesn't trust him an inch. Have I got that right? And why do you trust him?

What concessions has Russia offered up thus far to get to the point where you're closer to peace?

I don't know how this is going to come out, but we've already been, but it's made me feel so queer. and I've always been afraid of feeling queer. Don't, this is you. I've always said lesbian, right? But I feel so queer. This is you. I'm queer. But that's like, I've never kind of... We're not living in a world that's designed for us, Jojo. I'm switching letters! You're a queer bit.

Elle, I'm going to the queue.

That's what I love about sexuality.

The queue, baby.

I've met a lot of females, love them, don't feel like I'm them. Met a lot of males, love them, definitely not them. Met a lot of people in my life that are non-binary. And these beautiful non-binary people are who I feel the most like. And it's, I don't know, it's not something that I want to say about myself yet, but it's something that is confusing.

I'm a reporter working on a story about one of your inmates. I called a few minutes ago and was transferred, and I got a voicemail, so I didn't leave a message, but maybe I should.

Members are giving themselves a pay raise. Do you guys deserve a pay raise?

You support giving yourselves the pay raise?

Well, I mean, you're taxpayer money. I mean, you guys deserve a raise.

Mayor Adams has his plate full, managing the day-to-day business of the city. How are you? Today, he's taking some time for some R&R. Angela performed a 10-minute laser hair removal procedure. Adam spoke with me exclusively during the process.

President Trump put out a truth social today saying that everybody in the cabinet was happy with you. I just wondered if you had heard otherwise, and if you had heard anything about members of the cabinet who weren't happy with the way things were going.

That creek that RFK Jr. is splashing around in isn't exactly pristine. In fact, it's a sewer runoff and is polluted with widespread fecal contamination. Swimming and wading are banned. But in this photo, RFK Jr. is totally submerged.

It was bracing to hear a speech delivered at times by a whisper. His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary.

Boy, that was a dull, lifeless, boring speech. It's like he's a corpse. I mean, you can't, it's unwatchable. It was so boring. I just wanted to, you know, Werther's original watch and this thing would go to sleep.

Republican leader in the House, that would be Mr. McCarthy of California. This whole thing could have just been an email.

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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, very popular up-and-comer in the Republican Party. He's been sort of the rising star, de facto head of the Republican Party.

He's being talked about for a possible run at the White House.

Do you remember the guy's first name that she was kind of having trouble with?

The Trump administration making good on its threat to cancel $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University.

The federal funding freeze at the University of Pennsylvania. The Trump administration is pausing nearly $200 million in funds.

The Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University. A Trump administration...

The Trump administration is threatening to withhold $9 billion in funding to Harvard, one of America's most prestigious universities.

Breaking news in our politics lead. Harvard University is now suing the Trump administration over the administration's threats to cut... What are sort of the main reasons that Harvard gives for suing?

President Donald Trump said he would impose additional, additional 10% tariffs on imports from the world's second largest economy.

— It's all under investigation. — I understand that. That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.

And what they told me essentially is that they're kind of leaving marijuana behind, that they're focusing on their legacy kinds of industries, growing those, supporting those, and that they just don't see recreational marijuana as a part of the economic picture for Pueblo.

Pueblo was a place that was on track to be what they said was the Napa Valley of cannabis. And then everything went wrong. When I showed up there, it was definitely not that. This was a place full of failed businesses. So what would you say happened to Pueblo?

I think there's a lot of lessons to be learned from a place like Pueblo that was first when it came to legalizing marijuana. You know, we have communities that are just starting now with this experiment. And so if we want that to go well, we really need to look to the communities that have been there and say, what could we do differently?

Exactly. It hasn't really worked out for Pueblo. Mm-hmm. Does that mean that it won't work out down the line for somewhere else? Not necessarily. This is really early days still for this industry. There's a lot of things that need to still be worked out, and I'm not sure we have the answers.

The message I got from people in the town, and this is on both sides, is there are people who are in the marijuana business and people who are against the marijuana business, is this is not what we signed up for. This is not working out the way that I was promised.

Pueblo did a really good job of convincing the rest of the country that they were the destination for weed.

Pueblo was a place full of hardworking blue collar workers who just couldn't catch a break. They had been this huge steel town. They were shedding those jobs for years. There was a local slaughterhouse that also closed up shop. And so they just kept trying to get back on their feet and were struggling. And this new industry sort of showed up

in America and said, you know, we can help you with that. And they were going to be among the first. And so it was a lot of excitement around that.

Leading up to the first day of marijuana sales, people literally, like, packed up everything they owned, got in their vehicles, and just drove to Colorado with no plans. This is people from all over the country? People from all over the country.

People are comparing it to, they're saying it's the new Amsterdam. One group that does have a cannabis business there told me, you know, that there was so much demand to get one of these licenses that people would like rush to the steps of the county building and try to get there first so that they would get the best spot, you know.

One of the places had like Girl Scouts selling cookies in the parking lot. There were food trucks. I mean, it really was like a huge, exciting moment for the city and the county.

I mean, that looks like a giant sort of like industrial warehouse-sized building. Yeah, exactly.

There's like a doorbell that goes off when you walk in. Daniel Swick was the manager there and he, you know, welcomed us in.

And then you sort of are let into this beautiful back room.

You've got lit glass shelves and a display board with sort of, you know, different levels of cannabis that you can buy.

Okay. Bottom shelf. Uh-huh. A1 steak sauce.

Things really started to kind of go downhill shortly after the pandemic around 2021. When you actually go and look up all the licensees, the marijuana licensees in that area, you can see that boom and bust. You know, there's a point at which you have just hundreds of businesses and then it starts to drop off dramatically. For one thing, competition was fierce.

The number of cannabis businesses that flooded into this city and the surrounding county were pretty outsized for the demand. You had a situation where it's a city that has like seven to ten Starbucks maybe. That's a pretty good indicator usually of, you know, how many of these businesses there should be. And they had, you know, more than 200 cannabis businesses at one point. Wow.

And so inevitably, you know, some of those folks didn't have enough demand and they were going to fail.

Colorado levies a 15% marijuana sales tax and a 15% excise tax on marijuana. And then Pueblo County tax on another 5% excise tax and a 6% sales tax. And then if you have a cannabis business that's in the city of Pueblo, you're going to pay an additional 10% excise tax, which is one of the highest in the state.

There was definitely, you know, some lobbying on behalf of some of the local businesses saying, you know, these taxes are too high and that's why all these businesses are failing. And if you, you know, were to remove this tax, then we would actually be able to thrive and we would be able to compete.

One of the unexpected things for Pueblo was that everybody sort of thought, well, if we legalize this stuff, the illegal stuff will go away, right? I mean, why would they bother? Not only did that not happen, but the law enforcement there said that it actually got worse.

And one of the reasons was that when there's all this legal marijuana around, it's a little bit easier for the illegal marijuana to hide. Why was there so much illegal dealing? Well, what people didn't anticipate is that if you are in the illegal marijuana market, you can charge less. I mean, it's a really simple economic argument, right?

If you're not paying for sales tax, excise tax, marijuana sales tax, county tax, city tax, state tax, you can charge way less than the legal competition. And so they continued to thrive under the legal regime.

They told me that for a long time, they were pulling in something like $20,000 a day in sales. And since then, it's plummeted to about $2,500 a day in sales. They've also shed some employees. And so one of the things that happened is Sticky Icky's owner, in the time that I was talking to him, decided to pull out his stake

in that enterprise because he had another business he'd started in New Mexico. And in New Mexico, he said the taxes were about half what they were in Colorado.

The profitability has dropped dramatically for the businesses. So only like a quarter of these businesses are even profitable. So the trends are not going in the right direction.

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Generally, what was happening is there were a lot of people who had some kind of, you know, criminal record, something that was making it difficult for them to find a job. And they also loved cannabis.

And so when they heard about how there was going to be all these jobs, you know, they sort of imagined themselves working in the marijuana fields or at a dispensary and that this would be this kind of golden age where they'd be able to find something to support their families.

Did they ever tell you their story? Like, where are they from? Why are they here?

There are people who, you know, eyewitness coming through sort of on a cannabis journey. And some of that led to problems, you know, where law enforcement were having to show up to large encampments for all kinds of issues that they don't know anymore. You know, did this stem from marijuana? Is it fentanyl now? Is it meth? What's going on? It just kind of became...

this messy soup that nobody can really, really sift through anymore.

There's definitely a couple of longstanding organizations there. But to give you a sense, the executive director that I spoke to at one of the only organizations that really can provide like shelter for families, she said that she grew just so overworked and burned out from the situation that she left. She left not only the organization, but she left Pueblo altogether.

It's still open. It has a couple other owners. I know there was some talk of selling. They have, you know, significantly fewer customers than, you know, they did in the past. But they sort of feel like the longer they hang on, the fewer competitors they have. And one of the things they have going for them is that they were among the first.

And so they snatched some customers who know about them, stop by, you know, regularly.

Well, I talked to the local economic development corporation. You know, these are the guys whose job it is to sort of sell Pueblo to businesses and help create a better economic picture.

under the assumption that you're serious about making Canada the 51st state of the United States, the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada said, under no circumstances will I ever be the 51st state.

To Dave's point, you had suggested that you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland. Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Canada?

The fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what happens to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious. Puberty blockers, surgeries, big money makers for hospitals, for physicians.

Trump once again talked about the idea of now a merger between Canada and the United States. You would dismiss that as a joke. At what point do you say that that's no longer a laughing matter and something that should be taken with quite a bit of seriousness?

Greenland and Panama Canal. So what can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? No. Can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote? What is the strategy?

He's one of 6,000 plus federal employees who work for the Internal Revenue Service fired this week as part of mass layoffs happening under the Trump administration. The majority of those workers, like Charles, were probationary workers employed for less than a year. Charles told us more than two dozen employees were laid off from his office here off Gessner.

He says it took over a year to get his dream job as a tax-exempt officer dealing with nonprofit organizations and compliance. His pride and passion taken away.

Why?

The prosecutors explain German law also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats, and fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true, and then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they committing a crime?

The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail time for repeat offenders.

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It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched the suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime. The crime? Posting a racist cartoon online.

At the exact same time across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out. Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.

What's the typical reaction when the police show up at somebody's door and they say, hey, we believe you wrote this on the Internet?

They don't think it was illegal.

Is it a crime to insult somebody in public? Yes.

And it's a crime to insult them online as well? Yes.

Last year, archaeologists detected what they said could be 200 unmarked graves at this former school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Weeks later, a further 751 unmarked graves were detected across from the former Merrillville Residential School on the Cowessess Reserve in Saskatchewan.

There was once a Catholic cemetery here, but the headstones were bulldozed in the 1960s by a priest after a dispute with a former chief.

Medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker testified that in his initial autopsy on George Floyd, he found no physical evidence of asphyxia and that coronary artery disease and hypertension contributed to his death. Baker later added Floyd's high level of fentanyl and other drugs in his system also were factors in his death, as was the police restraint.

Baker says his office received hundreds of complaints and threats as a result of these findings. But Baker denied he ever felt pressured to change his conclusions.

President Zelensky, do you feel like the U.S. is on your side, that President Trump is on your side at this moment?

What was your second question? My second question for President Zelensky, why don't you wear a suit? Why don't you wear a suit? You're the highest level in this country's office and you refuse to wear a suit. Do you own a suit? A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the dignity of this office.

You said yesterday that you are going to send more arms to Ukraine in case there's no peace.

The records show prosecutors called only five witnesses, three investigators, and two victims, one who was only 14 when she was first enticed to Epstein's mansion. The girls testified how while they were underage high school students, Jeffrey Epstein paid them for massages but sexually abused them repeatedly, including two who were raped.

But prosecutor Lana Belalovic quickly moved to questioning the girls as though they were on trial, asking one, you understand you in effect were committing prostitution yourself? Bela Lavek brought up their MySpace accounts, asking an investigator, and does her website also include pictures of her in skimpy attire, drinking alcohol, and sexually provocative photos?

Photos she then produced to the grand jury. Bela Lavek asked the girls about their piercings. drinking beer and shoplifting histories, asking one, you've had problems with drugs, haven't you? When jurors had a chance to question the victim, they seemed to follow Belalovic's lead, one asking, do you have any idea deep down inside of you that you, what you're doing is wrong? Victim, yeah, I did.

Bela Lovick also seemed to make allowances for Epstein, asking one investigator, so he didn't make her do anything she was uncomfortable with. One juror did jump in to defend the teenager, saying, perhaps you were too young to be up against a man of that age who had more control over you and that you knew.

Do you know how many?

23 people were prosecuted. They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this. They'll be very happy. So they're all in prison now?

Carmelo, do you have anything that you'd like to say, Carmelo? Do you have anything that you'd like to say to the victim, to the family of the victim? Why were you armed, sweetheart? Carmelo, why were you armed at school? Explain your self-defense. How is this self-defense?

You are the first black head coach to go to a national championship game in college football. Just hearing that response alone. How much does this mean to you.

What's behind all of this?

If a judge does block one of your policies, part of your agenda, will you abide by that ruling?

Measles outbreak in Texas is growing and a second unvaccinated child has died of the virus. Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. was at the child's funeral yesterday and publicly backed the MMR vaccine as the most effective way to prevent the spread of the disease. Of course, that is raising the question, though, why did he wait until now to do that?

That was his most direct statement yet as someone who in the past has been a vaccine skeptic.

Without stronger climate action, Antarctic ice will continue to melt at an accelerating rate.

Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the pope.