Chapter 1: What recent attacks did Iran conduct in the Strait of Hormuz?
Iran fires on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration nears a deal to rescue Spirit Airlines. And OpenAI is embroiled in a criminal investigation. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Wednesday, April 22nd, and this is Evening Wire.
President Trump offered a welcome update today. Iran has halted the planned execution of eight women following his appeal earlier this week. Very good news, Trump said. The eight women protesters who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed. Four will be released immediately and four will be sentenced to one month in prison.
Trump went on to thank the Iranian leaders who honored his request. Meanwhile, some Iranian forces opened fire on commercial vessels in the Hormuz Strait. Daily Wire contributor Tim Pierce has more. Various news reports say that at least three cargo ships have likely been attacked by Iran since Trump extended the ceasefire yesterday. Two of those ships reported direct damage to their vessels.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed in a statement that it had intercepted two merchant ships that it said had violated Tehran's blockade of the Strait. The attacks may endanger the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Tehran, though President Trump told the New York Post that peace talks could resume as soon as Friday.
The president agreed to extend the ceasefire on Tuesday after Pakistani mediators asked for more time because of the chaos and fractures in the Iranian regime caused by the war.
The Trump administration is reportedly nearing a $500 million deal to rescue the budget airline Spirit.
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Chapter 2: What updates did President Trump provide regarding the Iranian ceasefire?
Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more.
The airline has struggled in recent years to remain solvent, especially under increased pressure because of the Biden administration. Heritage Foundation economist Peter St. Onge told The Daily Wire that Spirit's struggles soared after the DOJ under Biden blocked Spirit from merging with JetBlue.
The Justice Department filed suit in 2023, claiming that the merger would result in tens of millions of travelers facing, quote, higher fares and fewer choices. But according to St. Onge, Spirit's low fare business model only works when it can scale through tools like mergers. President Trump has said he does not want to see Spirit fall.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to pull $110 million in public safety grants from Houston over a recent policy preventing ICE from assisting law enforcement. Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Ter has the story.
In a recent interview with The Daily Wire, Governor Abbott fumed over how the new leftist policy actively prevents local police from waiting 30 minutes for ICE to arrive at a scene to detain individuals with immigration warrants. In response, the state has threatened to withhold $90 million in funds from Dallas and $2.5 million from Austin for taking a similar approach to policing.
Abbott called the lawmakers behind this move, quote, radical leftists and progressives and remarked that, quote, it was in the city of Houston where there were two illegal immigrants who were apprehended and let go and then went on to murder Jocelyn Nungere. So these people are not comprehending the reality.
The Houston City Council voted Wednesday to amend the sanctuary policy, but it remains to be seen if the change is enough for them to keep the state funds. Some have made the argument that Abbott has effectively defunded the police in these cities, to which he said this.
The law prohibiting them from defunding the police remains in place. They're going to be short $110 million. They got to find the money elsewhere in their budget to make sure they are fully funding law enforcement in their community. Otherwise, they'll be in violation of another law.
An illegal Mexican national has been charged with an unspeakable crime after his daughter, a minor, gave birth in a South Carolina parking lot. Following an investigation, the 43-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual misconduct with a minor and one count of incest.
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Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration planning to rescue Spirit Airlines?
Family members told authorities they feared the boy was, quote, transported to Cuba for gender reassignment surgery prior to puberty. The two kidnappers were deported from Cuba on Monday and the child was returned home safe to Utah.
FBI Director Kash Patel exclusively telling the Daily Wire that, quote, we are proud of our agents, intel analysis, and partners who acted quickly and saved a young child from what could have been a horrific kidnapping. Let it be a message to any criminal actor who would try the same. This FBI will find you no matter where you try to hide.
The state of Florida has opened a criminal investigation into open AI after a campus shooter used chat GPT to plan his attack. Here with the details is Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler.
The shooting took place last year at Florida State University. According to the Florida Department of Justice, the shooter, who we will not name, used ChatGPT to research when his target location would be the most crowded, as well as what firearms would be most effective.
The shooter also appeared to be interested in gaining attention for his crimes, asking ChatGPT how the nation would react to his planned shooting at the campus. Attorney General James Uthmeyer stated that, quote, if this were a person on the other end of the screen, we would be charging them with murder.
An OpenAI spokesperson told The Daily Wire that ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime.
A UK teacher is on trial for allegedly abusing and strangling the baby he was attempting to adopt. 37-year-old Jamie Varley and his partner John McGowan Fazzacurley took in baby boy Preston Davey in April of 2023 as they sought to become his adoptive parents. Three months later, 13-month-old Davey was rushed to the hospital and declared dead after suffering cardiac arrest.
An autopsy revealed that the boy appeared to have been smothered to death. An investigation showed the boy had sustained dozens of traumatic injuries, including 30 bruises and a fractured arm. Varley has been charged with numerous counts, including manslaughter, sexual assault of a child, and taking indecent photos of a child.
McGowan-Fazza-Curley is also facing charges of child cruelty and other counts.
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