Evening Wire: NASCAR Star Plane Crash & Bongino Departs FBI | 12.18.25
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Australian police thwart a second suspected Bondi beach attack. Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the FBI and the Oscars abandon ABC. I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, December 18th. This is Evening Wire.
NASCAR star Greg Biffle and some of his family members died this morning in a plane crash. Daily Wire reporter Lyndon Blake has more.
This is just a tragic story. A private plane carrying Biffle's family and two others crashed Thursday morning about 45 miles outside of Charlotte. The crash happened just after 10 a.m. while attempting to land shortly after the plane took off from the Statesville Regional Airport. Longtime friend of Biffle, YouTuber Garrett Mitchell, said the Biffles were on their way to visit his family when the plane crashed. Biffle's two children were 14 and 5. He was known as both a racing champion and a humanitarian who dedicated his time to helping his community. Biffle used his planes, helicopters, boats to take generators, chainsaws, water, all the essential supplies to the rural areas of North Carolina that were devastated last year from Hurricane Helene.
North Carolina State Congressman Richard Hudson mourned the loss on X, noting that Biffle will be remembered for his service to others as much as for his fearlessness on the track.
More updates are streaming in on the investigation into the Brown University shooting.
Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has the latest. A person of interest sought in connection to the shooting has been identified, according to CBS News. A search for that person is now underway, but authorities have not yet released the name of the person of interest to the public.
What happened in the tragic plane crash involving NASCAR star Greg Biffle?
Police are asking the public to help them identify another person who is, quote, in proximity of the person of interest. Officials have released three grainy photos showing a person in a coat and hoodie walking through a yard on what appears to be a residential street. Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121. Police are also looking into whether the Brown University mass shooting might be connected to the murder of an MIT professor. Two days after the shooting at Brown on Saturday, MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed inside his Boston home some 50 miles away. Meanwhile, investigators have recovered live ammunition and DNA from the scene at Brown University.
Australian police arrested seven suspects near Bondi Beach today on suspicion of plotting a violent act. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce has the details.
Australian police officers on Thursday detained seven men after receiving intelligence that the group might be planning a violent act. Police rammed a white hatchback reportedly traveling from the southern state of Victoria to Sydney's Bondi Beach, the site of last weekend's Islamic terror attack targeting Jews. A second hatchback was stopped by police just a few blocks away, and two men inside were also arrested. New South Wales Police said that Tactical Operations Police responded to information received that a violent act was possibly being planned. A source told the Sydney Morning Herald that authorities might have recovered a weapon in one of the vehicles, but police have not verified that claim.
Authorities promised to release more information on the arrests and assured the public that there is no ongoing risk to the community. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino plans to leave the bureau next month. With more is Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham.
Bongino posted his farewell announcement on X on Wednesday, stating that he'll be leaving his position in January and thanking Trump, Attorney General Bondi, FBI Director Patel, and the American people for the privilege to serve them. Trump appointed Bongino to the bureau in February. Before his career in conservative media, Bongino served in the New York Police Department and Secret Service. In the media, he was an adept watchdog over the Department of Justice and FBI, especially on scandals such as Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
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