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White House Easter Message & New Weight Loss Pill | Afternoon Update | 4.18.25
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the White House's Easter message this year?
Evangelical leaders now have unprecedented access to his administration, which opened a faith office being led by his longtime pastor, Paula White Kane. This is just one of the ways the Trump administration is making good on its promise to bring back Christianity. The president's first cabinet meeting was opened with a prayer in Jesus's name.
Chapter 2: How is the Trump administration engaging with evangelical Christians?
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified thousands of documents related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan was at the National Archives with Gabbard and has the exclusive report.
I joined Director Gabbard at the National Archives in Maryland, where she announced that thousands of the RFK documents had been declassified. Gabbard credited President Trump's executive order mandating maximum transparency for this unprecedented release.
Chapter 3: What new RFK assassination documents has Tulsi Gabbard declassified?
The other day, we discovered and found another 50,000 pages specifically related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. And so the work you're seeing happening here today is going to continue on as we have other teams going out and doing those searches and hunting for additional records that, once again, have not been found or released to the public ever before.
These files include Justice Department case records, foreign embassy cables, and FBI reports that, according to Gabbard, raise new questions but offer no definitive answers. The documents are available at archives.gov slash RFK and mark a major milestone in government openness.
Chapter 4: What insights do the newly released RFK files provide?
I was also able to inspect some artifacts from the JFK case, including Oswald's passport and the infamous Zapruder camera. For a rare glimpse into this pivotal era in U.S. history, you can see my full report on dailywire.com.
Chapter 5: What artifacts from the JFK case are available to the public?
Another weight loss drug has passed its first trial. This one comes in pill form. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the details.
Eli Lilly says its experimental weight loss pill has passed its first late stage trial. Orforglipron is designed to help patients with type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar and shed pounds. The daily pill showed results similar to current injectable drugs like Ozempic and Monjaro.
Chapter 6: What are the details of the new weight loss pill trial by Eli Lilly?
The pharmaceutical company hopes the pill will become a needle-free alternative in the booming weight loss and diabetes market. Some analysts say the results fell short on one key diabetes measure, but the company plans to seek approval for obesity use by year's end. Eli Lilly's stock rose 14% on the news.
Chapter 7: How does Eli Lilly's weight loss pill compare to existing treatments?
The IRS is considering revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
Chapter 8: What is the potential market impact of Eli Lilly's new weight loss pill?
This would be a major escalation in President Trump's push to cut federal support to the university. Several sources say the Treasury Department has asked the agency to explore that move, which comes just a day after Trump publicly called for Harvard to pay taxes. Harvard says there's no legal basis to remove its tax-exempt status and warns it could cripple student debt and medical research.
Harvard has the largest endowment of any university, more than $50 billion. The Ivy League school has been under fire by the White House, accused of continuing DEI practices and allowing anti-Semitism on campus. In another development, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has threatened to revoke Harvard's ability to admit international students.
DHS is demanding the college turn over records on foreign students accused of illegal and violent activities. Harvard responded by defending its independence and saying it will comply with the law but rejects politically motivated demands.
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student picked up by ICE will remain in jail. That's the ruling by an immigration judge who denied her bond request this week. Rumeza Ozturk is a 30-year-old from Turkey who's been accused of supporting Hamas. The allegation stems from an op-ed she co-authored criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza. Ozturk is being held in a Louisiana detention center.
Her visa was revoked on March 21st following an assessment that she had been involved in associations, quote, that may undermine U.S. foreign policy.
We revoked her visa. It's an F1 visa, I believe. We revoked it, and here's why.
If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa.
An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce sickened nearly 90 people across 15 states last November. Though one person was killed and dozens were hospitalized, the public was not informed. The FDA closed its investigation without naming the grower or processor, citing a lack of actionable evidence. Families of victims have filed lawsuits against Taylor Farms, which denies responsibility.
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