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Ukraine and Russia moved toward a full ceasefire. National security officials answer to Congress over yesterday's chat leak and genetic testing giant 23andMe goes belly up.
I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, March 25th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
The White House says Ukraine and Russia have taken a major step towards peace. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.
Officials say both countries have agreed to stop military activity in the Black Sea, as well as strikes on energy infrastructure. The agreement reportedly comes as a result of talks in Saudi Arabia, where delegations met separately with American mediators.
Ukraine's defense minister confirmed the deal, while Russia has yet to comment publicly.

The White House says both countries will eliminate the use of force in the Black Sea,

though key details, including enforcement and the status of port infrastructure, remain unclear.

Ukraine hopes the agreement will allow it to reopen frontline ports like Mykolaiv and Kyrgyzstan,

which were closed amid heavy fighting.

The deal also comes as Kiev looks to protect its grain exports through a shipping corridor that bypasses Russian threats in the region. Top national security officials faced heated questions on Capitol Hill today.
This comes after The Atlantic revealed a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing U.S. military plans.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe defended the use of signal, saying it's a permitted tool, and insisted no classified information was shared. It's permissible to use to communicate and coordinate there were no classified or intelligence equities that were included in that chat group at any time.

So the attack sequencing and timing and weapons and targets you don't consider to should have been classified? I defer to the secretary of defense, the National Security Council on that question. Meanwhile, Democrats called the situation sloppy and incompetent.
Here's Senator Michael Bennett.

This sloppiness, this incompetence,

this disrespect for our intelligence agencies

and the personnel who work for him is entirely unacceptable. It's an embarrassment.
President Trump downplayed the controversy, saying National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who had added the journalist, had learned a lesson and he's standing by his team.

The Trump administration has invoked a legal doctrine known as state secrets privilege in a legal battle over the deportation flights. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
Attorney General Pam Bondi told a federal judge on Monday that revealing flight details tied to deportations would endanger national security. The move comes after federal judge James Boesburg demanded more information on two recent flights to El Salvador.

This comes after Boesburg blocked further deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act, saying the migrants must first be granted hearings.

Bondi argues the court is overreaching and that national security concerns outweigh the need for disclosure.

House Republicans, frustrated with the number of injunctions against Trump, plan to vote on the No Rogue Rulings Act next week. The bill aims to curb what Republicans call a judicial overreach that's stalling President Trump's second-term agenda.
Here's Congressman Jim Jordan. Two and a half weeks ago in the Judiciary Committee bill, we passed legislation which said, instead of these federal district judges issuing an injunction that applies to the entire country,

we think it should be limited to the parties of the case in that respective jurisdiction.

It's Congressman ICE's bill. It's a good piece of legislation.

We passed it two and a half weeks ago.

Speaker Johnson's indicated he'd like to get this bill to the floor next week and move it through the process.

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Experts say the drug xylazine is being smuggled through the southern border and mixed with fentanyl. Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer that causes severe flesh wounds and puts users in a zombie-like state.
It also doesn't respond to overdose reversal drugs like naloxone. The DEA says xylosine has been found in nearly a quarter of fentanyl powder seizures and is making the opioid crisis even more deadly.
Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
is taking aim at pharmaceutical TV ads. Kennedy has long called for a ban on these ads, arguing that they mislead the public and skew media coverage.
Here's Kennedy a few months ago. There's only two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical advertising on the airwaves.
One of them is New Zealand and the other is us. And we have the highest disease rate and we buy more drugs and they're more expensive than anywhere in the world.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says his agency could enforce a ban, while Elon Musk has also voiced support posting, quote, no advertising for pharma. The U.S.
and New Zealand are the only wealthy nations that allow direct-to-consumer drug ads, but past efforts to restrict them have faced legal hurdles, with courts often citing First Amendment protections. Boeing has been given a lifeline after landing a Pentagon contract to build America's next generation fighter jet.
Boeing's win was a surprise as they were competing with Lockheed Martin for the job and have been in a recovery mode after years of losses, safety concerns, and production delays. The F-47, designed to fly alongside autonomous drones

and counter threats from China,

will be developed under a cost-plus contract,

guaranteeing Boeing profits during testing.

President Trump says it will be

the most advanced aircraft ever built.

It'll be known as the F-47.

The generals picked a title.

It's a beautiful number.

F-47.

There's never been anything even close to it

from speed to maneuverability to what it can have to payload. And DNA testing giant 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11, raising major concerns about the privacy of genetic data for millions of users.
Once valued at $6 billion, the company has struggled with plummeting sales and fallout from a 2023 data breach. Co-founder Ann Wojcicki resigned as CEO

and plans to bid on the company herself. Privacy experts warn that user data could be sold or transferred during the bankruptcy process.
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 latest company bringing investments back to the U.S., congressional action taken against a deportation-blocking judge, and Disney's latest box office bomb.

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