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Another judge rules against Trump this time on deploying troops to L.A.

Venezuela's dictator accuses the U.S.

of trying to overthrow him.

And Bill Belichick's big college debut, bombs.

I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howell.

It's Tuesday, September 2nd, and this is Evening Wire.

A Clinton-appointed judge ruled that President Trump broke the law by deploying troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer.

Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.

Judge Charles Breyer ruled Tuesday that appointment violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th-century law barring federal troops from engaging in domestic law enforcement.

The Clinton appointee issued a limited injunction applying only in California, restricting troops to protecting federal property and employees, not participating in arrests, searches, or riot control.

The case stemmed from Governor Gavin Newsom's lawsuit after Trump federalized 2,000 National Guard troops during protests over immigration raids in June.

Breyer warned Trump's actions risk creating a national police force with the president as its chief.

The order takes effect September 12th, unless the administration wins on appeal.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro says the U.S.

is attempting to overthrow him as American warships and Marines venture into the southern Caribbean.

Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips says the latest.

President Trump says Navy ships and Marine personnel are on their way to combat drug cartels.

He announced this afternoon that at least one drug boat has already been destroyed by U.S.

forces.

For his part, Maduro told reporters his country is, quote, super prepared to defend itself and accused Washington of seeking regime change, quote, through military threat.

The Trump administration has accused Maduro of ties to a sprawling narcotics operation, recently labeling Venezuela's Trend de Aragua gang and Cartel de los Soles as foreign terrorist groups.

The U.S.

has also raised the bounty on Maduro to $50 million.

The White House has recognized opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as Venezuela's rightful president after what it called a rigged 2024 election.

New York Democrat Jerry Nadler is stepping down after decades in Congress.

The 78-year-old lawmaker who was heavily involved in both impeachment efforts against President Trump, actually leading the first, announced he will not seek reelection next year.

Nadler told the New York Times that watching Joe Biden's struggles convinced him that it was time for generational change in the Democratic Party.

Nadler is the longest-serving representative from New York, but he recently lost his post atop the Judiciary Committee and was expected to face progressive primary challenges in his Manhattan district.

Trump may declare a national housing scarcity emergency this fall.

The housing market has been hit hard by high interest rates at the Fed, and housing costs remain a top concern for many Americans.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson told Reuters that while rents are now dropping, many homeowners are reluctant to sell if they are locked into a low rate, leading to market stagnation.

Aside from trying to bring rates down, Besson said the Trump administration was also exploring ways to simplify permitting and encourage standardization to boost construction.

That would hopefully boost housing supply and help bring high costs down.

Trump is putting pressure on Pfizer to release their data on the COVID vaccine.

Daily Wire reporter Amanda Press DiGiacomo has more.

Trump says the company showed him very impressive numbers back in 2020 when the jab was first greenlit, but that they never made those numbers public.

His call for transparency comes after the White House fired CDC director Susan Menares following her clash with HHS Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

over the approval of COVID vaccines.

Trump posted, quote, it is very important that the drug companies justify the success of their various COVID drugs.

Many people think they are a miracle that saved millions of lives.

Others disagree.

With the CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer and I want it now.

Lawmakers are sending warning shots to Wikipedia over left-wing political bias.

Daily Wire's senior editor Joel Niedler has the details.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Wikipedia over alleged pro-Kremlin, anti-Western, and anti-Israel bias, raising serious concerns given that AI chatbots heavily rely on the site's information.

Cyber News reported in June that a recent analysis found that ChatGPT, quote, shows a clear preference for Wikipedia, which accounts for nearly half of its top citations within its top 10 most cited sources.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in a letter to the CEO of the Wikipedia Foundation that, quote, multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for anti-Semitic and pro-Kremlin propaganda aimed at Western audiences.

Rudy Giuliani is set to be honored with the highest honor a civilian can receive.

President Trump says he's going to give Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social this Labor Day, calling Giuliani the greatest mayor in the history of New York City and an equally great American patriot.

He promised details on the ceremony soon.

The news comes just two days after 81-year-old Giuliani was hospitalized with serious injuries from a car crash.

Authorities say another vehicle struck his car from behind at high speed.

Trump said Giuliani's decades of service and loyalty to America merit the award.

Former New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed socialist Zoran Momdani for mayor.

Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more.

De Blasio says that Momdani offers New Yorkers the right ideas and that he, quote, cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.

De Blasio is backing Momdani over incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, former New York Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sleewa, who founded NYC's Guardian Angels.

De Blasio defended Mamdani's radical positions, saying that it's time for the city to, quote, go even further by electing a socialist.

Here's de Blasio on MSNBC touting Mamdani's idea for free buses.

Free buses has been proven to work in many parts of the country.

I'll get your list of cities, but the bottom line is

it is something that allows people to, one, reduce their costs, which people are overwhelmed by, to get into mass transit more.

It works because we know that if people are given a quality alternative they can afford, they'll use it.

A three-judge panel from the D.C.

Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration's effort to slash $20 billion in EPA climate grants.

In a two-to-one decision, the court ruled that a lower district court had overstepped its authority when it issued an injunction preventing the rescission.

Meanwhile, dozens of climate scientists have condemned a July report by the U.S.

Department of Energy, which de-emphasized the importance of carbon emissions on the global climate.

The Trump administration has argued that the threat posed by man-made climate change is vastly overstated, while climate researchers argue that the government report is biased and filled with methodological errors.

NFL legend Bill Belichick's leap to college football got off to a hot start on Monday night, but it quickly devolved into an embarrassment as North Carolina tar heels were totally stomped in front of a home crowd by Texas Christian University.

There's going to be a little bit of a spring in the step of the horned frogs after this performance.

Josh Hoover and company dominant on a night with Bill Belichick goes to college football.

Belichick, who won six Super Bowls with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots between 2000 and 2023, said the Tar Heels have a lot to improve on, but he insisted that he believes his team is, quote, a lot better than that.

He also praised TCU's performance.

After 37 years, Vogue U.S.

has a new young editor.

39-year-old Chloe Moll will replace 75-year-old Anna Winter.

Winter famously inspired the icy film character Miranda Priestley from The Devil Wears Prada.

Winter will continue on with leadership roles with Vogue and Condonast Global magazine empires.

Moll, who is the daughter of actress Candice Bergen, previously served as the editor of Vogue.com.

The appointment marks a rare changing of guard at the iconic fashion brand and a pivot toward a younger social media savvy generation.

Harry Potter director Chris Columbus says there's never going to be a cast reunion for the franchise.

The reason J.K.

Rowling's stance against the transgender movement.

Columbus, who directed the first two films, said that differences of opinion on certain political issues would prevent the whole group from ever working together again.

And he clearly hinted that Rowling was the odd one out.

It's never going to happen, he said in a recent interview.

It's gotten so complicated with all the political stuff.

Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible.

And an Army football player helped rescue a stranger from a burning car and carried him away just before it was engulfed in flames.

Larry Pickett Jr., a sophomore safety at the U.S.

Military Academy at West Point, joined his father Sunday in rescuing a man from a burning car that had smashed into power lines.

The heroic moment was caught on video that quickly went viral.

ESPN reports that the car smashed into a utility pole in Fort Montgomery, New York, roughly four miles from West Point.

Pickett Jr.

was driving back to the campus with his dad and sister Lauren, who took the video.

All right, those are your drive-home updates.

To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.

And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including Trump versus Chicago escalating amid the president's crime crackdown, China making moves to fortify its role as America's chief competitor, and the FDA attempting to prevent the fourth wave of the opioid crisis.

Thanks for tuning in.

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

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