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Speaker 2 Netflix and Warner Brothers announce a blockbuster deal. Republicans score a massive win in the Supreme Court, and Marco Rubio declares an end to the NGO industrial complex.

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Speaker 2 In a massive merger, Netflix announced today that it's acquiring Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO. Daily Wire Entertainment reporter Amanda Harding reports.

Speaker 7 The total value of the deal is nearly $83 billion.

Speaker 7 Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos touted the deal in a statement saying, quote, our mission has always been to entertain the world.

Speaker 7 By combining Warner Brothers' incredible library of shows and movies, from timeless classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane to modern favorites like Harry Potter and Friends, with our culture-defining titles like Stranger Things, K-pop Demon Hunters, and Squid Game, we'll be able to do that even better.

Speaker 2 In a major win for Republicans, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas could forge ahead with its newly redrawn congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Speaker 2 Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arkand has more.

Speaker 5 In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court will now allow for a map with five more seats favoring Republicans to go into effect, solidifying a push from the Texas GOP earlier this year.

Speaker 5 Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his concurring opinion that there was a, quote, strong inference that the state's map was indeed based on partisanship, not race.

Speaker 5 Meanwhile, Justice Elena Kagan dissented, saying that the court's stay ensures that many Texas citizens, for no good reason, will be placed in electoral districts because of their race, which she said is a violation of the Constitution.

Speaker 5 There are mid-decade redistricting efforts happening in blue and red states ahead of 2026, as the Justice Department is now suing the state of California over its new maps passed last month with five new Democrat-favored seats meant to counter the actions of the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 In more Texas news, the state's bathroom bill went into effect Thursday. Here with Morris Daily Wire reporter Lyndon Blake.

Speaker 8 The Texas Women's Privacy Act requires you to do your business in the bathroom that matches your biological sex.

Speaker 8 State Senator Mays Middleton wrote the bill to save female multiple occupancy private spaces in Texas, including restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, from being invaded by men.

Speaker 8 The bill also requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to house inmates according to their biological sex and domestic violence shelters made for women to only serve women and their children.

Speaker 8 Here's Middleton at a press conference over the summer.

Speaker 9 It's common sense to want to make sure that we don't allow men in women's private spaces like restrooms and locker rooms and showers and family violence shelters and prisons.

Speaker 9 And these are boundaries that have existed for generations.

Speaker 9 And they're boundaries based on biological truth. They're boundaries based on biblical truth.
And so what this bill does is it restores those boundaries and makes them enforceable.

Speaker 8 Just last month, a woman in California went viral for complaining about men being in the women's locker rooms at her gym.

Speaker 8 Tish Hyman has since put pressure on her state leaders in California to keep women safe.

Speaker 2 New York City's mayor-elect Zoran Momdani is vowing to end the sweeps of homeless encampments when he takes over next month. Daily Wire reporter Zach Tule has the details.

Speaker 10 New York City currently urges residents to report homeless people who have established encampments on public property, declaring, in New York City, obstructions and encampments are not allowed.

Speaker 10 City officials say they've received more than 45,000 complaints about the homeless encampments so far this year. But Mom Dani said Thursday that he'd put an end to the sweeps.

Speaker 10 The self-described Democratic Socialist Momdani insists the current policy has failed because it does not connect homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need.

Speaker 10 He added, quote, what we have seen is the treatment of homelessness as if it is a natural part of living in this city, when in fact it's more often a reflection of a political choice being made.

Speaker 2 Some of the fraudsters in the massive Minneapolis-Somali welfare fraud scandal allegedly have close ties with Elon Omar.

Speaker 2 One of the convicted fraudsters, Salim Ahmed Saeed, allegedly was a member of Representative Omar's inner circle. Omar held events, including her 2018 campaign victory party, at the Safari Restaurant.

Speaker 2 Saeed owned that venue and used it to enrich himself with welfare funds meant to feed children in need. Omar also introduced the legislation during COVID that was abused by her constituency.

Speaker 2 But Omar blames the lax safeguards against fraud for COVID emergency relief. The U.S.
is overhauling how it distributes foreign aid. De Lawyer Foreign Affairs reporter Cassie Akiva has the story.

Speaker 11 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday that they would prioritize direct investment in partner nations and eliminate waste by bypassing the, quote, NGO industrial complex.

Speaker 11 Rubio unveiled the new policy during the signing of a $2.5 billion health cooperation framework with Kenya. The U.S.

Speaker 11 will provide up to $1.6 billion over the next five years to support priority health programs, while Kenya will increase domestic health spending by $850 million to foster its health self-reliance.

Speaker 11 Rubio said that the previous system funneled aid through NGOs that absorbed funding through overhead and administrative costs while limiting the host country's control.

Speaker 12 We would go to a country and say, we're going to help you with our health care needs.

Speaker 12 Then we would drive over to western northern Virginia somewhere, find an NGO, one of these organizations, give them all the money, tell them go to this country and do their health care program for them.

Speaker 12 That NGO would then take about, you know, some percentage of that money for their overhead and administrative costs.

Speaker 12 And by the time it got down to it, the host country had very little influence, it was sort of imposed on them, and only a percentage of the overall money ever actually reached the patients and the people on the ground.

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Speaker 2 A Harvard professor detained by ICE after a Boston synagogue BB gun shooting has agreed to voluntarily leave the U.S. Daily Wire assistant editor Andy Valdez reports.

Speaker 14 The Harvard Law School professor is a Brazilian national named Carlos Portugal Gouveia. He was arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun outside of a synagogue.

Speaker 14 He told authorities that he was, quote, hunting rats.

Speaker 14 He was in a pretrial probation on a misdemeanor charge of illegally using the air rifle, and he was also suspended by the university pending the investigation.

Speaker 14 Synagogue leaders said in an email they did not think the act was fueled by anti-Semitism.

Speaker 14 Regardless, the Department of State promptly revoked his temporary non-immigrant visa, and now he's heading out of the country.

Speaker 2 A federal grand jury decided not to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday in what's being called just a minor setback for the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 Federal prosecutors brought a revised mortgage fraud case against the AG, who'd infamously vowed to take down Trump before taking office, and then found a way to slap him with a massive civil case.

Speaker 2 The jury's decision will not prevent another indictment from prosecutors. They have a six-month grace period to refile their initial charges.

Speaker 2 James is looking at up to 60 years in prison and $2 million in fines if convicted.

Speaker 2 A Christian evangelist battle with a Mississippi city over street preaching took center stage at the Supreme Court this week. Daily Wire Culture reporter Megan Basham has more.

Speaker 15 Justices heard arguments Wednesday that could have far-reaching consequences for Americans who want to defend their constitutional rights in federal court.

Speaker 15 The case revolves around whether 33-year-old Gabriel Olivier can challenge an ordinance from Brandon, Mississippi that restricted street preaching in a public park.

Speaker 15 Olivier was convicted in 2021 of street preaching outside of the designated area, but he's now attempting to overturn the ordinance on First Amendment grounds.

Speaker 15 Olivier told the Daily Wire in an interview, quote, this is a really important case for for Christians specifically, because I noticed that all around the country, there's always an exercise of free speech that does not seem to be cracked down on the way that Christians free speech is nowadays.

Speaker 2 California has opened a tip line to report federal officers like ICE agents, a move that comes as Democratic leaders in the state attempt to thwart Trump's immigration agenda.

Speaker 2 Daily Wire senior editor Virginia Kruda has more.

Speaker 16 California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the tip line on Exxon Wednesday, asking people to send in tips if they believe a federal agent is abusing their power or acting unlawfully.

Speaker 16 The webpage specifically names ICE Border Protection and the National Guard as examples of entities that could be reported to the state.

Speaker 16 GOP Assemblyman James Gallagher turned the tip line back on Bonta, however, writing, quote, How about if you think state agents or officials have abused their power or committed unlawful acts?

Speaker 16 asking for a friend. As KCRA reported, Bonta is facing scrutiny for using roughly $500,000 in campaign dollars for legal assistance as part of a federal bribery case probe.

Speaker 2 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, widely recognized as a leading figure in AI, gives credit to President Trump for saving the AI industry. DailyWire reporter Breca Stoll reports.

Speaker 17 Wasting no time addressing American energy, on the very first night of his presidency, President Trump declared a national energy emergency.

Speaker 17 He stated, an affordable and reliable domestic supply of energy is a fundamental requirement for the national and economic security of any nation.

Speaker 17 Jensen Huan told Joe Rogan that Trump's actions so far have saved the U.S. AI industry.

Speaker 18 The fact that he came into office and the first thing that he said was, drill, baby, drill. His point is we need energy growth.
Without energy growth, we can have no industrial growth.

Speaker 18 I got to tell you flat out, if not for his pro-growth energy policy,

Speaker 18 we would not be able to build factories for AI.

Speaker 2 And another week, another crazy robbery case. This time the thief swallowed the item, but the police were able to retrieve it, quote, naturally.
Here's Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler.

Speaker 2 Police in New Zealand said today that they've recovered a Faberge egg pendant that's worth some $19,000 and that was inspired by James Bond.

Speaker 2 It was stolen six days before with the suspect being accused of swallowing it. Officials say the piece was retrieved Thursday night and released a photo of it being held by a gloved hand.

Speaker 2 Police said in a statement, quote, no medical intervention was required and the pendant passed naturally. Not exactly an appetizing thought there.

Speaker 2 All right, there's your drive-home updates. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.

Speaker 2 And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories, including the FBI finally arresting a suspect in the January 6th pipe bombs investigation, Trump brokering yet another peace deal, and DHS bringing the receipts in the fight over the immigration narrative.

Speaker 2 Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with a weekend edition of Borning Wire.

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