The United States Coast Guard is returning to the Bahamas to search a new area for the body of missing Michigan mother Lynette Hooker as investigators continue probing her disappearance,  Fox News reports. The renewed search comes as Hooker’s husband, Brian, has stayed out of the spotlight since leaving the Bahamas, where he claims his wife fell off their dinghy nearly two months ago. The mysterious disappearance is now being investigated as a possible homicide, according to Fox News. The U.S. Coast Guard has described its efforts as a criminal investigation since the April 4 incident. The latest developments come as investigators continue to review evidence recovered from the couple’s sailboat, Soulmate, along with any digital evidence and location data. The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) seized the vessel roughly 40 nautical miles off the coast of Melbourne, Florida, on May 14. The seizure followed what authorities described as a complex surveillance and interdiction operation by the CGIS with help from the operational Coast Guard surface from Sector Miami and aviation assets from Air Station Miami. The Coast Guard’s latest search effort will focus on Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas. A dive team departing from Miami on Tuesday is expected to search a 25-foot-deep area in the Sea of Abaco. Brian Hooker claimed rough seas and strong currents swept his wife away before he could reach her. But members of Lynette Hooker’s family have expressed doubts about that account.   WATCH FROM TODAY’S EPISODE OF MORNING WIRE:      “There have been prior issues brought to my attention, which may be important for any thorough investigation. If this truly was an accident, I can understand and live with it,” Lynette’s daughter Karli Aylesworth told Fox News in April. “However, there needs to be an intensive review of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident before that can be determined.” Just last week, Aylesworth told NBC News that she provided DNA to the Coast Guard to help investigators searching for her mother. Lynette Hooker’s mother, Darlene Hamlett, told NBC that authorities have not kept her up to date on the investigation. She also said she has not spoken with Brian Hooker, who previously vowed he would never stop searching for his wife of more than two decades. As the investigation continues, legal experts say the case could present challenges if Lynette Hooker’s body is never recovered. Julie Rendelman, a former federal prosecutor and current criminal defense attorney, told Fox News that so-called “no-body” homicide cases can be difficult to prosecute because investigators must prove a death occurred without recovering remains.

Two foreign nationals employed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were charged Tuesday with smuggling monkeypox into the United States and lying to federal law enforcement.  According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, Vincent Munster, 53, a Dutch citizen and chief of the Virus Ecology Section at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, and Claude Kwe, 38, a Cameroonian national and NIH research fellow, were charged with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States from the Republic of Congo and giving false statements to federal investigators. Both men face a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted. The two men worked at a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, the highest level of biological containment used to study the world’s most dangerous pathogens. Federal authorities claim the pair arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on January 25 after traveling from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, where a monkeypox outbreak was ongoing. Customs and Border Protection officers reportedly questioned the men after noticing they were transporting a large black plastic case. According to investigators, Munster and Kwe told officers the case contained diagnostic and testing equipment. Authorities later determined the case allegedly contained 113 biological vials packed inside Styrofoam coolers. Federal investigators said testing on 20 of the vials found that 17 contained deactivated monkeypox virus, one contained chickenpox virus, and two contained human DNA. “These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo. Let that sink in,” U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said in a statement. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, monkeypox is a viral disease that spreads primarily through close physical contact with infected people, animals, or contaminated materials. While most infected individuals recover, children, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems face a greater risk of severe illness. The CDC says the virus does not spread through casual contact or through the air in places like classrooms, offices, or pools. Outbreaks of monkeypox have been ongoing in Central and Eastern Africa since late 2023. The CDC says the global clade IIb monkeypox outbreak that began in 2022 has resulted in more than 100,000 cases across 122 countries. Since November 2024, the United States has recorded more than 20 laboratory-confirmed clade I monkeypox cases, according to the CDC. Officials say those infections involved travelers returning from affected regions in Africa or Europe, or individuals linked to recent travelers. FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan said the allegations were “serious” and involved “dangerous and unlawful smuggling” along with attempts to mislead federal agents. “No researchers should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law,” Runyan added. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General also condemned the alleged conduct, warning that attempts to conceal biological materials could place the public at risk. “We have zero tolerance for anyone who attempts to exploit our research frameworks, circumvent our border enforcement processes, or deceive investigators,” said CBP Director of Field Operations Marty C. Raybon.

Even before the meltdown inside CBS News, it’s been a banner seven weeks for the most egotistical profession in America: national reporters. Prior to this Ebola-level outbreak of Main Character Syndrome, these wannabe superheroes have reminded us of their importance between White House Correspondents Dinner shooting, the Pulitzer Prizes, the News Emmys, and the Peabodys. Like Emperor Palpatine in “Revenge of the Sith,” the elite media in New York and Washington, D.C., want you to know that they alone are the First Amendment. We, the people, are an afterthought. When Americans exercise their First Amendment rights and criticize the national press as “fake news” or even misleading, these theater kids act as though we’re threatening to murder them. At Sunday’s Peabody Awards, ABC host Jimmy Kimmel kvetched, “We have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders. This is a right that many of us take for granted.” Whether it’s Kimmel, CNN’s Brian Stelter, or Jim Acosta, they seem to confuse a First Amendment right to a free and fair press with a God-given right to have a show and network that fits their worldview. Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has not turned CBS News into a competitor to the Fox News Channel or Newsmax. But like the media reporting class penning funhouse mirrors interpretations of Fox News, there’s no time to analyze what CBS newscasts cover. Someone with “wrong” opinions has entered this leftist enclave and must be embarrassed. It sounds eerily similar to the anti-Semitism Weiss reportedly faced at the New York Times when she defended the placement of that infamous Tom Cotton op-ed. At 60 Minutes, the moral of Sharyn Alfonsi’s firing last week could be slimmed down to the fact that mouthing off to your bosses with an “I-Am-Spartacus” e-mail will seldom work out for you. Longtime CBS host and reporter Scott Pelley must have seen himself as Iron Man taking on Thanos, except the latter is former New York Times tech journalist and documentary filmmaker Nick Bilton, who was recently hired to man the stern of the 58-year-old show. In other words, Bilton won’t be gracing the pages of this site. But because he lacks TV news experience, he must be cast off as the staff he now oversees demands Americans open the floodgates for mass, Third World migration. Pelley sought to do that by declaring to Bilton’s face he had “slender qualifications for this job” and was hired by Weiss, who is “murdering” the show and had “no qualifications for her job.” The CBS mainstay even attacked Bilton for having the gall to show up at “our house,” even though “you would never be welcomed here.” And that invective is without Bilton even explaining what he’d do at the show. Unsurprisingly, Pelley’s lobs were reportedly met with numerous instances of applause. The insubordination is stunning. There’s one set of rules the news media impose on the country, and another set of rules for themselves, including how we speak to our superiors. Bill Owens — Pelley’s former longtime boss at 60 Minutes — accepted a highfalutin award called the Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award from the New York Press Club last night and spoke of his former colleague as though he were the infamous man standing in front of the tanks at Tiananmen Square. Owens professed his admiration for Pelley, taking on Bilton and Weiss, “an opinion writer best known for being an ideologue.” “Scott can smell a fraud from a mile away. He stood up the way I did a year ago and I couldn’t be prouder of him,” he boasted. He added that shows like “60 Minutes” are “institutions, not places where partisans and ideologues should be employed.” That’s laughable. It’d be interesting to see whether Owens finds stories such as celebrating cops visiting homes in Germany over social media posts or asking Israelis held hostage by Hamas if their captors were suffering from starvation alongside them. And whether it was Steve Kroft’s years of pillow-talks with Barack Obama or Lesley Stahl decreeing the Hunter Biden laptop “can’t be verified,” the country’s leading newsmagazine has been a doormat for liberal narratives. The arrogance and belligerence of these D-List Captain Americas and Black Widows are not to be believed. Pelley and his fellow petulant children aren’t the only ones screaming for attention. Karen Attiah also wants you to feel bad for her. On Monday, she announced that her September 2025 firing from The Washington Post for justifying Charlie Kirk’s assassination would be going to arbitration on Thursday. Posting on — where else? — Substack, she said her message that day was merely “comment[ing] on America’s racial double standards in public discourse when it comes to political violence.” For that, she insisted, she “was fired…without so much as a conversation” and would be carrying into her hearing the “principle” of “newsroom diversity.” Fact-check: False. Her definition of “newsroom diversity” means being Joy Reid with a pen and a right to cockamamie claims, such as Queen Elizabeth II being the personification of “white Christian supremacy” or Trump’s 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton being akin to “men stalking us on the street.” “I am fighting for journalists’ rights to do their jobs, to comment on matters of public concern without fear of censorship, retaliation, or political pressure. And this is a battle well worth having,” she beamed, later concluding with “the stakes are high, but I’m ready” and then “let’s go” in bold. Attiah even went as far as to pose outside The Washington Post’s K Street headquarters at night, illuminated in a blue dress while holding a rolled-up print edition and a fake red rose in her mouth. Joan of Arc, she is not. Never let elite, national reporters ever tell you they don’t want to or like being “the story.” It’s one of the biggest lies in America. They are the heroes of their own tall tales and the captains of their own souls. *** Curtis Houck is the managing editor of NewsBusters.

There will be thousands of guys and gals in cowboy hats across Nashville this week, but one man in particular will be on stage with a twang you can hear all the way from his hometown in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Legit bluegrass roots inspire his “real country music” sound — and lucky for the fans who haven’t heard him yet, Spencer Hatcher is just getting started. The 29-year-old first stepped on stage as a teenager in his family’s bluegrass band, playing what he calls the “rawest” form of music for anyone who would listen. WATCH FROM TODAY’S EPISODE OF MORNING WIRE: “The very first couple of shows, we were doing it for nothing … it was for probably 40 or 50 people at the retirement home not too far from my home,” Hatcher told The Daily Wire. It was no Broadway in Nashville — but for a guy from Broadway, Virginia, it was a way to get him in front of a crowd. “I remember just being mortified, like terrified up there. We were all sweating and forgetting the words,” he said. The retirement home didn’t care about the teen’s musical mishaps, but the small-town grind prepared Hatcher for his eventual solo career in Nashville — where he’s inked his first music deal and is now opening for big names including Zach Top, Hank Williams Jr., and Diamond Rio. Credit: Riker Bros He has two shows this week in Nashville as part of CMA Fest, the Music City’s premiere week-long celebration of country music, where the fans get to experience their favorite artists in intimate settings. It’s Hatcher’s second year being part of CMA Fest, and he’ll kick things off on Tuesday night at Riley Green’s Duck Blind. On Thursday night, he’ll take the stage at Chief’s on Broadway. “Last year was my first year, and it was incredible, but before that, I had not even attended CMA Fest,” Hatcher said. “I’m wildly excited. I believe it is the biggest week in all of Nashville as far as people coming, the attendance … it’s absurd for CMA Fest.” While people from all over come to Nashville to make music, Hatcher takes pride in keeping the old-fashioned country sound… and lifestyle. “Anybody can be ‘country,’ but you gotta go live ‘country,'” Hatcher said. In between managing his ever-growing tour schedule and follower count — he’s approaching 1 million social media followers and has already produced more than a million streams of his songs, including his latest hit “When She Calls Me Cowboy” — he still finds time to get outside where he feels most at ease. “Working out in a field or doing something productive that’s not necessarily like your business work is where I get a lot of peace,” Hatcher said. “If you’re like bush hogging a field or making hay or something in the evening — that to me is really peaceful.” The lifestyle he leads is clearly reflected in the songs he sings — and Hatcher says he’ll keep writing songs that bring back what he describes as “traditional country music” as he continues introducing music fans to his name, one concert at a time.

“I can’t breathe.” It’s a phrase we all know. Now it bears a different meaning. When George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose in Minneapolis in May 2020, the world caught on fire. The so-called “Summer of Love” became a summer of flames, literally and figuratively. Black Lives Matter protests burned across the country for what felt like an eternity. Over $2 billion in insurance claims were filed for arson, vandalism, looting, and property destruction across 140 cities. Racial tensions that had been simmering for years erupted into a full boil. All of that pain. All of that damage. All of that division. For what? A man with nearly twenty prior arrests, including aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon against a pregnant woman, died while being detained for passing counterfeit bills at a corner gas station. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner found 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in Floyd’s system. Overdose deaths have been certified at concentrations as low as 3 ng/mL. He also had hypertensive heart disease. The state’s own medical examiner implied that a healthy person would likely have survived that police encounter. Floyd complained he couldn’t breathe before he was ever placed on the ground. None of that mattered. Political pressure, wall-to-wall, biased media coverage, and the intoxicating moral certainty of a race riot sent Derek Chauvin (a cop doing the job Minnesota police are trained to do) to prison for 22.5 years. You couldn’t say any of this in 2020. You stood silently in traffic while activists used their bodies as human shields. You posted the black square, or you lost your job. You paid your own reconstruction costs after your property was vandalized and looted in the name of justice. And today, you still endure the tone-deaf contempt of liberal politicians who attend George Floyd memorial rallies on Memorial Day, the one day set aside to honor Americans who died in actual service to this country. Yes, Tampon Tim Little Ballz, I’m talking about you. So imagine the cognitive dissonance, the sheer, breathtaking moral inconsistency, when those same politicians and progressive protesters, who were willing to burn down cities for their chosen martyr, go hauntingly silent as a young man bleeds out on cold gravel after being stabbed five times and ignored by the officers who were supposed to protect him. Henry Nowak was 18 years old. A first-year finance student at the University of Southampton. On the night of December 3, 2025, he was walking home alone on Belmont Road in Portswood after a night out with friends when a weapons-obsessed Sikh, Vickrum Digwa, attacked him with an eight-inch shastar, stabbing him five times, piercing his lung, and severing a major vein behind his collarbone. After the attack, the animal followed Henry’s blood trail with his iPhone camera rolling. He filmed the boy dying. He called his mother, who helped hide the murder weapon. His brother arrived, and together they called the police, claiming falsely that Henry had racially abused the attacker and knocked off his turban. That lie is what killed Henry Nowak. Because in modern Britain, police are conditioned to view every encounter through a racial lens. This is the unwritten rule: if the alleged offender is black, Muslim, or Indian, go easy. If the alleged victim is white, extend skepticism. So when officers arrived and were told, falsely, that Henry had committed a racial transgression, they didn’t rush to the aid of the bleeding teenager in front of them. They went into grievance overdrive. Believe the minority. He is, by ideological decree, the real victim, regardless of who’s actually dying on the street. Henry told them nine times that he couldn’t breathe and four times that he’d been stabbed. The officers dismissed him, dragging him across the pavement and handcuffing him as he slowly lost consciousness and died on the cold ground. I can’t breathe. Nine times. And not one officer moved to save him. On May 28, 2026, the killer was convicted of murder and later sentenced to a minimum of 21 years. Twenty-one years for filming a boy bleeding to death. For having his family hide the weapon. For letting an innocent teenager die on the street while officers stood over him and did nothing. Because a lie about a turban outweighed the visible, undeniable fact of a young man dying in front of them. Where were the protests? Where were the $2 billion in damages? Where were the politicians kneeling in kente cloth? Silence. Complete, deliberate silence. The Left did this. Not with one policy or one bad actor, but with an ideology, assembled piece by piece, implemented with self-righteous conviction, and now killing people on multiple continents. In the United Kingdom, suicidal-empathy policies carved out legal exemptions allowing Sikhs to carry ceremonial blades in public — in a country that nearly banned kitchen knives after gun confiscation produced a stabbing epidemic. And the blade exemption is just the surface. These same ideological commitments created the conditions for grooming gangs, terror plots, and the slow, methodical erosion of public safety in the name of cultural sensitivity. London, Birmingham, and Manchester now host enclaves where radicalism festers while authorities look the other way for fear of being called racist. In Australia, where police have also been neutered in the name of social justice, radical Muslims are shooting and killing dozens while shouting “Allahu Akbar” on behalf of the Islamic State. The Left’s pathological refusal to demand that newcomers adopt the laws and norms of their host civilization hasn’t produced tolerance. It’s produced a suicide pact. And it’s already crossed the Atlantic. In America, the same framework operates under different branding: racial grievance as the supreme moral currency; law enforcement as the villain; the minority perpetrator as the structural victim; the white victim as a footnote, or worse, somehow complicit in their own suffering. Police are not the problem. The ideology is the problem. The one that says melanin determines culpability, that excuses lawbreaking when it comes from the “right” communities, and that punishes citizens who notice. The ideology doesn’t just live in university halls and police training manuals; it’s even been coded into the technology we use every day. In 2023, users testing ChatGPT discovered that, in a hypothetical scenario, the AI would choose to allow a civilization-ending catastrophe rather than utter a racial slur to prevent it. Programmed to place racial sensitivity above human life. Not a bug. A feature. George Floyd’s death was seized upon, not because the facts supported a murder conviction, but because the narrative required one. A movement needed a martyr, a media apparatus needed a story, and politicians needed a cause. The facts were run over in the stampede. Henry Nowak’s death was buried and won’t make a dent in the mainstream. Not because the facts were murky, but because the narrative had no use for him. A white finance student was stabbed by someone from a protected class, dying while police dismissed him? That story doesn’t fit. So it doesn’t exist. This is what it looks like when racial grievance replaces equal justice. Not in theory. In practice. On the pavement. In the cold blood. It is morally correct to be honest. It is morally correct to judge people by their actions. Not their skin, not their religion, not their protected status in the hierarchy of progressive victimhood. And it is morally correct to say, clearly and without apology, that a civilization that cannot apply its laws equally will not remain a civilization for long. Henry Nowak said “I can’t breathe” nine times. Nobody burned anything down for him. That disparity is not an accident. It is a policy. And we should be furious about it.