Emma Willis, wife of actor Bruce Willis, has shared new details about life after his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis, including what she calls the most difficult decision she’s had to make. Emma, 47, made the comments during an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that aired on Tuesday. “Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey” traces the family’s path, beginning with their March 2022 announcement of Bruce’s retirement from acting and exploring how they’ve moved forward since. “Bruce is in really great health overall, you know. It’s just his brain that is failing him,” Emma told Sawyer. “The language is going, and, you know, we’ve learned to adapt,” she said. “And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different, a different way.” Emma said she believes the “Die Hard” star recognizes her and his five daughters because of how he “lights up” when they’re around. “He’s holding our hands. We’re kissing him. We’re hugging him,” she told Sawyer. “He is reciprocating. You know, he is into it.” “And so that’s all I need, you know?” Emma added. “I don’t need him to know that I am his wife, and we were married on this day … I don’t need any of that. I just wanna feel that I have a connection with him. And I do.” Emma explained how some of the first signs of FTD included personality changes, like Bruce becoming quieter when he used to be talkative. “He felt a little removed, a little cold, not like Bruce, who is very warm and affectionate. To go the complete opposite of that was alarming and scary,” she said. “I didn’t understand what was happening, and I thought just, like, ‘How can I remain in a marriage that doesn’t feel like what we had?’” She said Bruce, now 70, also started missing lines during filming and seemed confused, which was abnormal for him. They received the FTD diagnosis and were told there was no treatment or cure. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships FTD is “the result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” according to the National Institute on Aging. Symptoms can include “unusual behaviors, emotional problems, trouble communicating, difficulty with work, or difficulty with walking.” Emma also discussed moving Bruce to a detached one-story house to be with his caregiving team full-time, calling it “one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make.” She told Sawyer she visits him daily and eats meals with him twice per day. “I knew first and foremost Bruce would want that for our daughters. He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs. We’re there a lot. It’s our second home, so [the] girls have their things there. It is a house that is filled with love and warmth and care and laughter, and it’s been beautiful to see that. To see how many of Bruce’s friends continue to show up for him and they bring in life and fun,” she said. Bruce and Emma got married in Turks and Caicos in March 2009 and went on to have two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn. The actor was previously married to Demi Moore for 12 years and has three daughters with her: Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah.

On August 22, the United Nations declared that famine was “currently occurring” in Gaza City. Within hours the claim drove headlines, advocacy, and legal filings. All of it based on flawed science. A forensic review of the data by our team at the Network Contagion Research Institute found that the declaration leaned on flimsy modeling, and buried evidence. That matters because the declaration undercuts a U.S.-backed aid model that is actually delivering. With confidence in international institutions eroding, the United States launched a new experiment in humanitarian aid. Working through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) with State Department support, this model represents the first serious alternative to the UN’s decades-old aid machinery. Early evidence suggested it was working: food reached people more reliably, nutrition outcomes improved, and distribution was more predictable. That all changed when the UN’s famine authority, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), declared a famine in Gaza City. The announcement instantly shaped headlines, influencers, and legal forums. But behind the language of science was something else entirely: manipulated modeling, buried evidence, and a systematic effort to discredit the new, U.S.-led approach that was actually working. This was not a mistake. It was a set of choices. And every choice cut in the same direction: toward alarmism, toward distortion, and away from the success of American leadership. A Case Study in Statistical Malpractice The UN famine authority’s declaration rests most centrally on a claim that child malnutrition in Gaza was “increasing exponentially.” This was not a side note. It was the foundation of the UN famine authority’s entire argument that famine was not only happening, but already locked into a death spiral. The projections of catastrophe — and the justification for the world’s response – hinged on that exponential model. But the model was a scatterplot of just six data points, with a trend line fit by an excel spreadsheet regression function. Any introductory statistics class warns against fitting exponentials to tiny samples. The first point sat out of line with the second in a way that can create the illusion of acceleration. There is more. The UN-backed analysts did not tell readers that a plain linear model explained the same six points just as well. They did not share the fit statistics that would let others judge. They did not present alternative trend-lines. And they did not acknowledge that a larger, updated dataset of more than 15,000 children, available two weeks before publication, broke the exponential story entirely. READ THE FULL REPORT: Starving for the Truth: Fraud, Famine and the Collapse of Rigor in IPC’s Gaza Declaration Not only this, but the fresh data disproved the UN famine authority’s central allegation. Their famine declaration rested on the claim that child malnutrition had surged beyond the 15 percent threshold required to trigger a famine classification. Yet the updated data set the rate at 13.5 percent. By the UN famine authority’s own standard, famine had not been reached. To repeat: the UN’s adopted famine threshold was not met, and their own data source proved it. Let’s be clear. At each step, the United Nations’ famine authority made a decision: They chose to fit an exponential model to six data points, a textbook statistical error. They chose to hide the fact that a less incriminating, linear model fit the data just as well. They chose to ignore updated data from a far larger sample that contradicted explosive growth of famine. They chose to declare famine even though their own updated data showed child malnutrition at 13.5 percent, below the 15 percent threshold required by their own standard. These are not neutral omissions. These are consistent, directional decisions. And that direction points squarely at undermining evidence of improvement, especially improvement linked to U.S.-backed aid. Buried Evidence and a Double Standard Statistical modeling was not the only method manipulated. In July, the UN’s famine authority commissioned two hunger surveys in Gaza. One found that 73 percent of households suffered “severe” or “very severe” hunger. The other, conducted at the same time, found that number to be just 21 percent. Both were described as representative. Only the more extreme figure appeared in the final report. The other was buried in a back annex. Even where the numbers were similar between governates, the classifications shifted without explanation. Gaza Governorate and Deir al-Balah returned nearly identical scores. One was labeled famine. The other was two full phases lower. And then there is Rafah, the epicenter of Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution. It is also the region with the most stable nutrition outcomes. The UN famine authority excluded it entirely from its analysis, claiming it had been “depopulated.” Yet in prior reports, Rafah was included without issue. Was this about unavailable data or was it about removing inconvenient results? Attacking What Works According to the UN famine authority’s own report, recipients of GHF aid were better nourished. They averaged 1,700 kilocalories per day, hundreds more than those relying on other sources. Meanwhile, violence around GHF distribution sites fell by more than 25 percent between June and August. But rather than highlight those results, the UNs’ famine authority dismissed GHF’s efforts outright. They said the aid did not meet their internal definition of “humanitarian assistance.” Reverend Johnnie Moore, the head of the GHF, said the results of his group’s effort can’t be dismissed. “Where GHF distributions operate, nutrition outcomes improve and violence now decreases,” Moore says. “Any responsible body should recognize and reinforce these results, not dismiss them. If the international community truly wants to help, it must build on what works rather than undermine it.” The UN’s famine authority did not just dismiss these gains. They erased them. They redrew the map, suppressed the results, and changed the rules, which all happen to preserve a narrative that painted American-led aid as irrelevant or worse. A Sabotage of American Legitimacy In Gaza, U.S. leadership has taken the form of a new, evidence-based model of humanitarian aid and, in this context, these systemic, unsubstantiated accusations take on the appearance of a coordinated attempt to delegitimize a rival approach. The UN famine authority based its mortality estimates on Hamas-controlled data. It failed to disclose forecasting errors. It buried evidence of U.S. progress. It downgraded one region and inflated another, despite similar conditions. Even within the UN famine authority’s  global record, Gaza stands out. In NCRI’s independent audit of their forecast accuracy across eight countries, Gaza was the worst overprojection NCRI could detect in the records on their website. 80 percent of subregions were misclassified at a higher level than what actually occurred. That fact was never disclosed publicly. It had to be reconstructed from raw data. The Truth Is the First Casualty Every decision made by the UN famine authority in this process, every model they selected, every figure they buried, every area they excluded, had the effect of obscuring evidence that U.S.-backed aid programs were showing positive results. This was not a transparent application of data science. The choices made functioned less as neutral analysis and more as narrative shaping. The UN famine authority’s report seemingly attempted to obscure evidence that U.S.-backed aid programs were delivering food more effectively, contributing to improved nutrition outcomes, reduced violence, and greater predictability in distribution. If a small data science organization based in New Jersey can identify systemic irregularities at the core of the UN famine authority’s assessments, there is strong reason to call for a deeper, independent investigation. Congress, the State Department, and external watchdogs should review how the UN and its affiliates produced findings that diverged from their own data and thresholds, and why contradictory evidence was excluded or downplayed. The implications go beyond Gaza. If a UN agency can misclassify famine through methodological or reporting failures, confidence in global humanitarian assessments is at risk. An investigation is essential to safeguard the integrity of humanitarian science and restore trust in international reporting. The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is a nonpartisan research institute leading the field of cybersocial science a discipline that studies how technology, psychology, and society interact in the age of algorithmic influence. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized. In a letter dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed “school safety in nonpublic schools,” Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, stressed an “urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe” in light of “recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state.” The letter says there are about 72,000 students in Independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim nonpublic schools within the state of Minnesota. It came just weeks after the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee, which was also carried about by a transgender-identifying individual in their twenties. “The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack,” Benz and Adkins wrote. “In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously.” “The tragedy from last week at Covenant School must never happen in Minnesota or in our country again,” they wrote. “We need to ensure that all [our] schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools.” The leaders specifically called on Waltz for assistance in making sure not only that the Minnesota Legislature enacts his budget recommendation of $50 million to establish the “Building and Cyber Security Grand Program, but also that this program include all schools as eligible for funding, regardless of whether these schools are public, charters, or nonpublic. Adkins told The Daily Wire on Wednesday after the shooting in Minneapolis that no additional security was ever funded, even though the money existed. “It’s a lack of will to do it by elected officials, coupled with opposition by some legislators because nonpublic school students were included in the funding,” Adkins said. “I would note that Minnesota had an $18 billion dollar budget surplus in the 2023-24 session and this was not funded.” Adkins said that Walz had voiced support in meetings for the program, which would have “created a consistent funding stream from the state budget on a per pupil basis for all students, not just those in Catholic/private schools,” but that nothing was done. “It was raised in discussions between the bishops and Gov. Walz, and he communicated his belief that people should feel safe in their schools and places of worship,” Adkins shared. “But the appropriation was not created.” Walz in 2023 was instead working to protect transgenders. In April 2023, the same month the letter was sent, Walz signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a “trans refuge,” promising to “protect those seeking gender-affirming care,” according to OutFront Minnesota. The letter argued that excluding independent and religious schools from security programs was discrimination. “The exclusion of one sector of schools – as you know, nonpublic schools serve many students and families in need of services and resources – is a discriminatory act against our students,” they wrote. “Since 2020, nonpublic schools have been advocating to be part of the Safe Schools Program that provides funding to school districts for emergency response training, security upgrades, mental health services, and security resources.” “The legislation supported by our collective organizations provides state aid to school districts, intermediate school districts, charter schools and nonpublic schools for this program. Unfortunately, this program currently does not cover nonpublic schools, charter schools and intermediate school districts and it is a levy-only program for school districts.” Schools that are not included in the program, they stressed, could be more vulnerable to attacks. “An attack on any school, whether it is a public, nonpublic, charter or another school site, cannot be tolerated or allowed to happen in Minnesota,” they wrote. “We want to make sure Minnesota is doing everything it can to ensure that all our students are safe and secure. We ask you include $50 million in the final Education Finance bill and allow nonpublic schools to apply for funding.” They also asked for a meeting to discuss their proposal as well as “ongoing concerns regarding safety and security in our schools.” The shooter was identified as Robin Westman, according to multiple reports. In 2020, Westman reportedly changed his name from Robert to Robin because he “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.” Waltz, who has declared  did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Transportation Department plans to reclaim management of Washington Union Station, one of the country’s biggest rail hubs, President Donald Trump’s latest move to give the federal government more of a role running what he portrays as a run-down capital city. “We think we can manage the property better,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. “We are going to make the investments to make sure that this station isn’t dirty and we don’t have homelessness in Union Station.” The plan to reclaim Union Station follows Trump’s move this month to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington after he took control of the local police department over the objections of local leaders. In March, the White House forced the CEO of U.S. passenger railroad company Amtrak, Stephen Gardner, to step down following orders by Trump. Duffy said the plan for Union Station was not a “power play” but to attract new tenants and revenue to overhaul the station, adding that formal action confirming his department’s renewed control of Union Station was expected next month. The majestic Beaux-Arts style station, which opened in 1907, is owned by the federal government but has been run by a non-profit corporation working with Amtrak. The station has billions of dollars of spending pending in long-delayed maintenance, tracks, parking and other needs. It also has faced homeless and crime issues including a murder in February in a Union Station parking garage. National Guard troops have guarded sites in Washington since mid-August including Union Station, and Vice President JD Vance visited soldiers at the station last week. President Joe Biden’s administration awarded the station a $24 million grant in November. Deputy Transportation Secretary Steve Bradbury said a $10 billion planned redevelopment of Union Station announced during the Biden administration would be scrapped and a new plan will be adopted. Duffy said the department was renegotiating a cooperative agreement with the non-profit Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, which controls the station, and Amtrak. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Amtrak inaugurated new high-speed Acela trains on Wednesday on the Northeast Corridor that links Boston to Washington, the busiest U.S. rail route with 800,000 daily trips in a region representing 20% of the U.S. economy. The new trains can run at speeds up to 160 mph (260 kph), 10 mph faster than the current trains, but they will initially only be able to run at that faster speed on a very limited portion of track until additional works are undertaken. In April, the Transportation Department said it would withdraw the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from leading the Penn Station Reconstruction project in New York City. Instead, Amtrak, backed by the department, will oversee the project in midtown Manhattan. During his first term, Trump repeatedly sought to cut funding to Amtrak, which received about $2.4 billion in annual federal support in 2023. Congress in March approved $2.42 billion for Amtrak through September 30 in annual funding. Duffy said on Wednesday that the department supports “appropriate” funding for Amtrak, which set a new passenger record last year. (Reporting by David ShepardsonEditing by Toby Chopra, Helen Popper and Frances Kerry)

Britain, France, and Germany — the E3 — plan to hit Iran with reimposed United Nations sanctions as early as Thursday. Following high-level talks with Iranian officials on Tuesday, multiple European and Western diplomats told Reuters the E3 will trigger a “snapback” of sanctions this week, signaling a significant setback for Tehran amid ongoing nuclear and security concerns. “The U.N. process takes 30 days before sanctions that would cover Iran’s financial, banking, hydrocarbons and defence sectors were restored,” Reuters noted, adding, “The E3 have offered to delay the snapback for as much as six months to enable serious negotiations if Iran resumes full U.N. inspections.” “In a letter dated August 8, the E3 warned Iran it would proceed with ‘snapback’ if Tehran didn’t reach a ‘satisfactory solution’ to the nuclear issues. A deadline was set for August 31,” France 24 noted, adding, “Under ‘snapback,’ any party to the deal can find Iran in noncompliance, reimposing the sanctions. After it expires, any sanctions effort could face a veto from UN Security Council members China and Russia, two nations that have provided some support to Iran in the past but stayed out of the June war.” In July, a report from Great Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament stated clearly that they saw Iran as a “significant threat to the UK.” “The Iran threat should not be underestimated: it is persistent and  — crucially  — unpredictable,” the report — which was completed before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis and subsequent events occurred — declared. “Iran has a high appetite for risk when conducting offensive activity, which means it poses a dynamic and erratic threat. … it can escalate action sharply with little warning. This was seen following the 2022 protests in Iran, when there was a significant increase in the threat of a physical attack to individuals in the UK and the Middle East whom Iran perceives to be a threat to the regime.” End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships In June, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, found that Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations. It was the first time in almost two decades that the IAEA had taken that stance. The last time the IAEA adopted that position was in September 2005, when clandestine nuclear activities in Iran were discovered. “The Board of Governors… finds that Iran’s many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran … constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency,” the resolution stated.