For some states, getting men out of women’s sports has more hurdles to clear than a track meet. Take Colorado, which allows transgender-identifying boys to compete in girls’ sports in the name of protecting people’s “sexual identity.” But that could soon change. Colorado School District 49, located just outside of Colorado Springs, is leading a coalition of seven other districts that are challenging the law. The districts filed suit in May against the Colorado Civil Rights Division, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the Colorado Attorney General, and the Colorado High School Activities Association. Last week, the Colorado High School Activities Association settled with the plaintiffs, a major victory for girls’ sports. District 49 felt a lawsuit was necessary after it adopted rules last year requiring all school sports teams to be divided by biological sex. District 49 Superintendent Peter Hilts, said he made clear rules on biology for his school district after he noticed more incidents of men trying to compete as women around the country. District 49 filed their lawsuit May 9, 2025, to protect the district from any penalties brought on by Colorado’s sports governing body. “I would never want my daughters to compete against a boy; that would be unfair,” Hilts told The Daily Wire. The settlement with the association takes the Colorado High School Activities Association out of the lawsuit ongoing in Colorado federal court, and gives the eight districts protection from the association. The association’s bylaws state that “member schools shall ensure that all students have equal access and opportunities to participate in activities and athletics without unlawful discrimination based on disability, race, creed, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, or ancestry.” “We didn’t want a state agency to sanction our coaches or our student-athletes for advocating privacy, fairness, and dignity.” Hilts says the settlement is a win for common sense. “Before the settlement, they would have to self-censor, or worry about what would happen if they spoke out about men competing in women’s sports,” Hilts said. “The association could have taken action against coaches. They could have said coaches and athletes were being unsportsmanlike. They could have banned teams from postseason play, and they could have disqualified athletes from championships.” The Colorado High School Activities Association told The Daily Wire it has “has never penalized a school or district for its policies on this issue, nor has it dictated what those policies should be.” “At no point before filing this lawsuit did the plaintiffs engage in any dialogue with CHSAA,” a spokesman told The Daily Wire. “No outreach was made to inquire about our policies, our procedures, or the steps we had already taken to support schools navigating these issues.” “This litigation consumed time and resources without producing any change to how CHSAA operates,” the spokesman continued, adding that “The settlement alters nothing about our policies, our practices, or our authority.” The lead attorney representing School District 49, Michael Francisco, told The Daily Wire he hopes this settlement will encourage other districts to adopt policies that protect the integrity of sport. “To our mind, CHSAA’s decision to settle leaves it to Colorado districts as to whether they want to adopt a policy governing biological sex in sports like the plaintiff districts,” Francisco said. Hilts hopes a victory in federal court will result in President Trump’s executive order keeping men out of women’s sports being reflected in Colorado’s laws. “We observed that under the Trump administration, the interpretation of Title IX created a contrast between state and federal law,” he said. “Colorado law gives precedence to gender identity, but Title IX was designed to give priority to biological sex. We think the state has been overly accommodating of the minority of individuals who want to compete outside their biological sex instead of protecting the thousands of other athletes.” “We want the state to protect opportunities for all student-athletes,” he added. “Stop threatening and expecting school districts to defy common sense.” Hilts said he is confident in the districts’ case against the state to make Colorado a place where every athlete has a fair opportunity to compete. “We would celebrate a ruling that the federal interpretation of Title IX is the correct interpretation. Common sense is girls should compete against girls and boys should compete against boys,” Hilts said. The plaintiffs were back in federal court Monday to argue against the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case.  A decision on that motion is now pending.

Women who deliver fully formed babies after taking abortion pills are instructed to flush them down the toilet by abortion advocates, a former Planned Parenthood director said on Thursday.  Mayra Rodriguez revealed the horrific reality of the abortion pill in new video testimony set to be released Thursday by the group Stop Coerced Abortions. In the video, which was previewed by The Daily Wire, Rodriguez discussed her experience getting phone calls from women who took abortion pills.  “The phone calls that strike me the most were the clients with the abortion pills that will call me in the middle of the night and said, ‘So you guys told me to push a blood clot on the toilet, and I tried to do that, but I didn’t make it, and it’s not a blood cot, it’s actually a baby. So what do I do?’” she said.  “You’re instructed to tell them to go ahead and grab it and throw it in the toilet, and flush.. and don’t look,” she said in the video. She said the client would respond by saying, ‘But, you told me it was just a blood clot, but I can actually see the hands, the feet, the face.’ And they will be crying.”  Medication abortions, which are the most common abortion method, are facilitated by a woman taking mifepristone and misoprostol. After a pregnant woman takes mifepristone, the unborn child is cut off from the nutrients it needs to survive and is effectively starved to death. Misoprostol is then taken to induce labor and expel the deceased baby from the mother.  Rodriguez then discussed how in many states today abortion pills were handed out without any idea how far along the pregnancy was and how sometimes women would be unknowingly given the pills in their drinks. She said that abortion pills were the real “back alley abortions.”  The video featuring Rodriguez is part of a new series on abortion coercion from Stop Coerced Abortion. “We must continue to listen to and share these horrific stories so that people know the truth: life in the womb is precious, and abortion coercion is real,” Live Action founder Lila Rose told The Daily Wire. “Every day we do not abolish abortion, preborn children are murdered, and mothers suffer through unimaginable physical and emotional trauma.”  Just last week, a surgeon in Ohio was charged after he was accused of attempting to force his sleeping girlfriend to take an abortion pill. He allegedly ordered the pills from an out-of-state telehealth provider using his estranged wife’s information.  The video comes as pro-life lawmakers and advocates continue to press the Trump administration to take steps to reverse the regulations implemented by President Joe Biden that allowed abortion pills to be mailed across the country. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter to Food and Drug Administrator Marty Makary asking about reports that he was slow-walking a study on the dangers of the abortion pill. “The FDA must act to protect children and mothers. By neglecting to review the dangerous drug mifepristone, Dr. MaKary is dismissing the reality that abortion pills kill preborn children and endanger women. We must end mail-order abortion and ban the abortion pill now,” Rose told The Daily Wire. President Trump told The Daily Wire on Wednesday that he was looking into the reports.  “‘ll find out,” he said. “I don’t think they’re slow-walking anything, but I’ll find out.” .@MaryMargOlohan: Biden removed safety standards on abortion drugs…Yesterday, Bloomberg said that your FDA is slow-walking a review of the abortion drugs that @SecKennedy promised…@POTUS: “I’ll find out…I don’t think they’re slow-walking anything, but I’ll find out.” pic.twitter.com/uDamIfVWhD — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 10, 2025 Rodriguez, who worked for Planned Parenthood for 17 years, is currently a witness in a lawsuit against the abortion giant and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accusing the state of coercing women into having abortions. The suit says that Minnesota’s abortion laws violate the 14 Amendment rights of mothers and the Equal Protection rights of their unborn children.  Other harrowing testimony in the video included Rodriguez saying that Planned Parenthood workers were told to not investigate signs of human trafficking and that a baby who survived an abortion was taken into a room designated for “products of conception” and left to die. She also recounted looking through trash bins for the discarded heads of babies who had been dismembered in surgical abortion procedures.  “You understand that what you have been selling has never been freedom, not for the mother and not for the child. 
What you have been selling, it’s pain and darkness, and it’s bloody. And it’s all about money in realizing that for 17 years, I helped no one. I helped no one, but I destroyed many.”

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk has reached her “breaking point” over the conspiracy theories circulating about the assassination of her husband, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Kirk torched conspiracy theorists on Wednesday in an appearance on Fox News while promoting her late husband’s posthumously published book, “Stop In The Name Of God.” She addressed rumors about her, her friends, and her organization, saying that empty hypothesizing has led to a torrent of death threats and harassment against them. “Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my ‘Charlie Kirk Show’ family, when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love, because somehow they’re in on this? No,” said Kirk. “This is righteous anger, because this is not okay. It’s not healthy. This is a mind virus,” she added. Erika Kirk responds to those who are pushing conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s Death: “Come after me. Call me names. I don’t care…But when you go after my family, my TPUSA family, my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go after the people that I love…No…This is… pic.twitter.com/6IKSCWA5xx — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 10, 2025 Kirk and Turning Point USA have been the center of conspiracy theories since Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a Utah college in September. The conspiracists have heaped suspicion on a number of Charlie’s closest friends and family members, including Erika. Kirk said on Wednesday that even her jewelry, which she has dubbed the “conspiracy collection,” has become a topic of debate. Despite the suspicion cast upon her and Turning Point, Kirk says she has compassion for the conspiracists. “You know what I thought? I thought, these people are human, we’re all grieving in our own way, and they are trying to find the answer to something that happened that was so evil. They are trying so hard, and I get that. We’re doing the same.” But the conspiracies and scrutiny have become too much for many of the people at Turning Point. “My team are not machines and they’re not robots. They are human. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen. I have kidnapping threats. You name it, we have it, and my poor team is exhausted,” she added. “Every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do? Relive that trauma all over again? They watched my husband get murdered.” Kirk and Turning Point USA had been silent about the conspiracies until last week, when the organization tackled them head-on in a livestream. The organization invited Candace Owens, who has pushed conspiracy theories about the assassination, to join the podcast. Owens said she could not attend. On Wednesday, Kirk was adamant that Turning Point USA would not be distracted by the conspiracies and would continue to do the work her husband began. “I’m not going to sit in a corner and cry and be in a fetal position. This is a duty to my husband, and it’s an absolute honor, and I will never back down. And so my message to them is to stop,” Kirk said. Owens once said she would stop promoting the conspiracies about Turning Point USA if Erika Kirk asked her to. But she appeared to recant that position on Wednesday and called Kirk’s comments “an unbelievably emotional response that is absent of any logic.”

Actor Russell Crowe had some words of condemnation for the film “Gladiator 2,” which he says was missing a crucial component compared to the first one. “I think the recent sequel that, you know, we don’t have to name out loud is a really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special,” Crowe said while speaking with Australia’s Triple J. “It wasn’t the pomp. It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t the action. It was the moral core.” Crowe won an Oscar for his portrayal of Maximus in the first “Gladiator” (2000). The sequel was released nearly a quarter of a century later, in 2024. The actor said he was instrumental in keeping the “moral core” of Maximus while filming the original, saying it was important to him because it fit the character. “The thing is, there was a daily fight on that set. It was a daily fight to keep that moral core of the character,” Crowe went on. “The amount of times they suggested sex scenes and stuff like that for Maximus, it’s like you’re taking away his power. So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife, he was f***king this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by triple j (@triple_j) Many commenters on the interview agreed that the second movie did not live up to the caliber of the first. “It was an awful sequel that in no way lived up to its predecessor,” one person wrote. “100% agree with his take and this is one of the many reasons Maximus is one of my favorite movie protagonists,” another person agreed. “One of the few stories who the hero is fueled by revenge for their love that was taken from them and they actually stay loyal and honor the memory of that person they’re on this crusade for.” One of the issues Crowe seems to have with “Gladiator 2” was that its premise included Maximus having had an affair which resulted in the birth of a son, who was the protagonist in the film. This isn’t the first time the “Gladiator” star brought up the issue of morality in the films. He said in 2024, “I’m slightly uncomfortable with the fact they’re making another one — because, of course, I’m dead and I have no say in what gets done. But a couple of the things I’ve heard I’m like — no, no, no, that’s not in the moral journey of that particular character. But I can’t say anything, it’s not my place.” The Australian actor also said at the time that he was fed up with people asking him about the film when he had no say in it. “They should be f***ing paying me for the amount of questions I am asked about a film I am not even in,” Crowe said in 2023. “It has nothing to do with me. In that world, I am dead. Six feet under. But I do admit to a certain tinge of jealousy, because it reminds me of when I was younger and what it meant for me, in my life.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the U.S. raid on an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday. The video shows U.S. forces boarding and taking control of the vessel as part of an operation to enforce U.S. sanctions on the sale of Venezuelan oil. “[T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” said Bondi. “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” she added. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.” Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x — Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 10, 2025 President Donald Trump confirmed news of the tanker seizure on Wednesday. Trump said that the tanker was seized “for very good reasons.” Asked about what will happen to the oil, the president said, “We’ll keep it, I guess.” U.S. forces seized the tanker off the coast of Venezuela as the White House has increasingly pressured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to step down. The president has placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro and threatened to order military strikes on drug cartel infrastructure and other targets in Venezuela. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships The U.S. military has sunk more than 20 vessels off Venezuela’s coast that were believed to be carrying illicit drugs such as fentanyl and cocaine. The decision to seize the oil tanker strikes directly at Venezuela’s main source of revenue, its state-controlled oil industry. The oil it can produce through its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is often sold internationally to countries such as Iran and China at steep discounts because of the risk of running afoul of U.S. sanctions. The United States has oil interests in Venezuela, as well. Earlier this year, the U.S. Treasury Department granted Chevron a waiver from U.S. sanctions to be able to drill in Venezuela in partnership with PDVSA. A portion of the oil drilled by Chevron is paid to the government of Venezuela in exchange for access.