During a hearing on the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 (SBA) Wednesday afternoon, Congress spoke out on the NFL’s antitrust exemption, arguing that the league is exploiting the law to make fans pay absurd prices across multiple streaming platforms to watch their favorite teams suit up. The hearing followed a Monday press release from the House Judiciary Committee, accusing the NFL of veering away from the original intent of the law created 65 years ago. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, voiced his concerns. “Sixty five years later, however, it is fair for this body to ask whether the professional sports leagues have kept up their end of the bargain,” Fitzgerald stated. “In my opinion, they have not, and sports fans are paying the price because of it.” To watch every game in 2026, it costs nearly $800 across nine different streaming services.  Originally, the NFL benefited from making as much money in media as possible for “revenue-sharing arrangements” to keep competitive balance alive, but the league is not in the same financial position now as it was in 1961. Both Fox Corp. and Fitzgerald argue that the SBA was never intended to allow the NFL to distribute the media rights across numerous platforms for its own benefit.  “The Sports Broadcasting Act was designed to facilitate the distribution of games through free over-the-air television,” he explained. “It was not intended to provide a perpetual shield for leagues to coordinate the sale of media rights across every new technology and distribution platform that emerges.” The question that arises is whether or not fans really benefit from the SBA, given how watching sports has drastically changed over the years. Congress will now have to make a decision on whether they are going to revise the antitrust exemption, leave it as is, or ban it altogether.

A brutal beheading attempt in Belfast that left a man with catastrophic injuries has sparked waves of unrest across Northern Ireland, renewing a fierce debate over mass migration and public safety that is also resonating in the United States. Anti-migration riots in Northern Ireland pic.twitter.com/MQKy8Hwmfv — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 10, 2026 Law enforcement said the suspect, Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese national, pinned Stephen Ogilvie to the ground and repeatedly stabbed him in the face and neck during Monday’s attack. The graphic caught-on-camera incident captured a frantic scene. “He’s trying to cut his head off!” a person can be heard shouting in the video.  Ogilvie survived the attack but reportedly suffered devastating injuries, including the loss of an eye and deep wounds to his head and back. The incident quickly became the latest flashpoint in a years-long debate over mass migration and whether political leaders have ignored concerns raised by their own people. Within hours of the attack, demonstrations erupted across Belfast and continued into Wednesday. Video from the scene showed vehicles set ablaze, roads blocked, and clashes between protesters and police as anger spread throughout parts of Northern Ireland. At first glance, riots in Belfast following an attack by a migrant might seem like Europe’s problem. But the issues driving the unrest have become some of the most contentious political battles in the United States, where immigration, border security, crime, and assimilation have dominated national debate for years.  “This is the direct result of letting the third world into your country. This is policy failure. This is preventable, and this is what happens when you use two-tier policing, allow for mass migration, and have suicidal empathy for those who hate you,” The Daily Wire’s Chloe Trapanotto said.       The gruesome killings of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Rachel Morin, all at the hands of illegal immigrants, appalled much of the country and rocked the political establishment.  In fact, President Donald Trump rode a wave of anger over President Joe Biden’s handling of immigration and border security to secure a second term. Under the Trump administration, illegal border crossings have plunged, and millions have either self-deported or been physically removed from the country, according to DHS.  Still, millions of illegal immigrants remain in the United States. Across the pond, immigration levels have exploded in recent years, putting intense strain on public services and igniting a divisive debate on what it means to be British. Critics of the United Kingdom’s immigration policies argue the riots are about more than a single attack. They say public frustration has been building for years as concerns about crime, assimilation, housing, and social cohesion were dismissed or downplayed by political leaders. British officials, including embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer, raced to condemn the riots and vowed to prosecute offenders.  “Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their hometown is what’s making people angry, not ‘social media’!” Elon Musk posted on X.  Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2026 “You know how we avoid this chaos on American streets? Mass deportations–whether self-initiated or ICE-initiated,” The Daily Wire’s Megan Basham said on social media. “If the public sees our leaders working to ensure our safety and prosperity, this mayhem need not come to our shores. You know how we avoid this chaos on American streets? Mass deportations–whether self initiated or ICE initiated. If the public sees our leaders working to ensure our safety and prosperity, this mayhem need not come to our shores. https://t.co/cHigTwe3eC — Megan Basham (@megbasham) June 10, 2026

The CEO of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue was a font of absolutely no information during a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday. Regina Wallace-Jones gave the same answer to every question — invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination — throughout the hearing, provoking a shocked response from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) when she offered the same response to a question about her name. WATCH: Apparently, even the preferred usage of the ActBlue CEO’s name is protected under the 5th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/9tJhqRcwCQ — Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) June 10, 2026 “So I do have a series of questions for you, but I want to make sure I’m respectful. Is it Miss Jones or Miss Wallace-Jones?” Loudermilk asked. “On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” Wallace-Jones replied, prompting a few laughs in the room. “Okay, wow! Okay, didn’t, uh … expect that one,” Loudermilk reacted in surprise. But Wallace-Jones also refused to answer the more substantive questions — including a series of questions from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) about whether ActBlue had allowed illegal foreign donations to pass through the platform or had weakened fraud safeguards to help Democrats. WATCH: After Rep. Garcia (D-CA) claimed that the hearing on ActBlue is nothing more than a charade, Rep. Jim Jordan made him eat his own words. “Let’s be clear. We’re here because ACTBlue’s legal counsel said Ms. Wallace-Jones lied to Congress, willfully and knowingly misled the… pic.twitter.com/493tQJLH0R — Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) June 10, 2026 Jordan, pushing back on claims from Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) that the hearing was more of a political performance than substance, pointed out that statements from ActBlue’s former legal counsel had prompted the hearing. As laid out in a press release from the House Judiciary Committee in April, former ActBlue general counsel Darrin Hurwitz, ex-director and associate general counsel Aaron Ting, and former counsel Zain Ahmad all parted ways with ActBlue after warning that unspecified changes to fraud standards could leave the political action committee and fundraising platform open to legal risks. In the investigation that followed, ActBlue employees invoked their 5th Amendment rights at least 146 times — and Wallace-Jones did the same throughout her hearing on Wednesday, declining to answer questions such as: “How much fraud is too much fraud?” “How many foreign contributions did ACTBlue accept?” “How much money did ACTBlue accept from Russia?” “Why did your entire legal team quit, your in-house legal team?” “Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?” “Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?” “The crux of this misconduct is simple: ActBlue appears to have accepted illegal foreign donations en masse and tried to cover it up, lying to and withholding information from Congress in the process,” the Judiciary Committee’s report concluded.

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s White House game-planned how to message the Jeffrey Epstein files during the summer of 2025, Dan Bongino was growing increasingly frustrated and angry. He understood the vast interest in Jeffrey Epstein online, and he had repeatedly sounded the alarm to Trump’s team that the outcry over the DOJ’s bungling of the Epstein files was gaining momentum, as Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman reported for their book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” Back in July 2025, the president wasn’t yet interested in releasing the files. The DOJ had briefed him on the contents of what they had, noting that much of it included child sexual abuse material and that a lot of the raw records contained unverified and unsubstantiated information, including about the president and some of his friends. The White House viewed the conversation as toxic and unnecessary (the president would later call out Democrats’ new fixation on the files as a “hoax”). Trump’s advisors argued at the time that the president had weathered every possible media storm — and he could weather this Epstein one as well. Ultimately, the House and Senate would vote to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025, and Trump would sign it into law the same month. The files would be released in massive dumps in December and January. But during the summer of 2025, Bongino repeatedly told the White House that Team Trump wasn’t grasping how big of a deal the Epstein drama was, telling White House advisors, according to The New York Times: “It’s not an online story. You don’t understand.” Things came to a head when the DOJ and FBI put out a memo saying that they had concluded that there was no evidence Epstein had a client list. It also said that Epstein’s death was a suicide, that the Trump administration wouldn’t be releasing any more information about the Epstein case, and that no further investigation was warranted. At the same time, they also released 11 hours of video footage from the Manhattan jail where Epstein was found dead. That surveillance video actually made matters worse, since it was missing a pivotal minute, from 11:58:58 to midnight on the night that Epstein died. That missing minute was later released, but it had only fueled angry speculation about a coverup. Bongino was enraged by the memo and by the handling of the entire situation. He had argued to Patel that it would not at all align with their transparency promises, the NYT reports, and he pushed hard for the FBI seal to be left off the letter. While Patel reportedly agreed with Bongino on many points, he ultimately went along with what the DOJ and White House wanted. In what Haberman and Swan described as a “volcanic mood,” Bongino shouted at Bondi in a Justice Department meeting with FBI staff. “You f*cked this thing up from the start,” Bongino allegedly yelled at the former attorney general. “The way you’ve been talking about this — that dumb f*cking charade with the Epstein files, the ‘They’re on my desk’ nonsense, all the promises to the folks out there.” Photographer: Alex Kent/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bongino and Patel were reportedly called into a Situation Room meeting with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, and Taylor Budowich two days later. Wiles immediately asked Bongino if he had leaked a story about Epstein and Trump to ABC News, the New York Times reports. “I’ll tell you what,” Bongino reportedly replied. “I’ll give you $100,000 cash right now. I’m not kidding. Walk out to West Exec, put that reporter on speaker and get him to admit I leaked it. A hundred thousand dollars.” When Wiles started to tell Bongino that “we all got ourselves into this,” he allegedly cut her off, saying, “No, no, no, no, no. We didn’t get ourselves into anything. I warned you guys about this the whole time, and you ignored me. And exactly what I said was going to happen happened. And now you’re pretending I was in on this. I was never in on this.” His response startled the rest of the group, particularly given that Wiles was the White House chief of staff. Wiles reportedly pressed forward, telling Bongino, “Going forward, we’re all in. We’re all going to agree to move forward. Are you in or not?” He reportedly responded: “No, I’m not. This is not my plan. I’m not part of this going forward. Forget it. I’m out of here.” And, in an even more shocking move, Bongino “stormed out of the Situation Room and onto West Executive Avenue, where he climbed into the back of Patel’s armored SUV and directed the driver to take him to FBI headquarters.” MAGA world lit up with rumors that Bongino would resign. Sources close to Bongino at the time told Daily Wire that he was threatening to leave the bureau if Bondi remained on the job, effectively issuing an ultimatum. Patel also wanted Bondi gone, sources close to the FBI chief told The Daily Wire, saying that Patel would consider leaving the FBI if Bongino left. “Blondie f*cked this whole thing up,” Bongino told a confidant, The New York Times reported. He was using a nickname for the attorney general coined by outspoken Bondi critic Laura Loomer. “She was the one on TV saying over and over they had all this stuff. There was never anything.” “We were always clear about that,” Bongino emphasized, according to the Times. “But now everyone thinks we did something wrong. And I gave up everything.” He stayed on until January 2026, when he resigned from the bureau and returned to hosting his “Dan Bongino Show.” “Dan did a great job,” Trump told reporters, as news of Bongino’s departure broke. “I think he wants to go back to his show.” Former Attorney General Pam Bondi had made things difficult for Patel and Bongino when she promised in a February 2025 Fox News interview that the Epstein list was “sitting” on her “desk right now to review.” Her possibly greater misstep occurred during a White House briefing with influencers on the president’s agenda, according to the NYT. During that briefing, Bondi and her team walked into the Roosevelt Room carrying boxes and handed out binders to the influencers that she described as “The Epstein files.” Swan and Haberman write that “the blood pressure of other officials in the room skyrocketed” — they did not know what was in the binders, and the binders hadn’t been vetted by the White House. The president was about to meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer before the press, and the news might possibly blindside him. “One official, opening the binder, began flipping through pages to see if Trump’s name was mentioned anywhere,” they wrote. “A few pages in, right in the middle of the page, there it was.” The binders didn’t actually contain anything meaningfully new, but after the influencers took photos in front of the White House holding them, word spread like wildfire on social media. Not only did the influencers feel duped by the lack of substance in the binders, but many of Trump’s supporters were seething on social media over what they saw as Bondi playing showman with the files without releasing anything meaningful. The Epstein files, which will have all been released as of July 2026, include many mentions of Trump’s name but have not been found to include substantiated allegations against the president. NEW: Photo obtained by @realDailyWire shows Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein together. To my knowledge, this photo hasn’t been reported. Massive trove of Epstein files are expected to be released tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/OvFFbUQlXq — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 19, 2025 The DOJ noted that the batch released in January contained numerous “sensationalist” claims submitted right before the 2020 election, in an apparent attempt to stop Trump from winning the presidential election. Many of those claims don’t even include callback numbers, such as one graphic claim that the president raped a 13-year-old girl. “Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. “And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him,” she added.

The War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Cuba would be “inviting” a confrontation if it acquires weapons capable of threatening Guantánamo Bay or the U.S. homeland. Hegseth issued a stark warning to Cuba on Wednesday during a visit to Guantánamo Bay, cautioning Havana against acquiring weapons capable of threatening the U.S. homeland or the American naval base on the island. Speaking to American troops after joining them for morning physical training at the base, Hegseth emphasized the strategic importance of Guantánamo Bay and America’s long-standing presence there.   According to a recent Axios report citing U.S. officials, Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones from Russia and Iran since 2023 and has discussed potential plans to use them against Guantánamo Bay or even targets in Florida, including Key West. U.S. officials told the outlet that Havana has continued seeking additional drones and military equipment from Russia, while intelligence intercepts reportedly suggest Cuban officials are also studying how Iran has resisted U.S. pressure. “It would be unwise for the government of Cuba to try to procure or get access to the types of weapons that can reach this bay or the American homeland,” he said. “They would be inviting the kind of confrontation that they not only don’t want, but they could not stand.” .@SECWAR “Then you look at Cuba… That government has decisions to make about what kind of reforms it wants to pursue—it’s not my job to make that decision for them. It’s our job at the WAR DEPARTMENT to be prepared for whatever our Commander in Chief asks us to do on behalf of… pic.twitter.com/sYZKYPGQZD — DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) June 10, 2026 The Cuban government has strongly denied the allegations. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the United States of constructing a “fraudulent case” to justify military action and insisted that Havana “neither threatens nor desires war.” The visit comes amid escalating tensions between the Trump administration and Cuba. In recent months, President Donald Trump’s administration has intensified economic pressure on Havana through sanctions and an oil blockade while signaling a more aggressive posture toward the communist regime. “We hope soon that we can be a friend to the leadership of Cuba,” Hegseth added. “For now, let’s see what happens, but the Department of War will give the Commander in Chief every single option he needs.” Before participating in the workout, Hegseth delivered a similar message, saying, “What happens with the future of Cuba is in the hands of the President of the United States and the leadership of Cuba.” “No matter what, the Department of War is going to be prepared and postured for any possible contingency,” he added. Hegseth noted that he served at Guantánamo Bay roughly two decades ago as part of the detention mission following the September 11 terrorist attacks. “This was then and is here today a very important and strategic piece of American terrain,” he said. “We’re here from the Department of War to get a chance to see it and make sure it’s as strong as it can possibly be.” Hegseth also used the visit to highlight the administration’s broader security focus in the Western Hemisphere, including ongoing counternarcotics operations. “I would not get into a drug boat in the Caribbean or the Eastern Pacific right now,” he told troops. “We are hunting you like we hunted Al Qaeda and ISIS.” He added that “we are defending the homeland and we are taking back our hemisphere.” .@SECWAR “WE ARE DEFENDING THE HOMELAND AND WE ARE TAKING BACK OUR HEMISPHERE… This president came in and said NOT ONLY is the Monroe Doctrine alive—not only does the Roosevelt Corollary live—BUT NOW WE HAVE THE DONROE DOCTRINE.” pic.twitter.com/LPpBuAFQ0A — DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) June 10, 2026 Guantánamo Bay, located on Cuba’s southeastern coast roughly 430 miles from Miami, has housed a U.S. naval base for more than a century and became globally known for the detention facility established after the September 11 attacks. The administration’s increased focus was highlighted last month by Secretary of State Marco Rubio who delivered a direct message to the Cuban people, accusing the communist government of enriching itself while citizens face food shortages, fuel shortages, blackouts, and political repression. “The real reason you don’t have electricity, fuel, or food is because those who control your country have plundered billions of dollars, but nothing has been used to help the people,” Rubio said. Rubio said the Trump administration is prepared to provide $100 million in food and medicine to the Cuban people through religious and charitable organizations rather than the Cuban government. He also argued that Cuba’s leadership remains the primary obstacle to improved relations with the United States. “In the U.S., we are ready to open a new chapter in the relationship between our people and our countries,” Rubio said. “Currently, the only thing standing in the way of a better future are those who control your country.” The administration’s focus on Cuba has also included a series of high-level engagements by senior U.S. officials. In recent months, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Gen. Francis Donovan, commander of U.S. Southern Command, have both traveled to the island.  Hegseth departed Guantánamo Bay later Wednesday and traveled to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, where he met with U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper.