Authorities in Rhode Island are responding to reports of an active shooter at Brown University. On Saturday afternoon, officials at the school alerted students that there was an active shooter near the Barus and Holley engineering building, according to Fox News. A text alert instructed students to “lock doors, silence phones and stay hidden until further notice.” Injuries or fatalities remain unclear, though reporter Nick Sorter said there could be at least six casualties so far, based on police radio alerts. “Believed to be at least six casualties so far, as more victims continue being found, per radio traffic,” Sortor said. “The masked gunman is currently at large. Pray for the students at Brown.” ? BREAKING: Active shooter at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island Believed to be at least six casuaIties so far, as more victims continue being found, per radio traffic The masked gunman is currently at large. Pray for the students at Brown ?? pic.twitter.com/yn5QnrJblE — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025 Initial reports said the shooter was in custody, though that now remains unclear. ? BREAKING: MASSIVE police and rescue response at Brown University as the manhunt for a mass shooter intensifies Despite Brown initially saying a suspect is in custody, they’re now saying NO suspects are in custody, and the shooter is AT LARGE Pray ?? pic.twitter.com/y6gGSByPn6 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025 This is a breaking report, please refresh for details.

President Donald Trump vowed that the United States would “retaliate” after news broke on Saturday that two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter — also American — had been killed in Syria by ISIS. Trump responded to the news in a post first shared via his Truth Social platform, warning the perpetrators that the Syrian government shared the outrage felt by the United States. “We mourn the loss of three Great American Patriots in Syria, two soldiers, and one Civilian Interpreter,” Trump posted. “Likewise, we pray for the three injured soldiers who, it has just been confirmed, are doing well.” “This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them. The President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is extremely angry and disturbed by this attack. There will be very serious retaliation. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump continued. Outside the White House, Trump promised retribution as he spoke with reporters before leaving for the annual Army-Navy football game. WATCH: ? JUST IN: President Trump, while leaving the White House, PROMISES to avenge the deaths of U.S. forces in Syria “We mourn the loss of 3 great patriots in Syria… we pray for them, and their parents, and their loved ones… and we WILL retaliate.” pic.twitter.com/11Oh2Lyljj — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 13, 2025 “We mourn the loss of three great patriots in Syria — you know how it happened, an ambush,” he said. “Terrible. We still have three wounded that seem to be doing pretty well. But we mourn the loss, these are great — these are three great people, and just a terrible thing.” “Syria, by the way, was fighting along with us. The president, the new president of Syria, as they told me … is devastated by what happened. This was an ISIS attack on us and Syria,” he continued. “We pray for them, and their parents, and their loved ones, very, very sad … and we WILL retaliate.” Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships The president’s response came after Pentagon spokesman and Army Ranger veteran Sean Parnell shared a few details about the attack — holding back the identities of those killed in order to allow for their loved ones to be notified. “Today in Palmyra, Syria, two United States Army soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed, and three were wounded. The attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement,” Parnell posted via X. “Their mission was in support of on-going counter-ISIS / counter-terrorism operations in the region.” “The soldiers’ names, as well as identifying information about their units, are being withheld until 24 hours after the next of kin notification. This attack is currently under active investigation,” he added. War Secretary Pete Hegseth responded as well, warning as Trump had that the United States would ensure that the guilty party had already faced lethal consequences for the attack. “The savage who perpetrated this attack was killed by partner forces,” Hegseth declared in a follow-up post. “Let it be known, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.”

NASHVILLE—Nearly 100 students, bright-eyed and hungry for change, gathered at the Tennessee State Capitol Building Friday morning, some having driven all night to make it to the event. There, in a room full of young conservatives, a group of Tennessee officials, including Senator Marsha Blackburn (R), announced a partnership with Turning Point USA. Soon, every high school in the state will have a chapter of Club America, TPUSA’s high school affiliate. Club America, like all of TPUSA, aims to advance the mission of the group’s late founder, Charlie Kirk: make being a conservative cool. “The founding of the country, the Constitution, capitalism,” TPUSA Senior Director Josh Thifault told The Daily Wire. “The branding is meant to feel like it’s something that everybody wants to be part of because I mean, who doesn’t want to be part of Club America? We wanted to create a presentation to high schools that would be very tough to say no to.” Blackburn was joined by women’s sports activist Riley Gaines and Tennessee Senator Jack Johnson for the announcement. The Volunteer State joins Texas and Florida, which have also taken steps to launch Club America chapters throughout their states. One of the last in-depth conversations Thifault had with Kirk before the latter was assassinated in September was about expanding Club America. Thifault said with Republican states fully backing the mission, TPUSA can get to Kirk’s goal of 20,000 chapters. “I’m very thankful for all the commitments that Tennessee made,” he said Friday. “There’s a lot of wonderful people who worked a lot to make this happen. Also, I have to give special credit to Riley Gaines because she’s the one who, as soon as it became pretty clear we were working something out, shouted it from the rooftops.” Gaines spent nearly an hour after the partnership was announced taking pictures with the students who traveled to Nashville for the event. The former Kentucky swimmer and new mom challenged the students to bring five friends to a Club America event and keep the movement growing. “I think we’ve now understood that Tennessee, especially with the recent congressional race here in this district, is not immune,” Gaines said. “I think so many of us almost develop a sense of complacency because we think it can’t happen to me. Nobody is immune to the cultural chaos that is plaguing this nation and even plaguing this state.” Credit: Anna Katherine White One of the students who drove hours to be at the State Capitol on Friday was Riley Belt. The junior out of Providence Christian in Johnson City said Tennessee’s partnership with TPUSA makes her excited for her peers. “Our generation is definitely a turning point,” Belt said. “We just want to be able to help teach kids like us how to help change our nation and lead us back to conservative values and back to Christ. That’s what it’s all about.” Since Kirk’s assassination, Club America chapters in Tennessee have grown from 30 to 104. Belt helped start her school’s chapter in November. Because of the pact formed Friday, that number is only expected to grow. “One person can’t do it on their own, but we’re surrounded by people who also share these values and want to make America what Charlie wanted it to be,” Belt said. “That’s what we’re fighting for.”

A Stanford Medicine research team has confirmed that mRNA-based COVID vaccines can cause inflammation of the heart muscle, known as myocarditis, which can be fatal. The study, recently published in the journal “Science Translational Medicine,” concludes that these mRNA vaccines can trigger certain immune cells to produce inflammatory proteins, specifically CXCL10 and IFN-gamma, which can cause heart issues. “It’s not a heart attack in the traditional sense,” Dr. Joseph Wu, a senior author of the study and the director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, explained. “There’s no blockage of blood vessels as found in most common heart attacks. When symptoms are mild and the inflammation hasn’t caused structural damage to the heart, we just observe these patients to make sure they recover.” Some patients, though, can suffer severe complications, including death, Wu said. The researcher confirmed that COVID itself “can cause myocarditis,” and “to a lesser extent, so can the mRNA vaccines.” For reasons still unknown, the vaccines are tied to a heightened risk in males under the age of 30, particularly those who receive multiple doses, the study found. “Vaccine-associated myocarditis occurs in about one in every 140,000 vaccines after a first dose and rises to one in 32,000 after a second dose,” Stanford Medicine News Center said. “For reasons that aren’t clear, incidence peaks among male vaccines age 30 or below, at one in 16,750 vaccines.” Recently, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad proposed in an internal memo an overhaul to how vaccines are evaluated and approved, basically initiating tougher standards. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships This would reportedly include full randomized clinical trials even for updated or routine vaccines, like the flu shot. The changes would allow for an evaluation of real-world protection, not just antibody levels, as well as rates of side effects, and more information on risk-benefit analysis. Notably, the memo cited at least 10 children who died “after and because of” receiving COVID vaccines as the apparent driving force behind the tougher vaccine standards. The medical establishment quickly revolted over the proposed standards. For example, twelve former FDA officials denounced the memo in an editorial, claiming it casts doubt on vaccine safety. They also said the new standards “reject long-standing science” and will slow innovation. In response to the backlash from the establishment, Health and Human Services (HHS) press secretary Emily Hilliard told The Daily Wire that the American people “deserve evidence-based science,” and said Dr. Prasad’s email “lays out a philosophical framework that points us toward that higher standard.” Hilliard also said HHS will “soon release documents laying out that framework” as well as data confirming how the COVID-19 vaccine resulted in children’s deaths that “previous leadership failed to properly investigate.” The FDA is also currently investigating adult deaths connected to the COVID vaccines. Related: MAHA Supporter Destroys Famed Doctor Attacking RFK Jr. In Under 2 Minutes

Perhaps the only thing Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on these days is that the pharmaceutical industry is bad. In particular, there has been bipartisan movement in recent years to ban direct-to-consumer drug ads, which are only permitted in the United States and New Zealand. Some supporters, like The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, have called these ads dangerous. But even those who don’t feel that strongly about the issue aren’t jumping up to defend these ads, which generally feature a bunch of shiny, happy stock-photo models dancing around while a narrator speed-reads through a list of side effects ranging from nausea to death. In this provocative piece, Stephen Moore does just that. A noted economist and political commentator, Moore served as a senior economic adviser to President Donald Trump and was instrumental in crafting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Moore not only argues that pharmaceutical ads help patients, but that banning them could have negative downstream consequences. We hope you enjoy. — Tim Rice *** Chevrolet’s newest holiday ad is tugging at America’s heartstrings. The spot follows a family’s classic Chevy Suburban through decades of memories — kids tumbling around the backseat, tearful college drop-offs, and that quiet, bittersweet moment when the house becomes an empty nest. The ad ends as the couple parks their old Suburban beside a shiny new one, welcoming their grown children and grandchildren home for the holidays. It’s the kind of commercial American companies have long excelled at: emotionally evocative in all the right ways, tapping into nostalgia, family, and the warmth of the season — and, yes, selling a product. Holiday ads have become part of our cultural fabric. Think of Coca-Cola’s polar bears, or the Budweiser Clydesdales. These ads don’t just market products; they help set the tone for the season. Ads like these may not survive if Washington continues down a troubling road of restricting TV commercials for politically unpopular — but legal — products. At the top of this list is pharmaceutical ads, which Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants removed from the airwaves. In that fight he has an unlikely ally: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This may seem like a rare instance of bipartisan cooperation. And in today’s political climate, dinging pharmaceutical companies is almost certain to prove popular. But we already have strict advertising laws against including false or misleading claims in ads, and severe penalties for violations — and appropriately so. Banning pharmaceutical ads would be regulatory overkill, and could have negative consequences its advocates aren’t considering. Contrary to what critics say, prescription drugs preserve life and improve health. Because of this, advertising can be a social good. An ad that makes people aware of a new drug’s benefits can literally save lives and alleviate suffering. Some politicians and regulators say these ads only serve to artificially drive up demand. And they do drive up demand — for treatments that work. That’s a good thing. Think about what would happen if we had a new wonder drug to help cure or stop the spread of breast cancer. Now imagine that the government prevented the pharmaceutical company from promoting this treatment to patients. It could take months before patients get access to this miracle cure. Plus, if lawmakers succeed in chipping away protections for advertisers, it will only empower future government censors. Imagine a future Democrat administration that wants to ban ads for gas-powered cars or disposable diapers in the name of “protecting the environment.” Pharmaceutical ads may not be the most popular thing in the world. But that doesn’t change the fact that they have a real benefit — or the fact that banning them would do more harm than good. Stephen Moore is a co-founder of Unleash Prosperity and a former senior economic advisor to President Donald Trump. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.