Formed in 1971 with his wife Linda and guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Denny Laine, Paul McCartney’s band Wings became his artistic rebirth after the Beatles broke up. Over the course of a decade and seven studio albums, with US #1 singles including “My Love,” “Band On The Run,” “Listen To What the Man Said,” “Silly Love Songs,” and “With a Little Luck,” and over 22 million albums sold around the world, Wings flew well above even the most popular acts of their time. For 2025, there’s a new compilation called WINGS that covers it all and then some. It begins with “Band On The Run,” with a decidedly louder sounding electric guitar to the simple yet-so-effective bass flumping of “Junior’s Farm.” McCartney sounds sweet on “My Love” and powerful on “Getting Closer.” There’s even “Mull of Kintyre,” absence from any proper album yet a huge hit that features the bagpipes. It’s a solid collection of 32 tunes running the gambit across the Wings catalog, with deeper album cuts as well as hits personally overseen by Paul McCartney himself. All formats of WINGS include a booklet with liner notes from McCartney. The triple LP and double CD editions have an expanded booklet with photos, artwork, paintings, trivia, and details about the band. A Blu-ray of WINGS features, for the first time, all the songs remixed in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos. When you factor in The Beatles, then you get what’s on WINGS, plus a prolific solo career, it’s no wonder Paul McCartney is considered the most successful musician in history. ~ Ralph Greco, Jr. Purchase WINGS

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The United Kingdom has stopped sharing intelligence with the United States on drug boats in the Caribbean to stay out of major counter-narcotics strikes in the region. While controlling multiple territories in the Caribbean, the U.K. has long helped the U.S. interdict drug smugglers in the open sea, CNN reported. But as the mission becomes more lethal, the U.K. no longer wants to be involved. The intelligence blackout began over a month ago. The Department of War has launched more than a dozen strikes on boats, killing 76 people. Believing that the strikes violated international law, the U.K. started to worry that its intelligence was helping the U.S. locate the vessels before obliterating them. Trump administration officials have defended the strikes, saying the drug traffickers are “operating under the control” of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Some legal experts, however, have questioned President Donald Trump’s authority to act on the threats without congressional approval. Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser, recently told The Daily Wire that “the strikes are not legal” and lack justification. “The precedent that this administration seems to be invoking are strikes the U.S. has taken over the course of the last 20-plus years in the context of the U.S. war on terror against groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS,” he said. “But those precedents are really irrelevant and a red herring with respect to the strikes we’re seeing in the Caribbean and now the Pacific.” “For the first time, the U.S. government designated criminal entities, drug trafficking organizations as foreign terrorist organizations,” he explained. “But those assertions seem to be undermined by the U.S. Intelligence community.” Dr. Nicholas Creel, law professor at Georgia College and State University, believes the strikes are legal, pointing to roughly five out of 30 examples of “instances where we moved first and somebody died” where the president actually received congressional approval. “What a lot of people lose in this is if we do agree that the president has the authority to respond to attacks, who is it that gets to define an attack is? It has to be the president,” Creel said. “It necessarily cannot be Congress.” “That’s why we chose this word to give the president the authority to respond to these attacks so it has to be that decides what this attack is. And if you or I think this is not an attack, fine, but we’re not the president.” He continued: “Pretty much every president since FDR would have to have been said to have acted unconstitutionally in terms of the war powers, which seems a bit odd. If it’s that common a practice, is it really, I mean, just because people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s legal, but at the same time, if everybody is basically doing it? Is it really illegal?”

Democrats have been quick to declare transgenderism a losing electoral issue in the wake of their recent victories at the ballot box, and the media is buying in. “Republicans went all in on anti-trans messaging for the 2025 election,” declared an article by NOTUS. “It didn’t work.” The belief is that Democrats won in 2025 elections in Virginia and New Jersey, despite an onslaught of messaging from Republicans on their radical positions on transgenderism. But Republicans are almost certainly not going to let the issue die, and the issue that proved so successful for them in 2024 will be put to the test in the 2026 midterm elections. The issue is already heating up in Nevada, and could impact the state’s governor’s race. “I’m going to do another ballot initiative this coming cycle on men in women’s sports,” Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo (R) said at a campaign event in September, according to the Pahrump Valley Times. “I’m going to raise the money to put a fight on that and change the constitution on how we address that particular issue.” The topic has been hot in the state since members of the University of Nevada, Reno, women’s volleyball team declined to play against San Jose State University in 2024 because of a transgender athlete on the team, with members of the Reno team taking a different stance from the university on the matter at the time. “The student athletes at the University of Nevada, Reno have determined that they do not want to play against San Jose State, and I wholeheartedly respect the decision of the players,” Lombardo posted to X at the time. “No student athlete should ever be pressured to play a game where they don’t feel safe — period,” he added. It could become a major campaign issue, as Lombardo and Attorney General Aaron Ford, who’s seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, have previously expressed sharply different views on transgender issues. In 2022, Ford signed onto an amicus brief against an Arkansas law against “gender-affirming treatment” for minors. “We must protect our children from discriminatory laws that bar access to necessary, gender-affirming health care,” Ford said in a January 2022 statement. Over and over again, evidence has shown that denying transgender youth access to gender-affirming care has a detrimental effect to their mental health and quality of life.” He also had the state of Nevada on an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals backing two minors, 11 and 15, who identified as transgender in a case on whether they could participate on a girls’ sports team in Arizona. “Plaintiffs simply want to participate on their school’s girl’s sports teams with their friends,” the brief stated. “They have not experienced any of the physiological changes associated with male puberty and have no ascertainable competitive advantage over their cisgender peers,” it continued, saying that the plaintiffs identified as “girls in all aspects of their lives since an early age.” In another case, he disagreed with the Trump administration’s policy about only listing two sexes on passports, according to the Las Vegas Sun. RELATED: How Trump Learned To Embrace The Transgender Culture Wars The Daily Wire reached out to the Ford campaign for comment. The race in the swing state is expected to be one of the most competitive gubernatorial races in the country next year. Nor is Nevada the only state where transgender issues will be at the ballot box. Maine voters could soon consider a similar ban, along with restrictions on locker rooms, according to WGME News. Maine is expected to be highly competitive in the Senate race with incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who could face off against Democratic Gov. Janet Mills are Graham Platner in the general election. Mills made national headlines earlier for her opposition to the Trump administration’s policies on the issue. “I’ll comply with state and federal law,” Mills said in a famous exchange with the president in February, with both saying they would take the issue to court, The Daily Wire reported. “We are the federal law,” Trump said. “You better do it. Because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t. And by the way, your population, even though it is somewhat liberal — although I did very well there — your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports. You better comply because otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding.” On the federal level, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order earlier this year to reign in funding for schools that allowed transgender-identifying athletes to participate in women’s sports. “Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy. It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth,” the order stated.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the state’s largest county for allegedly spending $1.3 million in taxpayer funding to help illegal immigrants fight deportation. In October, the Harris County Commissioners Court allocated the money to “radical leftist organizations” BakerRipley, the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, Justice for All Immigrants, KIND, Inc., and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services to provide “direct legal representation to immigrants in detention or facing the threat of deportation,” according to Paxton’s office. “We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration,” said Attorney General Paxton, who is now running for Senate against incumbent John Cornyn and Rep. Wesley Hunt. “Beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Millions upon millions of illegals invaded America during the last administration, and they must be sent back to where they came from,” he added. ?BREAKING: I’m suing Harris County for unlawfully directing over $1.3 million in taxpayer money to defend illegal aliens from deportation. We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration. pic.twitter.com/Yqp0v9Nt0P — Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) November 11, 2025 Paxton argued that the disbursement serves “no public purpose” and is “unconstitutional.” “The Texas Constitution prohibits governmental entities like Harris County from misusing public funds by giving gifts or conferring private benefits to individuals and groups that do not serve a legitimate public end,” Paxton’s office said. Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee defended the program, which was renewed last month in a 4-1 vote, with Tom Ramsey, the only Republican on the court, opposing it, according to KHOU. “This lawsuit is a cheap political stunt,” Menefee said. “At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorize immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens, and trample the law, it’s shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans.” “This program is perfectly legal, and it ensures that people in our communities have access to due process, something every American should support,” Menefee said. “My office will fight back and defend Harris County’s right to lead with fairness, compassion, and common sense, no matter how many times Republican state officials try to erase that.”

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