A distraught Jewish couple shared the harrowing and heartbreaking circumstances during the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in Australia, when they couldn’t find one of their daughters amidst the bloodshed and chaos. Wayne and Vanessa Miller, whose daughter Capri is four years old and daughter Gigi is three, spoke to Erin Molan in a highly emotional interview. “In Australia, we’re such targets; the government’s not doing much about it,” Wayne began. “Capri wanted to get a balloon, so I left Vanessa, and I walked up to the balloon stand, which was actually on the west end of the whole event, closest to where the shooter was, shooting from the bridge,” he recalled of the massacre. “And we were waiting in line for the balloons, and the next thing I feel something hit me in the face like a ricochet or something. I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, they must’ve set off a firecracker. How unsafe.’” “And then it was a big bang, then I heard it again, and then I was just — I took Capri up, I picked her up and … I dived under a table, and I was just I smothering her. She was completely underneath me. No part of her body was exposed,” he continued. “So much was going on … two arm lengths away, there was a guy lying there shot. I couldn’t do anything about it, and then the next thing Vanessa phones me and she says to me, ‘Have you got the kids?’” “I said, ‘I’ve just got Capri,” he said. “I said, ‘Where’s Gigi?’ She said she doesn’t have Gigi. And at that moment, I put my head out into the field to see if I could see her, and there was just shooting … the shots were going off, and people were shouting, ‘Get down! Get back!’ And I just went and laid over Capri, and I said to Vanessa, ‘We’ll get her back. We’ll get her.’ Gunshots were going off, and I couldn’t even move to go find my little baby. It was the longest five minutes.” Wayne said a man lying down near him said he didn’t know where two of his own children were. After the shooting stopped, he grabbed Capri in his arms and ran to the car park where Vanessa was, handed her Capri, and said, “I’m going in to look for Gigi.” Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “There was blood, and people lying on the floor, and dead bodies,” he remembered. Gigi was wearing a rainbow skirt and a pink top, and Wayne saw his daughter underneath a lady, “this hero of a person,” who had seen his daughter crying and pulled her underneath her, protecting her. When Wayne saw his daughter, she was covered with blood from a woman near her who had been shot in the head. Finding Gigi was “the best moment of my life,” he wept. “I knew Wayne had Capri,” Vanessa said. “I was looking around. I couldn’t find Gigi. I’m standing around screaming, ‘Where are you? Where’s my family? Where are my girls?” “There were two policemen; one was hiding behind a car; one was shot in the head, bleeding from his face. … I tried to grab one of their guns, he says no. I’m trying to grab for his gun. … These police officers were hiding behind a car,” she said. “They were just standing there, listening and watching this all happen, holding me back.” “My little three-year-old was saved by a pregnant woman who saw her crying and screaming, ‘Mummy, Daddy,’  running around while everyone was on the floor. She’s lucky to be alive, and I know that today,” she continued. Wayne told Molan, “Last night, putting Capri to bed, we’re lying under the table, she said, ‘Daddy, when we’re lying under the table, I have to wee in my pants because I don’t want to go to the toilet and get dead.’” Speaking about the Australian government, Wayne said, “It’s appalling the position they’ve left the Jewish community in.”

Rapper Nicki Minaj has been engaged in a public back-and-forth with California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, calling him out for his radical stance on “gender affirming” surgery for minors, among other things. Most recently, Newsom drew another round of responses from Minaj after he posted a wordless compilation on X, punctuated only by a zipped-lip emoji. The 12-second clip featured footage of President Donald Trump alongside the late Jeffrey Epstein, all set to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss” — widely interpreted as a diss track aimed at Minaj. Minaj responded to the clip, saying, “See Barbz? I told you he was wicked.” Dear Barbz, Pls protect me from that wicked & evil man. Love, Barbie. — Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) December 13, 2025 “Dear Barbz, Pls protect me from that wicked & evil man. Love, Barbie,” she continued, addressing her fans by their nickname. “They’re ready to make a career politician with everything to…throw it all away — just like they did to everyone else before him — just to go against me. What’s wild is that he can’t see how this will end,” the singer added in a follow-up. “I must be a pretty powerful gal. Praise God. It is well.” Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships The drama began last week when Newsom went all in for transing the kids, even as the concept has been receiving less mainstream support. “I want to see trans kids… There’s no governor that’s done more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBT community,” Newsom said during an appearance on The Ezra Klein Show last week, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that,” Minaj posted on Friday morning in response to the clip. “Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav, The Gav Nots, GavOUT. Send in the next guy, I’m bored.” “Gavin is the cute boy who got everything handed to him b/c of how cute & sexy & hot & smoking he was. Oohhh look @‘m. Sitting there in that suit with the sneakers on,” she said. “He thinks he’s Tom Cruise only difference is, his next mission IS impossible. He should get another leading role.” The rapper’s diatribe continued with more criticism for the governor.  “Oh Gavvy pooh, it only gets worse from here for you, buddy. It’s the end of the road for you, my love. Get on the nearest jet ski & let that beautiful hair blow in the wind. It will make you happier than this race that you will not win. Enjoy life. Peace,” she said. Amid her criticism of Newsom, Minaj also expressed support for President Trump’s administration. “God bless this great nation,” she tweeted alongside a message from “MAGA Voice” showing footage of the president saluting during the national anthem at the Army/Navy game.  GOD BLESS THIS GREAT NATION ?? https://t.co/HvNmeas0G1 — Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) December 13, 2025 On Monday, The Washington Post published a piece questioning Minaj’s shift to the MAGA side and noting that she once held a more left-leaning worldview.

FBI agents worried that they did not have probable cause for the raid on President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, but went ahead with it anyway under pressure from then-President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. A report published Tuesday by Fox News Digital detailed a number of emails between the FBI and the DOJ regarding concerns that Trump had taken classified documents to his Florida home — and how to best resolve the situation — and the DOJ ignored the FBI agents assigned to the case who repeatedly suggested alternatives to an outright raid of the property. “Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents,” one FBI official — identified as an assistant special agent in charge — wrote to Anthony Riedlinger, another FBI official. “From the interviews, [Washington Field Office] has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA in January) at Mar-a-Lago.” The official added that while they were in the process of drafting a search warrant, there were “some concerns that the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated.” “DOJ CES opines, however, that the SW’s meet the probable cause standard,” the official said, but went on to note that the WFO still had reservations and had suggested instead that they have a conversation with Trump’s attorneys, informing them that the FBI was moving on a search warrant in the hopes of encouraging cooperation rather than confrontation. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “At a minimum, even if the former president’s attorney is correct and the documents were all declassified (or believed to be declassified), it can be reasonably argued that the documents remain sensitive and should be properly secured until the matter of classification is sorted out,” the official added, noting that they could still move forward with the search warrant process at the same time. Weeks passed and then another email from an unnamed FBI agent stated, “We haven’t generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft.” The agent made it clear that the case was viewed as a nonstarter and an overall waste of time: “Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site, at what point is it fair to table this? It is time consuming for the team, and not productive if there are no new facts supporting PC (probable cause)?” Yet another email stated that officials within the WFO did “not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar a Lago.” Additionally, FBI officials asserted that plans for a raid should be set aside in favor of “alternative, less intrusive and likelier quicker options for resolution.” “The FBI intends for the execution of the warrant to be handled in a professional, low key manner, and to be mindful of the optics of the search,” another agent wrote, noting that Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Toscas had said he “frankly doesn’t give a damn about the optics.” “I understand that this request may not go well at DOJ, however, it is the FBI serving and executing the search and it will be our personnel who will have to deal with the reaction to that first contact,” the agent added. The raid went ahead on August 8, 2022. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the report in an X post on Tuesday, saying, “It’s true – we just turned over documents to Capitol Hill to be made public showing the FBI told DOJ they did not have probable cause for raiding President Trump’s home in Mar A Lago but DOJ “didn’t give a damn” and did it anyway.”

WASHINGTON—This town has been abuzz since it awoke this morning to find a bombshell New York Times story featuring excerpts from a forthcoming interview with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. In the piece, excerpts from a series of interviews with the reporter Chris Whipple, Wiles sounds off on everything from her boss (“an alcoholic’s personality”) to the vice president (“been a conspiracy theorist for a decade”) and even her friend Pam Bondi (the attorney general “completely whiffed” the Epstein files).  The White House set to work disavowing the report, which Wiles dismissed as a “disingenuously framed hit piece.” But while the Beltway wondered if this spelled the end of Wiles’s West Wing tenure — and if that was what she wanted — media junkies may have picked up on another oddity of the piece. Chris Whipple, who has written several books about White House chiefs of staff, did not conduct his interviews for the Times. He conducted them for Vanity Fair, part of a longer profile on the Trump Cabinet. But the Times didn’t simply scoop Vanity Fair. It published its story in conjunction with the magazine, which dropped its two-part interview with Wiles just as the Gray Lady published her story. The Times clearly had inside information from Whipple and Vanity Fair — including the number of interviews he had conducted and the nature of the piece he was planning — and included a reference to having heard corroborating audio of the Wiles interviews from Whipple. Reporters are so competitive that they hardly even want to collaborate with their colleagues. Why would Vanity Fair tip its hat to the Times in this way? The answer may lie in Vanity Fair’s old magazine history. In his recent memoir “When The Going Was Good,” former Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter recalls the magazine’s work on “The Holy grail of journalism scoops”: the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein blow the doors off the Watergate scandal. Reporting out the story, which named former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt as Deep Throat, took two years, and involved a healthy amount of cloak and dagger, Carter recalls. “We set up a special room at the magazine, an office within the office. We papered the glass doors and kept it locked when not in use. We also put the story on a separate server, one that wouldn’t be accessible to anyone at Conde Nast, the parent company of Vanity Fair.” The Vanity Fair team waited until just before publication day to reach out to Woodward and Bernstein for comment. When they did, the duo was not immediately responsive — though, as one of Carter’s deputies informed him, “word was trickling out and the phone lines at Vanity Fair were already jammed.” Carter’s thinking in this moment sheds some light on today’s New York Times bombshell: The big trouble here was the lead time. This was before magazines had digital editions, so we had to edit the story, photograph the story, lay out the story, check the story, print the issue, ship the issue, and then wait for newsstand people all around the world to open their boxes of the magazine and start selling copies. With a monthly magazine, you have ten days to two weeks between the time it leaves the printer and when it appears on newsstands. During this period, the issue is completely out of our control, and we had problems before with printers tipping off someone else to a hot story. “We couldn’t afford to wait until the magazine hit the newsstands,” Carter concludes, “so we decided to release the story even before we shipped it to the printers.” “In those days, you didn’t just announce news with a tweet,” he notes. “You released it in successive waves to selected press outlets. Or you released it all at once and wide to the right services, newspapers, and television news divisions. Which is what we did with our Deep Throat story. Just before we released it to the wire servers, Beth Kseniak, our head of communications, gave the scoop to ABC News, which broke into regular programming with the story. By the following day, it was front-page news all around the world.” Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Of course, today’s media landscape is not the same as it was in 2005 when the Deep Throat story broke. Vanity Fair has a digital edition, and you certainly can break a story with a tweet — and people often do. But Vanity Fair still has its flagship print magazine, and it stands to reason that drumming up some online interest ahead of publication could drive magazine sales. Releasing the juiciest excerpts to the Times, moreover, could ensure that politicos and news junkies who don’t frequently thumb through the nation’s premier society magazine may pick up the next issue of Vanity Fair, or at least toggle over to the website for the full story. It’s fitting, too, that this story in particular would be the one that inspired the magazine to dip into its old playbook. As tempestuous as the Trump White House seems to be, this go around, the president and his team — no doubt thanks in a large part to Wiles — have managed to keep major stories of infighting to a minimum. A chatty chief of staff and some dishy palace intrigue is, for everyone but the White House communications team, a bit of a throwback to old school Washington. What better time for Vanity Fair to return to its ink-stained roots.

SpaceX and Tesla owner Elon Musk recently donated to several Republican campaigns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The donations signal that the world’s richest man is once again planning to use his influence to back the GOP, just months after he floated the idea of launching a third party amid a public feud with President Donald Trump. Musk “cut big checks” for Republicans as the party seeks to hold onto both chambers of Congress in the upcoming midterms, Axios reported, citing two sources. Musk also reportedly suggested he would make more donations to Republicans in the future. Musk spent around $240 million backing Trump and Republicans in 2024 through his political action committee and was then given an advisory role in the White House, which he used to push for major cuts to government spending. Musk’s time in the White House, however, was short, and amid a bitter falling out with Trump and the GOP over the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” he said in May that he would dial back his spending on future elections. “I think I’ve done enough,” Musk said at the time, adding, “If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I do not currently see a reason.” In early June, the feud between Musk and Trump escalated, with the president saying that Musk “just went CRAZY,” and Musk firing back by accusing Trump of covering up the Epstein files. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” Musk said in a now-deleted social media post. The entrepreneur’s relationship with Trump has appeared to heal since his dramatic exit from his position as the president’s adviser. Trump and Musk were seen chatting during the memorial service for Charlie Kirk in September. Musk also attended a dinner at the White House for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last month. Musk’s reported donations to Republicans come after he had dinner with Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles last month, Axios reported. Vance hosted the dinner at the vice president’s residence, and Musk’s wealth manager, Jared Birchall, was also in attendance. The donations will be made public when campaign finance reports are released next month. Republicans are preparing for a hotly contested election cycle as they defend their majorities in the House and the Senate. Current polls and public opinion suggest that Democrats are poised to take control of the House, which would severely limit Trump’s agenda for the final two years of his term. During his feud with the president, Musk also said that Trump would have lost the 2024 election without him and claimed “Dems would control the House.”

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