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The Trump administration reflected on October 7, 2023, on Tuesday, acknowledging Hamas’ “brutal terrorist attack” on Israel and reaffirming that the United States is committed to “its unwavering support for Israel’s right to exist, to defend itself, and to ensure the safety of its people.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement on the anniversary of the attack, saying, “Today marks two years since the attacks of October 7, when Hamas murdered more than 1,200 innocent men, women, and children — including 46 Americans — in the most brutal terrorist attack in Israel’s history.” “As the United States marks this tragic anniversary and honors the victims, we renew our resolve to prevent such evil from ever taking place again,” Rubio pledged. Vice President JD Vance also remembered the massive terrorist attack on Israel, posting on X on Tuesday, “On this second anniversary of the terrible terrorist attacks of October 7, we remember all of the innocent people brutally murdered by Hamas. And we continue to work towards President Trump’s plan to bring the remaining hostages home and build a lasting peace for all.” President Donald Trump is scheduled to host Eden Alexander, an American who was held hostage by Hamas for nearly 600 days, at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. Alexander was freed by Hamas in May and is believed to have been the last surviving American taken hostage by the terror group during its October 7, 2023, attack. The second anniversary comes as President Donald Trump seeks to close out a peace deal between Israel and Hamas. Last Friday, Hamas said it would release the rest of the remaining hostages, but added that it wanted to continue negotiating Trump’s 20-point peace plan. In a statement on Friday, the terror group did not agree to disarm, a major point in the plan laid out by Trump. The group also did not address Trump’s offer to give terrorists amnesty to live in Gaza or the option to be given safe passage elsewhere if they lay down their weapons. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout Trump remains optimistic that a peace deal will be secured between Israel and Hamas to bring an end to the two-year war. If the terrorists don’t agree to Trump’s plan, the president warned on Sunday that they would face “complete obliteration.” Trump initially gave Hamas a 6:00 p.m. ET deadline on Sunday to agree to the peace deal. “Under President Trump’s leadership, America is leading the effort to secure the release of all hostages, end Hamas’s rule in Gaza, and advance a durable peace that ensures not only Israel’s security, but generational peace and prosperity for the region. This vision of stability, security, and a future free from terror is at the heart of the President’s 20-Point Plan,” Rubio added in his statement. The Secretary of State also addressed the “troubling surge in antisemitism” that has plagued the United States and other nations since the attack on Israel. “As I have said, there can be no compromise with antisemitism,” Rubio added. “We continue to condemn all acts of terrorism and antisemitism against Israel, and we call on the international community to stand with Israel during this painful anniversary.”

Today, the Supreme Court will hear Chiles v. Salazar, a case about censorship in private counseling conversations regarding gender identity not sanctioned by Colorado state law. The results will have a lasting influence not only counselors, parents, and children in Colorado, but throughout the United States. I know, because our family learned the hard way when our 11-year-old daughter went to her school counselors in Wisconsin for advice. So many times, just being able to talk about things with someone who knows how to listen can make a life-changing difference. What our family learned, however, was that these people did not know how to listen. They were interested in making a life-changing difference, yes, but mostly in changing my daughter’s life to suit their social sensibilities, not to do what was best for her. COVID hit at just about the same time my daughter entered into a very real personal crisis. She was 11 years old and decided she hated herself. She hated her looks, hated her personality — everything. The isolation of the epidemic left her with too much time to think about all of that and too few people to talk to about what she was feeling. Sometimes, as a kid, it can help to know that other kids around the same age are struggling with the same issues. But our daughter was mostly alone with all her growing worries, fears, and frustrations. She didn’t know how to talk to me about what she was feeling, and she started reading about kids who were “changing” themselves. That sounded like the answer to everything: changing herself. Looking back, she says, she doesn’t think she was really feeling that much gender dysphoria. She wasn’t especially wanting to be a boy — she just didn’t want to be herself. That turned out to be very easy to arrange. In fact, a teacher’s aide approached my daughter and said that, if she wanted to give the people in the front office a new name and new pronouns, they’d happily take care of the paperwork. They might have suggested that she first talk a little more with her parents about what she was feeling and give us a chance to listen and help her work through these things. But no one — not the school officials, not the doctors she eventually talked to — ever suggested anything like that. To them, what we as her parents thought and felt was irrelevant. Our love for our child and our authority to influence her life choices didn’t matter at all. All of these strangers just assumed they knew best and had the right to keep her parents out of the conversation. For that matter, they didn’t include our daughter much, either. At no time did anyone at school or in the medical facilities our daughter visited ever suggest that there might be a healthy alternative to her social transitioning. They never suggested that she might just be struggling with the kinds of things lots of boys and girls have trouble with — dealing with the pains and awkward changes of puberty and the problems of fitting into a sometimes-crazy teenage culture. That’s why my husband and I sued our Wisconsin school district with the help of our attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom. As parents, we have had to really fight for what should be a given — our basic legal right to be involved in our child’s life. And — with our love and support — she had to find her own way out of the confusing jungle of emotions she was dealing with. We’re glad she was able to do that, but we still wonder how much easier it might have been if someone with the right skills had just been there to help her find the trail — and if her school officials hadn’t tried so hard to block her from finding it. That’s also why we’re so interested in another ADF client, Kaley Chiles, and her case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today. Ms. Chiles is a counselor who wants to offer help to young people like our daughter, who are going through the kinds of things she’s been going through. We’ve read a lot about her. She does what it seems like a counselor ought to do. She listens. She asks thoughtful questions. She helps young people figure out where they want to go and how to get there. She’s there to walk with them — not push them through a pre-chosen door or force her own ideas on their disturbed minds and hurting hearts. To me, that’s what every young person going through what my daughter went through needs. But in Ms. Chiles’ home state of Colorado, it’s actually against the law for a counselor to help a minor that way. My own state has a similar law. And these laws allow counselors to point the way to transitioning and encourage it, but they can’t offer an alternative or do anything to support a young person who leans toward another conclusion. That reminds me so much of what my daughter has experienced these last few years. People — professionals — with no interest in helping her, just in changing her. Ms. Chiles’ attorneys will be making good arguments for why that’s a terrible approach … one that can be life-changing for children and teens in all the wrong ways. I just hope the justices know how to listen. * * * Tammy Fournier and her daughter reside in Wisconsin. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout!

A leader of the Latin Kings gang allegedly placed a bounty on the chief of the Trump administration’s deportation raids in Illinois amid a surge in violent attacks against federal immigration officers. Federal law enforcement officers arrested illegal immigrant gangbanger Juan Espinoza Martinez after he allegedly attempted to orchestrate a murder-for-hire scheme to take out Commander at Large of the U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino. Martinez, who goes by the nickname “Monkey,” allegedly sent a message to fellow gang members on Snapchat that pictured Bovino and offered a $10,000 reward to “take him down,” according to a screenshot shared by the Department of Homeland Security. The message also offered “$2,000 on information when you get him.” “It’s a war zone out there,” Bovino told Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday night in response to the latest threat. He added: “That’s something out of a third-world country, is this America?” A screenshot of a Snapchat conversation shows a discussion about the bounty placed on Bovino. (Credit: DHS) The gang leader also “instructed Latin Kings members to acquire firearms and hang out in the area” after a convoy of vehicles rammed into Border Patrol agents driving in the Chicago area Saturday, according to court documents. One of the alleged attackers was armed with a semiautomatic weapon, prompting agents to fire shots, striking the individual. When agents called for backup from the Chicago Police Department as rioters formed a mob in response to the shooting, the local officers were instructed to stand down. “Placing a bounty on a federal officer’s head is cowardly and an act of war on the rule of law,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Monday. “This case shows what Take Back America means: reclaiming our neighborhoods from violent thugs and criminal gangs.” “We will hunt anyone who targets those who protect our borders, streets, and communities. Rest assured – threaten law enforcement and the full weight of the U.S. government will come for you,” he said. Mugshot of Juan Espinoza-Martinez(Credit: DHS) A federal judge declined to block Trump’s deployment of troops to Chicago Monday, allowing the feds to send 200 Texas National Guard soldiers to quell anti-ICE violence across the sanctuary city while the case is ongoing. The next hearing in the case is set for Thursday, according to the New York Times. Troops are expected to arrive in the Windy City Tuesday or Wednesday, according to the report. Across the country, assaults on immigration agents have increased 1,000% in the past 8 months, according to DHS. Illinois, however, has responded to the Trump administration’s move with a lawsuit as the sanctuary state’s governor, JB Pritzker, labels the deployment an “invasion.” “The state of Illinois is going to use every lever at our disposal to resist this power grab and get [Kristi] Noem’s thugs the hell out of Chicago,” Pritzker said in an afternoon press conference. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also responded to the federal government’s actions Monday by establishing “ICE-free zones” across the city.

Attorney General Pam Bondi tore into Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) during a Tuesday morning hearing, squaring off with the Illinois lawmaker over President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops into the city of Chicago to protect federal employees and property. Durbin raised the question, noting that members of the Texas National Guard had been tapped to deploy to Chicago, and suggested that it wasn’t necessary despite dangerous clashes between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “The word is, and I think it’s been confirmed by the White House, they’re going to transfer Texas National Guard units to the state of Illinois,” Durbin prompted. “What’s the rationale for that?” WATCH: .@AGPamBondi TORCHES @SenatorDurbin: “I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump…The National Guard are on the way to Chicago. If you’re not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will.” pic.twitter.com/zHIvLYkWmm — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 7, 2025 “Chairman, as you shut down the government, you voted to shut down the government and you’re sitting here, our law enforcement officers aren’t being paid, they’re out there working to protect you,” Bondi replied. “I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump.” “Currently the National Guard are on the way to Chicago. If you’re not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will,” she added. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout Bondi went on to explain why additional resources were necessary, particularly in Chicago, saying, “Your city has a murder rate five times higher than New York’s — 571 homicides last year. If you were serious about protecting your people, you would be asking this administration for help.” WATCH: “Your city has a murder rate five times higher than New. York’s — 571 homicides last year,” says @AGPamBondi to the insufferable @SenatorDurbin on the National Guard in Chicago. “We’re there to help make America safe and Illinois safe — whether or not you want to.” pic.twitter.com/qgbZIryITP — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 7, 2025 “You’re saying that we’re coming into your state and your city?” Bondi pushed back, noting the static the Trump administration was getting from both Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. “We’re there to help make America safe and Illinois safe — whether or not you want to.”

WASHINGTON—Unlike Judge Deborah Boardman, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has no sympathy for the trans-identifying man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, she told The Daily Wire on Tuesday. Leavitt was responding to comments made by the Maryland judge, named to the bench by former President Joe Biden, who sentenced Nicholas Roske to only eight years in prison and told him at his sentencing: “I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family … accept their daughter for who she is.” Roske is a man who identifies as a woman. Ahead of his sentencing, his parents and family argued to the judge that their son should be treated leniently and given an opportunity to “thrive” as a transgender woman, court documents show. Boardman gave Roske eight years in prison, instead of the 30 years that the Justice Department had requested. Asked about Boardman’s comment, Leavitt argued that political violence must be answered by severe punishment in order to actually deter criminals. “The transgender maniac who traveled to Justice Kavanaugh’s home to murder him and his family over the draft Dobbs opinion leak doesn’t deserve a single ounce of sympathy,” Leavitt told The Daily Wire on Tuesday. “This attempted assassin received a ridiculous, lenient sentence by a Biden judge when he should have been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison like the Department of Justice recommended,” she said. “Political violence must be severely punished and deterred, not excused away.” This sentiment was echoed by the Department of Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi told The Daily Wire on September 19 that the attempted assassination was “an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished” and her Justice Department attorneys had argued that the court’s sentence “must send the unequivocal, clear, and strong message that attempted violence and threats of violence against members of the judiciary — as well as other public and federal officials — cannot and will not be tolerated, and will be justly and severely condemned.” They specifically said that the court’s sentence must be significant enough to not only “reflect the harm sought to be inflicted on the judiciary,” but also to send a message that the “consequences for these acts — no fewer than 30 years to life in prison — are not worth the perceived ideological ends.” On Friday, the Justice Department told The Daily Wire that Bondi intends to appeal Roske’s sentence. “The attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a disgusting attack against our entire judicial system by a profoundly disturbed individual,” Bondi said in a statement at the time. “The Department of Justice will be appealing the woefully insufficient sentence imposed by the district court, which does not reflect the horrific facts of this case.” Roske pleaded guilty to the attempt to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice in April 2025, three years after authorities arrested him in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools. The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak, who was present in the courtroom throughout Roske’s sentencing, reports that Roske has been detained for the past three years since his arrest. With time served and good behavior, Rosiak notes, Roske’s sentencing could mean he may be out of prison in four years. Boardman gave a speech that was more than an hour, justifying her sentencing, in which she repeatedly referred to Roske as a woman, saying: “Ms. Roske came out to herself as transgender in 2020 but kept it secret. Ms. Roske’s sister came out as gay two years prior but Ms. Roske saw that their parents struggled to reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs.” “Any prison time is punishment for her,” the judge said of Roske, who is a man. “The length doesn’t need to be particularly long … unduly harsh conditions make a difference, too … She will be imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the president.” The Biden-appointed judge also specifically criticized President Donald Trump, and argued: “Let’s not hide the fact that President Trump issued an executive order saying transgender inmates would be assigned to prisons with their biological sex.” Roske, Rosiak reports, is a tall man with a deep voice, whose social media posts indicate that he is attracted to women rather than “cis men.”