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Colombian-born actress Sofía Vergara‚ best known for playing a trophy wife on the hit ABC sitcom “Modern Family‚” recently made headlines when she revealed the reason for the dissolution of her marriage to fellow actor Joe Manganiello. She said it was because he wanted children‚ but at 51‚ she was feeling too old to welcome any new babies. “My marriage broke up because my husband was younger; he wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom‚” the actress told Spanish newspaper El País‚ as The Daily Wire previously reported. “I feel it’s not fair to the baby. I respect whoever does it‚ but that’s not for me anymore.” While Manganiello doesn’t have any children‚ Vergara does have a 32-year-old son‚ Manolo. “I had a son at 19‚ who is now 32‚ and I’m ready to be a grandmother‚ not a mother. So‚ if love comes along‚ he has to come with [his own] children‚” the “Griselda” star added. “I’m almost in menopause; it’s the natural way of things‚” Vergara went on. “When my son becomes a dad‚ let him bring the baby to me for a while and then I’ll give it back to him and go on with my life; that’s what I have to do.” Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for toty Though the actress mentioned her adult son in the conversation about becoming a mom again‚ she has more children who were never mentioned at all. Vergara neglected to bring up unborn embryonic children she created with her ex-fiance‚ Nick Loeb‚ who she’s been battling for custody for years now. Loeb insists the children‚ which were created in 2013‚ should be born. But Vergara disagrees‚ preferring to keep the two embryos frozen “indefinitely.” Vergara and Loeb were together for two years and during that time they went through IVF in an effort to have children. After failing to achieve pregnancy while using a surrogate gestational carrier‚ the couple was left with two embryos in storage. The drama began after the former couple broke off their engagement in 2014. Both Vergara and Loeb signed an agreement saying that neither one could use the embryos without the written consent of the other. But later‚ Loeb argued that the contract did not lay out guidelines for what would happen if the couple broke up‚ which he saw as grounds for nullifying the agreement entirely. Loeb’s first lawsuit for custody of the embryos was filed in California‚ but was later dropped when the judge demanded Loeb to provide names of former girlfriends who allegedly had abortions after Loeb got them pregnant‚ per The Daily Beast. Loeb later said at least one former girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes.  The frozen embryos were stored at a facility in California‚ but Loeb filed another lawsuit in Louisiana due to the couple having broken up in that state. That lawsuit‚ which was filed in 2016‚ named three plaintiffs: two embryos named Isabella and Emma‚ and James Charbonnet‚ a New Orleans resident who was identified as a trustee for the unborn children. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images This LA lawsuit also attempted to terminate Vergara’s parental rights over the embryos‚ claiming she had abandoned them at the cryopreservation facility in California. Loeb had intentionally chosen Louisiana because of their unique laws about embryos. A state law passed in 1986 classified embryos as “judicial persons” who could sue or be sued. The case was dismissed in 2017 on the grounds that Louisiana had no jurisdiction in the matter as the embryos were created in California. Loeb has been very forthcoming about why he’s interested in having his embryonic children be born. In a 2015 op-ed for The New York Times‚ he said he’s always “dreamed of being a parent.” When responding to Vergara’s request to keep the embryos frozen indefinitely‚ Loeb wrote‚ “keeping them frozen forever is tantamount to killing them.” “When we create embryos for the purpose of life‚ should we not define them as life‚ rather than as property?” Loeb asked in the op-ed. “Does one person’s desire to avoid biological parenthood (free of any legal obligations) outweigh another’s religious beliefs in the sanctity of life and desire to be a parent?” Vergara hasn’t said much about the situation publicly over the years. But she did reply to Loeb’s NYT op-ed after it was published in 2015. “I really want to make this‚ like‚ the last time I talk about it because I don’t think it’s fair‚” Vergara told ABC News during an interview on Good Morning America. “I don’t understand why this person [Loeb]—I don’t want to allow this person to take more advantage of my career and try to promote himself and get press for this.” “This shouldn’t be out there for people to give their opinion when there’s nothing to talk about‚” the actress added. Despite being turned down before‚ Loeb filed another lawsuit in April 2023‚ this time taking aim at the Beverly Hills assisted reproductive technology clinic where the embryos were created. Loeb accused the clinic operators of not providing sufficient warning or documentation about what would happen to the embryos in the event of a breakup. “I never would have gone forward with creating what Sofia and I regarded as lives if I knew that she would not consent‚ or that she wanted to thaw and destroy the embryos‚ in the event of a breakup‚” Loeb said‚ per Los Angeles Magazine. “I am pro-life and pro-parenthood and my religious views are such that I believe that life begins at conception‚” Loeb added. “Throughout the course of our relationship‚ I expressed these views to Sofia‚ who similarly expressed to me that she was a devout Catholic and therefore also believed that life begins at conception. She told me that she regarded embryos as ‘lives.'” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP Nick Loeb is also known for directing‚ writing‚ and starring in the pro-life film “Roe v. Wade‚” a political legal drama which premiered in 2020. The film starred leading conservative celebrities including Jon Voight‚ Stacey Dash‚ and Robert Davi. Loeb starred as Bernard Nathanson‚ a real-life gynecologist who co-founded the abortion rights organization NARAL Pro-Choice America and who later converted and became a vocal pro-life advocate. The debate over the legal rights of frozen embryos has been raging for years as IVF technology becomes more common and in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision‚ which found that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. This effectively sent the legality of abortion back to the states to decide individually. Dobbs also raised questions on when human life begins and whether unborn embryos should also be treated as human persons. Though there is no official count‚ it is estimated that there are as many as 1.5 million frozen embryos currently being stored in cryopreservation facilities.

A former FBI agent said that the Bureau quickly believed that it tied the person who planted pipe bombs at the Democrat National Committee and the Republican National Committee to a particular Metro fare card and license plate‚ but did not allow him to interview the person of interest and pulled his team off of the lead. The allegation raises more questions about the pipe bombs‚ which were by far the most violent aspect of the January 6 protests‚ but which Democrats and authorities have seldom mentioned since. Kyle Seraphin‚ who led FBI surveillance teams‚ told The Daily Wire that shortly after January 6‚ a counterintelligence team met him at a firehouse in Falls Church‚ Virginia to brief him on his next surveillance target: They had used security footage to follow the person into a Metro station after he planted the bombs‚ and identified the fare card that was used. That fare card then allowed them to determine that the person got off at a Metro stop in Northern Virginia‚ where surveillance footage showed the person entering a car. Both the car and the fare card were in the name of the same person — a retired Air Force chief master sergeant who was now working as a contractor with a security clearance‚ they said. Seraphin and his team were assigned to stake out the person’s row house for days‚ but the FBI blocked his request to interview the person‚ he said. Then they were called off the target completely and told to pore through low-priority leads about minor January 6 participants‚ he said. “Allegedly someone threw bombs around the Capitol which could have killed congressmen or a busload of nuns or anything‚ and the answer is you can’t follow this guy around — you have to go to headquarters and read ‘leads’ where someone said ‘I might’ve went to high school with some guy that was standing around the Capitol?’” Seraphin told The Daily Wire. Seraphin said the bomber wasn’t necessarily the same person of interest to whom the car and card were registered to‚ but that it was a highly specific lead that‚ if pursued‚ had a good chance of leading investigators to the suspect. “They found people based on their earlobes that were hanging out by a flagpole‚” he said of the Bureau’s persistence in pursuing more minor January 6 wrongdoings. He said the case was being run by the counter-intelligence division‚ which are not “manhunters” used to apprehend people and build prosecutable cases. He said that team called in his surveillance team‚ only to go ahead and quickly cut it off. He said it was not surprising that the FBI would have traced the bomber‚ and‚ in fact‚ it would be more surprising if it hadn’t. “They can do telephonic capture and triangulate your phone in real-time… The bureau is far too competent to fail this‚” he said. “When they had the World Trade Center bombing in ‘93 they went under four stories of rubble and were able to find a partial VIN number that they used to track it down to the people responsible. And you’re telling me you had a pristine‚ non-detonated bomb and they couldn’t find anything on it?” The FBI has released only a couple of grainy pictures of the bomber‚ despite massive security camera coverage on Capitol Hill. Though the bomber was seen talking on a phone‚ it has said it may not have been able to identify him with cell phone records because a database was corrupted. The Washington Times first reported the allegation in May 2023. The article‚ which was paywalled‚ did not get widespread attention‚ yet when the House Judiciary Committee interviewed Steve D’Antuono‚ the former head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office‚ it seemed to be on his mind. “People like Kyle Seraphin and others that are not a case agent‚ have no knowledge of the case‚ have no knowledge of what happened in the case‚ he also made another accusation too that there was an individual with a Metro card. My understanding is all that was chased down. There was a lead that was chased down‚ but he says that we didn’t chase it down‚” D’Antuono said. His comment seemed to confirm that the Metro card lead did exist‚ and he did not explain how or why it ultimately resulted in nothing. The FBI’s Washington Field Office did not return The Daily Wire’s request for an explanation of why the lead was believed to be a dead end. Immediately after claiming that Seraphin would not know details because he was not a “case agent‚” D’Antuono acknowledged that he himself did not know even basic details about the investigation because he was far removed from case agents as a top leader. D’Antuono went on ABC to hype up the apparent MAGA terrorist threat in 2022 to say that‚ “They would have exploded. They could have exploded‚” calling the pipe bombs “viable” devices‚ as The Washington Times recounted. But in the transcribed interview with Congress‚ he acknowledged that the bombs had 60-minute kitchen timers attached to them‚ and that they had not exploded 17 hours later. “I saw the same kitchen timer as you. I agree. I don’t know when they were supposed to go off. Maybe they weren’t supposed to go off‚” he said. Seraphin said that when he was assigned to the case‚ he asked about the bombs‚ and his team was briefed by the FBI that they were not at risk of detonating. “It was an officer safety question. You’re gonna work a case differently if they’re not real‚ you can get closer‚” he said. Rep. Thomas Massie‚ a member of the Judiciary Committee‚ asked D’Antuono about the pipe bombs after uncovering video that showed a person pointing out the pipe bomb to officers outside the DNC‚ only to have the officers react with no urgency‚ even letting children cross the street afterward. Massie told The Daily Wire that the officers’ reaction was not congruent with someone who believes they have just learned of what might be a real bomb feet away from a party headquarters‚ and raises the question of whether they knew it was planted there. Some of those personnel were Secret Service guarding Kamala Harris‚ who was in the building at the time. The Department of Justice initially falsely stated that Harris was in the Capitol‚ not the DNC‚ which allowed them to avoid the question of why the Secret Service didn’t find the bomb. Seraphin said there’s “zero chance” that the Secret Service would have missed a pipe bomb sitting in almost plain sight when preparing a site for the Vice President-elect. “They’re far too good for that‚” he said. Seraphin said of the video‚ “That’s not how you react to a bomb‚ I don’t care who you are‚” unless they had reason in advance to “believe it wasn’t real.” Both bombs were purportedly planted around 8 p.m. the night of January 5‚ and remained unreported until both were discovered within minutes of each other at the exact time that the Capitol was being breached. Capitol Police have said that January 6 got out of hand because they were forced to divert resources to the bombs instead of crowd control. Harris has gone out of her way not to mention the bomb‚ even implying that she was safe from January 6 because “I had left” — when‚ in fact‚ she had left for a location roughly 30 feet away from a purported bomb. Darren Beattie‚ a reporter for Revolver News who has uncovered numerous discrepancies around the pipe bombs‚ joined Massie for an online chat on Thursday. He said that in addition to the details that don’t add up‚ there is the glaring fact that Democrats have omitted all mention of the most dramatic part of January 6‚ even as they seek to cast it as a violent insurrection. “How dark‚ how dirty‚ how damning‚ how embarrassing does the truth have to be for these salivating political opportunists have to be to forgo the obvious political advantages of this talking point?” he asked.

On Monday‚ Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returned to work at the Pentagon for the first time since his secretive hospitalization for complications following a procedure to treat prostate cancer. Austin‚ 70‚ briefly addressed his health situation during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with cameras in the room to capture the remarks. “At this important time‚ I’m glad to be back at the Pentagon. I feel good and am recovering well — but still recovering — and I appreciate all the good wishes that I’ve received thus far‚” Austin said. .@SecDef Austin: "Let me start with my outrage and sorrow for the death of three brave U.S. troops in Jordan…The president and I will not tolerate attack on U.S. forces and we will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops." pic.twitter.com/G6bzDZrNsf — CSPAN (@cspan) January 29‚ 2024 Austin also commented on the weekend drone attack on a base in Jordan‚ which the Biden administration has pinned on an Iran-backed militia. “Let me start with my outrage and sorrow for the death of three brave U.S. troops in Jordan and for the other troops who were wounded‚” Austin said. “The president and I will not tolerate attack on U.S. forces and we will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops‚” he added. The Department of Defense said Austin has been conducting his duties from home since his release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on January 15‚ roughly two weeks after he was admitted. Austin made his first public appearance last week on a video call when he deviated from prepared remarks and opted not to mention his condition. Multiple inquiries began after it emerged that top Biden administration officials and Congress were kept in the dark about Austin’s health situation for days. Some critics‚ including GOP lawmakers and former President Donald Trump‚ called for Austin’s ouster. The defense secretary said he took “full responsibility” for how disclosure was handled. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The White House released new guidelines for Cabinet secretaries‚ according to a memo obtained by POLITICO‚ to enhance transparency rules when authority is delegated to a subordinate. Austin’s return to the Pentagon on Monday followed a Washington Post report on cancer survivors who served in the military expressing disappointment that the defense secretary did not take the opportunity to spread awareness. White House officials have insisted that President Joe Biden has “complete confidence” in Austin‚ and they emphasized that the president plans to keep the secretary in place through the remainder of his term despite it being “not optimal” that the commander-in-chief and other leaders did not know what happened for so long.

Tattoo artist Kat Von D is celebrating a win in court after a jury determined she did not violate any copyright laws for a custom tattoo she did featuring an image of jazz legend Miles Davis.  The 41-year-old tattooist and reality show star‚ whose real name is Katherine von Drachenberg‚ was seen smiling while leaving the courthouse after the decision‚ per the Associated Press. The outlet noted that the jury deliberated for just two hours before deciding that Von D was not guilty.  Von D was sued by the artist Jeffrey Sedlik for allegedly copying a portrait he made of Davis in 1989‚ which she said she used as inspiration to create a tattoo for a friend.  Van D described the image as “fan art” during the trial and said she did the tattoo as a gift. “I made zero money off it. I’m not mass-producing anything. I think there is a big difference‚” she said. The jury determined that the tattoo fell within the legal doctrine of fair use of a copyrighted work. “I’m obviously very happy for this to be over. It’s been two years of a nightmare worrying about this‚ not just for myself but for my fellow tattoo artists‚” Von D said after the verdict. She also said the whole experience has made her reluctant to return to doing tattoos.  “I think I don’t want to ever tattoo again‚ my heart has been crushed through this in different ways. We’ll see with time‚” she said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Her attorney‚ Allen B. Grodsky‚ said of the outcome: “We’ve said all along that this case never should have been brought. The jury recognized that this was just ridiculous.” Meanwhile‚ Sedlik’s attorney‚ Robert Edward Allen‚ said they plan to appeal the verdict. “If those two things are not substantially similar‚ then no one’s art is safe‚” Allen said in a statement. “It’s about copying others’ protected works‚” he added. “It’s not going to hurt the tattoo industry. The tattoo police are not going to come after anyone.” Von D rose to fame while starring on TLC’s “Miami Ink” starting in 2005. She also starred in the show’s spinoff‚ “LA Ink‚” from 2007 to 2011. The reality star made headlines recently for her conversion to Christianity following years of being associated with witchcraft and a macabre aesthetic.