Authorities have determined that “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her family members are not suspects in the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, based on DNA from a glove dropped by the likely suspect.

A Manhattan hospital that has performed countless procedures on gender-confused children in recent years announced on Tuesday that it officially ended its youth gender clinic following the Trump administration’s move to pull federal funding. Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone Health, which has offered gender procedures for children since at least 2020, cited the “current regulatory environment,” along with the “recent departure” of its medical director, for its “difficult decision to discontinue our Transgender Youth Health Program,” The New York Times reported. NYU Langone previously stated on its website that it prescribes “gender-affirming medical interventions, including puberty suppression, gender-affirming hormone treatments, and gender-affirming surgery” for gender-confused children. The hospital’s website no longer mentions gender surgery for children and focuses on “mental health services.” Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect children from irreversible gender procedures by threatening to strip federal funding from hospitals that perform the procedures. Following Trump’s order last year, NYU Langone began winding down its “Transgender Youth Health Program,” canceling appointments for children, including two 12-year-olds who were supposed to start puberty blockers, The Daily Wire reported at the time. However, some parents told the Times that the hospital kept appointments for children who were already on puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Last June, the FBI set up a tip line for Americans to report “any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners” that “mutilate” children “under the guise of gender-affirming care.” The Trump administration reportedly served subpoenas to multiple hospitals last year, including NYU Langone, seeking more information on their youth gender clinics. In December, the Trump administration began implementing the president’s executive order to protect children by proposing rules to strip federal funding from hospitals that continue to perform gender procedures on children. Democrats have pushed back against Trump’s effort to go after hospitals and doctors that promote gender procedures for children. In response to Trump’s crackdown on hospitals performing gender procedures on children, New York joined a coalition of Democrat-led states that sued the Trump administration in an effort to stop the federal government’s investigation into hospitals and doctors that perform the life-altering procedures on children. President Trump’s executive action to protect children from the harmful procedures followed numerous Republican-led states banning the so-called gender-affirming treatments and procedures for minors. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and many other states took action to protect children beginning in 2023, shortly after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?” exposed the dangers of gender procedures. After “What is a Woman?” became one of the most-watched documentaries of the year, Walsh held a rally in Nashville and met with state leaders in multiple states to advocate for ending “child mutilation.” Thanks to recent laws passed by Republican-led states and the efforts of President Trump, the tide has turned in the debate on gender procedures for children. The Trump administration and advocates for protecting children from gender procedures celebrated another major win earlier this month when the American Society of Plastic Surgeons acknowledged that “evidence did not support genital procedures or removing the breasts of young girls who identify as boys.”

It is perhaps inevitable that a major global event such as the Olympic Games will become politicized. From the Nazi appropriation of the 1936 Berlin Games to the long Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, competition has always taken on what Al Michaels once called a “nationalistic sense.” But at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games happening now, the media have pushed things to a whole new level. Journalists seem intent on turning Olympians into politicians. The real flashpoint was an interview with Team USA skier Hunter Hess. During a press conference, he was goaded into expressing his personal disagreements with certain Trump administration policies. “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.,” he said. President Donald Trump himself shot back, calling Hess a “real loser.” The whole thing has turned into a media circus, distracting from the excellence all Team USA athletes have been pursuing. To some extent, the media’s agenda here is pretty straightforward; politicization and incendiary headlines drive clicks and social media views. But there is also a real double standard that ought to outrage all Olympics fans and American citizens. Eileen Gu, a freestyle skier born and educated in the United States but competing for the People’s Republic of China, has mostly escaped questions about the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian atrocities. NBC, which broadcasts the Olympics in the United States, has even tried making Gu into a star. The Today show did not ask her about the persecution of Jimmy Lai or the genocide of the Uyghur people, even while NBC has covered statements American athletes have made about U.S. immigration policy or social issues. Unlike China, the U.S. government does not pay our athletes. The United States Olympic Committee is a federally chartered nonprofit and funded entirely by private sources. American Olympians may receive corporate sponsorships, but putting on the red, white, and blue and competing for our people is a sacrifice in a way that is not the case for other countries. These athletes are not hirelings; they find a way to turn the pursuit of personal excellence into an act of genuine patriotism. Authoritarian regimes can try buying themselves medals by recruiting mercenaries such as Gu, but they will never be able to purchase that genuine Olympic spirit. There have been plenty of inspiring stories about American athletes at these games, but none provides a starker contrast with Gu than Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu. She was a star as a teenager, but she retired at the age of 16 to focus on living a normal life. Liu made a triumphant return to the world of figure skating in 2024, and she often explains that her sport has become a kind of art. Already a gold medalist in the team event, Liu is currently positioned to medal again in the individual competition. Her skating is remarkably beautiful, a true wonder to behold. Equally fascinating, though, is the political backdrop of Liu’s young career. Like Gu, she is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant to the United States. But unlike the skier, her family holds no illusions about the CCP’s tyranny. Liu’s father Arthur was deeply involved with the Chinese Democracy Movement in the 1980s, joining the protests at Tiananmen Square and witnessing the subsequent massacre firsthand. He has always been a vocal critic of the communist regime and is, in no uncertain terms, a political refugee. The CCP initially tried recruiting Liu to skate for it under the same “naturalization program” that sponsored Gu’s defection. Given her family’s firsthand experience of communist oppression, though, she understandably rebuffed the effort. The CCP, however, would not take no for an answer. In 2022, the Department of Justice charged Chinese agents with conducting an intimidation campaign against the Liu family and other Chinese Americans critical of the regime. Apparently, one spy even pretended to be a USOC official to steal information from the Lius. The State Department even had to take special precautions to protect Alysa Liu when she competed in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Perhaps the most American part of the story, though, is that Liu has used her massive platform as a figure skating star to shine the light on her father’s sacrifices and the fight for human rights. “Honestly I would just have the main focus be my dad’s story because his story is so cool and also everything … happened because of what he did,” she said at a media summit in 2025. “So, like I feel like we got to start with the roots.”  “We represent the people,” she said in another interview when asked about patriotism at the games. Liu is only 20 years old, but already she understands that the flag she competes under means something more than nationalistic pride; it symbolizes the hope of freedom for millions worldwide.  Authoritarian regimes in places such as China, Iran, and Russia have always sought to use the Olympic Games to promote their ideologies, and the commercial media are all too willing to turn a blind eye or even become complicit. But stories such as Liu’s, and those of other patriotic American athletes, demonstrate in no uncertain terms how incompatible that goal is with the true Olympic spirit. The freedom American athletes enjoy — even to criticize their own country — is in fact the reason why we consistently embody such excellence at the games. And that’s nothing to apologize for. *** Michael Lucchese is the founder of Pipe Creek Consulting, an associate editor of Law & Liberty, and a contributing editor to Providence. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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