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The shooter was shot dead. Caleb Giamonco, who was on break from his job as a carpenter, heard the commotion and immediately entered the school. Giamonco, whose two daughters attend the school, located the shooter and ended the threat with his concealed firearm. By the time the police arrived just three minutes after the 911 call, the shooter was already dead, leaving law enforcement free to render aid to the victims. Tragically, three children and one teacher were killed. Unconfirmed reports claim that the 16-year-old shooter used a shotgun originally purchased by his mother-in-law. The mother. Law enforcement have recognized that Giamonco's quick action likely saved many lives. The Pentagon is considering using the mother of all bombs against Iran if President Trump orders renewed attacks. The weapon, known as the Massive Ordnance Airblast Bomb, or MOAB, is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Trump has ordered the military to work out new strike packages that include, quote, a lot of energy infrastructure, and that could include the use of the MOAB. Plans for striking Iranian nuclear sites, including Pickaxe Mountain, also explicitly call for the weapon. Meanwhile, Trump has also gone on record to say he would not use nuclear weapons against Iran, and he said he'll wait to order more strikes until after the midterms. Here's Trump. The mother of all bombs is not nuclear. Okay, not tactical nuclear? No, no, it's not nuclear at all. This is just an extremely large bomb. It's like a tiny nuclear bomb. But the mother of all bombs is one big bomb, but it's not nuclear. And I wouldn't use nuclear. We don't have to. This comes as the Houthis and Iran continue to harass ships in the Hormuz Strait. The U.K. said today that a total of 12 ships have reported being attacked around the Strait this week. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a seven-figure donation to Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Daily Wire contributor Tim Pierce has more. Ocasio-Cortez transferred $1 million to a political account for El-Sayed on Friday. This week, the New York congresswoman is on tour with El-Sayed. El-Sayed in Michigan's Upper Peninsula before she heads down to the Detroit area for a few solo events. Ocasio-Cortez has said that El-Sayed's candidacy is big for her brand of socialist Democrat Party politics, and Friday's donation shows she means it. Here she was at a campaign stop in Michigan. Once you elect one person like that, people will then catch on, and we will start electing more people like that. While she is campaigning for El-Sayed's political future, Ocasio-Cortez also needs to make up her mind about her own. According to the New York Times, she has not yet decided whether in 2028 she wants to run for re-election, for Chuck Schumer's seat in the Senate, or for the White House. Katie Zachariah's time as the new White House press secretary turned out to be short-lived. The White House confirmed to Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olihan today that Zachariah is transitioning out of the role. President Trump denies that he fired her. Rather, he said that she's departing after she was, quote, brutalized by the media. This follows a tough first press briefing and confusion about her title as a lawyer. It also comes after she made a few appearances on Fox News to discuss the controversy. Here are some of her comments to Sean Hannity Thursday. When I was at, when I went to go engage in media and give legal analysis, I consulted attorneys and legal professionals as to whether or not they agreed that I could be labeled a lawyer, both because I had a valid jurist doctor from a good law school, a reputable law school, Pepperdine Law School, and in conjunction with the fact that I did have actual substantive legal experience. I wasn't providing any legal analysis, Sean, or, excuse me, legal advice. I wasn't being paid for legal advice. I was giving a general review of the legal circumstances surrounding it. Then pressed by Fox & Friends this morning about how this has all unfolded, she said the question about her passing the bar just never came up in the vetting process for her new job. She would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar. Yeah, well, Lawrence, those questions weren't asked. I'm being hired as White House press secretary and not White House counsel. The conversations and the reason I was, the reason that I was hired was to represent the president in the press. Some are calling it the AI election. Candidates across the country have used AI-generated images and scenes to depict their opponents with controversial figures or making wild claims. Here's a sample of one ad in New York featuring AI Zoran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul. And now? I just say it's someone else's fault. It's working. An analysis from the Wesleyan Media Project identified 220 ads across 30 states that contained AI content. According to the New York Times, candidates and PACs have spent nearly $140 million so far this cycle promoting those ads. The analysis shows the new technology has largely been embraced by Republicans who produced about 80% of the content reviewed. Tensions flared yesterday during the final main Senate debate after Democrat Troy Jackson told Republican Senator Susan Collins to shut up. This came moments after a protester interrupted the live debate, shouting at Collins about AI and data centers. Here's some of that. I'm sorry somebody's interrupting. We'll have our security deal with that. AI data centers are destroying our climate. They are poisoning. So this is obviously one of Troy's supporters. Oh, shut up. I didn't know that kid. Senator Collins, we'll give you the full minute to respond to the question from the video. The main Senate race remains a nail biter. The Democrat Jackson leads Collins by 1.3 points in the RealClearPolitics average, though Collins has a history of outperforming polls substantially on Election Day. With just a few days left until Alberta's referendum vote on independents, Canadian PM Mark Carney is showing some signs of apprehension. Reporter Zach Jewell has more. Carney spoke in Calgary yesterday warning voters that "the stakes are high" and that this vote is coming "at the worst possible time," a reference to Carney's ongoing battle with Trump over tariffs. Many Albertans, among a litany of grievances, feel that their oil-rich province, which contributes an outsized share to the Canadian economy, has been overlooked by the national government in Ottawa. Concerns over increased Third World Immigration Indicators have been raised by the Canadian government in Ottawa. As a result of this, voters have come to the conclusion that voting in Canada is also a top issue for voters. In response to political unrest in the province, Carney recently announced his intention to approve a new pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Monday's vote, however, would not make independents a certainty if passed. Instead, it would start the official legal process of separation, requiring another province-wide binding vote. Hundreds of U.S. troops are heading to Latin America to deal with drug traffickers. The Pentagon is expanding its counter-drug campaign against the U.S. military in the US. The U.S. military and the U.S. military have signed an agreement with the U.S. military in the U.S. and the U.S. military in the U.S., and it will be signed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The U.S. military in the U.S. and the U.S. and the U.S. military. The U.S. military officials told The New York Times that soldiers assigned to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, have begun deploying in Panama for jungle training. The first arrivals came from a battalion of some 600 soldiers with training also planned in Colombia and Honduras. But not all of them may be going. Instead, the U.S. embassy in Panama says 120 soldiers from the division are taking part in a two-week course and would return to their home units afterward. The transgender-identifying neo-Nazi teen who's been accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Chicago will be allowed to get hormone treatments in jail. A Cook County judge revealed Wednesday that the 19-year-old suspect takes hormone injections for his, quote, gender transition, along with medication for ADHD, depression, and anxiety. The judge ordered that the suspect will be allowed to continue those hormone injections while he awaits trial. The would-be terrorist was arrested Sunday after authorities learned of his alleged plot to shoot up the largest Hindu temple in a Chicago suburb. He's facing felony charges of making a terrorist threat and unlawfully possessing weapons. And do we finally have our flying car promised to us in Back to the Future? Yes, yes, we do. And thanks to Elon Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX. Associate producer Garrett Van Team explains. Musk unveiled a flying car last night. Speaking to an audience at SpaceX's rocket test site in McGregor, Texas, he told them they were there to prove that the demonstration wasn't generated by artificial intelligence or superintelligence, as it's now called. Instead, the test showed what happens when you combine, quote, the world's best car company and the world's best rocket company. After a 20-second countdown, the new Tesla Roadster was revealed at the bottom of a ramp that curved up to 90 degrees and then upside down at an angle. The car climbed the ramp and clung at seemingly impossible angles, using a fan underneath the vehicle to hold it against the surface. At the top, the Roadster flipped over and used thrusters to bring itself back to the ground. The car was also able to flip on its own, jumping over several other vehicles. SpaceX contributed 10 thrusters to the car. Together with the fan underneath, the thrusters let the car hover, spin, flip, and land. Musk said that while going upside down wouldn't be necessary to the average driver, the car's intense suction system allows it to, quote, defy physics on the road as it comes to a stop and makes sharp turns. Those are your drive-home updates this evening. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories, including President Trump pulling the plug on live streaming the Fort Hood firing squad, residents sounding the alarm over foreign-trained doctors, and new data showing young girls may be over the LGBT craze. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with a weekend episode of Morning Wire. A breach like that doesn't wreck your life by itself, but when someone does, someone uses your information, the cleanup becomes your job. Unpaid. Hours on hold with banks that won't help you without an account number that you don't actually have. 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