Evening Wire: Iran Places $10 Million Bounty on Barron Trump & Newsom Passes ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ | 8.24.26

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AI has been used plenty in the war up to this point but in drones it typically isn't in control until the last few hundred yards after a human pilot has already picked the target. The drone that killed three people last month appears to have been trained to target people, propane tanks and other sensitive targets more over the AI brain inside of it ran on commercially available chips made by Nvidia. The company says it doesn't sell the chips in Russia but they are widely available on a resale market. Experts say the weapons controlled entirely by AI create obvious concerns about machines killing civilians and taking other steps to violate international rules of war. Iran has placed a $10 million bounty on Baron Trump, just as the president's economic day sees the real plummet. Daily wire foreign affairs reporter Cassie Akiva has the latest. Iranian state TV has taken its threats against Baron Trump to a disturbing new level, airing a three-minute segment that appeared to map out how to track the 20-year-old NYU student and get around his secret service protection detail. The broadcast used AI-generated footage of a hooded hacker hunting for information mixed with clips of Baron in an arsenal jersey and playing X-Box while the narrator referenced a reported $10 million bounty and claimed quote, "many would be willing to collect it." Also today Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched Operation Economic Outcast calling it an economic D-Day aimed at cutting Iran off from the global economy. Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies will tighten the news and block every potential source of revenue that funds the IRGC and the evil Iranian regime. There will be no minimal breathing space for the regime to rebuild its capacity to inflict terror against America and the world. Our objective is to sever every economic pipeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until tyrann stands alone. Those who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership. Those who tether themselves to the Iranian regime should expect to share in the isolation of a weathering regime. President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are headed for an all-out trade war after weekend talks collapsed. The US hit roughly 20 billion in Canadian goods with a 50 percent tariff on Saturday and Carney promised he'll retaliate dollar for dollar, targeting steel, dairy and electronics. According to Carney, the talks broke down after Trump had, quote, "ass too much and offered too little." He also told reporters that the trade war is only happening because, quote, "we got attacked." Trump fired back on Truth's social writing that Canada wants the benefits of being a state without actually becoming one. Last week, the Trump administration deported dozens of violent criminal illegal aliens back to Haiti. Immigration reporter Jenny Tehr has more. Therese's deportation flight was the first to Haiti since the Trump administration ended temporary protected status for Haitian migrants. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the flight was packed with 162 illegal aliens, including several who are gang members, child sex predators and other kinds of violent criminals. Some had been in the country for decades. The administration ended TPS for about 350,000 Haitians in the US last month. After a June Supreme Court decision cleared the way. Since then, the administration has prioritized the arrest and deportation of Haitian nationals. For those deportees who aren't in custody, ICE uses ankle monitors to track them until they're removal. A private arbiter has ordered the Washington Post to rehire opinion columnist Karen Ahtia. She was fired from the paper in September last year after she made false claims about Charlie Kirk after he was fatally shot. In one mocking post, she wrote, quote, "refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face and performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is not the same as violence." At the time, the post said that Ahtia's comments were, quote, "beyond the pale and violated the newspaper's standards for conduct." But the arbiter ruled that the paper lacked a good and sufficient cause to fire her and said it had violated its labor agreement with Ahtia. This episode is sponsored by Brickhouse Nutrition. Everybody knows someone right now who's talking about weight loss injections. And to be fair, the results can be dramatic. But a lot of people are also hesitant about weekly injections. That's why more people, including some here at the Daily Wire, have been looking into lean from Brickhouse Nutrition. 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The controversial California Bill dubbed the Stop Nick Shirley Act has been signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. The law is ostensibly meant to expand identity protections for healthcare and non-profit workers, but critics argue that it only serves to prevent journalists from uncovering fraud. Citizen journalist Nick Shirley rose to prominence over the last year for his video work uncovering fraudulent nonprofits. Under the new law, the kinds of videos Shirley has made could be illegal as they would be considered doxing. The law will also allow immigrant and non-profit healthcare workers to shield their identities and business addresses from public records. Assemblymember Carl Demayo, a fierce opponent of the bill, released a statement highlighting quote, entities like the Somali Learing Daycare Centers would all be covered by the law if they operated inside California. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is arming himself with draconian police powers investigative reporter Meg Brock has the story. The governor is pushing to radically rewrite his state's health code to give his administration authoritarian police powers as he seeks re-election. The democrats proposed change would give Pennsylvania's Department of Health centralized police powers under the guise of disease control measures, including the ability to enter homes and schools without a warrant, access confidential medical records and impose statewide school mask mandates. The Shapiro administration openly admits pushback against COVID-19 restrictions, motivated the proposed regulation changes. Shapiro is Pennsylvania's attorney general during the COVID era and helped to enforce some of the most draconian COVID restrictions in the country, before Pennsylvania's voted to restrict the emergency powers held by the governor's office in 2021. Pennsylvania lawmaker Michelle Brooks told The Daily Wire it is shocking that the administration is now trying to work around those democratically enacted limits through regulation. The state legal battle over the paramount Warner Brothers merger is heating up. Entertainment reporter Amanda Harding has the story. Paramounts proposed purchase of Warner Brothers for $111 billion, immediately ruffled feathers among lawmakers who worried the merger would stifle competition in the television market. 12 states led by California are suing to block the deal. Now California attorney general Rob Bonta has announced that his office has cancelled the settlement meeting with paramount claiming that the media company operated in bad faith. Bonta asserts that paramount leaked details of a previous meeting. In a statement after the cancellation, Bonta wrote not only did paramount leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented these discussions, demonstrating a lack of good faith. If settlement negotiations don't resume, the case would advance to trial in March. President Trump honored the Freedom 250 Grand Prix event yesterday with a lap around the track and a wave of the green flag. The following race was a hard fought win for American driver Kyle Kirkwood racing for Andredi Global. Kirkwood's maneuvering put him out front early, but by the end of the race, Christian Lundgaard driving for Arrow McLaren was nipping it as heels for second. Will Power Kirkwood's teammate took third. The win marks the second for Kirkwood this season and the seventh in the 27 year old's career. And in a baffling turn of events surrounding Alaska's Senate race, a third Dan Sullivan has entered the conversation. Incumbent Dan S Sullivan was already facing an opponent with the same name, confusing many, but now another Dan Sullivan has appeared with his own message to voters. Dan A Sullivan, the Republican former mayor of Anchorage, has now endorsed GOP Senator Dan S Sullivan for re-election. Instead of his opponent, the retiree hired teacher Dan J. Sullivan. The third Sullivan wrote on Facebook, quote, "As the OG Dan Sullivan, I urge Alaskans to vote for Senator Dan S. Sullivan, he's been great for Alaska. I think I followed that." Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories, including the political battle over data centers sparking calls for moratoriums, tensions between Hollywood and Paramount erupting as the studio is a massive merger, and the polarizing Lindsay Clancy trial winding down. Thanks for tuning in. 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