Evening Wire: Plane Hijacking Confirmed As Jihadist Terror Attack & Iran Involved In UK Airbase Incident? | 9.30.26

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A terrifying mid-air attack was thwarted Wednesday after the copilot of a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight stabbed to the captain and tried to take control of the aircraft. The fly Dubai flight carrying 174 people plunged roughly 17,000 feet in less than two minutes as the attack unfolded. The captain identified as an Indian national thought back and managed to open the cockpit door despite being seriously wounded. And Israeli passenger then rushed into the cockpit with a crew member, pulled the attacker away from the controls and helped her strain him. Two off-duty pilots on board ultimately took control and landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia. Israeli officials have classified the incident as an attempted terror attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the passengers as heroes who prevented a catastrophe. The passengers have since returned safely to Israel. In similar news, British officials now say Iran is believed to have been involved in the security incident near RAF Fairford, a British airbase used by U.S. forces for operations against Iran. Five British men in their 20s were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offenses after three vehicles were seen moving toward the base, triggering a major incident and the evacuation of dozens of homes. British authorities later found no explosives in the vehicles, though they recovered a quantity of gasoline and the men were released on strict bail conditions without charges. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday that Britain now believes Tehran played a role in the incident, while Iran has categorically denied any involvement. In a moment that's gone viral, the view co-host Sunny Hauston defended the Tompkins County DA's original decision not to charge seven Cornell fraternity members accused of gang-raping a fellow student in 2024. Hauston, a former federal prosecutor, said the woman's original statement to campus police, indicated she voluntarily took drugs and alcohol and consented to sexual encounters with several fraternity members. That means she said prosecutors could not establish that she was legally unable to consent under New York law. Take a listen. >> I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they're reporting it unfairly, and while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought forth things. >> Yeah, but she was intoxicated. After New York law, voluntary intoxication, if you voluntarily drink 10 beers, and you voluntarily ingest ketamine, but that intoxication- >> That doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the guys attacked her, whether she's drunk or not. >> No, according to her statement, she says they did not attack her, her statement in 2024. >> My issue is with the she was consented to the sexual activity. She consented to it, according to her own statement in 2024. Now I prosecuted sex crimes for 10 years. I believe women. I am not saying that we shouldn't believe her, but in 2024, she said some one thing. >> All right. >> And now in 2026, she's saying another one. >> The DA has reopened the investigation after the woman filed a 101-page lawsuit containing new allegations and text messages between the fraternity members. The case is proving to be another polarizing one that's gained at national attention. On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced charges against 10 foreign nationals for illegal votes across three elections in Minnesota. Daily Wire contributor Tim Pierce has more. >> In total, the charges cover nine counts of illegal voting by an alien and nine counts of making a false claim of citizenship to register to vote. The illegal voting spread across the 2022 and 2024 general elections in Minnesota's 2026 primary election. And the defendants include four foreign nationals from Brazil, Ghana, and Liberia, while announcing the indictments, Attorney General Todd Blanche stressed the importance of election integrity. Here's Blanche. >> I keep on talking about this, basically every time I speak publicly, about the great work of the department and the work that our prosecutors are doing. And I'm confident that at some point, the media will actually start reporting it. But since President Trump returned to office, the Department of Justice, working primarily with Secretary Maulin and Department of Homeland Security, has charged over 90 people now with voter-related fraud offenses, including 50 aliens in just the past five weeks. There are hundreds of investigations that are ongoing across the country. At the same press conference, Blanche also said that the Justice Department has filed a complaint against almost the entire federal bench in Minnesota. The DOJ filed the complaint after all but one of the judges went to the New York Times to publish complaints about the administration. The judges accused the administration of mishandling cases during its immigration enforcement surge earlier this year. Vanity Fair published an article Tuesday that included interviews with Charlie Kirk's mother, Catherine, and what was her first time ever talking at length to a reporter. Catherine spoke about her close relationship with Kirk's widow, Erica, and how the two of them have only grown closer since Kirk's death. She said, quote, "We knew Charlie in a way that no one else did." Catherine also debunked online claims that she and her husband had blamed Erica after their son's death. According to the article, Catherine choked up while talking about the attacks aimed at Erica online. She told Vanity Fair that, quote, "We were 100 percent behind her." A school featured in a recent campaign ad for James Talleriko is drawing attention online. As users point out, it is nothing like the one where the Texas Senate candidate actually taught. Reporters actual has the story. The 30-second education-themed Spanish-language ad portrays Talleriko as someone who fights to, quote, "open doors for all Texans." But while the ad features students from the poor school that Talleriko taught at before launching his political career, the backdrop for the ad is a highly expensive private school. Talleriko's production used the Keystone School, an elite San Antonio private school where tuition can cost parents more than $27,500 for high school and $17,000 for pre-K. They also conveniently blurred out the school's mascot and logos in the video. Talleriko actually taught language arts at San Antonio's Rhodes Middle School, which was closed down recently following four consecutive years of academically unacceptable ratings. Though Talleriko claims the school closed due to, quote, "a systemic attack on public education." A federal court paused the execution of a death row inmate in Tennessee today just hours before she was scheduled to be killed. A divided U.S. court of appeals stopped the execution, scheduled for 10 a.m. in Nashville, to give time to consider a last-ditch legal argument made by the inmates' attorneys. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scermetti has already asked the Supreme Court to step in, and called the stoppage a, quote, "technical issue." The inmate, Christa Pike, has been in prison since she was arrested for the torture and murder of a classmate in 1995. Her death was postponed after attorney said that her defense at the initial trial did not account for the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. If Pike is executed, she'll be the first woman to receive the death penalty in Tennessee in more than 200 years. President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday directing federal agencies to replace the term's artificial intelligence and AI with superintelligence and SI on official communications and other non statutory materials. The order directs the White House Science and Technology Advisor to develop a federal definition of superintelligence and recommend additional actions to implement the new terminology. Trump argued that superintelligence better reflects the rapidly advancing capabilities and potential of the technology. The order followed a White House summit with top technology executives were Trump announced a voluntary, quote, "White House Accord" on superintelligence that he described as a set of morally binding commitments for the industry. At a CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the agreement a positive step towards stronger internal controls and audits. A drug policy group is urging President Trump to pursue a ban on a popular but not widely known drug, Cradle, associate producer Wyatt Harms as a story. Cradle is restricted by some states, but is completely legal on a national level and often sold at gas stations and convenience stores. The foundation for drug policy solutions announced a new ad campaign on Tuesday following the recent deaths of two Ole Miss students. Cradle was believed to have played a part in the boy's death. The group is now calling on Congress and President Trump to ban the drug, which they say has been involved in over 5,000 deaths since 2020. Daily Wire host Reagan Conrad also highlighted the dangers of Cradle on a recent investigation which can be found on the Reagan Conrad YouTube channel. And the Iranian military wing, the IRGC, has released a strange open letter to Americans. The IRGC spokesman Hossein Mahebi said on Tuesday that the letter is meant to help Americans better understand Iran's views and positions. Most notably, the letter claims that the common Iranian refrain "death to America" doesn't quite mean what you think it means. The letter says, "It should be fairly obvious that the phrase "death to America," which Iranians have been chanting since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, does not in any way express any ill will toward the American people. The letter continues by praising the No Kings protest movement, despite themselves being ruled by a dictator, as well as the claim that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. Finally, the IRGC urged Americans to come visit Iran. We encourage our listeners to read the letter and let us know if you've decided to change your holiday plans to visit the straight-of-war moves. I've heard it's lovely this time of year.