The Georgetown women’s basketball team has received criticism after they posted on X mourning former player Sydney Wilson’s death just days after a video emerged showing her stabbing a police officer. 

The FBI has quietly edited the crime statistics for 2022 after initially stating in September of 2023 that crime — particularly violent crime — was down 2.1% overall. In the months since that number was first released, Democrats and media talking heads have wielded it like a sledgehammer to crush Republican claims that crime is on the rise — but the “stealth edit,” which was somehow not mentioned in a September 2024 press release from the Bureau, undercuts their argument. Real Clear Politics co-founder and President Tom Bevan shared an analysis of the revision, saying in an X post, “Guess what? Crime isn’t down 2.1%, according to the FBI. They just released a ‘stealth-edit’ update: violent crime is actually up 4.5%.” Guess what? Crime isn't down 2.1%, according to the FBI. They just released a "stealth-edit" update: violent crime is actually up 4.5%.https://t.co/hLRWthHKC0 — Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) October 16, 2024 Real Clear Investigations (RCI) dug into the issue after seeing a seemingly innocuous statement on the FBI’s website, which read, “The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.” As RCI noted, there was no indication that the updates included an upward revision of the violent crime data — and the only way that anyone would ever see the change would be to download the current numbers and compare them side by side with the report released in 2023. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 According to RCI’s analysis of just such a comparison, overall crime was up 4.5% rather than down 2.1%, as the Bureau had initially reported. That increase translated to 80,029 more violent crimes — 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults — than were reported in 2021. To complicate matters even further, it appears that similar revisions did not occur in previous years. Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary, told RCI, “I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022. There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.” The revision vindicates Republicans, who have long been claiming that the data was incorrect and that crime was rising — and backs up former President Donald Trump, who was erroneously “fact-checked” on the issue by ABC News debate moderator David Muir. WATCH: Three weeks before an election — and after the debates — FBI revises their crime statistics — showing crime increased by 4.5% in 2022 instead of dropping 2.1%. Here is ABC’s David Muir “fact checking” Trump in front of millions of viewers with lies that will never be retracted. pic.twitter.com/3N88pjn4g4 — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 16, 2024

Iran’s illegal oil sales have exploded under the Biden-Harris administration, providing a much larger sum of cash than was previously known to the Islamic regime that it has used to fund terrorism throughout the Middle East. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a newly released report that Iran has made $144 billion in oil sales under the administration. The report showed that Iranian oil revenues more than doubled during the administration’s first year in office, from $16 billion during former President Donald Trump’s last year in office to $37 billion in 2021. Iran earned more than $53 billion during both 2022 and 2023. The EIA warned that the real numbers could be even higher because Iran will use smaller vessels to transport the oil, which can avoid detection. “Iran uses several obfuscation techniques such as turning off its ship identification signals, applying ship-to-ship transfers, or relabeling cargoes as originating from other countries for both crude oil and oil products, which increases the challenge of providing precise export data,” the report said. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 The Free Beacon reported that Iran has already exported more than $34 billion in 2024, meaning the regime has collected at least $178 billion in oil exports under the administration. Claire Jungman, director of United Against a Nuclear Iran’s (UANI) Tanker Tracking Program, told the publication that the numbers should serve as a “catalyst for the administration to enforce sanctions more aggressively on vessels transporting Iranian oil.” “The illicit activity detailed in the report underscores the need for firm action to hold these vessels accountable and ensure that sanctions are effectively implemented to curtail Iran’s ability to export oil in violation of U.S. sanctions,” she added. The $178+ billion Iran has earned under the administration does not include $16 billion in funds that the administration unfroze for Iran to access, including $10 billion in electricity revenues and $6 billion in frozen oil revenues.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) remarked on Tuesday that saying former President Donald Trump’s name is “like swearing,” referring to the Republican presidential nominee as “what’s his name.” Pelosi, 84, sat down for an interview with The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland where she slammed Trump while trying to avoid using his name. “I hardly ever say his name,” she said, adding, “I think [Trump is] a grotesque word. … You just don’t like the word passing your lips. I just don’t. I’m afraid, you know, when I grew up Catholic, as I am now, if you said a bad word, you could burn in hell if you didn’t have a chance to confess. So I don’t want to take any chances.” “It’s up there with, like, swearing,” Pelosi added. Pelosi broke her own rule and uttered Trump’s name later in the interview, The Hill reported. “When we talk about democracy being on the ballot, it’s a woman’s issue, but it’s an everybody issue. When we talk about freedom of speech, do you see now that Trump is talking. … I said his name, oh my gosh. I hope I don’t burn in hell,” she said. Pelosi frequently uses grave language to refer to Trump, including calling him a “threat to democracy.” During the Democratic National Convention in August, the former House speaker compared the Democrats’ 2024 election against Trump to the American War for Independence and the Civil War. “We have to defeat a person who is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen,” Pelosi said at the time. “At the beginning of our country, Thomas Paine said ‘The times have found us — declare war, establish a new nation.’ Abraham Lincoln took up that charge to keep our country together years later, decades later.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 “And now the times have found us to save our democracy,” she added. “That is what we are here to do.” At another point in her interview with The Guardian, Pelosi said that she has not spoken with President Joe Biden since he dropped out of the race in July. Pelosi was reportedly a leading voice in pushing for Biden to end his 2024 campaign following his disastrous debate performance against Trump. “I think his legacy had to be protected. I didn’t see that happening in the course that it was on — the election was on,” she said. “My call was just to — ‘Let’s get on a better course. He will make the decision as to what that is.’ And he made that decision.”