NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (July 28)

Welcome to Entity Evening News. Our top story tonight, President Trump eulogizing the late Senator Lindsey Graham as a beloved friend and true American original. And the president holding back-to-back meetings with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel amid a pause in U.S. strikes against Iran, mariotsu at the White House. The nation's capital remembering the late Senator Lindsey Graham today, President Trump and other officials honoring his legacy of humor and bipartisanship. Newly declassified intelligence reports reveal how the Chinese Communist Party allegedly spent millions to influence U.S. politics, media, and public opinion, with more coming out about how they interfered in the 2020 election. And coming up, Dr. Anthony Fauci will return to Capitol Hill under subpoena. What his private diary reveals about his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. ICE dismantles Sim Farms, suspected to be linked to Chinese transnational criminal organizations. Jason Blair has the details. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, causing extensive damage. Dozens of people reported missing. Jason Perriwitt, the latest. This is MTV Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Keri Dutst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. At Washington National Cathedral, President Trump honoring the late Senator Lindsey Graham as a true American original. We now go live to NTD's White House correspondent Mari Otsu. She is at the North Lawn. Mari, good evening. What can you tell us about the day? Hey, Keri, good evening to you. Yeah, that's right. Well, many lawmakers and many world leaders, in fact, today gathered at Washington National Cathedral, which is really a testament to the late Senator Lindsey Graham's stature on the world stage. And President Trump himself, in a very wide-ranging eulogy there, highlighted what he called the late senator's singular ability to unite lawmakers across the aisle. But President Trump also got a bit personal there, sharing an anecdote about how their friendship did not get off to the best start in 2016, when they were both on the campaign trail together in the cathedral. The president telling the story of how he publicly disclosed Senator Graham's cell phone number on the campaign trail, even reciting the number there in the cathedral. The president going on to say, though, that his one-time presidential arrival turned quickly into an ally, saying, quote, that Lindsey was the first person to make you laugh and one of the last people that you'd ever really want to upset. Take a listen. So, naturally, I did something that I shouldn't have done. I shared his personal cell phone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day. But it was Lindsey who had the last laugh, because while I blew up his phone for one day, we became great friends. And Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years. It was not easy. President Trump honoring Senator Lindsey Graham as a giant of the Senate, calling him a true American original who rose from a small-town South Carolina pool hall to become a force in Washington and around the world. The president honoring Graham's humor, toughness, unwavering service, including 33 years in uniform and his proudest legacy, raising his sister Darlene after their parents' deaths. From their rocky start to longtime friendship, President Trump eulogizing Graham as a man who never quit and who's now reunited with his parents and the Lord. Yet, while he was always quick to laugh, no one ever doubted the gravity of his mission. And above all, Lindsey Graham believed in a strong America. It's a testament to his towering impact that among those mourning him here today are leaders, presidents, prime ministers from all over the globe. And among those world leaders gathered at the Washington National Cathedral were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, each of whom met with President Trump for around an hour at the White House before the funeral. The meeting with Netanyahu, their first face-to-face meeting after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran. The White House calling both of those meetings positive and productive, with Zelensky thanking the president for his efforts to advance peace between Russia and Ukraine, saying the president and I discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor production and several other ideas that could help. These meetings taking place as the U.S. pauses strikes against the regime with President Trump pushing for diplomacy. The president saying that some in the GOP are encouraging him to finish the job, but he's concerned about striking a delicate balance and would like to avoid destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure as much as possible. I think about 91 million people without power, without bridges would have to live. And it's a very, very delicate balance. So I think we have a very strong position right now. They know I'm going to do that if they don't make a deal. The bridges are going to be gone literally in less than a, I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges will all be gone. And the power plants in one day. And, you know, if I can avoid doing that, I'd like to do that. Now, Kerry, it does remain to be seen how these talks with Zelensky and Netanyahu could potentially shift President Trump's policy as the U.S. is still mulling whether to strike Iran. Back to you. Thanks for that update, Mari. In memorial services in D.C. today, of course, honoring the life and legacy of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, President Trump and other officials remember Graham's service, his bipartisanship, as well as his humor. And Denise, Fiona Gee has more on the ground. I'm outside the National Cathedral here in Washington, D.C., where the funeral for the late Senator Lindsey Graham has concluded. President Donald Trump was in attendance, as well as a slew of other officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance, as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. President Trump actually spoke during the service. Remembering the career and legacy of the late senator. Take a look. Lindsey first stormed into Washington with the Republican Revolution of 1994, becoming the first Republican to win his House district in 120 years. That was Lindsey. In 2002, he ran for the Senate in what should have been a loss, and he swept to an easy victory. Lindsey quickly became a master at maneuvering and one of the world's great. Legislative bodies, he secured record funding for our military as a budget committee chairman, he delivered the largest investment in border security in history, and last year he shepherded the passage of the largest tax cuts in American history. The great, big, beautiful bill. So there's the president listing just some of the accomplishments during Senator Lindsey Graham's 30 something odd years on Capitol Hill, but Senator Lindsey Graham was no stranger to personal hardship. He lost both of his parents within a 15 month span when he was in his very early 20s, leaving him to adopt and raise his younger sister, Darlene Graham, on his own. But he never let any of that hardship get in the way of his goals. He was actually the first person in his family to attend college out of college. He actually started serving in the Air Force, and this is something that a lot of people don't know. But he was a member of the military for 33 years. In 1995, he was elected as a representative for his home state of South Carolina, and he came here onto Capitol Hill. He served as a representative until 2003, when he then won the election to become a senator for South Carolina. And during this period of time, while he was serving on Capitol Hill, he was serving in the military, in the Air Force Reserve at the same time. Here's President Trump at the funeral calling Senator Lindsey Graham a tough cookie. But no matter how heated things got in Washington, virtually everyone, Republican or Democrat, liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody, but it sounds good. Not everybody. It was a tough cookie. OK, I have to be I have to veer from this. He was a tough cookie, darling, but he was beautiful. And there's there's the president bringing some humor into the funeral service, which I'm sure that the late senator would have appreciated because that's actually a theme we've been seeing throughout these remembrances for the late senator. Many people have brought up the fact that Senator Graham had a great sense of humor. We heard that from the vice president earlier today. We heard that from sanity, a Senate majority leader, John Thune, as well, all of them talking about how hard Senator Graham made them laugh all the time. J.D. Vance, the vice president, actually sharing one time where he was about to make a campaign speech. But right before he went on, Senator Graham made him laugh so hard his stomach ached and he had a hard time getting through that speech. But apart from humor, Senator Graham is known for his bipartisanship, his ability to stand firm in whatever beliefs he believes are right and best for American people without worrying too much about party lines. We heard Justice Elena Kagan bring this up a few days ago when she was remembering the late senator mentioning a moment during her confirmation hearing back in 2010 when the senator admits all this very intense questioning, asked Kagan, what did you do for Christmas? And that really broke the tension for a little bit, got everyone laughing. And he was actually one of the few Republicans who ended up voting to confirm that justice. He was also chair of the Senate Budget Committee. And before that, he was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee between 2019 and 2021. Now, when it comes to policy, Senator Graham was a very big supporter of Ukraine and Israel. And you can see that in the fact that the leaders of both of those countries came to his funeral today. And in fact, tonight, the Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote for the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which was named in honor of the senator. Now, we also heard from the senator's niece during the funeral who brought in a much more personal aspect to the senator's life, telling stories about how no matter how busy the senator got, even if he was on a way to a very important meeting on Capitol Hill, if a family member called, he was always there to pick up the phone and make sure everything was all right. And earlier today on Capitol Hill in the Capitol Rotunda, Vice President J.D. Vance did a good job of summarizing the late senator's legacy. Watch. So I choose to remember Lindsey Graham as a man who could disagree with you without being disagreeable. I choose to remember Lindsey Graham as a person who could fight with you on one issue, but fight for you on another issue. I remember Lindsey Graham as a man who loved people, and because he loved people, he was willing to reason with them, to respect them and ultimately to persuade them. Now that the funeral services in Washington, D.C., have concluded, the late senator will be flown back to his home state of South Carolina for another funeral service tomorrow before being laid to rest. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Fiona Gee, NTD News. Thank you, Fiona. Next, Dr. Anthony Fauci will testify under oath for the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday morning. More than eleven hundred pages of his private diary have now been made public. They're raising questions about how he responded to secret intelligence and whether his private assessments matched what he told the American people. And it is Chris Bob reports. Took us about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers. Or they had been sequestered and secreted. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul is expected to question Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday about newly released entries concerning COVID-19, China and conflicting U.S. intelligence. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., told Fox News Monday that his agency turned Fauci's diary records over to Senator Paul and Senator Ron Johnson ahead of Wednesday's testimony. On May 7th, 2021, Fauci reacted to a report about Chinese military documents discussing biological warfare. Quote, This just does not make any sense, since why would someone want to make an agent that could equally infect your own population? Something is wrong with this report. I will have to follow up on it. Less than one month later, on June 4th, Fauci received a CIA briefing concerning intelligence collected from inside China. According to Fauci's entry, CIA official Camille Hartman said the agency had intercepted Chinese conversations and obtained information from human sources. Quote, Her major point was that she feels the Chinese have not been transparent about what was going on in their labs since there were no reports publicly of what they found out from intercepts. Fauci wrote that the intelligence included the transfer of pangolin viruses from researchers in Beijing to Wuhan. CIA officials believe those viruses were being used in research involving genetically modified mice. The diary says the agency also had information from sources indicating that the Chinese military was conducting unknown experiments in Wuhan. Fauci described the CIA personnel as, quote, naive and uninformed, and wrote that he felt as though he was being questioned. Quote, I was wondering at one point whether I should have a lawyer present with me. There is something very fishy about all of this. About four weeks later, Fauci received another briefing from National Security Council officials and addressed conflicting assessments from the FBI and NSA. Quote, There were no new surprises for me in the briefing, except that it became clear that the FBI had no idea what they're talking about since they are convinced that the origin of COVID-19 is from a laboratory leak. The reasons they give do not make any sense. In contrast, the NSA gave some reasonable hypotheses leaning heavily towards a natural jump of species in the environment. Fauci added, quote, I spent some time explaining to Mar and Beth my own theories that the Chinese act like they're covering up something even when they have nothing to cover up. The entries show Fauci favored natural emergence, dismissing the FBI's reasoning. Asked on Fox News Tuesday whether he would have fired Fauci knowing what he knows now, President Trump said, Well, I would have fired him, but again, I didn't listen to him. So when he was with Biden, he was like to God. When he was with me, he wasn't even close. Dr. Fauci has not publicly responded to the latest disclosures. Chris Bobb, NTD News. And Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary revealing what the intel community briefed him on about those origins of COVID-19. What you need to know before his testimony on Capitol Hill tomorrow night, you're from Jeffrey Tucker on Capitol Report with Steve Lance at 7 p.m. Just after evening news. Next, newly declassified intelligence reports are shedding light on a Chinese Communist Party influence campaign in the U.S. The documents outline alleged efforts to shape public opinion, lobby policymakers and amplify divisions leading into the 2020 election. And it is Washington correspondent Jack Bradley reports. The Chinese Communist Party's influence in the U.S. may be far larger than Americans realize. Newly declassified intelligence reports, along with federal lobbying disclosures, show that the Chinese regime and Chinese regime linked entities spent more than 100 million dollars in foreign registration and lobbying expenses in 2025 alone. These are Chinese agents paying lobbyists to influence policy in Washington, and 100 million dollars is just what's been recorded. The State Department in 2023 said that China spends billions of dollars annually on foreign information manipulation around the world. And then there's groups like the Chinese Students and Scholars Association and the United Front Work Department, which don't need to file disclosures even though they operate as Chinese Communist Party fronts. For example, several American journalists have been gifted expense paid curated trips to China and then report afterward positively on the CCP. The newly released intelligence documents also show CCP influence in the 2020 election. They show Chinese cyber operations working to influence public opinion by amplifying political and social divisions in the U.S. through social media platforms. The documents say that the efforts magnified racial tensions and partisan disagreements. The intelligence reports also warn that foreign adversaries, including China as well as Russia, Iran and North Korea, possess capabilities to compromise voting machines. We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. President Trump has also said that intelligence officials withheld key information from not just him, but also former President Biden related to these foreign influence operations. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden. Now, following these disclosures, the acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, says that he's cut 30 percent of the workforce of the intelligence community. He says this is the fifth and near final round of terminations and that the mission of the intelligence community should be to protect the American people, not the political whims of the bloated and corrupt elite class. Jack Bradley, NTD News, Washington. A seven point one magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan today, causing extensive damage. Dozens of people are reported missing as rescue teams respond to the affected areas. NDD's Jason Perry has the latest. Surveillance footage showing trucks rocking side to side as a seven point one magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday. Other footage released by Japan's Ministry of Defense shows smoke rising from a quake hit area in southern Japan and extensive damage seen on a shopping mall as the earthquake caused the second floor to collapse. Kyoto News Agency, citing local police, says 20 to 30 employees were still missing while several other people were rescued. The news agency adding that about 90 people were taken to local hospitals for treatment. Other footage showing buildings on fire as firefighters tried to put out the flames and a train car appeared to have been knocked off the tracks by the earthquake. And a passenger recorded this footage as a high speed train made an emergency stop after the earthquake hit a local resident sharing his experience. How can I put it? I felt as if my body was hovering midair. So for a moment, I didn't realize it was an earthquake. It was only when I saw the wall collapse that it dawned on me that it was an earthquake. Aerial footage shot from a helicopter showing a bridge that collapsed into the water and a damaged shrine. The earthquake also knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes across the prefecture. Japan's chief cabinet secretary saying that nuclear facilities have reported no abnormalities and Japan's prime minister addressing the situation. I would first like to extend my deepest sympathies to all those affected by the disaster. To those in areas that experience strong shaking, the risk of building collapses and landslides remains high. She says that a task force for emergency disaster response has been established and about 3600 personnel from Japan's self-defense forces have begun operations in the affected areas. Coming up, ICE wraps up a nationwide operation dismantling sim farms used by transnational fraudsters. Jason Blair reports. 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Sixteen year old Colt Gray declined to speak to the court before his sentencing in Winder, Georgia. Gray shot and killed four people and wounded nine others at Appalachee High School back in September of twenty twenty four. The teen's father, Colin Gray, will be sentenced on Thursday. Earlier this year, he was found guilty of murder and manslaughter charges for purchasing the rifle for his son as a Christmas gift. Authorities say Colin Gray left the weapon unsecured in their house despite warnings that Colt was a danger to others. And temporary protection status for Haitians officially ended on Monday. DHS has been actively promoting its home app self-deportation program, which includes a free flight out of the country. Areas with large Haitian populations like Ohio are bracing for a possible surge in immigration enforcement for those that don't leave voluntarily. Antity correspondent Jason Blair has more. After 16 years, temporary protection status ends for Haitian immigrants in the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security is offering incentives to Haitians and others who don't have legal status to self-deport through the home app. We will help assist you in leaving if you would like. We'll buy you an airline ticket. We'll give you twenty six hundred dollars to reestablish yourself someplace else. You don't want to go back to the country you came from. And if you choose not to, then we'll pick you up and force you to leave. The governor of Ohio, a state with a high concentration of Haitians on TPS, pushes back. Well, it's a mistake. It's not good for the United States and it's not good for the state of Ohio. Senator Eric Schmidt speaking on the Senate floor in favor of Haitian TPS ending, saying it originally was intended to last only 16 months. TPS was created for emergencies. America is not a global refugee camp. America is not a get rich scheme for the third world. America is our home. ICE also recently carried out a nationwide operation to dismantle SIM farms. Transnational criminals use them for large scale telecom fraud like phishing and scam calls. ICE says many of these look to be linked to China. Since twenty twenty four, authorities have seized over nineteen hundred SIM boxes, over five hundred thousand cards and seven hundred thousand dollars across 15 states. ICE also announces they arrested three hundred and nine illegal immigrants during a four day surge in Palm Beach County, Florida, reporting in Washington, D.C. Jason Blair, NTD News. Trial against Metta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is now underway in Tennessee. The state alleges the company misled the public about Instagram safety while designing features that kept teens and children hooked. And it is Christina Corona has the details. A jury in Tennessee is hearing the state's lawsuit against Metta. The state alleges Metta violated the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act by misleading the public about Instagram safety. During opening statements, attorneys argued that Metta prioritized keeping teens engaged to maximize profits. They also alleged Metta disregarded its own internal research on Instagram's impact on young users. The state's first witness was former Metta engineering director Arturo Behar. He testified that Metta conducted internal surveys showing some teens reported anxiety, problematic use and other negative experiences on the platform. Behar testified that features including infinite scroll, autoplay, algorithm driven recommendations, push notifications, likes and other social rewards were designed to keep users engaged longer. Behar noted that he emailed Metta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, raising concerns about harm to young users on Instagram. He said he offered recommendations to make the platform safer, but he never heard back. He also testified that proposed safety changes often fail to gain management approval, saying the approval process was brutal for anything having to do with safety. Behar added that Metta did have the ability to disable features like infinite scroll and autoplay for children, but did not do so. He said, quote, there's no technical reason they couldn't turn these things off for kids. Metta denies the allegations, saying it has been transparent about the risks teens face online. The company says it has developed tools to protect younger users such as teen accounts and parental controls. The trial is expected to last about seven weeks. Christina Corona, NTD News. Coming up, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani moving forward with city run grocery stores and attacks for those who own second homes. We'll speak with the president of the Economic Inclusion Group for his thoughts. And wildfires continue to impact over a quarter million people in Spain and France. 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I felt a little embarrassed to come back to school, but eventually once I came here, I knew that it's for a bigger goal. He was very dedicated, hardworking. He connected with his teachers. He connected with other students. That was one of the key reasons why he was able to keep forging ahead. It was amazing to see him graduate. This was one thing that meant so much to him. And of course, it meant so much to us too. With the help of my father and having my son, that was all the motivation that I needed. That support is everything. Find free adult education classes near you at finishyourdiploma.org. Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Kerry Dunst. New York City's Mayor Zoran Mamdani takes another step to deliver his campaign promise to create government-run grocery stores aimed at helping to address the high cost of living. Joining us now is Jorge Gerisati. He's president of the Economic Inclusion Group, which is a global think tank focused on economic security, debanking and Venezuela's reconstruction. Jorge, thank you for joining. Let's jump in and listen to this recent announcement from the mayor. Today, I am proud to announce a collection of essential staples that will be predictably 30 percent cheaper at all five of our city-run grocery stores. This core set of goods will include all fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with 20 other essential items like cheese, milk and bread. Now, Jorge, of course, this all sounds great. 30 percent off food costs. You're from Venezuela, which underwent a socialist takeover under Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro. Do you see any similarities here in the talk tracks? Yeah, there's a lot of similarities because the fact is that groceries have been increasing exponentially, especially since the pandemic in the U.S. and internationally. As a result, you have a lot of people interested in finding a solution. But the solution is never to do this type of policies in Venezuela, in Cuba, in the former Soviet Union. We have seen what happens when you have government running this type of operations. When you have government running supermarkets, you have more corruption, you have more fiscal waste and you start eroding the market. Because imagine you're a supermarket, you're trying to compete. Your margins are already very thin. And if the government start pushing their own chains, you will be out of business. And then eventually then prices will be even higher as a result. So the resemblance is that you cannot have really an economy run by government, by politicians. That's not the way it works. Now, Jorge, the mayor says to address the concerns that you've pointed out, that they will not sell pot prepared foods and that's to avoid hurting those small grocery businesses. Do you think that's going to be enough to protect bodegas and private grocery stores? No, it's not enough. What's going to happen with this supermarket run by government or these grocery stores run by government is that you will have corruption, you will have waste, you have more food insecurity as a result, and you will undermine markets. The reality is that to solve this issue, which is a real problem, you need to do other type of policies. But if you focus on doing the bad policies, you cannot do the good policies. And what are the good policies? You need to have more competition. You need to improve the logistics. You need to make the markets work better, more efficient. You also need to open up opportunities for young people to open their own bodegas, their own chains. You need to empower civil society. And I think that's the difference. There is some people who believe that solutions come from the top to the bottom. They come from government. And there's people who believe that the economic solutions that our countries need in general is solutions that come from society, from empowering people, allowing them to build. Just think about, for example, think about technology, how the price of having cutting edge technology has been decreasing for all these decades. So why this happens? Because people, entrepreneurs have been empowered to deliver better services. And, Jorge, if you've seen this firsthand with what happened in Venezuela and you mentioned Cuba and the Soviet Union, why do you think people go for these, you know, charismatic politicians who promise things like this? People usually go for the solutions when they see no other alternative and when they see that their paycheck is not enough, when they cannot afford groceries, when they cannot afford rent and when their level of economic exclusion, economic insecurity makes them they cannot sleep during the night. So what happens is that these politicians, they tend to use this to their advantage and to create this type of populist solution. So what the people, what the people who believe in markets and who believe in freedom, what they have to do is that they have to convince the population that their solutions are the better solutions. People throughout history repeat the same mistakes. That's a sad part of also this reality, because think about it. It has happened again and again with all these socialist policies. They don't work. Hopefully, New York is such a vibrant, technologically advanced entrepreneurial city that they overcome this and that they see that a different path is the better path. But if not, we are already seeing what happened with other countries. Venezuela used to be one of the 20 richest countries in the world and now is the poorest in the region. Argentina used to be the richest country in the region and it became one of the poorest. So no country is really immune to bad economic policies. Jorge, Jerry Asadi, thank you so much for sharing your personal account and your analysis. Thank you. Thank you. Next, the new California bill seeks to give second chances to low level shoplifters through programs like job training and clearing arrest records. But local community leaders fear it will increase crime and burden the state with higher costs. And it is David Lam reports. California community leaders, district attorneys and law enforcement are calling on citizens and lawmakers to oppose a new bill. It would erase arrest records for alleged shoplifters who completes diversion programs. It is anticipated that the number of retail theft cases will substantially increase. The repeat theft patterns will be harder to identify and document over time, which will weaken the ability to establish the history necessary for enhanced repeat theft prosecution. According to the diversion bill, the court can order defendants charged with retail theft to partake in workforce programs, including but not limited to workforce development, vocational training and employment placement programs. Assembly Bill 21 08 creates pathways into the workforce, whether it's vocational or apprenticeship programs to help lift individuals out of poverty and curb retail theft. So let me be clear. This bill excludes any theft that involves violence or threatened violence, organized retail theft offenses and habitual repeat theft offenders. Upon completion, the arrest will be deemed to have never occurred and can't be used to deny jobs or other benefits. While it's presented as a diversion bill, its practical effect is to weaken the repeat offender accountability that California's overwhelming voted to restore by allowing theft related offenses to be dismissed through diversion. In twenty twenty four, nearly 70 percent of California voters supported Proposition 36, which increases penalties for crimes. This was after a series of smash and grab shoplifting and property crimes struck throughout the state. David Lamb, NTD News. The Education Department is escalating its enforcement of parental rights policies in schools with new actions against districts in Maryland and Michigan, following earlier federal findings involving school districts in Kansas. And it is Arlene Richards has the details. The Trump administration is stepping up its fight with school districts over parental rights, announcing on Monday new federal action against districts in Maryland and Michigan. And this is a travesty that parents are not considered first and foremost in charge of their children. They don't belong to the government. They belong to their children. The Education Department says the districts failed to provide parents with information about their children's gender identity and classifying gender identity as confidential medical information. The policy is raising concerns about federal student privacy laws and parental rights. This is really outrageous. And to hide it from parents and actually create separate file folders so that when parents ask to see their children's records that is being kept from them and it's being done on purpose. And so we're just not going to stand for it. The move follows similar federal action in other states. In April, the Education Department announced that it had found four Kansas school districts had violated federal law. The department's findings in Kansas involved policies allowing schools to conceal from parents whether their children are using different pronouns, going by different names or even having different names printed on their diplomas. Those districts were required to eliminate policies that were based on gender identity rather than biological sex and make records involving gender identity available to parents. McMahon said parents have the right to determine what their children's education exposure is going to be and the Trump administration is going to enforce it. Arlene Richards, NDD News. President Trump demanding that the Senate stay in session until Republicans pass the Save America Act. This as the upper chamber is scheduled to go on summer recess on August 7th. Why do I want the SAVE Act test to be done? They shouldn't leave town. I'm not going to stop them from doing it, but they should get the SAVE Act done. If they don't get it done, it's going to be a very bad thing for the party. In a recent post on Truth Social, President Trump calls on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to terminate the filibuster. That means getting rid of the Senate 60 vote threshold and allowing Republicans to pass the Save America Act with just a simple majority. Several Republican senators have said that they're willing to stay in D.C. and get this bill across the finish line. They include Senators Mike Lee, Ashley Moody and Jim Banks. And should Congress pass the Save America Act? And what do everyday Americans make of the widespread mail-in ballots? NDD's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. President Trump right now is urging the Senate to pass the Save America Act. There's been a lot of talks, a lot of momentum. Do you think Congress should pass the Save America Act? Yes, I do. I think you need to show an I.D. to go get tickets from a will call window. You need an I.D. to buy alcohol. A whole bunch of other reasons. And voting is such a sacred and important thing for our country that you should show an I.D. for that as well. Anything Trump wants, I don't want. So that's a no. Absolutely. I mean, we have to protect our voter integrity. Otherwise, we don't have a country. I don't I don't see why anyone doesn't understand that. Voting is too important to have people that don't belong to be here, be here and vote. We have to have I.D. for many things in America. So why not I.D. for voting? I think they should pass the Save America Act. It's one of our highest privileges as being an American citizen. And it needs to be pure. And it needs we need to have those that are citizens that are voting. Do you think mail-in ballots should be widely distributed as wide as it is today? It should be widely restricted. It should be for people that need that that are working outside of the country, for people that are in the military. From what I understand, there are people that have been dead 20, 30 years. Their ballots got mailed in and they're vote counted, but they're no longer alive. So how does that how does that work? As it is today, I think there's got to be some reform and some kind of middle ground there. I think have more control over, you know, who who gets what, you know, as far as in the mail, maybe a certified mailing system or something to that effect. I'm skeptical is when you hear about and they might be anecdotal, but about, you know, like 3 a.m., the votes suddenly switch because they get a lot of votes for one candidate or the other. I kind of agree. It's very accessible currently. And I think overseas military stuff like that would be correct. Or if you're housebound. But I think it is pretty there's a possibility of having some issues with it. Not just our current president, but presidents in the past have mentioned and stated very plainly and clearly that it will it will cause a lot of fraud. Why do we want fraudulent elections? A breaking update on military operations involving Iran. 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I can't wait to grow up to become a heart surgeon and fix baby's hearts. But until then, I'll keep helping the American Heart Association. So please join me. Just call the number on your screen or go to helpheart.org to become a monthly donor and help save lives. Welcome back to the evening news. I'm Kerry Dunst. Wildfires continue to impact over a quarter million people in Spain and France. Forests are extremely dry due to three heat waves hitting the region so far this summer, with a fourth heat wave starting today. And it is international correspondent Arian Pasdar has the latest. New body cam footage on Tuesday shows French crews battling a wildfire in a forest near Bordeaux. The area near the city is covered by pine forests, which become highly flammable when dry. Drone footage shows the scale of the fire with smoke covering huge areas. Temperatures on Tuesday are above 90 degrees Fahrenheit as the fourth heat wave of this summer is starting. They're expected to hit 100 degrees later this week. Over 200,000 people had to be evacuated so far. Some are now staying in makeshift shelters. I'm surprised, but pleasantly so, because I feel we've been extremely well looked after. We've been welcomed and supported in absolutely every area where we might need help. A separate fire is also ripping through neighboring Spain, burning down the homes of some residents. Practically everything here was burning. It was very sad watching the cameras and seeing your house burned down because this is my home after all. The fire, which is burning near the capital city of Madrid, is affecting villagers in the forest. Firefighters are racing to contain it before the fourth heat wave of this summer starts to really kick in. The Spanish government is giving tax breaks and other benefits to the communities hit by the fire so they can focus on helping the residents. The days and hours ahead will be especially challenging, among other things, because our meteorological agency has just warned us of a significant rise in temperatures and a new heat wave. The fire near Madrid has now become the country's largest in recorded history. Monitors are recording increased particulate pollution in the capital city. The Spanish prime minister says there are currently eight different wildfires burning in different parts of the country. So far, over a dozen people died due to the fires this year. Harry and Pastor and TV news. Next, Malaysian police have raided more than two dozen locations hosting online scam schemes. Authorities arrested over 300 suspects, seized around two hundred and forty thousand dollars. The Johor police chief said the July 15th operation targeted two areas identified as hubs for call centers running online fraud activities. The suspects arrested were between 20 and 58 years old and included three hundred and nine Chinese nationals, 19 Indonesians, three Malaysians and four suspects from Myanmar. Officers also seized nearly 1900 electronic devices used to execute multimillion dollar romance and crypto scams. Authority said the scams targeted victims in China, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and in the US. And a photographer captured a harrowing and heroic rescue by a teenage lifeguard on a Southern California beach that he said was the most intense he had ever witnessed. Here's what happened. Watch a heroic teenage lifeguard rescue a 10 year old swimmer from monster waves in Southern California. Video of the safe was captured on a beach in Santa Cruz as huge waves battered the 16 year old as he tried to bring in the boy. According to KSBW, several bystanders attempted to help, but were also batted back by the intense crashing surf. Eventually, another lifeguard assisted and the swimmer was brought safely to the beach. The boy was evaluated by paramedics and released to his parents, according to the photographer who captured the stunning safe. He said he hopes others will learn from him. I've never seen a rescue this intense before. We want to see people come out, have a good time, enjoy the weather, but get home safely. Safely on the beach is how and where a pilot made an unexpected landing in Huntington Beach, California. KCAL reports the small plane had just taken off when the pilot says things went sideways. We were in the process of just talking with LA Approach and then the engine quit and I got out a call. I just called Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. The local beach provided a soft and secure spot for the impromptu landing, which eyewitnesses described as perfect. Finally, a happy ending to a dire situation near Hawaii, where KGMB reports a California man was rescued after being stuck adrift at sea for a month. The man was attempting a solo trip across the Pacific when his boat's mast snapped and he ran out of gas. He said he drifted for weeks, surviving on oatmeal and fish until he was spotted by a passing ship's crew who brought him aboard and gave him clothes, food and a ride back to land. In that teen lifeguard video went viral and President Trump praised the brave act. He posts on X that he will invite the young man and his family to the White House. President Trump is responding to his son, Eric Trump's post, who suggests to give the 16 year old lifeguard the highest civilian honor. Eric Trump writes, quote, This is truly the best of America. And the president adds, quote, Very brave. He deserves it. Hoover Dam in Nevada is temporarily closed to visitors due to emergency repair work. The repairs affect access to the road through the area, according to a post on the landmark's Facebook page. A spokesperson with the Bureau of Reclamation says it's not known how long the dam will be closed. The dam and the power plant are not at risk. And that is all for today's evening news. But for around the clock coverage, you can always visit us at NTD.com or even better, use our NTD app. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Cary Dunst. Good night.