Thursday February 26, 2026: Daily Wire

Thursday February 26, 2026: Daily Wire
North Carolina Mom Missing 24 Years Explains Herself
Michele Hundley Smith, who was 38 when she was reported missing in 2001, was found safe and sound last week but doesn’t want her whereabouts disclosed to her family or anyone else. She has two daughters and a son.
Oh man that’s going to be a lot of back child support, lady.
Outrage That Kash Patel Took FBI Jet to the Olympics
It’s the only place he could drink on the job.
Dude Who Gave Booze to Hawk Gets Jail Time
In his defense, he really wanted to see what would happen.
The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE
Alan Cole put his life savings, all $342,195.63, into a prediction-market wager. He insists he’s not really a betting man.
We all shoulda made the same bet.
Stephen Hawking With Bikini Women in Epstein Files Photo
Hawking is already known to have visited Epstein’s private island in March 2006 as one of 21 prominent scientists attending a five-day physics conference focused on gravity.
He was just looking. Give him a break.
Susan Collins Quizzes Surgeon General Nominee on Shrooms
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) dug into Surgeon General nominee Casey Means’ past use of psychedelic mushrooms on Wednesday as the latter faced a grilling from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
She has one of the few jobs where it matters.
Road in Texas Will Not Be Named After Charlie Kirk
A proposal to rename a portion of a highway in Texas after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was dropped Monday after more than 100 local residents showed up to their county commission meeting opposing the plan.
What if they just call it the Kirkwood Highway?
Bill Gates Admits to Affairs with Russians
At first he denied it but now Gates admits that he did have an affair with two Russian women with ties to Epstein.
I think what he’s saying is he was with Epstein while two russian girls watched.
Allyssa Liu Blew TF UP on Socials After Gold
Team USA’s Alysa Liu jumped from 300k to 5.3 million followers on Instagram on Tuesday, just one week after winning the country’s first individual Olympic gold medal in women’s figure skating in 24 years.
Maybe it was the Streisand effect?
Critics Are Going Bananas For Project Hail Mary
Ryan Gosling is getting all the love now that the embargo on press reviews has been lifted. Project Hail Mary is in theaters March 20.
This thing should just be called Ken 2.
Chelsea Handler Hulu Series
Chelsea is developing a new show for Hulu called Townhouse, about a “washed-up” reality star with a failed relationship with her daughter.
Boy, that’s a fresh new idea.
John Davidson Was Told Swearing Would Be Cut from BAFTA Awards
“StudioCanal were working closely with BAFTA, and BAFTA had made us all aware that any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast,” Davidson said. “I have made four documentaries with the BBC in the past, and feel that they should have been aware of what to expect from Tourette’s and worked harder to prevent anything that I said — which, after all, was some 40 rows back from the stage — from being included in the broadcast.”
Enough dude.
Jeff Probst on What 50 Seasons of Survivor Does to a Man
Read more at interviewmagazine.
Man on the Run
“Man on the Run,” premiering Friday on Prime Video, is the story of everything that came after the end of the Beatles.
Paul, you’re the only person looking back on wings
Metallica is Doing the Sphere
Is the Sphere still cool?
Saturday Night Fever DJ Dead at 86
Monti Rock III, who played the beloved DJ Monti at the disco the characters visited, The 2001 Odyssey has died.
Only his cousin remembered that he was in this movie
Rock Hall of Fame Nominees 2026
Where’s Weird Al?
Disney CEO Has Big Challenges
Star Wars is withering, Marvel is dying and the Magic Kingdom is not booming leaving incoming CEO Josh D’Amaro with some big hurdles to jump.
You got the right job at the wrong time.
Scream 7 Had a Lot of challenges
Expensive rewrites, and a 7 million dollar salary for the star. Its a lot of 7s
Whats in the Box?
Benny Blanco Shows Dirty Feet on Friends Keep Secrets Podcast
And the farting didn’t help either.
Taylor Sheridan Moves Spinoff From New Orleans to Texas
It appears Taylor Sheridan‘s Tulsa King spinoff, starring Samuel L. Jackson, won’t be taking place in New Orleans anymore.
You had me at Sam Jackson
KPop Demon Hunters, Frankenstein Join Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection has become the sphere of movies
Kid Rock Plane Gives the Finger
A photo of Kid Rock’s private jet is drawing heated reactions online — not just for the aircraft itself, but for what’s painted on it and what it appears to symbolize. The image, shared to Reddit’s r/flightradar24 forum under the title “Kid Rocks plane, landing in Nashville,” with the caption “Named: American Badass,” shows a Bombardier Challenger 601-3R registered as N71KR descending into Nashville, according to flight-tracking data visible in the post. The jet features a stylized middle-finger graphic on the tail, a detail that quickly became the focus of debate and criticism in the comments section.
So edgy.
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