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Australian police thwart a second suspected Bondi beach attack. Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the FBI and the Oscars abandoned ABC.

I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Thursday, December 18th.

This is Evening Wire.

NASCAR star Greg Biffle and some of his family members died this morning in a plane crash.

Daily Wire reporter Lyndon Blake has more.

This is just a tragic story.

A private plane carrying Biffel's family and two others crashed Thursday morning about 45 miles outside of Charlotte.

The crash happened just after 10 a.m. while attempting to land shortly after the plane

took off from the Statesville Regional Airport. Longtime friend of Biffle, YouTuber Garrett Mitchell,

said the Biffles were on their way to visit his family when the plane crashed. Biffle's two children

were 14 and 5. He was known as both a racing champion and a humanitarian who dedicated his time to helping

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