Gov. Pritzker agreed big cities have high crime, and he seems content with that. A total of 57 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend and at least seven have died. Mostly young people are the criminals and the victims. So, I guess it has to be a way of life in his mind. […] The post Gov. Pritzker Wants Us to Accept the High Crime in Chicago & Trump Says, “We’re Going In!” appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The U.S. military on Tuesday struck a drug-carrying boat hailing from Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, as tensions spike between the Trump administration and the Venezuelan government. President Trump announced the strike in an unrelated Tuesday afternoon Oval Office event, saying the military had “shot out” the boat “moments ago.” He said his […] The post US Conducted a “Lethal Strike” on a Drug Vessel from Venezuela appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday afternoon that American forces had taken out a “drug-carrying boat” coming out of Venezuela. Trump made the comments during a press conference from the White House announcing that Space Command will be moving its headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. He said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had briefed him just before the press conference. “When you come out and when you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes literally, shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. And you’ll be seeing that, and you’ll be reading about that,” Trump said. ? @POTUS: We just, over the last few minutes, shot out a drug-carrying boat… and there’s more where that came from… These came out of Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/JlurCZWBpG — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 2, 2025 “It just happened moments ago and our great general, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran knocking out potential nuclear power for a long time to come … he gave us a little bit of a briefing. And you’ll see. There’s more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country. Coming in for a long time,” he added. He said that the boat came out of Venezuela. “We took it out and you’ll get to see that after this meeting is over,” Trump said. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the strike in a post on X. “As [Trump] just announced moments ago, today the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization,” Rubio posted on X. The strike comes as tensions have been rising between Trump and Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Last month, Trump directed the Pentagon to deploy U.S. troops and warships to address “threats to U.S. national security from specially designated narco-terrorist organizations in the region,” according to Reuters. The Trump administration has accused Maduro and his government of taking part in massive drug trafficking operations that smuggle narcotics into the United States. The government recently increased the bounty on Maduro to $50 million, citing his alleged ties to transnational gangs and drug cartels.

President Donald Trump trashed ABC News in a Sunday post on his Truth Social platform, criticizing the network specifically for giving air time to former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Trump referenced the recent lawsuit against ABC News and Democrat strategist-turned-anchor George Stephanopoulos — which he won, to the tune of $16,000,000 — and suggested that Brazile’s coverage might leave the network vulnerable to another similar lawsuit. “Why does Fake News ABC’S This Week With George Slopadopolus have Low IQ ‘commentator’ Donna Brazile on the show?” Trump asked in his post. “Wasn’t she totally discredited when she gave Crooked Hillary Clinton the questions to a Debate??? Wasn’t she FIRED by Fake News CNN for so doing??? Why would ABC ‘News’ hire such a dumb retread?” “Check out her disastrous interview with Megyn Kelly from years ago — A total Classic!!! Donna is dumb as a rock, and a liar besides,” the president continued. “She, and Sloppy Chris Christie, should be fired from a highly discredited ABC Fake News. They just paid me $16,000,000 for ‘inaccurate’ reporting, now they should pay me more!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.” Trump’s post came within hours of Brazile’s appearance on Sunday morning’s broadcast of “This Week,” where she had criticized Trump’s tariff plan and claimed that it had “created a level of uncertainty that the American people can’t afford.” She also lashed out at the president for rescinding Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris — a privilege that former President Joe Biden had extended her in his final days as president — and claimed that Trump was only stripping her security detail because he was “petty” and “vindictive.” Brazile, as Trump noted in his post, left her previous position as a commentator at CNN after it was revealed that she had passed details about debate questions to twice-failed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential debate held in St. Louis, Missouri.

A new report from the countries of Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica reveals President Trump’s border policies are catalyzing over 14,000 migrants who planned to enter the United States to reverse direction. “Migrants traveling south interviewed in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia by those countries’ ombudsmen offices were almost all Venezuelans (97%) and about half of them said they planned to return to Venezuela, according to the report,” the Associated Press reported. “Nearly all said they were returning because they could no longer legally reach the U.S.” Reasons cited by the immigrants for reversing course in the report, which came from a commission formed by the Office of the Ombudsman of Costa Rica and the Ombudsmen’s Offices of Panama and Colombia, with help from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, included: Refusal of entry to the United States (49%); changes in immigration policy (46%): fear of detention or deportation (17%), and lack of financial resources (34%), according to the Tico Times. The report stated that northward migration plunged 97% in 2025. One immigrant stated, “It’s time to go back — the American dream wasn’t like this.” In April, The Atlantic noted, “For the first time in recent history, the people passing through Central America are mostly moving south. The new migration flow seems to have been triggered by the Trump administration’s crackdown on both legal and illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border.” In March, Omer Badilla Toledo, who supervises migration policy for the Costa Rican government, said his country was processing over 200,000 asylum applications. When President Trump took office on January 20, he issued a proclamation that noted that the Immigration and Nationality Act states that “[w]henever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.” He added, “I hereby proclaim, pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), that aliens engaged in the invasion across the southern border of the United States on or after the date of this proclamation are restricted from invoking provisions of the INA that would permit their continued presence in the United States, including, but not limited to, section 208 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1158, until I issue a finding that the invasion at the southern border has ceased.”

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Bill Belichick’s first season as UNC’s head coach is not off to a great start, and it was only made worse when his girl was caught speaking to him on the sidelines during warmups. Belichick’s much younger girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, captured attention as she approached the legendary coach before his blowout loss against the TCU Horned […]