President Trump is looking for ways to give the money he sends to insurance companies to Americans in a healthcare account. The stunning breakthrough comes with President Trump saying he’s talking to some Democrats about it. He is considering completely replacing Obamacare with a new system. The President is recommending it to Senate Republicans. “And […] The post President Trump Is Discussing a New Healthcare System with Democrats appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents descended upon Charlotte, North Carolina, over the weekend, arresting more than 130 illegal immigrants with criminal records ranging from aggravated assault to felony larceny, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The arrests were part of the Trump administration’s “Charlotte’s Web” operation, which began on Saturday and aims to find and detain illegal immigrants who have found sanctuary in the Democrat-run city. The Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire, “Border Patrol arrested over 130 illegal aliens who have all broken the immigration laws of our country.” “Criminal records of those arrested include known gang membership, aggravated assault, possession of a dangerous weapon, felony larceny, simple assault, hit and run, possession of stolen goods, shoplifting, DUI, DWI, and illegal re-entry after prior deportation, a felony,” a DHS spokesman said. “We will not stop enforcing the laws of our nation until every criminal illegal alien is arrested and removed from our country.” Across North Carolina, authorities have ignored nearly 1,400 immigration detainers and released violent illegal immigrants back onto the streets, according to the DHS. Border Patrol Commander Gregory K. Bovino posted photos of suspected illegal immigrants who have been taken “off the streets” of Charlotte over the weekend. “Who’s at the same grocery store as you? This illegal alien from Honduras with a criminal history,” Bovino wrote in one post. “He has arrests for aggravated assault, assault with a dangerous weapon & DUI. He has also been removed from the U.S. twice, so now that he’s here AGAIN, he committed a felony by re-entering the U.S.” Who’s at the same grocery store as you? This illegal alien from Honduras with a criminal history. He has arrests for aggravated assault, assault with a dangerous weapon & DUI. He has also been removed from the U.S. twice, so now that he’s here AGAIN, he committed a felony by… pic.twitter.com/Kx8BI4NJFi — Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) November 16, 2025 “This illegal alien from Mexico has 3 DUI/DWI convictions. We arrested him, taking him off the streets of Charlotte so he can’t continue to ignore our laws and drive intoxicated on the same roads you and your loved ones are on,” Bovino added in another post. This illegal alien from Mexico has 3 DUI/DWI convictions. We arrested him, taking him off the streets of Charlotte so he can’t continue to ignore our laws and drive intoxicated on the same roads you and your loved ones are on.#DHS #CBP #USBP #CHARLOTTESWEB pic.twitter.com/4dv9HbbTVm — Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) November 16, 2025 DHS said that one law enforcement officer was injured during an operation over the weekend, when a U.S. citizen “weaponized his vehicle, driving a large van at law enforcement while they were conducting an operation.” The driver allegedly fled the scene, prompting a high-speed chase. The suspect, who has previous arrests for resisting law enforcement, public disturbance, and intoxication, was eventually taken into custody. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER INJURED DURING ENFORCEMENT OPERATION. This afternoon in Charlotte near University City, a United States citizen weaponized his vehicle, driving a large van at law enforcement while they were conducting an operation. He immediately fled the scene, starting… pic.twitter.com/Iu2fm1p6Lh — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 17, 2025 As Border Patrol began arresting suspected illegal immigrants in Charlotte, residents took to the streets to protest, demanding that the federal agents leave the city. Hundreds of protesters gathered on Saturday, carrying signs that read “Immigrants Make Charlotte Great,” “Kidnapping Immigrants Won’t Make America Great,” and “Charlotte Demands ICE and Border Patrol Out Of Our City!” North Carolina Democratic Governor Josh Stein blasted the federal operation in a video statement. “We’ve seen masked, heavily armed agents in paramilitary garb driving unmarked cars, targeting American citizens based on their skin color, racially profiling, and picking up random people in parking lots and off of our sidewalks,” Stein said. Grant Baldwin/Getty Images Charlotte is the latest big city targeted by President Donald Trump, who is surging federal law enforcement and immigration agents to cities across the country to address illegal immigration and violent crime. Charlotte gained national attention earlier this year when Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death while riding the city’s light rail train. Decarlos Brown Jr., an American citizen, was charged with Zarutska’s murder after he had previously been arrested 14 times. Federal agents have also arrested hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants and violent criminals in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Memphis, and Portland.

The first known fatality from a red meat allergy intolerance spread by ticks has been recorded. The otherwise healthy 47-year-old New Jersey man died abruptly after consuming beef at a restaurant in the summer of 2024. He had been camping with his family two weeks prior, per UVA Health.  The man’s son found him unconscious on the floor of a bathroom surrounded by vomit, and the man was declared dead at a hospital. The autopsy declared it was a “sudden unexplained death,” but his wife pushed for answers, and eventually it was discovered that his death could be traced back to a tick bite. Former Chief of UVA Health’s Division of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Thomas Platts-Mills determined via blood samples taken post-mortem that the man had been sensitized to alpha-gal, a sugar found in mammalian meat, the outlet noted. Alpha-gal syndrome is caused by a bite from the Lone Star tick, which causes people to have an anaphylaxis reaction. Symptoms include a rash, nausea, and vomiting after consuming meat. The same man had become ill after a steak dinner two weeks prior and had told his son he felt like he was dying.  “The important information for the public is: First, that severe abdominal pain occurring 3 to 5 hours after eating beef, pork or lamb should be investigated as a possible episode of anaphylaxis; and, second, that tick bites that itch for more than a week or larvae of ticks often called ‘chiggers’ can induce or increase sensitization to mammalian-derived meat,” Platts-Mills said. “On the other hand, most individuals who have mild to moderate episodes of hives can control symptoms with an appropriate diet.” While most individuals who develop alpha-gal sensitivities don’t have such an extreme allergic reaction, it is a possibility that severe illness or death can occur. Platts-Mills also warned doctors to be on the lookout for these types of responses in their patients. “It is important that both doctors and patients who live in an area of the country where Lone Star ticks are common should be aware of the risk of sensitization,” Platts-Mills said. “More specifically, if they have unexpected episodes of severe abdominal pain occurring several hours after eating mammalian meat, they should be investigated for possible sensitization to the oligosaccharide alpha-gal.” Lone Star ticks are common throughout the South, Southeast, and much of the eastern and midwestern United States, and their range has been expanding northward and westward in recent years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said more than 110,000 suspected cases were identified between 2010 and 2022, but the actual number is likely higher, as people aren’t likely to test for it. The CDC also found in 2023 that 42% of health providers had never heard of Alpha-gal syndrome.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales reportedly stormed out of an interview after being pressed on why he referred to himself as the site’s “founder.” The incident occurred while Wales was speaking with Tilo Jung for the German political podcast “Jung & Naiv.” When Jung pressed him to clarify if he’s the founder or co-founder, Wales responded, “I don’t care. It’s the dumbest question in the world.” Jung pressed the topic, asking if there was a “dispute” over the issue. “What are the facts?” Jung asked. “Well, it’s not a fact, it’s an opinion, so you can have whatever opinion you like,” Wales replied.  Jung tried to nail down that detail again, saying, “For you, you’re the founder?” “Can I just say again, it doesn’t matter. I’ve answered your question four times,” Wales said firmly. He then stood up and said, “You know what? I’m done. Thank you.” “What’s going on?” Jung asked as Wales seemed to head for the exit, prompting Wales to say over his shoulder, “It’s stupid. Don’t ask me stupid questions.” “How is that stupid?” Jung wondered. This isn’t the first time this particular issue has caused strife. During a 2023 interview with Lex Fridman, Wales also called the question of who founded the most popular online encyclopedia “unimportant” and “not that interesting.”  “I actually think Larry Sanger doesn’t get enough credit for his early work in Wikipedia, even though I think co-founder’s not the right title for that,” he said at the time. Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia along with Larry Sanger, but Sanger exited the project in 2002 and has been speaking out against it ever since. “Wikipedia is badly biased. The original policy long since forgotten, it no longer has an effective neutrality policy. It now touts controversial opinions on politics, religion, and science. And examples have become embarrassingly easy to find,” Sanger shared on X in 2020 alongside a link to a blog post detailing some of the worst offenses.  Those listed included a “Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server scandal—or, of course, the developing ‘Obamagate’ story in which Obama was personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump.”  “It is time for Wikipedia to come clean and admit that it has abandoned NPOV (i.e., neutrality as a policy). At the very least they should admit that they have redefined the term in a way that makes it utterly incompatible with its original notion of neutrality, which is the ordinary and common one,” Sanger wrote in the post. “Of course, Wikipedians are unlikely to concede any such thing; they live in a fantasy world of their own making.” In September, President Donald Trump announced that the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was investigating Wikipedia over alleged pro-Kremlin, anti-Western, and anti-Israel bias, and that it was raising serious concerns given that AI chatbots heavily rely on the site’s information, as The Daily Wire previously reported. Sanger expressed his gratitude for the probe, saying, “I am glad that Congress is investigating the use of foreign and U.S. government funds to pay for biased editing on Wikipedia. … There is clearly massive support for this sort of investigation.” The co-founder added that Wikipedia “makes broad editorial decisions about what constitutes reliable sources, which must be respected by large numbers of participants. … The Wikipedia Foundation could address the situation, but does not.”  He noted that the Wikipedia Foundation also “refuses to reveal the identity of its most powerful editors or to override decisions by editors.”

Meta is promoting its artificial intelligence’s new “free AI creator tools” on Instagram with a piece of content that appears to show an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump kneeling before a demon. A screenshot of the AI-generated video, showcased in an advertisement for the tool, showed what looked like Trump shaking hands with a Satan-like figure before kneeling before it, according to a video captured on the platform that was reviewed by  The Daily Wire. The promotion read: “Meta AI: Try free AI creation tools” and featured a “Get app” button. Meta AI launched “Vibes” in September, which the company describes as “a new feed in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai where you can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos.” A Meta spokesman told The Daily Wire that the video in question was “user-generated content” that “has been removed from this recommendation surface as it violated our protocols for promotions.” It is unclear how user-generated videos are selected for the promotion, nor if there are any safeguards in place to ensure content that violates “protocols for promotions” are weeded out. The Meta spokesman told The Daily Wire that the company is “taking additional steps to prevent this from happening moving forward,” but would not specify how. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump at The White House in September to discuss “harnessing artificial intelligence to propel the U.S. to the forefront of global innovation.” During the meeting, Zuckerberg told reporters the company is investing at least $600 billion in the United States through 2028. The Daily Wire uploaded a screenshot of the image to the Meta AI app to ask it who appears in the ad and what is happening in the image. The response said the image depicts a “manipulated photo of Donald Trump kneeling and adjusting his tie while interacting with a large, black horned creature likely a satanic or demonic figure.” Although the image captured only a screenshot of the AI-generated video, the response added that the image is “likely a satirical or humorous representation, rather than a real event.” “The ad is from Meta AI, promoting their free AI creation tools,” the response from Meta’s AI read. The Daily Wire asked Meta to clarify which specific protocol the imagery may have violated; whether the material was user-generated content incorporated into the promotion; whether it was deliberately selected or randomly populated; and whether Meta has systems in place to prevent protocol-violating content from appearing in this manner. The company did not provide further details. Meta and Trump have had a tumultuous relationship over the years. The company “indefinitely” suspended the president after the January 6 Capitol riots in 2021, but Facebook’s Oversight Board reinstated his accounts in 2023, Business Insider reported. The president accused Zuckerberg of undermining him in the 2020 election and ahead of the 2024 election, he wrote in a new book. “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” the New York Post reported. Zuckerberg congratulated Trump on his win in 2024 and donated $1 million to his inauguration fund. The pair have had at least two meetings since the election, including Zuckerberg’s participation at the White House dinner in September.

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