Kirill Dmitriev is the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund since 2011. He was also appointed as Russian President Putin’s special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation. Mr. Dmitriev believes Biden provoked the war in Ukraine to cover up his family’s corruption. The Suppressed CIA Report Dmitriev noted on […] The post Russian Envoy: Biden Provoked War to Cover Up Corruption appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker should be thrown in jail “for failing to protect ICE officers” as Trump’s immigration enforcement operation in the Windy City continues to face opposition from state and local leaders. “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Johnson and Pritzker have pushed back against Trump’s efforts in Chicago and have also condemned the president’s move to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. On Sunday, Pritzker responded to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s description of Chicago as a “war zone,” accusing the Trump administration of “making it a war zone.” “They need to get out of Chicago if they’re not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the president said they were going to do,” Pritzker added. After Pritzker refused Trump’s request to deploy Illinois National Guard troops to Chicago, Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois earlier this week, ABC News reported. Mayor Johnson also took a step on Monday to impede ICE’s operations in the city, signing an executive order that creates “ICE-free zones,” The Daily Wire previously reported. “The order establishes ICE-free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids,” Johnson said. Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” a massive federal effort to crack down on violent crime and detain illegal immigrants that began last month, has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests in Chicago. The operation, however, has been met with fierce and sometimes violent opposition. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout Over the weekend, federal immigration agents driving in Chicago were rammed and surrounded by 10 vehicles in an area where anti-ICE protesters had taken to the streets. One of the drivers accused of ramming into the agents’ vehicles “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” according to Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. The federal agents fired at the armed agitator, “who drove herself to the hospital to get care for her wounds,” McLaughlin said. The armed suspect, identified as 40-year-old Marimar Martinez, was on Border Patrol’s radar after she allegedly doxxed federal agents and threatened to “f*** those mother f***ers up.” After Martinez was released from the hospital, she was taken into FBI custody, according to the DHS. No federal agents were injured in the apparent attack, according to McLaughlin, who also accused the Chicago Police Department of refusing to assist federal law enforcement “in securing the area.” According to internal dispatch obtained by Fox News, Chicago Police Department officers were told by their chief of patrol not to respond to the incident. “PLEASE CHIEF OF PATROL NO UNITS WILL RESPOND TO THIS AS RELATED FROM 04-Oc5-2025/12:34:44…CALLER IS 1 OF APPROX 30 ARMED PATROL AGENTS (ICE) WHO ARE BEING SURROUNDED BY A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE REQUESTING CPD,” a dispatch message said. The police department responded to the report, claiming that officers were on the scene “to maintain public safety.” “To clarify misinformation currently circulating, CPD officers did in fact respond to the shooting scene involving federal authorities on Saturday to maintain public safety and traffic control,” the department said. “The Chicago Police Department will always respond to anyone who is being attacked or is under the threat of physical harm,” the department added. “For incidents involving federal immigration enforcement, CPD supervisors will respond to the scene and determine the appropriate course of action in accordance with City law.” Fox News, however, quoted “two senior Chicago police sources” who said that the Chicago Police Department’s statement is “not true.” The ramming over the weekend was not the first time that federal immigration officers were targeted with vehicles in the Chicago area. Last week, illegal immigrants used their vehicles to target federal agents during enforcement operations, The Daily Wire reported.

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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Judge Michael Nachmanoff set a January 5, 2026, trial date, though Comey’s attorney indicated the defense planned to file several motions to avoid a trial. Comey was indicted Sept. 25 on two counts for allegedly lying to Congress during his September 2020 […]

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News Buffy the Vampire Slayer Danny Strong Turned Down Writing the Buffy Revival to Rewrite Chess on Broadway Yes, Chess. The musical. Chess. By Molly Templeton | Published on October 8, 2025 Credit: 20th Century Fox Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: 20th Century Fox Television For Buffy fans, Danny Strong needs no introduction. In the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, Strong played Jonathan, a classmate of Buffy and the Scooby Gang who appeared fairly regularly over the course of the show’s early seasons before becoming a villain in the complicated sixth season. (One absolutely must nod to the fourth-season episode “Superstar,” in which he became the star for a brief moment.) Since then, Strong has become an award-winning writer and director. He co-wrote the adaptations of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, co-created the series Empire, and has full creator credit on Dopesick, which won a pile of awards. His new project is a little different: He’s the writer behind an all-new version of the musical Chess on Broadway. But, as he told Playbill, he almost had a very different job this year. “I’ve never told anyone this before, but I was approached to write the Buffy revamp. They wanted me to be a part of bringing it back. And I was like, ‘hell no, I’m not touching that! Are you crazy? I’ll rewrite Chess, but I’m not gonna touch Buffy,’” Strong says. Some context for the less musically informed among us: Playbill’s Margaret Hall notes, “Chess has long been the poster child for beautiful but frustratingly broken musicals, with fans and critics alike praising the score while struggling to follow its story.” Buffy, on the other hand, is beloved in that way where people mostly don’t want to fix it. Which Strong clearly knows. He went on to say, “Those writers, they have a lot to live up to. It was a very wonderful show with a very unique tone. And I really hope it goes well for everyone, that the writers and the fans and Sarah have a wonderful experience like they had with the original show … It was clear to me that Chess was the project I could pour my heart into. That’s why I picked it, even if my bank account would have preferred I picked Buffy.” (A side note because I can’t help myself: This is not the first connection between Chess and Buffy. You might know the song “One Night in Bangkok” from Chess. A version of it was in a hit in the ’80s. That version was performed by Murray Head, who is the brother of Buffy’s Giles, Anthony Stewart Head. Carry on.) The Buffy reboot that Strong isn’t writing is in the hands of showrunners Lilla and Nora Zuckerman (Poker Face) and features original Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar alongside a new slayer played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew). Hulu has ordered a pilot, but there’s no word yet if it will get picked up as a series. Chess opens on Broadway on October 15th. It took ten years to get there, but it’s there. Strong says, “When it was first announced that it was coming to Broadway, my response was as a Chess fan. I just started grinning like, ‘Oh my goodness, Chess is coming back.’ I almost forgot that I was the one bringing it back.” [end-mark] The post Danny Strong Turned Down Writing the <i>Buffy</i> Revival to Rewrite <i>Chess</i> on Broadway appeared first on Reactor.