The Department of Homeland Security’s Border Agency resolved a problem from the Biden era. The Biden administration was letting illegal immigrants enter the US and claim asylum with bogus identity documents. The department’s Inspector General flagged the issue last month, saying agents were catching migrants at the border who tried to use fraudulent paperwork, but […] The post Shocking Process for Asylum Under the Previous Administration appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Donald Trump filed a new $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times on Thursday, following the dismissal of a similar lawsuit last month. In the suit, Trump accuses the Times of printing false and defamatory statements about his business career that damaged his professional reputation. The suit also names multiple reporters for the Times and Penguin Random House, which published a book on Trump’s business career.  “The statements in question wrongly defame and disparage President Trump’s hard-earned professional reputation, which he painstakingly built for decades as a private citizen before becoming President of the United States, including as a successful businessman and as star of the most successful reality television show of all-time— The Apprentice,” the suit said.  It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Two articles published by the Times in September 2024, and the book “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success,” are the subject of the suit. The reporters named as defendants include Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, and Peter Baker.  The suit listed a number of claims it said were defamatory, including an allegation that Trump received millions of dollars from his father through “fraudulent tax evasion schemes.” Another claim was that Trump’s father gave him “taxable gifts masquerading as loans, a likely tax fraud that went unnoticed.”  The suit said that these kinds of statements hurt Trump’s business ventures, including his social media company, Truth Social.  “Statements falsely casting aspersions on President Trump’s reputation as a businessman or the Trump Organization’s legitimacy therefore cause direct and easily foreseeable harm to these businesses’ value, revenue, and profitability,” the suit said.  Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Last month, Trump filed a similar lawsuit targeting the Times and multiple reporters he said made defamatory statements to maliciously interfere in the outcome of the 2024 election. That suit was tossed out by Judge Steven Merryday, who said it was improper.  “A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally or the functional equivalent of the Hyde Park Speakers’ Corner,” Merryday said.  Trump has previously won millions of dollars in lawsuits against ABC News and CBS/Paramount. He is also pursuing an ongoing defamation case against The Wall Street Journal over an article alleging he wrote a birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein.

The music world is still coming to terms with the loss of Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley, a founding member of the heavy metal band KISS. The lead guitarist was 74 when he died on Thursday from injuries sustained from a recent fall. His family said in a statement at the time, “We are completely devastated and heartbroken. In his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth.” It went on, “We cherish all of his finest memories, his laughter, and celebrate his strengths and kindness that he bestowed upon others. The magnitude of his passing is of epic proportions, and beyond comprehension. Reflecting on all of his incredible life achievements, Ace’s memory will continue to live on forever!” Now Frehley’s bandmates are weighing in with their tributes. “We are devastated by the passing of Ace Frehley,” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley told Variety in a joint statement. “He was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative foundational chapters of the band and its history.” “He is and will always be a part of KISS’s legacy,” they went on before offering condolences to Frehley’s estranged wife and his daughter. “Our thoughts are with Jeanette, Monique and all those who loved him, including our fans around the world.” Stanley also paid tribute to Frehley in a post on X, sharing a throwback photo and a memory. I remember 1974 being in my room at the Hyatt on Sunset in LA and I heard someone playing deep and fiery guitar in the room next door. I thought “Boy, I wish THAT guy was in the band!” I looked over the balcony… He was. It was Ace. This is my favorite photo of us… pic.twitter.com/3ojMXqVkQr — Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) October 17, 2025 “I remember 1974 being in my room at the Hyatt on Sunset in LA and I heard someone playing deep and fiery guitar in the room next door,” he wrote. “I thought ‘Boy, I wish THAT guy was in the band!’ I looked over the balcony… He was. It was Ace,” added Stanley, 73. “This is my favorite photo of us…” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Frehley, Stanley, Simmons, and Peter Criss founded the band in New York City in 1973. Known for their elaborate face paint and over-the-top performances including pyrotechnics, the band became massively popular in the mid-1970s and beyond. Frehley was with KISS until launching a solo career in 1982, but came back for a reunion tour beginning in 1996 and stayed until 2002. He went back to solo performing and was actively touring when he died. A post on the official Ace Frehley Facebook page earlier this month confirmed that the rest of his tour was being canceled due to “ongoing medical issues.”

Last night, the three New York City mayoral candidates took the stage for a wide-ranging, heated debate, ushering in the final days of a contentious campaign. Zohran Mamdani, the socialist frontrunner and state assemblyman, squared off against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels. Mamdani and Cuomo’s heated exchanges were the focal point of the evening, with Sliwa often fighting to get a word in edgewise. The next mayor of NYC will oversee a $115 billion budget and manage a workforce of 300,000 people. The moderators scrutinized each candidate’s resume, with no candidate leaving the second question of the debate unscathed. Cuomo spent a large part of the night defending himself from allegations of sexual harassment brought against him and his mishandling of the COVID pandemic, topics raised frequently by Mamdani and the moderators. “You have the management experience, but you resigned from office amid sexual harassment and COVID-related scandals,” Telemundo’s Rosarina Bretón asked. “Why should voters trust you have the character to be mayor?” Cuomo defended himself by noting all sexual harassment cases had been dropped and later called the COVID-related accusations “politically motivated.” Cuomo then jumped into his executive experience, noting that the budget he managed as New York Governor is twice the size of the New York City budget. He listed several of his accomplishments as Governor, including minimum-wage laws, paid family leave, and construction projects such as LaGuardia Airport. Cuomo used the remainder of his time to issue what appeared to be a direct blow to Mamdani, declaring the role of mayor as “no job for on-the-job training.” When Cuomo announced his candidacy with a 17-minute campaign ad, many viewed his election to the office as a foregone conclusion. But on June 24, Mamdani shocked New York with a decisive primary victory, upsetting Cuomo 56% to 44% in the final ranked choice vote tally. Sliwa, a longtime fixture in New York City, pitched himself as the only candidate who really understands New Yorkers, having spent the most time in the city’s outer boroughs and riding public transit. Sliwa insisted he wasn’t running for “a title or paycheck,” and pledged he would staff his administration with the “best and brightest” who have dedicated their lives trying to improve the city of New York. Moderators addressed Mamdani’s lack of experience, asking the assemblyman if he was “ready to lead the nation’s largest and greatest city in the world?” “I have the experience of being a New Yorker.” Mamdani began, “I’ve paid rent in the city, waited for a bus in the city, and bought groceries in the city.” Mamdani also added “watching a politically broken system, securing $500,000 in debt relief for taxi drivers, and delivering five no-fare buses” to his management skills. Mamdani’s answer led to a heated exchange between him and Cuomo. “He literally has never had a job,” fired Cuomo, “He interned for his mother. Any day you could have a hurricane, God forbid a 9/11, a health pandemic. If you don’t know what you’re doing, people could die.” Mamdani spent the rest of the night rebuffing two attacks: his extreme views on Israel and Hamas, and his untenable socialist policy proposals. Moderators pressed Mamdani on his refusal to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada,” which many view as a call to arms, and on lyrics from his 2017 rap career praising the “Holy Land Five” — men who were convicted of funneling dollars to Hamas in 2008. Thanking the moderators for the opportunity to explain his past rhetoric, Mamdani told potential voters that after conversations with Jewish New Yorkers, he now “discourages this language.” That wasn’t enough for Cuomo, who repeatedly accused Mamdani of refusing to condemn Hamas. Controversial statements have haunted Mamdani throughout the campaign. In 2020, he publicly supported defunding the police and government housing over private property ownership. Today, he champions a platform that includes increasing the $17 minimum wage to $30, free child care, free buses and subways, government-run grocery stores, and rent freezes for rent-stabilized tenants. Mamdani’s policies would cost the city $10 billion. This week on Fox News, Mamdani said he would raise taxes on the 1% by 2% to pay for his plans. However, Governor Kathy Hochul pledged to reject his tax hike proposals, an obstacle Mamdani attempted to dodge during the debate. When asked, Mamdani declined to use the debate stage to endorse Hochul. So did Cuomo and Sliwa. Since the debate, Mamdani has maintained his double-digit lead in the polls.

Some people are saying that President Trump’s magnificent handling of the Iranian-Hamas terror war against Israel has revealed him to be a political colossus whose opponents on both the left and right are nothing more than small, petty, fleshly instantiations of total irrelevance, with opinions that are meaningless and small and evanescent in their influence and small and also small. Other people are saying other things. Like, “What’s for dinner, Mommy?” or “Read me a story, Daddy,” or “I’m George Stephanopoulos and this is ABC News.” But even as Trump celebrates getting terrorist hostages released and securing the American border and readjusting the international order so that China, Russia, and a seething hellpit of demonic Jew haters of all stripes don’t take over the world, those who oppose him are vowing to bring him down by unleashing the full force of the tremendous cultural power they used to have until we caught on to them. So for instance, while Trump is being hailed by leaders around the globe as the Grand Marshall of the parade of history, powerful magazine editors from one end of Manhattan to the same end of Manhattan are vowing that his glamorous First Lady Melania will never, ever appear on the cover of one of their crappy, irrelevant magazines. The editor of American Vogue magazine, Chloe Irrelevant, announced this shattering act of cultural vengeance in a barn-burning speech at the annual meeting of the Society of Crappy and Irrelevant Magazine Editors, saying, “Trump may have his moment, but as God is my witness, we will show our resistance to him by sinking to levels of pettiness and meanness that the world has not seen since our last issue.” Miss Irrelevant’s speech seemed to be greeted by thunderous applause until she realized she had wandered into a ladies room, and the people she thought were her audience were just her own reflections in the mirrors over the sinks. Likewise, in the smoking ruins of what would still be Los Angeles if they had taken Trump’s advice on water usage, both members of the Jimmy Kimmel fan club swore to ignore the Israeli peace deal and to pay tribute instead to Kimmel’s inspiring work of ensuring that every TV comedian has the exact same political opinions as every other TV comedian. To honor Kimmel’s protection of the corporate political conformity enshrined in our Bill of Rights, the Kimmel fans pledged they would actually watch Kimmel’s show one of these days if it didn’t interfere with their nightly gummy overdose. At the New York Times, a former newspaper, Editor-in-Chief Blithering Prevarication the Third declared that he would not let Trump’s victory over terrorism stop the Times’s relentless juggernaut of misleading headlines, which was sure to bring the president down just as soon as Times subscribers stopped playing Wordle and momentarily glanced at the misleading headlines. In a speech to the Association of Once-Important News Outlets, which had gathered in a ladies room to hear a speech from the editor of American Vogue, Mr. Third said, “Trump may be powerful now because he has all these accomplishments and what-not, but his authoritarian regime will never survive such fiery tirades as the article we headlined, Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump. This, at last, presents the revolutionary vision of the Transportation Secretary who made history by bringing gay people to the very pinnacle of complete incompetence.” And so while Donald Trump may enjoy this flash-in-the-pan moment of nine or ten months of unprecedented political achievement, the powerful masters of what used to be our culture until the scales fell from our eyes have not given up their resistance. In the words of influential Harvard Professor Alan Flapdoodle, “We convicted Trump of non-existent felonies, we impeached him for non-existent offenses, we accused him of non-existent treasons, and I know in my heart that, if we can compare him to Hitler just a few more times, he will be brought down once and for all. Our voices are not irrelevant. Our lives are not meaningless. Our dreams will never die. Now if you’ll just put a dollar in my hat, I’ll be happy to play “Blowin’ in the Wind” on my harmonica. After all, a man’s gotta eat.” * * * This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fifth installment, After That, The Dark, is now available for PRE-ORDER. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan The views expressed in this satirical piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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In the lead-up to California’s Nov. 4 special election to approve its proposed Democratic gerrymander, state party leaders are butting heads over messaging strategy. Democrat mega-donor and failed 2020 presidential candidate Tom Steyer caused a stir when his last-minute early October $12 million ad buy featured a self-given monologue highlighting his opposition to President Donald […]