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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran by an Israeli airstrike carried out early Wednesday and Iran has stated they will claim their revenge against Israel, according to the terrorist organization. 

Joe Biden has made another massive effort to buy votes with tax dollars with student loan forgiveness. He is violating the Constitution, and this new venture will not happen. However, he is only proceeding with it to get people to vote for him. It’s a ruse. He is sending out tens of millions of emails […] The post Biden’s New Scheme to Get 30M People to Vote for Him appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital Wednesday, Iran and the militant group said. They blame Israel for a shock assassination that risks escalating the conflict. Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel. There was no immediate comment from Israel, which has pledged to kill Haniyeh and other […] The post Israel Killed Hamas Leader in Iran in His Sleep appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Israel Hayom reports that, based on preliminary Iranian inquiries, Haniyeh was eliminated by a drone that had infiltrated his room, acting on intelligence allegedly provided by a member of his close protection team. Haniyeh is responsible for Oct. 7 and the war that ensued, killing untold numbers of Israelis and Gazans. His terrorist group uses the […] The post Report: Hamas Leaders Bodyguards Might Have Helped Kill the Monster appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The illegal immigrant who shot and wounded a Texas cop had a deportation order against him after he entered the country last year. Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez, 25, unlawfully crossed America’s southern border in November 2023 along with nearly 600 other immigrants, the New York Post reported, citing a Homeland Security source. When he was captured, the process began for an “expedited removal,” but he claimed he was afraid of persecution in his home country of Venezuela and was sent before an asylum officer. That officer reportedly rejected Chacon-Gutierrez’s claim of persecution and continued to process him for removal, but he asked to see an immigration judge to make his asylum claim. The asylum judge then vacated the order of removal against Chacon-Gutierrez and allowed his asylum case to continue. Chacon-Gutierrez was able to stay in the country while waiting for his case to continue. His court date was set for April 2026. But on Sunday, he got into a shootout with San Antonio, Texas, police officers. Officers from the San Antonio Police Department responded to a domestic violence call around 3 in the morning. “When officers arrived, they learned that a female victim had been assaulted by her boyfriend,” SAPD Chief William McManus said. “When officers went into the apartment, he was lying in bed with a rifle by his side.” A SWAT team entered the apartment and a shootout began, according to law enforcement, with Chacon-Gutierrez shooting and injuring one officer. Police say the suspect fired the first shots. Ultimately, Chacon-Gutierrez ended up dead, but it is unclear whether he was shot by police or committed suicide, Fox News reported. The wounded officer is expected to survive after she received surgery on Sunday. Chacon-Gutierrez’s girlfriend, who told police he had assaulted her, was not seriously injured, police said. Last week, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning “the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.” Six Democrats also voted for the resolution. Former President Donald Trump has said he would have “no choice” but to begin mass deportations if he were to be elected again. “We have no choice, we have to get the criminals out,” Trump told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “These are murderers. These are drug dealers. These are people that will take women and put them in the trunk of a car and sell them to the highest bidder, they’ll come across the border, human traffickers. Actually, it’s almost as big as the drug trade. Now, you wouldn’t even believe this. And the reason is because of the internet. The internet has made that into a massive business, human trafficking, it’s mostly in women.”

A judge in Oklahoma has blocked the Biden administration’s guidelines that force public schools to allow trans-identifying males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports. Oklahoma is now the 22nd state to block the new Title IX rules, which would redefine “sex” to include gender identity and sexuality. Since they were issued in April, courts in eight districts have barred the regulations. The rules are set to take effect on August 1 for all states that have not received a preliminary injunction. On Wednesday, Judge Jodi Dishman, a Trump-nominated judge, ruled in favor of Oklahoma’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the federal guidelines. Dishman issued her ruling even after numerous Blue States filed an amicus brief arguing against the injunction. The only loss for advocates of due process and women’s sports came from a district court rejecting a request for a preliminary injunction by Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The states have filed an emergency motion for a stay of the regulations, but the outcome is in doubt. In addition to the rules being blocked in 22 states, dozens of K-12 schools and universities across the country have been blocked from implementing the rules. Title IX is a federal statute that bans sex discrimination, but the Biden administration has expanded the definition to include sexual identity and gender identification. Courts across the country have determined that this expanded definition is wrong. On June 13, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden rules while calling them an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” His ruling blocked the new guidance from taking effect in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana. “Title IX was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination,” Doughty wrote. “Such purpose makes it difficult to sincerely argue that, at the time of enactment, ‘discrimination on the basis of sex’ included gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Enacting the changes in the Final Rule would subvert the original purpose of Title IX: protecting biological females from discrimination.” On June 17, U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the rules in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. A few weeks later, on July 2, U.S. District Judge John Broomes, another Trump appointee, issued a similar ruling blocking the new Title IX rules in Alaska, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming. Broomes’ ruling went further, however,  and included a massive list of K-12 schools and universities across the country where the rules would also be blocked. That list came from schools attended by children of the defendants in that lawsuit, Moms for Liberty, and members of the Young America’s Foundation. On July 11, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, another Trump appointee, issued another ruling that blocked the Biden Title IX guidance in Texas, Newsweek reported at the time. On July 24, U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel, a Clinton appointee, blocked the rules in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. That brought the total number of states where the rules can’t be implemented to 21, and Oklahoma now brings the number to 22. The Biden administration has argued to at least implement the Title IX guidance that doesn’t include transgender capitulations – such as the provisions regarding reduced due process protections – in the states that have blocked the rules so far, The Hill reported. In the rulings against the regulations, however, judges have noted that because of the Biden administration’s redefinition of the word “sex” to include gender identity, transgender issues can’t be carved out from the rules as a whole. “[T]he fact that the definition permeates the entire Rule, the Court concludes that it would be a nearly impossible task to excise the remaining regulations without also eliminating those regulations that involve sex discrimination,” Judge Sippel wrote in his ruling. Other judges wrote similar statements.

“The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot” on June 19, 1944, was the most lopsided aerial victory of the Pacific War. In one day Japan’s 1st Mobile Fleet and land-based contingent lost over 300 aircraft and crew, rendering Japanese naval air power a shell of the fighting force that had so confidently sallied forth to meet the Americans and end the Saipan invasion. Admiral Ozawa, however, still commanded a formidable array of surface ships. And although U.S. submarines had sent two of his three prized fleet carriers to the bottom, he was still eager for a fight with the seven carriers and roughly 150 planes he had remaining, plus aircraft he mistakenly believed were still in some force on Guam, which was not the case. He’d planned on rendezvousing with his tankers, refueling, and hitting the Americans again in the morning. But his opposing tactical commander, Admiral Mitscher, refused to just sit back and wait to be attacked again. He wanted to pursue and destroy the Japanese fleet. There was, however, a problem. The Americans weren’t sure where Ozawa’s ships even were. Throughout the day, U.S. scout planes scoured the vast emptiness of the Philippine Sea in a desperate search to locate the Japanese fleet. It wasn’t until 3:15 in the afternoon, and after flying some 300 miles, that a scouting party from Enterprise flying Grumman Avenger torpedo planes spotted the unmistakable pagoda-like masts of the Japanese fleet and radioed their find to Task Force 58. Grumman “Avenger” Torpedo Planes fly in formation, circa 1942-1944. Naval History and Heritage Command. Listeners aboard the cruiser Atago intercepted the Americans’ transmission and informed Ozawa. Realizing 1st Mobile Fleet had been spotted, the Japanese commander ceased the refueling operation and ordered the fleet to sail northwest at 24 knots, away from the Americans. Due to delays in deciphering, the sighting didn’t reach Mitscher on board his flagship Lexington until 4:05 p.m. Now the physically frail but aggressive admiral faced an agonizing decision. The scouts’ report showed the Japanese fleet to be some 275 miles away. This was the very limit of his attack aircraft’s range. And to make matters worse, he had only four hours of daylight left to work with. This meant that he’d have to recover any potential strike in darkness, and few of his aircrew were trained in night operations. What should he do? Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher aboard USS LEXINGTON (CV-16) during The Battle of The Philippine Sea, 19 June 1944. National Archives. Naval History and Heritage Command. After a few minutes of reflection, Mitscher concluded the Japanese carriers were just too tempting a target to let slip away. He ordered his staff to “Launch the first deckload as soon as possible. Get the carriers!” When the aircrews who’d been anxiously waiting below decks all day received their orders, they knew what this meant for them; they resigned themselves to flying a dangerous mission at the maximum range, followed by possibly having to ditch in the pitch blackness of the Philippine Sea’s shark-infested waters when their tanks ran dry. Even if they did make it back, how would they find their carriers observing blackout protocol in what was a moonless night on the open ocean? Without hesitation they scrambled to their waiting aircraft across eleven carriers and sped down the flight decks, heading west, unsure what the enemy warships, and a setting sun, had in store for them.  Navy Cross recipient, Lt. Harold Buell, piloting a Curtiss Helldiver bomber, recalled: I have always thought that the most amazing thing about this mission was that it ever took place at all. Almost all the pilots leaving the carriers…knew they were going beyond normal gas range to hit the enemy. If the Japanese had launched such a strike against our fleet we would dub it a suicide mission. Yet, almost to a man, we went on the mission as ordered. Suicidal or not, a strike package of 240 planes headed for the enemy flotilla. Battle of The Philippine Sea, June 1944. TBFs and SB2Cs enroute to attack the enemy. National Archives. Naval History and Heritage Command. After a two-hour flight, the cloud of American aircraft caught up with Ozawa’s fleet. 95 Hellcats ripped through the Japanese combat air patrol to clear the way for the dive bombers and torpedo planes. In the ensuing dogfight, 65 more of Osawa’s aircraft were sent flaming into the sea. With the skies cleared of enemy fighters, the attack aircraft dispersed to hit as many of the seven aircraft carriers at the center of the Japanese strike force as they could. The anti-aircraft was ferocious, however, and several U.S. planes were blown out of the sky. Buell likened it to “diving into an Iowa plains hailstorm.” While dive bombers pitched over from 10,000 feet and screamed down to drop their payloads, torpedo planes skimmed the waves, frothing with enemy shells and bullets, to release their fish and send them towards their intended targets. In the ensuing attack, the Americans mortally wounded two oilers and the fleet carrier Hiyō, while rocking three other light carriers with non-fatal bomb and torpedo hits. It had not been the knock-out blow that Mitscher had envisioned. Still, the losses inflicted by the determined U.S. air strike along with the mauling his own air wing had suffered over the last two days convinced Ozawa to abandon any further operations to disrupt the landings on Saipan. But for the American fliers winging away to the east and darkness, and many planes battle damaged, their struggle was just beginning. They had some 300 miles between them and their own carriers, and not a drop of fuel to spare. Many planes were also battle damaged, making their journey home even more perilous. Not to mention several men were painfully wounded. Would they make it back to their carriers? Or would hundreds of Task Force 58’s aircraft and, more important, their highly trained and brave crews, run out of gas and be compelled to ditch and be swallowed up in the unforgiving vastness of the Pacific? Battle of The Philippine Sea, June 1944. Japanese plane crashes during a night attack on TG 58.3, 19 June 1944. Seen from USS LEXINGTON (CV-16). National Archives. Naval History and Heritage Command. They headed east into what was soon pitch darkness, without even moonlight to guide pilots relying on navigation alone to get them home. It wasn’t long before scores of U.S. planes with empty tanks began belly-landing into the sea. In the eerie night time the airwaves filled with panicked voices breaking radio silence to announce they were out of fuel and ditching into the forbidding black waters of the Pacific. Another Navy Cross recipient, LCDR Ralph Weymouth, while flying an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber off the Lexington, remembered: At one time so many people were talking on the radio I finally turned it off. I just couldn’t stand hearing these guys saying ‘How much gas have you got left?’ ‘I’m going in shortly.’ ‘I’ve got two minutes left.’ That sort of thing. After two hours of dead reckoning towards their task force, the desperate Americans weren’t sure where their ships were. They gazed down through their canopies into an eerie dark emptiness. All seemed lost. And then Mitscher, a flier himself who loved his airmen like a father, made one of the bravest decisions of the war: He ordered all the lights of the fleet illuminated, fired brightly burning star shells, and sent spotlights crisscrossing the dark tropical sky. Considering this would announced their location to any Japanese submarine in the vicinity, it was a remarkable decision. The surviving planes began to land as best they could or belly into the water next to their ships if too heavily battle-damaged or when their tanks finally ran dry. Over the subsequent days, Mitscher’s ships searched far and wide to try and recover as many floating airmen as they could. Although the battle cost the lives of 49 aviators, amazingly, over the course of the week, 160 water-logged fliers were fished out of the water. Mitscher would be revered for risking his ships to rescue his airmen rather than abandoning them to die a lonely, torturously slow death bobbing in the open ocean. USS Lexington during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944. US Navy. Wikimedia Commons. The raid on June 20, 1944, and subsequent perilous return trip, would be remembered as the “Mission Beyond Darkness.” The two-day Battle of the Philippine Sea cost the Americans relatively little compared to the Japanese who lost three fleet carriers, three oilers, and over 3,000 sailors and airmen killed in action or lost at sea, including over 600 pilots. In two days, the U.S. Navy rendered Japanese naval air power impotent. Still, many on Task Force 58 fumed that the hesitant Spruance, by not immediately attacking the Japanese ships when first sighted, had denied them an even greater victory. For his part, however, Spruance saw his primary mission as protecting the landings, not chasing after enemy carriers. Especially when they could have been a decoy — a tactic the Japanese would actually use to lure the aggressive “Bull” Halsey into abandoning the landings at Leyte four months later, nearly dooming MacArthur’s Philippines reconquest. Regardless, the battle at sea was over, but the bloody fighting on Saipan raged on. * * * RELATED: The Battle Of Saipan, Part One: Invasion RELATED: The Battle Of Saipan, Part Two: The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot * * * Brad Schaeffer is a commodities trader, columnist, and author of two acclaimed novels. Along with Daily Wire, his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post, National Review, The Federalist, The Hill and other media outlets. His newest book, LIFE IN THE PITS: My Time as a Trader on the Rough-and-Tumble Exchange Floors, is a fun and informative memoir of his time as a floor trader in Chicago and New York. You can also find more of Brad’s articles on Substack. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Kari Lake emerged victorious on Wednesday in her bid to become the GOP nominee in Arizona‘s 2024 U.S. Senate race. Multiple news outlets declared Lake the winner over Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and neuroscientist Elizabeth Reye. With nearly 80% of the votes counted, Lake led with 340,213 votes or 55.4%. Lamb received 240,877 votes or 39.2%. And Reye got 33,287 votes or 5.4%. “This isn’t about right or left. This is about what’s right for America and what’s wrong,” Lake said in a post to X. “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to save this country.” She added, “So, I invite everyone, conservatives, independents, libertarians, and Democrats to join our movement. We welcome you with open arms.” Lake is poised to face off against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who secured the Democratic Party’s nomination in Arizona’s U.S. Senate race while running unopposed. The candidates are vying for the seat currently held by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), who opted not to run for re-election this year. Lake is a former journalist who ran to become Arizona’s governor in 2022 against Democrat Katie Hobbs while making election integrity a top priority of her campaign. After Hobbs won the gubernatorial contest, Lake took legal action over alleged problems in the race and ultimately did not prevail. In her 2024 Senate bid, Lake raised $10.3 million through the end of June, while Lamb collected $2 million, according to the Associated Press. Lake had the backing of former President Donald Trump, who is running another campaign for the White House this year. “She’s fantastic. She will not let us down. Kari Lake, I just think she’s going to be as good as you can get. There’s nobody going to be better,” Trump reportedly said of Lake in a telephone rally on Monday. The election will determine which party controls both chambers of Congress. At the moment, Democrats lead the Senate. Gallego is already pushing abortion as a wedge issue in the Arizona Senate race, while Lake presses for “America First” policies on issues such as immigration and the economy. The Cook Political Report noted in a post to X that Lake won the GOP primary “by a smaller margin than expected” while assessing that “Lake remains a slight underdog” against Gallego and rating the contest “Lean Democrat.”