Thousands of people gathered in the Bronx, New York Thursday afternoon to see Donald Trump deliver a high-stakes rally in one of the most liberal precincts in America. The crowds arrived nearly six hours before the event was scheduled to begin. PACKED lines for Trump in The BronxNo one brings the energy like Trump pic.twitter.com/wJVBqV92AU— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 23, 2024 just received report that @MrSantosNY has arrived at the Bronx Trump Rally and is now being swarmed like a celebrityMAGA loves George Santos pic.twitter.com/5GcfOoCCNs— David Leatherwood (@brokebackUSA) May 23, 2024 This is the Bronx. Deep Blue New York. In the rain.All waiting to show their support for Donald Trump.Joe Biden could never dream of this kind of supportpic.twitter.com/WbwuWM6FPY— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) May 23, 2024 Big crowds shaping up here in the South Bronx! President Trump will speak at 6 pm ET. TUNE IN ON RSBN https://t.co/Feed0dWsS7 pic.twitter.com/5ftrasJsZP— RSBN (@RSBNetwork) May 23, 2024

A Louisiana couple who attempted to escape to Texas has been arrested after raping, shooting, and setting a 15-year-old girl on fire. 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to Beijing this week to meet with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping in what was expected to be a perfunctory meeting between the two leaders of the Global South. Most analysts did not expect this meeting to be much more than part of the newly re-elected Putin’s world tour, a perfunctory […] The post This Week’s Historic China-Russia Summit appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Shortly after Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced his nation would formally recognize a “Palestinian state” as of May 28, Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz posted a video proclaiming the Hamas terrorist slogan calling for the complete eradication of Israel. Diaz shared the video, which began with her celebrating Spain’s decision to recognize a “Palestinian state” — across several social media platforms. In the video, she went on to say that recognizing the Palestinians’ right to self-governance was only a first step — and argued that Israel should be held to account for the “genocide” in Gaza. Her caption, translated, reads: “Recognition of the Palestinian State is a matter of human rights and international legality. The situation in Palestine forces us not to stay here. We have to continue working to end the genocide and achieve a ceasefire.” WATCH: El reconocimiento del Estado palestino es una cuestión de derechos humanos y legalidad internacional. La situación en Palestina nos obliga a no quedarnos aquí. Tenemos que seguir trabajando para acabar con el genocidio y conseguir un alto el fuego. pic.twitter.com/Tk3fKZw5V2 — Yolanda Díaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) May 22, 2024 In the video, Diaz went on to accuse Israel of committing “crimes de guerra” (“war crimes”) and criticized the European Union for continuing to provide aid. She ended the video by parroting the Hamas slogan: “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea.” On the same day that Spain announced plans to recognize a “Palestinian state,” Ireland and Norway made similar announcements. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “This would be a terrorist state. It will try to repeat the massacre of October 7 again and again; we will not consent to this. This evil can not be given a state,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in response to the news. Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz said that Israeli envoys to Ireland, Spain, and Norway had been called home following the announcement: “I’ve instructed the immediate recall of Israel’s ambassadors … in light of these countries’ decisions to recognize a Palestinian state.”

The Supreme Court upheld Republican-backed electoral maps in South Carolina in a 6-3 decision on Thursday, arguing that those suing to overturn the maps had not proven they were racially drawn. A lower United States district court previously ruled that maps approved by the Republican-controlled South Carolina legislature were unconstitutional after they were challenged by a chapter of the NAACP and the ACLU. The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said that the district court had ruled wrongly and that the maps could stand. “When partisanship and race correlate, it naturally follows that a map that has been gerrymandered to achieve a partisan end can look very similar to a racially gerrymandered map,” Alito wrote. “In other words, the plaintiffs failed to meet the high bar for a racial-gerrymandering claim by failing to produce, among other things, an alternative map showing that a rational legislature sincerely driven by its professed partisan goals would have drawn a different map with greater racial balance.” Alito’s decision was joined by Justices John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barret, and Brett Kavanugh, with Clarence Thomas adding a concurring opinion. Thomas wrote that the court had no authority to be intervening in disputes over electoral districts. “In my view, the Court has no power to decide these types of claims,” he wrote in his concurrence. “Drawing political districts is a task for politicians, not federal judges. There are no judicially manageable standards for resolving claims about districting, and, regardless, the Constitution commits those issues exclusively to the political branches.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The liberal wing of the court, including Justice Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said they agreed with the lower court in their dissent and said that it was “more than plausible” that South Carolina had done race-based districting. “In every way, the majority today stacks the deck against the Challengers. They must lose, the majority says, because the State had a ‘possible’ story to tell about not considering race — even if the opposite story was the more credible,” they wrote. The challenged map was already slated to be used for the 2024 election due to the ongoing court deliberations over the case.

One of two men from the country of Jordan who allegedly tried to infiltrate the Quantico Marine Corps base was initially allowed into the country on a student visa, according to a Fox News report. The other man had recently crossed into the country through the southern border illegally despite reportedly being on the terrorist watch-list. The first man was also in the country illegally after overstaying his student visa, Fox News reported, citing Department of Homeland Security sources. The attempted infiltration of Quantico allegedly occurred in May 3, but was concealed from the public until local news outlet Potomac Local uncovered it last week. The Marine Corps then acknowledged that the men–who posed as Amazon delivery drivers and then allegedly defied instructions to stop and drove onto the base anyway–were in the country illegally, but refused to confirm whether one was on the terrorist watchlist. Use of so-called F-1 student visas has grown during the Biden administration, with nearly half a million issued in 2023, an increase of 8.5% compared to the previous year, according to ApplyBoard. The growth came from Africa and East Asia, while numbers from Europe and Latin America shrank. A second class of student visas, M visas, also adds to the numbers. According to DHS data, there are currently 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia, 12,000 from Pakistan, and 12,000 from Iran — more than the number from the United Kingdom. There are 3,500 from Jordan, more than the 2,500 from Israel. Video of campus protests, which have often violated local laws, show many foreign students espousing radical Islamist beliefs, and attempting to influence U.S. policy to be more in line with their own countries. Without the foreign students, the protests and anti-Semitism on campus might not have ever gained a critical mass. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has said that federal law requires DHS to deport foreign nationals who support or endorse terrorist activity. “I write to urge you to immediately deport any foreign national—including and especially any alien on a student visa — that has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks on Israel,” he wrote to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas declined to assure Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) that he would. Authorities have refused to name the two men from Jordan out of “privacy” concerns, Fox News reported. It also denied a public records request for the number of people on the terrorist watchlist who crossed into the country illegally from each country, citing the “privacy interests” of the suspected terrorists.