In the country's 25th and last execution of the year, a 45-year-old death row inmate in Oklahoma was given a fatal injection on Thursday morning for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin.

Democrats are lying through their teeth today to scaremonger and win people to their side. The following is a great example. The funding for child cancer research is approved through 2028. The cancer research funding that Democrats are all blaming on @elonmusk was a stand-alone bill that passed in the Republican-controlled House but got held […] The post Dems Are Lying About Child Cancer Research Being Canceled appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Dozens of casualties were reported after a car plowed into a large number of people at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday night in what officials say is a likely terrorist attack. Emergency services reported that at least 60 to 80 people were injured in the attack. German newspaper BILD reported that at least 11 people had died from their injuries in the attack. BILD also reported that the attacker “is said to be a man from Saudi Arabia born in 1974.” The suspected driver of the vehicle, which drove down a street that was completely packed with people, was arrested shortly after the attack, officials said. WARNING: The following videos contain graphic material. Terror and heinous attack on Magdeburg’s Christmas market. Absolutely terrifying.pic.twitter.com/oFaZGHZlWC — Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) December 20, 2024 BREAKING: Around 60-80 people have been injured after a car was driven into a Christmas market in Germany, according to AFP news agency, which is citing emergency services on the ground.https://t.co/2DAQRn9nEy ? Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/KJDbni1nQU — Sky News (@SkyNews) December 20, 2024 While there was no immediate word about the identity of the attacker or a possible motive, law enforcement officials throughout Europe are often on high alert for Islamic terrorist attacks, especially around Christian and Jewish holidays. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The threats posed by Islamic terrorists around the world have surged following Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack in Israel last year. In December 2016, an Islamic terrorist stole a semi-truck and drove into a crowd, killing a dozen and wounding more than 50.

Border wall materials are actively being transported away from the border this week despite calls from President-elect Donald Trump and other prominent lawmakers for it to stop, according to footage obtained by The Daily Wire.  The video, recorded this Tuesday, shows trucks fully loaded with border wall panels departing the border. The steel bollard wall sections in the videos appear to be the same “32.91’ X 7.91’ Steel Bollard Wall Sections w/Grout” that were being sold on GovPlanet’s online auction site, until they were removed from the website following The Daily Wire’s investigative report published last week. A source in the Border Patrol says that government contractors in Arizona are now picking up the wall early in the morning before the sun rises, an apparent attempt to avoid scrutiny for what Trump and others have characterized as a last-minute fire sale to undermine any future attempt to secure the border.  EXCLUSIVE: Video recorded this week shows truck after truck hauling border wall away from the border, despite calls from Trump for an immediate stop. Footage obtained by @JamesLalino shows them leaving the border loaded up with steel panels, and arriving at the auction site: pic.twitter.com/1FEXfUBhcn — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 20, 2024 “The Biden administration is now moving the wall in the dead of night,” the source told The Daily Wire. “But we are always watching.” This new development comes after Trump on Monday publicly called on President Joe Biden “to please stop selling the wall.”  On Thursday, Trump filed an amicus brief in support of an injunction to stop the Biden administration from continuing the practice, as well as an investigation into the legality of its conduct. Trump said earlier this week that it’s “almost a criminal act” what is being done in the weeks before he’s set to take back the presidency.  “It’s very expensive, and now it’s about double the price of what it would have been six years ago, and the administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar, knowing that we’re getting ready to put it up,” Trump said earlier this week. Videos show two separate companies, DP Trucking LLC and DL Delivery, transporting the border wall material. The material leaves the Arizona border en route to Pinal Airpark, where it is gathered to be sold off in auction.  DP Trucking is the same contractor that admitted earlier this month it was transporting the border wall materials as part of a government contract. DL Delivery is the DBA of PK Ranch LLC. It did not return The Daily Wire’s requests for comment. It is unclear the status of the auctions. In the days following The Daily Wire’s initial report, the items up for auction vanished from the website of GovPlanet, which was holding the auction. In a phone conversation, a GovPlanet employee told The Daily Wire that the items were still up for sale, but that the listings were being updated. As of Friday afternoon, the listings were still absent from the website.  Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), whose district borders the Pinal Airpark, told The Daily Wire that the new video shows the Biden administration is “persisting with its betrayal.” “Even now as this sabotage has been brought to light, the Biden administration is persisting with its betrayal,” Crane said. “Undermining President Trump will not save Biden’s shameful legacy — it will only serve to devastate American families by making it harder to secure the border.” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said he’s committed to uncovering all the details about how the sale of border wall material is being carried out, but complained that it won’t fix the problem. “We’ll be able to expose the truth in the days ahead and to be able to hold agencies accountable by getting those documents and those details,” Lankford told The Daily Wire. “But, you know, they’re still gone, and that’s the challenge. Once he sells this off, we’re going to have to buy this fencing twice.” “Buy it the first time to be installed, where Biden then just stuck it in the desert, held it as long as he could, and then sold it off,” he said. “Then we’ll have to buy it again to do real border security.” The Pentagon, which has not responded to inquiries about the border wall sale, has told liberal outlets such as NPR that the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act gave it the authority from Congress to sell unused border construction materials.  But the provision the Pentagon is referring to originated with Senate Republicans, who actually wrote the legislation to stop the administration from actions such as what’s happening this month. The legislation requires the federal government to deploy the materials or transfer them to state governments who will use them for wall construction, not sell them off, according to the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Lawyers for Trump agree. In his amicus brief calling for an injunction, Trump argues that the Pentagon has no authority to auction off wall parts to private parties.  “That language does not mandate or authorize DoD to sell the excess border wall material at a steep discount to private parties,” the brief states. According to a Border Patrol source who spoke with The Daily Wire, an estimated half-mile worth of wall is being transported each day, with a Christmas deadline to offload the whole supply. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has made it clear that there will be legal consequences for those involved in the sale of unused border wall sections, which he described as “a brazen abuse of power” and “theft of government resources.” “To every official at the Department of Homeland Security, or anywhere else, who approves selling off incredibly expensive portions of the border wall for $5 a piece, you are engaged in theft of government property and you should expect the Department of Justice to investigate you and prosecute you,” Cruz said.  On the other side of Capitol Hill, the House Freedom Caucus is pushing for a rule that ensures “an amendment to stop Biden’s ongoing fire sale of border wall construction materials.” Lankford says he has a plan to obtain all the relevant records to “expose the truth in the days ahead and to be able to hold agencies accountable.” “What can be done is to be able to pull all the records that right now are being held by DoD, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and by DHS, to get all the records of how this happened, what happened, and to be able to expose the actors there that were trying to prevent the construction of the border wall,” Lankford said. “We’ll be able to expose the truth in the days ahead and to be able to hold agencies accountable by getting those documents and those details.” 

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security worked with the New York Police Department (NYPD) to carry out a raid against a gang house in the Bronx run by Tren de Aragua, a vicious Venezuelan gang. Law enforcement carried out the December 5th raid at an apartment building near the Bronx’s Crotona Park neighborhood, resulting in the arrest of seven men who authorities believe to be members of the Venezuelan gang. One of those men, 28-year-old Venezuelan national Jarwin Valero-Calderon, was reportedly wearing an ankle monitoring device that allowed the authorities to track him and the others down to their Bronx location. The bust comes after members of the Venezuelan gang had taken over entire apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, this summer. “We currently have entire complexes under gang control — complexes where staff have been beaten up, they’ve been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property. These complexes are being run by this Tren de Aragua gang,” Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky explained. One of the men arrested in the recent raid in the Bronx, Valero-Calderon, had previously been arrested on three different occasions, was convicted in Nassau County, and is facing a federal deportation order. “This is what actual supervised release looks like?” one law enforcement source told reporters. “The thing about ankle monitors is you have to actually monitor them to be effective.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Also arrested in the raid was 24-year-old Jhonaiker Alexander Gil Cardozo, who had been arrested on four different occasions after crossing the southern border into the United States in September 2024. Cardozo had been arrested by the NYPD for reckless endangerment and robbery in June, then again in July for grand larceny and stolen property. He was arrested yet again for shoplifting in Greenville, South Carolina. Jesus Manuel Quintero Granado, 30-years old, was also arrested in the raid and is believed to be a member of Tren de Aragua. Granado crossed into the United States in September 2022 with his wife and child before heading to Canada, where their asylum claim was rejected. Agents at the northern border proceeded to release Granado into the United States. Also arrested in the raid was 21-year-old Fernandez Franco Greymer De Dios, who was caught at the border in May and was being processed for deportation. The raid comes as President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in American history, tapping former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan as his border czar.

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New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases. Terrified thousands demand to know what these drones are doing and to whom they belong. In response, the Biden administration had initially kept mum. Then, under mounting public pressure, it assured the public to be calm, given that most of the drones were likely launched by hobbyists and private citizens. When that narrative failed to convince many, spokespeople pivoted to claims of mass hysteria and mistaken identity. Amateur sightseers, they inferred, were subject to panic and hallucinations—supposedly wrongly confusing normal civilian and airline planes with drones. Perhaps. But as the sightings continued, more government narratives followed that the drones were unidentified but assuredly still harmless and certainly not foreign-operated. Still, the mysterious sightings continued. And the public’s initial curiosity soon turned to fear and finally to anger at their government’s silence, subsequent gaslighting, and final mendacity. In its characteristic stonewalling, the Biden administration has only fueled speculations and occasional conspiracy theories when it could have at least reviewed logical theories and welcomed legitimate questions. Is a controversial government agency—perhaps the CIA or the Environmental Protection Agency—surveilling installations, areas, or people that would either be too embarrassing to be revealed or otherwise might set off panic? And for the public good or consistent with this administration’s weaponization of government? Or are these drones the work of foreign surveillance in the mode of the 2023 Chinese spy balloon? A government that long ago lost all its credibility could not reassure the people of the truth even if it wished to. For nearly four years, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assured the American people almost weekly that “the border is secure”—even as a reported 12 million illegal entrants easily crossed it. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre asserted weekly that President Joe Biden was vigorous, in full control of his faculties, and always “sharp.” In fact, she knew that the American people grimaced as their president slurred his speech, suddenly went mute, tripped, fell, and wandered aimlessly. In late January and early February 2023, a huge Chinese surveillance balloon traversed across the United States. Public outrage grew as the administration changed its excuses by the day. It variously assured the public that it was a mere weather balloon, that it would be too dangerous to shoot it down, that it did not transmit any of its photographic capability to China, or that its trajectory did not cross key military installations. All those excuses were either half-lies or untrue. In late July and early August 2021, it became clear that the Biden administration planned a massive, previously unannounced, and abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan. Rumors circulated that Biden rushed to claim that he alone had ended the messy Afghan war misadventure after 20 years and would celebrate his triumph on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. To assuage public fears, our top generals assured us that the Taliban was at bay, Kabul was secured, and the withdrawal would be orderly. But within hours, sheer bedlam broke out. Thirteen Marines were murdered by terrorists. There were no audits or background checks on Afghans who were flown to America. Meanwhile, loyal Afghan interpreters and American contractors were ignored and left behind to fend off triumphant terrorists on their own. Even as Americans watched the disaster on their screens, the Biden administration boasted of a supposedly heroic and Herculean effort to evacuate tens of thousands—in what the public saw instead as the greatest American military humiliation of the last half-century. So, the American public understandably no longer believes much of anything the waning Biden administration says—not after its other chronic lies about denying the role of the Wuhan lab in the COVID-19 pandemic, only “moderate” inflation, and assurances that Hunter Biden would never be pardoned by his father. This administration knows that anytime there is a scandal or embarrassment on Team Biden’s watch, it wheels out megaphones that ignore inquiries, gaslights critics by claiming they are hallucinatory, defames them as conspiratorial, or simply flat-out lies and stonewalls. No one yet knows what, if anything, these drones are, what they are doing in our skies—and much less whether they pose any threat at all. But almost everyone assumes the Biden administration knows and yet expects that it will likely deceive us that it doesn’t. (C)2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Dronomania appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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