Three members of an Iranian paramilitary group were charged by the Justice Department on Friday for hacking Trump campaign documents and disclosing private information to Kamala Harris's campaign.

President Donald J. Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky despite previous reports that he would not.

The October Surprise might be Judge Chutkan, who is overseeing Jack Smith’s lawfare case against the former president in D.C.. Donald Trump’s team will have to file objections to the revised criminal charges in DC on October 1, and file proposed redactions on October 10.  It will be under seal, but the cherry-picked leaks will […] The post This Is Shaping Up to Be the October Surprise appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote extensively about Robert Redfield in his scorching 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and The Global War on Democracy and Public Health.” Kennedy denounced Redfield, the former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as both a “charlatan” and a “pretender,” and tore into him for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. So he was very surprised when Redfield emphatically endorsed his efforts to fight chronic disease in a Tuesday op-ed for Newsweek. “I believe him,” wrote Redfield. “And I think President Trump will empower him. I support their noble effort to heal our children.” Former President Donald Trump’s campaign organized a lunch between the two men that same day at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., where they ended up chatting for over three hours, a person who was in the room told The Daily Wire. Kennedy reportedly brought up the book first thing, jokingly apologetic that he was so tough on Redfield. When Redfield waved it off, saying he didn’t care, Kennedy asked him if he had actually read the book. Every page of it, Redfield responded — and he wished he brought it so Kennedy could autograph it. They then proceeded to launch into a three-hour discussion on COVID, vaccines, chronic disease, and the future of America’s children. A picture of the two men shared with The Daily Wire shows Redfield leaning on his hand, listening intently as Kennedy speaks over a steak lunch. The first common ground the pair found together: Anthony Fauci. Redfield and Kennedy had similar opinions about the NIH official, the person in the room said, spending about their first hour discussing the COVID pandemic and what had transpired. They came to the conclusion that the Trump team had been lied to, both by government bureaucrats and health companies, throughout the entire COVID response. They also found common ground as they discussed mistakes that had been made in the deployment and development of the coronavirus vaccines. And the men reportedly agreed that the government never should have imposed a vaccine mandate. The pair then turned to childhood chronic disease, and spent the two hours engaged in a serious discussion about what could be done to help American children. Redfield reportedly offered his help to Kennedy in whatever way the latter might need, and they plan to continue talking in the future. “The first thing he said to me is ‘You got everything right,'” Kennedy said of the meeting. Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told RFK Jr. upon meeting him for the first time today: “You got everything right.” pic.twitter.com/AVMUx83A90 — American Values ? (@AV24org) September 25, 2024 Redfield’s embrace of Kennedy follows the former presidential candidate’s August 26 endorsement of Trump, when Trump praised Kennedy’s “decades of work as an advocate for the health of our families and our children.” “Nobody’s done more,” Trump said of Kennedy. “Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our foods.” “That is why today, I’m repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility, and many more,” Trump added. “We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life.” The Daily Wire previously reported that the Kennedy endorsement is drawing a new crowd of voters to Trump: the health and wellness crowd, many of whom formerly voted independent or Democrat. “I have been waiting my entire adult voting life for a presidential candidate to acknowledge how sick our country is,” influencer Courtney Swan told The Daily Wire earlier this month. Swan was one of a cohort of high-profile health influencers and medical experts who descended on Capitol Hill this week to raise awareness about the spiraling state of American health during a roundtable discussion on “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion,” led by Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. For four hours on Monday, senators listened to the health experts and influencers express deep concerns about the state of American food, chronic diseases, and the difficulties that the average American mother faces as she tries to buy food for her kids that isn’t saturated with seed oils, food dyes, chemicals, and toxins. They argued that Americans are being poisoned by their food — and if lawmakers don’t take action, the United States could face a genocidal health collapse.    “If the current trends continue, if the graphs continue in the way that they are going, at best we are going to face profound societal instability, and decreased American competitiveness, and at worst, we’re going to be looking at a genocidal-level health collapse in our country, and the world,” argued Dr. Casey Means.  Means and others pointed to troubling health statistics. Chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are the leading causes of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and the “leading drivers of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual health care costs.” Close to 30% of American teens are prediabetic, more than 18% of young adults have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and cancer rates among young people are rising. Experts have predicted that by 2030, almost half of United States adults will be severely obese, and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey found that 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. In one memorable moment during the roundtable, health activist Jason Karp ripped open two different boxes of Kellogg’s Fruit Loops on camera to demonstrate how many more food dyes are in U.S. cereal than Canadian cereal, telling the assembled lawmakers: “This is the brightness of artificial food dyes. Of course, Kellogg and other food companies will argue, children prefer this over this, just as they would prefer cocaine over sugar! That doesn’t make it ok.” Fitness expert Jillian Michaels went on a now-viral tear as she described the chronic disease epidemic as an “extinction level event,” arguing that people have been “sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed” and that corporations are purposefully poisoning Americans for profit.  “The buck must stop with you, while the American people tend to the business of raising children and participating in the workforce to ensure that the wheels of our country go round,” she told lawmakers. “They tapped you to stand watch. They tapped you to stand guard.” “We must hold these bad actors accountable,” she added. “If this current trend is allowed to persist, the stakes will be untenable. We are in the middle of an extinction level event. The American people need help, they need heroes, and people of Washington, your constituents chose you to be their champion. Please, be the change.”  JUST NOW – JILLIAN MICHAELS GETS A STANDING OVATION, for this EPIC PRESENTATION about the Chronic Disease Epidemic, one she describes as “an extinction level event”. THIS IS A MUST WATCH “What has happened to us? I’m here to tell you, in the late 70’s and the early 80’s, a… pic.twitter.com/gRVRQxJT3f — Humanspective (@Humanspective) September 23, 2024 On Thursday, Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller published an op-ed in Fox News expressing support for Kennedy. “Food production is not only a matter of national security and well-being – and a sizable chunk of all economic activity – it is our birthright,” he wrote. “Today, with the leadership of President Trump and RFK Jr., America stands at the edge of a new dawn in sustainable, profitable and healthy farming that preserves our environment and supports this essential American industry.” “Making America healthy again isn’t just about how we look on the beach, it’s about healing our culture and our nation from the ground up, and we must start with our children,” he added. “President Trump will lead us into this brighter, healthier future – and he chose the right man for the job in Robert Kennedy.”

On Tuesday, about 45,000 dock workers will walk off the job in a massive strike that will shutter dozens of ports along the East and Gulf Coasts, upending the economy just weeks before a tight presidential election. President Joe Biden could stop the strike, but he says he won’t. Contract negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association and port ownership broke down over the summer, and the two sides remain in a stalemate over both wages and automating port operations. A strike of this size would cause wide-ranging supply chain and could pose a national security threat. As such, Biden has the authority under the Taft-Hartley Act to force union workers to stay on the job for another 80-days. But, White House officials have made it clear that Biden has no intention of getting involved. As of Thursday, five days before a strike would begin, the Biden administration was still simply encouraging both sides to get back to the negotiating table and figure something out. “We’ve never invoked Taft-Hartley to break a strike and are not considering doing so now,” a White House spokesman told CBS. “We support collective bargaining. We believe it’s the best way for both American workers and employers to come to a fair agreement — one that benefits the workers in a way that reflects the success of the companies.” WATCH: Ben Shapiro Explains Why the Dockworkers Strike Could Impact You The White House added that senior officials from the White House and the Departments of Labor and Transportation are in touch with both sides, and delivering the message to them directly about “being at the table and negotiating in good faith fairly and quickly.” It’s unclear why Biden won’t intervene, though some have speculated that the president is unwilling to go out of his way to help Vice President Kamala Harris after Democrats ousted him from his re-election campaign over the summer. A dockworker strike could impact consumers well into the holiday season and hurt Americans as they struggle with rising inflation. This is the last thing Harris needs right now. She has faced an uphill battle to win over voters with her economic message, and she has struggled to say how she would lower prices even as inflation has become one of voters’ top concerns. About 76% of voters say inflation is a major factor in their choice for president, an August CBS poll showed. Meanwhile, a majority of voters favor former president Donald Trump on the economy, a Fox News poll found. Others have wondered whether Biden is courting the dock worker union at a time when the union vote is not coming easily to Democrats. Harris is the first Democratic presidential candidate to not get the Teamsters’ endorsement in nearly 30 years. Nearly 60% of the union’s 1.3 million members support Trump, internal polling found. The International Longshoremen’s Association’s is a major Democratic donor, having given more than $8 million to Democrat candidates and causes. Union president Harold Daggett has himself donated to Democrats and endorsed Biden for president, but has lashed out at the president amid the current dispute. Biden faced backlash in 2022 for signing legislation that imposed a contract on 115,000 freight rail workers after three years of failed negotiations. “He turned his back on us,” one union member, a Virginia roadway mechanic said. At the time, Biden said he was “reluctant” to override union members who wanted a different deal, but the economic impact of the railway strike would have “hurt millions of other working people and families.” During his campaign, Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” As the countdown to the strike continues, Republicans are raising the alarm, despite the fact that the strike would likely hurt Harris more than Trump. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) warned that a strike would be an “economic disaster” and accused the Biden administration of playing politics. “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the tools to avert a strike and avoid economic disaster. They have shown no leadership to bring the parties together to resolve this dispute,” Cassidy said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “It is clear the Biden-Harris administration is more interested in appeasing their union political allies than protecting American jobs. Workers and families continue to pay the price for the Biden-Harris political agenda,” Cassidy said. Last week, a group of House Republicans on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee wrote to President Biden urging his administration to do everything in its power to prevent a strike that could lead to “dire impacts to our supply chains, our economy, and the American consumer.” If the dock workers go on strike Tuesday morning, it could immediately become a political issue: Tuesday evening is the vice presidential debate.  

For many parents, their children grow up in what seems like the blink of an eye. As much as we want to keep them little, babies don’t stay. Instead, we hope they grow into mature adults who can live happy and fulfilled lives on their own. That’s not to say we won’t miss them dearly when they are gone. Robe Lowe, 60, and his wife, Sheryl Berkoff, 63, have been married since 1991. The pair share sons Matthew, 31, and John, 28. Their boys have grown up and moved out of the family’s home, which for Rob was an adjustment. “I was sad when they left,” he shared on the Jennifer Hudson Show. “And I thought this is the end of that relationship with your kids — it’s not. It’s just the beginning of a new chapter.” Rob Lowe And Sheryl’s Relationship Bloomed He called becoming an empty nester “super emotional” until he had an epiphany. “I looked at my wife and went, ‘Wait a minute, I remember you! You’re hot! And we have fun together,'” he said. Rob added that being an empty nester brings back a bit of freedom he hasn’t had for the past three decades. “And all of a sudden, I could wake up in the middle of the night and go get a midnight snack without any clothes on again. It was very freeing. I love being an empty nester now,” he told Jennifer. Rob, who turned 60 in March, has maintained his youthful looks by taking care of his mind and body. Jennifer remarked that he looked 30, and he told her he was happy. “I’ve never felt better. I feel like I’m at the peak of everything. Whether it’s relationships or physical,” Rob said. “I am having the best time of my life, for sure.” This story’s featured image is by JC Olivera/Getty Images. The post Rob Lowe “Was Actually Super Emotional” About Becoming An Empty Nester, Now He Loves It appeared first on InspireMore.

A post shared on X claims that the state of Tennessee has banned pride flags in schools. ?BREAKING: Tennessee passes law to ban Pride Flags from classrooms. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? pic.twitter.com/wv6F3IEHoY — Ivanka Trump ?? ? News (@IvankaNews_) September 25, 2024 Verdict: False Legislation to ban all flags that do not represent the country […]