The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance in order to "protect" illegal migrants from being deported.  

At 5 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched its Starship rocket in its most recent test flight. However, the company failed to capture its booster after takeoff.

A Russian state television network congratulated Melania Trump on her husband’s reelection as president of the United States by showing nude photographs of her on live television, according to a post on X. These photos came out in 2016 also. She had posed for the French magazine GQ, which catered to men. It is considered […] The post Russian TV Aired Nude Photos of Melania After Trump’s Victory appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

WASHINGTON—House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed Tuesday that a whistleblower claimed a FEMA supervisor in Georgia directed a family to remove Trump campaign signage from their home, saying it was not “looked kindly” on by the agency.  Comer made the statements during a hearing where lawmakers grilled FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about an agency employee who told relief workers in Florida to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” Criswell has maintained that the guidance was an isolated incident and not the result of agency policy to skip over “politically hostile” homes. But testimony from Comer and other lawmakers testimony casts doubt on Criswell’s comments.  “My staff made contact with a new whistleblower who provided a credible account that a FEMA contractor visited the home of an elderly disabled veteran’s family around October 10 following Hurricane Helene,” Comer said after the committee came back from recess. “While there he recommended that they remove Trump campaign materials and signs from both their house and yard. He warned the family that his FEMA supervisor does not take kindly to Trump supporters and that they are seen as domestic terrorists.”  ?BREAKING- Chairman Comer reveals a NEW whistleblower in a different state claims that FEMA purposely avoided the homes ofTrump supporters when providing disaster relief. “During the recess for votes, my staff made contact with a new whistleblower who provided a credible… pic.twitter.com/HV03qRpXLG — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) November 19, 2024 Comer said that the whistleblower claimed FEMA never returned to the family’s home even after they removed their Trump gear.  “The elderly homeowners were so frightened by this, and afraid they would not recover their loss, that they removed all Trump materials and signs,” the Kentucky Republican said.  The Oversight Committee called Criswell to testify after whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes in Lake Placid were skipped during relief operations after Hurricane Milton because they had Trump flags or signs.  Criswell testified for over six hours on Tuesday, facing questions about the guidance. She said she was “heartbroken” by the guidance and that the investigation into the incident was ongoing.  Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images. Her testimony contrasted with statements from Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) who said during the hearing that over 35 of his constituents reached out to him with allegations that FEMA had discriminated against them. Steube said his office had information on “specific instances, factual instances, where they were either overlooked or specifically discriminated against because of their political affiliation.” Criswell confirmed during the hearing that she had asked the Inspector General to launch an independent investigation into the guidance, to supplement FEMA’s ongoing internal investigation. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) told The Daily Wire that she was not happy with Criswell’s answers. “You have blatant discrimination going on,” McClain said. “She fired the person who sent out the text, fantastic, but what about all of the layers in between who knew that it was going on.” She said that Criswell was “conveniently” ignorant of details surrounding who was managing Washington and who she answered to.  “There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions with the exception of we fired the person who did it, ” McClain said. “but what enabled, what empowered that person to do that?” Before testifying before the Oversight Committee, Criswell faced questions from lawmakers on the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Iran has dramatically increased its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium in recent months as it escalates its conflict with Israel, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Western officials are becoming increasingly worried that Iran could race to develop a nuclear weapon now that it has the fuel needed to do so, and it appears to have made significant advances in acquiring the knowledge needed, The Wall Street Journal reported. The IAEA has indicated that it will censure Iran for expanding its stockpile of enriched uranium, to which Iran has responded by saying that it will take more steps to advance its nuclear weapons program. David Albright, president and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security, says that Iran has enough nuclear material to now produce up to 15 nuclear weapons. Andrea Stricker, Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director and Research Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), told The Daily Wire that Iran’s actions were self-defeating. “In a major own-goal, Iran kept expanding its ability to make fuel for multiple nuclear weapons despite Trump’s election,” Stricker said. “The days of America tolerating Tehran’s unchecked nuclear expansion are about to be over.” Iran has repeatedly tried to assassinate Trump in recent months in retaliation for the death of Qasem Soleimani to prevent Trump from taking power again. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ After his election victory, Trump has stacked his cabinet with nominees who are hawks when it comes to dealing with U.S. adversaries, signaling that he will take a hardline approach against the Islamic regime. The news comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed this week that Israel hit part of Iran’s nuclear weapons program in its retaliatory strike last month in response to Iran firing 180 ballistic missiles into the country. “It’s not a secret. It was published,” Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament. “There is a specific component in their nuclear program that was hit.” Multiple U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios that the strike against the facility in the Parchin military complex “significantly damaged Iran’s effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research,” the report said. The strike destroyed advanced equipment that is needed to design sophisticated explosive materials that are required to detonate a nuclear device. Satellite imagery shows that the facility, which was a previously-declared nuclear weapons facility decades ago, was completely destroyed in the strike. U.S. and Israeli officials said that Iran was trying to conceal its nuclear weapons research at the facility by presenting it as research for civilian purposes. The report said only a small number of officials in Iran’s Islamic government knew about what was going on at the facility. A U.S. official told Axios that the strike was “a not so subtle message that the Israelis have significant insight into the Iranian system even when it comes to things that were kept top secret and known to a very small group of people in the Iranian government.”

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said Tuesday that her push to ban men who identify as transgender women from being able to use women’s restrooms in the House was about protecting women in private spaces. Mace introduced legislation this week that would force “members, officers, and employees of the House” to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. “If being a feminist makes me an extremist, I’m totally here for it,” Mace said. A reporter asked Mace, “Is this effort in response in response to Congresswoman McBride coming to Congress?” The bill was introduced as Democrats are preparing for their new member, Sarah McBride from Delaware, to become the first transgender member of Congress. “Yes and absolutely, and then some,” Mace responded. “I’m not going to stand for a man, you know, when someone with a penis is in the women’s locker room, that’s not okay.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “I’m a victim of abuse myself, I’m a rape survivor,” she continued. “I have PTSD from the abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of a man and I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.” “So, I’m absolutely 100% gonna stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms,” she added. “I will be there fighting you every step of the way.” WATCH: Woke reporter asks Rep. Nancy Mace (R) why she wants to exclude men from the female bathroom in Congress. Her response: pic.twitter.com/PHUXmbXIBO — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 19, 2024 Related: It’s Politically Popular To Block Men From Entering Women’s Bathrooms

Democrat Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) told her party that “identity politics” needs to end if they want to have a chance to win back voters after losing the White House in 2024 to President-elect Donald Trump. During a Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee briefing with Dem candidates who won their election, the soon-to-be senator from Michigan didn’t mince words when talking about why the party lost the White House. “I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo,” Slotkin said, per David Weigel in a post on X. She also said that the party should take language “not from the faculty lounge, but the assembly line.” At a post-election DSCC briefing with winning Dem candidates. Elissa Slotkin: “I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo.” Dems should take language “not from the faculty lounge, but the assembly line.” — David Weigel (@daveweigel) November 19, 2024 The comments were similar to ones the incoming senator made during her appearance on MSNBC when asked about the party’s recent defeat. “Any party — and I can only represent the Democratic Party — needs to focus on the things that keep people up at night. That’s their pocketbooks and their kids,” Slotkin said. “There are a lot of issues out there. But you’ve got to start with what keeps people awake, and that is kitchen-table issues, economics.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “We gotta stay away … we don’t need to obsess about identity politics,” she added. “And by the way, this last election demonstrated very clearly that they don’t stand up.” Despite Slotkin’s comments about “identity politics,” she voted multiple times against keeping men out of women’s restrooms and locker rooms, the Detroit News noted. In May 2019, during her first term in Congress, Slotkin voted for the Equality Act, which would, among other things, “prohibits an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity.” It was stopped by Republicans in the Senate, then passed again in 2021, with Slotkin voting for it, the outlet noted. In April 2023, Slotkin also voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which “prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.” Related: Collegiate Women’s Volleyball Players File Title IX Lawsuit Against Schools Over Trans Players