After the Biden administration gave the green light for Ukraine to fire U.S.-supplied long-range missiles into Russian territory, the Kremlin said Ukrainian forces utilized the weaponry for such attacks. Moscow claimed Ukraine launched 6 U.S.-made ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) into Russian territory. “Russia says it shot down five of the missiles and damaged the sixth,” Fox News noted. Breaking: Ukraine fires six US-made long-range missiles into Russian territory, Kremlin says https://t.co/W3GYqCibHU — John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 19, 2024 Per Fox News: It added that debris landed in the area of a Russian military facility, but that no casualties or damage beyond a small fire. Fox News Digital confirmed the attack with a U.S. official. Ukraine did not immediately confirm the use of ATACMS on Tuesday, but officials did announce an attack on a military facility in Russia’s Bryansk region, the same region where Moscow says the missiles fell. The attack came just two days after President Biden approved Ukraine to use American long-range missiles on Russian soil, an escalation that Russian President Putin previously indicated would be an act of war. “Kyiv said on Tuesday it struck a Russian arsenal near the town of Karachev in the Bryansk region, over 110 km (70 miles) from Ukraine, in what two Ukrainian media outlets reported was a first strike with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles,” Chief Nerd wrote, citing Reuters. NEW — Ukraine Launches Long-Range Missile Strike on Russia Using U.S.-Supplied ATACMS “Kyiv said on Tuesday it struck a Russian arsenal near the town of Karachev in the Bryansk region, over 110 km (70 miles) from Ukraine, in what two Ukrainian media outlets reported was a first… pic.twitter.com/qJTmuYl3jd — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 19, 2024 CBS News reports: So far, Ukraine’s attacks beyond the immediate border region inside Russia have been limited to non-U.S. — and much less potent— weapons such as explosive drones. ATACMS are far more destructive and harder to shoot down as they head for their programmed targets. Zelenskyy’s government had been pushing Washington for permission to use the missiles for long-range attacks for some time but the Biden administration had been reluctant given concerns about potentially escalating the war. Over the weekend, however, the calculus apparently changed. The decision came almost 1,000 days into the full-scale war in Ukraine, and with Mr. Biden about two months away from handing over the White House keys to President-elect Trump, who’s seen as far less supportive of Ukraine’s ambitions of hanging onto all of its Russian-occupied territory. It also came as Russia hit Ukraine with a devastating missile attack, highlighting Ukraine’s desperate desire for the ability to target Russian weapons systems deeper inside the country before they’re launched, which Zelenskyy has stressed for more than a year. “Ukraine fires U.S. provided long-range missiles into Russia just days after President Biden gave Ukraine the green light. The move comes just two months after Putin said that if Ukraine used these missiles to strike Russia, it would mean the U.S. is at war,” Collin Rugg wrote. “Putin in September: If Ukraine uses U.S. long-range missiles to strike Russia, the ‘United States is at war with Russia,'” he added. WATCH: NEW: Ukraine fires U.S. provided long-range missiles into Russia just days after President Biden gave Ukraine the green light. The move comes just two months after Putin said that if Ukraine used these missiles to strike Russia, it would mean the U.S. is at war. Putin in… pic.twitter.com/ZOURYz5xQP — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 19, 2024 BBC noted: The strike represents the first time the long-range missiles have been used on Russia’s internationally-recognised territory after Washington signalled Ukraine had permission to do so. Russia has vowed to “react accordingly.” On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would “proceed from the understanding” that the missiles were operated by “American military experts”. “We will be taking this as a renewed face of the western war against Russia and we will react accordingly,” he told a press conference at the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. Moscow said on Monday that any strikes inside its territory with the US missules would prompt an “appropriate and tangible response”.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday the appointment of a “leftist” federal magistrate judge resulted because Republican senators did not show up. “By a vote of 49-45, the #Senate confirmed the nomination of Embry J. Kidd to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Senator Manchin voted no. Braun, Daines, Fetterman, Hagerty, Rubio, and Vance did not vote,” Senate Press Gallery wrote. “This nominee has written that laws against child rape are racist. He hid 2 previous decisions where he gave lenient sentences to child predators from the Senate. Now he has a lifetime judgeship– instead of a Trump nominee – because Republicans didn’t bother to show up,” Matt Whitlock commented. This nominee has written that laws against child rape are racist. He hid 2 previous decisions where he gave lenient sentences to child predators from the Senate. Now he has a lifetime judgeship– instead of a Trump nominee – because Republicans didn’t bother to show up. https://t.co/5o1NGSzq56 — Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 19, 2024 “This leftist judge would have been voted down and the seat on the important 11th circuit would have been filled by Donald Trump next year had Republicans showed up,” DeSantis said. “Now, the leftist judge will have a lifetime appointment and the people of FL, AL and GA will suffer the consequences,” he added. This leftist judge would have been voted down and the seat on the important 11th circuit would have been filled by Donald Trump next year had Republicans showed up. Now, the leftist judge will have a lifetime appointment and the people of FL, AL and GA will suffer the… https://t.co/7h8uyfvLUq — Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) November 19, 2024 Bloomberg Law reports: The Democratic-led chamber voted 49-45 to send Embry Kidd to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The US magistrate judge in Orlando, Florida, and former federal prosecutor replaces Clinton appointee Charles Wilson in Tampa. The circuit covers Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in floor remarks that Kidd was “exceptionally qualified,” and noted that the chamber would continue to prioritize moving judicial nominees quickly through the end of the year. “We’ll keep going,” Schumer said of efforts during the post-election lame duck session. After Kidd’s confirmation, Republicans forced a series of procedural votes over several hours on Schumer’s plans to bring more nominees to the floor in a tactic to slow action on judges. President-elect Donald Trump has called on Republicans to not allow Democrats to “ram through” more judicial confirmations during the lame duck. Democrats relinquish their 51-49 majority on Jan. 3, and Trump takes office Jan. 20. “The U.S. Senate has *CONFIRMED* Embry J. Kidd, a Florida magistrate judge, to a seat on a federal appeals court. It is the first Biden-picked appellate judge confirmed since Trump’s election. He was confirmed by a vote of 49-45. But failing to block the nomination were SIX senators: Braun (R-IN), Daines (R-MT), Fetterman (D-PA) Hagerty (R-TN), Rubio (R-FL), and Vance (R-OH). Manchin (I-WV) voted NO,” Kyle Becker wrote. “Kidd’s nomination was staunchly opposed in his Senate Judiciary Committee hearings by an 11–10 vote. Sen. @MarshaBlackburn (R-TN) grilled Embry over U.S. v. Rodriguez Sanchez, the case of an illegal alien who was previously deported by ICE. Rodriguez Sanchez had a criminal history of resisting an officer’s arrest with violence and two incidents of domestic abuse. The judge in the case, Roy B. Dalton, freed Rodriguez Sanchez until trial while citing the Bail Reform Act. Blackburn questioned Judge Kidd for agreeing with this ruling, while making the case the subject was not a ‘flight risk’ despite an ICE detainer,” Becker noted. “Even more controversially, Bell was acknowledged in a legal analysis of death penalty sentencing for child-rap* cases. Senator @BasedMikeLee (R-UT) had raised the issue in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. The article by his Northwestern classmate, Monica C. Bell, criticizes states for a ‘racialized’ application of child rap* laws. Kidd vaguely said he disagreed with the paper’s views. Blackburn peppered Kidd with questions regardless, asking him at one point if he saw ‘s*x offenders as criminals or victims.’ Kidd was evasive and did not agree with the senator’s argument s*x offenders deserve ‘harsher’ sentences than are meted out today,” he added. JUST IN: The U.S. Senate has *CONFIRMED* Embry J. Kidd, a Florida magistrate judge, to a seat on a federal appeals court. It is the first Biden-picked appellate judge confirmed since Trump's election. He was confirmed by a vote of vote of 49-45. But failing to block the… pic.twitter.com/sFDZDBDY2w — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 19, 2024 “Embry Kidd helped shape a law review article that argued ‘child rape statutes, though not laden with the exact same racial baggage as more general rape statutes, are still racialized.’ Senate Democrats are trying to confirm him to the Eleventh Circuit today. He must be rejected,” Judicial Network President Carrie Severino said. Embry Kidd helped shape a law review article that argued “child rape statutes, though not laden with the exact same racial baggage as more general rape statutes, are still racialized.” Senate Democrats are trying to confirm him to the Eleventh Circuit today. He must be… https://t.co/EJqjLdUvZC pic.twitter.com/mGJawV8AIp — Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) November 18, 2024 From the Washington Examiner: A judge in Florida tapped by President Joe Biden for a top federal court spot failed to disclose at least two child sex-related cases that saw his lenient rulings reversed — until now. Embry Kidd, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, is under fire from Republicans over his prior omission of the two cases on his nominee questionnaire, which was quietly updated this week to address the matter. Biden nominated Kidd in May to fill a vacancy on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees courts in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. “Not only is this becoming a pattern, the content of these belatedly-disclosed cases is concerning,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, told the Washington Examiner. “With all due respect, these cases should have been disclosed. It is hard to provide advice and consent on a judicial nominee when the nominee doesn’t disclose highly relevant cases.” Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who is also concerned about the unearthed disclosure, told the Washington Examiner he did not “consent” to Kidd’s nomination as Florida’s junior senator. “President Biden continues to nominate judges who are totally unfit for the federal bench in his continued efforts to weaponize our judiciary,” Scott said. “The Biden administration’s decision to advise nominees like Judge Kidd to not disclose bad rulings regarding child sex predators, some of which were later rightfully reversed by the supervising district judge, is disgusting, dangerous, and right on brand for this lawless administration.”

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Ukraine just launched six long-range missiles into Russia after Putin said it would mean that US/NATO is at war with Russia. It could be the beginning of World War III. Will Donald Trump get into office in time to stop it? According to Ukrainian state media, these were the first long-range missiles used by the US. […] The post Biden-Harris & Zelensky Move to Bring US Into Direct War with Russia appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Department of Homeland Security issued an internal memo last week, warning agents that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) has expanded its territory in the U.S. to at least 16 states. The New York Post reported on the internal memo on Monday, writing that DHS officials warned that TdA has most recently increased its “violent tendencies” in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Montana, and Wyoming. The Venezuelan gang also has a presence in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. Around half of the U.S. population is in areas where the gang has made its presence known. NEW: The vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has expanded its territory to at least 16 US states — an area that includes half of America’s population, per a DHS memo we obtained. The latest include Wyoming, Montana, Virginia, and DC.https://t.co/8NFxJbzjdo pic.twitter.com/jeX58lwKrh — Jennie Taer ?️ (@JennieSTaer) November 19, 2024 According to the DHS memo, TdA’s foothold in the nation’s capital and surrounding Virginia suburbs coincides with “increases in migrant populations” in that area. “As the population of Venezuelan nationals continues to increase, the potential for violent TdA migrants is highly probable,” the memo added, according to the Post. The memo said that TdA has focused on D.C. because it’s easy to travel from the nation’s capital to surrounding suburbs, where they commit thefts and assaults. The Post reported that U.S. Border Patrol sources said TdA members cross the U.S.-Mexico border and are often released into the country under the Biden administration’s policies. TdA members are identified by their tattoos, such as a “five-point crown and a clock and roses.” The illegal immigrant currently on trial for Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s murder is “an active member” of Tren de Aragua, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources told the Post earlier this year. Riley was killed while she was out for a run near the University of Georgia campus in February. The nursing student’s death sent shockwaves throughout the country as Republicans, including then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, called for mass deportations of criminal illegal immigrants. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Tren de Aragua made headlines again over the summer when local officials in Aurora, Colorado, warned that members of the gang had taken over an apartment complex in the Denver suburb. In New York City, TdA members have been engaged in sex trafficking and police shootings, the Post reported. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch also said last week that the gang is running sex trafficking rings out of Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. On Monday, Trump confirmed that he plans to use the military to conduct mass deportations upon taking office.

The man who entered the U.S. illegally and is suspected of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was flown to Georgia at taxpayer expense, his roommate testified on Monday. Jose Ibarra’s roommate was called to the stand and, through an interpreter, told the court that Ibarra and others were staying at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City when they requested a humanitarian flight to Georgia. Those flights are funded with taxpayer dollars. The roommate of Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan illegal accused of killing Laken Riley, testified they got a free “humanitarian flight” from NYC to Atlanta in Sept. 2023. They were living at the Roosevelt Hotel. Prosecutors say after arriving in Athens, GA, Ibarra murdered Riley.… pic.twitter.com/ttRIMsN8RF — Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) November 18, 2024 Prosecutors on Monday also used a jailhouse phone call between Ibarra and his wife to place him on the University of Georgia campus in February on the day Riley was killed. FBI analyst Abeisis Ramirez translated the phone call for the court. “She said that she thinks it’s crazy that they don’t have anyone else’s DNA. They only have his,” Ramirez testified, according to Fox News. Fox News contributor Paul Mauro said the phone call placed Ibarra at the scene. “She very clearly doesn’t believe him. … She says, at one point, ‘Jose, I know you,’ a very … telling moment,” Mauro said of the phone call between Ibarra and his wife. “And then at one point … the real crushing statement is when she says to him, ‘I can’t believe somebody could see somebody dying and not call 911.'” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Mauro added that the conversation appeared to “be a reference to him having told her, I was there, I saw the body, but I didn’t call 911, and I didn’t do it.” Ibarra, 26, waived his right to a jury trial and will instead leave his fate in the hands of a judge, CNN reported. Ibarra is charged with 10 counts, including murder, kidnapping, and aggravated assault with intent to rape Riley, who was found murdered after she went jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens. Also on Monday, prosecutors explained that Ibarra’s DNA was found in skin cells underneath Riley’s fingernails, indicating she fought for her life. The prosecution also displayed images of Ibarra with scratches to his arms and hands, taken shortly after Riley was killed. “On Feb. 22, Jose Ibarra put on a black hat, a hoodie-style jacket, and some black kitchen-style disposable gloves, and he went hunting for females on the University of Georgia campus,” prosecutor Sheila Ross said in her opening statements on Friday, according to Fox News. “When Laken Riley refused to be his rape victim, he bashed her head in with a rock repeatedly,” Ross added. Ibarra’s defense attorney said during his opening statements that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ibarra killed Riley and suggested there was no evidence to allege sexual assault was a motivating factor.