Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a stern warning to potential looters as Hurricane Milton barrels toward the Sunshine State. “This is not going to be an opportunity for folks to take advantage of people. If you think you’re going to go in and loot, you’ve got another thing coming,” DeSantis said. “You go into somebody’s house after the storm passes, think that you’re going to be able to commit crimes. You’re going to get in really serious trouble. And quite frankly, you don’t know what’s behind that door in a Second Amendment state,” he continued. WATCH: “If you think you’re going to go in and loot, you’ve got another thing coming.” Florida Gov. @RonDeSantis issues a strong warning to potential looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, saying he will be “swift to throw the book at people.” More: https://t.co/DsrIjAeWG1 pic.twitter.com/elIw7uG4ca — NewsNation (@NewsNation) October 8, 2024 NewsNation reports: DeSantis warned Floridians that the hurricane could “wobble,” meaning it could hit at any point whether it is north of Tampa, Tampa, or south of Tampa. “Wherever it makes landfall, there’s going to be impacts far beyond what the cone actually shows,” DeSantis warned. It intensified quickly Monday, going from a Category 1 to Category 5 in less than 24 hours, and became only the second Category 5 hurricane to form in the Gulf of Mexico since 1966. It reached an incredibly low pressure Tuesday night, which generally correlates with a storm’s strength. The lower a system’s pressure, the stronger the hurricane. Almost the entirety of Florida’s west coast was under a hurricane warning Tuesday as the storm crept toward the state, sucking energy from the Gulf of Mexico’s warm water. The strongest Atlantic hurricane on record is 1980’s Allen, which reached wind speeds of 190 mph as it moved through the Caribbean and Gulf before striking Texas and Mexico. Ron DeSantis warns post-hurricane looters they might get shothttps://t.co/vFz4HhmwyL pic.twitter.com/HZLuJPotHg — The Washington Times (@WashTimes) October 8, 2024 From The Washington Times: Mr. DeSantis issued the warning during a pre-storm press conference in Tallahassee. Milton was spinning through the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday. It is expected to make landfall around Tampa late Wednesday before sweeping across Florida. “Use today as your day to finalize and execute the plan that is going to protect you and your family,” Mr. DeSantis said Tuesday. Florida is bracing for Milton less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene swept across the state. Mr. DeSantis said 1,200 truckloads of debris had been picked up in anticipation of hurricane winds. DeSantis provided another Hurricane Milton update Wednesday morning. WATCH: Governor DeSantis Provides Update #7 on Hurricane Milton at State Emergency Operations Center https://t.co/E7DbQRWjNK — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 9, 2024

In a video message released last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Western elites had transformed Ukraine into a “military outpost’ aimed at undermining Russian interests. During the address, Putin said: “We did not [...] The post Putin Says Western Elites Have Turned Ukraine Into Their Colony appeared first on The People's Voice.

A wish list of weapons for Ukraine has been compiled by the US military’s top commander in Europe Christopher Cavoli, according to CNN. The news network reported this week that the senior US general is [...] The post US Military’s Top Commander Proposes Cruise Missiles For Ukraine appeared first on The People's Voice.

A Turkish Airlines pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, causing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing at JFK International Airport in New York, according to the airline. 

The Harris campaign sees her lead in the blue states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin going down.  A leaked Democrat internal poll in Wisconsin has Donald Trump leading by three points, and Zogby put Wisconsin in the toss-up column. The leak came from Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s campaign. Internal polls are more accurate than media and […] The post Harris Campaign Secretly Worried About Losing MI, PA, and WI appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A former New York City official was charged Tuesday with witness tampering and destroying evidence in a sweeping federal investigation that led to Mayor Eric Adams’ indictment on charges he took bribes and illegal campaign cash from foreign interests. The arrest came as Adams officials flee the administration. Mayor Adams is the only other person […] The post Mayor Adams’ Liaison Charged: Witness Tampering, Destroying Evidence appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz said on Tuesday that the “Electoral College needs to go,” forcing the Kamala Harris campaign to release a statement saying it does not support abolishing the Constitutional mechanism for presidential elections. At two campaign fundraisers on the West Coast, Walz called for abolishing the Electoral College, arguing that it forces candidates to focus too much attention on a handful of battleground states, The New York Times reported. “I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote,” Walz told donors at California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Sacramento. “So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win.” At an event earlier on Tuesday, Walz told supporters that he is “a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.” Following the Minnesota governor’s call for the Electoral College to be abolished, the the Harris campaign said in a statement, “Governor Walz believes that every vote matters in the Electoral College and he is honored to be traveling the country and battleground states working to earn support for the Harris-Walz ticket.” “He was commenting to a crowd of strong supporters about how the campaign is built to win 270 electoral votes. And, he was thanking them for their support that is helping fund those efforts,” the statement added. The Electoral College was established in Article II and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, which calls for “Electors” to “meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President.” The system requires presidential candidates to gain support from voters across the U.S. instead of focusing on states and cities with the largest populations. As governor, Walz has pushed for presidents to be elected by popular vote instead of through the Electoral College. In May of 2023, Walz signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law, making Minnesota the 17th state to agree to award its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Walz is not the only Democrat pushing for the end of the Electoral College. After losing the 2016 election to former President Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton argued for electing presidents through a national popular vote. While Clinton won the popular vote against Trump, she lost to the Republican nominee in the Electoral College 227 to 304. During the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all called for abolishing the Electoral College while on the campaign trail. Harris said in 2019 that she was “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College. “I mean, there’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that,” Harris said.