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Former President Donald Trump has filed a counterclaim against writer E. Jean Carroll, saying she defamed him in comments after winning a civil trial against Trump last month. Carroll has insisted Trump raped her during a 1990s encounter at a New York City department store. The former president has strongly...

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Accused killer Bryan Kohberger could face the death penalty, and a new mode of execution for Idaho, if he is convicted of the murders of four college students last year in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger has been charged with killing University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and...

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Two new drugs represent a "major advance" in the treatment of terminal cancer, studies revealed earlier this month indicated. Studies of the drugs osimertinib and ribociclib showed that they increased survival rates for patients with lung and breast cancer, respectively. The studies were released at this year's annual meeting of...

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Malaria is back in America, according to a warning issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the first time since 2003, the CDC posted in a health advisory for what they called "locally acquired malaria cases," which have been reported in Florida and Texas. The warning noted...

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As a former federal judge, Fox News commentator Judge Jeanine Pirro understands the power of precedent -- and her take Tuesday on the precedent being set by Vice President Kamala Harris is one for the history books. Sitting in on "The Five," Pirro used the evidence of an NBC News...

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On Tuesday, America's paper of record, The New York Times, ran a piece about the wayward son of our nation's 46th president: "Competing Accounts of Justice Dept.’s Handling of Hunter Biden Case." The piece wasn't handled by amateurs. Glenn Thrush and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt, who share the...

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Pieces of wreckage have been located and recovered from the Titan submersible that is believed to have imploded with five people aboard. Photos published on TMZ on Wednesday show large segments of the craft being unloaded from the Horizon Arctic ship. The pieces were seen being lowered onto a dock...

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What appeared to be compression marks on President Joe Biden’s face sent Twitter users into a frenzy on Wednesday morning. Biden presented himself to reporters only briefly outside the White House, but it was long enough to stir up a lot of questions after the strange marks, which were seen...

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Recently, a Gallup poll revealed that the number of Americans who identify as conservative has risen dramatically. Based on the survey, 38 percent of Americans consider themselves conservative on social issues -- the highest that number has been since 2012. For that matter, economic conservatism also rose, with 44 percent...

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Roseanne Barr found herself in hot water this week after leftists pounced on a remark she made during an interview that appeared to deny the Holocaust. "Nobody died in the Holocaust," the actress and comedian said on Theo Von's "This Past Weekend" podcast, which aired June 14. "It should happen....

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NBC News is being buried online after it published a bizarre and false fact-check on Tuesday in which the network downplayed an alarming chant of “we’re coming for your children” during an LGBT “pride” event last weekend. The article, which was authored by a reporter named Tyler Kingkade, focused on...

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On June 18, an OceanGate submersible imploded in the northern Atlantic Ocean, killing all five passengers on board. The fate of the doomed vessel, bound for the wreck of the Titanic, dominated headlines for nearly a week. Thankfully, accidents involving submarines and submersibles have not occurred often in the twenty-first...

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Doesn't Joe Biden know there's a war on? Of course, he does -- he just doesn't know where. That was the takeaway from a Biden blunder on Wednesday when the commander in chief of the American armed forces was asked if last week's mutiny by a mercenary force had weakened...

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The Trump family can cross off one politically charged legal wrangle brought about by a leftist prosecutor. A New York appeals court on Tuesday removed Ivanka Trump as a co-defendant in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James in September, according to CNN. The lawsuit...

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A new poll released this week shows Democrats have not written off Hillary Clinton as a potential candidate to support in the event President Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 race. But her support was behind that of Vice President Kamala Harris, who this week was found to be...

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The White House has disclosed new information about President Joe Biden's health. The revelation came in response to questions and speculation about marks seen on the president's face during an appearance on the White House lawn on Wednesday. What the heck did Biden have strapped on his face that made...

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In a tragic incident in Naples, Italy, a fatal explosion occurred involving an experimental hybrid electric car. The vehicle was a Volkswagen Polo, a prototype used as part of a project called "Life-Save," testing the possibility of combining an electric motor with batteries powered by solar panels in cars, a...

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In his seventh Twitter episode, Tucker Carlson predicted that the Democratic Party will launch a coup against Joe Biden, kick him and Kamala Harris off the 2024 ticket, and replace him with a radical leftist who is just as "ruthless." Carlson noted that Biden's slide into senility is accelerating rapidly...

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The ghosts of 1917 still haunt the world. In Episode 7 of "Tucker on Twitter," Tucker Carlson exposed the corrosive effect of wars for democracy on the actual democracies they purport to save. Carlson posted his latest episode on Tuesday evening, along with an accompanying tweet: "Ep. 7 Irony Alert:...

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The author of a new book alleged that Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana causally urinated in a pea field right in front of him and made no apparent attempt to cover himself several years ago. On June 6, journalist Ben Terris released the book “The Big Break: The Gamblers,...

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