Failure never paid so well. New York City is sending big checks to black and Hispanic residents who filed a discrimination lawsuit in 1996 after failing the New York State teachers’ exam. The total bill will be more than $1.8 billion, making this the largest legal settlement in city history,...

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Convicted human trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell says she is a victim of sexual abuse in prison, according to a new report. Maxwell claims that a female prison guard spoke to her in vulgar language after reprimanding her for not showering after using the outdoor running track at the federal prison in...

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Mexico is objecting to a floating barrier in the Rio Grande that was placed there to stop illegal immigrants from entering Texas. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena said Mexico sent a diplomatic protest to the United States' government after Texas -- fed up with the lack of action from...

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Someone, somewhere inside the Beltway, will likely become the first American in modern times to be charged with Logan Act violations. And I can almost guarantee you it will be in our lifetime. After his testimony before Congress last week, current Biden administration climate envoy and former Secretary of State...

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A new report frames the rift between Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia as growing wider every day. “A fistfight could break out at any moment,” Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said, according to the Daily Beast. Burchett, who called himself a “professional wrestling fan,”...

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Tucker Carlson, the former host of a popular Fox News program, has secured a significant advertising deal for his latest venture, a show hosted on Twitter. According to a report from CNBC, sources familiar with the matter revealed that Carlson has entered into a lucrative advertising agreement with Public Square,...

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Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York got fact-checked for smearing FBI whistleblowers who bravely came forward to testify about the egregious partisan corruption infesting the FBI. Nadler made the dubious accusations Wednesday during FBI Director Christopher Wray's testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Wray went before the...

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No one can say Joe can't pick 'em. Sam Brinton, the deeply disturbed individual President Joe Biden saw fit to put in charge of the nation's nuclear waste disposition last year, is turning out to be an even bigger embarrassment than the typical cross-dressing luggage thief who's into kinky gay...

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There is an enduring grade school trope about schoolyard bullies that if you are being harassed, the easiest way to end that harassment is to stand up to the bully. Apparently, the same tactics apply in the adult political world. Look no further than the blustering longshot 2024 GOP presidential...

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This whitewash isn't going to make the scandal go away. The Great White House Cocaine Mystery of 2023 might have been publicly dismissed by the Secret Service, but former Secret Service agent Don Bongino isn't letting it die easily. And neither are some of the former agents he served with....

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Former President Donald Trump took a shot at Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday, telling DeSantis to return to his home state, where insurers are fleeing because of high insurance costs and increased risks from natural disasters. Trump spoke at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach,...

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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is being roasted online after his Twitter account posted a “cringe” meme in response to a report that his staff is not the “gayest” in the upper chamber. That trophy apparently goes to Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, according to a recent Senate...

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A veteran meteorologist who had served New York City for years died suddenly and unexpectedly over the weekend, her employer announced. WCBS-TV announced on Sunday that award-winning meteorologist, Elise Finch, died at age 51 in a New York City-area hospital. The station did not disclose her cause of death but...

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Parents need to be aware of another way the radical transgender and gay agenda is being pumped into the minds of our children -- this time with a smartphone app that bills itself as a "mental health" tool for kids. The Kooth app might seem harmless at first glance because...

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When any writer pens words that are irrelevant, petty and valueless, it is a reflection of the media organization in which they work. That is the true culprit; ultimately, where the actual accountability lies. The online magazine Slate knows this. Still, they allowed one of their writers to ridicule the...

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A small airplane crash-landed in a grassy field near a runway at a Martha's Vineyard airport after the pilot suffered a medical emergency. According to a preliminary report of an investigation being conducted by the Massachusetts State Police, the plane was approaching the airport on Saturday to land when its...

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Is Brittney Griner still catching breaks? The WNBA star and erstwhile Russian prisoner, who was returned to the United States in a swap that freed a notorious Russian arms dealer, was being celebrated this weekend for a slam dunk during the league's All-Star Game on Saturday in Las Vegas. But...

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A report claiming that fingerprints were found on a bag of cocaine discovered at the White House has generated heat from the Secret Service, but no light has been shed on whose drugs were found. On Wednesday, the magazine Soldier of Fortune claimed that through fingerprint identification, the owner of...

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Disney hasn't produced a genuinely funny comedy like this since 1961's "The Absent Minded Professor." Seriously. The House of Mouse, already subject to a laundry list of issues at the moment, found itself in yet another controversy recently -- a controversy completely of their own over-reactionary making. On Friday, the...

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As the credits role at the end of every "Sound of Freedom" screening, audiences are given a special message from the film's star, Jim Caviezel. During this address, Caviezel makes a point to emphasize who the real hero of the story is. The actor explains it isn't Tim Ballard, the...

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