Longtime Brooklyn Democratic politician and activist Dov Hikind announced Thursday that he has bolted from the Democratic Party and enrolled as a Republican. Hikind represented his Brooklyn neighborhood for 36 years in the New York State Assembly and later founded Americans Against Antisemitism, according to Fox News. Hikind announced his...

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The recent Bud Light boycott made headlines, but it was hardly the first time consumers have acted in organized protest. In 2019, Keri Wiginton of Stacker, a data-driven news service, complied a list of history-changing boycotts. While nearly all of Wiginton's examples come from the modern era, some date to...

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's 2024 presidential campaign is grappling with significant financial challenges. The gov. has already spent 40 percent of the $20 million raised in the second quarter. And while you may think there's more where that came from, the fact is that more than 90 percent of DeSantis'...

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Feminist author Grace Blakeley, a self-described socialist commentator, got steamrolled by YouTuber and self-proclaimed "anti-feminist" Pearl Davis while debating the topic of equal pay in sports. The women engaged in a lively discussion on Tuesday's episode of TalkTV's "Piers Morgan Uncensored." Feminists such as Blakeley insist that female athletes should...

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Twitter intends to subpoena Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her communications with various federal agencies, according to a new court filing. Attorneys for X Corp, the new corporate name for Twitter, submitted their notice to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, according to Fox...

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A fire at a business in Phoenix on Thursday caused propane tanks to explode and others to shoot off into the sky while firefighters and police scrambled to evacuate the area. Dozens of cars were damaged as some tanks flew as far as 500 yards but thankfully, no one was...

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A Nebraska woman who police say admitted to killing her infant in the womb during the 29th week of pregnancy and subsequently making an attempt to burn the child’s body is now facing a mere 90 days in jail. Celeste Burgess, who was 17 years old at the time, used...

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The Kentucky office of Republican Sen. Rand Paul was engulfed in flames early Friday morning. Firefighters in the city of Bowling Green were dispatched to Paul’s downtown office in the city at around 1:45 a.m. local time, the Bowling Green Daily News reported. Katie McKee with the Bowling Green Fire...

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign has had its fair share of ups and downs since it began. Lately, it has been met with a lot of bad news. DeSantis had separated himself from the pack chasing former President Donald Trump, but one poll now shows him tied with another...

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is taking serious fire for a social media post showcasing deadly serious negligence on the agency's part around the very devices it is supposed to safely regulate. In the Wednesday post by the ATF's Houston Field Division, agents are seen at a...

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg can breathe a sigh of relief because nine Republicans joined over 200 Democrats on Wednesday to vote against requiring the secretary to reveal where he travels on taxpayer-funded planes. Such a requirement was included in an amendment to legislation directing funds to the Federal Aviation Administration,...

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Reviews from director Greta Gerwig’s live-action “Barbie” film are starting to come in, but unlike the doll that American girls have played with since 1959, they are anything but glowing. I refused to take my daughter to see the film with a good, old-fashioned father’s “Maybe next week,” which is...

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After more than three decades in the music business, the leftist punk band Anti-Flag has broken up without offering any explanation. On Thursday, the music site Pitchfork noted that the "stalwart political punk band" announced it was dissolving only a day before a scheduled concert in Prague. "Anti-Flag has disbanded,"...

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Irony, thy name is... a gas-powered leaf blower. Environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil once again tried to hijack a marquee event and make it about themselves and, as is often the case, it backfired. Or, more accurately, it was blown away, leaving nary a trace that the...

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Emails made public as part of a lawsuit by the Virgin Islands against JP Morgan Chase are undercutting a claim from Prince Andrew that he only saw convicted pedophile and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein once after Epstein’s conviction. In 2019, Andrew told a BBC interviewer on the show "Newsnight"...

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As sports quickly enters a rather dead time in the year (three of the four major North American pro sports have nothing going on, and the third is smack dab in the middle of a 162-game season), it doesn't take much to capture national sports headlines. Despite that, history suggests that...

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Good ol' paper ballots and required official voter identification might be the only way to restore confidence in U.S. elections. Doubt concerning election integrity has spread like a disease from sea to shining sea. The devil thrives on doubt. Doubt may be why Texas has decided to opt out of...

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Disney had great hopes that its latest Indiana Jones action flick would be just the ticket for summer moviegoers. Not only has that hope faded as the film fails to draw fans, but the movie is now at the center of a lawsuit. Before it even hit theaters, "Indiana Jones...

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Former President Donald Trump reacted Thursday to suggestions that he should choose long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. During a phone conversation with Newsmax host Rob Schmitt, Trump was asked about what impact a Kennedy third-party run might have on the election. “I don’t know,...

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A new report says Fox News is offering to match employee donations to groups and causes that are not aligned with its mostly conservative audience. Some of those donations are to groups that fundamentally oppose Christians and conservatives. The network that people who are mostly right of center have called...

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Country star Jason Aldean's fans aren't going anywhere. The singer has been immersed in controversy since he released the music video for his song "Try That in a Small Town." The video features news footage of rioters attacking police and burning the American flag. Critics accused it of being racist...

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