As reports continue to trickle in about the devastation and destruction wrought upon Hawaii by wildfires, one report has separated itself by asking a simple, haunting question: Just how badly did Hawaii officials bungle evacuation efforts? A harrowing report from The Associated Press suggests that those efforts were bungled rather...

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Leave it to a former Obama administration official to showcase conventional D.C. gaslighting at its most brazen. Wednesday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" with hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino, former Obama White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina repeatedly insisted that President Joe Biden's now-infamous kitchen fire story showed...

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Shoppers who visited a Wegmans Food Markets store could find an unpleasant surprise in their credit card statements. Customers were likely to have been double-charged for transactions on Aug. 16, the 110-store chain headquartered in Rochester, New York, has said,  according to Fox Business. "So if you shopped at Wegmans...

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The inaugural Republican primary debate is slated for Wednesday night -- but it will be missing a rather prominent figure. In fact, the debate may be missing the prominent figure of the GOP in 2023: Donald John Trump. The former president has made it clear that, due in part to his commanding...

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A family is in mourning after a 14-year-old Australian boy with no apparent health issues died in his sleep earlier this week. William Pfeiffer, 14, went to for a sleepover at the home of his grandparents on Sunday night, Adelaide’s The Advertiser reported. The young man, who was described by...

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This is giving kangaroo courts a bad name. The trial of former President Donald Trump in the District of Columbia isn't even close to starting yet, but Americans who support the 45th president can already be sure of one thing: The judge has already reached her own verdict. It's been...

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A federal COVID relief program designed to assist entertainment venues that were largely shuttered during pandemic-related lockdowns was so poorly managed that hundreds of millions of dollars may have wound up in the hands of wealthy entertainers who didn't need the money. That's the finding of an Insider investigation, which...

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Hollywood superstar Jennifer Aniston has just about had it with the left-wing cancel culture. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published on Tuesday, Aniston spoke at length about her career, her life today, and how she has dealt with fame. At one point, she spoke about cancel culture...

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Incumbent President Joe Biden has long been on the proverbial hot seat, well before the specter of 2024 re-election began looming large. The state of the economy, out-of-control inflation and skyrocketing gas prices have all contributed to Biden being as deeply unpopular as any president in recent history. Given all...

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Oliver Anthony -- the singer and songwriter of the hit "Rich Men North of Richmond" -- is making an estimated $40,000 a day from those streaming his music. Los Angeles Times pop music critic Mikael Wood reported Monday that Anthony's song "topped the iTunes chart" and "Spotify’s U.S. Top 50."...

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Alec Baldwin's legal troubles aren't going away. On Wednesday, a New Mexico judge denied a motion from the actor to dismiss a civil suit from production crew members of the film "Rust" against him, according to Fox News. Baldwin was previously charged with fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the...

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Sometimes, looks deceive. At other times, they reveal. This story involves the latter phenomenon. On Aug. 14, Las Vegas police arrested James Gina III, 50, on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend, Celina Rebholz. The details of the alleged crime combined with the suspect's physical appearance paint a dark picture. Gina's...

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Two Muslim teens have been sentenced in Austrian court for planning to blow up a middle school class in hopes of killing as many Christians as possible. "We wanted to shoot all the Christians in the class!" the two boys, who are 15 and 16, reportedly told officials in Bruck...

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He didn't sleep it off nearly enough. A driver who told police he'd been out drinking Sunday night woke up hungry for breakfast on Monday and decided to get behind the wheel of his car. Driving while you're still drunk is a bad idea under any circumstances, but when a...

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A federal judge delivered a victory for free speech by siding with a Christian elder who posted a sign on an information table at the University of Wyoming that insisted that a transgender student who was in the news is not a woman, but is, rather, a male. Laramie Faith...

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One word summarizes the terrible disconnect between ethical standards, norms, and political perceptions in the story which will soon follow: disjunction. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines disjunction as a "disunion, separation." This word is not commonly used, especially in regular conversation, but its existence illustrates a sharp, almost contradictory, contrast. The...

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A 98-year-old co-owner of a Kansas newspaper demanded that police conducting a raid of her home leave and swore at them multiple times while they disregarded her. Joan Meyer -- who owned the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper -- died a day after the raid. Eric, publisher and co-owner...

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The grandmother of a 12-year-old who has been missing for nine months said last week she thinks the girl was sold to human traffickers for $5 million. "My granddaughter is alive, but she's been kidnapped," Rodica Cojocari told Charlotte, North Carolina news outlet WCNC-TV last week. Madalina Cojocari, then 11...

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Planned Parenthood is now in the gender transition business, according to a new report. An Op-Ed by Melanie Israel in the Daily Signal indicated that most of the almost 600 Planned Parenthood clinics in America provide cross-sex hormones. That’s up from 32 clinics providing these drugs in 2016, she wrote....

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The roll of the rich and famous who were in contact with Jeffrey Epstein is growing as new revelations add to the list of people with whom the convicted pedophile and alleged sex trafficker rubbed elbows. Epstein's infamous "little black book" of contacts is known to contain many famous names,...

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A Virginia student has been pulled out of school by his parents after the school administration demanded that he remove his American flags from his pickup truck. On Monday, local outlet WSET said that Christopher Hartless, a student at Staunton River High School in Bedford County drove to school with...

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