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The National Archives is holding about 5,400 emails from accounts set up by now-President Joe Biden that he used to communicate under a fake name with his son, Hunter, while Joe Biden was vice president in the Obama administration, the Southeastern Legal Foundation said Monday. The foundation announced that it...

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A prominent California Democrat, who previously served as the Los Angeles County supervisor and a city councilman, will spend more than three years in federal prison for corruption. Mark Ridley-Thomas, a former California state senator and assemblyman, will spend 42 months behind bars following a scheme that prosecutors said was...

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A claim by Maui’s police chief that officers tried to evacuate residents from the deadly Aug. 8 fires is being rejected by one local leader of relief efforts. Fires raged through the island, devastating the town of Lahaina. To date, 115 people have been officially listed as fire victims, with...

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Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence may be closer than you realize. According to a report from The List, Pence's nephew John Pence and Conway's cousin Giovanna Coia got married in September 2019, forging a familial link between the former vice president and Donald Trump's senior advisor. The pair, who had...

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As a person whose first word was "car," who can tell you offhand how many victories stock car legend Richard Petty scored (exactly 200), where Formula One icon Ayrton Senna's first win came (the rain-soaked 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix) and the only drivers who have won four Indianapolis 500s (A.J....

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Some parts of the mystery behind a massive California land purchase have been released, but questions remain about what is planned for almost $1 billion worth of real estate in Solano County northeast of San Francisco. The purchases, which are near Travis Air Force Base, had aroused significant speculation about...

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A group of leftist thugs tried to intimidate citizens protesting at the mayor's residence against a migrant center in America's largest city. On Sunday, people showed up at Gracie Mansion in New York City to protest the city's plans to build more migrant shelters for the thousands of illegal immigrants...

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Facebook Marketplace is being accused of allowing the platform’s users to post and sell a number of recalled items that have been tied to more than 100 infant deaths. That is according to lawmakers and consumer safety regulators who want the items banned once and for all by Facebook’s parent...

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Concerned neighbors and parents of a New York City community have been unable to stop their own city government from establishing a shelter for illegal aliens near a school -- even though they briefly obtained a court order that was later overturned. The city government began housing the group in...

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Bud Light has launched a new marketing campaign to try to win over NFL fans ahead of the upcoming season, and to say it hasn’t been warmly received would be an understatement. The Anheuser-Busch InBev beer brand has tried pandering to its former customer base through a number of ad...

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Three summers ago, when then-Sen. Kamala Harris accepted the job as Joe Biden's running mate, she doubtlessly had visions dancing in her head of running for president in 2024. Biden being what he was, after all -- a geriatric placeholder -- there seemed to be little doubt that Harris wasn't...

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Newsmax host Greg Kelly said on his show Monday night that there is an audio clip of President Joe Biden, which is about to be made public, and he predicted it will derail his presidency. Kelly teased the clip to his audience, but he did not disclose the contents of...

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A 12-year-old boy was kicked out of his class in Colorado because he had a Gadsden flag sticker on his backpack. An official with the Vanguard School, a charter school in Colorado Springs, told the boy's mother that he was kicked out of class over the flag "due to its...

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Two people are dead after a Broward County Sheriff's Office helicopter crashed in Florida on Monday. Footage of the crash showed a smoldering helicopter spiraling to the ground, with its tail severed from its body. WARNING: The following videos contain images that some readers may find disturbing.  Broward Sheriff’s Office...

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Ju'Coby Pittman -- a Democratic member of the Jacksonville, Florida, City Council -- stepped in to stop hecklers from booing GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a prayer vigil Sunday for the three victims of an apparently racially motivated shooting the previous day. On Saturday, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter shot...

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An online game platform was accused of illegally engaging in child gambling, per a new lawsuit. Rachelle Colvin and Danielle Sass, the parents of two minors, alleged in the class-action lawsuit that Roblox "is preying on children nationwide" via third-party gambling websites, according to the court documents. The formal complaint...

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The National Weather Service is not mincing words about the threat Florida might face from Hurricane Idalia. The storm was closing in on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday afternoon with a projected landfall of Wednesday morning. "Hurricane #Idalia will likely be an unprecedented event for many locations in the Florida...

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Fox News' Peter Doocy may have been gone from the White House briefing room, but he couldn't have been forgotten. When the White House correspondent returned to active duty on Monday after taking paternity leave for the birth of his new daughter, Bridget, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got...

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Former first lady Melania Trump is reportedly standing by her man following former President Trump's fourth round of indictments by the Biden administration and local Democratic prosecutors. A source told People that Melania "shares her husband’s view -- and anger -- that most of these legal issues are 'election interference...

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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama appear to be fans of a tennis player who doesn't pull punches with umpires. The presidential couple were in attendance at Coco Gauff's U.S. Open first-round victory over Laura Siegemund of Germany on Monday in Flushing, New York. The Obamas...

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