A watchdog report indicated that the purported revolving door that connects the Internal Revenue Service and large private firms has been busy. A report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which was released Tuesday, said that 496 employees received income from either a large accounting firm or corporation...

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The state of Alabama reduced its sales tax rate effective Friday, but some shoppers actually saw the amount they paid for groceries on Friday go up, instead of down. The sales tax on food was reduced from 4 percent to 3 percent, starting September 1. But Walmart and Sam's Club...

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If Tucker Carlson is truly the representative voice of swaths of marginalized voices across America, as many often claim, then Mitch McConnell should seriously take a close look at retirement. Carlson savaged the Senate Minority Leader from Kentucky Thursday in a wide-ranging interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy. You...

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Outdoor parties in New York City this weekend could attract an unseen visitor in the form of a surveillance drone, city officials have announced, spurring angry responses from privacy advocates. “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in the backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our...

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In the wake of Hurricane Idalia's landfall in Florida's Big Bend near Keaton Beach on Wednesday, a local fire and rescue department has warned owners of electric-powered vehicles -- including golf carts and scooters -- that exposure to salt water can cause the vehicles' batteries to catch fire. Palm Harbor...

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Scene: It's 2030. You just wrapped up a brutal day of work, and are finally settling onto your couch with an ice cold beverage and "The Batman 17" all ready to play on the streaming service Max. Despite continuing Hollywood's horrid inability to come up with something original, you're enjoying...

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Another day, another spin. At a White House news briefing on Thursday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lied her way through another battering of questions from the media regarding the Biden administration's handling of illegal immigration. Indeed, she actually had the audacity to claim that Biden had done more to secure...

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A Maine health-care provider wants the nurses it fired during the pandemic for refusing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to come back to work. MaineGeneral Health in Augusta has reached out to health-care workers, many of whom were denied unemployment compensation after they were fired, according to The Maine...

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants Americans to know the truth about how powerful people abuse their power. According to the Times-Republican of Marshalltown, Iowa, Ramaswamy made a campaign stop on Thursday at Legends American Grill in Marshalltown, where he took questions from an audience of more than 100 people....

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Four high school girls under the age of 18 have, through their guardians, sued a Michigan school district, its superintendent and assistant superintendent, and their high school principal and vice-principal for forcing the girls to accept the presence of biological males in facilities -- like restrooms and locker rooms --...

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A Missouri police officer and his supervisor are facing serious charges after a man they had allegedly detained was found beaten and bloodied in a field on July 4. According to KSDK-TV, former Northwoods police officer Samuel Davis is accused of arresting the man at a Walgreens and then beating...

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One of the country's largest conservative youth organizations released the results of a straw poll concerning the GOP presidential primary, and the results are somewhat surprising. On Thursday, the Young Republicans took to X to share the results of the straw poll they conducted at the Young Republicans National Convention...

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A Department of Justice program directed at digital crimes against children has had its funding cut to levels significantly below that of the Trump administration. The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces made up of over 5,400 federal, state, and...

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Many of us have that dream of living off the grid out in the wilderness, making your way with just the bounties of God and the work of your own two hands. But while it sounds romantic, it isn't like a story book, and one family discovered that living in...

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was apparently impressed by former President Donald Trump's "strategic" thinking about his mugshot when he was arrested last week in Fulton County, Georgia. The long-shot contender against incumbent Vice President Joe Biden told Fox News host Jesse Watters that Trump's mugshot "worked very...

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Is this 'odd' interview with former president Donald Trump a deep fake or a prank? As unlikely as that may seem, a Thursday phone interview featuring the GOP primary frontrunner has set off a storm of speculation regarding its authenticity. The 17-minute interview, which took place on the conservative platform Real...

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Body cam footage obtained by investigative journalist James O’Keefe shows police working with New Jersey school officials who had complained about "Trumpish" citizens at a board meeting. O’Keefe, CEO of the O'Keefe Media Group and the former face of Project Veritas, explained in a video that he and a few...

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If you normalize sexual deviancy, it becomes normal. That's what progressives want -- the abnormal to become normal. By the looks of things, they're getting what they want. In one glaring example: Progressives are relabeling pedophiles as "Minor Attracted Persons" or MAPs. Definitions matter. Sexual predators who believe their behavior...

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Former President Donald Trump fired back Friday at claims he vastly overvalued his assets to get more favorable loan and insurance deals. Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and the Trump Organization. James’s office said...

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A Texas property manager trying to evict a tenant accidentally emptied the wrong apartment, but then things took a rather interesting turn. According to KDFW-TV, a Dallas man named Johnny Abney returned home from work one day in July to find the door to his apartment at The Hamilton unlocked...

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What is it with the far left and protecting sexual predators, particularly those who target children? There were those sick attempts to try and normalize pedophilia with terms like "minor-attracted persons." There was that recent bizarre instance of Rolling Stone magazine stopping just short of calling itself pro-child sex-trafficking. And...

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