A North Carolina classical music radio station is not airing six operas broadcast from New York City's Metropolitan Opera due to objections to their content. Station general manager Deborah Proctor wrote listeners in August to announce the decision. Proctor said in the letter she objects to one composer’s “non-biblical” interpretation...

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More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health-care workers are preparing to go on strike after the company failed to come to an agreement with a coalition of unions representing the workers. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which consists of eight unions, said in a statement Sept. 22 that it was...

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Wells Fargo executive Greg Beckett seemed to have it all. Big job; solid relationship. Then he ended it. Beckett, 46, died Jan. 19 after he jumped to his death from the 14th floor boardroom at the Wells Fargo headquarters building in Wilmington, Delaware, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. There...

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Around 2.8 million people were apprehended entering the southern border in 2023. That's more than the population of 15 states and far more than the populations of many countries around the world. But it's not the United States border that has some of our lawmakers on both sides of the...

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In the 2020 -- and, in all likelihood, the 2024 -- presidential sweepstakes, much has been made about the character and personality traits of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Neither one, the either side charges, has what biographer Geoffrey C. Ward famously described Franklin Delano Roosevelt as possessing in the...

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley went out like he came in: as a flatter, as a fawner, as a man blown about by the winds of opinion and without any steady mooring. Milley, you may recall, was initially appointed to the position by then-President Donald Trump. I...

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In his first show back since the writer's strike ended, Bill Maher stated he does not believe President Joe Biden should seek re-election and compared it to the likes of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The "Real Time" host stated Friday, "Someone has to convince President Biden that...

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Former bodega clerk Jose Alba, who was arrested after stabbing a man to death in self-defense in New York City, is fighting back. Alba, who spent six days in Rikers Island before a groundswell of complaints and definitive video evidence made the charge against him untenable, is suing Manhattan District...

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Under Joe Biden's dumpster-fire presidency, America's largest cities -- many of them run by Democrats -- have devolved into filthy, crime-infested drug dens that endanger public safety. In the latest tragic illustration, the New York City Department of Health issued an advisory urging all New Yorkers to carry Naloxone --...

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Using the famed Shroud of Turin as a starting point, artificial intelligence has produced an image that purports to match up with the marks on the controversial cloth. The new AI image was created by Midjourney software, according to the Daily Star, which said it commissioned the image to mark...

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More than a day after an Amber Alert was issued for a missing 9-year-old upstate New York state girl, police are still hunting for some trace of Charlotte Sena. “The child was taken under circumstances that lead police to believe that they are in imminent danger of serious harm and/or...

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The Kansas City Chiefs beat the New York Jets 23-20 on "Sunday Night Football," and there were a number of storylines to emerge from the game: Are the Chiefs noscript contenders? (Probably.) Is Taylor Swift still a Chiefs fan? (Apparently.) Are the Jets toast? (Most likely.) Is beleaguered Jets quarterback...

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One man was in jail and another 11 in U.S. Border Patrol custody after allegations of a gang rape involving young girls. An 11-year-old girl said that she and two others were tied up and raped by at least four different men in a house in Bemidji, Minnesota, a city...

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When former President Donald Trump put his John Hancock on a John Deere combine on Sunday, it was more than a simple autograph. It was a sign of how seriously Trump is taking the Iowa caucuses in the 2024 GOP primary race, aiming for an early victory in the first-in-the-nation...

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Robert Kennedy Jr. is expected to shift gears in his 2024 White House bid in the coming week and announce a third-party campaign that could end up spoiling the hopes for the eventual Democratic or Republican nominee. The environmental attorney and political scion could be next fall’s Ross Perot, who...

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Country music legend Toby Keith revealed last week that his faith in God has helped him navigate through a two-year cancer battle. The singer and songwriter was in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday where he was the inaugural winner of the Country Icon Award at the first People's Choice Country Awards...

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It's all a big joke to them. Democrats, the left, and all of their allies know this is a big, sick joke, but it doesn't matter. They're going to smirk in your face, and you're going to have to take it. The above takeaway is the biggest takeaway from a...

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Former President Donald Trump ripped New York Attorney General Letitia James during a courtroom break on Monday at the start of a $250 million alleged fraud lawsuit the state filed against him. To begin the non-criminal civil trial, Trump took to Truth Social to remind his followers that James vowed...

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Vigilantism is a tricky topic. On the one hand, the very concept of an everyman rising up against tyranny and evil is deeply woven into the fabric and history of this country. On the other hand, most (all?) Americans are not Batman -- there is no plot armor protecting you...

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