Before Donald Trump was president, he was a successful businessman and media figure. Part of what made Trump effective in all three of those roles is he understood the power of being unpredictable while simultaneously dropping tantalizing hints about what he might do. Tuesday's sudden ouster of Republican House Speaker...

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Well, that was quick. In August, several outlets reported that President Joe Biden's Pentagon had begun selling off parts that had already been fabricated as part of a wall on the nation's southern border -- all to subvert efforts on the part of Republicans to restart construction. "Steel 'square structural...

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Climate-obsessed people with lots of free time have concocted and shared a bizarre -- yet somehow plausible -- conspiracy theory regarding pop superstar Taylor Swift. Happily, to understand the theory, we need not enter the addled minds of climate alarmists. All we need to know, according to the conspiracy theorists,...

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If White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre were a call center operator, she'd probably be out of a job. The spokeswoman for the man in the highest office of the land has been snapping at reporters like a two-headed snake in a box full of mice. It's bad enough when...

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President Joe Biden has banished his dog, Commander, from the White House after multiple biting incidents one report said exceeded the 11 reported to date. “Commander is not presently on the White House campus while next steps are evaluated,” Elizabeth Alexander, spokeswoman for first lady Jill Biden, said in a...

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Even if former President Donald Trump wants to give up crisscrossing the country as he campaigns for the White House to spend his days in Washington as speaker of the House, a House rule might get in the way. The fall of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week has given...

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The mood on social media isn’t always completely indicative of the mood of the general public. But it’s probably safe to say that the Los Angeles Lakers misunderstood its audience when the team posted about an upcoming “pride" night to celebrate the LGBT community on Wednesday. Just months removed from...

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An electric shuttle bus plunged off an overpass and burst into flames in Venice, Italy, on Tuesday, killing 21 people on board. Of the dead, all but one were foreign tourists visiting Italy. The bus driver, 40-year-old Alberto Rizzotto, was the one Italian resident killed, according to the Associated Press....

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The judge presiding over the New York civil fraud case against Donald Trump was obviously annoyed by the former president's legal team during cross-examination of an important witness Wednesday. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron slammed his hand on the table and exclaimed "This is ridiculous" as Trump's lawyers got...

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani sued President Joe Biden on Wednesday, saying he defamed him during the 2020 presidential campaign after Giuliani played a role in exposing the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. "I'm suing Joe Biden," Giuliani posted on X. "What he did to me is intolerable....

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A Texas Rangers rookie who delivered clutch hits in his team's wild-card playoff sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays this week isn't afraid to share his faith. Outfielder Evan Carter went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs in a series that saw the Rangers advance to the American League...

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Almost a dozen left-wing activists were arrested on Wednesday at the office of independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont while protesting the country’s ongoing funding of the war in Ukraine. Many of them were from the feminist organization Code Pink, the group reported. In a video shared by Code Pink,...

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After Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, hand-picked by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to serve as speaker pro tempore until a new speaker is elected, began kicking prominent Democrats out of their Capitol office spaces, Democrats claimed he was engaging in what Axios called "partisan retribution." As it...

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Daily Wire host Candace Owens is on tour with Turning Point USA, and she's on fire. During an appearance at New York's University at Albany, the very pregnant Owens was asked a question by a student who clearly had a problem with the outspoken conservative being on campus. When the...

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By now, we have all come to recognize the telltale signs of liberal desperation and weakness of character. Outside a courtroom in New York on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump repeatedly and rightly referred to New York Attorney General Letitia James as "corrupt." Strangely yet predictably, the liberal Democrat James,...

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If former President Donald Trump were to become speaker of the House, his son said one thing would need to change. Speaking with Newsmax on Wednesday, Eric Trump addressed the idea of the former president stepping into the role after Kevin McCarthy was removed as speaker on Tuesday. "I think...

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The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against five Biden administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, three federal agencies and the United States itself over what it argues is federal overreach into labor relations in the state. The suit, filed Wednesday, argues that the former mayor of the...

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That the soul of America is under attack is evident from the decay of her body. Nothing could symbolize this more effectively than the New York courthouse where the civil financial fraud trial of former President Donald Trump is unfolding. "The courthouse I was in today, it was disgusting," Trump's...

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A startup tech company funded by billionaire Bill Gates is launching a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence to help users choose entertainment based on their own perferences. An exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday said the entertainment-recommending chatbot will be called Pix. Running on OpenAI's "natural-language processing...

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Thieves stole at least 60 generators from Trump National Doral Miami golf resort Monday, two weeks before it will host a Liv Golf tournament, WPLG-TV in Miami reported Wednesday. The larcenists hit former President Donald Trump's Florida resort twice in the same day, stealing 30 generators late in the afternoon...

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