Automobile manufacturers are slowing down production of electric vehicles in response to waning American demand -- just as one industry CEO had predicted they might. Toyota Motor Chairman and former CEO Akio Toyoda "may be enjoying an 'I told you so' moment," according to a report from The Wall Street...

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Body camera footage of New Orleans Saints wide receiver Chris Olave’s Monday arrest appears to show the star wideout attempted to use his occupation to get in good with the local police. There was one problem for the officer who took the former Ohio State football star into custody: He...

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The U.S. has instituted a military draft five times in its history -- during the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. While the Selective Service System is still in effect, reinstated by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, it has been a...

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Former President Donald Trump said on social media Wednesday that he would not endorse anyone in the race for the speaker of the House, but that his "strong SUGGESTION is to go with the leading candidate, Mike Johnson, & GET IT DONE, FAST!" (emphasis his) Trump made the comments on...

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It must be nice to be Bud Light and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev. Well, it's probably not very nice to be the face of transgenderism run amok, to see sales crater because of it, and to lose even more in terms of goodwill with your core customer base. But...

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A rebel House Republican who voted to oust former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy isn't backing down from his defiance to the party establishment. Arizona freshman Rep. Eli Crane rebuked the notion that he owed any loyalty to McCarthy because of previous campaign expenditures to secure his election. Journalist...

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The Biden administration's August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan rates as one of the most catastrophic failures in U.S. history. No one has suffered more from that failure than the families of 13 service members killed during the calamitous withdrawal. With this in mind, five Republicans in the U.S. House of...

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Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana to be the 56th speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The final vote was 220 for Johnson and 209 for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Johnson was the fourth candidate the GOP had picked to be speaker after ousting Rep. Kevin...

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Remember the case of 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst being run down by a car as he rode his bike in Las Vegas? The senseless murder was allegedly committed by two teens, Jesus Ayala, now 18, and Jzamir Keys, 16. The pair filmed themselves killing an innocent man seemingly...

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Israel has agreed to halt an expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip while the U.S. military deploys assets to the region to protect American forces, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that a ground assault on Hamas will be delayed while the U.S. Defense...

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It sounds like the plot of a low-budget comedy movie, but police in Poland weren't laughing. An unidentified man was arrested in Warsaw on theft and burglary charges after reportedly posing as a mannequin in a store window until all the shoppers had left, then going on a burglary spree....

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Perhaps those of us who sometimes complain about "kids these days" could use a story that teaches humility and appreciation. According to The Christian Post, thousands of young people gathered on a high school football field in Hot Springs, Arkansas, for an evening of music and testimonies of Christian faith....

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Please stand by for some good news. It’s this: The new speaker of the House is more than a committed conservative. Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson is also a dedicated Christian who is not afraid to show it. Item 1 -- On Wednesday, shortly before being elected speaker, Johnson posted a...

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The man so popular that he "earned" 81 million votes in the 2020 presidential election might soon face yet another internal challenger. Go figure. Indeed, it appears that Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota will enter the 2024 presidential race against incumbent Joe Biden. Tuesday on social media, Jason DeRusha...

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Scholastic is taking heat from far-left authors after it announced a recent decision not to offer books that focus on LGBT themes and racism at book fairs in schools. For millions of students across the country, such fairs offer the excitement of stories old and new and they have become...

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On Oct. 7, the world saw first-hand the worst attack perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. It all began when Hamas -- the Democratically-elected political authority of the Gaza Strip -- barraged Israel with a flurry of rockets. Under the cover of that fire, Hamas troops invaded the...

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The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union is outraged at just about everything former President Donald Trump says, but it supports his freedom to say it. The ACLU has filed a brief opposing the gag order imposed on Trump by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as part of Trump’s federal election...

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Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for the government to shut down San Francisco’s main federal office building -- which was recently renamed after ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- because of the dangerous conditions around the building. Ernst said that the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in...

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Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida offered a behind-the-scenes look Wednesday at how former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been angling to try to regain his post by being a "swampy" saboteur of the other candidates. Gaetz told reporters on Capitol Hill prior to the vote to elect Rep. Mike Johnson...

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House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke to the the full house after GOP Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected as Speaker of House on Wednesday. In a rant that could have only been dreamed up by someone suffering from leftist ideological fever dreams, Jefferies unloaded a litany of...

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Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York has been charged with a misdemeanor in connection with a fire alarm being pulled in a congressional office build last month. A warrant was issued Wednesday charging Bowman with a misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm -- carries a maximum penalty...

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