Iodine tablets are in the mail to millions of Swiss citizens as part of the country's preparation for a disaster at one of its nuclear power plants. In 2014, about 4.6 million potassium iodide tablets were sent out, according to SwissInfo. With a 10-year life span, those are now expiring....

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Halloween horror took a real-life turn early Sunday after a street dispute escalated into a gunfight in a Florida city's nightlife district. In a night that ranks as one of Tampa's biggest party events of the year, shots rang out. Hundreds panicked. And the results were deadly. Two victims were...

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If you happened to be a video game aficionado during the early to mid aughts, you were no doubt swept up in the raging controversy: Do violent shooter video games beget real-world violence? Nearly 20 years later and it's still not clear whether violent video games, movies and other media...

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Two golf courses in Scotland owned by the Trump Organization have recently been honored. Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen was named 2023’s Best Golf Course in Scotland 2023, according to the website bunkered. Trump Turnberry in Ayr won the award for the World’s Best Halfway House. Nominations had come...

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One CVS drug store in Washington, D.C. has taken much of its stock off the shelves and is using the space to display photos of what customers used to be able to grab for themselves. Conservative commentator Joey Mannarino posted to X photos he claimed were from a CVS store...

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As Israeli forces ground deeper into Gaza Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi posted a foreboding social media message. "Zionist regime’s crimes have crossed the red lines, which may force everyone to take action. Washington asks us to not do anything, but they keep giving widespread support to Israel," Raisi said...

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A lot -- a lot -- has changed since Jan. 1, 2017. Barack Obama was still president (former President Donald Trump would be inaugurated on Jan. 20), Tom Brady was still a lifelong New England Patriot, the top movie in the country was a "Star Wars" film, and the top song in...

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a raid on the headquarters of Baltimore's "Safe Streets" program on Thursday reportedly on allegations that the taxpayer-funded community program is somehow mixed up with the very gang members they are supposed to be keeping in check. The raid sent local Democrats in the...

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Every once in a while, The New York Times manages to report the truth, even when it tries to spin it. That was the case on Friday, when the progressive "newspaper of record" managed to come clean about how the terrorist group Hamas is making life miserable for its own...

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It was not that long ago (perhaps even as recently as the 1990s) that drag and cross-dressing were the punchlines to various jokes. If you watched any number of 90s sitcoms growing up, there was invariably an episode where a male protagonist, for one reason or another, dresses in drag....

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For a litany of reasons, one ought not mess with former "Star Wars" actress and current Daily Wire star Gina Carano. On just the most literal level, Carano is a trained mixed martial artist who enjoyed a professional MMA career before branching into film. In other words, it's generally a...

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The 2023 University of Colorado Buffaloes have got to be the most talked-about 4-4 team in college football history. The relatively nondenoscript football program (which won all of one game last year) became the toast of the college football world almost overnight, all thanks to the ballyhooed hiring of NFL...

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With the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, worries about the security of the open U.S. border continue to escalate. There are growing concerns about individuals with potential security risks attempting to enter through our vulnerable border. On Sunday, Rep. Carlos A. Giménez, of Florida, released a statement after 17...

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Only in 2023. On Oct. 21, at the Cobb Civic Center in Marietta, Georgia, the North American Grappling Association held its Georgia Grappling & BJJ Championship, a mixed martial arts tournament. The men's welterweight submission grappling division, as you would obviously expect, given the name of it, was dominated by...

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It sounds too good to be true -- or, at the very least, good enough that we want it to be true: Rats the size of AK-47 rifles are infesting Russian trenches in Ukraine. In the very best of circumstances, this is what would be labeled on Wikipedia as "[citation...

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For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.

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Don't get me wrong: I couldn't be happier that Elon Musk is in command of the social media platform he renamed "X." On occasion, though, I wish he would have a better command of the facts. Yes, Musk is far better than Jack "Hipster Rasputin" Dorsey ever was at the...

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In a surprise to no one, only a tiny fraction of Americans have gotten the latest COVID-19 jab. Just 7.1 percent of adults and 2.1 percent of children have taken the shots since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended them in September for everyone six months and older,...

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Former President Donald Trump did not let the reimposition of a gag order in his federal election interference trail stop him from speaking his mind. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Sunday issued her decision that a gag order against Trump in his federal election interference trial would not be...

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The Biden administration has indirectly funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to groups that support Hamas, according to multiple reports. The payments have come under scrutiny since the terrorist group killed 1,400 people in a brutal surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. As the Biden administration tossed dollars at the...

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It's been more than 13 years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known to most Americans as Obamacare, was signed into law by then-President Barack Obama. It was marketed as a panacea for the American health care system. Proponents promised lower costs, better coverage and, of course,...

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