During the early months of the 2020 COVID pandemic lockdowns, Kentucky was one of the states that came up with a plan to release prisoners early to bring down the prison population, presumably to limit the spread of the disease. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear commuted the sentences for "medically vulnerable"...

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Dressing up like Joe Biden appeared to be a popular Halloween costume choice this season, but not for the reasons the president would like. People wore Ronald Reagan masks at Halloween when I was a kid, but it seemed to be mostly because people liked him. Reagan was re-elected in...

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It was easier for Joe Biden and other Democratic politicians during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. They had a clearly defined side. It was easy for them to condemn then-President Donald Trump when he said there were "very fine people on both sides" of the Charlottesville, Virginia,...

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Voters in one Connecticut community are scheduled to go to the polls next week in a mayoral election for which the results of the Democratic primary were thrown out Wednesday. Superior Court Judge William Clark tossed out the results of a Sept. 12 primary in Bridgeport after video emerged showing...

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Is the shrinking field of Republican presidential candidates about to become even smaller? The next major GOP primary event is a debate in Miami on Wednesday, and one campaign already confessed its candidate has not yet hit the polling numbers required to earn a spot on the stage. North Dakota...

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Elon Musk might not be an art critic, but he knows a fair amount about Hunter Biden, being the now-owner of the social media platform that handed the man a huge gift by censoring dissemination of his laptop in the waning days of the 2020 presidential campaign. Thus, when informed...

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday she has been subpoenaed as part of an ongoing criminal case in California. Pelosi informed her House colleagues in a letter that she has been ordered to “produce documents” for a case, but she did not clarify what the case was. In the...

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The sizzling career of Jonathan Majors, a rising star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe who was being groomed to helm a new film franchise, is imploding amid domestic violence allegations. The legal troubles could be a catastrophic drag on Marvel, which is in crisis mode as executives ponder a major...

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An Arizona math teacher who told his students “hail Satan” while wearing horns and carrying a pitchfork has been put on administrative leave. The incident took place last week at Mesa High School, according to KPNX. Sophomore Nathaniel Hamlet said he relayed what he saw in class to his father,...

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia ripped nearly two dozen of her GOP colleagues online Wednesday after they helped Democrats defeat her motion to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Greene unleashed on her fellow Republicans as “feckless” after they sided against the motion, which was filed following...

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One of the biggest Christmas hits has become the focus of a massive legal battle. Mariah Carey is facing a $20 million lawsuit over her 1994 song "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from artists Andy Stone and Troy Powers, who claim Carey stole their 1989 song of the...

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It was only a matter of time. Lying low didn't take off the heat. Acting like an artist backfired. The evidence kept piling up against him. What to do? Hunter Biden is now playing the victim card. In an opinion piece in USA Today published Thursday, the son of President...

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Executives at Anheuser-Busch InBev, parent company of Bud Light, speak as if they have learned their lesson from a conservative boycott that torpedoed the company's profits beginning in April. Judging by recent sales figures, however, company executives have received only part of the boycotters' message, for they have yet to...

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South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace said that the idea of being on the short list of potential picks to serve as former President Donald Trump's running mate in 2024 is "intriguing." Mace made the comment in response to a question from Charlamagne Tha God on Monday night's "The Daily Show." The...

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Tucker Carlson posted a photo on social media Thursday seemingly teasing his next big interview -- this time with fugitive journalist Julian Assange, who is currently being held in a London prison. "Visiting Julian Assange at Belmarsh Prison this morning," the caption read. The photo showed Carlson walking through what...

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Conservative radio host Glenn Beck revealed on his radio show Wednesday that he has written a letter to the Israeli government to ask to become a citizen of the country. In the weeks since Hamas terrorists butchered more than 1,400 Israeli civilians, a majority of conservatives have pledged their support...

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An argument between airline passengers about reclining seats has the internet astir, with people lining up on both sides over a video that has earned millions of views on multiple social media platforms. The argument appears to be between a man and the woman he is sitting behind on a...

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Speaker Mike Johnson will not consider bringing to the House floor a bill for Israeli military aid that doesn't also include spending cuts elsewhere to offset the expense, he told reporters Thursday. Asked whether he'd bring such a bill to the floor in light of President Joe Biden's threatened veto...

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Sometimes the lunacy of the moment leaves us no choice but to express ourselves through hyperbole. At a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas did exactly that. While bemoaning President Joe Biden's endless parade of radical nominees to the federal bench, Cruz said that he...

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New York Mayor Eric Adams canceled his meetings in Washington on Thursday and returned to the city he leads after the FBI raided his chief fundraiser's home, The New York Times reported. A source told the Times that agents from the FBI's public corruption squad in New York questioned Brianna...

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