Days before two men join the competition to be crowned Miss Universe, the company that operates the pageant has declared bankruptcy. JKN Global Group says it has a "liquidity problem” a year after buying the pageant for $20 million and trying to make radical changes, according to the BBC. The...

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A federal appeals court on Thursday shot holes in a rule imposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives intended to crack down on so-called “ghost guns.” A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a 2022 rule aimed at weapons that could be...

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A man who was sentenced to prison for posting a meme mocking Hillary Clinton spoke to Tucker Carlson about the case in an interview released Thursday. Douglass Mackey, who ran a popular Twitter account under the alias Ricky Vaughn, posted a spoof of a Clinton ad prior to the 2016...

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Score one for religious liberty. And if it happened to come at the expense of public education, all the better. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly has awarded $150,000 in damages and legal fees to Mariyah Green, a Christian and a former student at Bogan High...

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Was the Republican National Committee asleep at the wheel as the party suffered more embarrassing losses in off-year elections earlier this month? RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is deflecting responsibility for the party's losses in Virginia. McDaniel claimed in a Friday interview that the RNC had been told it wasn't "needed"...

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There's a serpent in the garden. The serpent is an invasive species of python and the garden is Florida Everglades. Last weekend, Mike Elfenbein, his son Cole and three other men were in Big Cypress National Preserve when they came across the snake. At first, they took it for an...

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As Congress puts pressure on the Central Intelligence Agency to clean up its act, a former CIA officer has pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges. The guilty plea of Brian Jeffrey Raymond on Tuesday comes about two months after an officer trainee was convicted of assault in a sexual assault...

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The U.S. Air Force began testing a nuclear-capable stealth bomber as geopolitical tensions escalate in the Mideast, Europe and the Pacific under Joe Biden's dumpster fire (and that might be an insult to dumpster fires) of a presidency. On Friday, Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider conducted its first test flight in...

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Friday night traffic in Birmingham, Alabama, is often a headache, especially on a holiday weekend -- but not usually because the local highways are shut down for criminal investigations. That's what happened at about 4:40 Friday afternoon, however, when a group of people searching for their stolen black SUV thought...

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At 59 years old, former "Little House on the Prairie" child actress Melissa Gilbert has embraced aging. She talked frankly and openly with People this month about letting her hair go gray and going through menopause -- subjects that would make most Hollywood stars run the other way. But it...

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Residents of Grindavík, Iceland, have been asked to evacuate after thousands of minor earthquakes indicated the enhanced possibility of a volcanic eruption in the Reykjanes volcanic system. The coastal town of about 3,000 people is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Iceland, according to travel website KAYAK. While...

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If California GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy wants to do some hard soul-searching and figure out why he’s really no longer the speaker of the House, perhaps he should take stock of the fact that he’s now carping about it to the chief congressional correspondent of a cable news network that did...

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It feels like a very dark time for America. From the inability of many to pay their bills due to inflation, the effects of the open border, drugs and crime, to the shocking anti-Semitism and violence on our streets, there doesn't seem to be a lot to feel good about....

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Economists from Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago and the U.S. Treasury concluded in a recent report the Trump corporate tax reform worked as advertised. The Wall Street Journal's James Freeman wrote in a summary of the 51-page National Bureau of Economic Research report that the 2017 Tax Cuts and...

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Conservative talk show host Clay Travis has doubled down on his challenge to the WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces to go head-to-head with a high school state champion boys' team. But now, online gambling company BetOnline has entered the fray with an offer to back Travis' $1 million bet, making...

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A man has been arrested in connection with Wednesday's assault on former Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona, which happened as she jogged on a trail that winds along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Local police reported Dominic M. Henton, 25, was arrested around 3:30 a.m. Friday by officers...

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A death certificate has been released following the unexpected death of "Friends" actor Matthew Perry. The document is sparse in revealing new information, having been obtained by E! News. Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home late last month. The actor was found unresponsive...

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Car dealers and manufacturers are desperately trying a number of tactics to get customers to buy a new electric vehicle instead of a gas-powered car, but flagging sales show that buyers are not taking the bait. The biggest problem that car dealers have discovered is that the early adopters are...

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Joel “King Bau” Bauman may have lost his mixed martial arts matchup against Curtis Millender on Friday, but rest assured he was the only fighter anyone was talking about after the event. No, Bauman didn’t pull a Mike Tyson and bite Millender’s ear off. Nor did he get steamrolled; according...

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In the mid-aughts, few shows captured the zeitgeist quite like Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator," starring host Chris Hansen. The reality television series saw Hansen and his team pose as underage children in online forums to entice potential statutory rapists to come visit the "child" at home. Most episodes...

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The Biden administration is like a drunk on a bender. The federal government won't stop spending money until the country is flat broke and so deep in debt that the U.S. economy bottoms out and it is forced to sober up. If you've wondered about the consequences of the U.S....

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