Despite the generally iterative nature of video games (you can find traces of 2001 smash hit Grand Theft Auto III in almost every modern game) there's always been a curious lack of games trying to mimic the wildly popular Pokemon franchise. And why is that so curious? Because as Statista...

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In a sign of how quickly misinformation can spread online, completely unsubstantiated rumors appear to have marred the college football national championship game on Jan. 8 for many viewers and fans. And no, these fans aren't mad because it wasn't a particularly competitive game (the polarizing Michigan Wolverines beat the...

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Remember the wisdom shared by Jeff Goldblum's character in "Jurassic Park," that, to paraphrase, just because you can do something with a new technology, doesn't mean you should? Someone should probably pass that along to the people behind the "Dudesy" podcast. "Dudesy" is feeling the heat over a new artificial-intelligence-generated...

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The Miss America pageant made history on Sunday night when it crowned Madison Marsh, an active-duty Air Force pilot, as its winner. Marsh, a 22-year-old native of Fort Smith, Arkansas, represented the state of Colorado, where she recently graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, KXRM-TV reported....

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Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and an ardent Donald Trump supporter, seems to have fallen on some tough times. In a video shared on X last Friday, Lindell announced that "Fox News has canceled MyPillow" by pulling the company's ads from the network. Lindell said he doesn't know why Fox...

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Martin Scorsese, the legendary filmmaker and visionary behind some of the most highly touted movies ever, has revealed that his newest movie based on the life of Jesus Christ could be going in a radically different direction than what most fans would expect from him. The main reason for that?...

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Surprise, surprise: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is using the racism card -- the one card in every leftist's deck that gets more use than the Kardashians' plastic surgeon. Willis is facing allegations that she hired her purported lover, Nathan Wade, as one of the special prosecutors she appointed...

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Six people were arrested by British authorities on Sunday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange. London's Metropolitan Police said the conspirators were members of the Palestine Action protest group, according to Reuters. The suspects intended to cause damage and block the...

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Everybody knows Democrat Joe Biden is running for re-election as president. Dig further and you’ll find a few people are aware that Democrat Marianne Williamson is also running. Known as Oprah Winfrey’s “spiritual adviser,” Williamson is a self-help author and speaker who has unsuccessfully run for Congress from California and...

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It looks like Hunter Biden's last-name-based luck is finally running out. The GOP House Judiciary recently released on social media platform X an excerpt of a letter from the House to Hunter Biden's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, the whole of which was linked in the comments. Within, the House castigated the...

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As Russia's war against Ukraine nears the two-year mark, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling for a peace conference in Switzerland that will leave at least one nation on the sidelines. "We are open to all countries of the world that respect our sovereignty and territorial integrity. Therefore you can...

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The NFL faces up to a $6.1 billion payout if a class-action antitrust lawsuit brought against the league is successful. A federal judge in California rejected the NFL's motion to dismiss the lawsuit Thursday, concluding there is a triable issue of whether the league violated the federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act...

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It must hurt to be this stupid. The liberal website Mediaite -- a gossipy gasbag of leftist cant -- decided it was worthy of a whole news story that former President Donald Trump had released an informational cartoon about how to turn out for the Iowa caucuses. Being liberals, Mediaite...

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Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are in Yemen and assisting the county’s Houthi rebel terror group in its ongoing assault on civilian shipping in the Red Sea, a new report claims. Those attacks are affecting global shipping as the narrow sea that connects the Indian Ocean to the...

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On Jan. 4, 17-year-old Dylan Butler opened fire inside Perry High School in Perry, Iowa. Butler, a student at the high school, used a pump-action shotgun and a small-caliber handgun to kill a sixth-grade student and wound seven other people. One of the seven, the school principal, later died of...

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Many Americans are once again being grossed out by President Joe Biden's creepy behavior around young girls who are usually under the age of consent, this time as he visits folks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden visited a food bank and was seen handing out bags of apples to needy people....

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The principal of the Iowa high school that was the target of a mass shooting earlier this month has died of injuries sustained in the attack. Perry High School principal Dan Marburger, 56, was among the eight victims of the Jan. 4 shooting and was taken to a hospital in...

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Two Palestinian men killed an elderly woman and wounded at least 17 other people -- including numerous children -- in a daylight terror attack Monday in west-central Israel, police say. The men, who are believed to be related and who entered Israel illegally from the West Bank last week, stabbed...

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Former President Donald Trump has won Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis coming in second. Trump's victory on Monday night gives him a strong start in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination as the contest moves to New Hampshire. And DeSantis' runner-up finish over former U.N....

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President Joe Biden is becoming increasingly vexed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Biden’s advice on running the war and making peace with Palestinians is not heeded, according to a new report. Axios, which cited U.S. officials it did not name, reported Sunday that the two leaders had not...

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