Pop music megastar Taylor Swift is once again jumping into politics with a Super Tuesday message urging fans to get out and vote in their state primary elections. The sometimes-controversial singer took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday with an election day message to her 282 million followers. "Today, March...

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Tuesday morning saw large outages for Meta-owned social media platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads that lasted roughly two hours. The services going down on Super Tuesday -- when voters in 16 states go to the polls -- certainly wasn't the best timing as numerous politicians made last-ditch efforts on social...

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This South Florida city is putting an end to the party. The city of Miami Beach is even going so far as to release a commercial advertising its "break up" with the yearly tradition of spring break. A video touting the breakup appeared on the city's official X account on...

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A top State Department official, who was also a lead strategist shaping the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, is leaving the administration. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, America’s third-highest-ranking diplomat, will leave in the coming weeks, according to the Associated Press. Nuland was Assistant Secretary of State...

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As the 2024 elections season gets underway, Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced that her administration is erasing around $2 billion in medical debt of state residents. "For many," Hobbs said from the podium on Monday, "health care is the difference between being confined to one's home and being...

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Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who caucuses with the Democrats, announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking a second term. Sinema's exit from the race will likely set up a head-to-head match-up between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego. Both are the far-and-away favorites to secure...

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Vice President Kamala Harris has never been famous for her speaking, and her latest blunder highlights just that. Harris briefly spoke with reporters on Monday afternoon in Washington before she met with Israeli politician Benny Gantz, a member of that country's War Cabinet as it battles Hamas terrorists in Gaza....

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Had someone told Benjamin Franklin in 1787 that the newly-drafted U.S. Constitution would one day give rise to a regime that tried to force a group of religious dissenters to act against their will by paying for surgeries that purportedly transformed human beings from one sex to another, he probably...

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Liberty University is crying foul after the Biden administration fined it $14 million. The record fine came after the Department of Education alleged that the Virginia-based Christian university failed to disclose information about crime on campus, including sexual assaults, according to the Associated Press. The agreement said that Liberty agreed...

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Doritos has fired a transgender activist it hired to sell its snacks in Spain after the brand said it became aware of disturbing social media posts from the individual, including one in which he said he wanted to do “depraved things” to a child. Samantha Hudson, a 24-year-old man who...

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Evil seldom reveals itself with more horrifying banality than when powerful people forcibly separate children from parents. To preserve, for instance, the monstrous fiction that one human being could own another, slaveholders maintained the legal right to sell, bequeath or otherwise dispose of their young slaves as they, the owners,...

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A CNBC segment that aired on Tuesday morning was rare in that it offered a member of the country's establishment media blowing the whistle on the malarkey being shoveled out of Joe Biden’s White House. During a terse exchange with the empty suit who calls himself Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,...

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Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, according to people familiar with her decision, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Three people with direct knowledge who spoke on the condition of...

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The good news for Democrats is that President Joe Biden managed to get through Super Tuesday without a loss to "uncommitted" or to so-called "spiritual guru" Marianne Williamson. The bad news is that his one loss in the campaign primary season was even more embarrassing by comparison. In American Samoa,...

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A new indictment released Tuesday adds to the charges against Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife. The charges were returned by a grand jury in Manhattan and come about two months before the senator, his wife, Nadine, and two New Jersey businessmen -- Wael Hana and...

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There's a rising star in the Democratic Party and you'd never guess who it is. Mostly, you could never guess it because it's not a person but the option of "Uncommitted" on ballots during Super Tuesday's contests. The option -- or its equivalent -- has seen a surprisingly strong performance...

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American professional boxer and the former WBC interim lightweight champion Ryan Garcia sparked concerns after a cryptic, demonic message was posted over his social media on Sunday. The message hinted at his possible death. A video and accompanying message posted on Garcia's account X and Instagram included the words, "Satan...

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Former President Donald Trump flexed his muscles by winning the Colorado GOP primary election in commanding fashion after annihilating a Democrat-led crusade to remove him from the ballot. With 81 percent of the results tallied as of Wednesday morning, Trump won a whopping 63.3 percent of the votes, according to...

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Well, it finally happened on Super Tuesday: Nikki Haley won an honest-to-goodness state. No, it wasn't just the District of Columbia this time. The former South Carolina governor barely carried the state of Vermont -- a non-competitive state for the GOP, where Phish fans, Bernie Bros and neo-hippies of all...

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A Trump-backed challenger has forced Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan into a runoff election. According to CBS, challenger David Covey won 46 percent of the vote against Phelan’s 43 percent. Because neither candidate reached the 50 percent mark in the three-way race, a runoff will be held. Covey is a...

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