After the Smokehouse Creek fire killed two people as well as thousands of cattle in Texas over nearly two weeks, residents are starting to get some answers. A utility company released a statement Thursday that acknowledged it played a role in the start of the state's largest wildfire. Xcel Energy...

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It's often the littlest details that make all the difference between a brush with death and a heartbreaking tragedy. And, unfortunately for the Canadian family of five whose plane crashed onto a Nashville highway  Monday, those little details resulted in tragedy. The family, now identified as 43-year-old Victor Dotsenko, his...

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Every year, quarterbacks dominate the NFL's off-season discussions regarding free agents and college draft prospects. But when reports connect a Super Bowl-winning quarterback to one of the league's marquee franchises, the news attracts a bit more than the usual amount of chatter. According to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,...

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The murder of Georgia co-ed Laken Riley has taken another turn as news has now broken that police are saying the brother of the man accused of murdering her is a suspected Venezuelan gang member. Riley was found murdered on the campus of the University of Georgia on Feb. 22....

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An American on trial for the murder of a Colombian woman admitted to disposing of her body in a suitcase he threw into the garbage, but he says he really does not know how she died. John Poulos of Franklin, Wisconsin, said Wednesday he did not know that his girlfriend...

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Amid rising concerns that Chinese-made giant cargo cranes found at U.S. ports could be a security concern are new reports that communications devices have been found within the mammoth cranes. A report in the Wall Street Journal, citing congressional aides and documents, said cellular modems have been found that could...

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An American warship is being restored to its former glory, and it's a bittersweet reminder of a bygone era. The USS Texas returned to the water Tuesday after spending 18 months in dry dock at the Gulf Copper Dry Dock & Rig Repair in Galveston, Texas, KHOU-TV reported. So far,...

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Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked President Joe Biden's route from the White House to the Capitol, where he delivered the State of the Union address. The disruption caused the speech to start approximately 25 minutes later than anticipated. Fox News reported that the protesters were at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and...

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GOP Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene of Georgia confronted President Joe Biden Thursday while he was making his way across the House floor to deliver his State of the Union address. She handed him a pin, and said to the president, "Say her name," referring to 22-year-old Laken Riley, the Augusta...

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The members of one of history's most repellent ruling classes have done nothing to help Americans. But at least female Democratic legislators know how to color coordinate so that we all understand how wonderful they are. In a throwback to virtue-signaling shenanigans from Donald Trump's presidency, Democratic women appeared at...

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President Joe Biden was dared by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to say the name of a nursing student who was murdered last month, allegedly by an illegal alien during Thursday’s State of the Union address. Greene handed out pins before the speech – one to the doddering,...

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President Joe Biden is clearly pinning his hopes for re-election on the issue of abortion, and he used it to cudgel the Supreme Court justices attending his State of the Union address Thursday night. Six justices were present: Chief Justice John Roberts along with conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett...

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Three Supreme Court justices skipped out on Thursday’s State of the Union address, the fourth and final one of President Joe Biden’s term in office. That has been a term in which Biden has been critical of the conservatives serving on the court -- a court he threatened to pack...

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A number of crucial federal government websites experienced total outages on Thursday evening as President Joe Biden delivered his fourth State of the Union address. It was unknown early Friday morning if the outages were related to the annual speech, which Biden delivered at the U.S. Capitol. But as the...

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It's a line you've heard drop out of President Joe Biden's mouth a thousand times, if you've been paying attention: The wealthy need to start paying their "fair share" of taxes. Except it wasn't something he should have been bringing up at the State of the Union -- not this...

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Embattled Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will not seek re-election in November as he faces bribery and other charges, according to the New York Post. According to a source close to the political veteran, Menendez made the decision Thursday not to seek another term in the Senate. The...

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Akira Toriyama, the legendary manga artist and creator behind the "Dragon Ball" series is being mourned after his death was announced on Friday. According to Nikkei Asia (a major Japanese-based news magazine), his publisher, Shueisha, released a statement that he had passed away from an acute subdural hematoma on March...

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There was a time not so long ago when the Oscars were actually relevant. Many in America -- and across the world -- loved to tune in to see which movie stars would win those glamorous, golden awards. That time has long since passed. Audiences everywhere have since wised up...

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A Gold Star father whose son was killed in the Biden administration's botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021 was removed from the Capitol and arrested on Thursday night after heckling President Joe Biden during the State of the Union speech. Biden had just finished saying, "America is...

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The House on Thursday passed the Laken Riley Act, which would require federal immigration officials to detain illegal immigrants charged with theft. Riley, 22, was killed last month on the Athens, Georgia, campus of the University of Georgia. Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who had a child endangerment...

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