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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On Thursday, President Joe Biden delivered his 2024 State of the Union address, although, to many, it sounded more like a "Get off my lawn, you pesky kids" rant. Hours earlier, the House of Representatives had passed the Laken Riley Act, a Republican-led bill that would require U.S. Immigration and...

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It's nigh impossible to change the stripes of a tiger that has lived in the jungle its whole life -- even when the tiger is captured and trained for the circus. A high-profile advocate of criminal justice reform was arrested Thursday after police found a dismembered body inside a New...

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Almost since the moment he entered office, Joe Biden has tried in vain to convince us that he's been a savior of the economy. Each month, the Biden White House releases reports of the number of jobs created in the last month, often in excess of several hundred thousand, a...

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President Joe Biden gave what his detractors hope and believe will be his last State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress, but his supporters seems to have eaten it up. Left-leaning Politico gushed that it was "hard to imagine how the SOTU could’ve gone much better...

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The video-sharing app TikTok suffered a major blow when a bipartisan bill that could ban it in the United States unanimously made it out of a House committee on Thursday. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was introduced Tuesday by Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and...

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