Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday that he will not be endorsing his former boss Donald Trump to be president again, saying his conscience would not allow it. Pence, who ended his own bid to the 2024 Republican nominee for president in October, told Fox News host Martha MacCallum,...

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Thumbs poked downward across America after Jimmy Kimmel decided the Academy Awards was a good venue to mock Robert Downey Jr.’s struggle with drug addiction. During the March 10 program, Downey won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Oppenheimer.” But as Kimmel delivered his monologue to...

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As a former Marvel Comics fan, this writer can faithfully report that the company has taken a turn for the worse over the last decade -- and a rather dramatic turn at that. For both of the big two comic publishers -- Marvel and DC -- what was once a...

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It's been 20 years since Disney debuted the Nicolas Cage-headed action-adventure "National Treasure." Watching that movie is like opening a time capsule from a prior civilization -- one where our entertainment was agenda-free and just plain fun. Well, according to Cage, that time is long gone, especially at the House...

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Perhaps one of this generation's greatest fears is the looming onset of artificial intelligence. Much like the "computerphobia" of the '80s, many now fear the fast-improving technology will displace a countless number of jobs. Well, if a recent report is of any indication, there's nothing to be afraid of from...

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The newest edition of “Road to the Show” is paved with gender diversity, and for some fans of the video game franchise “MLB: The Show,” it is a foul ball. New wrinkles designed to tap potential customers are at the heart of every consumer experience, and so “MLB The Show...

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With the entertainment sector facing contractions, entertainment crews who work behind the scenes to make the magic happen are looking for more and not ruling out a strike to get it. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Teamsters and the Hollywood Basic Crafts are working together in negotiations for...

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The famous fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square has a rotating cast of artworks that are refreshed every few years, so it's not as if people are shocked that the current installation there is being replaced. It was a question of what, not if or when. In this case, the...

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President Joe Biden can attempt to deny that he has now publicly engaged in election interference, but no thinking American voter is going to buy that argument. Of course, he was only following in the footsteps of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who in a Senate floor speech on Thursday...

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The Supreme Court has handed down a ruling in one of the five social media-related cases before it this term, and it wasn't a clear-cut win for either side. At issue was whether or not public officials who post on social media can then block uses from accessing their posts...

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The American flag outside an electric golf cart manufacturer's facility in Evans, Georgia, flew at half-staff this week in memory of a worker there who died after getting caught in the plant's machinery. Around 9:40 p.m. on March 8, 21-year-old Alyssa Drinkard dropped her AirPods under a conveyor at the...

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Things Conan O'Brien isn't a fan of: Jay Leno, Paul Rudd passing off that bit from "Mac and Me" as the clip from his latest movie, and (somewhat surprisingly) wokeness. The first two should be unspoken if you're the kind of person who's followed O'Brien's career at any time. The...

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon reportedly had a list of demands that would make a diva jealous as he tried to negotiate with Elon Musk to host a show on X, but Musk -- the social media site's billionaire owner -- ended the contract talks after a recent interview with...

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Residents of the Philadelphia suburb of Falls Township, Pennsylvania, were advised to shelter in place after three fatal shootings Saturday morning. The suspect, Andre Gordon, fatally shot two people at home on Viewpoint Lane just before 9 a.m. and then fled the scene in a stolen vehicle, WTXF reported, citing...

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week told his military to be ready for war as the black leather-clad, gun-toting dictator supervised military drills. Kim told soldiers on Wednesday to be combat-ready, a report from the state-run Korean Central News Agency said, according to the Independent. “Our army should...

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A Harvard Business School professor whose research into why people cheat and act dishonestly was found by an internal probe to have cheated and acted dishonestly, according to The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University. The nearly 1,300-page internal report into professor Francesca Gino found that she had...

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A shelter-in-place order in the Philadelphia suburb of Falls Township, Pennsylvania, has been lifted, as the armed suspect police had been seeking in connection with three fatal shooting there Saturday morning was located in Trenton, New Jersey. The suspect, 26-year-old Andre Gordon, had "barricaded himself with hostages," CNN reported shortly...

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A woman from Alaska who alerted the world to a man using the women's changing facilities at her local Planet Fitness outlet has had the last laugh, but not before the company made a hash out of its reply to the controversy. The latest outrage against women's-only spaces came to...

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No one said the prodigal son came home and was perfect forever. But "while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." (Luke 15:20) In a modern-day...

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The best way to enslave a people without them knowing it is to dumb them down and then brainwash them. That may sound like a line out of the popular series "The Boys," but it's not. "All democracies fail because people are f---ing stupid," Sister Sage, a superhero in the...

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The man who calls himself “Albert’s dad” is fighting mad now that his pet of 34 years -- which one friend called a “big gentle giant” --  has been hauled away. But in state-speak, taking away “an 11-foot, 750-pound alligator illegally kept at a residence in the town of Hamburg,”...

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