While other states are becoming more open to the prospect of legalizing the sale of marijuana within their borders, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin made it crystal clear that Virginia was not going to be one of those. On Thursday, the Old Dominion official vetoed a bill that would have created...

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The romantic relationship between NFL star tight end Travis Kelce and pop star Taylor Swift can still get people talking in the offseason, according to skyrocketing Google searches of the couple in recent days. Not only were Kelce and Swift the talk of the internet during Kansas City Chiefs games last...

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A photo of a young Jewish woman who was brutalized, raped and murdered during the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel has sparked outrage after it helped The Associated Press win a prestigious award last week. The photo was taken by AP photographer Ali Mahmud during the violence that...

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Protesters repeatedly interrupted President Joe Biden's campaign fundraiser Thursday at New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall. Biden appeared with the last two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who took part in a conversation "moderated" by Stephen Colbert, host of "The Late Show." According to the New...

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Well, the Utah Royals jersey "controversy" has at least one thing going for it: It doesn't involve Megan Rapinoe. The Royals, for the unaware -- and, given the state of women's soccer in this country, I'm sure are very many of you -- are one of the 14 teams that...

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Actor Viggo Mortensen has traded in the world of fantasy for the gritty frontier in a movie that shows Westerns are back in style. The "Lord of the Rings" star wrote, directed and stars in his new film, “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” which People sums up as an “1860s-set tale...

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Despite starring in one of the less-woke shows produced in Hollywood, Kevin Costner still has his liberal bona fides intact. The closest he's ever come to outright supporting a Republican, for instance, is halfheartedly campaigning for Liz Cheney in 2022 -- who was, at that point, as close to a...

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A federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration was driving way out of its lane in adopting  a 2023 rule that forced states to measure greenhouse gas emissions. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, kills off a...

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Times are tough in the video game industry. Unexpected flops and a downturn in the gaming industry due to the end of the pandemic has led to layoffs. Game developers complain of being overworked and underpaid. But, most visibly, there's a backlash due to DEI and wokeness seeping into every...

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The LGBT "pride" mafia, with its characteristic blend of self-pity and mercilessness, has targeted yet another young, Christian, female athlete. Korbin Albert, a 20-year-old midfielder on the U.S. women's national soccer team, recently shared Christian-themed social media posts that discussed the immoral nature of homosexuality and "feeling transgender," according to...

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Former President Donald Trump’s visit to the family of slain New York City police officer Jonathan Diller was an important moment for the suffering family the officer left behind, one local official said. Diller, 31, was shot to death Monday night during a traffic stop in Queens. Police have arrested...

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Tragedy struck a busload of worshippers heading to an Easter celebration in South Africa. Authorities said a bus carrying 45 people from Botswana to the South African community of Moria on Thursday tumbled off the Mmamatlakala bridge and fell about 165 feet before it exploded in flames, according to Fox...

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Washington state Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday that creates a hotline to report hate crimes and "bias incidents." Substitute Senate Bill 5427 requires the state Attorney General's Office to staff the hotline and in effect create a database of maltreatment related to someone's race, religion,...

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"When you are the salt of the earth, you're going to make people 'salty,' okay?" Sage advice from Taylor Trice, a young woman who applied to work at a Starbucks coffee shop because she was interested in their tuition assistance program for Arizona State University's online program. "Prior to working...

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Only a few months into his fifth term as mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tom Henry died Thursday at the age of 72. Henry’s death came a day after it was announced that he had suffered a medical emergency related to his stomach cancer, according to The Associated Press. Henry...

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John Barnett was found dead in his car in the parking lot of the Charleston, South Carolina, hotel where he was staying while giving testimony in a whistleblower case against aircraft manufacturer Boeing. Authorities are still investigating the cause of death, but Barnett's mother, Vicky Stokes, said she already holds...

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Few -- if any -- superhero films are held in higher esteem than the seminal 2008 Batman film "The Dark Knight." Between the mature sense of gritty realism that the movie brought (the Batman franchise had largely been known for campy live-action movies prior to the Dark Knight trilogy) and...

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There is going to be a very difficult, very somber conversation about what Hollywood and the film industry will look like in the near future -- and that conversation may be faster approaching than Tinseltown would ever like to admit. At nearly every step of making a movie, Hollywood is...

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This Sunday marks the end of the Christian Holy Week, a week that commences with Palm Sunday -- the day when Christ entered into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, being met as a conquering king. Holy Week climaxes on Good Friday -- the day when that same formerly...

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Plenty of people wonder why it is that Good Friday is called Good Friday. Have you ever thought about this, as the son of God was murdered on that day? Good Friday occurs on the Friday before Easter. Labeling and even celebrating such an atrocity as something good could be...

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