The Caitlin Clark effect set viewership records for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, as games in which she played set three viewership records in one week, with each game setting a new high. It began when Clark and her Iowa Hawkeyes knocked out LSU on April 1 in the Elite...

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The total solar eclipse has now passed, but it seems that many people are still feeling the effects. On Monday, millions gathered along the path of totality to witness the rare celestial event, which made landfall in Mazatlán, Mexico, before being visible in various parts of the U.S. and Canada,...

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A 26-year-old Massachusetts woman who was the apparent victim of a road rage incident has died. Destini Decoff, 26, was critically injured Thursday, according to WCVB-TV. Decoff's mother, Tracy Decoff, said her daughter died from her injuries Saturday, according to WBTS-CD. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Hopkinton Chief of...

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Everyone's favorite host of "The View," Sunny Hostin, is back with another hot take. On Monday's segment, Hostin, while speculating on the return of cicadas, the recent earthquakes, and the eclipse had an answer for why this is all happening. It's climate change! Whoopi Goldberg first corrected Hostin...

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One of the greatest pitchers in the history of the New York Yankees is stepping up to the plate for an iconic New Yorker. Legendary closer Mariano Rivera endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election on Monday, according to The Denver Gazette. The baseball Hall of Famer was...

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Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio declared a state of emergency in the country on Friday over the rampant use of kush -- known as the "zombie drug" -- a psychoactive blend of highly addictive substances that has lately been mixed using ground up human bones. "We are making concerted...

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He may be the best player in the nation -- but on Monday night, Zach Edey was no match for college basketball's reigning powerhouse. In a 75-60 win in Glendale, Arizona, that was almost an anti-climax, even though it was between two No. 1-seeded teams, the University of Connecticut Huskies...

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Tensions flared on the court Monday night during the NCAA men's basketball national championship game in Glendale, Arizona. Not just between players but between UConn head coach Dan Hurley and Purdue star center Zach Edey, who were actually seen jawing at each other. With just under seven minutes in the...

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A pediatrician was killed last week when she was thrown out of a moving Airstream travel trailer while making a trek from Long Island to upstate New York to watch Monday’s solar eclipse. The accident happened on Saturday near the community of Brownville, which is north of Syracuse near the...

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A group of Texas farmers is seeking an emergency injunction to prohibit the Biden administration from discriminating against farmers on the basis of race or sex. The injunction request is part of a lawsuit filed March 29 to force the United States Department of Agriculture to abandon a policy of...

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A woman who made unsubstantiated and vague claims of sexual misconduct against an "X-Men" artist who subsequently committed suicide after the ensuing cancelation is complaining that she's now the one being canceled. And, if other industry pros have their way, she might not be alone. Last week, it was announced...

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Firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Tuesday picked up where she left off before the House’s Easter recess with a full-throated attack on Speaker Mike Johnson. In late March, Greene filed a motion to vacate, which would topple Johnson from the post he assumed in October after...

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Ever since the once-RINO GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina became the scrappier so-called Lindsey Graham 2.0 during the Trump years, conservatives have mostly held their fire. After all, in a field of politics, where the motto could be "what have you done for me lately?", Graham has done...

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Those who have traveled extensively outside of the West know that wokeness doesn't export particularly well -- especially when it comes to entertainment. However, there's a new corollary to that problem to consider: In addition to our exported wokeness being rejected in foreign markets, Americans are increasingly importing the rest of...

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For centuries, scientists have charted the clockwork regularity of the observable universe. Remarkably -- at least to a non-specialist -- those scientists can predict celestial events decades or centuries in advance -- and down to the second. It is an incredible human achievement. The admiration one feels toward such scientists...

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It's become such a cliché that movie plots are made of it: It takes a crook to catch a crook. Or it takes a terrorist to catch a terrorist. Or it takes a hacker to catch ... you get the idea. In fact, you can picture the scene in your...

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This is probably not the news the Biden campaign had been hoping for seven months before November's general election. As his administration continues to push electric vehicles, the American people are not with him. Just the opposite, in fact. EV ownership has risen over the past year, of course --...

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Norfolk Southern Railway has agreed to pay residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, more than $600 million after one of the company’s trains derailed resulting in an environmental catastrophe. The Feb. 3, 2023, derailment caused fires that burned for days and emitted chemicals, such as hydrogen chloride and phosgene,...

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An Idaho man has been charged in a plot to attack Christians at church after he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to the U.S. Justice Department. The DOJ announced in a Monday news release that FBI agents arrested the man on Saturday, thwart an attack he allegedly...

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Italy’s Mount Etna volcano put on a show last week as it puffed massive rings into the sky, some of which were pink as they floated above the Sicilian volcano. In a CBS News report Monday, Giuseppe Barbagallo, a member of the South Etna Alpine Guides Group, said the puffing...

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