An onslaught of tornadoes left devastation in their wake as storms slammed Nebraska and Iowa Friday night. The Pottawattamie County town of Minden, Iowa, suffered extensive damage, with about half the town -- between 40 and 50 homes -- destroyed, the Sheriff's Office said, according to KETV-TV. Four people in...

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In a series of three social media posts late Friday, former President Donald Trump launched what one news outlet referred to as "his biggest attack yet" against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a Democratic "plant" out to help incumbent President Joe Biden win re-election in November....

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Louisiana stands as exemplary in punishing those who prey on the most vulnerable members of society. On Wednesday, Glenn Sullivan Sr, 54 of Springfield, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree rape. In addition to a 50-year prison sentence, Sullivan will be physically castrated no later than one week...

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Travelers to the Turks and Caicos Islands are finding that very small things in their luggage can result in very long prison sentences. Tyler Wenrich, 30, of Virginia, was arrested April 20 after authorities said they found two bullets in his backpack as he was getting ready to leave, according...

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The first bank failure of 2024 has taken place. Republic First Bank, which operated in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, was seized Friday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to The Associated Press. The Philadelphia-based bank, which did business as Republic Bank, was sold to competitor Fulton Bank,...

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What had been a three-person team of lawyers that will prosecute Alec Baldwin on charges of involuntary manslaughter is now down to two. Prosecutor Jason Lewis has filed a motion to withdraw from the case, according to People. The charge against Baldwin comes from the 2021 shooting on the set...

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The massive, powerful Abrams M1A1 battle tank looks as though it can crush anything that stands against it. But in the Ukraine war, where nimble drones own the battlefield, the tanks have failed to have the effect Ukraine hoped for when America agreed to send the weapons to them in...

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Once upon a time, anyone wondering how long they might live would look at their parents and other ancestors, guess whether all those terrible things in the news about this or that vice are really as deadly as they say, and come up with a number that was as good...

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Joe Biden has secretly brought China's social credit score system to the U.S.A. in a stealth effort to eliminate the free speech and gun rights of conservatives, and Rep. Jim Jordan is furious over this attack on our freedoms. If you are unaware, China uses an online-based system to keep...

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The numbers are in -- Americans do not want illegal immigrants in the country any longer. An online survey conducted by Axios asked 6,251 adults in between March 29 and April 14 whether they support "mass deportations of undocumented immigrants." And the numbers don't lie. A majority of 51 percent...

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Artificial intelligence is slowly becoming more involved in everyday life, whether we are aware of it or not. It's also disrupting everyday life in ways that would have been unimaginable not so very long ago. That's what apparently happened at a Baltimore County school, where police say the athletic director...

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Former Attorney General William Barr recently was able to star in a demonstration of the fact that former President Donald Trump can wield a social media message like a rapier. The words of Barr’s recent endorsement of Trump in the presidential race were barely out when Trump used sarcasm to...

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President Joe Biden is wallowing in disapproval in a way no president has done in 70 years, according to a new poll. Gallup took Biden’s abysmal 13th quarter approval rating of 38.7 percent and compared it to other presidents from Eisenhower onward. The tumultuous Trump era? Not even close. Former...

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One California university has shut down its campus and shunted all classes online for the rest of the spring term due to protesters who have occupied multiple college buildings. California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt's actions come amid campus protests that have damaged universities and their reputations from Columbia to USC....

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President Joe Biden's age became a gag line Saturday night at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. Colin Jost, who hosts the “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live,”  threw some zingers Biden’s way. "I hope tonight will be a night to remember ... for most of us," he joked,...

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The term "gaslighting" is used to describe psychological manipulation that makes the victim question reality. When  a CNN chyron read "Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting" while a reporter stood outside a building engulfed in flames during the Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots in 2020, that was gaslighting. And when Democratic...

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Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, was arrested Saturday during a campus protest. Lest her arrest not get the publicity the campaign wanted, Stein posted video of it on the social media platform X. “Jill Stein and her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager, Jason Call and Kelly...

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Newly released information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed, that depending on the state where you live, you could be more susceptible to being targeted by hackers for a cyber attack. According to a report in the U.K. Daily Mail, TorGuard, a company specializing in online security, examined...

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When news first broke that film auteur Quentin Tarantino was abandoning his largely materialized 10th and final film, tentatively noscriptd "The Movie Critic," Hollywood-watchers were both surprised and not surprised at all. To the ones who weren't surprised: Tarantino is an oddball, and that's probably an understatement. Creative genius? Absolutely....

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"Someone needs to tell the people who block traffic in the name of a cause, 'no one likes you, and you're probably hurting your cause.'" While maybe late-night host Bill Maher and I don't agree on everything, I can't even attempt to disagree with his take on protesters using activism...

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Did he ever see this going well? California Gov. Gavin Newsom took to X to ask for submissions on a coin design for the state and the replies were exactly what you'd expect. But maybe not what Newsom expected -- not even his Taylor Swift reference helped. Calling all members...

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