New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the firing of a member of his city’s fire department who died shortly after and whose family is now struggling financially. The firefighter was one of 10 who were let go, so that the city could shrink the FDNY’s budget in order to...

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Former President Donald Trump may be increasing his lead over President Joe Biden with each passing poll, but that does not mean he takes a single voter for granted. In an unprecedented move for any major party presidential candidate, much less the Republican party's prospective nominee, Trump has accepted an...

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We’ve learned some new terms in recent years. “Insurrection” is one of them. And “lawfare.” "Insurrection" is a favorite word thrown around by Democrats, journalists, squishy Republicans and legacy media consumers when discussing the events of Jan. 6, 2021. "We saw it all," they will tell you -- an insurrection,...

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One commentator says that the decision by CBS to fire Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason could come back to haunt the network. Michael Kay, in comments on his ESPN Radio show, suggested age was a major reason CBS lopped Simms and Esasion and installed Matt Ryan, 38, and J.J. Watt,...

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Apparently "Paper Mario" is a little too sexist and fatphobic for Nintendo. The Japanese video game company is set to release a remake of the popular 2004 game "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door" for its Switch platform on May 23. The remake will be almost an exact copy of the...

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Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin discussed his previous battles with addiction during a new podcast interview that dropped Wednesday. The 66-year-old, who is awaiting trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film “Rust” in New Mexico,...

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The Deion Sanders experiment in Boulder got off to a shaky 4-8 start last year, and the team did not appear to be in good shape Wednesday. The University of Colorado head coach and his quarterback son, Shadeur Sanders, both displayed an air of arrogance in separate social media posts...

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One of the most iconic professional wrestlers in history may have had a heavenly encounter a few years ago. Hulk Hogan disclosed an experience he had involving "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, a onetime competitor whom he disliked during his own lengthy career. The wrestling icon was speaking on a Wednesday episode...

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Children's TV network Nickelodeon has announced the debut of the re-boot of its popular cartoon series, "Fairly OddParents," but the new series will do away with the former focus of the show and introduce a new character. The original Nickelodeon series focused on 10-year-old Timmy Turner, who lived in Dimsdale...

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If there's one thing that Democrats can always rely on squeamish Republicans to do, it's to sign onto bad legislation because GOP lawmakers think it will help moderate their image in an election year. It's like Lucy Van Pelt, Charlie Brown and the football: No matter how many times Republicans...

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If anyone knows how to deal with a heckler it's former President Donald Trump. During a rally at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, as he was talking about restoring the police's ability to maintain peace as universities are overrun by anti-Israel protests, someone in the...

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ABC News senior meteorologist Rob Marciano has been fired by the network more than a year after he was banned from reporting inside the “Good Morning America” studio -- and now we know why. According to the Daily Beast, Marciano was let go after a "heated screaming match" between him...

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If the Mexican government can't get a guilty verdict in an American court for the death of an illegal migrant who was allegedly spotted with a group of armed men on private property, its response, apparently, is to target the rancher who shot the migrant -- and help sue the...

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Protests on college campuses across the country over Israel's response to the brutal Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 have grown increasingly disruptive and volatile since students at Columbia University set up an encampment on campus on April 17. The demonstrations at one point could been referred to as pro-Palestinian,...

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Democrats in the Arizona House will no longer have access to meeting rooms controlled by the House speaker except for caucus meetings and hearings after the speaker said one Democrat "lied to" him about the nature of a drag story hour held at the Capitol on Tuesday. Arizona House Speaker...

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Are you a college student? Has your anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protesting been so egregious that it's gotten you expelled from a U.S. university? The Islamic Republic of Iran has got good news for you! In perhaps the surest sign of who's on the right side of history when it comes...

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Up by six points and with 28.2 seconds to go Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks had the second round of the NBA playoffs in their sights. No one told that to Philadelphia 76ers star Tyrese Maxey. Maxey scored seven points in the final 25 seconds...

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The University of California, Los Angeles campus turned into what one observer called “absolute chaos” early Thursday as police cleared out anti-Israel demonstrators at a tent encampment. California Highway Patrol officers in riot gear began taking apart barricades and arresting protesters at about 3 a.m. local time, according to NBC...

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Country star Colt Ford said in an interview last week that a massive heart attack should have killed him, but "the Lord had more for me to do." Forl was stricken after playing an April 4 show at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert, Arizona. During an April 23 interview...

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When Jack Petocz was accepted to the prestigious Vanderbilt University in Tennessee on a merit scholarship based on his history as an LGBT  protest "organizer," he probably thought that riling students up to miss classes and disrupt the lives of others would carry him through the rest of his scholastic...

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