The time nears for former President Donald Trump -- the presumptive GOP nominee in this fall's presidential race -- to select a running mate, and potential picks appeared at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Saturday to bid for the job. Axios got to be kind of a fly on...

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A state judge in New York has shot down a pro-abortion ballot measure just ahead of the November election, dealing a blow to Democrats who hoped to use the initiative as a top campaign issue this fall. A judge in Livingston County ruled on Tuesday that Democratic legislators did not...

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A security guard was shot and hospitalized early Tuesday morning outside the Toronto home of the superstar Canadian rapper Drake. The shooting came amid a highly public feud between Drake, whose legal name is Aubrey Graham, and fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar. With what little police had released about the incident...

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The date for former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial has been postponed indefinitely. Trump had been charged with improperly storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. His federal trial had been scheduled to start May 20, according to CNBC. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon scraps that...

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Israel shuttered offices of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network Sunday, citing biased reporting that favored Hamas. “Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel’s security and incited against soldiers,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “It’s time to remove the Hamas mouthpiece from our...

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A new report said that a journalist who had an odd interaction with Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark last month has been suspended. Sportswriter Bob Kravitz revealed the suspicion on his website. In a post filed Tuesday, he wrote that Gregg Doyel, a columnist for the Indianapolis Star, was in...

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Dwight L. Moody, an 1800s American evangelist, once said, “I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found out I would have to go against the current.” And...

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Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul was ripped by fellow Democrats after she said that black children in one of New York City’s boroughs do not know what the word "computer" means. Hochul made the remarks in Beverly Hills on Monday while in the Los Angeles area for a summit...

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Former President Donald Trump sidestepped New York Judge Juan Merchan's gag order by reading news reports critical of the "hush money" case being brought against him. Before entering the Manhattan court house Tuesday morning, Trump pulled out a piece of paper and read assessments of the trial from mostly left-leaning...

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The late Rev. Billy Graham once said, "Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary." One Pennsylvania pastor recently showed that he truly knows the beauty of the word when he offered instant forgiveness and love to someone who had just tried to murder him. Glenn...

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The House on Tuesday passed a bill designed to ensure that any new energy efficiency standards promulgated by the U.S. Department of Energy be based on available technology and economic reality, according to a media release from the bill's sponsor. Rep. Debbie Lesko's office said that the bill passed with...

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The ladies of "The View" were practically giddy with excitement on Tuesday as they fantasized about what could happen to former President Donald Trump if he continued to defy a gag order imposed by the judge overseeing his criminal hush money trial. On Monday, Trump made defiant remarks to reporters...

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The judge in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial rejected a mistrial Tuesday after porn star Stormy Daniels offered an explicit version of a sexual encounter with Trump that he has said never happened. Trump attorney Todd Blanche said Daniels' claim that there was an "imbalance of power" at...

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Weeks after President Joe Biden signed a bill to allow weapons to keep flowing to Israel, the Biden administration is preventing some weapons from reaching it. Last week, the Biden administration halted a planned shipment of bombs to Israel because it does not want Israel to attack Rafah, a city...

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Biblical archaeology is something of an orphan among the field’s branches and is certainly its least advertised one. Confirming Bible truths, intentionally or accidentally, is not a favorite goal of scientists. Agnostics, atheists and the downright anti-religious among them discount the work almost entirely, which is one reason why those...

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A House committee has issued subpoenas to two officials with the Small Business Administration after not receiving answers about a program designed to register swing state voters for a month. In March, the SBA announced a partnership with Michigan state government to connect small business owners with voter registration information,...

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A Houston lawyer was tragically shot and killed outside a McDonald's on Saturday while attempting to defuse a heated argument between a disgruntled customer and the restaurant staff. Jeffrey Limmer, 46, had tried to intervene and calm a disgruntled man who was upset over his order and demanded a refund...

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Former President Donald Trump could break a 52-year GOP losing streak by winning the blue state of Minnesota, campaign officials said at a Republican National Committee retreat, citing internal polls. Pollster Tony Fabrizio and senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita told attendees at the private donor event Saturday that...

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CNN's Jake Tapper called out President Joe Biden's ever-changing position on the issue of abortion. In an interview that aired Sunday with Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu, Tapper questioned whether Biden's shifting stance on abortion over his political career will be harmful to his campaign. Tapper characterized Biden's position on...

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The devastation wrought by liberal policies in blue states over the past few years has truly been a sight to behold. People who never had any intention of leaving their home states have been prompted, due to rampant crime, homelessness and soaring costs of living, to undertake the previously unthinkable...

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