A south Texas Democratic member of Congress is facing federal charges of accepting bribes. Rep. Henry Cuellar is accused of accepting $238,000 in cash disguised as consulting fees from a bank controlled by a Mexican billionaire, according to the Wall Street Journal. Cuellar is also accused of accepting $360,000 from...

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An illegal immigrant from Venezuela who is accused of killing nursing student Laken Riley near the University of Georgia campus in February was hit with a “peeping Tom” charge Tuesday. Fox News reported 26-year-old José Antonio Ibarra, who police say beat and suffocated 22-year-old Riley in Athens on Feb. 22,...

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was booed on the House floor Wednesday afternoon after she tried to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. Greene first vowed to force a motion to force Johnson from power in March, citing deals the speaker had cut with Democrats to fund...

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The power of a Swifitie to change the world was demonstrated Tuesday in Minnesota when Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed into law legislation informally known as the “Taylor Swift bill.” The law requires ticket sellers to disclose up front all fees connected with a ticket purchase and bans resellers from...

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Big Pharma giant Pfizer confirmed on Wednesday that it will settle more than 10,000 lawsuits over allegations that the company failed to warn people about possible cancer risks caused by their Zantac product. Zantac is the company's once-popular anti-heartburn medication featured in a multitude of television commercials, many of which...

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President Joe Biden vowed to withhold military aid to Israel if the country’s military enters the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Biden made the comments in an interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Wednesday evening about Israel’s ongoing offensive against Hamas. The Israeli government declared war...

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The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County for its conduct of the 2020 election and direct the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee this fall's general election. The Georgia Recorder reported that the 2-1 vote came after investigators from the Georgia secretary of state's office confirmed...

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Former President Donald Trump praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia while urging her and other House Republicans to hold off on removing Speaker Mike Johnson for the time being. On Wednesday, Greene's motion to oust the speaker failed in a landslide vote of 359-43, with just 11 Republicans supporting...

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Barron Trump, the youngest child of former President Donald Trump, has stayed largely out of politics -- which is understandable, as he was only 10 when his father was elected president in 2016. This time around, however, it's different. Barron Trump turned 18 in March and will graduate from high...

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Prince Harry's attempt at extending an olive branch to his father, King Charles III, appears to have not worked out in his favor. Harry, who returned to the United Kingdom on Wednesday to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Invictus Games he helped create, requested to meet with his father...

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History may be repeating itself in more ways than one right now, with another Jesus revolution breaking out among Generation Z. I previously wrote about the surprising similarities between the presidential elections of 1968 and 2024, including college campus war protests. Well, on the cultural side, something is happening that...

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On Friday, the social media director for the Miss USA organization, Claudia Michelle, stepped down, announcing her decision in a post to Instagram. Three days later, the reigning Miss USA, Noelia Voigt, also posted on Instagram that she had resigned from the noscript of Miss USA 2023, citing her mental...

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Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is now admitting that he is taking Ivermectin, a therapy he once denounced and mocked on air, to treat lingering symptoms from a previous infection. Back in 2021, when Joe Rogan, host of "The Joe Rogan Experience," revealed he had taken Ivermectin after contracting COVID-19,...

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If you are praising North Korea, your movement has lost the plot. As agitators continue to occupy college campuses in support of Palestinian terrorists, footage from the social media platform X posted on Sunday of a student-led teach-in at New York University on Saturday shows one woman singing the praises...

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An Israeli businessman who also held Canadian citizenship has been murdered in Egypt. Some media accounts said that a terrorist group that had been previously unknown claimed credit for the attack, video of which was widely shared on social media. There were also reports the incident began as a robbery....

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Another day, another piece of bad election-year news for proponents of Bidenomics. The Department of Labor on Thursday released its weekly report of seasonally adjusted data on new unemployment claims through May 4, reporting a total of 231,000 jobless claims. That number was both up from the previous week's 209,000...

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A Tennessee lawmaker is taking aim at foreign students who participate in American campus protests. Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee indicated that a bill he filed Wednesday is aimed at pro-Hamas students who have participated in this spring’s spate of anti-Israel protests, according to the Daily Caller. The bill...

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Peacock has confirmed that a spinoff of the iconic series "The Office" is in the works. More than a decade after the final episode of the comedy series aired on NBC, a new crew will be cast to continue where Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak...

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's recent election reforms could be great news, not just for voters concerned about the possible voter fraud in the last election, but for Donald Trump in particular. A mostly red state with a Republican governor, Georgia has nevertheless been a critical battleground for several of the...

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If anyone still thought that President Joe Biden was fit for his office after watching his CNN interview on Wednesday, he or she is far beyond help. Throughout the interview (which lasted barely more than 15 minutes), the president was his usual dishonest, forgetful and confused self, unable to provide...

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