Picture this: A crowd of almost 100,000 on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, watches patiently as an artist standing on a giant stage furiously paints an American flag to the tune of "America The Beautiful." As the music crescendos to the last "sea to shining sea," the artist puts...

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In a farewell to the shrinking market for sedans, Chevrolet is stopping production on the Chevy Malibu at the end of this model year. About 10 million of the model – in its various forms – have been sold since it was introduced in 1964, according to Motor Trend. The...

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Google searches could amount to the evidence required to convict an embattled Democratic senator and land him behind bars. The federal trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is scheduled to begin on Monday, according to Politico. Prosecutors are alleging that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accepted...

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Prince Harry was reduced to tears when he learned that his brother received an honor he once held, according to a new report. Harry was in London last week as part of his celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, an athletic competition for wounded veterans. Not only...

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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas on Sunday accused President Joe Biden of taking the side of Hamas in an effort to end the war in Gaza,  which was started by Hamas when it slaughtered Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. “Joe Biden's position is de facto for Hamas victory at...

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In a stunning display of irony and contradiction that borders on the absurd, an associate dean tasked with upholding gender equality at Columbia University cut off and muted a fellow professor during a faculty senate meeting earlier this month when the latter professor warned her colleagues that the Ivy League...

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Steve Buscemi, the popular actor known for his roles in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and numerous films, was the victim of a sudden, violent assault in New York City last week. The incident occurred just before noon, in broad daylight, adding to a troubling rise in unprovoked street attacks across the...

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Soon to be found on a shelf near you: the Swiss Army All-Kinds-of-Cool-Things-but-Don't-You-Dare-Call-It-a-Knife. Victorinox, maker of the famous Swiss Army Knife, said in an email to CBS News that it is in the "early stages of developing new pocket tools without blades." The  Swiss company said it is not eliminating...

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NFL legend Lawrence Taylor stumped for former President Donald Trump at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, saying he dumped the Democratic Party because of Trump. "I just wanted to say, I grew up a Democrat. And I've always been a Democrat -- until I met this man...

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Big Tech giant Google has been found recording people's voices without their knowledge to help send them ads -- and the recordings are stored for data collection. Do you use verbal apps such as Siri and Alexa? Do you find that the ads showing up as you use the internet...

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It's good to see that, as summer break approaches, the situation on our nation's college campuses in blue cities maintains the same grim status quo as we've come to expect over the past few months. This time, it's neither students chanting "death to America" or demanding the abolition of Israel,...

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Not only is "Queers for Palestine" possibly the most ridiculous contradiction in the whole of the anti-Israel protest movement, it turns out they can't even jam up a highway correctly. According to multiple reports, members of the group tried to block the Interstate 4 exit to Walt Disney World in...

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Have you heard the one about the college graduates who left their ceremony because they could not take having a Jewish comedian give them good advice? That was the scene at Duke University on Sunday, as a few dozen students walked out of the school's commencement as thousands more remained...

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The first living human recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has died roughly two months after receiving the organ. Rick Slayman, 62, was diagnosed with final-stage kidney disease last year and received the pig kidney in March, according to CNN. Slayman was discharged from the hospital in April. At...

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An environmental group in Colorado has learned that strong-arming policies that are actively detrimental to the local community is a losing strategy. Especially when that group had lobbied to give "rights" to an inanimate object. Namely, a creek. As reported by KUNC-FM, this saga began in 2021 in the town...

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This has to be galling to the Gray Lady. The New York Times, one-time newspaper turned better known now as a vehicle for Democratic propaganda, devoted a front-page report Monday to the state of polls for the presidential election. And it must have been painful to publish. In five of...

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A teenager was arrested in Louisiana over the weekend after he attempted to enter a Catholic Couch armed with a rifle and was stopped by parishioners and held until police arrived. The harrowing incident occurred on Saturday morning at the Saint Mary Magdalen Catholic Church south of Lafayette in the...

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In America, a filmmaker who makes it big is honored. In Iran, they get prison. Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and secretly traveled to Europe after his latest film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was accepted by the Cannes Film Festival, according to Variety. “We are very...

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Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton once observed, "When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything." A disturbing display at the Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday demonstrated the truth of those words in the best -- or, depending on your perspective, the worst -- way...

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The push in Western countries to legalize and legitimize prostitution might be one of the most disgusting fallouts of the sexual revolution yet. Perhaps the grotesque logic has been: If you were going to jump into bed with a bunch of strange guys anyway, why not get paid for it?...

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