Six people are facing charges over a scam in which fake crimes were staged to allow the purported victims to apply for special visas. Parth Nayi, 26, of Woodbridge, Illinois, and Kewon Young, 31, of Mansfield, Ohio, are accused of leading the operation in an indictment announced last week by...

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More than a century ago, Albert Einstein theorized that black holes in space would have a region where whatever the black hole wants to suck inside of it surrenders to its doom. The 1915 theory now has been confirmed by researchers at Oxford University studying a black hole about 10,000...

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Researchers from a North Carolina college believe that a long-lost branch of the Nile was once the thoroughfare that connected multiple sites where ancient Egyptian pyramids were built. The research team from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington said that through satellite imaging, geophysical surveys and analysis of soil,...

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As President Joe Biden opens the border to let illegal immigrants in, an increasing number of border Patrol agents are walking out, according to a new report. According to a report in the Washington Examiner, more than 4,000 agents have left the Border Patrol since October 2020, which amounts to...

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President Joe Biden's numbers among black voters are down to historically low levels for the 21st century Democratic Party -- and if you need to find a reason why, you need look no further than one anonymous black woman who was featured in a video by a conservative group. While...

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John Bolton was once the left's designated conservative whipping boy. Now, George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations and Donald Trump's national security advisor has become one of the go-to professional former Republicans who will whine and complain to the media over what the GOP has become since Trump's...

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Every day, across social media platforms, millions of people will watch nature videos. Your witty riposte, your heartwarming Insta, your latest TikTok dance -- none of these are as magnetic as a viral clip of wild or domestic animals acting in ways that we, as humans, can relate to. Consider...

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A day after former rival for the Republican presidential nomination Nikki Haley said she would vote for him for president, former President Donald Trump said there would be a place for Haley on his team. “Well, I think she’s going to be on our team because we have a lot...

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Almost two years after demand for Taylor Swift tickets led to mayhem on Ticketmaster and anger among a horde of Swifties, the federal government has filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster's parent company. On Thursday, the Department of Justice, joined by 29 states and the District of Columbia, sued Ticketmaster owner...

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For gun owners and patriots, there's never a bad time to remind yourself about firearm safety -- and why two men who went very viral are now six years into a lifetime ban from one gun range. The year was 2018. The state, Texas. The president, Trump. You'd think if...

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This should probably go without saying, but apparently it doesn't: If a bull wants your bag, just let it go. There are very few people who this might not apply to. Farmers, maybe. Matadors. Runners in Pamplona. Even on the last count, you'd hope that even the thrill-seekers would just...

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This is Part 2 of a six-part series on rest and work. Part 1 can be found here. If rest is a source of refreshment and a means to better relationship with God and with other people, why don’t people do it? The answer begins with the Fall of humanity....

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The Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant chain isn't doing well. The company's stock prices are at their lowest in over a decade, and the chain's 660 stores have lost 16 percent of their customers over the past four years. Cracker Barrel's stock price at Friday's market closing was $45.62,...

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A poll earlier this month asked Republican and Republican-leaning voters who they'd like to see former President Donald Trump choose as his running mate in the very likely event that Trump is named the party's nominee in July's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The poll, from Issues & Insights and...

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With the Southern border wide open for anyone to walk through, it feels like the safety of the country is hanging on a thread made of little more than wishes and happy thoughts. Earlier this month, two Jordanian nationals attempted to illegally enter the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia by...

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A group of academics has identified a planet that could potentially support life. They're describing Gliese 12 b as a planet within the habitable zone of its own solar system. The planet orbits a red dwarf star 40 light years away from the Earth in the Pisces constellation. University College...

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Rapper Nicki Minaj was detained by police at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Saturday. Police suspected her of possessing soft drugs, according to Sky News. In one video on the Instagram account "the shade room", a police officer told her “"You are under arrest."   View this post on Instagram  ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Republicans in a crucial redistricting case for the state of South Carolina that had Democrats alleging "racism." Democrats and the NAACP had taken the legislature's redistricting map to court claiming that it was racially discriminatory and a lower court agreed, telling...

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A documentary filmmaker who changed how Americans view fast food has died. Morgan Spurlock died on Thursday of complications from cancer, his family confirmed to Variety. Spurlock is most known for creating the documentary "Super Size Me," in which he consumed nothing but McDonald's food for a full month. The...

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Ukraine poked Russia on Thursday by destroying a radar site that is part of Russia’s strategic defense against nuclear weapons. According to Bloomberg, the Armavir radar station covered parts of Crimea, a part of Ukraine-Russia grabbed in 2014 and which is used now to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That...

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New Jersey and the Senate may not have seen the last of Sen. Bob Menendez. The Senator faces ongoing federal corruption charges after 19 years of sitting in the upper chamber. The politician has been accused of accepting cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, and payments on a home mortgage among...

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