A much-derided umpire who has long been one of pro baseball fandom's least favorite officials is finally hanging up his mask and retiring. According to reports, ump Angel Hernández, who has officiated at Major Leagues ball games for more than 30 years, announced on Monday that he is retiring, the...

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The consequences of President Joe Biden's weak border policy continue as police in Splendora, Texas, have arrested an illegal immigrant wanted by Interpol on a charge of murder. The City of Splendora Police Department posted on their Facebook page that Leo Acosta Sanchez, 21, was arrested Friday in collaboration with...

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A convicted Massachusetts rapist, who became known for his signature breath, has been captured in California after years on the run, according to police. The man, who became known as the “bad breath rapist” due to his apparent poor oral hygiene, raped a coworker at knifepoint in 2005. Tuen K....

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One Michigan man charged with driving with a suspended license made a major mistake when he showed up for a remote hearing while driving his car. Corey Harris was the defendant before Judge Cedric Simpson in the May 15 hearing, according to Fox News. "Mr. Harris, are you driving?" Simpson...

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Actor Dennis Quaid announced in an interview published on Tuesday that he intends to vote for former President Donald Trump in November. "What do you think of Trump?" Piers Morgan asked Quaid on his Fox Nation program, "Piers Morgan Uncensored." “I myself, I think -- I think I’m gonna vote...

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Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has charged a veteran state trooper with murder after he used his unmarked police cruiser to stop a fleeing fugitive during a chase earlier this month. The car ended up striking Samuel Sterling, a suspect fleeing on foot, who later died in what Michigan...

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Should Ukraine be allowed to use long-range weapons supplied by France, the United States and other NATO countries to strike enemy targets inside Russian territory? That's the question hanging over NATO talks this week, as both France and the U.S. have hinted that the longstanding policy prohibiting such attacks should...

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A report Wednesday said former President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have met to discuss a possible role for Musk if there is a Trump administration next year. The Wall Street Journal said the concept would be for the Tesla and Space X founder and X owner to have...

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Actor Nick Pasqual has been charged with multiple crimes after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend, Hollywood makeup artist Allie Shehorn, multiple times last week. KABC-TV in Los Angeles reported Thursday that last week's attack occurred after the suspect broke into Shehorn's home around 4:30 a.m. on May 23. Shehorn was hospitalized...

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While the American media's focus is on this fall's elections in the U.S., just south of the border, it's an election year, too -- and an ominous one at that. In the latest sign of an election season that threatens to spiral out of control, Alfredo Cabrera, a mayoralty candidate...

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There's an old story about an Arab and his camel. One bitterly cold night, the Arab allowed the camel to get its nose inside his tent to get warm. The camel then managed to get its head and neck inside. Eventually, the camel got its whole body into the tent,...

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Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has already reshaped the GOP into a working-class, anti-establishment party. Now, according to recent polling, Trump has expanded the electoral map at the presidential level and given Republicans a fighting chance in states where, for many years, they have barely...

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Former President Donald Trump scolded Fox News anchor Shannon Bream after Bream suggested that President Joe Biden had nothing to do with Trump’s New York trial on charges of falsifying business records. “I never knew Shannon Bream was so ‘naïve.’ In her interview with my Representative, Alina Habba, Shannon just...

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The Democrats' worst fear for 2024 is, by all appearances, happening: Not only is President Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump in the polls, but he's also losing support among black voters. Mind you, he's still leading -- but hardly by as much as he was in the 2020 campaign....

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken "trash talking" to a whole new level by launching more than 150 balloons filled with garbage, propaganda pamphlets and excrement into South Korea. The balloons crossed the border on Tuesday, landing in cities across South Korea — including its capital, Seoul, The...

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One of the two suspects in a Mississippi carjacking that was caught on camera last month has been arrested after his parents turned him in. The parents of the juvenile, whose name was withheld by law enforcement, took him to the Copiah County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday after seeing news...

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U.S. District Court Judge Larry Hicks died Wednesday afternoon after being hit by a vehicle in Reno, Nevada. Hicks, 80, was appointed by former President George W. Bush and was confirmed in 2001, according to KRNV-TV. Reno police were called to a vehicle-pedestrian incident near the federal courthouse in Reno...

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Republicans in Congress are expressing their concerns over President Joe Biden's Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley -- after finding evidence that he downloaded documents, both sensitive and classified, and could have shared that information with contacts outside the United States government. Semafor reported, Republican Sen. James Risch of Idaho...

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Embattled Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar just found out that he's about to become even more embattled than he already was. On Wednesday, the House Ethics Committee announced an additional investigation into the border-district Democrat after news of a federal indictment against him for accepting bribes. Even worse for the 10-term...

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While the political world's attention is fixed on the outcome of former President Donald Trump's so-called hush money trial in New York, you may have missed that President Joe Biden's administration intimated it would be willing to go one step closer to full-on war with Russia over Ukraine. In a...

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