In a somewhat surprising move, former President Donald Trump has joined the popular -- and possibly doomed? -- video-sharing app TikTok. Trump's debut on TikTok came Saturday night with a video showing his arrival at UFC 302, accompanied by UFC CEO Dana White and popular podcaster Joe Rogan. "The President...

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Sports host Pat McAfee started out defending Caitlin Clark, but he ended up defending himself. McAfee was on a tirade Monday about Clark, whose entry into the WNBA has been rough, physically. That was typified by an incident Saturday in which Chicago Sky player Chennedy Carter whacked Clark of the...

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The annual return of so-called "pride" month has made that hideous vice more conspicuous even where it involves nothing LGBT-related. For instance, near the conclusion of a very lengthy segment on Monday's edition of ESPN's "First Take," veteran sports commentator Stephen A. Smith took exception to the tone of a...

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With Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, casting far and wide for a strategy to enhance her image, the possibility is emerging that the TV show that helped make her well-known will have a movie spin-off. On Sunday, several actors from the TV series “Suits” were together at the ATX TV Festival...

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WNBA player Chennedy Carter is going viral for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of her play, and it turns out that she isn't complaining. In the first remarks the Chicago Sky guard made to the media about a hard foul Saturday on Indiana Fever star and...

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Former President Donald Trump is calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his Manhattan business records case, so the Democrat-led state can be stopped from interfering any more in the 2024 election. He's right: Enough is enough. After a six-week trial, 12 New York jurors found Trump guilty Thursday...

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Far-right commentator Alex Jones claimed on Saturday that federal authorities are seeking to shut down InfoWars, his website and talk show, which have been accused of promoting conspiracy theories. “I’ve been under attack. I’ve been gaslit,” Jones said, accusing federal authorities of filing “secret federal filings” that alleged that the...

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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers indirectly clapped back at critics who had accused him of rebuffing former President Donald Trump at Saturday's UFC event. On Sunday, the NFL star posted a photo of himself on Instagram Stories shaking hands with the former president the previous evening, with the caption...

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As an athlete, is it better to go down in history for your playing prowess or for your ability to cause trouble? One would think this would be a rhetorical question, but don't tell that to Angel Reese. In the aftermath of more controversy for the former Louisiana State University...

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Tell us how you really feel, Mr. President. In his most explicit comments targeting former President Donald Trump after his kangaroo court conviction last week in New York City, President Joe Biden told a fundraiser crowd in the swanky New York suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, that the presumptive GOP presidential...

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If there was one quarter from which President Joe Biden didn't need embarrassment at the moment, it's Israel. The Jewish state is supposed to be our ally, which doesn't make the far left happy. Biden pretends at this, but he doesn't pretend very well -- which doesn't make Jewish Democrats...

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For Americans who grew up during an era of relative serenity, some historical questions produced only speculative answers. In other words, our personal experience could not explain why people who lived in strife-filled times behaved as they did. We had theories, of course, based on surviving evidence and an understanding...

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After a hot take on WNBA star Caitlin Clark landed him in hot water, ESPN's Pat McAfee is standing his ground -- mostly. In a social media post after his rant in defense of the Indiana Fever guard, which also referred to her as a "white b****," the controversial ESPN...

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As Israel's war with Hamas continues, the international response is becoming more divisive. The Associated Press reported on Sunday that the Maldives will ban Israelis from entering the country. In 2023, almost 11,000 Israelis visited as the island is known as a resort destination. Islam is the official religion of...

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Talk show host Phil McGraw will interview former President Donald Trump this week and urge the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to forgive his enemies for weaponizing the legal system against him if he is elected in November, the TV mainstay said Monday. Dr. Phil told TMZ that if Trump secures...

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America's two-tiered justice system continues to rear its ugly head. According to the Washington Examiner, 75-year-old Paulette Harlow was sentenced on Friday by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to two years in prison for praying outside of a Washington D.C. abortion clinic four years ago. According to the pro-life group Live Action,...

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A taste of Texas has come a long way and has now shoved Pepsi aside to be the No. 2 soda in America. According to Beverage Digest data, Dr Pepper has inched its way into the second-place spot long held by Pepsi, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The giant...

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A 3-year-old Ohio boy died Monday after he and his mother were stabbed in the parking lot of a grocery store. Margot Wood, 38, and her son, Julian, were shopping at the Giant Eagle in North Olmsted, a suburb southwest of Cleveland, when they were stabbed at about 3 p.m.,...

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If you go back to the same rhetorical well over and over again, you'll end up with less and less water each time. Someone apparently hasn't told Democrats about this bedrock political reality. For instance, take the claim that Donald Trump is an arrant racist. Please. This was suffering from...

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After her ill-advised foray into age-inappropriate sexual politics, children's YouTube star "Ms Rachel" has decided to dig the hole she's found herself in even deeper. Rachel Accurso, whose Toddler Learning YouTube channel has more than 10 million subscribers, turned off many parents with a TikTok video celebrating LGBT "pride" month. “Happy...

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