Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has surrendered. Ending months of back-and-forth, Psaki has agreed to be interviewed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee as it investigates the August 2021 U.S. exit from Afghanistan, according to Axios. The committee's chairman, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, has said the...

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There are two views of President Joe Biden's performance in Thursday night's presidential debate, one good and one bad. The good take is that it was bad. Very bad, in fact. The bad take is that it was disqualifying. Pundits spent the hours following the debate emphasizing how many key...

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It's now Tuesday, the better part of a week after the debate debacle Thursday that raised the questions of 1) whether President Joe Biden could be replaced atop the Democratic presidential ticket and 2) who would replace him. Vice President Kamala Harris would be the obvious choice, except for the...

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In a perfect follow-up to 2023's blockbuster film "Sound of Freedom," Angel Studios is releasing "Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot" on July 4. The movie is about Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, a congregation in East Texas where 22 families adopted 77 of the most difficult to...

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A frantic search for two missing firefighters from coastal Georgia ended tragically over the weekend, hundreds of miles away in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains. Raegan Anderson and Chandler Kuhbander -- both 24 and working for the Liberty County, Georgia, Fire Department -- were a former couple who had been romantically involved...

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Billionaire X owner Elon Musk delivered an epic smackdown to Vice President Kamala Harris after she got caught lying about former President Donald Trump's stance on abortion. The incident unfolded after Harris falsely claimed in a post on X post that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee "would ban abortion nationwide."...

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It amounts to a Band-Aid on a wound that requires a tourniquet. But at least someone in power wants to do something. Thursday on the social media platform X, Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas predicted that the state legislature will pass "Jocelyn's Law," a bill named for 12-year-old...

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Cable TV giant Spectrum is raising its rates. CNET reported the move Sunday, citing a Reddit post from a person claiming to be a Spectrum employee. Spectrum confirmed to the tech site that rates are increasing this month but did not offer details. The Reddit post said the base price...

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It appears China is accelerating its cooperation with another communist regime, exploiting the socialist connection to establish and expand espionage installations just a stone's throw from the United States. While these sites have existed for a number of years in Cuba, new construction is being reported some 70 miles from...

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June marked three years since President Joe Biden announced the National Month of Action, an initiative to vaccinate 70 percent of U.S. adults with a COVID-19 shot by July 4, 2021. Later that year, Biden mandated that employers with 100 or more employees have their workers "fully vaccinated" or tested...

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The U.S. has gone from "All the President's Men" to all the president's mental lapses. Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter who wrote his way into history covering the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration a half-century ago, put a nail in the coffin of another White House cover-up...

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Reverberations from the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on presidential immunity are shaking plans for former President Donald Trump’s scheduled July 11 sentencing for his conviction on falsifying business records. On Tuesday, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said it will not oppose a request from Trump’s lawyers...

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A disturbing discovery among a pack of feral wolf-dog hybrids led to the rescue of an elderly woman and the arrest of one man. The situation unfolded last month when the Davidson County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina launched an investigation into alleged animal cruelty and elder abuse. The investigation...

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A nationwide effort led by the U.S. Marshals Service in partnership with multiple agencies has recovered 200 of what the Marshals Service called “critically missing" children. "Operation We Will Find You 2," the agency’s second nationwide missing child effort, took place from May 20 to June 24 in regions across...

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Trump Derangement Syndrome has all the qualities of a powerful addiction. Like many addicts, TDS-afflicted liberals in the establishment media need ever-stronger rhetorical drugs to reach the same exhilarating heights. On Tuesday, HuffPost satisfied its junkie-like craving for continually-escalating anti-Trump hatred by publishing a "dangerous" headline that prompted social media...

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The Democrats have created a monster -- one that is no longer able to be controlled. His name is President Joe Biden. Once a puppet designed for the purpose of delivering permanent control of our nation to the left, Biden has seemingly gone rogue. He now believes that he is...

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NFL fans should prepare themselves for another season of touchdowns, player arrests and Taylor Swift -- if a new report about her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is accurate. If you had asked many fans of professional football last season during the height of the attention...

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In light of President Joe Biden's abysmal showing at the first presidential debate of 2024, many within his own party have called for the octogenarian to step down as a candidate, so a more capable person may run. Unfortunately for Democrats, the potential intraparty succession promises to be anything but...

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A Tennessee woman who was fired from her job for refusing her company’s un-American COVID-19 vaccine mandate two years ago is getting the last laugh after a federal court awarded her a major cash payout last week. When the country’s big businesses, corporate media, cretins in science and tech and...

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ESPN is finally responding to the intense backlash the network has faced in recent days. The backlash came from its choice for the Pat Tillman Award at this year's ESPY's -- none other than royal family member Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Tillman, who played safety for the NFL's...

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