An Olympic bronze medal was really a sight for one gymnast's sore eye. Brazilian Flavia Saraiva, a 24-year-old member of the Brazilian women's gymnastics team, suffered a brutal eye injury during warm-up rounds Tuesday, according to Fox News. But she managed to recover enough to turn in a performance that...

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Gun-grabbers are being routed as a judge's ruling may upset a decades-old ban on popular sporting rifles. The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan was made using previous Supreme Court decisions as a guide. According to Reason, Sheridan approached two lawsuits challenging New Jersey's ban on so-called assault...

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If there was someone whose response to the Imane Khelif-Angela Carini bout at the Paris Olympics -- and subsequent controversy -- could elicit more outrage and liberal pearl-clutching than the fight itself and subsequent backlash, it's GOP presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump. And lo and behold, he didn't...

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Sure, Angela Carini might have been eliminated from Olympic competition in a contentious bout -- but that doesn't mean that the Italian women's boxer's moment in the spotlight is over. In the hours after her defeat in France at the Paris Games by a woman who was disqualified for a...

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The Olympics, rather predictably, have become ground zero for protecting women in sports -- and, for once, it has nothing to do with a transgender controversy. Instead, it has everything to do with a three-letter acronym, DSD -- or Differences of Sexual Development. As the Cleveland Clinic noted on its...

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The 2024 Paris Olympics continue to be a source of controversy due to Thursday's events, which featured a women's boxing match between Algeria's Imane Khelif and Italy’s Angela Carini. In response many in the sports world spoke out, condemning Khelif's ability to box Carini -- including former UFC Middleweight Champion...

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The Secret Service and the FBI are being tight-lipped about a video that appears to show a figure moving across a building at the July 13 rally minutes before former President Donald Trump was shot. The video was shot by James Copenhaver, who was wounded that day. The video showed...

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After being chosen as former President Donald Trump's running mate for the General Election, CNN is affording J.D. Vance the same treatment they give Trump. On Thursday, Vance spoke to CNN correspondent Steve Contorno. He was asked about Trump's comments concerning the race of his presumptive Democratic opponent for November,...

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Natural tyrants always use language in a way that inverts the plain meaning of their own words. For instance, listen to how casually devotees of the so-called "party of democracy" talked about disregarding the will of voters. In a remarkable 97-second clip posted to the social media platform X on...

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If you're the International Olympics Committee, or a broadcaster, or an amateur athlete, it would ordinarily be good news that people are talking about the quadrennial games. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case in Paris in 2024. From mockery of God to effluence in the Seine disrupting the men's triathlon,...

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Did Vice President Kamala Harris really wear an expensive designer necklace while asking Americans to hand over their hard-earned money? The claim started circulating the internet in June, but it received a big boost in August as a major account on the social media platform X shared the images to...

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With a doping scandal involving Chinese swimmers fresh in the minds of everyone connected to the Olympics, accusations flew after a 19-year-old Chinese swimmer set a world record in the 100-meter freestyle. Pan Zhanle, 19, broke his existing world record by .4 of a second and finished a full second...

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Exceptions do not invalidate rules. Nor do people deserve scolding when they hastily recognize the rule in one of its rare exceptions. Nonetheless, when enough evidence has surfaced to suggest that a case might involve the exception rather than the rule, those who reacted in harshness and haste have a...

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Two-time Paris Olympics gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles was criticized for a foray into politics that appeared to be a jab at former President Donald Trump. In a post on X, Biles responded to a post from Ricky Davila, who wrote, “Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and...

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Thursday's controversy over Algeria's Imane Khelif boxing Italy's Angela Carini continues to spark debate amongst athletes and commentators alike. On Thursday afternoon's episode of "The Pat McAfee Show," host Pat McAfee took to addressing the situation. In just shy of six minutes, McAfee gave a very mild take on the...

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An Olympic swimmer collapsed Friday on the side of the pool and was carried away on a stretcher. Tamara Potocka of Slovakia was stricken after a qualifying heat in the women's 200-meter individual medley, according to ESPN. Potocka was getting out of the pool after the race when she collapsed....

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Two illegal immigrants at the center of an alleged attempt to breach a prominent United States military base have been allowed to post bail, securing their release from jail. The two men, Jordanian nationals Hasan Yousef Hamdan and Mohammad Khair Dabous, were originally arrested on May 3 after an incident...

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If you hope to find true justice anywhere this side of Heaven, you will experience soul-crushing disappointment. Nonetheless, victims' families and the public at large deserve something far more closely resembling justice than what they received on Thursday from District Attorney Steve Wolfson of Clark County, Nevada. According to the...

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A second boxer, who was disqualified by the International Boxing Association during last year's world championships, is going viral for physically pummeling an opponent to tears in a female event at the Paris Games. On Friday, Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting beat Uzbekistani boxer Sitora Turdibekova across three rounds in the...

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There seems to be no end to the Secret Service's incompetence. Just when you think the July 13 shooting of former President Donald Trump couldn't have gone any worse, a new detail proves that it did. A Thursday report from The New York Times offered another one of those details....

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It's looking like at least one member of the Clinton family may make her way into the White House should Vice President Kamala Harris win the upcoming November election. A report indicated, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, is eying the ambassador to the...

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