American sprinter Noah Lyles didn’t get what he dreamed of in Thursday’s 200-meter race, but he wore his bronze medal with pride. Lyles had won a bronze in the event in the Tokyo Games and was looking to win a gold medal at Paris. But COVID-19 interfered. On Tuesday, Lyles...

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An athlete has drowned while competing in a CrossFit Games event, with the devastating death playing out a short paddle from the finish line in front of cameras, cheering fans and clueless officials. Lazar Dukic, a 28-year-old Serbian athlete, was competing Thursday at Marine Creek Lake in Fort Worth, Texas,...

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For a brief moment last month, it may have seemed like a battle of billionaires had broken out as a "megayacht" built for the late tech mogul Steve Jobs apparently bumped into another luxury vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. The 78-meter Venus, which now belongs to Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell...

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A disastrous dive cost an American dearly in Paris during Olympic competition. Alison Gibson's feet collided with the diving board in the preliminary round of the women's 3-meter dive, netting her a score of 0.0 and essentially dooming her hopes of a medal in the Summer Games, according to the...

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When megabillionaire Elon Musk drove a global advertising activist group out of business this week, he was putting Donald Trump's tactics into practice. And both men are teaching a lesson to conservatives everywhere: When the right goes on the offensive, the left flees the field. In the Musk case, the...

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Kamala Harris' presidential campaign quietly updated the biography of running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on its website to reflect that he did not retire as a command sergeant major, as it previously said. Politico reported that the campaign website described Walz, a National Guard veteran, as a “retired command...

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin is tightening up Virginia's voting procedures. Cue the raging leftists. The Virginia Republican issued an executive order mandating paper ballots and other protocols meant to ensure free and fair elections in time for the 2024 presidential election. "Today, we issued Executive Order 35, codifying our administration’s model...

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Body camera footage released from the Butler, Pennsylvania, police department includes an officer saying that he had warned the Secret Service four days before former President Donald Trump's rally on July 13 about the danger posed by the building the would-be assassin used. CNN, which secured the footage via a...

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At least one debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will take place before voters go to the polls -- and, during a media briefing Thursday evening, Trump said he hoped there would be many more opportunities for the presumptive Democratic nominee to gaffe away. During...

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Megan, Duchess of Sussex, is being sued by her sister, renewing a years-long court battle over comments Meghan made that Samantha Markle has said defamed her. “Meghan knew what she was doing, and how to do it,” court papers appealing a dismissal of the suit say, according to The Sun....

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An unidentified woman was found dead Thursday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport when police discovered her tangled in baggage processing machinery. The Chicago Fire Department responded at about  7:45 a.m. after a woman was reported to be "pinned in machinery" in the Terminal 5 baggage area, according to WLS-TV. The...

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John the Apostle recorded a promise that allows us to boldly confront the evils of worldliness: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:5) In an interview Thursday with Mike Tirico of NBC Sports, light shone from the face of gold medal-winning U.S....

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The Wildwood Police Department wanted to teach a lesson on the dangers of driving while drunk. It did, but not in the way the New Jersey department had planned. The swerving course of events was recounted by the department on Facebook. “On Tuesday August 6, 2024 the City of Wildwood...

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An Olympic swimmer pulled out of Friday’s 10-kilometer swim rather than face whatever might be lurking in the Seine river. French officials sought to clean up the polluted Seine before the Olympics, but poor water quality has emerged as a theme throughout the Games. “While swimming under the bridge, I...

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Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign is trying its best to avoid the controversy surrounding her VP pick's military service. To no surprise, after the Harris campaign announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday, inquiring minds proceeded to take a fine tooth comb to his record...

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The COVID pandemic of 2020-21 illustrated the Founding Fathers' brilliance in establishing federalism as an antidote to tyranny. In other words, when tyrants gain control of one state government, citizens may flee to a freer state. At a press briefing on Thursday, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida reminded us...

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The Venezuelan-American founder of voting machine company Smartmatic has been indicted by a grand jury on charges relating to an alleged scheme involving the election technology. The grand jury's Thursday decision in the Southern District of Florida means executive Roger Pinate, 49, is now charged with one count of conspiracy...

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Democrats have perfected the most demonic art known to humankind. In short, they do not merely lie. They tell the opposite of the truth. The latest example appeared Friday in the form of a brazen new campaign ad depicting Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee and...

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Vice President Kamala Harris' VP pick for Democratic ticket in November now seems to check all the atrocious left-wing boxes to be a national candidate for the Democratic Party. While Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has lied about his military service, denounced his "white privilege," sung the praises of socialism, and...

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Three Columbia University administrators have resigned after being put on indefinite leave weeks ago for making disparaging comments about Jewish students at the elite college. Susan Chang-Kim, the former vice dean and chief administrative officer; Cristen Kromm, former dean of undergraduate student life; and Matthew Patashnick, former associate dean for...

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A dire warning, the first of its kind, has been issued after a chain of abnormal events. The Japanese Meteorological Agency put out a megaquake alert over the increased risk of a devastating natural disaster. The Thursday warning comes after powerful earthquakes were recorded in the Nankai Trough, a submarine...

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