Big-time college sports is one step closer to leaving the days of amateur players behind. Judge Claudia Wilken granted preliminary approval to an anti-trust settlement that has the blessing of lawyers representing Division I athletes, the NCAA and its Power Five conferences, according to ESPN. Wilkin had at one point...

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A Virginia family learned more about its past through a rock-hard piece of family history. Way back in the freezer of Linda Wiseman’s mother’s Verona, Virginia, home was an 84-year-old biscuit, according to WHSV-TV. “She was a neat freak and she’d clean things up that didn’t need to be cleaned,...

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A one-month-old baby girl is dead after a bite from one of her family’s dogs. The incident happened Tuesday in Torrance, a southern California community not far from Los Angeles, according to KNBC-TV. Torrance first responders were called to the infant’s home after a report of an animal bite at...

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And so the plot thickens. The New York Jets -- no strangers to controversies big or small -- have found themselves in the headlines again, and for mostly the wrong reasons. Earlier this week, the Jets stunned the league when the team abruptly fired head coach Robert Saleh after a...

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Think of a robot programmed to do nothing but generate hackneyed phrases at random. We might call the device a "platitudinator." Simply push a button on the platitudinator and you will hear one such random phrase after another. A device of this nature could produce mild amusement at parties. The...

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The reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year is taking a slightly different approach to her offseason than most of her peers. While many WNBA stars continue to play more basketball in the offseason, collecting checks in foreign leagues (and sometimes sparking international prisoner swaps), Clark will be plying her trade...

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One of the oldest tropes when it comes to online scamming is the old "Nigerian prince" scam, which saw con artists bilking unsuspecting people by tugging on two emotions: pity and greed. The premise was simple. African royalty needed your help via some sob story, and you were guaranteed untold...

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Jenna Fischer, who appeared on the hit comedy TV series "The Office," revealed some sobering news to fans this week: She's been fighting a life-or-death battle all year. "October is breast cancer awareness month," she posted on Instagram. "I never thought I’d be making an announcement like this but here...

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Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson was carted off the field with a serious injury to his left tibia on a sack of Dallas' Dak Prescott. Hutchinson underwent immediate surgery for a broken tibia at a Dallas hospital, Lions coach Dan Campbell said after Sunday's 47-9 win over the Cowboys....

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U.K. woman Virginia McCullough, 36, received a life sentence after murdering her parents in their home and living with their corpses for four years. McCullough killed the couple at their home in Great Baddow, Essex, in 2019, The Guardian reported. She then stashed their bodies in the house and continued...

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Dallas Cowboys' home games in 2024 tend to produce the same kinds of reactions as Vice President Kamala Harris' interviews. You have seen the train wreck before, so it looks familiar, and yet somehow it still manages to astonish you. In the waning moments of the Detroit Lions' 47-9 thrashing...

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Details regarding one of the worst-kept secrets of the 2024 election cycle continue to trickle out of the White House. In short, President Joe Biden and those closest to him still resent his unceremonious dismissal from the top of the Democratic presidential ticket in July, when party leaders carried out...

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Neither Democratic Party elites nor their establishment-media minions have any idea how insufferable a majority of men find them. Sunday on CNN, conservative commentator Scott Jennings tried to explain why, after years of foolishly alienating working-class American men, Vice President Kamala Harris and her fellow Democrats astonishingly lame recent efforts...

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A man with multiple guns was arrested outside of Saturday’s Trump rally in Coachella Valley, California, but the reason he had them is in dispute. “I truly do believe we prevented another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said, according to the New York Post. But Vem Miller of...

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Drone swarms are buzzing about sensitive American military sites, and so far no one knows who is sending them or how to stop them. Late last year, for 17 consecutive evenings, drones buzzed about over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, according to the Wall Street Journal. Air Force Gen....

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Vice President Kamala Harris should’ve thought twice before claiming that former President Donald Trump is hiding from the American people during remarks she shared recently in North Carolina. Perhaps she made that mistake because Trump is moving too fast for her to catch. The Republican presidential candidate's campaign is all...

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Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized parts of her  2009 book “Smart on Crime,” according to a conservative activist. “Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia. We have the...

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Seeking to portray Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as the kind of guy hunters can relate to, the Harris-Walz campaign pumped out a video showing Walz off to hunt. The video was taken on the opening day of pheasant season in Minnesota, according to CBS News....

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The pervasiveness of woke ideology in the minds of affluent liberals runs deeper than many Americans know. Until you have lived and worked among them, or at least until you have immersed yourself in their writings, you can have no idea how ingrained and thus reflexive those liberals' group identity-based...

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