Midway between the November election and January's inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already signaling that, under his watch, the country is going to be open for business -- and in a big way. In a post on the social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump announced that any entity...

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To say the least, President-elect Donald Trump has earned the benefit of all doubts. On the other hand, millions of MAGA supporters broke from Trump on nearly all things COVID-related, and they should not hesitate to do so again when their beloved president-elect, whom they rightly respect and adore, makes...

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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, wore a suit coat lined with the American flag while on Capitol Hill to meet with senators on Wednesday. As he was walking through a Senate office building hallway, a reporter called out to Hegseth, "What do you hope to...

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Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey said Wednesday the drones sighted over his state are a "clear and present danger" to the country and specifically to President-elect Donald Trump. There have been numerous sightings over the past month, including over 50 drones moving overland from the ocean this...

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We have seen it many times: the mindless, reflexive recitation of a woke catechism that has no basis in reality. Still, the performance feels different now. In fact, it almost seems as if the oblivious performer has somehow traveled to our time from the recent past. Tuesday on social media...

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At a time when the Biden administration is being roundly condemned for the flow of illegal immigrants and other forms of smuggling across the border, the Environmental Protection Agency is trumpeting its action in making one arrest. In its annual report, the EPA said that its enforcement efforts over the...

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Donald Trump Jr. may not be dating Kimberly Guilfoyle anymore, but that hasn't stopped his father from giving the former Fox News star a plum post in his new administration. In a post on X, Guilfoyle -- a former prosecuting attorney who led the fundraising for Trump's 2020 campaign -- announced...

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President-elect Donald Trump has a message for the FBI director leaving Dodge before the new sheriff gets into town: Bon voyage, Chris Wray. In a social media post Wednesday night, shortly after Wray announced -- as expected -- that he was resigning before Trump could fire him, the president-elect called...

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was roasted for posting a creepy Christmas video on X — addressed to his daughter Hope — that featured a shabby angel-tree ornament made of toilet paper. The hilarity unfolded Wednesday, when the failed Democratic vice presidential candidate showed off a scruffy Christmas tree decorated with...

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The sudden and chaotic fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria was, rightly, celebrated by many. What they didn't realize, as the despot fled Damascus for Russia and left his country in a state of anarchic flux, is that -- for many -- the fall of the Assad regime is...

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Four months after Time magazine showed readers a cover bearing a sketch of an idealized Vice President Kamala Harris and the words “Her Moment,” her rival graced the magazine’s cover as its Person of the Year. President-elect Donald Trump won the coveted honor, Time announced Thursday. Before the announcement, Time...

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President-elect Donald Trump made another great pick for his incoming administration. On Wednesday, Trump told his followers on Truth Social that Kari Lake would become the Director of Voice of America. Trump described Lake as, "a beloved News Anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20...

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The attorney for murder suspect Luigi Mangione said so far there is no evidence connecting his client to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. During a Wednesday appearance on “Good Morning America,” defense attorney Thomas Dickey affirmed his position that despite multiple media reports, no legal evidence has been...

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The bill's author described it as simply a message to the NCAA, which sounds somewhat reassuring. Otherwise, it might strike small-government conservatives as a prime example of why they dislike government. Nonetheless, neither the author's stated purpose nor the unlikelihood that the bill will soon become law should distract from...

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It was the kind of slip that would've made Sigmund Freud blush, so of course it came from a Biden. Shockingly, this one didn't come from President Joe Biden, though he was present for the slip. No, dear reader, this slip came from first lady Jill Biden -- and it...

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She should have stopped before "but," but she couldn't -- and her backpedaling wasn't much better. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and one-time presidential contender, found herself under fire this week for comments about the shooting of a health insurance executive that effectively justified cold-blooded murder. And the weakness of...

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It turns out that the polarizing pardon of his son was just the tip of the iceberg. President Joe Biden, with just a little over a month to go before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, just pulled off the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history," according to the...

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Stories like this raise questions of forgiveness and trust. According to The Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook and other social media entities, has departed from its traditional practice by donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund -- something it neglected to...

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A deranged man who shot two kindergartners in California checks all the boxes for the ideal man according to the left. The U.K.'s Daily Mail reported, 56-year-old Glenn Litton walked into Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo, California, on Dec. 4 and shot two children -- a 5-year-old...

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Fans of Fox News' Greg Gutfeld have been wondering where he's gone. For almost three weeks, the acerbic commentator has been MIA from his regular seat on the afternoon talk show "The Five" and his late-night hosting duties on "Gutfeld!," the Gateway Pundit reported. On Tuesday, fans got their answer....

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