Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon simply could not fathom news of President-elect Donald Trump becoming Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." On Thursday's episode of "The Don Lemon Show" posted to his YouTube channel, Lemon displayed the Time cover picturing Trump while lashing out at the magazine's choice in a tirade....

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The picturesque sight of snow blanketing a Maine town became something far less attractive. On Tuesday, residents of Rumford found that instead of fluffy white stuff covering yards and fields, they looked upon brown snow, according to WJW-TV The town posted an explanation on Facebook, saying the local paper mill...

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Outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler apparently has issued a monetary settlement demand on billionaire Elon Musk, threatening charges if he does not comply. Musk posted a letter Thursday stating the charges that would be brought by Chairman Gary Gensler's SEC date back to the businessman's 2022 purchase...

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Kids say the darnedest things, though sometimes they hear those things first from adults. For instance, when a child corrects an adult's woke nonsense, we may speculate that another adult in that child's life probably has done something similar. During a "Toys for Tots" event Friday at the White House,...

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Crystal Mangum, who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2006, confessed that she lied and asked for the men's forgiveness. Mangum made the admission to podcast host Katerena DePasquale in an interview published on Thursday. DePasquale conducted the sit-down at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for...

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A Canadian mayor is facing the consequences for refusing to bow at the "pride" altar. The Toronto Sun reported Saturday that Emo Township Mayor Harold McQuaker was fined $5,000 by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario for comments made in 2020 opposing a request for the town council to declare...

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Daniel Penny has accepted an invitation from fellow Marine Corps veteran and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance to attend Saturday's Army-Navy game taking place in Maryland. A New York jury found Penny not guilty on Monday of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway....

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A former governor of Maryland has lambasted the federal government’s state of denial over reports of drones hovering in the skies of several states. Since mid-November, New Jersey residents have complained that frequent recurring drone activity had invaded their peace of mind. Connecticut residents have also said they are spooked...

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As drones buzz above the East Coast with no real explanation of where they're coming from, there's more alarming news out of President Joe Biden's outgoing administration: They can't really do anything about them. In an interview on CNN Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that no...

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Mayor Michael Melham ordered first responders to wear HAZMAT suits and to call the bomb squad should one of the mysterious drones drop from the New Jersey sky. Since the week before Thanksgiving, residents across several New Jersey counties have reported sightings of mysterious large drones hovering in the night,...

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Full disclosure: I didn't make it past the first round of my third-grade spelling bee. Oh, sure, I had my revenge. I was school champion of the sixth-grade geography bee and got knocked out at the state level -- but being the competitive type, not making it to the school...

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The man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a customer of the mammoth insurance company. UnitedHealth Group issued a statement saying Luigi Mangione, 26, was never insured by the company, said, according to NBC. New York Police Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that a review...

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Maybe the executives at Google should have done a search on "Bud Light" before introducing its new Christmas advertisement. Alas, marketing executives in Big Tech are still as dense as Alyssa "Fratty" Heinerscheid, the genius behind the Dylan Mulvaney marketing campaign that managed to shed massive amounts of market share...

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Fearing that instability in Syria will evolve into persecution, some Druze communities in the Syrian part of the Golan Heights are asking for Israel to annex their towns. Videos have emerged from the village of Hader begging Israel to intervene, according to the Jerusalem Post. In the videos, one man...

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President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the FBI knows firsthand what kind of abuses the once-respected law enforcement agency can inflict. Back in the heady days of 2017, when the anti-Trump "Russia collusion" hoax was still gathering strength in Washington, D.C., Kash Patel was on the staff of the Republican-led...

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The FBI released a wanted poster Thursday after 14 North Koreans were indicted for fraud and theft against U.S. companies and nonprofits, according to an FBI news release. The bounty? $5 million. It's a small sum compared to the $88 million the alleged criminals stole during their six-year conspiracy. The...

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When Missouri man Travis Timmerman stopped talking with his family for seven months, a Syrian prison was the last place they thought he'd be. Syrian officials captured him earlier this year entering the country on foot during a Christian pilgrimage to Damascus, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Timmerman was freed along...

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Three days. That's how long a satanic statue lasted in front of the State House in Concord, New Hampshire. The robed Baphomet's legs remained standing, but its upper half had been severed and its head removed. Its accompanying panel featuring the Satanic Temple's seven tenets had also been shattered, New...

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Voluntary euthanasia in Canada led to more than 15,000 deaths in 2023, according to a government report. The procedures made up 4.7 percent of deaths in Canada last year, new government data shows, according to the BBC. The report put the mean age of those who died via assisted suicide...

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Christian history was made Tuesday as a Nativity scene was displayed at the U.S. Capitol for the first time. The event on the southeastern steps was the result of a federal court ruling in May that said the Capitol steps were a public area, meaning that public expressions of faith...

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A Florida high school student's life was cut short after a fatal hunting accident on Sunday. Malachi Lancaster, 18, was a senior football player at Newberry High School in Florida, according to WCJB-TV. Lancaster was also the school's homecoming king this year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, who...

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