When it comes to Senate bloviating, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse is among the worst of a bad company. A political party that has lost its hold on the White House and its Senate majority has been reduced to what amounts to catcalling from the sidelines as the second Trump administration forms, trying...

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Senior fire officials in Los Angeles were involved in a legal battle mere weeks or even days before the deadly wildfires broke out and caused significant damage in the area. Jenny Park, who formerly worked as fire administrator for the Los Angeles Fire Department, asserted in a legal complaint that...

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President-elect Donald Trump plans to initiate a large immigration raid in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, marking the first effort toward implementing mass deportations of illegal immigrants. The massive operation in the Windy City will involve between 100 and 200 United States Customs and Immigration Enforcement officers, according to a Friday...

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Ah, Massachusetts. The only state to vote for George McGovern, arguably the most extreme Democratic nominee ever, in the 1972 presidential election. The state that has given us way more Kennedys than we actually need. And the state where the first woman to openly identify herself as a "nonbinary lawmaker"...

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A federal judge in Texas ruled against American Airlines after the company centered employee retirement plans on environmental, social, and governance factors, also known as ESG. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor concluded on Jan. 10 that American Airlines failed to exercise its fiduciary duty to make investment decisions for retirement...

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Pam Shriver, a former professional tennis player and Hall of Fame member, had her car stolen near Los Angeles this week, along with several major trophies from her illustrious athletic career. Shriver took her Dodge Durango Hellcat to flee from the Pacific Palisades fire, parking the vehicle overnight in the...

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A teenager in Australia died during the Christmas holiday three years ago after consuming copious amounts of alcohol, prompting a coroner to rebuke his parents in an assessment of the incident. The now-deceased 16-year-old and his parents were at his aunt’s home in the northern part of Victoria on Christmas...

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A K9 service dog was shot twice while hunting down a suspect in Houston, Texas, as shown in a viral video of police rushing their canine colleague to get medical help. Rocky, a 1 1/2-year-old Belgian Malinois who serves alongside the U.S. Marshals, was helping officers on Wednesday track down...

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The Green Revolution has decided that nature needs to go, and some residents of Nevada and California are up in arms about it. “Let’s destroy the environment to save the environment. That seems to be the mentality,” Deric English, who teaches at Boron Junior-Senior High School in California said about...

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Los Angeles-area residents who survived wildfires still need to worry about the second half of the one-two punch aimed at the region. An illustration of what could be in store took place when a Pacific Palisades house that was spared by the fires broke into two parts after a mudslide...

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After nearly two weeks, firefighters in Los Angeles announced Friday that they were seeing the "light at the end of the tunnel" in fighting the blazes that have consumed much of Southern California. What does this entail? Well, according to The Wall Street Journal, the two biggest fires haven't grown...

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Along the way to CNN losing a major defamation lawsuit, the attorney representing the network received a blistering rebuke from the Florida judge overseeing the case. Zachary Young, who is a security consultant, sued the network alleging CNN “destroyed his reputation and business” by branding him an “illegal profiteer” who...

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Who would have thought that an activist with an organization famous for grifting off of the largesse of donors would get elected to mayoral office and start allegedly grifting with his city's finances? Meet Khalid Kamau, mayor of South Fulton, Georgia. He's also known as "Mayor Kobi" for reasons inexplicable...

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As if there weren't enough outrages coming out of California to keep most keen observers livid, consider this: A fire prevention project at a state park currently in the midst of the Palisades blaze was stopped due to environmental concerns about a shrub. According to reports from 2019 and 2020,...

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A shoe store owner in Fresno, California, has learned the hard way to implement some creative solutions to lessen the impact of smash-and-grab robberies on his business. Roman Gonzales, who owns the store DripOnDrip, experienced a break-in shortly before the new year. After a car smashed through the window of...

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Actor Mel Gibson recently gave podcaster Joe Rogan a glimpse into his upcoming film "The Resurrection of the Christ." During an interview that aired on Jan. 9, which was more than 2 hours long, the pair covered numerous subjects, one of them being Gibson's sequel film to his controversial 2004...

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It's every thief's worst nightmare: a concerned citizen brave enough to step in. And for one unlucky alleged jewelry thief in Caraguatatuba, Brazil, it's a nightmare he'll never forget. Security camera footage showed the painful moment a man Hulk-smashed the unwary crook to the ground. The violent incident occurred Jan....

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Pro tip for parents: If you're going to complain about your kids being fed softcore BDSM pornography in their kindergarten class, be sure not to swear. There are sensitive ears around. Not the kids' ears, mind you, but the adult ears in the school board meeting. That's who they're concerned...

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has adopted a new look and seems to have embraced a new set of values after Election Day. But how believable is any of it? The tech billionaire made an appearance on an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" posted to Spotify on Jan. 10. Zuckerberg...

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As 15-year-old Maria Duarte struggled to stay afloat off the coast of Brazil, all she could do was pray. On that fateful day, Jan. 10, Duarte had been swimming alone near Praia do Olho Beach in São Luis, Maranhão, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. Eventually, the South Atlantic began...

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A children's book author is getting an unhappy ending — in the Florida Department of Corrections. Jennifer Wolfthal will serve 12 years in prison after a plea agreement this week in a case involving the abuse of her three adopted children, Fox News reported Friday. Her husband, Joseph Wolfthal, will...

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