It's a lesson many of us learned only after high school: Following the crowd is often a bad idea. But good rules of thumb always have room for exceptions, and when it comes to one particular outdoor trend, doing what everyone else is doing might be the smarter move for...

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A woman in Florida was arrested at the end of last month after accidentally texting a law enforcement officer specializing in tracking down drug offenders. Octavia Wells, 41, was trying to purchase fentanyl before leaving town, so she sent a text message to a number which she thought belonged to...

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Trans women are real women, so the bromide goes. Another bromide: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. One clip making the rounds on social media puts the lie to both of those: No, hell hath no fury like a woman called a trans woman, which indicates there's a...

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An Indian Christian pastor and his wife were released on bail from prison in the country’s Uttar Pradesh state last month, returning home shortly before Christmas as they continue to face accusations of breaking anti-conversion laws. Ashok Yadav, who is a Protestant minister, along with his wife, Phoola Devi, spent...

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Canadian wildlife officials spotted a Steller’s sea eagle thousands of miles away from the massive predatory bird’s native territory. Terra Nova National Park, located in the northeastern Canadian province of Newfoundland, revealed last month in a Facebook post that the area had an “unusual visitor.” The Steller’s sea eagle is “usually...

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Recently released photos from NASA showed the presence of an island that appeared in the Caspian Sea but almost entirely eroded away just a year later. The island emerged from the Caspian Sea after “a mud volcano erupted in early 2023,” according to a report from the NASA Earth Observatory,...

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A whistleblower and U.S. Air Force veteran said he has participated in the recovery of downed aircraft he believes were not created by humans. “Just visually looking at the object on the ground, you could tell that it was extraordinary and anomalous. It was not human,” Jake Barber said this...

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President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the powers of his office in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration. The decision by...

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Outgoing President Joe Biden did not know what he was signing, House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a new interview, pointing to a conversation he had with the outgoing commander-in-chief in January 2024. Johnson told the story in an interview last week with The Free Press. “Can I ask you...

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President-elect Donald Trump will kick off his first day in office by signing 200 executive orders aimed at securing the border, slashing DEI madness, curbing government corruption, and reducing the cost of living for struggling Americans. This is double the number of executive actions he had originally planned. "The president...

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Two words that are central to the American spirit will be at the core of President Donald Trump’s inaugural address Monday as he begins his second term after a triumphant political comeback capped with an overwhelming victory in November’s election. “Common Sense,” the noscript of a pamphlet from firebrand Thomas...

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After he becomes America’s 47th president on Monday in a Capitol rotunda ceremony, President Donald Trump will begin pardoning Americans he believes were wrongfully persecuted in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, demonstration and the Capitol incursion that followed. The pardons have been drafted and await Trump’s signature, CNN...

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If you're a Republican and need a dose of feel-good wholesomeness before the inauguration on Monday, the Trumps and a tenor, who is slated to perform at the Monday ceremony, singing "God Bless America" should amply do the trick. The viral video of the first couple, who returned to the...

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The establishment and its media minions despise President-elect Donald Trump for many reasons. But perhaps the main reason boils down to one simple fact. He exposed them as frauds, smiled while doing it, and thereby became perhaps the coolest man in the world. At the conclusion of a pre-inauguration victory...

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Want evidence that this time around is going to be different for President-elect Donald Trump? Look no further than what he promises to do with the classified files to deal with the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, who returns to the...

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Kentucky Republican State Sen. Michael Nemes filed legislation that would launch a state constitutional amendment process to forbid increases on property taxes for citizens over the age of 65. The proposal, introduced on Jan. 9 and filed as Senate Bill 67, creates a ballot initiative in 2026 that would ask...

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Years of relentless and remorseless dishonesty have cost the establishment media the benefit of any reasonable doubt. Thus, even a potential mea culpa triggers suspicion from conservatives in general -- and supporters of President-elect Donald Trump in particular. And rightly so. Sunday on the social media platform X, Time Magazine...

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Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president using two Bibles at the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Fox News reported that one of the Bibles was one Trump's mother gave him in 1955 to "mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church, in Jamaica, New York,"...

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Former President Joe Biden may have just tipped his hand as to what his political future holds. Biden, despite alleged bad blood with some of his peers and reports of his disgust with his unceremonious ouster from his re-election bid, appears content to stay put. Speaking Sunday -- his last...

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Transcendentalist essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once described "a foolish consistency" as "the hobgoblin of little minds." Two centuries later, those little minds have found a new hobgoblin: President Donald Trump. Sunday on social media, Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, arguably the two littlest...

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If former President Joe Biden cares at all about tarnishing his legacy, he's not showing it as he leaves the White House. Most Americans were aware that the oft-derided ex-president was going to leave office on Jan. 20 after the results of the 2024 general election. What many Americans weren't...

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