Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley reportedly told members of Congress during a closed-door briefing Thursday that the second strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug-running boat in September was justified. Ahead of the briefing, The Wall Street Journal reported, Bradley, the senior commander of the operation in the Caribbean, planned to "say...

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Actress Halle Berry indicated that California Gov. Gavin Newsom will not be receiving her support if he runs for president in 2028, given his recent veto of legislation that she supports. Berry, founder of the menopause care company Respin, called out Newsom's decision to veto AB 432, the Menopause Care...

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Democrats might finally win a civil war in Virginia -- at least for now. The political party that seceded from the Union to keep American blacks enslaved in defiance of a Republican president in the 19th century is taking a new tack in the Old Dominion to defy a Republican...

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A U.S. Marine has died following a training accident at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California. According to Fox News, the incident occurred during a “tactical vehicle mishap” around 1:45 p.m. local time Wednesday. Officials with the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) confirmed that the Marine was taking...

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ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith stormed onto "The View" this week, not for entertainment, but to confront a dangerous lapse in judgment. The well-deserved target: Sunny Hostin. The spark was a video from the "Seditious Six," spearheaded last month by Sen. Elissa Slotkin and also including Sen. Mark Kelly and...

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The man accused of planting pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees on Jan. 6, 2021, battled the Department of Homeland Security during President Donald Trump’s first term, according to a new report. Brian Cole, Jr., 30, was arrested Thursday. The report from the Daily...

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Young Americans are increasingly turning away from the traditional two‑party system in Washington, signaling a broader generational shift in political trust and identity. A recent poll by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School confirmed deepening frustration among those between 18 and 29 across economic, social, and political dimensions....

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Maurice DuBois, long the face of CBS’ evening broadcast, is out -- and the exit has triggered a scramble for a replacement as CBS undergoes a high-stakes overhaul under Bari Weiss. CBS insiders told the New York Post that the decision to cut DuBois was apparently underway before he went...

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Democrats in California are eating their own as the 2026 governor’s race grows increasingly chaotic. (Incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom is term-limited and many expect him to enter the presidential race in 2028.) The latest poll from Emerson College shows former Rep. Katie Porter slipping after Rep. Eric Swalwell entered the...

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A Virginia-based laboratory has agreed to pay $758,000 to resolve allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme with doctors and marketers, highlighting ongoing concerns about financial incentives in healthcare. The laboratory, NEXT Bio-Research Services LLC (doing business as NEXT Molecular Analytics), is settling claims under the False Claims Act....

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Not that we're keeping score -- although the establishment media certainly does -- but one would not have had money on the fact that the man who allegedly put pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters set to explode on Jan. 6, 2021 had more ties to...

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Mainstream media unwritten rule No. 3,459: When in doubt, just say the suspect in a politically loaded crime is a white man. In fact, even when not in doubt, you can probably get away with it. Lest you needed any evidence for the validity of this unwritten rule, I refer...

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Thursday night saw the lighting of the national Christmas tree from the White House by President Donald Trump along with First Lady Melania Trump. Although this tradition has been going on for more than 100 years, Trump's speech at the ceremony was an exceptional one for our time. The president...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday handed Republicans a major victory in the multi-state chess game of redrawing congressional district lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Earlier this year, Texas approved a new map that -- based on existing enrollments -- would create five districts where Republicans are likely to...

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GLAAD’s annual “Where We Are on TV” report offers a clear picture of the state of LGBT representation on television: It’s shrinking. The group is sounding the alarm after finding that 41 percent of LGBT characters counted this year will not return to screens next season. The reason is simple....

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Sports analyst Stephen A. Smith gave the ladies of "The View" and other Democrats a hard dose of reality when it comes to why they're losing elections. ABC's daytime talk show morphed into less of a program for political and socially curious housewives and more of a humiliation ritual that...

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Amid controversy over a September attack on a narco-terrorist boat carrying drugs, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not backing down. Hegseth has been at the center of a Beltway brouhaha ever since allegations emerged that he ordered survivors of a Sept. 2 attack on a drug-smuggling boat to be...

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Outrage sizzled across social media Thursday night after Dallas Cowboys fans argued that referees handed the Detroit Lions a 44-30 victory. As noted by the Sporting News, Dallas was on the move in the fourth quarter as quarterback Dak Prescott tried to connect with tight end Jake Ferguson in the...

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President Donald Trump received the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize Friday, marking the first time the global soccer organization has issued such an award. The Trump War Room account announced the news on X with a video showing the trophy and wrote that Trump had been honored “for ending nearly nine...

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Say what you will about Stephen A. Smith, but at least the man concedes to reality when reality has a W. On his Thursday podcast, Smith -- the ESPN personality who many less-insane Democrats somehow think is an outsider chance for president in 2028, because their party isn't nuts enough...

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What did they expect? After all, affluent socialists must virtue-signal to bring meaning to their empty lives. They cannot help themselves. According to the New York Post, Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani of New York City told reporters at a news conference in Manhattan Thursday that he plans to reverse...

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