Florida legislators are proposing bills that would send paper straws to the shredder. Bills that have been introduced into the state Senate and House for consideration later this month would ban the straws at restaurants and other establishments that sell food, according to Fox News. “Many businesses and communities in...

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The harrowing story of a missing Texas teen appears to be over -- and in the most heartbreaking fashion imaginable. Camila Mendoza Olmos, a 19-year-old from San Antonio, was first reported missing on Christmas Eve. Olmos had gone out for her usual early-morning walk, and much to her family's terror,...

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Former Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona has announced that he will fade away from public life after being diagnosed with dementia. "I was blessed to represent the people of Arizona in Congress and to have numerous other opportunities to contribute to the political and civic life of our...

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President Donald Trump rang in the new year by aiming high -- sky-high, in fact. Asked about his hopes and resolutions for 2026, the president didn’t hedge, pivot, or even needle a rival. Trump went straight for the kind of ambition usually reserved for Christmas cards and beauty pageants: “Peace....

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A 31-year-old Colorado man has been sentenced to 84 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of the sexual exploitation of minors. Austin Ryan Lauless, 31, was sentenced on Dec. 17, according to a Department of Justice news release. In addition to prison time, he faces a lifetime...

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If Jack Smith’s goal was to demonstrate prosecutorial confidence in his Dec. 17 congressional testimony, his answer quite literally did the opposite. Pressed with a straightforward question about evidence tying President Donald Trump to the Jan. 6 incursion, Smith delivered a response so circuitous it practically begged for translation. What...

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Usually, when an ESPN broadcaster goes viral within conservative circles on social media, you can reliably guess why. The liberal network's penchant for platforming the most leftist of leftists is well-documented (as can be seen here, here, and especially here) and not exactly a secret in media watch circles. But...

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Bill Maher and John Stamos both offered a message for those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome: Let it go. On Monday's episode of Maher’s "Club Random" podcast, the host told Stamos, “It is a phenomenon that we have never seen before that one person would dominate just the national debate...

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Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr. (perhaps better known by his nickname of "Indiana") is a very brave and smart person, fictitious though he may be. That doesn't mean Indiana Jones isn't without his deep-seated fears -- most infamously, his aversion to snakes. A close second behind snakes? It's probably a...

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Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that she will be following suit with one of President Donald Trump's signature policy initiatives. "I’m kicking the new year off with a proposal of no state income tax on tips, continuing my efforts to make New York more affordable for hard-working...

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A self-driving taxi darted past emergency flares into an active fire scene, KABC-TV reported Tuesday. The incident involving a Waymo robotaxi took place in Hollywood, California, the news outlet reported. The autonomous vehicle apparently took a wrong turn on Melrose Avenue and entered an area that had been blocked off...

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A historic church on the edge of Amsterdam’s iconic Vondelpark was engulfed in flames early Thursday morning, leaving its tower in ruins and raising alarms across the neighborhood. Meanwhile, emergency responders across the country were pelted with dangerous devices, including fireworks and even gasoline bombs. According to the U.K.'s Telegraph,...

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The old year went out with a bang for American forces waging war on drug shipments that could target Americans. Since early September, the Trump administration has attacked drug-running ships in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, coming at a time when an estimated 1.25 million Americans have died from...

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The country's top liberal cable news outlets found their ratings going in the opposite direction in 2025 compared to President Donald Trump's first term in 2017. By contrast, Fox News reigned supreme last year with an average prime-time audience of 2.76 million, up 11 percent, according to TheDesk.net, a website...

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Attention, Zohran Mamdani voters: Don't say you weren't warned. For like, a century and a half. In the latest example of how socialism fails at even the smallest of matters, fans of the newly minted New York City mayor are apparently unhappy that Mamdani's inaugural "block party" on Monday looked...

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Democratic Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger has appointed a chief diversity officer who previously appeared to agree with comments about parts of the U.S. Constitution needing to be dismantled. Spanberger announced the appointment of Dr. Sesha Joi Moon to serve as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s chief diversity officer and director of diversity,...

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A long-running case of a Texas police officer who fatally shot a man who confronted cops while armed with a knife in 2019 has reached another major milestone -- and a George Soros-funded DA has to be seething. On Tuesday, a Texas appeals court overturned the George-Floyd-era conviction of now-former...

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CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said. Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of...

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The death of Jeffrey Epstein -- and what evidence the disgraced financier and sex trafficker might have left behind -- looms large over American politics. So large, in fact, that when a claim that FBI Director Kash Patel admitted 2.7 terabytes of data related to Epstein was deleted, the video...

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What in the world is going on in Minnesota? Whatever the truth of the matter is, it's got the full attention of President Donald Trump's administration. Late Thursday, the Small Business Administration announced a blistering response to "thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP [Paycheck Protection Program] and EIDL [Economic Injury...

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Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated overnight after President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Tehran over roiling protests in the Islamic Republic. According to the New York Post, economic protests have shaken Iran. The current unrest marks Iran’s most widespread outbreak of public opposition since the...

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