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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Jack Smith Gives Telling Non-Answer When Asked the Key Trump Question During Deposition
"He used that level of distrust to get people to believe fraud claims that weren't true. He made false statements to..."
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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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Watch: ESPN Anchor Unable to Hide His Disgust When Network Shows Two Men Kissing
Social media had an absolute field day when a clip of ESPN's Scott Van Pelt reacting to a New Year's montage went viral.
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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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Bill Maher and John Stamos Agree: People with Trump Derangement Syndrome Are the Problem
Bill Maher and John Stamos both offered a message for those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome: Let it go.
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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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At Least It Wasn't Snakes: Disney Employee Injured After Errant 'Indiana Jones' Boulder Falls off Track
"We were sitting there and didn’t know what was going on, then all of the sudden a worker named Robert stepped in front and saved us ..."
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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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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Copies One of Trump's Signature Policies
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that she will be following suit with one of President Donald Trump's signature policies.
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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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Another Self-Driving Car Goes Rogue in California: Taxi Drives Passenger Into Active L.A. Fire Scene
Uh-oh ... If humans can get tickets but robots can't, who is really running the show? Who's in charge here?
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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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Historic Amsterdam Church Burns as 'Unprecedented' New Year's Eve Violence Grips the City
A historic church, which has been around for 154 years, was engulfed in flames amid a larger pattern of destruction.
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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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Happy New Year: Pentagon Ends 2025 with a Bang, Hits Narco-Terrorists Whose Drugs Will Not Kill Americans This Year
The Pentagon gave 2025 an explosive ending by sinking multiple drug-smuggling boats, killing more narco-terrorists.
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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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Numbers Don't Lie: CNN, MSNBC Ratings Flip Upside Down from Trump's First Term to Trump 2.0
Fox News reigned supreme in 2025 with an average prime-time audience of 2.76 million, up 11 percent, while MSNBC and CNN struggled.
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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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Mamdani Gives His Fans Taste of What They Voted For With Inaugural 'Block Party' That Shows Them What Socialism Really Is
"It’s definitely not a block party," one disappointed person who attended the affair said. He was hardly alone in that assessment.
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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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Incoming Dem Virginia Governor Appoints DEI Director Who Cheered on Destroying the Constitution
Spanberger announced the appointment of Dr. Sesha Joi Moon to serve as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s chief diversity officer.
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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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Texas Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of Police Officer Who Shot Armed Man
The DA is a George Soros-funded leftist. This isn't the first time his prosecutions have made waves nationally for the wrong reasons.
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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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Dozens Presumed Dead, 100 Injured in New Year's Celebration at Swiss Alps Bar
The Crans-Montana resort's crowded Le Constellation bar morphed from a scene of revelry into the site of one of Switzerland’s worst tragedies.
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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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Fact Check: Did Kash Patel Admit to Deleting a Huge Chunk of the Epstein Files?
"Reporters looked up. Other committee members leaned forward. Patel's smile faded, but he maintained his composure," the video claimed.
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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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More Minnesota Madness: SBA Now Stepping In to Block Borrowers Over Suspected Fraud
"Pending further review, SBA is freezing all grant funding to the state in order to stop the rampant waste of taxpayer dollars..."
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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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'We Are Locked and Loaded': Trump Sends Powerful Message to Iran Over Violent Protest Response
"We distinguish between the stance of the protesting shopkeepers and the actions of disruptive actors, and Trump should know..."
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Actor and musician Will Smith is facing a new legal challenge after a lawsuit was filed alleging misconduct described by the plaintiff as “grooming,” claims that have quickly drawn public attention due to their severity. The suit was filed before the new year in Los Angeles, according to Fox News....
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Will Smith Sued Over Shocking 'Grooming' Allegations
"Smith and Plaintiff began spending additional time alone, with Smith even telling Plaintiff that ‘You and I have...'"
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With a single sentence at his New Year's Day inauguration, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani managed to confirm the very fears his defenders spent months dismissing. Mamdani, sworn in on a trio of Qurans, covered a litany of topics in his inauguration speech, with none of it especially surprising...
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Watch: Mamdani's Opening Salvo as Mayor Slams American 'Individualism,' Praises 'Collectivism'
For anyone worried about Zohran Mamdani bringing communism to New York City... These remarks aren't going to help.
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The Small Business Administration is coming down hard on Minnesota companies suspected of fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, according to SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler. “Over the last week, SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP and EIDL loans approved in Minnesota,”...
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Small Business Administration Comes Down on 6,900 Minnesota Borrowers Suspected of Fraud
The Small Business Administration has found a river of fraud running through two pandemic-era programs in Minnesota.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wiped away executive orders from former Mayor Eric Adams that supported Israel in a flurry of executive orders issued on the first day on his administration. Mamdani signed three executive orders related to increased housing affordability hours after being sworn in, according to WPIX-TV....
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Mamdani Signs Five Executive Orders on His First Day in Office, Including One Aimed Squarely at Eric Adams
New York City's Muslim mayor Zohran Mamdani raised hackles by wiping away orders from Mayor Eric Adams that supported Israel.
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A suspected terrorist sympathizer who allegedly planned to ring out the old year in blood is spending the first days of the new year behind bars. The man, identified as 18-year-old Christian Sturdivant of Mint Hill, North Carolina, was arrested by the FBI after planning a New Year's Eve attack...
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Breaking: FBI Reportedly Foils ISIS-Linked New Year's Eve Terror Attack
"He was preparing for jihad, and innocent people were going to die. And we were very, very fortunate they did not."
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