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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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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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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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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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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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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Two mountain lions were euthanized in Colorado after what officials believe was a fatal mountain lion attack on a woman. On Thursday at about 12:15 p.m., hikers spotted a mountain lion near the body of a woman on the Crosier Mountain trail in Larimer County. The animal was chased away...

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Victoria Jones, the daughter of Hollywood icon Tommy Lee Jones, was found dead Thursday in a San Francisco hotel. The San Francisco Fire Department responded at 2:52 a.m. to the Fairmont San Francisco, a 5-star luxury hotel, according to TMZ. Upon the arrival of the paramedics, Victoria Jones, 34, was...

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Trinidad Chambliss, senior quarterback for the Ole Miss Rebels, has both NFL-caliber talent and wisdom beyond his years. In an on-field interview with ESPN's Laura Rutledge following his team's thrilling 39-34 win over the Georgia Bulldogs in Thursday's Sugar Bowl -- a game in which he played like a future...

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"There is nothing new under the sun," a wise king once wrote. And the inauguration of Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City on Thursday is proving the point. Further, the wardrobe choices of his wife, Rama Duwaji, are only amplifying the point even more. Mamdani boldly...

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has come under attack for nullifying pro-Israel executive orders signed by former Mayor Eric Adams. As noted by the Daily News, one overturned order adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. Another Adams order sent to the trash heap sought to oppose...

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An off-duty ICE agent who confronted a gunman at an apartment complex on New Year's Eve ended up being targeted by three shots from the gunman's rifle, according to news reports. The agent was uninjured. The gunman ended up dead. NEW: An off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles heard what...

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