There are two kinds of people during Halloween. There are the people who choose the cookie-cutter get-ups available at the big box stores, dressing up as the classics and the most popular modern characters, but then there are some people who really go all out and make their own unique,...

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The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud by a New York jury on Tuesday. As a result, it appears that the Donald Trump-owned company could be forced to pay a fine of roughly $1.6 million. According to The Associated Press, the fine is small considering the company's size....

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A major liberal city is making yet another move that will put even more strain on an already weakened local police force. On Monday, KIRO-TV reported that the Seattle city council approved a budget plan that eliminates 80 vacant police officer positions. This is an attempt at addressing the massive...

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One powerful Twitter employee implicated in the Hunter Biden censorship scandal has a history of official misconduct. James Baker is a former FBI general counsel who was deeply involved in various investigations probing supposed connections between former President Donald Trump and Russia, according to the New York Post. The investigations...

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It was the battle of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, that got the United States officially into World War II. Japan attacked the U.S. naval base with 353 aircraft launched from four heavy aircraft carriers. 3,581 Americans were either killed or wounded, and numerous military aircraft, ships and facilities...

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You've heard it before but hear it again now: The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. Even better? Lots of good guys with guns. According to WTXF-TV, that's a strategy that one Philadelphia gas station owner is sticking with...

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Tech behemoth Meta has threatened to remove all news from its platforms if Congress passes legislation it does not like. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which was introduced by Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, would require tech companies to pay outlets whose news is posted on their platforms....

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Journalist Bari Weiss -- who along with Matt Taibbi, has been tapped by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to publicly release the "Twitter Files" -- was shocked to learn the person in charge of the process at within the company: Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker. He's not to be confused with...

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Three Chicago teens reportedly learned to their sorrow on Monday that there is no age limit on the Second Amendment. A 56-year-old man -- defined as a senior citizen by Illinois law -- was inside his vehicle at about 6 a.m. along the 4700 block of West Arthington Avenue, according...

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Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), a legal scholar who profoundly influenced early America and the Founding Fathers with his commentaries, once wrote the following: "Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation [Scripture], depend all human laws; that is to say, no human law should be...

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Arizona has been going through many troubles lately. From a long-running illegal immigration crisis stemming from the Biden administration's open borders disaster to its ongoing controversies surrounding the Nov. 8 election, the Grand Canyon State is seeing its share of problems. As if things were not bad enough already, on...

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Actress Anne Heche was not driving while impaired by illegal drugs on the day she crashed her car into a Los Angeles-area home, starting a fire that led to her death. Heche, 53, was driving erratically on Aug. 5, striking an apartment building with her small vehicle before driving into...

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A teenage girl suffered self-inflicted wounds Tuesday night at the home of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, leading the family to request privacy. According to KHOU, Houston police responded to the River Oaks home after receiving a call for a "self-inflicted cutting." Police said there was nothing criminal that...

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Evel Knievel would be proud. Action sports driver Travis Pastrana performed a series of high-speed stunts in a video released Tuesday. Pastrana drove an 862-horsepower 1983 Subaru GL Wagon in the "Gymkhana 2022" challenge, according to Car and Driver. The vehicle -- nicknamed "The Family Huckster" -- had been heavily...

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Imagine if a rattlesnake robbed you of your hole-in-one. A western diamondback rattlesnake had to be removed from a Topgolf facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, last month. A snake expert had to be called in to retrieve and remove the reptile after it managed to get inside a golf ball dispenser...

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Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights questioned the woke CEOs of grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons about their proposed $25 billion merger last week. Fearing this deal will "raise prices, cut jobs and exacerbate inequality in food access through the closing of...

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Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs certified her own electoral victory as governor on Monday despite alarming ballot issues that marred Election Day and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the results. Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is challenging the botched election amid numerous documented voter complaints of malfunctioning...

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For demonstrating the truth that courage does not run, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been named Time’s "Person of the Year" -- along with what Time called the “spirit of Ukraine.” “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelenskyy was widely quoted as saying two days after...

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Trying to rein in an economy in which cash still dominates, Nigeria is imposing limits on how much cash its people can withdraw per day from automatic teller machines. In a letter sent to banks on Tuesday, the Central Bank of Nigeria said that as of Jan. 9, the daily...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a "very unusual" investigation into animal testing at Neuralink, a company co-founded by Elon Musk in 2016 to develop devices to be implanted into the human brain to allow it to interface directly with a computer. The investigation into alleged violations of the...

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