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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President Joe Biden hasn't announced whether he plans to run for re-election in 2024, but he was willing to participate in "a playful toast" Thursday night with his wife and French President Emmanuel Macron at an official state dinner. Officially, according to The New York Times, Biden won't make a...

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Before an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on Monday night, play-by-play announcer Bob Rathbun suffered a medical emergency on live television. The 68-year-old was in conversation with his color commentator when he began to seize up and convulse, causing the camera crew to cut the feed, the New York Post reported....

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The U.S. Navy is addressing a massive drop in recruitment numbers by making a dangerous compromise that could leave the country in a much more vulnerable position. On Monday, USNI News reported that the Navy is lowering admittance requirements for one of its entrance exams. Under the plan, recruits who...

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After the lackluster GOP performance in the 2022 midterms, current RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has faced calls for her resignation and for someone to challenge her. One of the top picks called upon to challenge her was former congressman and New York gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin, who has finally made...

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Wendy Vulpi is a mother from Chapin, South Carolina, who suffered a deep loss when her son was killed in a car accident two years ago. The driver of the other vehicle was impaired, according to WACH-TV in Columbia. This year, Vulpi's son, Nick -- whom she affectionately refers to...

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Remind me never to get on the bad side of the National Border Patrol Council, if only because their Twitter game is on point. On Tuesday, during a visit to north Phoenix to "highlight Arizona's high-tech manufacturing industry," President Joe Biden was asked why he hadn't visited the U.S.-Mexico border...

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