President Joe Biden's prisoner exchange of a basketball player for an internationally infamous Russian arms dealer isn't sitting well with many Americans, including Twitter CEO Elon Musk. The White House yesterday announced the deal, in which the U.S. will receive WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was jailed on drug charges,...

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A new round of confusion is emerging in the quadruple murder case in Idaho, concerning a report that one door to the house where four college students were murdered was open hours after the killing. Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho, and Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho;  junior...

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Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate and former news anchor Kari Lake said she would be inclined to refuse release from a Russian prison if the U.S. were trading someone like the "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout to get her free. There seems to be a pretty wide consensus that the Biden...

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It took barely one minute Thursday to bring White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to a boil after one reporter refused to stop asking a question. The reporter, who was identified by Mediaite as Simon Ateba, the chief White House correspondent for Today News Africa, took advantage of a momentary...

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And another one bites the dust. Sir Elton John has joined the ranks of the thin-skinned celebrities who cannot bear to remain on a social media platform that doesn't censor users with whose worldviews they disagree. The Grammy winner made the announcement Friday in the same ironically unaware fashion in...

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WNBA star Brittney Griner committed a crime -- and what's more, she did it in a hostile nation where the justice system, such as it is, does not deal with individuals dispassionately or fairly. We know she committed a crime because she's said as much. Unless we discover the statements...

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Everyone has heard the adage about the guy who brought a knife to a gunfight. But recently, the BlazeTV show "Rick and Bubba" mined the archives for the cautionary tale of a man who allegedly tried to pilfer a gun at concealed carry class and then stabbed a police officer...

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Shortly after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, the billionaire entrepreneur pledged to release internal documents that would reveal how Twitter engaged in free speech suppression under previous ownership. The files were released to two independent journalists for review, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. On Dec. 2, Taibbi published the first...

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Apparently, if you're an American and you get caught with vape pens full of hash oil at a Russian airport at a time of heightened tensions with the Kremlin, President Joe Biden's administration will jump-to in order to ensure you're released. You may even be traded for a murderous arms...

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WNBA star Brittney Griner crossed paths with convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death," during their prisoner swap at an airport in the United Arab Emirates Thursday. In February, Griner was detained at a Moscow airport after Russian customs officials said they found cannabis vape...

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A 20-second video clip destroys the harebrained, left-wing narrative being rabidly pushed by transgender activists that gender is a social construct and not a biological reality. Twitter user Zelda Webb posted a video with the sarcastic caption, "Nature being transphobic." The clip succinctly illustrates one of the many, irrefutable biological...

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Just when we thought America's opioid crisis couldn't get much worse, we learn that the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine, known on the streets as "tranq," has made its way into the drug supplies of U.S. cities in recent years. Drug dealers have begun cutting fentanyl and heroin with xylazine, and one...

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The nation of Peru has been plunged into political crisis after socialist president Pedro Castillo was removed from office by the Peruvian Congress. The Congress removed Castillo after he attempted to dissolve the legislative body and institute an emergency government; actions that have been labeled an attempted coup. According to...

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The Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would codify gay marriage into federal law, successfully passed the House of Representatives on Thursday with bipartisan support. Thirty-nine Republicans voted for the bill's passage, while Democrats were unanimous in their support. The final count was 258-169. The record of votes can...

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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Thursday evening that she was leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent. In an interview with Politico, however, she said that she had no plans to caucus with the Republican Party, meaning that not much was expected to be different in the Senate...

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Thefts from Walmart stores have been increasing and loose prosecution practices in some places may be to blame. "If that’s not corrected over time, prices will be higher and/or stores will close,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon told CNBC. Walmart, which has a reputation for strict in-store security, has increased those...

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A massive mall near Moscow was destroyed by fire early Friday. One person was killed in the blaze. Four days earlier, explosions took place at two military installations in Russia in what was suspected to be an attack by Ukraine, according to The Washington Post. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which investigates large-scale...

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Elon Musk revealed on Friday that the head of Twitter's "trust and safety" team was the company's de facto CEO before Musk's acquisition of the social media platform in October. Musk was referring to former Twitter employee Yoel Roth. He confirmed that Roth was Twitter's "real CEO" in response to...

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As Elon Musk continues to reveal the inside discussions and practices of Twitter before he became its chief, we are seeing more evidence that the leftists running the social media giant worked to shore up Democrats and suppress Republicans. We aren't just seeing how pre-Musk Twitter quashed center-right users and...

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What do you think of when you think of the U.S. military? If you’re like millions of other Americans, as well as citizens of the nations with whom we were allied in World Wars I and II, you probably think of troops of swashbuckling heroes saving the world from megalomaniac...

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The latest example of a vote hand-count showing the machine count was wrong occurred in Iowa and resulted in Republican candidate Luana Stoltenberg toppling Democrat Craig Cooper in a state House race. WQDA-TV reported on election night that Stoltenberg had won her race by 29 votes. Given the razor-tight result,...

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