Three siblings were playing together in their grandma's backyard in El Paso, Arkansas, on Sunday when their world was turned upside-down. "It was the worst day of my entire life ever," grandmother Brenda Hrubes told KARK. As 3-year-old Annsley, 6-year-old Declan, and 10-year-old Aiden enjoyed the outdoors, the neighbor's two...

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Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won a legal victory Friday when the judge overseeing her legal challenge of November's election granted her team access to review ballots cast. Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ordered Maricopa County to grant Lake's lawyers access to inspect 50 randomly selected "ballot-on-demand" printed ballots...

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I do not like Chuck and Nancy, I do not like them stuffing their faces in Hunan Dynasty, I do not like them being sickeningly self-congratulatory, I most certainly do not like CNN's never-ending sycophancy. The above nod to Dr. Seuss is probably more relatable to many Americans than whatever...

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The sixth round of internal Twitter communications released as the "Twitter Files" implicates the FBI in coordinating internet censorship with the platform's former administrators. In the emails, released by journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday, FBI personnel directed Twitter moderators to police accounts and censor content. "Twitter's contact with the FBI...

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California, America's great progressive experiment, seems to be going from bad to worse every single day. But now it looks as though the crisis in California may be reaching a breaking point. In an unprecedented move, one of the state's largest counties has voted to study the idea of secession...

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It appears that we have seen the final episode of “As the Insurrection Turns,” and all that remains is the final report. Although I missed most of the hearings, I did see one episode a couple of months ago. While flipping through the channels, my TV remote took me to...

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Nowadays, there are three main types of Republicans: Only-Trumpers, Never-Trumpers and Maybe-Trumpers. There are subcategories within them, but those are the three principal ones. For Republicans to win in 2024, these three subdivisions must unite. But before we get to that, let’s clarify what each group believes. Only-Trumpers will only...

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Elon Musk is reversing a wave of Twitter suspensions. The megabillionaire and Twitter owner directed the reinstatement of nine accounts which had been suspended from Twitter earlier in the week on Friday night. Musk tweeted a Twitter poll seeking input from the public on reversing the suspensions on Thursday. Unsuspend...

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Twitter restored Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe's account Friday after a suspension that was more than a year and a half long. The move came after the social media platform reinstated Project Veritas' account, along with several others last month, including former President Donald Trump and the satire site Babylon...

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Two unsuccessful candidates in last month’s elections in Arizona are voicing concerns that an increase in the number of inactive or deactivated voters could have had an impact on their defeats. Republican Josh Barnett, who lost his contest for Arizona’s First Congressional District, filed a lawsuit citing the increase among...

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Several prominent left-wing media figures were suspended from Twitter this week, including longtime leftist commentator Keith Olbermann. While some of these reporters and bloggers have been suspended for violating Twitter's terms of service (and have since been reinstated), Olbermann's profile is still suspended. In fact, Olbermann told Variety that he...

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The $10 million home formerly owned by Betty White has been demolished, nearly a year after her death. The "Golden Girls" star died last year on Dec. 31 -- less than a month away from her 100th birthday. News of the demolition was announced through a Sunday post on the...

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With the struggling CNN clutching at straws, departing anchor Ana Cabrera is grabbing some peacock feathers, according to new reports. Cabrera announced on Thursday that she will be leaving CNN. "Goodbyes are hard. Thank you CNN for everything. (My final show will be a week from today, Dec. 22) I’m...

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Sloppy and slanted though she may be, Washington Post tech journalist Taylor Lorenz is one of the most connected reporters on the Silicon beat. At the new Twitter, however, she finds her complaints falling on deaf ears. In a Twitter Spaces call that happened after several left-leaning journalists were banned...

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The Donald has spoken -- and surprisingly, some might say, he's sticking with the establishment this time. In an interview with Breitbart News published Friday, former President Donald Trump backed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California for speaker of the House, saying he deserved "a shot," and anti-establishment Republicans...

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When this shop owner in Garfield Heights, Ohio, discovered that his shop door was damaged by a vandal, caught on video surveillance, he'd had enough. “I’ve been here 32 years. I do a lot for the community, and I was frustrated. Everybody who walked past in the morning you know...

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A California Marine Corps veteran is dead after bravely standing up to an armed robber outside a Vallejo restaurant. Robert Sundin, 70, was shot dead when he intervened to stop a gunman from robbing a waitress on Dec. 8, according to KTVU-TV. Sundin, a regular patron of the restaurant, snapped...

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A new report says gun rights opponents successfully lobbied the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to delete information on Americans who rely upon the Second Amendment to defend themselves. According to emails collected by The Reload, pressure groups were assisted in their campaign by the Biden White House...

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Heather Strickland’s stepmother can recall a sound she remembers with joy -- a sound she will never hear again. It is the sound of laughter, coming from the daughter who was found dumped in a trash bag 13 miles off Florida’s Gulf Coast. The FBI on Friday identified Strickland, 34,...

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The storm around Twitter is rocking the boat at Tesla, leading at least one shareholder to call for a change at the top of the electric vehicle manufacturer. Elon Musk owns Twitter and is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. In recent weeks, his work at Twitter has overshadowed the...

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Democrats in Michigan are pushing a new gun control bill that would ban the sale and manufacture of what they term "assault weapons," but the definition of an "assault weapon" seems to be very vague and loose. On December 1, Michigan House Democrats announced that state Rep. Jeffery Pepper had...

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