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Former President Donald Trump, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are to blame for the sieve that is the southern border of the U.S. So said Martha Raddatz of ABC News in an exchange with Abbott regarding the anticipated expiration this week of Title 42, which limits...

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Elon Musk on Sunday posted a poll to Twitter asking users if they thought he should step down as CEO of the social media giant. Since then, things have become confusing, at best, even after Musk announced a major policy change at the company. The results of the poll were...

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John Carmack knows a bit about doom. In fact, if you know Carmack's name, it's likely because he's one of the three main programmers on seminal 1993 PC game "Doom," a first-person shooter famous for its creepy, ultra-violent demonic imagery and the attendant media controversy. Twenty-nine years later, he's making...

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Actress Patricia Heaton is leading by example with the accomplishment of reading through the Bible in a year, which she made public to her followers Sunday on her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts. The actress is likely best known for her roles in "The Middle" and "Everybody Loves Raymond," but...

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Fourteen-year-old Oscar was biking with his stepfather, Adam Dawe, in Cornwall, England, when he started to fall behind and complained of dizziness. For someone who had loved mountain biking for years, having done multiple 18-mile rides with his stepfather, Oscar's struggles were alarming. “It wasn’t like Oscar,” Dawe said, according...

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The Walt Disney Company's stock continued its multi-year decline after the much anticipated "Avatar: The Way of Water" failed to hit opening weekend box office projections. The film brought broke the $100-million mark for its opening -- the first time a James Cameron-directed film has ever done that -- but...

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A little-known lawsuit filed by a Utah man could rehash the ongoing controversy surrounding the 2020 presidential election, which he and many other Americans insist was marred by irregularities that undermine its legitimacy. The lawsuit, Brunson v. Adams, was quietly added to the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court in...

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On Sunday, Elon Musk did what very few CEOs do -- he turned to social media to ask people whether he should be replaced as the head of Twitter. The Twitter poll, which he lost by a 57-43 margin, is Musk’s way out of a self-created mess. Should I step...

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California is known for a lot of things, and not all of them are positive. But there was one interesting creature that many within and without the state enjoyed following -- P-22. P-22 is one of the oldest consistently tracked mountain lions in southern California and was believed to be...

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You better be careful how you pack for holiday travel this year. The people responsible for handling your luggage at the airport may not be as gentle with it as you like to think. That was certainly the case in a video that has gone viral on social media in...

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An 18-year old hockey player considered a rising star is dead after falling from an apartment building. The London Knights, a Canadian hockey team, announced that Abakar Kazbekov had suddenly passed in a Saturday tweet. In a statement issued jointly with the Ontario Hockey League, the two entities indicated that...

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It looks like at least one EV company is moving beyond making on-the-road vehicles. Instead, it is selling electric boats that appear to be flying. Candela, a startup firm based out of Stockholm, Sweden, has developed an entire line of these watercraft. Candela has been selling its C-8 models, which...

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A New York Times report is raising questions about the background of an incoming Republican congressman. The report Monday concerns George Santos, whose victory in last month's midterm elections ended years of Democratic control of New York's 3rd Congressional District, which includes a big part of Long Island. Santos, who...

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Remember when: Fifty former national security “experts” signed a letter claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop possessed “the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation”? And then: Two years passed before CBS News confirmed the authenticity of the laptop as first reported by the New York Post. Remember when:...

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Sadly, most people think food on grocery store shelves just appears and is perpetually available. From their perspective, why wouldn't they believe that? Aside from supply chain interruptions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there hasn't been a time in recent history when we've lacked stocked shelves 24/7. It...

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A Russian novelist and Nobel laureate who had been imprisoned for some of his writings and ultimately exiled from Russia, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was invited to speak at Harvard University’s 1978 commencement ceremony. In his speech, noscriptd “A World Split Apart,” Solzhenitsyn highlighted the cowardice of the intelligentsia and politicians, the...

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Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah criticized the length and reading time of the $1.7 trillion government omnibus spending bill congressional leaders unveiled on Tuesday. “This monstrous spending bill comes to 4,155 pages,” the conservative senator wrote in a Tuesday post on Twitter. “We deserve proper consideration and the chance...

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More than 2,000 years ago, a babe whose coming was foretold in Scripture was born in Bethlehem, and the world has never been the same. For Christians, his humble birth in that lowly stable -- the fulfillment of God’s promise to the world -- is why we celebrate. And your...

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President Joe Biden, the radical environmental lobby and government agencies across the nation are making a heavy push for Americans to switch to electric vehicles, but it seems car industry insiders are not so sure it is all such a good idea. On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published comments...

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Chad Steward, the owner of Laced Connection, has only been in business for about a year. The entrepreneurial businessman seems to have done his due diligence in terms of taking wise precautions to protect his products. The types of high-end footwear that he sells include Nikes, Air Jordans, Adidas, and...

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