International drug cartels stand to benefit greatly after the termination of the Title 42 coronavirus border control policy. Retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent Derek Maltz is predicting that Mexican cartels will capitalize on a tidal wave of illegal migration after Title 42's planned expiration, according to Fox News. "They're just...

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Doctors in Toulon, southern France, were surprised when an 88-year-old patient arrived Saturday evening with an 8-inch artillery shell in his rectum. The patient’s arrival caused a bomb scare, prompting the hospital to evacuate patients. “An emergency occurred from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Saturday that required the intervention...

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New York progressive firebrand Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have graduated from Boston University with a double major in international relations and economics, but one of her latest tweets suggests that she might have slept through much of the economics part. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez must have believed she had a...

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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer testified Wednesday during GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's election challenge trial that the individual polling locations did not tally the total number of votes cast in the midterm elections, a seeming violation of state law. Lake attorney Bryan Blehm asked Richer whether the county knew...

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This just in -- three of CNN’s news programs are beating Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Okay. Let’s rephrase that in a way different from what the legacy leftist media might say. Tucker Carlson’s 1 a.m. rerun -- rerun!!! -- beat every news show in the CNN lineup except for three,...

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The pain of losing a close loved one comes with emotions that are like a tangled, messy pile of yarn. The impact on regular day-to-day activities can leave a person feeling like they have lost an arm. It can be especially difficult for a parent when that loss is a...

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You might not have known that longtime Fox News journalist Harris Faulkner is a woman of faith. Faulkner talked about her relationship with God in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network in November. Her new book, "Faith Still Moves Mountains: Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer," features...

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Discovery of a massive underground tunnel has renewed hopes among archeologists that they might yet find the tomb of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The tunnel was found 40 feet below the Temple of Tapozeris Magna, just west of Alexandria, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced ln early November, according to the New...

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Imagine, if you will, being able to fly nonstop across the Pacific Ocean from cold Alaska to warm and sunny Tasmania, Australia. Since the summer Down Under runs from December through March, it's the perfect place to escape the Northern Hemisphere winter, with high temperatures in Tasmania usually ranging from...

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The number of people struggling with mental health issues has been a topic of increasingly keen interest since COVID has come on the scene. It's a sad fact that about half of the people who struggle with mental illness either delay getting the help they need, or don't seek it...

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A senior TikTok executive was asked some hard questions about China's human rights record in a recent interview, and his response was quite telling and concerning. On Tuesday, Michael Beckerman, TikTok's head of public policy, was interviewed by CNN's Jake Tapper, who asked him about China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims...

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Another high-fashion photo shoot -- this time by luxury label Gucci -- is making headlines for featuring references to children that left some viewers uneasy. Last week, Gucci posted a series of photos on Instagram and Twitter of English entertainer Harry Styles wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a scowling pink...

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A cyber security expert who testified at Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's election challenge trial Wednesday said the ballot printer issues that occurred on Election Day last month in Maricopa County could not have been an accident. Last week, Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ordered Maricopa County to grant...

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An elite university is seemingly walking back a rigid campus language code two days after it was rolled out to widespread criticism. Stanford University appeared to have removed mention of its "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" from its website as of Monday, according to The Washington Free Beacon. The initiative...

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A provision buried 753 pages deep into the 2023 omnibus bill blocks the Department of Homeland Security from using a new round of funding for enforcing America's immigration laws. Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee pointed out that in the bill, both Customs and Border Protection and Immigration Customs Enforcement are...

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The departure of a longtime GOP incumbent in Wisconsin's state Senate has sparked what is sure to be a contentious battle come next year. State Sen. Alberta Darling's retirement in the middle of her four-year term will leave Republicans one vote shy of a supermajority in the Senate chamber, taking...

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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio offered a simple yet potent rebuke of President Joe Biden's "America Last" approach to illegal immigration in a Wednesday tweet. Jordan questioned why American workers were a mere afterthought in the eyes of the White House amid a reported plan to give millions of...

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There are few untouchable people and causes in the world today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is one of them. With a few deviations, the consensus seems to be he’s basically like the Dalai Lama and Winston Churchill rolled up into one, staring down Vladimir Putin and, if not winning, at...

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On the morning of Dec. 8, 2011, Kerry and Chris Lynch welcomed Mary Cate into the world. It was only moments after her arrival, though, that they began to understand that something was wrong. Mary Cate was whisked away to the neonatal intensive care unit, and by that evening, her...

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Just like socialism, the idea of renewable energy generated by wind turbines supplanting fossil fuels sounds good in theory, but in practice it's a very different story. In the latest snafu, a wind turbine in Northport, Michigan, broke off and crashed to the ground after strong winds caused it to...

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