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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Tesla Inc. is offering rare discounts through year's end on its two top-selling models, an indication that demand is slowing for its electric vehicles. The Austin, Texas, company started offering a $3,750 incentive on its Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV on its website earlier this month, but on...

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Republican Arizona attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh earned a big win in the Mohave County courts on Tuesday that could pave the way for a dramatic trial. Hamadeh, who lost to Democrat Kris Mayes by a meager 511 votes in the November midterm elections, will have his day in court...

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A Tesla owner recently shared a series of videos highlighting his struggles to accomplish basic tasks with his electric vehicle in extremely cold conditions. The videos, which were posted by TikTok user ddcustomz, highlight his problems opening his car door, charging port and "frunk" (front car trunk). He had to...

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They say "everything's bigger in Texas," and that was certainly the case for neighbors who found a snake that had been lurking in Coronado Hills in Austin, Texas, for the last few months. It must have been quite a sight to see the giant yellow and white python cruising the...

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In the wake of Elon Musk's latest release of the "Twitter Files," it was revealed that a contingent of FBI agents, in what appeared to be a social media-related task force, had alleged backchannel communications with Twitter employees that could be used to flag specific accounts and tweets for "misinformation."...

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Full disclosure: I'm not the biggest Jesse Watters fan. That apparently puts me in the minority, because Fox News' funnyman-turned-primetime-cable host hasn't just seen success with his "Jesse Watters Primetime" show -- he's seen historic success. According to a news release from Fox News on Dec. 15, "Jesse Watters Primetime" was...

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Former President Donald Trump has long maintained that much of the failure to secure the Capitol during the fateful events of Jan. 6, 2021, was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's fault. Now it looks like Trump was right, again. This week, five House Republicans released a trove of text and email...

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. That timeless adage could not be more appropriate to describe a pair of alleged thieves in California this week. Taking place at the Del Amo Fashion Center mall in Torrance, the suspected ne'er-do-wells thought they had an easy enough score on their hands, failing...

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