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China's escalating space program may pose a serious national security concern for the United States -- especially as it relates to the moon. NASA administrator and former U.S Senator Bill Nelson sounded the alarm in an interview with Politico published Sunday. Nelson is also a former astronaut. “It is a...

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I doubt you'd find many MSNBC hosts who would put up too much of a fit if their child were to decide his or her own gender -- a medical and biological impossibility, but one that's been leftist gospel so quickly that you'll be canceled quicker than you can say...

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NBA star LeBron James was taken to task after tweeting his support of an NFL quarterback who has faced multiple sexual assault claims. Deshaun Watson, who was traded to the Cleveland Browns from the Houston Texans, threw three touchdown passes Sunday as the Browns defeated the Washington Commanders 24-10, according...

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Stay yourself, San Francisco. Always stay yourself. Sure, crime rates, drug abuse and homelessness are sky-high in the Bay Area metropolis. But a start-up founder has discovered a problem that really necessitated a social media meltdown: An ambulance parked in the bike lane. According to KTVU-TV, the video was originally posted...

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It was a terrifying start to the new year for several residents in Port Richmond, Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) was called to the scene of an explosion that happened at the 3500 block of Miller Street in Port Richmond, according to the City of Philadelphia. PFD responded around...

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Electric vehicles have been all the rage in recent years. As our society becomes more and more concerned with "climate change" EVs are often presented to us by our leaders as an efficient and environmentally-friendly alternative to gas-powered vehicles. With this promotion in mind, people likely expect EVs to be...

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Excavations will be taking place at the biblical Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, leading to unprecedented public access to the site of a miracle performed by Jesus Christ. The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation announced the project on Tuesday, according to...

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A new anti-gun law went into effect on New Year's Day in one California city, and it is effectively a blanket anti-gun law. According to NBC Bay Area, the new law in the city of San Jose requires that all gun owners have proof of insurance covering accidents involving firearms,...

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Not even liberals can pretend CNN had a great New Year's Eve. The network is likely to go down in television history for anchor Don Lemon's inexcusable failure to catch the all-important countdown of the final seconds of the old year in the Central Time Zone. And fellow anchor Anderson...

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Security footage at the Finochietto Sanatorium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, appeared to show a security guard greeting an invisible patient early on the morning of Nov. 11, prompting some to speculate that he might have interacted with a ghost. CCTV footage shared on YouTube showed the security guard manning the...

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As if we need another reminder that an unsecured border endangers public safety, dozens of prisoners escaped from a jail in Mexico that's just minutes from Texas. Ten security guards and four prisoners were killed Sunday during a brazen jail attack in the deadly Mexican border city of Juarez, an...

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Certain household items have a reputation for disappearing into thin air. Socks lose its mates, bobby pins seem to sneak off and hide in the most unlikely places, and hair ties vanish without a trace. But sometimes when hair ties disappear, they create surprisingly dangerous threats -- especially if a...

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Seattle-based conservative radio host Dori Monson died Saturday night at a local hospital. As the host of “The Dori Monson Show” on KIRO-FM, Monson actively covered government and social issues, becoming one of the station’s top-rated midday hosts at the time of his death, according to a Sunday news release...

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Biologist Paul Ehrlich has issued so many warnings about the pending doom of mankind that he could make the boy who cried wolf blush a crimson red. The 90-year old Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University and President of...

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Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee published a piece recently calling attention to the case Brunson v. Adams set to be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. What the plaintiff/appellant, Raland Brunson of Ogden, Utah, and his three brothers seek is nothing less than the...

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An airline ground crew member was killed at approximately 3 p.m. Saturday in what is being referred to as an accident at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama. According to Insider, the National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, said that the worker had been "ingested into the engine." It's a...

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Missouri firefighters were called in to battle a blaze in the early hours on Monday. When responders arrived at the scene, they determined that a Tesla vehicle was on fire in a Webster Grove home's attached garage, KMOV reports. At approximately 3 a.m., responders found the on-fire Tesla in the...

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Just because you see something on the internet doesn't mean you should do it. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Anaya Peterson learned this lesson the hard way. According to The Sun, Peterson disregarded her 7-year-old daughter's warnings and decided to get her eyes tattooed. Her right eye was tattooed in July...

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As the world continues to wait for more substantive updates on alleged Moscow, Idaho, murderer Bryan Kohberger and the crime itself, details have begun trickling out that help paints a more complete picture of the man Kohberger was leading up to the murders. One such account of Kohberger came courtesy...

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It's a new year. It's a new Congress. But it's the same old Kamala Harris -- imperious, arrogant and just as obnoxious as ever. And according to a Breitbart News report Monday, she's not above using even the Senate swearing-in ceremony Tuesday to remind everyone that she carries some weight...

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