Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa revealed Wednesday that he had undergone hip surgery, but reported that he was on the mend. The surgery came one day after Grassley's staff announced he had injured his hip. A release from Grassley’s office said the senator “today hurt his hip and will...

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Kari Lake may not be the next governor of Arizona, but that doesn't mean her political career is over. Far from it, actually, if a new poll is any indication. Even as Lake pursues her court battle over the November governor's election, an early poll exploring what might happen in...

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Chris Wallace's CNN show is called "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?" A better noscript might have been, "Who the Heck Is Still Watching Chris Wallace?" To be fair, the answer is pretty predictable: Pretty much nobody. And that's just the half of it. Not only is Wallace not getting people...

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Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina was savaged on Twitter for suggesting that a statue of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy be commissioned and prominently displayed in the U.S. Capitol. On Monday, Wilson introduced House Resolution 10, which directs the "Fine Arts Board to obtain a bust of the President...

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A Virginia college basketball player who collapsed during a game on Saturday says he still cannot believe that he was playing one minute and the next he was flat out on the floor. "This doesn't happen, especially for someone like me. I've been playing basketball all my life,” guard Imo...

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For decades, both the National Football League and sports media have been encouraging -- in fact, begging -- franchises to hire black coaches. In fact, for the past 20 years, the league has gone as far as to force teams to interview minority candidates. The so-called Rooney Rule mandates that, if...

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Two former ESPN employees have sued the network and its parent company, the Walt Disney Co., over the vaccine mandate imposed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by former reporter Allison Williams and former producer Beth Faber, Front Office Sports reported....

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On Friday, an 11-year old boy was seriously injured near Grovetown, Georgia after being attacked by three pit bulls. Justin Gilstrap was set upon by the three dogs as he was riding his bicycle through his neighborhood, according to the New York Post. Gilstrap's 11-year old cousin, Mason Aguilar, called...

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The award for the lowest TV audience in 27 years goes to Tuesday night’s Golden Globes telecast on NBC. The awards show drew 6.3 million viewers, its lowest total since 1996, according to The New York Times. In 2021, the last time the show aired, it attracted 6.9 million viewers,...

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President Joe Biden's alleged carelessness when it comes to the handling of classified documents took a new turn with a new report surfacing on Wednesday, claiming another batch of documents had been found at a second location. According to a New York Times report on Thursday, a second set of...

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It's hard to deny that Damar Hamlin's medical emergency has had a surprising impact on much of American culture. The mentality of wanting to somehow take a near-tragedy and find meaning in it has been especially noticeable in connection to his toy drive. Hamlin's toy drive, the Chasing M's Foundation...

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During a September interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes" with host Scott Pelley, President Joe Biden was asked what he thought to himself when he saw the photo of top-secret documents laid out on the office floor at Mar-a-Lago. "How that could possibly happen. How anyone could be that irresponsible....

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Billionaire technocrat and devout Globalist Bill Gates hosted an AMA -- Ask Me Anything -- on Reddit Wednesday and his answers, or lack thereof, are very telling. Whilst most of the questions posed to Gates involved drivel about climate change, taxing the rich, and vaccines, two very specific questions seemed...

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I told you so. My plan worked. It just worked in a way I never imagined. Like Martin Luther King, I had a dream. My dream was President Donald Trump as House speaker. I was the first in America to propose the idea in a commentary on Jan. 30, 2021....

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On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden. Biden, who has recently become entrapped in a whirlwind of controversy surrounding his alleged mishandling of classified documents from his time as vice president, has had an absolute nightmare of a public relations disaster stemming...

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Perhaps one of the most meaningful things one can choose to do on Christmas Eve is to participate in volunteer work where one knows a difference is truly being made. It would seem that this was the case for 62-year-old Pastor Trina Newman-Townsend. On the afternoon of Dec. 24, she...

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Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday morning to boast that the inflation rate had cooled to 6.5 percent in the month of December, President Joe Biden admitted that a second batch of classified material from his vice presidency had been found at one of his Delaware homes....

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She's the best argument around for why "transgender" athletes shouldn't be competing in sports against the opposite sex -- but won't admit it. A woman who was one of the top swimmers for Yale's varsity women's team last year is finishing at the bottom ranks while competing on the men's...

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The situation at CNN is so shockingly bad that it managed to lose a third of its primetime viewing audience last year compared with 2021, Adweek reported last week. The network experienced a 33 percent loss in total primetime viewers year over year and a 27 percent decline in total...

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If President Joe Biden can be this careless with classified documents, what else escapes his notice? It's a frightening but crucial question sparked by his recently discovered habit of leaving America's security secrets (or whatever else) in unsecured places. On Wednesday, a second trove of classified documents was found, this...

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