Miss Universe's owner, Anne Jakrajutatip, gave an impassioned speech on Saturday celebrating the fact that Miss Universe is now "gonna be run by women." There's only one problem: Jakrajutatip is not a woman, but rather a "transgender woman," aka a man. Nevertheless, since he took over the company in October...

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Well. This is one thing that wasn't on very many people's 2023 bingo cards. But, if you did have "GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz will kick off the new year with warm praise for CNN," on your bingo card, congratulations. Gaetz, the outspoken Republican firebrand who helped spearhead the initial opposition...

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The dissonance between the version of the truth offered by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the reality of the Biden administration’s growing classified documents scandal is resulting in skepticism that the White House is telling the whole story. On Thursday, Fox News noted that Jean-Pierre told a media...

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With a comment from a Joe Rogan podcast as their inspiration, divers are hoping to find woolly mammoth bones and other treasures at the bottom of the East River in New York City. On Dec. 30, fossil enthusiast John Reeves referenced -- on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast -- a report...

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Journalist Matt Taibbi has released another batch of internal Twitter documents, which reportedly show that staffers for Rep. Adam Schiff regularly contacted the platform and pushed them to censor certain posts -- even posts that were made for comical purposes. The thread is the latest version of the "Twitter Files,"...

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HBO's "Watchmen" show is based on the comic book of the same name. In that comic book, one of the plots involves a villain staging an alien invasion that is meant to be so catastrophic, terrifying and deadly that it would unite all the various peoples of a deeply fractured...

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Did Americans just get a glimpse of the "big guy"? President Joe Biden, who has spent two years in office disgracing the country with scenes of a chief executive alternating between ennoscriptment and ineptitude, showed a face last week of smirking smugness as an unusually combative press corps shouted questions...

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Passengers riding in a Soviet-era Russian plane got far more than they bargained for when their plane's rear door sprang open. The interior of the plane, an An-26 flown by IrAero, was filmed by one of the 25 passengers who were exposed to the winter air on the flight from...

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As Tesla shares plummeted in value at the end of last year, one investor who lost out was Paul Pelosi, the husband of former Speaker and Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California. Paul Pelosi lost more than $500,000 as Tesla dipped, according to Business Insider. Tesla, of course, is currently...

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Rebellion against a new anti-gun law is seeping across Illinois as multiple law enforcement agencies are issuing statements that they will not enforce the law. On Tuesday, Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 5471. The bill bans what Prizker’s website calls “the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high-capacity...

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During a Sunday speech at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta church, Ebenezer Baptist Church, President Joe Biden made a point to emphasize the fact that he attended "the black church" during his high school and college years. There's one small problem with the president's story: members of the church he...

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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has spent more than four years demonstrating to Americans how wrong a Democrat can be. Whether it's her antipathy for police, her willingness to engage in unfounded attacks on Christians, or the barely disguised anti-Semitism that produces her anti-Israel positions, Omar is sort of a walking...

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People are now questioning Republican Rep. George Santos's name in light of a video clip from 2019 that appears to show him using the name Anthony Devolder. The mystery surrounding the embattled freshman Republican’s name is the latest controversy faced by Santos, who has been accused of misrepresenting his educational,...

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Much has already been made about the literal dangers posed by popular social media app TikTok. At its worst, it can help propagate some genuinely dangerous "trends" -- like NyQuil chicken or the "Kia Challenge" -- which can lead to a tragic loss of life. But it's now become abundantly...

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As the Biden administration and his greenie allies continue to make a headlong push for electric vehicles, the state of Wyoming seems to be going in the exact opposite direction. Lawmakers in the state are considering a new law that would phase out electric vehicles by 2035, which is a...

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Taylor LeJeune, who was known to his TikTok followers as Waffler69, died Wednesday at the age of 33. LeJeune was from Lafayette, Louisiana, and at the time of his death had more than 1.7 million followers who enjoyed watching him eat very strange things according to the Advocate. Clayton Claydorm,...

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The 2023 NFL Playoffs began on Saturday with a pair of games between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, as well as the Los Angeles Chargers and Jacksonville Jaguars. Both games featured some notable events, but only one of them featured a play that left the winning team fuming, and that's...

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The family of an American held in the United Arab Emirates for the past 15 years wants the Biden administration to do for Zack Shahin what it did for Brittney Griner a month ago. The family said that not only was Shahin unfairly detained, his condition has rapidly worsened as...

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President Joe Biden and his administration can't seem to let go of the idea of keeping the country in a state of perpetual fear by extending the COVID-19-related "public health emergency" -- even though the president himself declared the pandemic was over months ago. On Wednesday, Secretary of Health and...

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University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles was charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Miles, 21, was arrested Sunday in connection with the early Sunday shooting and taken to the Tuscaloosa County Jail, according to Al.com. Video of Miles being...

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There's nothing more American than fireworks at Mt. Rushmore on the Fourth of July. And for the third straight year, they won't be happening -- all thanks to President Joe Biden's administration. According to South Dakota NBC affiliate KNBN, the National Parks Service has declined to allow a permit for...

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