In New Hartford, New York, a good guy with a gun managed to save Applebee's staff from a bad guy with a knife. According to WSTM-TV in Syracuse, the incident occurred Saturday in the Utica-area restaurant after a patron was asked to leave. Esteban F. Padron had been told to...

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Singer Marie Osmond stands by her decision to not leave money to her children when she dies because she believes inheritances make people lazy and ennoscriptd. “Honestly, why would you enable your child to not try to be something?" Osmond told Us Weekly last week. "I don’t know anybody who becomes...

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Fourteen years ago, Mike Lindell gave up on crack and gave his life over to God. There have been ups and downs since then -- some of them very public, of course. However, he's the CEO of his own company, MyPillow, and has weathered storms that would have knocked most...

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The social media titan TikTok appears to be offering something akin to a mea culpa in the face of heightening scrutiny. According to both Fox Business and the Wall Street Journal, the wildly popular social media app has made some massive concessions in a bid to avoid even more widespread...

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A former National Football League player has been charged with kidnapping in a Mississippi incident that took place last week. Jerrell Powe, 35, was one of two men arrested, according to WAPT-TV. Powe played for the University of Mississippi before going on to play for the Kansas City Chiefs and...

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A 45-year-old broadcaster for BBC Radio revealed on social media late last week that she had suffered a "serious stroke" two weeks earlier. Jennie Gow, who has covered Formula 1 racing since 2010 for ITV and Sky TV in addition to the BBC, has also appeared on the Netflix series...

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American veterans struggling with suicidal thoughts are now eligible for free emergency medical care. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced in a news release Friday that all veterans can receive emergency suicide care at its facilities starting Tuesday. The care will be provided free of charge. Veterans won't need to...

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Perhaps one of the most terrifying experiences a parent can have is when their child's life is endangered. It's in those moments that we're often reminded why the Second Amendment is so important. When she went to work on Jan. 5, Hubbell Tower Apartments manager Shay Lindberg likely thought that...

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In a story straight out of an old Bavarian fairy tale, one of Germany's native wolves killed a European elite's personal pony and now has a target on its head. Politico reported on Jan. 2 that a wolf identified as GW950m killed Dolly, the prized horse of Ursula von der...

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Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana has officially announced that he will be running for U.S. Senate in 2024. After Sen. Mike Braun announced that he would be giving up his seat to run for governor of Indiana, there was much disappointment in Republican circles about losing such a strong conservative...

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No U.S. president has ever been prosecuted for obstruction related to the Presidential Records Act, which wouldn’t be a criminal violation, anyway, or the Espionage Act, which was not intended to be used against a president. Now that the "Justice" Department has overreached like crazy in the matter of Donald...

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Firefighters get called about all sorts of community issues that cover a range of situations and emergency levels. There's an old trope of the firefighter rescuing a cat out of a tree, but last week it was a much larger pet that needed rescuing from a tree top. The Caldwell...

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Reports of young, healthy athletes dying continue to pile up. For example, on Jan. 9, 21-year-old Air Force Academy offensive lineman Hunter Brown suddenly collapsed and died on his way from class to his dorm. Perhaps cases like this have always happened but, for one reason or another, are only...

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It's absolutely undeniable: Traditional vaccination has saved hundreds of millions of lives. In the late 18th century, English scientist Edward Jenner discovered that contracting cowpox, a disease that can affect bovines and humans, could provide human beings immunity against the similar, but much more deadly, disease of smallpox. In 1796,...

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Former President Donald Trump isn’t wasting any time trying to knock Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell out of his seat the next time he’s up for re-election (which won’t be until 2026), and is looking for a quality challenger to back. But Trump certainly has his work cut out for...

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The left despises her, but the creator of the "Harry Potter" universe still has the magic touch. J.K. Rowling, the publishing juggernaut who built a billion-dollar fortune with her story about a young wizard and his fantastic world centered on the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has been an...

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A Las Vegas woman has started a fundraising campaign for the family of a friend who died suddenly Jan. 8. Michele Morgan told KLAS-TV that her friend, Alicia Groeblinghoff, went into cardiac arrest while working out at a gym. Groeblinghoff, died the next day. She was 46, according to her...

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We’ve been holding our breath here in Arkansas. Those of us who are conservative political activists have wondered: Will our new governor, Sarah Sanders, be the real deal? After all, a lot of us are Republicans, and disappointment is a way of life for us. All our guys and gals...

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Perhaps any birthday over the age of 99 could be considered a milestone, but it certainly isn't every day that someone reaches their 114th birthday. Such is the case for Georgia resident, Nina Willis. She turned 114 on Saturday, according to WANF-TV. Willis' family is one that treats its aging...

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Many politicians will try to convince anyone willing to listen that the Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the worst days in American history. Chief among them are the seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans who sat on the House select committee to investigate the matter. For one...

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