The American Civil Liberties Union has driven a chasm into the ranks of former President Donald Trump’s opponents by supporting Meta’s plan to allow Trump back on Facebook and Instagram. The decision was announced Wednesday in a blog post that noted some special conditions are attached to Trump’s return, which...

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OK, so now that Kevin McCarthy is safely ensconced as speaker of the House, we can stop the jokes about GOP Rep. George Santos adding "House speaker" to his LinkedIn resumé. This, of course, raises the question of the next great Santos-related meme. I've seen photoshopped pictures of the Fab...

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Many people think of spring as tornado season, but tornados can occur at any time of year. Just ask a couple who travel around the country in an RV. Zachary and Ally Peck-Chapman had to make a quick escape as a tornado rampaged through an RV park in Orange, Texas,...

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The question "What is a woman?" infiltrated the cultural zeitgeist in 2022, and in 2023, it appears to still be at the forefront of fierce debate. But in this particular instance, it's not a question about the immutable qualities that make a person a woman -- no, this time it's...

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Tragedy has struck the NFL world as former Detroit Lions linebacker Jessie Lemonier abruptly died, the team announced Thursday Lemonier was only 25. "We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of former Detroit Lion Jessie Lemonier," the Lions said in a statement posted to Twitter. "Jessie was...

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A newly released report sheds some light on the brutal New Year's Eve killing of a ground crew worker at Alabama's Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM). The report details a review conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The incident began when one recently landed plane ran a required two-minute...

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Sometimes compromise merely prolongs a war -- in this case, the culture wars. The bishops of the Church of England won't support same-sex "marriages," according to the BBC. The decision comes after five years of debate about the church's position on sexuality. But the debate won't end there. The bishops'...

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Amazon workers in the United Kingdom staged their first strike on Wednesday against the e-commerce giant, protesting low pay. Hundreds of Amazon employees affiliated with the GMB general trade union walked out on Wednesday over the company's "derisory" 50 pence pay raise, the U.K.’s Daily Express reported. The workers began...

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A former Nevada judge has died by her own hand after resigning following an ethics probe into her conduct, according to news reports. Melanie Andress Tobiasson died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The former Las Vegas justice of the...

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He's been kicked off the House Intelligence Committee, but Rep. Adam Schiff is still insulting America's intelligence. The California congressman, a leading, loathsome voice of the contemporary Democratic Party, took to social media on Wednesday to bemoan being booted from the committee he abused for years in his party's political...

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As far as hiring and appointing is concerned, it sadly looks like the one common trait President Joe Biden seeks out is sheer incompetence. That was evidenced again in an utterly humiliating Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week regarding Biden's nomination of Charnelle Bjelkengren to sit on the bench for...

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The conflict in eastern Europe is entering a phase unlike anything seen in nearly eight decades as a new shipment of powerful arms threatens to engulf the entire continent in war. This major shift comes as Western nations announced their intent Wednesday to send armored contingents of main battle tanks to...

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A plea from Benjamin Hall's daughters -- from thousands of miles away -- saved his life. The Fox News war correspondent was in Kyiv, Ukraine, in March, just weeks after Russia's invasion of that country, when a bomb exploded next to the car in which he and other members of...

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Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, freshly inaugurated after what we are assured was a completely flawless and totally legitimate November election, appears to be far more interested in virtue signaling her willingness to support the crush of illegal immigrants heading into the border state than she is in actually...

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How are the plaintiffs’ lawyers doing so far in the Elon Musk class action? It would be an accurate characterization to say that they are doing a good but not great job so far. The lawyers for the plaintiffs need to prove two things to the jury for their claim...

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"Would you like a side of crickets with that?" may actually be a question posed to European citizens at their local McDonald's. Yes, what was once a dystopian punchline has very much become reality, as the European Union has approved two more insect species for human consumption, according to Deutsche...

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The state of Louisiana has found itself in hot water with the U.S. Justice Department after it was revealed the state violated constitutional law. The DOJ announced Wednesday that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections violated the 14th Amendment by holding people in incarceration long after their scheduled...

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President Joe Biden is certainly no stranger to committing embarrassing blunders that end up as news stories, but it's usually because of something he said or did. This time around, some poorly thought-out imagery in the background of a Thursday speech by the president quickly caught the attention of social...

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Green Bay Packers superstar Aaron Rodgers was not among the five finalists for NFL MVP this year, which makes some sense given the team's middling performance (the Packers finished 8-9 and missed the playoffs). But according to Rodgers, there may be a more sinister force at play in the fact...

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Earlier this month, Biden's Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that it opposed gas stoves and was looking at ways to eliminate them, prompting an outcry over the coming ban. But climate scolds aren't just looking to ban your gas stove, America. They have a long list of other appliances they...

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Love her or hate her, you can't argue that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't elicit powerful emotional responses from people across America. Even more cunningly, Greene has been able to leverage those emotional responses, both negative and positive, to bring attention to important causes, like the hyper-sexualization of children. This...

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