House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took a Washington, D.C., correspondent to school after being questioned whether the United States would default on paying its debt. The question came after McCarthy had his first meeting as speaker with President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday. McCarthy told reporters the one-on-one lasted...

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A middle school basketball game in a 2,000-person town, tucked in the northwestern corner of Vermont near the Canadian border, has emerged into the spotlight as a focal point for bad spectator behavior after a brawl Tuesday night resulted in the death of one man. Police were called shortly before...

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Missouri’s top lawman has faced off against a school district that brought a group of middle schoolers to see a drag show -- and he’s not going to blink. State Attorney General Andrew Bailey maintains his office’s stance that it plans to pursue “all legal options” against Columbia Public Schools,...

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Leftists couldn't wait to slander Chris Pratt's Amazon series "The Terminal List" when it first debuted in July, no doubt because the Hollywood megastar happens to be an outspoken Christian. The left-wingers over at The Daily Beast attempted to castigate the show by dubbing it an "unhinged right-wing revenge fantasy."...

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Americans used to root their identity in external sources -- things like God, family and country. Today, in an increasingly secularized America, many Americans craft their self-image by looking inward instead. They define themselves by race, sex and sexuality, through the use of made-up pronouns and, in the case of...

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A Virginia family is answering their country's call. A set of triplets -- Ayrion, Andrea and Adrion Sutton -- have decided to wear their nation's uniform by serving in the United States Navy, according to WAVY-TV in Portsmouth. The Sutton siblings aren't serving alone. Andre Sutton, the father of the family,...

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It was never a good idea for Chinese-owned Fufeng USA to build a corn mill in North Dakota, especially given its proximity to Grand Forks Air Force Base. Nevertheless, the city's mayor, Brandon Bochenski, and the state's governor, Doug Burgum, both Republicans and delighted by the prospect of economic opportunity,...

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Studies show living with an unrelated man severely increases a child's chance of being abused. This trend could be evidenced in a tragic case reported this week in one Houston household. A 3-year-old boy suffering from malnourishment, burns and other physical injuries fell into a coma. His family was told...

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The GOP-led House of Representatives will vote on whether to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her history of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments. The House voted on Tuesday to send House Resolution 76 to the floor for a vote, which could take...

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A Republican member of a New Jersey borough council was shot and killed Wednesday night near her residence. Council member Eunice Dwumfour of Sayreville, New Jersey, was found shot multiple times in her vehicle just outside of the apartment complex where she lived, according to WABC-TV. Police said that the...

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It seems that things are always changing in terms of carry-on luggage, baggage fees and the age at which children are required to have an airline ticket to fly. There was apparently some confusion for a couple planning to fly with an infant from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Brussels on...

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For the wife of one star of the San Francisco 49ers, one dose of Philadelphia Eagles fans was more than enough for a lifetime. Sydney Warner, the wife of 49ers linebacker Fred Warner, vented about Eagles fans in a video she posted on TikTok. The 49ers lost to the Eagles...

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Palestinian Arab terrorists opened fire on Israeli Jews living in outer Jerusalem on International Holocaust Memorial Day. One of the mass-casualty attacks struck a synagogue in the middle of evening prayer services ushering in the Jewish Sabbath. Seven were killed and others were wounded in the deadliest terrorist attack by...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom might be trying to build a nascent presidential campaign by lobbing cross-country bombs at his fellow governor in Florida over the Sunshine State's stance on Second Amendment rights. But the father of a girl who died in a notorious school shooting had a news flash for...

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A 23-year-old college graduate student was killed in Seattle Jan. 23 by a speeding police car. Jaahnavi Kandula was walking the crosswalk at Dexter Avenue North and Thomas Street around 8 p.m., when a Seattle police vehicle hit the young woman. Police performed CPR on Kandula until Seattle Fire Department...

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Within a week of the announced departure of White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, President Joe Biden said Thursday top economic adviser Brian Deese is on the way out too. Biden credited Deese, director of the National Economic Council, with helping craft major pieces of legislation that have defined...

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Netflix has announced some dramatic policy updates in a reinvigorated bid to crack down on users who may not be paying their fair share for the streaming titan's services. While reports that Netflix would be cracking down on "password sharing" have been in circulation for months now, the streaming service...

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Just when you thought the Biden camp’s handling of the notorious “laptop from hell” belonging to wayward first son Hunter Biden couldn't possibly take another jaw-dropping turn, it’s done just that. According to Axios, Hunter Biden’s attorneys are requesting that his father’s Department of Justice probe the people involved in...

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A Wisconsin woman's life suddenly came into jeopardy when she slipped last week while taking some refuse to a burn barrel in her backyard and fell into a creek. After crawling out of the stream that runs through the rear of her property in the village of Union Center, she...

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A middle-school athlete has been hospitalized after going into cardiac arrest Tuesday during a basketball game. A Southside Christian School spokesman said Kamari "K Will" Williams, an eighth-grader, "experienced a seizure and cardiac arrest" during the event, according to WYFF-TV. "By God's grace, trainer Chris Young was on-site at the...

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