President Joe Biden appeared to catch one Democratic senator off guard Tuesday night with his post-State of the Union agenda. After the speech, Biden was making his way through Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Adam Schiff of California and Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey. “Bob, I gotta to talk to...

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At first, it was just a Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. airspace that we couldn't shoot down because of the risk to people on the ground. But don't worry, President Joe Biden's administration told the world: We're getting more data from it than it's getting from us, so it's...

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Joe Biden's failed presidency took another turn for the worse on Tuesday when the gaffe-prone octogenarian inexplicably went off-noscript during his State of the Union address and committed another cringeworthy blunder. While addressing the United States' increasingly unstable relationship with ascendant superpower China, Biden angrily declared, "Autocracies have grown weaker,...

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President Joe Biden strayed from the facts more than once during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, according to multiple fact-checking websites. The Washington Post took issue with 13 claims made by the president. For example, Biden claimed, “In the last two years, my administration cut the deficit by more than...

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A young, Christian woman in the Pakistani city of Karachi became the victim of a grisly crime after she refused marriage to a Muslim man. Sunita Masih was on her way to work on the morning of Feb. 1 when her neighbor, Kamran Allah Bux, threw acid onto her face,...

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Elon Musk’s actions after taking over Twitter, while not perfect, have advanced the cause of free speech. Outsider Musk stopping at least some censorship on such a prominent social media platform was the first major crack in an increasingly totalitarian alliance between Big Tech and big government. By allowing journalists...

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The parents of a California 14-year-old are furious after he was the victim of an after-school beating that took place on the grounds of Patriot High School in Jurupa Valley, east of Los Angeles, on Feb. 1. Angel Payan said he was angry that after his son was kicked and...

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A young father in Washington shot and killed a man who was reportedly acting “erratic” and had “threatened” his child on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened at a dog park in the city of Yakima and occurred after the protective dad made multiple attempts to de-escalate the situation, The Yakima...

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An Oregon firefighter died last week after suffering a medical emergency during training. The Gresham Fire Department announced the death of Brandon Norbury on Facebook. “We are saddened to share the sudden passing of IAFF Local 1062 Gresham Firefighter Brandon Norbury. Firefighter Norbury died in the Line of Duty on...

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LeBron James celebrated making NBA history on Tuesday night by dropping an F-bomb on live television and in front of fans, following a loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. James' Los Angeles Lakers lost a home game to the Thunder in overtime. But during the shootout, he became the NBA’s...

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Police in New York City have arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing an off-duty police officer. According to ABC News, police found 38-year-old Randy Jones at a motel in Nanuet, New York, on Monday. Two days prior, Jones had shot 26-year-old officer Abeed Fayaz, who had gone with...

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A California exterminator was surprised to find a mother lode inside one of his customer's homes. This wasn't a colony of termites or bedbugs, though. Exterminator Nick Castro found more than 700 pounds of acorns inside the chimney of a vacation home in December, according to The Press Democrat. The...

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Ratings-challenged CNN brought HBO’s Bill Maher into its Friday night lineup last week and still managed to get crushed by Fox News host Greg Gufeld. The network had been weighing the addition of a “comedian” to liven things up as it continues to struggle with its declining presence in the...

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You might have noticed that several Democratic lawmakers were wearing an interesting pin during President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. The pin had the year "1870" printed on it, and many have wondered what was so significant about the year 1870 that many Democrats were...

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A Roman Catholic student in Canada who was suspended for saying that God created only two genders has now been arrested. On Monday, The Western Journal reported on the story of 16-year-old Josh Alexander, who was suspended from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, after saying in class...

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis responded on Wednesday after former President Donald Trump suggested he was guilty of “grooming” teen girls. A meme that circulated on Trump's Truth Social platform showed a person alleged to be DeSantis holding a beer. He was surrounded by a group of females whose faces...

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For most Americans watching President Joe Biden's occasionally hectoring State of the Union address on Tuesday, there had to be some jarring moments. Where Democrats and progressives saw a passionate man taking on political opponents, many conservatives saw a mean-spirited demagogue setting up straw men only to knock them down....

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Joe Biden lapsed into a string of incomprehensible gibberish that even the trannoscription could not decipher during his State of the Union address Tuesday, giving us only the latest example of the president mauling a major speech that he was reading off a teleprompter. In a tweet on Wednesday, the...

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The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability meets today, and Chairman James Comer of Kentucky is looking into Biden family finances to see if they’ve been compromised, particularly by foreign ties. Part of that is finding out who is buying Hunter Biden’s “art” for up to a reported $500,000 a...

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Thanks, Mr. President. I needed that. I’m not talking about the speech President Joe Biden gave in his State of the Union address Tuesday. I’m talking about the SOTU antidote delivered by former President Donald Trump. While I appreciate the traditional opposition response delivered by Arkansas’ new Republican governor, Sarah...

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