Republicans have lost control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Democrats secured a one-vote majority in the chamber with sweeping victories in three special elections in Allegheny County on Tuesday, according to Spotlight Pennsylvania. The wins grant Democrats their first majority in the Pennsylvania House in twelve years, according to...

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An unknown author told the story of Julian Ellis Morris, a rich English eccentric who liked to dress like a tramp and sell razor blades, soap and shampoo door to door. After a day’s work, he would return to his beautiful mansion, put on formal attire and have his chauffeur...

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Breathing fire as she ripped into Twitter executives over their content moderation policies, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said the social media giant did a disservice to all Americans by refusing to allow all viewpoints about the coronavirus vaccine to be discussed. As noted by the Washington Times,...

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Many Democrats were up in arms after President Joe Biden was booed and heckled during his second State of the Union address on Tuesday. But one former Biden administration official is perfectly fine with seeing his old boss face vocal opposition. As John Wu put it on Twitter, being held...

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Has "CNN This Morning" become a toxic workplace? Progressive host Don Lemon disrupted a commercial break to criticize an interview conducted by a colleague in a Tuesday segment. Lemon delivered an opinion monologue critical of the interview between co-host Kaitlin Collins and Republican Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House...

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A black Republican was not having it when Democratic members of House Oversight Committee accused him and his Republican colleagues of promoting "white nationalism" because they were holding a hearing on the southern border crisis. Shortly into the hearing Tuesday, GOP Rep. Byron Donalds Florida said, "I'm just going to...

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For those rolling their eyes at home during President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, rest assured you weren't alone. Some in the joint session of Congress that Biden addressed were doing it, too. Take House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who's currently going viral for his facial expressions...

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia roasted three former Twitter executives Wednesday, saying they censored conservatives, allowed "child porn" on the platform and interfered in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Greene made the remarks during a contentious House Oversight Committee hearing on “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social...

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If you didn't think President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on Tuesday night was any great shakes, join CNN's polling cohort. According to a survey conducted by the cable news stalwart and SSRS, only 34 percent of respondents reacted very positively. While another 38 percent said they had...

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President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech was a call for Americans to tune out, turn it off and turn on something else, if they ever watched it in the first place. Nielsen ratings show that 27.3 million viewers tuned in for the speech Tuesday night, according to Deadline....

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Wide receiver A.J. Brown was ready for the long haul and the big time as a member of the Tennessee Titans, for whom he was a growing star. Then came the April 2022 blockbuster. Tennessee traded him to the Philadelphia Eagles. He told Sports Illustrated that when he got the...

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A new report says buyers are giving the boot to a line of shoes and other items Adidas is marketing in partnership with pop star Beyoncé. The gap between expected sales and reality is about $200 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. A January 2022 Adidas news release hailed...

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Former NBA center Enes Freedom ripped LeBon James as a low-quality person after the latter captured the league’s scoring record on Tuesday. James, 38, surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and now owns the record for most points scored during a career. His Los Angeles Lakers did lose at home to the Oklahoma...

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Two Republican city council members in New Jersey have been slain in the last week after one was shot to death in the community of Franklin on Wednesday. Russell Heller, a 51-year-old GOP borough councilman in Milford, was shot to death in the parking lot of a building owned by...

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New information has been released in connection to a Massachusetts woman and her alleged murder of her children and suicide attempt. Recordings of calls between 911 dispatch and first responders reveal that Lindsay Clancy slit her own neck before jumping from the second floor of the Massachusetts home where she...

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Reality is storming the gates of the Magic Kingdom. Highlighting the new, less-reverent world in which the company functions, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis noted on the same day massive layoffs were announced that Florida will no longer roll over for Disney to give the company a free ride, according to...

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Alec Baldwin has denied any wrongdoing after the handgun he pointed at a cinematographer on the set of his film “Rust” went off, resulting in her death. The actor, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter last month, has insisted the revolver that killed Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 simply fired...

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As President Joe Biden's State of the Union address unfolded Tuesday, a theme emerged that can perhaps be best summarized as the following: You (the American people) pay too much while corporations and billionaires pay too little. The solution to this problem, according to Biden, is the heavy hand of...

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As she has often done throughout her illustrious career, Hollywood megastar Madonna garnered all sorts of headlines with her appearance at Sunday's Grammy Awards show. But these headlines weren't about some bombastic performance, outlandish political grandstanding or a cryptocurrency scam. No. Rather, these headlines were about her literal appearance at...

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The poet Robert Frost penned the line "good fences make good neighbors" back in 1914. Today he might have rephrased it to "secure national borders make safe citizens." When national borders are undermined -- as continues to be the case at the U.S. southern border -- illegal immigrants are free...

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