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Former Biden administration official Sam Brinton, who made headlines last year by being the White House’s first gender-fluid bureaucrat, appeared in court Wednesday to face charges that he stole luggage from the Minneapolis airport last year. Brinton, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste...

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After a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hardly acted with alacrity. For 10 days, the nation's top transportation official was silent, according to Fox News, after a Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. On...

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In her new book on the "climate crisis," Greta Thunberg -- the horror-movie Pippi Longstocking ventriloquist doll that simply won't. go. away. -- says that relying on capitalism and market economics to stop climate change is a "terrible idea." "Leaving capitalist consumerism and market economics as the dominant stewards of...

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Buoyed by coverage of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, Fox News swept both the primetime and total day cable viewership categories for the first full week of the month -- and it wasn't even close. Fox averaged 2.5 million viewers for the week of Feb. 6-12, compared...

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I trust that you, dear reader, are not stupid. So I'll get straight to the point. You know what the rainbow flag stands for. You also know what the Roman Catholic Church's position is on the vast majority of things the rainbow flag stands for. So imagine that, in a...

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For actress Candace Cameron Bure, success is sweeter when it comes after she was attacked for standing firm in her Christian beliefs. On Friday, Bure won two top prizes at the 30th annual Movieguide Awards in Los Angeles, which celebrate excellence in Christian entertainment. The "Full House" alum received the...

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The long-running animated series “South Park” skewered Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry over their empty calls for privacy on Wednesday. The mockery of the couple was relentless, and it aired just a week after the show’s creators took on Kanye West (spoilers below). The episode, which is noscriptd...

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President Joe Biden is being criticized after calling the black Democratic governor of Maryland “boy” during remarks on Wednesday. “You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell ya,” Biden said in a speech to a group of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union members in...

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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld hit it out of the park on Tuesday as his eponymous late-night show was the sixth-most-watched cable news program. The 11 p.m. ET episode of “Gutfeld!,” which featured un-canceled comedian Roseanne Barr as a guest, obliterated its competition. (Barr is set to host a comedy...

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Dodge has added a fake exhaust system to an electric vehicle that is supposed to offer its drivers a more authentic muscle car experience. The system does generate a sound, but it is anything but genuine -- even if the car itself looks pretty sharp. Fox News reported the Dodge...

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Most people assume that a shelter dog's biggest dream is to find a family of their own, and it's true that many dogs deteriorate behaviorally when they've been in a shelter too long and the stress gets to them. But that's not true of Bailey, a German shepherd and Siberian...

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Singer Sam Smith received an icy reception in New York City this week just days after he performed a satanic set at the Grammy Awards. Smith put on a show complete with devil horns as he and singer Kim Petras performed a single aptly noscriptd "Unholy." The production earned the...

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For months, people have speculated on who discovered the bodies of four murdered University of Idaho students on Nov. 13. NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield reported on her "Banfield" show Tuesday that sources revealed Ethan Chapin's best friend, whom she did not name, discovered the bodies of Chapin and his girlfriend, Xana...

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On Wednesday, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his proposal called the "Digital Bill of Rights" aimed at protecting the people of Florida from big tech companies. This proposal is designed to safeguard citizens from the potential overreach of these companies and their harmful practices. By now, most of us...

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CNN's Don Lemon made a belittling comment about women on his low-rated morning show Thursday and cited Google as his source. In today's society, overt sexism is not generally tolerated. In Lemon's case, we can probably assume his comment was made with confidence and without fear of repercussion because he...

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The word "embarrassing" barely begins to describe it. A Georgia Democrat who took the floor of the state Senate on Tuesday to attack a GOP proposal to honor Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with a statue on Capitol grounds in Atlanta ended up putting his own disgraceful ignorance on full...

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A New Zealander commercial pilot has been taken hostage by a group of militants who demand their province's independence from Indonesia. Pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens was taken prisoner by the West Papua Liberation Army as he sought to airlift a group of construction workers out of the unstable Papua province...

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Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized for the second time in just over a week, according to news reports. Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Wednesday night to be treated for clinical depression, CNBC reported. “While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life,...

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A-list actor Keanu Reeves is deeply worried about how artificial intelligence technology is affecting human artists and actors in this age of deepfakes, computer "de-aging" of actors, digital use of deceased actors, and outright replacement of human actors in our entertainment. The actor, perhaps best known as the hero who...

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A Florida woman shot and killed an armed man who attempted to open her front door in the middle of the night, according to police. Deputies in Putnam County reported the incident occurred in the early morning hours Wednesday in the small town of Interlachen, about 30 miles east of...

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