It's difficult to call the "Austin Powers" series of movies a one-joke franchise, but at least most of the first film derived much of its humor from a single gag repeated over and over again: A 1960s super-spy, frozen in time and unfrozen 30 years later, would find the kind...

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American residents of South Africa are being warned of the chaos that could follow the failure of the nation's energy grid. The U.S. Embassy in South Africa released a security alert warning that likely outages could precede a wave of violent crime. The embassy cited a South African energy policy...

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The pastor of a Missouri church could feel a robbery was coming as four masked young men entered a recent service. He fought back with prayer. Pastor Marquaello Futrell was leading the Sunday morning service on Feb. 12 at All Creation Northview Holiness Family Church in Ferguson when the incident...

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Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California was heckled recently on the subject of aid to Ukraine. “Nancy, can you tell us why we have all the $150 billion going to Ukraine when we have homeless on our streets in your own city?” “Nancy, can I get some stock trading tips...

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The family of actor and artist Jansen Panettiere has announced that his death was the result of a heart condition. Jansen Panettiere, the brother of actress Hayden Panettiere, was found dead in his New York apartment on Feb. 19. "Though it offers little solace, the Medical Examiner reported Jansen's sudden...

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If you've been anywhere around popular entertainment in the last 30 years, you know who Patrick Warburton is. The iconic funnyman has been featured in some of the most culturally relevant television shows of recent memory ("Seinfeld" and "Family Guy"), as well as more niche, but no less beloved, shows...

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Environmental activist and legal expert Erin Brockovich has been a household name since Julia Roberts played her in the 2000 biopic that bears her name. On Friday, she used her star power to illuminate the ongoing ecological disaster in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. She challenged people at the highest...

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A Christian school in Vermont forfeited a girls high school basketball game and exited the state tournament rather than play an opponent with a transgender athlete on the team. Vermont law allows boys who claim they are girls to play on girls’ sports teams. However, the Mid Vermont Christian School...

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In a sign that the Biden administration is really starting to get worried, its lawyers are now holding meetings. On Monday, NPR reported that White House lawyers and strategists are meeting in a suite of rooms in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building that were formerly used by the secretary of...

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Norfolk Southern Railway's decision to conduct a controlled burn of the toxic chemicals spilled during a Feb. 3 train derailment may go down as one of the most foolish in corporate history. And the federal government's decision to minimize it may well become a defining moment in President Joe Biden's...

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A Tesla burst into flames following a collision in Arizona on Friday but its occupants were able to make it to safety. Firefighters in Scottsdale, Arizona, put out the blaze before it could cause any substantial damage to any surrounding property. KSAZ-TV reported the driver of an unknown Tesla model...

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On Friday, the CDC issued an ominous advisory about the rise of an "extensively drug resistant" stomach bug in the United States. The health advisory, which was issued mid-day Friday, warned about a spike in shigellosis across the United States. While shigellosis and the Shigella infections have been known for...

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He's a doctor in the House, and he's not happy. The revelation in a Wall Street Journal report published Sunday that investigators for the United States Department of Energy have concluded that the coronavirus pandemic likely started with a laboratory leak in China has brought new fuel to the fight over...

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A former White House doctor is sounding the alarm regarding President Joe Biden's mental health. On Saturday, Ronny Jackson, who was the White House physician under Barack Obama and Donald Trump and who currently serves as the congressman for Texas's 13th congressional district, took to Twitter with a stern and...

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Lady Gaga is being sued by a woman who returned her stolen dogs to her, claiming the singer failed to compensate her with the promised reward. Gaga's French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were stolen in 2021 when two people attacked her dog walker, Ryan Fischer, on a Los Angeles sidewalk,...

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The film "Jesus Revolution" more than doubled industry estimates, taking in over $15 million at the weekend box office and earning a third place finish overall. Deadline reported that the story about the Jesus movement in the late 1960s and 70s was forecasted to earn between $6 million and $7...

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Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel will require all 2024 GOP presidential contenders to sign a pledge to back the party’s nominee if they wish to participate in primary debates. That includes former President Donald Trump, who was the first candidate to enter the 2024 race. The GOP's nominee in...

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A sad part about covering some of the slimiest figures in politics and culture is the constant inundation of hypocrisy. It's almost enough to desensitize a writer or reporter to the non-stop stream of hypocritical double-talk spewing forth from their mouths. And yet, every once in a while, you encounter...

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There is a new style of synthetic meats on the verge of coming to market that industrialists and climate change fanatics are desperate to avoid talking about in one respect; this meat is made of precancerous or even cancerous cells. These new meat products, which technically really is meat because...

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Reporting from the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has left one Fox News journalist with lasting trauma, he revealed Saturday. Trey Yingst disclosed the effects of his experience in an opinion piece for USA Today. The journalist -- who previously reported from the Gaza Strip -- said his...

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