FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that the agency believes the COVID-19 pandemic began due to a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 first erupted in China in late 2019 before leaping worldwide early the following year. Initially, China claimed the source of the virus was a market...

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We've heard a lot of crazy stories over the years from President Joe Biden. He's told us about his boyhood battle and ultimate triumph over the neighborhood thug, Corn Pop, the time he was arrested in South Africa in the 1970s when he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison,...

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Remember Paul Ryan? Well, apparently, he's going to be very angry if the GOP nominates Donald Trump again in 2024. In an interview that aired Sunday with Milwaukee's WISN-TV, the former Republican House speaker and Wisconsin resident said he would not even attend the Republican convention in Milwaukee next year...

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Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams was on to something when he argued at a Manhattan prayer breakfast Tuesday that you can't remove God from society, and especially our schools, and not expect social ills and violence to increase. Adams argued that if people want to build a world...

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As union leaders met with federal officials in Washington to discuss railroad safety, one union leader said workers assigned to the cleanup of the Norfolk Southern train that derailed Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, are falling ill. Leaders of 12 unions met with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Amit...

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Seven people were taken to hospitals Wednesday night after a Lufthansa plane flying from Texas to Germany made an emergency landing near Washington, D.C. Lufthansa Flight 469 was flying from Austin to Frankfurt when it encountered turbulence and landed at Dulles International Airport about 9:12 p.m., the Metropolitan Washington Airports...

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What if you, as a parent, were to find your 6th grader reading a book about two kids who drink alcohol and sexually experiment with one another? You'd be outraged, and rightly so. But let's go a step further: What if you discovered the book had been loaned to your...

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Arizona officials sounded the alarm about the devastating, pervasive impact the mass illegal immigration being incentivized by the Biden administration is having on their communities. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb testified Tuesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security as part of its hearing noscriptd “Every State is a Border...

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A San Francisco radio host who has been missing for a week is not coming back, according to his wife. Jeffrey Vandergrift, a host on KYLD-FM, which markets itself as WiLD 94.9 FM, was reported missing on Feb. 23, according to KTVU. Early Thursday, his wife, Natasha Yi, released an...

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A Kentucky prosecutor said a man who was behind bars facing charges in the shooting deaths of three police officers during a violent standoff now has another death on his hands: His own. According to the Lexington, Kentucky, Herald-Leader, Floyd County Commonwealth's Attorney Brent Turner said 50-year-old Lance Storz was...

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Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has accepted a teaching position at the University of Virginia after Wyoming voters threw her out of office last year. Cheney spent her last term not representing them, instead focusing on exacting a political vendetta against former President Donald Trump while serving as a prominent...

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George F. Kennan, the brilliant diplomat who invented and piloted the strategy of “containment” that defeated the Soviet Union without a world war, wrote that “war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it.” That’s just what is...

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The riots that rocked American cities in the summer of 2020 have been seared into the country's memory. Now, in New York City, they're going to be taking a big chunk of taxpayer dollars that will go to protesters allegedly abused by the city's police department as it tried to...

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Listen, in the grand scheme of things, there will be much worse, much more damning things to criticize the current President of the United States for. In fact, there already is quite a bit to scorch Joe Biden with/for, from the general state of East Palestine, Ohio, to the ongoing...

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President Joe Biden is being called out after he laughed Wednesday while he dismissed the pain of a mother whose sons died when they overdosed after accidentally ingesting fentanyl. The chuckle came as he defended himself from blame for the deaths, which he noted occurred before he took office. He...

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President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador on Thursday morning tweeted The tweet was written in English, suggesting that its intended audience was unlikely to be his own countrymen; Spanish is the official and most commonly spoken language in El Salvador. Bukele posted undated video of tombstones being broken up with...

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Twitter users have questions on Wednesday after Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania reportedly signed a letter to Norfolk Southern, in spite of the fact he remains hospitalized for clinical depression and other issues. Given Fetterman's physical condition after he suffered a stroke, and his ongoing struggle with his mental...

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Austin Butler, the actor who played Elvis Presley in the biopic "Elvis," recently made headlines after revealing that he had to visit the emergency room following the end of filming. In an interview with People during the People & Entertainment Weekly Red Carpet Live SAG Awards 2023 preshow on Feb....

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The U.S. Senate passed a bill Wednesday night requiring the Biden administration to declassify all intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and possible links the origins of the COVID-19 virus. The vote came after the Department of Energy concluded earlier this week with low confidence that the COVID-19...

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One of the greatest lies that atheists have sold to the general public in recent years is the idea that they are fighting for their right to not be forced into prayer. That is, overtly and covertly, simply not true. Or, at the very least, it's not true today. Once...

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