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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The high-profile case of Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and son almost two years ago, has been filled with twists that would rival a made-for-television movie. On Thursday, it got one more. On the day the defense was to...

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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the oldest member of Congress, has returned to her home state to address a medical issue, according to a report Thursday. A representative of Feinstein said the 89-year-old senator is "dealing with a health matter," The Washington Post reported. Feinstein “hopes to return to Washington...

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A Georgia woman was arrested and charged with a felony after she allegedly became irate when biscuits were left out of her Popeyes order and responded by driving into the building repeatedly. According to The Augusta Chronicle, the 50-year-old woman visited one of the chicken restaurant chain’s locations in the...

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Whoever coined the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" clearly didn't know too many mothers. Because if there is one hellish wrath on this planet that is unmatched, it's not that of a woman scorned -- it's that of a mother aggrieved. And President Joe Biden is...

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