Fire damaged a grain processing building in Gisborne, New Zealand, on Thursday. Residents living near the Corson Grain Mill were evacuated from their homes but returned later in the day, according to the New Zealand Herald. The fire was listed as "suspicious,” according to New Zealand’s 1News. The fire was...

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The transformation from successful attorney to convicted killer was completed Friday after Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to two life sentences without parole for murdering his wife and one of his sons. Gone were the suits and well-cut hair that marked Murdaugh’s appearance during the trial that gripped thousands over the...

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Sen. John Fetterman's chief of staff is in an awkward situation after some of his past tweets regarding Donald Trump are coming back to haunt him. Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, checked himself into a hospital earlier this week to be treated for clinical depression. This followed a stroke he...

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Actor Tom Sizemore died Friday at the age of 61, more than two weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm. Sizemore played a variety of tough-guy characters, most notably Sgt. Mike Horvath in “Saving Private Ryan.” He also appeared in “Heat,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Black Hawk Down,” according...

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Actor Will Smith, who at his last awards-show appearance slapped presenter Chris Rock after a remark by Rock about Smith's wife, spoke about identifying with slaves during an awards presentation on Wednesday. Smith accepted a Beacon Award at the 14th annual African-American Film Critics Association Awards in Beverly Hills, California....

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The short film by the wife of actor Matthew McConaughey was ennoscriptd “Turbulence,” and it came courtesy of a scary moment on a Lufthansa jet that had been scheduled to fly from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday night. Instead, Lufthansa Flight 469 landed near Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International...

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In a move that feels positively Kennedy-esque, former President Donald Trump announced a proposal Friday to build 10 new futuristic "Freedom Cities" in the United States on federal lands, as a part of his "Quantum Leap" plan. The plan to "revolutionize the American standard of living" also calls for the...

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South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman reacted angrily Friday upon learning that an autopsy photo from the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh had been shared online. Murdaugh, 54, was found guilty Thursday of murdering his wife, Maggie, and his son Paul in 2021. On Friday, he was sentenced to...

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They call "Shark Tank" panelist and investor Kevin O'Leary "Mr. Wonderful" for a reason: He can find the silver lining in any cloudy situation. Sure, O'Leary is a well-known conservative, but he was gracious enough to call Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "great" during an appearance on CNN. Granted,...

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An Indiana deputy with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has died after falling ill during basic training. The sheriff's office announced his death in a Thursday statement. Deputy Asson Hacker, 33, was participating in basic training when he suddenly fell ill, the sheriff's office said. He was rushed to a...

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When it came to picking his Secretary of Transportation, President Joe Biden picked Pete Buttigieg, a man whose resume included 1) overperforming in a handful of presidential primaries and 2) being the mayor of the 335th-largest city in the United States of America. This, apparently, qualifies one to lead the...

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One does not wish to minimize the seriousness of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's condition. Less than a year after suffering a serious stroke and just days after he felt symptoms of lightheadedness, prompting another hospital visit, the newly minted member of the upper chamber checked himself into the hospital last...

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Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Friday that she will not execute death row prisoner Aaron Gunches, regardless of a warrant from the state’s Supreme Court. On Thursday, the Arizona Supreme Court scheduled Gunches' execution for April 6, saying it must grant the execution warrant because the appeals process was...

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So two years in, how is the Democratic Party's embrace of identity politics going for them? Let's start with the most obvious mistakes: Vice President Kamala Harris, who was chosen because of her multiracial background and her gender, the hapless White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a black female who...

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Rachael Ray announced Friday that her long-running daytime cooking show "Rachael Ray" is coming to an end. “In my more than 20 plus years in television I have had 17 wonderful seasons working in daytime television with 'Rachael,'” Ray said in a statement, according to Deadline. “However I’ve made the...

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After being evicted from the home that Queen Elizabeth gave them after they were married, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, might wage war over getting back some of what they spent to renovate Frogmore Cottage. The couple spent about $2.8 million on the Windsor, England, cottage, according to...

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California's leftist governor Gavin Newsom is being blasted for taking a vacation while Californians struggle to deal with the effects of a devastating winter storm. Tens of thousands of California residents are trapped in their homes without power after a massive winter storm battered parts of the state, but Gov....

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If this year's Conservative Political Action Conference is any indicator, the Republicans will have a strong field of contenders running for president in 2024. Former President Donald Trump announced his campaign in November. Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, threw her hat in...

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Note to self: Please file this with the Department of Redundancy Department. Because those scholars of repetition are probably the only folks around who'll find anything to appreciate about disgraced actor Jussie Smollett's latest round of, "No, really, I'M the victim." Over a year after being convicted of faking a...

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Fearing for its position as the most dim-witted city in America, San Francisco has once again proven that when it comes to half-baked simple-mindedness, it has no peer. The city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee has recommended compensating black residents harmed by slavery. This would be bad enough on its...

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An African journalist who raises the hackles of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre with his questions is fighting back after being banned from joining the White House Correspondents Association. Journalist Simon Ateba, who covers the White House for Today News Africa, announced in a tweet he will sue the...

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