House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has rejected an invitation from the president of embattled Ukraine to visit the country, saying such a visit would not impact his "no blanks checks" position on Ukrainian aid. “I don’t have to go to Ukraine to understand where there’s a blank check or not," McCarthy...

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CBS host Stephen Colbert said the quiet part out loud on Wednesday night as he accused Fox News host Tucker Carlson of “gaslighting” Americans. The crude and unfunny host of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” admitted he is paid handsomely to manipulate his audience into feeling secure about the...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears to be batting 0-for-2 this week. The Ukrainian president has reported been denied a request to address the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at this years Oscars, making that the second turn-down from the Academy in as many years. That report came Thursday in an...

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Ever since Harry and Meghan made their Exodus to the states and broke with royalty, people have had very strong opinions about them and their decisions. Books have been written and sold, miniseries have been filmed, interviews have been shared -- and none of them seem to change anyone's mind,...

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Whoopi Goldberg is having a moment, as the kids like to say. On Tuesday, the co-host and de facto moderator of "The View" went apoplectic over the fact that Fox News host Tucker Carlson showed viewers unseen footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion. In the footage, which Carson...

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Don Lemon is on an island sulking and feels “ganged up on” since he returned to ratings-challenged “CNN This Morning” last month, according to a report Monday. The former primetime anchor was sidelined in the wake of remarks he made that portrayed women who are over the age of 50...

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In the world of woke politics and justice, "misgendering" is a worse crime than child molestation and murder. It shouldn’t be surprising that the most recent example of this can be found in California. It was recently reported that Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon had suspended lead prosecutor Shea...

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Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall shared an early excerpt from his upcoming memoir that will be released on the anniversary of the day he was gravely wounded while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hall was on the ground covering the war for the network when he and several others were...

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More than two dozen schoolgirls were hospitalized for anxiety and fainting after they played with an Ouija board at school in Colombia. According to reporting from the U.K.’s Jam Press that was picked up by The New York Post, 28 girls in total experienced “anxiety and other symptoms” after they...

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If you're a conspiracy theorist, these days your batting average is soaring. When Donald Trump and conservatives asserted early on that COVID likely originated in China's Wuhan lab, Democrats and their media allies rushed to cancel the common sense conclusion as a xenophobic conspiracy theory. But now, even the FBI...

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got help from an unlikely source in his seemingly never-ending fight against the indoctrination of minors -- the establishment media. During a news conference Wednesday in Tampa, DeSantis, presumed by many to be a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, shared a graphic video to illustrate the...

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after an accident at a Washington D.C. hotel. A representative for the Republican Senate leader clarified that McConnell expects to remain at the hospital "for a few days," according to Fox News. McConnell communications director David Popp revealed that McConnell had suffered...

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An Arizona rancher who has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of an illegal immigrant on his property told a 911 dispatcher not to send an ambulance to the scene. The New York Post obtained and published the call and an additional conversation between a U.S. Border Patrol...

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At an age when some women are just beginning their journeys of motherhood, Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert has announced she'll be venturing on a journey of grandmotherhood. The outspoken Republican firebrand was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference Women's Breakfast on Saturday in Maryland when she dropped the...

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Before we get into the story of what the left is trying to do to Elon Musk for daring to expose the truth about Twitter, here’s an update on Jan. 6 and Jacob Chansley. Chansley, alternately dubbed the "QAnon shaman,” was sentenced to four years in prison simply for going...

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The Satanic Temple and several other secular and anti-religion groups have been attempting to sue the State of Arkansas for years to force it to remove a monument featuring the Ten Commandments that sits on the grounds of the state Capitol building, but a motion filed in support of the...

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Perhaps this story hits me particularly hard because I am a father to a biracial child, but seriously: Colin Kaepernick is an awful, pathetic ingrate of a son. It is so wholly contemptible (and on-brand) for the former NFL quarterback to do this, however, it really shouldn't surprise anyone. Grifters...

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The CEO of the company whose train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last month appeared before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday. Alan Shaw, the CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway, apologized for the environmental disaster in the hearing, according to CNN. “I want to begin today by...

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President Harry Truman once reportedly quipped, "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It's a depression when you lose yours." If that's true, a depression descended on Canton, North Carolina, on Monday afternoon, when workers at the local paper mill were called to a meeting, according to Smoky...

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“Stakeholder capitalism” married ESG and, with their baby, cancel culture, jeopardizes Americans’ freedoms, security, standard of living, and opportunity. These ideologies politicizing corporations threaten small businesses, nonprofits and freedom-loving people. At the extremes, they drive energy suicide in the U.S. and Europe, increase costs, decrease reliability and choke investment --...

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Democrats have high regard for journalism and the sacredness of confidential sources, but only until the news cuts against their agenda. When former President Donald Trump went after the fake news media that told lies and smeared him, they called any criticism of the press a threat to democracy. But...

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