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For centuries, men built and defended Western civilization -- from its farms and cities to its laws, its art, and its moral order. But in just a few generations, that foundation has been shaken. Masculinity, once honored as the engine of strength, protection, and leadership, is now treated as a social problem. The very qualities that sustained families, communities, and nations are being redefined as “toxic.” Today, masculinity itself is treated as something to be “reformed” or “re-educated.” What happened? How did the very qualities that built the modern world become objects of suspicion and ridicule? The truth is simpler:...

Ex-White House residents Bill and Hillary Clinton were mocked on social media Tuesday after the former first lady criticized President Trump’s latest construction project at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hillary took issue with the demolition that began Monday on the East Wing of the White House to accommodate Trump’s massive $250 million ballroom, making it clear that she’s no fan of the renovation. “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,” she wrote on X Tuesday morning. Hillary included an image taken from the Washington Post’s coverage of the partial teardown in her tweet, showing rubble piling up...

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Karoline Leavitt has obliterated Joe Biden's former press secretary in a scathing on-air takedown, calling her 'bitter' as she embarks on a nationwide media blitz to sell her memoir. Leavitt was speaking with Jesse Watters on Fox when she was asked to respond to Karine Jean-Pierre's recent rebuke calling her 'deplorable.' Without missing a beat, Leavitt launched into a 90-second blitz on Jean-Pierre's character and role in the White House during her time under Biden. 'With all due respect to my predecessor, she is one of the main culprits of the greatest cover-up and scandals in American history,' she said....

When Taylor Edwards and her husband Travis first learned they were pregnant in late 2022, they were filled with joy — and relief. After more than two years of trying, and three rounds of IVF, they would be parents. "With IVF and infertility, you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop," says Edwards, 33. After she passed her 12-week mark into her second trimester, she felt like she could relax. "I was like, 'Finally. I've run a marathon. I did it. It's my turn to be a mom.' " But when she and Travis, 34, went in for...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — On Monday, Fairfax County Public Schools placed a teacher, who reported information about school staff allegedly arranging abortions for students, on paid administrative leave. The Centreville High School teacher’s leave is effective immediately, pending the conclusion of FCPS’s ongoing investigation focusing on concerns that she “may have engaged in serious professional misconduct.” On Tuesday, Zenaida Perez told 7News that she believes FCPS is retaliating against her for going public with the abortion story, which has received national media attention. “They are now suspending me with pay indefinitely," Perez told 7News on Tuesday. "Who knows until...

Many GOP senators raised concerns directly with President Donald Trump on Tuesday about his idea to buy more beef from Argentina, according to four Republicans who attended a lunch hosted at the White House. The Rose Garden lunch was initially scheduled to celebrate GOP unity on the shutdown and clearing Trump’s nominees, but farm-state Republicans have been on edge after the president announced Sunday that he was considering a deal with one of American ranchers’ biggest competitors in order to lower food prices. Trump told lawmakers that he was worried about consumer beef prices in the U.S. but also worried...

As country music grew in popularity in America throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the roots of the genre also took hold in an unlikely place: Japan.A detail from the 1971 album of The Bluegrass 45, a legendary bluegrass band from Kobe, Japan. Rebel RecordsDuring World War II, the Armed Forces Radio Service provided entertainment for American troops stationed in Japan. But in the days after the war ended in 1945, the United States established a more permanent, far-reaching band of stations for its servicemembers remaining on bases in the rebuilding country. Until it was disbanded in 1997, this was known...

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew on Tuesday after his involvement in racist leaked texts from Young Republicans leaders. Ingrassia announced that he is withdrawing from a hearing for his Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs appointment. Ingrassia reportedly described himself as having a “Nazi streak” in the messages that were leaked and first reported on by Politico. “I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time,” he wrote. “I appreciate the...

Kiss rocker Gene Simmons called out Jewish Hollywood celebrities pushing “incendiary” anti-Israel propaganda. “They don’t understand, they’re just idiots,” the “I Love It Loud” singer said. “Hey guys, my name is Haim, born in Haifa,” Simmons said in Hebrew, before switching to English, adding, “I’m one of you guys, so don’t worry about all the Jewish morons who are running around saying all kinds of incendiary things. They don’t understand, they’re just idiots.” “If they spent a day with you, and saw — well, imagine this, you live in Beverly Hills and 35,000 rockets come in that week from Pasadena,...

Hillary Clinton continues to turn heads with her new-and-improved look. On Thursday, October 16, the former secretary of state, 77, attended the opening night of the revival of Ragtime on Broadway at The Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City. Celebrities — including Anna Wintour, Woody Allen, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt — were among those who took in the musical, running now through January. At the event, Hillary wore a bright blue outfit with a matching scarf wrapped around her neck while smiling at the camera — but it was her bizarrely youthful appearance that caught...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A massive virtual arcade located on the Las Vegas Strip filed for bankruptcy after just one year of operation, facing a pending eviction and millions in unpaid claims, court documents show. The Electric Playhouse in Las Vegas, a high-tech gaming and dining center inside a mall at the world renowned Caesars Palace resort, submitted the filings in federal court on Monday. The filing requested that the motions for bankruptcy be heard on an accelerated timeline so that current employees can be paid on Friday.The sprawling 10,000-square-foot Las Vegas gaming venue is equipped with a network of...

Ireland has officially joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an associate member state. CERN is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world on the Franco-Swiss border, just outside Geneva. The main focus of activity in CERN is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-km (17-mile) underground ring in which protons are accelerated and collided into one another. Associate membership will allow Ireland’s researchers to participate in CERN’s scientific programs and will make Irish citizens eligible for staff positions and fellowships at CERN. …

On Oct. 20, 2024, Donald Trump performed one of the finest acts of campaign trolling in the history of American politics by working the fryer and serving meals at a McDonald's franchise in eastern Pennsylvania. "Now I have worked at McDonald's," he told reporters while wearing an employee apron and leaning out the drive-thru window. "I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala, she never worked here." Trump's ingenious gambit had the intended effect by highlighting the lack of evidence for Kamala Harris's dubious claim that she "did fries and ... the cashier" at a McDonald's in California during...

Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only cautioned pregnant women in September against taking excessive amounts of Tylenol because the drug has been linked to autism in children, the agency has in fact known of such links since 2016, the Daily Caller reported Tuesday.Moreover, the FDA repeatedly refused to update its advice regarding Tylenol despite recommendations from its drug-safety experts that notifying expectant mothers of the potential risks was “needed,” “important,” or “desirable.”Untriggered WarningsThe Daily Caller News Foundation obtained relevant internal FDA documents from law firm Keller Postman LLC, which got them via a Freedom of Information Act request....

Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote in her new book that she didn't think former Vice President Kamala Harris would win the election. "When I woke up, it was over. Harris had lost. I received calls from friends who were distraught or numb with disbelief. But I wasn’t surprised by the outcome. The truth was, I never really believed Harris could win. I’d been in the body of a Black woman all my life. I’d stood at the podium in the White House briefing room, traveled in my chocolate skin through rural towns, and all my experiences of...

Bean's 'One does not simply walk into Mordor' moment became a quintessential memeNEED TO KNOW -Sean Bean opened up about starring in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Boromir -Bean explained that some of his “gravitas” in his delivery of his now-iconic line “One does not simply walk into Mordor” was because he was reading his lines off a card -Bean said writer and director Peter Jackson was re-writing his monologue until the last moment Sean Bean had one of the most famous moments in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, but it almost...

Look out, Frodo!A bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out cosmic radiation is pointing straight at us. Thankfully, the object, unimaginatively dubbed “PKS 1424+240,” is located roughly 7.4 billion light-years away and likely won’t pose much of a danger. But that hasn’t stopped a group of excited astronomers from renaming it: the “Eye of Sauron,” the symbol adopted by the Dark Lord in JRR Tolkien’s epic “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. A new image of the object was recently unveiled, revealing a bright, hot center with cosmic waves spinning around it, spewing a jet of plasma...