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LOS ANGELES, CA—After an eventful Oscars ceremony in which Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock over a quip about his wife's hair, comedienne Amy Schumer became horrified by the realization you can now get slapped in the face for telling a bad joke. "Wait, we can get slapped for this now?" she said wide-eyed. "Bad, poor-taste jokes about female body parts are all I know. Does that mean a psycho Hollywood star can slap me and just walk away and still get an award? Oh no! I have to get out of here!" According to sources, Schumer will be in hiding...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Key conservative initiatives are likely to fail in Kansas this year because a few Republicans are breaking with the rest of the Legislature's veto-proof GOP supermajorities. Republicans have pushed measures through the state Senate tightening election laws and weakening school vaccination requirements, but not with the two-thirds vote needed to override potential vetoes from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. A proposed change in the Kansas Constitution aimed at limiting future tax increases also died in the Senate for lack of a two-thirds vote. Because former President Donald Trump won over many conservatives and abortion opponents, his supporters...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine on Tuesday announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate, shaking up what has been a low-profile Democratic primary in a solidly red state. Busch Valentine's entrance into the race comes amid widespread calls from fellow Republicans for former Gov. Eric Greitens to drop out of the race after his ex-wife accused him of physically abusing her and one of their kids. The latest scandal renewed Republican concerns that Greitens could win the crowded GOP primary but emerge a damaged candidate in the general election, threatening the party's chances of keeping...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday continued her feud with tech giant Elon Musk. Warren, who has called the Tesla founder and SpaceX CEO a “freeloader” because he did not pay taxes in 2018 nor 2020, argued on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Musk “didn’t make it on his own.” She noted Musk “got huge investments from the government” and “taxpayers.”

New York Times economist Paul Krugman seems to be a glutton for punishment to his already pathetic track record of atrocious economic predictions. Krugman is back trying to gaslight Americans over the 40-year high inflation crisis — again — in an op-ed headlined, “How High Inflation Will Come Down.” Krugman gave credence to the asinine view of the Federal Reserve that “high inflation will be a temporary phenomenon. Furthermore, the Fed believes that it can bring inflation down relatively painlessly.” Even Krugman needed to slightly hedge from that ridiculous position: “The landing probably won’t be as soft as the Fed...

On Monday, the Tennessee legislature passed a bill that could make a candidate backed by Donald Trump ineligible to run for Congress this year. The legislation would require anyone seeking federal office in Tennessee to have lived in the state and district they wish to represent for at least three years. Morgan Ortagus, the Republican endorsed by Trump running in Tennessee's 5th district, just moved to the state last year. The bill now goes to Republican Governor Bill Lee's desk. Lee's office told Newsweek on Tuesday that they were reviewing the legislation.

Donald Trump leads President Biden by six points in a 2024 potential matchup, a Monday Harvard CAPS-Harris poll revealed. Trump’s lead widens if Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democrat nominee. Forty-nine percent selected Trump in that 2024 hypothetical matchup, while only 38 percent supported Harris.

Swiss police believe that four French family members committed suicide by jumping from their apartment balcony. Three adults and an eight-year old girl died last week after falling more than 20 metres from their flat in the lakeside city of Montreux. A 15-year old boy was also left seriously injured and remains in a coma in a stable condition in hospital. Police in Vaud said in a statement on Tuesday that they ruled out any third party involvement in their deaths. "The investigation into the tragedy that occurred in Montreux...suggests that all the victims jumped from the balcony one after...

(NO search results!) Making his first appearance during a White House Q&A since March 10 (when he asked Jen Psaki whether President Biden owns an electric car), Fox News’s Peter Doocy went toe-to-toe with Biden Monday over numerous statements the latter made during last week’s European excursion that drew condemnations from international leaders and White House walkbacks. Doocy surfaced partway through the 13-minute availability with “an important question” after Biden needled him about “ask[ing] a really nice question”: “Are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to doubt that America is back if some of...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

It's no secret that Joe Biden is in mental decline, but I believe we're just about on the precipice of a total failure. Yesterday Biden took questions from reporters. His handlers anticipated the questions that were to come (it was pretty obvious) and they printed out cue cards that Biden was to use to answer the expected questions. A reporter asked if he meant he was advocating for regime change in Russia Checks notes: 'If you weren't advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify?'I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards the actions of this...

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As the Walt Disney Company continues its attempts to smear Florida's efforts to protect children while signaling its own virtue, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) reminded the company that they don't have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to calling out others for perceived human rights violations. After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the state's latest law aimed at fortifying parents' rights and protecting the youngest members of the rising generation from woke indoctrination in school, Disney continued losing its collective mind. Repeating false claims about what HB 1557 prohibits in early education, the Walt Disney Company...

The delegations of Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul earlier today for a new round of negotiations to end the special military operation that Moscow launched on 24 February. Russian delegation received a "clearly articulated position" from Ukraine during the negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey on 29 March, chief Russian Negotiator Vladimir Medinsky has stated. He added that today's negotiations were "constructive" in their nature. He noted that Kiev's written proposals signalled Ukraine's readiness for compromise. "We have received written proposals from Ukraine confirming their readiness for a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status, along with a refusal to produce and deploy...

In a secret chat room run by a group of Russian-affiliated cybercriminals, a hacker expressed excitement about a plan to attack and disable more than 400 U.S. hospitals. “There will be panic,” the hacker wrote, in Russian. The hacking enterprise, called the Trickbot Group by federal prosecutors, and its affiliates had already collected hundreds of millions of dollars by shutting down emergency rooms, city governments and public schools since 2018. Security researchers and U.S. officials say the internal conversations amount to the most complete and candid public look yet at the operations of a criminal ransomware enterprise. A malware developer...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson flipped President Joe Biden's off-script comment over the weekend that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power to argue in favor of removing the commander in chief from office. The top-rated cable news personality advocated invoking the 25th Amendment after Biden appeared to break with his own White House on messaging regarding Russia's war in Ukraine. What really spooked Carlson was the uncertainty hanging over whether Biden actually wants regime change in Moscow after the president told reporters "nobody believes" he was "talking about taking down Putin" moments after insisting he wasn't walking back...

Over the weekend one of the big news events was Joe Biden, in a stumbling speech, demanding regime change in Russia. Of President Vladimir Putin, Biden said, "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power." But his staff at the White House immediately launched a coordinated walk-back campaign to say Biden didn't really mean what he said, which was a surprise to no one who's listened to his speeches in recent months. But now there is a real call for regime change. In the United States. "The most needed regime change right now is the one in the United...

On Friday evening, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), a member of the judiciary committee, released a statement explaining his decision to vote against the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court. Sasse engaged in several rounds of amiable and substantive exchanges with Jackson during her confirmation hearings, earning applause from observers who pronounced themselves aghast by the supposedly outrageous treatment of the nominee by other Republicans on the panel. The Nebraskan concluded that while Judge Jackson is sharp and qualified, he could not assent to her confirmation -- due to her record, ideology, and deflections on questions...

One of the biggest disputes that the agenda has triggered has been the fight over Lia Thomas, who was born male but claims to be female – and so is being allowed to compete on the Pennsylvania womens swim team in NCAA competition. But the reaction now is growing, to the point there's a new television commercial out blasting the movement's goals. Called "Compete," it shows Timken's background as a former female college athlete, and charges that the NCAA by allowing males to compete in women's sports is another failure of President Joe Biden and Democrats. "As a mom and...

The NFL believes it has a problem with having too few minority coaches among its ranks. So, they’ve decided to solve this problem by ordering each team to hire a “diverse person” to their offensive coaching staff. The league informed teams of the new requirement in a memo sent Monday afternoon. “All NFL teams will be required to have a “diverse person (female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority)” on staff as an offensive assistant in 2022,” Dallas Morning News reporter Michael Gehlken wrote. “This position will be funded, in part, by a stipend from league office....