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CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least twenty were shot, three fatally, in weekend shootings across Chicago. A teenage boy was shot and killed in North Lawndale on Sunday night, police said. The 16-year-old boy was walking on a sidewalk in the 2200-block of South Keeler Avenue just after 8:30 p.m. when two men got out of a car and started shooting, according to Chicago police. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was later pronounced dead. No one is in custody, and detectives are investigating. A man died after he...

Looking cool is just the tip of the iceberg for Mikaela Shiffrin, Travis Ganong and the rest of the U.S. ski team when they debut new race suits at the world championships. Even more, they want everyone thinking about climate change. The team’s predominantly blue-and-white suits depict an image of ice chunks floating in the ocean. It's a concept based on a satellite photo of icebergs breaking due to high temperatures. The suit was designed in collaboration with Kappa, the team’s technical apparel sponsor, and the nonprofit organization Protect Our Winters (POW). The Americans will wear the suits throughout the...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — Aiden Fucci entered a plea of guilty in the 2021 killing of St. Johns County 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey on Tuesday morning. Judge R. Lee Smith accepted Fucci’s plea to the count of first-degree murder.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) has invited Michael Brown Sr., the father of a teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer in Missouri in 2014, to the State of the Union, Politico Playbook reported on Monday. Brown’s son, Michael Brown, was a Black teenager who was fatally shot in an incident with police in Ferguson, Mo. The incident sparked national outrage and protests across the country, including the Black Lives Matter Movement. The ex-police officer who shot Brown was not charged for the incident. “The police killing of Michael Brown in 2014 is what propelled me and many...

A Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to the murder of 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey, according to reports. Aiden Fucci, 16, entered the plea ahead of jury selection for his first-degree murder trial in St. Johns on Monday, CBS 47 reports.

Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving “peace through strength” abroad. At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore “the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism.”...

"RINO" is such a funny acronym. The vast majority of the Republican base use it to disparage the small coalition actually vested with powers in the Republican Party. The people most proud to call themselves "Republican" are likely the same ones whom most Republican voters would call "Republican in name only." The RINOs rule, and the Republican voters hate them for it.

​​​Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said he doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump can beat President Biden in 2024 — and is considering jumping into the race to provide “new leadership.” Sununu, who won reelection to a fourth-term in New Hampshire on Nov. 8, said results of the midterm elections show Trump doesn’t have the same drawing power as he did in 2016. “No. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, November of ’22 showed us that, right? Trump is going to be seen as a very extreme candidate. The country is going to push back against it,” Sununu, 48, said...

While the Biden Administration’s State Department has begun handing out grants to alleged proponents of “freedom of speech,” such grants thus far have only been given to groups advocating for far-left ideas, with no representation for conservatives. Breitbart reports that grants for as much as $750,000 are being offered to groups that promote far-left views on such issues as “transgenderism,” abortion, and the sexual grooming of underaged children. In the State Department’s own “Notice of Funding Opportunity,” it demands that any potential candidates for the grants must “include women and girls in all their diversity; LGBTQI+ persons, transgender or gender-diverse...

Mark Steyn in 40 minute video discusses his contract with GBNews, how they want him to submit to OfCom the censorship organization in the UK. He also discusses the French vs. UK health systems and other items of interest. He appears in good health.

Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver's autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine. A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia's name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji. A Facebook user messaged her mother, Jessica Day-Weaver, to call her a "murderer" for having her child vaccinated. In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalizations with respiratory viruses. "The doctors haven't given us any information other than it was due to all...

Last week’s strange jobs report (massive discrepancy between the Establishment and Household data) did push expectations of further Fed rate hikes up. In fact, the US Treasury 10-year yield is up 10 basis points this morning. The US Treasury 10Y-3M yield curve remains inverted at -106 basis points while the implied Fed rate hike for the June 2023 FOMC meeting jumps to over 5%. Mortgage rates? Likely to rise.

The ghost of the early 1980s recession is haunting the Federal Reserve. With inflation still near 40-year highs and the U.S. economy slowing, the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes have fueled concerns of a central bank-induced recession akin to the one triggered by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker during the 1980s. While Volcker’s rate shock ended two decades of rising inflation, it did so at the cost of a severe recession. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has frequently praised Volcker’s refusal to back down and channeled that persistence into his own battle with inflation. But most economists believe Powell can wage a...

Stalwart conservative and three-time presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan has announced his retirement from writing a weekly syndicated column. Buchanan, 84, has been a longtime Newsmax insider. After making a national name as broadcaster and author, Buchanan ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He became the Reform Party nominee in 2000, espousing his strong opposition to outsourcing and illegal immigration. On television, Buchanan was a regular panelist on Sunday morning's long-running "The McLaughlin Group," and was an original host of CNN's "Crossfire." A prolific writer, he authored 14 books including "The Death of the West," "State...

Liberals in Canada folded amid backlash from farmers, hunters, and indigenous groups, and have removed hunting rifles and shotguns from the long list of firearms being banned under Prime Minister Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban. On May 10, 2020, Breitbart News noted Trudeau’s “assault weapons” ban targeted 1,500 firearms, a number of which were bolt action rifles. Bolt action rifles require manual operation of the action between shots in order to eject a spent shell casing and load a fresh cartridge into the chamber. Such an action is typical for traditional hunting rifles, not “assault weapons.”

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A substitute teacher at the King Middle School in Portland was removed from the classroom last week and banned from teaching at the school after parents discovered the sub had shared inappropriate sexualized TikTok videos with students.“On Thursday I was made aware of concerns that students were accessing videos late Wednesday on TikTok,” King Middle School Principal Caitlin LeClair said in an email to parents Friday.“As a result of our investigation the employee will not return to King,” said LeClair.The teacher in question was a substitute teacher named Lydia Lamere.The teacher has also gone by Chris Lamere, Lydia Moon, Clodagh...

South Carolina Democratic Rep. James Clyburn funneled six figures worth of campaign cash to two of his family members throughout the 2022 election cycle, filings show. The longtime congressman's campaign largesse included forking tens of thousands of dollars over to a company linked to his son-in-law. He also sent nearly $100,000 to his grandson, Federal Election Commission records show. While it's legal for federal politicians to pay family members from their campaigns, ethics experts have generally disapproved of the practice. Despite this, both political parties have taken advantage of the perk. Clyburn's family payments the last election cycle include $57,500...

After months of forensic investigation, German investigators have found no evidence of Russian involvement in last September’s blasts that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Germany’s Federal Prosecutor General, who is leading the official probe into the blasts, said in a newspaper interview published on Friday that there is no evidence tying Russia to the undersea explosions near the coast of Denmark.

Officials in the last administration denied that the airships had flown over the U.S. on their watch. The Biden administration is willing to brief former Trump officials on newly discovered intelligence that China sent spy balloons into U.S. airspace during their time in charge. The offer, described by senior Biden administration officials on Sunday night, comes as former President Donald Trump and senior members of his national security team say they were never briefed on such an incursion by a Beijing-sent aircraft. “This information was discovered after the prior administration left. The intelligence community is prepared to offer key officials...