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During a Morning Joe segment focusing on an exposed Tucker Carlson text message to a colleague that the way some January 6th rioters were beating up an Antifa guy isn't "how white men fight," Michael Steele commented: The fact that something like that could be sent to a colleague and it sort of sits there, and nothing happens or comes from it, and it's not until you get into this sort of adversarial, prosecutorial setting in which it becomes public or potentially becomes public that they see some reaction. So it really speaks to the culture inside the building in...

A Tesla driver died in a fatal shooting at a Supercharger station in Denver, Colorado, over a dispute regarding charging their electric vehicles, according to the police

In a newly revealed text message, ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a racist comment and said he found himself briefly rooting for a mob of Trump supporters to kill a person.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine unexpectedly traveled to the Netherlands on Wednesday and was scheduled to speak in The Hague on Thursday, according to the Dutch wire service ANP. Mr. Zelensky made the trip after spending much of Wednesday denying Russian claims his country was responsible for an early morning drone attack on the Kremlin, saying that Ukraine was focused on the fight on its own soil. “We’re defending our villages and cities,” he said, while visiting Nordic leaders in Helsinki, Finland. In the Netherlands, Mr. Zelensky was also expected to meet with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and to visit...

Russia-installed managers at the Moscow-occupied atomic energy power plant in Zaporizhzhia are trying to leave the site over concerns about Ukraine's expected counteroffensive, according to the country's nuclear operator. Energoatom said on Telegram that the Moscow-appointed director of the site, Yuriy Chernichuk, had left the town of Enerhodar, where the plant is located, for occupied Crimea on Monday. The Ukrainian state enterprise had also said that the "pseudo management" of the site had urgently asked to go on leave. "The current so-called managers of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant show a desire to 'rest' en masse closer to the Kerch...

At least two people are dead and four were injured after a 19-year-old man allegedly opened fire at a Mississippi home early Sunday morning, police said. Cameron Everest Brand was arrested and charged with homicide. He was being held without bond.

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“Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,” 1 Tim 4:1

The implementation of LGBT ideology in the public school system, assisted by the takeover of the entertainment industry and the pushing of progressive politicians, has been phenomenally successful by any standard. When my first book The Culture War came out in 2016, less than five percent of the population identified as LGBT. That acronym has lengthened and scrambled (and will certainly continue to do so) as students are handed scores of sexual and gender identities that they can choose from, with the only boring and uncelebrated identity being “cisgender” or “heteronormative.” (“Cisgender,” according to trans activists, refers to someone who...

At 24 weeks, it was determined the fetus had no kidneys. But she couldn't terminate the pregnancy, according to state law

The American Federation of Teachers released a report with these findings and accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of siding with insurance companies... But the non-partisan insurance analyst group doesn’t believe it’s so cut and dry. Mark Friedlander, a spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, says there are several unique factors that are driving the state’s insurance rates. This includes insurance claims litigation, fraud and natural disasters. He uses the example of Hurricane Ian; the second most expensive “insurance loss event” in history.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man acted so brazenly when he stole a $500 leaf blower from a residence that it wasn’t a burglary, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. With Wednesday's decision, the court also vacated an 8- to 12-year prison sentence that had been given to Bertram. The justices also vacated a 491-day sentence Bertram received for violating his probation in an unrelated case.

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Within minutes of being released from police custody for a string of crimes, a man was back out there again Joshua R McLemore was contacted by police four separate times on Monday and Tuesday. McLemore was first contacted by police for theft of a backpack at 4:50 a.m. Monday. He was transported to the police station and the backpack was recovered by police and he was released with third-degree theft charges Within minutes of being released by police, McLemore was reportedly trying to get into someone’s car without permission at 5:40 a.m. in the 200 block of Lottie Street, Murphy...

The transgender daughter of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass, was sentenced to just one year of probation Wednesday after reaching a deal with a Boston court concerning a number of charges she faced stemming from her role in a violent protest in January. Riley Dowell was arrested by Boston police during the protest after allegedly spray-painting a monument and assaulting a police officer. She was ultimately charged with assault and battery on a police officer, vandalizing property, tagging property, vandalizing a historic marker/monument, and resisting arrest. According to local Fox affiliate WFXT, Dowell, who was 23 at the time...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as 'irresponsible' for her comments on the death of homeless man Jordan Neely. Neely, 30, was killed after he was put in a chokehold by a fellow passenger, a former Marine, on board a subway train on Monday night. The deceased man was known to many train riders in the Big Apple for his Michael Jackson impersonation. On Twitter, as protesters gathered on the Big Apple's subway system, AOC stoked the flames by stating that Neely had been 'murdered.' The medical examiner's office has confirmed that his death has...

Audrey Hepburn was born on the 4th of May, 1929, the daughter of a baron and baroness. She was Belgian royalty who became Hollywood’s equivalent: a much loved movie star, one of Bogie’s many great babes. She was nominated for 6 Oscars and won two. Her other major awards were: 3 BAFTA's, 1 Emmy, 2 Golden Globes, 1 Grammy, 1 Screen Actors Guild Award and 2 Tony's. That's modern royalty. Not inherited, but earned by hard work and intelligence, proved by her Hank Williams-like human-centered mastery of the English language in statements such as: “I was born with an enormous...

Singaporean band We Are Forest had their van broken into and robbed at a hotel car park in California during their U.S. tour. The band was staying at the Hampton Inn Oakland-Hayward when three of their guitars and some personal items were stolen. “The van was parked at the hotel carpark and when we were about to hit the road to the next destination in Sunset Boulevard, we found that some of our stuff was stolen like Darell’s (singer and bassist) bass,” the band told Coconuts Singapore. American emo rock band Ben Quad, who is currently on tour with We...

Former President Donald Trump will not put up a defense in his civil trial on allegations that he raped former columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s, his attorneys told a judge presiding over the case Wednesday. Trump's legal team had planned an expert witness to attempt to rebut Carroll's allegations in the case, but that witness was unable to testify due to "health issues," attorney Joe Tacopina told U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan. The expert was one of two people on the defense's witness list before the trial in a Manhattan court. The other person was Trump, though...

A homeless man's death has been ruled a homicide as protesters took to New York City's subway system to demonstrate his death at the hands of Marine veteran. Jordan Neely, 30, was shouting and pacing aboard an F train in Manhattan on Monday afternoon, witnesses and police said, when he was taken to the floor by a 24-year-old US Marine veteran from Long Island who is between deployments. His death has now been ruled a homicide caused by compression of the neck. The decision of whether or not to charge the Marine will be made by the district attorney's office....