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No television program in history drew more eyeballs than the Kansas City Chiefs’ 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The game wound up with a total audience delivery of 123.4 million average viewers across the platforms of CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision and CBS Sports. According to CBS Sports, 202.4 million viewers watched all or part of the game, which concluded with the Chiefs’ third Super Bowl win in the last five years. That number is the highest unduplicated total audience in history and up 10 percent against last year’s Super Bowl total of 184 million. On CBS, the...

A Florida couple is behind bars after police said they attempted an armed robbery at a Cape Coral Lowe's hardware store on Sunday, while wearing matching Cookie Monster pajamas. According to the Cape Coral Police Department, Charlie Perez, 22, and Jalina Sepulveda, 19, went into a Lowe’s hardware store on Sunday wearing matching Cookie Monster pajamas bottoms and tried to leave the store without paying for several items. When the pair were approached by the store’s loss prevention team, police said the man revealed a gun in his waistband, made threats and left the store. Police canvassed the area, but...

The United States has traditionally had a government whereby citizens elected officials who were empowered to make decisions for the public. That is the core principle of a representative republic. Just in the past year, however, we have seen our representatives in both the House and the Senate undermine the will of the people who elected them. Let’s consider just three issues: the debt ceiling, the border, and the Ukraine War. The Debt Ceiling: Despite Kevin McCarthy’s promises to hold the debt ceiling, he caved to Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. In meeting at the White House, he not only...

Ajury decided the fate of Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s former top prosecutor, last week. In her second federal criminal case in recent months, the jury convicted Mosby of one count of mortgage fraud for making false statements to multiple mortgage lending companies as she purchased two properties in Florida. They acquitted her on another count. Already convicted on two counts of perjury for lying about her finances when withdrawing $90,000 from her city retirement account to purchase the Florida homes, it seems certain that Mosby’s political career is over. But will she lose her license to practice the law? According to...

Question: Which Borders are More Important?I know this is going to sound like a rhetorical question, but could someone tell me why suddenly borders of other countries are more important than ours?This is a question being put out to not only the Real Americans out there but to all the blue and yellow flag waving warhawks who believe that we should empty the nation's treasury for a battle which is only going to escalate into something that no one wants.All while being invaded via air, land and sea.You see, I don't buy into the conventional wisdom that all of these...

"I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it" (Phil. 1:6). God always finishes what He starts. All who love Christ desire to be like Him in spiritual perfection and absolute holiness. We want to please Him in every respect. However, that noble pursuit is often met with frustration and discouragement as human frailties and sin block our pathway. Paul's cry in Romans 7 is ours as well: "That which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I...

Many have discussed a second Trump presidency revolving around “retribution.” Trump’s Republican primary opponents have claimed that Trump, if re-elected, would be consumed with “personal grievances” at the expense of “real issues.” Across the aisle, leftists have attempted to program the masses into believing that any form of “retribution” — more on what they mean by that later — would render President Trump a dictator. However, both narratives contain easily exposed flaws. The media have been champing at the bit to twist Trump’s words to advance their dictator narrative. In response, Trump has given smart political answers in saying winning...

Two special elections on the East Coast taking place Tuesday could provide some insight into what to expect up and down the ballot going into November’s general election. In New York’s 3rd Congressional District, former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) is facing off against Republican Mazi Pilip following the ousting of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). The district, which includes parts of Long Island and Queens, has become more purple in recent years, increasingly favoring Republicans at the local level. Further south in the Philadelphia suburb of Bucks County, Pa., Democrat Jim Prokopiak and Republican Candace Cabanas are competing to represent...

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The looming threat of a major cyber attack against the U.S. is becoming more likely after the FBI admitted that Chinese hackers are planning an all-out assault on the country’s power grid and infrastructure. A cyber attack against the United States would not just be devastating for Americans; it would also allow China to take advantage of the ensuing chaos, especially with it being an election year. According to U.S. officials, they have already foiled a state-backed Chinese effort to plant malware to damage civilian infrastructure.

The Senate voted early Tuesday morning to pass a $95 billion emergency defense spending bill, including $60 billion for Ukraine, after an all-night filibuster by conservative opponents finally ran out of steam shortly after 5 a.m. The 70-29 vote capped nearly a week of floor debate and four months of wrangling over President Biden’s request to fund the war in Ukraine, which he submitted to Congress in October

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs’ wife has picked the candidate she wants to represent Arizona’s Tucson-area 6th Congressional District. But it’s not her husband’s colleague, the incumbent Rep. Juan Ciscomani. Cindy Biggs has instead endorsed Kathleen Winn, a former conservative talk radio host and activist who is challenging Ciscomani, R-Ariz., from the right in this year's GOP primary race.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s latest ad showcases former President Trump’s past remarks mocking veterans as she attempts to ramp up her campaign ahead of the South Carolina primary later this month. Haley’s campaign released the roughly 90-second ad Monday, after Trump took aim at Haley’s husband for being absent; he is serving in the military overseas. The ad includes snippets of news reports discussing past remarks from Trump, including him reportedly calling soldiers who died overseas “losers” and “suckers.” The ad highlighted Haley’s response to Trump’s attack on her husband, who was deployed to Africa in June last year...

Tuesday's special election for the House seat formerly occupied by former Rep. George Santos’s, R-N.Y., could be a bellwether for how November 2024 will play out, as President Biden grapples with low job approval numbers and the Democratic candidate attempts to distance himself from the incumbent president. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found Biden's approval rating to be at 42%. According to the results of another survey conducted in early February, Biden's job approval is just 38%. Prior to Santos, the seat was last occupied by former Rep. Tom Suozzi, who decided not to seek re-election in 2022. Suozzi, who...

A confused-looking President Biden paced back and forth behind King Abdullah II of Jordan Monday, apparently unsure of where to stand ahead of the royal’s remarks. “Your majesty, over to you,” Biden, 81, told the king after welcoming him to the White House. As Abdullah prepared to deliver his speech, the president shuffled around behind him and the podium, gazing down at the floor as if looking for a mark indicating the proper place for him to stand. Biden waffled between two different spots before settling on what was initially his first choice, to Abdullah’s left side and in front...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 37-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office received information that connected the man to multiple sexual encounters with juveniles. The sheriff’s office said on Jan. 22 investigators got a tip that a man had sexually battered a 13-year-old girl. During the investigation, JSO also learned that the same man was accused of being sexually involved with another juvenile. nvestigators issued an arrest warrant for Ronnie Graham, who is a traveling musician at various churches in Jacksonville and Georgia. On Jan. 31, Graham was located in Douglas, Georgia and arrested on sexual battery,...

Lawmakers could force the supplemental to the floor through a discharge petition, which requires support from a majority of the chamber — meaning bipartisan participation. Democrats have a “ripe” discharge from last year’s debt limit showdown that already has 213 signatures. Five more would be a majority of the chamber. Some progressive lawmakers, though, are likely to remove their names from the petition if it is used to move the foreign aid package in protest of the inclusion of aid for Israel without conditions. That would mean more Republican signatures are needed — a heavy lift since signing a discharge...

Then-top Biden aide Susan Rice would privately slam fellow Cabinet member Xavier Becerra as a “b—h a–’’ and “idiot’’ over the migrant crisis — yet another sign of a White House in turmoil, a report said Monday. Rice insulted the Health and Human Services secretary and clashed with Vice President Kamala Harris, Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall and other officials while coordinating the administration’s border response as President Biden’s domestic policy adviser from January 2021 to May 2023, Axios reported. Sources told the outlet that Rice’s ire for Becerra stemmed from his failure to secure additional sheltering spaces for child...

A high-flying teacher at a Manhattan high school has refused to explain what she was doing in a locked staff bathroom stall with a 17-year-old pupil, or why she later handed him a wad of cash in a stairwell. Shoshana Leffler, 37, remains licensed to teach after resigning from the High School for Health Careers and Sciences last year rather than face questions over the seven-minute tryst that was partially caught on surveillance video. But investigators have concluded the Princeton University graduate 'engaged in an inappropriate relationship' with the boy who should have been in class at the time. 'What...