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Legendary boxer George Foreman has died at the age of 76, his family announced on Friday night. Their statement, posted on Foreman's Instagram account, read: 'Our hearts are broken. With profound sorrow, we announced the passing of our beloved George Edward Foreman St. who peacefully departed on March 21, 2025 surrounded by loved ones. 'A devout preacher, a devoted husband, a loving father, and a proud grand and great grandfather, he lived a life marked by unwavering faith, humility, and purpose. 'Humanitarian, an Olympian, and two time heavyweight champion of the world, he was deeply respected - a force for...

Disney's live-action 'woke' remake of Snow White is shaping up to be one of the iconic franchise's worst-performing movies in recent years, according to initial box office figures. Snow White has been mired in controversy due to comments from its star Rachel Zegler and the absence of the iconic song 'Someday My Prince Will Come.' The first results from theaters have been revealed, and they're not great. The movie made just $3.5 million in Thursday previews and is projected to earn a disappointing $45 to $55 million during its opening weekend. That places the film below Disney's Little Mermaid remake,...

DNC chair Ken Martin railed against GOP at church town hall billed as a discussion about Medicaid A Pennsylvania priest admonished an audience of Democratic Party leaders at a town hall at his church on Thursday, saying he was misled about an event billed as a discussion about Medicaid that turned into a Democratic "stump speech." DNC chairman Ken Martin, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.), and other Democrats appeared at a "People's Town Hall" event held at the Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Pa., located in the district of freshman Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie. Though the event...

Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn said Friday on Fox News that crucial voter groups are fleeing the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party’s favorability rating plummeted to a new low of 29%, according to a CNN/SSRS poll conducted from March 6-9. During an appearance on “Hannity,” Penn said he was shocked at the current state of the Democratic Party and said he’s never seen its rating this low in decades. “I’ve never seen anything like this in over 40 years of polling. The Democratic Party ratings have collapsed from a 47% favorable down to 29, 27 in some of these polls,...

March 20 (Reuters) - Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from a country song of the same name. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Los Angeles in a ruling, opens new tab on Wednesday said the writers of Vince Vance and the Valiants' "All I Want for Christmas Is You" failed to show their song was objectively similar enough to Carey's to support their copyright infringement case. Attorneys for the songwriters, lawyers for Carey and spokespeople for her label, Sony Music (6758.T), opens...

Sad news . He was active right up until the end . R.I.P.

We now have more information on the corruption involved in the pause in LNG exports. Joe Biden approved the pause but didn’t know he did. When questioned by Speaker Johnson, Biden said he wouldn’t do that. During the Houthi attacks and the Ukraine crisis, Biden paused all LNG shipments to Europe. He halted the approval process for export licenses and facilities being built/planned to save the climate. A Louisiana judge granted a stay. It turns out that Secretary Granholm, a wholly unprincipled agent for the hard left, buried a report with data and conclusions refuting the premise they used to...

On the heels of his announcement that he plans to close the Department of Education, President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration will move the federal student-loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration in an effort to manage the program better. But experts warn that any move — should it withstand legal challenges — would likely create headaches for borrowers. “I’ve decided that the SBA, the Small Business Administration, headed by Kelly Loeffler, who is a terrific person, will handle all of the student-loan portfolio,” Trump said Friday. “We have a portfolio that’s very large, lots of loans, tens...

High-grade glioma, an aggressive form of pediatric and adult brain cancer, is challenging to treat given the tumor location, incidence of recurrence and difficulty for drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier. Researchers established a collaborative team to uncover a potential new avenue to address this disease. The team's study shows that high-grade glioma tumor cells harboring DNA alterations in the gene PDGFRA responded to the drug avapritinib, which is already approved by the US FDA to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors with a PDGFRA exon 18 mutation as well advanced systemic mastocytosis and indolent systemic mastocytosis. "We were excited to see...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion “investment framework” in the U.S., the White House announced Friday. The new framework “will substantially increase the UAE’s existing investments in the U.S. economy in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, and American manufacturing,” according to the administration. The UAE committed to the investments after President Trump hosted the UAE’s national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, and the heads of major UAE sovereign wealth funds and corporations for a meeting in the Oval Office earlier this week. Among the investments under the framework, the UAE investment fund ADQ and...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an object they've dubbed 'Big Wheel,' a gargantuan galaxy spinning through the early universe and growing larger by the second. The Big Wheel alongside some of its neighbors. (Image credit: Weichen Wang et al. (2025), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It's a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to reach us. We've dubbed it the Big Wheel, with our findings published March 17 in Nature Astronomy. This giant disk galaxy...

The Department of Government Efficiency( DOGE) issued a new update in its ongoing audit of the Social Security Administration (SSA). This program has been a significant focus for the department, and DOGE has issued weekly updates on its findings on X. In a post about Social Security made on March 18, 2025, DOGE announced a massive update on the number of active Social Security accounts DOGE posted a table of active social security numbers with extremely old ages. According to this table, DOGE has slashed almost 3.2 million active numbers over 120 years old. Before the change, millions of people...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently exposed a scandal revealing federal employees stealing millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase luxury cars, jewelry, and vacations. The story broke on The Daily Wire on March 19, 2025, and reveals more than a decade of corruption from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), originally established to mediate disputes between unions and businesses, eventually devolved into a haven of unchecked extravagance and nepotism. Investigations into FMCS corruption date back to the early 2010s during the Obama administration; despite disclosures of lawlessness, significant action never happened due to political inaction and a...

The mom and dad of an 11-year-old Casper youth player said what happened Sunday was “every hockey parent’s worst nightmare” — their son took a skate to the neck. A new rule mandating players wear neck guards likely saved his life. WARNING!!! GRAPHIC PICS AT SITE!!!........................... CASPER — Taking a razor-sharp skate to the neck is the nightmare fear of every hockey player and their families. But one Wyoming youth hockey family is praising a new rule that saved the life of an 11-year-old Casper player when his hockey nightmare happened. Casper Oilers assistant hockey coach Nick Lein said the...

The U.S. Agency for International Development coordinated closely with a State Department program to block what it considered “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” according to newly released government documents. America First Legal, a conservative legal group, obtained more than 200 pages from the State Department through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit about the Global Engagement Center, or GEC. The documents also show the controversial Global Engagement Center—which a congressional report concluded was federally-funded censorship—has cooperated with private journalism organizations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning the last year of the first Trump administration and early years of the Biden administration, the...

The Post-Conciliar Ecumenism and the Great DiscontinuityThere is no other error (or, rather, sum of errors) as specifically (neo)modernist as the so-called “ecumenism.” This is why rejecting it and the relativism and indifferentism it generates is absolutely necessary.One of the most debatable directions inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council is that in favor of ecumenism. In blatant contradiction to the Church’s constant Magisterial position regarding the positive reception of religious pluralism, this new teaching has become the dominant feature of post-conciliar Catholicism. Things have gone so far that, in addition to the formation of a special dicastery for the “promotion...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey doubled down on his resistance to President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan’s immigration enforcement efforts today, vowing that his city will be a “safe haven” for illegal immigrants.Speaking at a town hall with other Democrat leaders, including “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Frey said: “I want all of you just to know exactly where we are as far as our neighbors go, Minneapolis will continue to be a safe haven for undocumented immigrants.”“Regardless of who you are or where you come from, Minneapolis is a place where you should be proud to call...

A federal judge in Washington DC has attempted to block the president from deporting illegal alien members of a murderous Venezuelan prison gang. No, really. President Trump had the planeload of tattooed murderers flown off to El Salvador, citing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The act, passed by the American founders, allows the president to summarily deport illegal alien rapist murderers but only in the unlikely event a mean-spirited corruptocrat suffering from dementia should one day become president and allow said murderers to cross the border in droves at the behest of anti-American leftist conspirators while the media pretends...

A George Soros-backed activist group has called on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from leading the party in the chamber. Schumer has been facing backlash from his own coalition for allowing the advance of a Republican bill to fund the federal government, including from Indivisible, an activist network that has taken over $7.6 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundation since 2017. The co-executive director of Indivisible, Ezra Levin, said that Schumer was leading “the charge to wave the white flag of surrender.” “The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup...

Liberal TV host Bill Maher is reportedly going to visit the White House to meet President Trump. This is kind of amazing. Maher has had Trump Derangement Syndrome for years, although, to his credit, he has been a little bit better in recent months than he was during Trump’s first term. The big meeting is apparently being arranged by Kid Rock, who is a Trump supporter and has repeatedly appeared on Maher’s show. Who knows? This could end up turning Maher around. President Trump has a great record of changing people’s minds when they get a chance to meet him...