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A statue of Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Arizona has been vandalized days after it was unveiled. Kirk was fatally shot a year ago on Sept. 10, 2025, at a college campus in Utah, where the 31-year-old urged students to prove him wrong. Instead, a leftist student killed Kirk because that man couldn’t beat Kirk with words. The shooter made Kirk's wife, Erika, a widow and took a father from Kirk's kids. Turning Point USA unveiled the statue to honor Charlie's legacy, but the Left couldn't handle that.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen said four fully vaccinated people tested positive for measles, the first such cases identified during the outbreak. Bogen made the announcement during a live update that was streamed Friday afternoon. You can watch the full update in the video player below. The fully vaccinated people who tested positive were three adults and one child from Centre, Jefferson, Lancaster, and Lycoming counties, and none were hospitalized. Bogen said breakthrough cases are rare. Nationwide, about 3% of measles cases this year have been in fully vaccinated people. Even when they do occur, illness is usually...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The events of that day shaped my life, even though I was a third grader more than a hundred miles from any of the attack sites, with no direct connection to anyone who was there. As I’ve reflected on the 25th anniversary of the events that reshaped our world, my mind kept returning to another day that created a similar “flashbulb memory” for an earlier generation of Americans. Nearly 85 years ago, on December 7, 1941, Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and other...

One year ago today, conservative leader Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University while doing what he did best: extending an olive branch to students of a different political ideology and engaging in direct, unfiltered conversations with college audiences. In tribute on the anniversary, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a video honoring Kirk as one of the greatest conservative leaders of our time. Rubio lauded Kirk’s work encouraging young conservatives to pursue marriage, have and raise children, and reaffirm the simple truth that America is the greatest nation on Earth, truths that bear repeating. He added that the...

It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Women have gone from demanding abortion to performing extremely late-term abortions at home, and they’re celebrated for it. It’s like the baby murder Olympics. Steinem died exactly as she wanted – alone, surrounded by people unrelated to her having cheerfully bragged of her abortion(s) and soon to be forgotten, as any leftist woman under 40 likely thinks he’s some kind of Zionist monster, based on her name. She outlived her rich husband of three years...

Cora Clancy was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months. I started there because apparently somebody has to. Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, strangled all three in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. She admits it. This week a jury couldn't decide whether she should be held criminally responsible. Eleven jurors reportedly favored acquittal. One didn't. After 38 hours of deliberation across seven days, the judge declared a mistrial. And outside the courthouse? Pink. Hundreds of people in pink shirts and bows, holding signs reading "Believe," "She Needed Help," and "Peace For Lindsay." Pink was Cora's...

The richest man in the world, who was laser-focused on delivering Pennsylvania for President Donald Trump in 2024, is wielding his wallet in the Keystone State once again to support Republicans in three swing congressional districts ahead of the midterms. America PAC, Musk’s super PAC, has contributed roughly $12,000 apiece in support of U.S. Reps. Ryan Mackenzie, of Lehigh; Rob Bresnahan, of Lackawanna; and Scott Perry, of York — all GOP incumbents facing tough reelection challenges, according to an independent expenditure report filed Wednesday. Though small potatoes in comparison, America PAC’s contributions in Pa. come roughly two years after Musk...

There was a hate crime in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday. Two gay men at a bar were gunned down; the suspect had a list of other gay establishments around the city, so this has become a hate crime investigation. Two things will ensure this story is suffocated with a pillow. The first is the most obvious: there are a lot of national stories dropping, including the new Venezuela oil deal, Canada freaking out over Lake Ontario’s name change, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Lindsay Clancy, and the upcoming GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. The second reason is...

So, maybe the Salem Witch Trials aren’t so bad. I will say that this video made the case that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote – I’m half-kidding. But I saw a tweet that pretty much said you can see why most religions and early social institutions of mankind kept a thumb on women, because these takes on the Lindsay Clancy case are insane. In less than a minute, you see a window into the modern American woman, and it’s a wasteland. This woman killed her kids, and we have to talk about how she’s sleep-deprived, how she’s paid enough...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — In a unanimous vote, the Franklin County Commissioners voted against renewing the county's contract with Flock Safety amid ongoing concerns over its use of automated license plate reader cameras (LPR). Commissioner Dean Horst said he, personally, has an issue with Flock in the database area in particular, despite moves to reduce the amount of time the data is kept from 30 days to seven days. "I think we're at the point now to where the lack of public trust in the system really concerns me, for us to stay in this conversation much longer," Horst...

Rep. Scott Perry opened up the home stretch of his re-election campaign taking dead aim at progressive Democrats he says will ruin America. Never mind that Janelle Stelson, his opponent in Pennsylvania’s 10th District House race, has consistently portrayed herself as a centrist, more comfortable with the political middle than the extremes. Perry, at a rally of Cumberland County Republicans at a Hampden Township restaurant Monday night, said Stelson, if elected to a new Democratic majority in the House, would be no more than a cog in a very dangerous machine. “These crazy people that are running (on the Democratic...

After months of ignoring questions and concerns regarding James Talarico’s romantic relationship with a former member of his Texas House staffer Brianna Menard, his campaign has finally confirmed that the pair’s relationship began while Menard worked in Talarico’s office. The Talarico campaign had previously suggested that Menard, who had worked in Talarico’s office from March 2020 until January 2023, did not begin a relationship with Talarico until leaving his office to work for Texas State Representative Salman Bhojani as his office’s chief of staff. According to a statement from Bhojani, Talarico himself reached out to secure Menard a position in...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania State Police are still working to identify whoever has been cutting down Flock cameras throughout Franklin County this summer as a protest against the cameras is just days away. One of the cameras, located near the Lowes off Lincoln Way E. in Chambersburg, was cut down July 4 and replaced with an American flag. Then, sometime overnight Sunday into Monday, troopers said another Flock camera was cut down off Moly Pitcher Highway in Antrim Township. READ MORE | Cameras cut down, replaced with American flag amid Flock debate in Franklin County Pennsylvania State Police...

It seems more New Yorkers aren't keen on the warmth of collectivism. Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended the funeral of Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad yesterday, where he had reportedly written a speech. But Mamdani was blocked from speaking, and that has reportedly made him very unhappy. Here's more: Mayor Zohran Mamdani was snubbed from eulogizing Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad at the fallen soldier’s Queens funeral Friday — and the embarrassing scene unfolded in real time as he fumed while waiting in vain to give his speech, sources revealed. Mamdani, who was relegated to the fourth row in the Ozone...

A non-citizen who was registered to vote in Lancaster County did vote and has been referred to law enforcement for investigation, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State. Above: Pennsylvania's voter registration process explained. "The four improper registrations about which the Department notified Lancaster County were a result of human error. In one instance, an individual filled out a paper application with the County and identified that they were a non-citizen, but the registration was approved anyway. That individual voted and has been referred to law enforcement for investigation," Department of State Communications Director Matt Heckel told WGAL News 8...

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times. It's an unprecedented defiance of congressional will for a man who has already received a sweeping presidential pardon. Congress would do well to vote to hold Fauci in contempt. Wednesday's intense senatorial standoff followed Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) earlier release of damning excerpts...

The Fauci diaries have been a very revealing insight into how not only Anthony Fauci but the media and Democrats ran the COVID response. This entry, however, may be one of the most revealing ones. Apparently, President Joe Biden spoke with China's President, Xi Jinping, who told the former that a dictatorship was the way to go in terms of COVID response. Here's some of that passage (emphasis original): "However, during the discussion the president began to philosophize a little bit about the stress that is on the country. He refers specifically to a conversation he had with Xi Jinping,...

In his latest appearance on Fox News, Sen. John Fetterman called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a “clown” for saying he might have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he comes to the city. Fetterman, a staunch Israel supporter who appeared on “Hannity” Wednesday night, mocked Mamdani for threatening to order Netanyahu’s arrest on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court but then backtracking earlier this week while admitting the city would not have the authority to do so. “So, sit down. You know you’re a clown,” Fetterman said, directing his comments to Mamdani. “You’re just going...

It’s been a tough week for Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico on the sexual abuse front, who is now battling with the public learning that his largest financial backer is listed in the Epstein files, is facing condemnation from an abuse victim’s family for lying, and is refusing to condemn a political ally who consorts with a sexual predator. Earlier today, it was revealed that Talarico had been receiving millions from billionaire Epstein-associated Reid Hoffman. Hoffman was featured prominently in the Epstein files for making trips to Jeffrey Epstein’s island and to other Epstein residences, as well as exchanging...

Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao took to social media to report no one from the U.S. Navy’s elite Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron will be reprimanded after a low-altitude pass went viral in Florida on Wednesday. “Flight debrief complete. No reprimands. No firings. No problem. That’s the sound of Freedom! Semper fi and Hooyah,” Cao said in a social media post that included a brief video clip of the jet zooming over the beach. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is encouraging low-altitude military flyovers. The video shows the Blue Angels flying so low over a crowded beach in Pensacola...