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Rick Hurst, who portrayed the good-hearted Deputy Cletus Hogg on the long-running CBS action comedy The Dukes of Hazzard, died Thursday. He was 79. Hurst’s death was announced by the Cooter’s Place museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. He had just canceled a scheduled July 3-7 appearance there. “To fans, he was more than a character — he was family,” reads a Dukes of Hazzard post on Instagram. “His gentle smile, impeccable comedic timing and kind-hearted spirit made every scene brighter.

NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his lamentations on President Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night. As Meyers tells it, Congressional Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, are “collaborating” with Trump to “turn America into a military-style autocracy” and would’ve ratted out the original Tea Party to the British in 1773. Meyers was agreeing with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that the Founders would be ashamed of Trump’s actions when he went on one of his Meyers-esque digressions about what the proper term for “pants” was in the 18th century and then declared, “Now, if you’re...

Full Title: President Ronald Reagan's Address at the Omaha Beach Memorial Cemetery Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy, France

No one is surprised when the 60 Minutes crew at CBS congratulates itself for being "independent" of the Trump White House. That's unsubtle code for "we hate his guts and want to ruin him." But the I-word sounds ridiculous when you think of 60 Minutes and Democrats. Let's just focus on Scott Pelley's work just since Trump lost the 2020 election: CBS's Pelley Butters Up Obama, Bemoans 'Mistake' Being Too Nice to Trump (November 2020) State-Run TV: 60 Minutes Drools Over Biden in Syrupy Interview (September 2022) Pelley Touts Merrick Garland's Nonpartisan Moderation, Holocaust Stories (October 2023) '60 Minutes' Escorts...

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth-area affiliate KXAS and went viral on X Monday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) talked repeatedly about wanting to beat up and repeatedly “punch” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Leaving aside her sudden code switching in the last year, the incendiary rhetoric is the sort of thing ABC, CBS, and NBC would look to call out if the parties were reversed. Unsurprisingly, they ignored it on their flagship Monday evening and Tuesday morning news shows, thus giving their tacit approval. CNN and MSNBC were also uninterested. Here was Crockett’s full comment: I...

It’s finally happened. On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he will be imposing a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy products and 25 per cent tariffs on everything else, starting Tuesday. We have no idea what kind of negotiations took place between the Liberals and Trump. All we know is that Canada is now facing the greatest economic threat it has faced in decades.

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President Reagan's Address to the Nation on Christmas and the Situation in Poland from the Oval Office, December 23, 1981.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Pictures are Copyrighted to their respected owners.

Vice President Kamala Harris has a three-point lead over former President Donald Trump in Minnesota, but the presidential contest is nearly tied in New Hampshire. A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker finds that, if the election were held today, 48% of Likely New Hampshire voters would vote for Harris, while 47% would vote for former Trump. Three percent (3%) say they would vote for some other candidate, while another two percent (2%) are still undecided. In 2020, President Joe Biden beat Trump by a nearly eight-point margin in New Hampshire. (To see survey question...

An InsiderAdvantage survey of 800 likely voters in Pennsylvania conducted September 14-15 shows Donald Trump with a slim lead over Kamala Harris. The poll conducted by cell/text modes has a margin of error of 3.46%

The biggest loser in the first (and likely only) presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump was ABC News, which hosted the faceoff. The moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, embarrassed themselves and their network by, among other things, fact-checking Trump in real time on more than one occasion – sometimes incorrectly – while allowing Harris to spout serial lies and distortions. Social media blew up early on in the debate with commentators on the right, in particular, calling Tuesday night’s faceoff the worst and most one-sided debate in history.

It's been five weeks and counting since Kamala Harris emerged as the Democrat nominee and we're still waiting for her to submit to her first sit-down interview with the press. She promised to get an interview "scheduled" by the end of August (or Saturday). It's been a while -- she was on Morning Joe two months ago to talk up abortion "access." In Tuesday's Politico Playbook column, the reporters reported on how reporters are being asked which reporter should be selected for this weighty task.

Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98. He died Thursday of kidney failure at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said. Marshall helped define the form of the smooth, professional, but never-too-serious modern game show host on more than 5,000 episodes of the series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1981.

President Reagan's Address at a United States-France Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion/D-Day - 6/6/84.

Students at the Queen's University Belfast have staged a sit-in protest on campus calling for the removal of Hillary Clinton as chancellor. In a statement, the QUB Palestine Assembly said they want to see a democratic election process for the next chancellor. The group is also calling for Queen's to end all ties with universities in Israel, to issue a statement 'condemning Israel's mass killing of Palestinians and deliberate destruction of Gaza's educational infrastructure' and offer sanctuary status to Palestinian academics and students. They have also condemned terminology and some content used in the university's deeply divided societies course around...

Tim Horton loved cars more than he loved coffee, and it cost him his life. By 1973, the 43-year-old four-time Stanley Cup champion and future Hockey Hall of Famer had played 23 seasons in the NHL. Nonetheless, with the new season approaching, Buffalo Sabres general manager Punch Imlach enticed Horton to play an additional year for $150,000 and sweetened the deal with a sporty De Tomaso Ford Pantera. Imlach preyed on Horton’s lifelong weakness for fast cars, and the player couldn’t resist the offer of owning the supercar. Four months later, when Horton perished driving the sports car at breakneck...

On Thursday, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered an episode in which a white rape victim agonizes over prosecuting her rapist because he's black. In the episode, "Truth Embargo," the rape occurs during a mass smash-n-grab robbery of a high-end store. One of the masked looters spots a shopper in a bathing suit near the dressing room and attacks her. At the hospital, the victim, Natalie (Romina D'Ugo), falsely claims she did not see the rapist because he was wearing a mask. Video store cameras later show he took off his mask before entering the dressing area. Natalie's...

Between Tuesday and Wednesday, CBS and NBC have ignored their announcement of a Justice Department probe into far-left Congresswoman and Squad member Cori Bush (D-MO) on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. The probe, which reportedly concerns using campaign funds to pay her now-husband to be her bodyguard, is a scandal that could be used against her fellow Democrats, so CBS and NBC made sure to bury it. The only segment came on Wednesday’s Good Morning America with a very short, 58-second report on the ABC News program. Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos began: “Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush...

1972 World Series and other recorded TV items from the day.