Left-wing actor Sean Penn is now dramatically embellishing his story about why he left his Oscar award statue in Ukraine -- apparently to make it all sound like a much bigger deal than it was in the beginning. Penn has been a big supporter of Ukraine in its quest to...

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Sidney Powell's defense attorney in the Fulton County, Georgia, RICO case regarding an alleged effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state accused county prosecutors Thursday of withholding exculpatory evidence in violation of the law. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee also made a key ruling...

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Former President Donald Trump reacted to the criminal indictment of Hunter Biden on Thursday. Trump, the leading GOP contender in the 2024 presidential race, pointed to the gun charges as the only criminal allegations against Biden that don't entangle his father, President Joe Biden. "This, the gun charge, is the...

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All is fair in politics and impeachment. This time, it is the Democrats’ feathers that are ruffled. As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy officially announced the House’s intention to investigate President Joe Biden, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi must have regretted her decision to forgo a House impeachment vote in 2019 in...

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Gun control does not achieve its advocates' stated purpose of reducing violent crime. Even if it did, we could not submit to it. But it does not. Thomas Sowell has often reminded us of gun-grabbers' zealotry in the face of contrary evidence. A recent act of gubernatorial tyranny provides an...

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Putting people in cages after they illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border is old news. In fact, for Democrats, it's so old it isn't worth noticing anymore. Retired ICE official John Fabbricatore posted photos on X on Wednesday showing illegal immigrants detained in Arizona. "Hundreds in custody on top of what...

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Rob Schneider is sounding the alarm about conditions for families in the state of California. Schneider criticized the state government's progressive extremism in a Monday tweet. "It is no longer safe to raise your children in California," Schneider asserted. The longtime Hollywood actor pointed to new legislation under consideration in...

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Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy continues to court young voters, whether by rapping along to an Eminem song or trying his hand at TikTok. Not only has he taken to the popular social media platform, but he got a boost from the Disney Channel star-turned-YouTuber and now-boxer Jake Paul. On...

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CBS News tried to paint Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a bigot in an interview in which he was probed about his state’s stance on bringing identity politics into classrooms. It backfired, as he was prepared to answer what was a loaded question. Florida teachers are not permitted to...

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President Joe Biden’s son could go from traipsing about the White House to dwelling in a jailhouse if he is convicted on all the charges against him and gets the maximum sentence allowed on all charges. The indictment against Hunter Biden, which was unveiled Thursday, charges Hunter Biden with three...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled against special counsel Jack Smith, limiting his access to the phone records of GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. The FBI seized Perry's phone in August 2022 before Smith was tapped to become special counsel as part of its investigation...

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It's the pot calling the kettle black. According to Fox News, a hilarious 2010 email unearthed from Hunter Biden's laptop shows President Joe Biden -- then the vice president -- and his son displaying righteous indignation over a line that then-President Barack Obama seemingly plagiarized from one of Biden's speeches....

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Whoopi Goldberg halted a political discussion on Thursday's episode of "The View" to ask co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin a deeply personal question. "Are you pregnant?" Goldberg asked a visibly shocked Griffin, who quickly responded: "No!" “Oh my god!" Griffin, 34, continued as she laughed and gasped over the question. "You...

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House Republicans on Wednesday presented a dossier of 22 instances they argue demonstrate President Joe Biden's involvement in his family's alleged "influence peddling schemes." The move came in direct response to claims from Democrats and their allies in the liberal media that there is no evidence supporting the impeachment of...

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President Donald Trump was asked about his views on transgender ideology during an interview with Megyn Kelly published Thursday. The former Fox News host brought up Trump's decision in 2012 to allow a man claiming to be a woman to participate in his Miss Universe contest as well as his...

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A coalition of Caribbean nations is seeking a formal apology and nearly $33 trillion from European governments for their role in the slave trade. Using an estimate of the value of the 2022 global economy provided by VisualCapitalist, the group’s demand is about a third of the $100 trillion figure....

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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has caught some flak after comparing unborn children to "lumps of coal." The former official from the administrations of both former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden made the comments during her Sunday afternoon MSNBC show, "Inside with Jen Psaki." "Because they...

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The FBI is paying close consideration to the safety concerns of prosecutors assigned to handle the criminal case against Hunter Biden. The bureau has created a special unit to investigate threats against those tasked with the case, according to congressional testimony obtained by NBC News. "Prosecutors and FBI agents involved...

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Every once in a while, a brief television segment reveals the distilled essence of privileged, racist, virtue-signaling liberalism. Thursday on "The View" -- home to daytime television's most repellent co-hosts -- the worst aspects of modern liberalism took center stage. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg -- perhaps inadvertently for once -- helped...

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Prominent Republicans believe the indictment of Hunter Biden is too good to be true. President Joe Biden's son was indicted on felony firearms charges in a federal court in Delaware on Thursday. The younger Biden faces three criminal counts for allegedly lying about his ongoing crack cocaine addiction on an...

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