President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, and he has invited the leaders of both countries to the White House for peace talks. "I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu,...

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“Malcolm in the Middle” was one of those rare, modern-ish, long-running shows that never felt forced, as far as the writing went. If you grew up middle-class or with parents who worked to pay the bills, it felt like a funnier version of your own family, barely holding it together....

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A quick-thinking and courageous gas station clerk helped rescue a 16-year-old girl from a kidnapping and probably worse. According to WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan, Abdulrahman Abohatem, store clerk at the Detroit-area Sunoco gas station into which the alleged abductor brought the girl around 7:30 a.m. Monday, recognized something odd in...

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Minnesota prosecutors announced Thursday that they have charged and issued an arrest warrant for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer they said brandished his weapon at two motorists during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis in February. "A nationwide warrant has been issued for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, of Temple...

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House Democrats managed to pass a bill on Thursday to poke President Donald Trump in the eye over immigration enforcement -- and they had double-digit help from Republicans to do it. Ten Republicans bucked their party and their president while voting to keep temporary protected status in place for more...

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You know, the cynics are wrong. Well, maybe not all the cynics. For instance, people who are cynical about the Kardashians' effect on good taste and women's mental health are right. But there's a broader class of cynic out there -- the cynic who says that pain is the most...

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Chicago, Illinois, once again proved itself to be one of the worst cities in the nation. A father and former business owner died after receiving blunt force trauma from his assailants during an altercation at a bar last month. CBS News reported that 25-year-old Alexander "Zander" Kazanowski was discovered unresponsive...

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The Godfather might have put it best: "It's nothing personal. It's strictly business." That was the message a coffee shop chain born in San Francisco is putting out about its decision to remove "pride" flags from its stores' decor -- a decision that sparked outrage among the kind of gay...

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The Iranian economy, which was already on shaky ground before the war with the United States and Israel began, may face collapse if the U.S. naval blockade of the country continues. The U.S. Central Command posted on social media Thursday that it has turned 14 ships around since the U.S....

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In the ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, it's not the president who appears ready to fire off the latest salvo. Rather, it appears Powell is planning a move against the man who has long been tied to his potential ouster, per Politico. The...

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Fairfax County, Virginia, decided students should no longer get Veterans Day as a holiday. However, Indigenous Peoples' Day is one "holiday" they'll gladly keep. FFX Now reported on Monday that the county school board has arrived at their calendar for the next academic year, which reduced the number of early...

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Times appear to be changing at the Supreme Court. The high court's decorum is well-documented history, with the warm respect and friendship shared between ideological opposites Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being a prime example of that. These days, however, there hasn't been much warmth...

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Music nerds who were Very Online™ some 20-odd years ago might recall the strange diss battle between deliberately elitist review outlet Pitchfork and an obscure band called Joan of Arc. In fact, Joan of Arc and lead singer Tim Kinsella were mostly known for the scathing reviews they drew from...

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For the third time in this iteration of the Donald Trump administration, we've had a series of astroturfed "No Kings" protests. The good news is that they worked. Friday will mark 91,232 days in America since we stopped having a king. Without these purple-haired retiree holdovers from the "Give Peace...

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Hoo, boy, did the legacy media really have President Donald Trump and his policies dead to rights this time. On Thursday, readers began seeing photos of meals being served to U.S. service members serving in the Middle East being posted on social media, and they were brutal. They made Michelle...

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Todd Lyons, the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is stepping down, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Thursday. “Director Lyons has been a great leader of ICE and key player in helping the Trump administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities," Mullin...

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This November, in a number of swing states or states that are normally red, Democrats are going to ask you to vote blue because they've nominated what they term "moderates." It's how they won an overwhelming victory in Virginia in that state's off-year gubernatorial election. Former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger...

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Iran announced Friday that the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial traffic for the duration of the current ceasefire. The statement came from Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi in a post on the social media platform X. “In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all...

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A new report said that one proposal to end the war with Iran would involve releasing $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in exchange for its stock of enriched uranium. The report came from Axios, which framed the concept as part of multiple pieces of a proposed deal and cited...

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A court filing claiming Hunter Biden is living overseas is not true, according to a new report. In early April, Barry Coburn, an attorney representing former President Joe Biden’s son, touched on Hunter Biden’s residence in an April 6 filing as part of a lawsuit over legal fees Hunter Biden...

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The Tennessee General Assembly has had enough of Memphis' soft-on-crime officials. To address a city that most Tennesseans avoid like the plague for its lack of safety, the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed HB 483 and SB 443 respectively, which give the attorney general the authority to...

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