A Texas high school football player, apparently angry that he had been ejected from a playoff game, body-slammed an official Thursday evening. KVEO-TV reported Emmanuel Duron, a senior defensive lineman for the Edinburg High School football team in South Texas, was thrown out of the game after two personal foul penalties. Edinburg was hosting Pharr-San…

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An apparent human smuggling operation was discovered in Houston on Thursday, according to Houston police. Police first received a report that a man in his underwear was running down a street claiming he had been kidnapped. After police responded, they entered a house to find 29 people in the house, according to KHOU-TV. Police listed…

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Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California funneled about $240,000 to her daughter during the 2020 campaign, according to federal documents. Federal Election Commission filings show that during the 2019-2020 campaign cycle, Karen Waters received about $213,000 as of the start of the last reporting period. The latest report for the final quarter of the campaign…

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Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp called for a signature audit of mail-in ballots following new testimony that was presented over allegations of voter fraud in his state during a Thursday Fox News interview. “I think [a signature audit] should be done,” Kemp said, adding that the power to make the order lies with the secretary…

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The rollout challenges on COVID-19 vaccines aren’t just logistical. There’s also the matter of uptake. While the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna were both over 90 percent effective in trials, polls found Americans divided over whether they’d take the vaccines for themselves. A survey from Pew Research, conducted between Nov. 18 and Nov. 29, found…

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Apparently, neither Joy Behar of “The View” nor Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, has heard of the Goldwater Rule. The text of the rule from the American Psychiatric Association: “On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed…

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Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden gave details about the incident that left him with a hairline fracture in his foot during his first joint interview since the 2020 Election with presumptive Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Thursday. “What happened was I got out of the shower, I’ve got a dog, and anyone who has been around my…

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Democrat Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, is facing a backlash for the supposed lack of racial and ethnic diversity within the Cabinet he is assembling. Assuming Biden takes office on Jan. 20, the 78-year-old will be the oldest person to ever become the U.S. president. Take into account that the former vice president is also…

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that he will assume the role of chief medical adviser to the White House in January. Fauci, who is currently director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was tapped by presumptive potential President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday to fill the job. During an appearance Friday on NBC’s…

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Former Speaker of House Newt Gingrich is encouraging Georgia conservatives to ignore the “destructive” rhetoric of attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell ahead of the Jan. 5 Georgia Senate runoffs. Powell and Wood have been telling Georgia Republicans to not vote for incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler unless they do more to…

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It’s good to know that, in this age of overzealous Twitter censors finger-wagging at politicians, slapping their posts with the exclamation-pointed fact-check label of official disapproval, the social media platform is giving one vocal government employee pretty wide latitude to say some edgy things about a sitting U.S. senator. Granted, those things involve multiple uses…

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More than 16 years after the death of former President Ronald Reagan, the country’s 40th president is still a source for wisdom, and many of his greatest quotes have proved to be timeless. Sadly, many of them might actually apply more today than they ever did during the Cold War. In 1975, Reagan told “60 Minutes”…

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U.S. Attorney John Durham is seeking a prison sentence of up to six months for Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email from the CIA regarding former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Durham asked a federal judge in a court filing on Thursday to sentence Clinesmith to a jail…

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A fugitive who shot a Massachusetts state trooper in the hand during a traffic stop two weeks ago was killed early Friday during a gunfight with U.S. marshals in New York City that left two of the officers wounded. The two deputy marshals injured in the 5:30 a.m. confrontation in the Bronx were treated at…

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The likelihood of Congress delivering another coronavirus relief bill is growing after additional lawmakers voiced support for a bipartisan, middle-of-the-road plan taking shape in the Senate and as top congressional leaders ended a months-long impasse. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the phone on Thursday, a conversation that came…

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Transgenderism is a tangled web of dizzyingly confusing contradictions that leftists continually refuse to acknowledge or clarify. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of Hollywood star Elliot Page. Elliot, formerly known as Ellen Page, was once championed as one of the few prominent lesbian actresses to break into the mainstream. Then, on…

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In March 2018, Lieutenant Brian Zach with the Kingman Police Department in Arizona had no idea that his future daughter was waiting for him at the next call he would respond to. What Zach, then a patrol sergeant, did know was that when officers responded to the residence check, the toddler named Kaila who they…

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Tana Baumler of Snohomish, Washington, was in a bind. Owner of a local cafe for 33 years, Baumler faced closure because of the impact shutdown orders had on her business. But her cafe, The Maltby Cafe, isn’t just a restaurant. Taking form in a 1937-era schoolhouse, the local spot is near and dear to residents’…

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Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate he’s pushed before. The presumptive president-elect has frequently emphasized mask-wearing as a “patriotic duty” and during the campaign floated the idea of instituting…

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