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CNN producer charged with seeking to lure minor girls for ‘sexual training’

A CNN senior producer who once bragged about working "shoulder-to-shoulder" with former anchor Chris Cuomo has been charged with seeking to coax underage girls to his home by offering to train them to be "sexually submissive."

December 11, 2021

Rubio proposal would ban federal funds for cities that allow noncitizen voting

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, said Friday he plans to introduce legislation to withhold federal funds from cities that permit noncitizen voting, a day after the New York City Council moved to allow legal residents to cast ballots in local elections.

December 11, 2021

Black Lives Matter takes credibility hit with defense of Jussie Smollett

Jussie Smollett has been found guilty by a jury of staging a hate-crime hoax, but as far as Black Lives Matter is concerned, the entire trial was a "white supremacist charade."

December 10, 2021

Exclusive: Republicans say WHO pandered to China by skipping ‘xi’ in COVID names

Four Senate Republicans challenged Friday the World Health Organization's decision to name the latest novel coronavirus variant "omicron" instead of "xi" -- the family name of China's powerful Communist president, calling it the latest example of the international body's pandering to Beijing.

December 10, 2021

Democrats who fell for Smollett’s hate-crime hoax take drubbing after conviction

Then-Sen. Kamala Harris was quick to condemn the "attempted modern day lynching" of Jussie Smollett shortly after he reported being the victim of a hate crime, and she wasn't the only one.

December 9, 2021

Fox News lights new Christmas tree after first one razed in arson attack

A new Fox News Christmas tree was unveiled in a lighting ceremony Thursday in New York City, the day after the original 50-foot tree was torched in an apparent arson attack.

December 9, 2021

Suspect in Fox News Christmas tree arson released without bail

The suspect in the Fox News Christmas tree fire was released without bail Wednesday after being charged in connection with the late-night blaze in New York City.

December 9, 2021

Elon Musk calls for ditching Build Back Better despite electric-vehicle tax credits

President Biden's $2 trillion social-spending package comes loaded with generous incentives for electric vehicles. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk still isn't a fan.

December 8, 2021

U.S.-led diplomatic Olympic boycott snowballs as top Western allies join

The U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics snowballed Wednesday as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom signed on, sending a message on human rights violations and drawing a frosty response from China.

December 8, 2021

Suspect charged with torching Fox Square’s All-American Christmas Tree

A homeless man was charged Wednesday with setting fire to the enormous All-American Christmas Tree outside Fox News headquarters in New York City.

December 8, 2021

Senate Judiciary Republicans demand Garland withdraw school board memo

The Senate Judiciary Committee's Republicans have demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland rescind his controversial school board memo after learning that the FBI created a "threat tag" to track risks to education personnel.

December 7, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Cynthia Lummis calls for state role on species as grizzly bear revival gets hairy

Grizzly bears are thriving in the Greater Yellowstone area and yet the Biden administration plans to keep them on the endangered-species list, stoking renewed calls for more local involvement.

December 7, 2021

Regular churchgoers top Gallup’s mental-health poll, Democrats bring up rear

The novel coronavirus pandemic took a toll on the public's emotional well-being, but a newly released poll found that regular churchgoers report the highest levels of mental health while Democrats remain stuck at the back of the pack.

December 6, 2021

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas smashes women’s records, stokes outrage

Collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas is shattering women's swimming records this season, and critics say there's a reason: She used to be a man.

December 5, 2021

Whoopi Goldberg says men can’t carry a fetus, conservative pundits quip she’s being ‘transphobic’

Whoopi Goldberg took a ribbing on the right for declaring that men bear carry a fetus, a position that runs afoul of the left's position on transgender pregnancy.

December 4, 2021

Black conservatives rip Barnes & Noble for hyping only ‘victimization’ books by Black authors

Not every book written by a prominent Black author focuses on racism and oppression, although you wouldn't necessarily know that by looking at the latest Barnes & Noble promotional.

December 3, 2021

Biden Christmas display omits stocking for Hunter’s out-of-wedlock daughter

The White House Christmas decorations include stockings for six of the Biden grandchildren, but not the seventh, Hunter Biden's out-of-wedlock daughter.

December 2, 2021

Publisher blasts ‘total media blackout’ of Robert Kennedy’s bestseller on Dr. Fauci

Longtime vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a runaway bestseller on his hands with his blockbuster book skewering Dr. Anthony Fauci, no thanks to what his publisher calls a "total media blackout."

December 2, 2021

It’s 1619 vs. 1776 as Nikole Hannah-Jones takes on Robert Woodson

Civil rights veteran Robert L. Woodson Sr. has been a national leader on community development for decades, but Nikole Hannah-Jones says the only reason he's in demand is because of her.

December 2, 2021

Pro-life advocates urge liberal justices to ‘follow the science’ on abortion

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said during Wednesday's oral arguments in a case challenging Mississippi's abortion law that "not much has changed" since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, but pro-life advocates disagreed, citing the science.

December 1, 2021