The conservative group Moms for America Action formally endorsed former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, emphasizing that it is crucial to have a leader who is “not afraid to fight” for what is right. The group, comprised of roughly half a million mothers across the country, formally made its endorsement this week as Trump’s GOP
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Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke is finally getting his day in court. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over potholes, fix up friends with patronage jobs, and make sure everyone who benefited knew how to
OMAHA, Neb. — Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, has died at a California hospital. He was 99. Berkshire Hathaway said in a statement that Munger’s family told the company that he died Tuesday morning at the hospital just over a month before his 100th birthday. Advertisement “Berkshire
President Joe Biden’s White House is opposing a plan that would prevent federal lands from being transformed into migrant camps housing illegal aliens released into the United States from the southern border. In August, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) introduced H.R. 5283, named the “Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act,” to block
A giant gust of wind reportedly toppled the U.S. National Christmas tree on Tuesday, just days before its scheduled lighting ceremony with President Joe Biden. Reports showed that a giant crane had been employed to put the toppled tree back into its upright position. Typically, the trees are in the ground but, according to @rawsalerts,
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Arrests of border crossers and illegal aliens from Venezuela have increased more than 11,000 percent since 2021 in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, law enforcement records reveal. Since the summer of last year, more than 22,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in Chicago after either successfully crossing the United States-Mexico border or
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More parents are likely going to give their babies “gender-neutral” names in 2024, an expert is predicting. Baby name expert Steph Coffield is anticipating “surnames as first names” and gender neutrality on U.S. birth certificates next year, the New York Post reported on Monday. The 40-year-old Minnesota-based baby name consultant also credited growing “acceptance of non-binary
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The White House said Tuesday that it opposes Israel’s plan to attack Hamas terrorists in the southern portion of the Gaza Strip unless it can provide an “accounting” for all of the internally displaced Palestinian civilians in the war. White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby spoke to reporters on Air Force
The parents of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy have filed a claim signaling they plan to sue the county, alleging that their son was forced to work so much overtime that he was too fatigued to stay alert and avoid threats such as the mentally ill 29-year-old who gunned him down outside the Palmdale
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was confronted this week by an anti-Israel activist — but he came prepared with the facts. The activist, evidently filming Rubio, wanted to catch him in an awkward moment. Instead, he dared her to post the video. Rubio’s office posted the audio, which is transcribed below: Hamas supporters were in
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Erik Talavera was holding a knife and surrounded by police with no place to go. Body-camera video shows him bending down, his hand nearly touching the ground, when two San Diego County sheriff’s deputies fire a volley of shots at him, striking him 16 times. Deputies would later say that during the Feb. 16, 2022,
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