A burglar was shot by an apartment resident during an attempted June 23 heist in Memphis, Tennessee. The resident recounted to WHBQ-TV that he was returning home just before 3:15 p.m. when he saw a masked man trying to remove his television from the wall. The suspect reportedly turned around...

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One of the NFL's most recognizable faces -- and voices -- has found himself in a bit of trouble. According to multiple reports, former Dallas Cowboys All-Pro quarterback Tony Romo was arrested Thursday night. Fox News reported that Romo was apprehended in Milwaukee for allegedly driving while intoxicated. Romo was reportedly stopped...

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New data shows that many schools recently closed due to a shrinking youth population, prompting a rapidly growing senior citizen cohort to move into some of the vacated buildings. More than 1,000 schools closed during the 2025–26 school year, compared with 755 just four years earlier — a 35 percent...

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A pastor in Xinjiang, China, is facing compliance regulations from communist officials and the possible forced closure of his church. The pastor, mentioned in a June 24 release from International Christian Concern only as "Pastor A" to safeguard his identity, is a member of the Uyghur ethnic group. Various church...

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A recent attack in Nigeria resulted in the death of 20 people in a largely Christian farming village. Open Doors reported that the attack -- which unfolded in the early hours of Sunday, June 21 -- occurred when a "group of armed hoodlums" struck the Kawel community in Bokkos Local...

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Let's face facts here: Caitlin Clark is unpopular with a lot of people because Caitlin Clark is white. Let's also face another fact: The people she's unpopular with think it's the other way around. They believe that America is a hive of secret Klansmen who didn't watch women's basketball because...

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When a sports star makes the unlikely transition from rugby to the NFL, it naturally creates a compelling narrative. For Daniel Ogama Adongo, that compelling narrative took a sharp downward turn after a run-in with the law. And now, years later, that narrative appears all but over after reports surfaced...

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A senior Pentagon official publicly mocked former White House artificial intelligence adviser Dean Ball on Sunday over regulation of Chinese artificial intelligence models. War Department Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael unloaded on Ball — now a top executive at OpenAI — when Ball suggested the...

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Well, the bear-on-the-pole story has taken a sad turn. Brownout, as I've named the brown bear who went viral for perching on a power pole, apparently passed away while reaching for the sky. He was reportedly electrocuted atop the pole. That's sad, but what's sadder is what Game and Fish...

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Workplace DEI may be dying as the majority of gay people no longer think being gay helps them get ahead at work anymore. The percentage of LGBTQ+ professionals who feel that being out-of-the-closet benefits their careers fell from 78% to 49% since 2023, according to an Out Leadership study Thursday....

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Children from a family in which multiple adults were arrested over the condition in which 16 children were found may have been kept in similar conditions in a home in which they formerly lived, according to its new owner. In early July, four adults in Vinton County, Ohio, were arrested,...

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A popular New Age tarot card reader has deleted her previous social media content and revealed that she has become a Christian. "Alex in the Ordinary" -- who had nearly one million followers on TikTok -- announced that she would stop creating tarot card content or "offering any more readings...

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Rep. Brandon Gill, a Republican from Texas, successfully highlighted how woke the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History has become under the leadership of Anthea Hartig. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing to get some answers on the Smithsonian Institution’s approach to issues of race. The...

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A briefing memo uncovered by a Republican lawmaker reportedly pressed former President Joe Biden, in the waning days of his presidency, to extend or re-designate migrants who were receiving so-called Temporary Protected Status in the United States, potentially sticking incoming President Donald Trump with an even bigger immigration crisis to...

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For more than four decades, a single Supreme Court interpretation of the 14th Amendment has made it effectively impossible for public school boards to measure the fiscal impact of one of their most rapidly expanding categories of spending. That interpretation is Plyler v. Doe, and it is time for an honest...

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The voice in the night came from behind a wall, and in spite of being in Ireland, the terrified family was certain it was no leprechaun. The tale comes from the Irish Mirror after first being told on RTÉ’s Liveline. The only name offered for the mother of the family...

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In almost all of the world, in multi-religious societies, we all know who is getting threatened by who. Just look at Nigeria, for instance. If you're a Christian, or even a secularist, you know full well who is threatening you, and it's generally people of one certain faith. But in...

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A Missouri man is in police custody after leading officers on a high speed chase and then ditching his vehicle to swan-dive off of a bridge. According to KYTV in Springfield, Missouri, 26-year-old Gavin Thor Lundgren is facing numerous charges after allegedly fleeing a stop after an incident on July...

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I understand that Madison, Wisconsin, is a very blue dot in a purple-ish state. It feels like a city where 2020 never really ended and the flower children and woke scolds are holding teach-ins at every corner, bongs in hand. Really, I understand, I do. That being said, if the...

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Drinking up to five cups of coffee per day is safe for most adults and potentially comes with certain heart health benefits, the American Heart Association said in a scientific statement released Monday. The AHA’s latest research suggests that consuming up to 400 milligrams of caffeine per day, equivalent to...

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