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Archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest wooden structure, said to be almost half a million years old. A team of archaeologists unearthed a simple wood structure along a riverbank in Africa. At the dig site, researchers found two bush willow tree logs that appeared to have been manipulated by ancient humans approximately 476,000 years ago. The
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​​​​​​Joe Scarborough is a master of false modesty. His typical shtick is to describe himself as “a simple country lawyer.” In a variation on that, last week we caught faux-humble Scarborough saying, “I’m not good at this politics thing.” But given the gaffe Scarborough committed on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, perhaps Joe wasn’t speaking with false
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The baseball world mourned the unexpected death of former Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Tim Wakefield. The noteworthy knuckleballer died on Sunday morning at age 57, according to multiple reports. The MLB reported that Wakefield died from brain cancer. Wakefield is survived by his wife, Stacy, and their children, Trevor and Brianna. Stacy Wakefield is
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“Transnational gangs” from South America are committing high-end burglaries on upscale homes in Michigan, according to law enforcement. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard is sounding the alarm over a rash of burglaries targeting luxurious homes. Bouchard is warning local residents to secure their houses because illegal immigrants are committing home invasions to steal high-end goods.
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The taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour program caught up to the second Republican presidential debate on Thursday evening and predictably characterized it as a sad mess. One of the paper’s most Republican-hostile reporters, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, pounced on some of the Republican responses and fact-checked them after the fact, in keeping with the show’s progressive
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul broke rank with the Democrat Party by admitting that the U.S. southern border is “too open” and there is an illegal immigration crisis under President Joe Biden. However, Hochul had a far different message about the border crisis not too long ago. During a “Face the Nation” appearance on Sunday,
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We have heard the refrain repeatedly from the mainstream media’s many-headed hydra that Donald Trump represents an unprecedented tidal wave breaching every well-established and deeply rooted norm of politics and political discourse. But while Trump undoubtedly marches to his own drummer — one with a penchant for heart-stopping cymbal crashes — what these pundits and
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This is what happens when you let Democrat family members host programs. On Saturday night MSNBC American Voices host Alicia Menendez addressed the indictment of her father, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey), making the obvious point that she wouldn’t be commenting  or reporting on the case, but assured everyone that NBC would “aggressively” cover the story. Alicia Menendez, the
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A lawsuit has been filed against NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical, claiming that the hospital system had covered up several years of abuse by a disgraced urologist. Dr. Darius Paduch, 55, who was a practicing urologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, was first arrested back in April after he was accused of sexually assaulting patients, including minors. The
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Think back to the fall of 2016. Donald Trump had emerged victorious from a protracted and acrimonious primary campaign and fended off efforts to “free the delegates” during the GOP national convention that summer. Ted Cruz, the last standing rival who presented a serious challenge to Trump’s nomination, finally offered a halfhearted endorsement of the
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Congress passed a last-minute stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown. Notably, the funding package does not include aid for Ukraine – a demand that Democrats had rallied around. Within just hours of the midnight deadline, the Senate passed a temporary measure to avoid a government shutdown. The bill funds the federal government at current
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Lin-Manuel Miranda – the creator and lead actor of “Hamilton” – called on Congress to provide failing theater companies with a massive taxpayer-funded bailout. Miranda and “The Cosby Show” star Phylicia Rashad pleaded with lawmakers to furnish the theater industry with $500 million in annual federal funding for the next five years – a total
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I was recently introduced to a concept called the “metacrisis,” a term used to describe a multi-pronged set of causally interrelated existential crises that converge and exponentially multiply the threat to the continued existence of humanity and/or the Earth itself. Definitionally, the term is a merger of the term “crisis” with the prefix “meta-,” which
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A North Carolina doctor reportedly appeared before a federal judge in Charlotte on Friday after he was accused of prescribing and giving out an addictive cocktail of drugs. Henry Emery Jr., 52, currently lives in Waxhaw and has previously practiced medicine in Weddington, according to the Charlotte Observer. He was still working as a physician
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A Wisconsin middle school teacher allegedly made an antisemitic gesture and remark during her class, but she claimed she did not “intend to cause harm.” A parent newsletter was released called “Elmbrook Community Need to Know” on September 21, which described an incident that reportedly took place in an eighth-grade math teacher’s class. A female
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Time and time again, Univision proves itself to be an immigration advocacy PAC with a broadcast license. And, as immigration advocacy organizations do, they cheer anything that erodes the distinctions between legal and illegal immigration. Watch Univision’s report on Minnesota’s upcoming implementation of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants in its entirety, as aired on the
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CBS Saturday Morning correspondent Adam Yamaguchi took the idea that climate activism is a religion literally when he hyped activist and 2021 college graduate Elsa Barron’s efforts to “help spread the gospel” to the unconverted Evangelicals who are not onboard with the abolition of fossil fuels. Co-host Jeff set the scene by reporting on “a
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I have terrible handwriting. Check that — it’s not terrible, it’s awful. It’s unreadable. It’s illegible. A chimpanzee’s handwriting is brilliant in comparison. That’s according to the good Sisters of Mercy who instructed me in the mysteries of cursive writing more than 60 years ago. In the beginning, my handwriting was slightly more legible. But
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An ammunition company is celebrating the death of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California by offering free shipping on ammunition orders to the Golden State. “To celebrate the death of @SenFeinstein, we’re offering free shipping on ammunition to California customers today through October 31st,” Fenix Ammunition tweeted. “Simply select ‘Good Riddance, Dianne’ at checkout! Evil
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