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Teenagers are doing stupid things on spring break, and Fox News wants its audience to blame the Democratic Party. Specifically, Fox hosts are saying mayhem from rowdy teens is the fault of former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris. Somehow. On Wednesday’s edition of “Outnumbered,” the conservative network’s panel show formulated as a knockoff of “The View,” host Harris…

NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission is set to launch Wednesday, and suddenly, the dopes over at Fox News are dialing back their usual anti-DEI racism to celebrate the crew’s diversity. “Among the crew are the first woman, first person of color, and first Canadian on a lunar mission,” a Fox host gushed. “So there's a lot of firsts happening here, and all four astronauts will represent the best of huma…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told the viewers of his Tuesday broadcast that it is time to drop President Donald Trump as a leader of the conservative movement, citing failing health and mental decline. YouTube Video Jones said recent images showing Trump’s swollen ankles were evidence of “heart failure” and that “he does look sick.” “He does babble and sound like the brain’s not doing too hot,”…

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is struggling —one might say she can’t even get a jury to indict a ham sandwich . However, she has a plan, and that plan is to complain to Fox News about how the law supposedly limits her ability to prosecute children . “The mentality in D.C. is that, you know, if you're less than 18 years of age, unless you kill somebody or do something really serious, it goes to the …

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Imagine risking your Army career for a washed-up hack like Kid Rock. Because that’s apparently what two Apache helicopter crews decided was a terrific idea, and then they got suspended — Wait a minute. We’re getting word that in the middle of a war, at a time when we are ostensibly engaged in high-stakes negotiations with Iran to bring things to a close, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made time t…

“Oftentimes, you’re the person you’re looking for,” said Leila Staton, an Iowa state House candidate. By Amanda Becker for The 19th Kendra Sullivan was at her family’s cabin in the Allegheny Highlands region in late October “just planning on having a low-key country weekend.” But the cabin has internet, so messages kept coming in about her one-woman No Kings demonstration the prior weekend in Bec…

Republican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota heaped praise on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran—you know, despite the dead American soldiers and all that. “This has been an incredibly successful mission in spite of the tragedy of losing 13 of our service men and women,” Emmer effused during a Wednesday interview on CNBC. “This is an amazing, amazing mission—and guess what, if you watch the news in t…

By Phil Galewitz for KFF Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status. But seven months later, findings from five states shared with KFF Health News show that the reviews ha…

President Donald Trump is once again floating the idea of the United States abandoning the long-standing NATO alliance, this time because several U.S. allies have refused to aid his war against Iran. In an interview with The Telegraph published on Wednesday, Trump was asked if he would reconsider American membership in the alliance, and he responded, “Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsidera…

Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war, which took a record amount of oil off the market when tankers full of crude were stranded in the Persian Gulf and military strikes damaged refineries, pipelines and export terminals. Hoping to ease some pain for consumers, President Donald Trump and other heads of state have been pu…