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Biden caught repeating debunked Amtrak tale in Scranton speech

President Biden was caught in an apparent fib Wednesday after he repeated a previously debunked yarn about an encounter with an Amtrak employee who died a year before the conversation allegedly took place.

October 21, 2021

State Department ripped for celebrating International Pronouns Day

The State Department made it a point Wednesday to recognize International Pronouns Day, much to the frustration of Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican.

October 20, 2021

U.N. scolds nations over fossil-fuel production as world wrestles with energy crisis

The world may be mired in an energy crunch, but the United Nations had a message Wednesday for major producers: Stop delivering so much coal, oil and natural gas.

October 20, 2021

Biden administration seeks to scrub Trump-era rule on faster dishwashers

Consumer advocates won a federal regulatory battle for more powerful household appliances in the waning days of the Trump administration, but their victory may be short-lived.

October 20, 2021

In-N-Out Burger defies San Francisco’s vaccine mandate: ‘We refuse to become vaccination police’

In-N-Out Burger has reopened after being shut down last week over its refusal to enforce San Francisco's vaccine mandate, telling the city that "[w]e refuse to become the vaccination police."

October 19, 2021

Rapper Loza Alexander’s anti-Biden anthem ‘Lets Go Brandon’ tops the charts

Just nine months into office, President Biden has inspired a chart-topping hit, although don't expect him to add it to his playlist.

October 19, 2021

Dennis Prager has COVID-19, says he deliberately sought infection to gain natural immunity

Conservative radio host Dennis Prager announced Monday that he is recovering from the novel coronavirus, saying that he deliberately sought to contract the virus to acquire natural immunity, instead of getting vaccinated.

October 18, 2021

Maskless man: Psaki shrugs off Biden’s blunder at Georgetown restaurant

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday dismissed concerns about President Biden violating the District's mask mandate at an exclusive Georgetown restaurant, saying people should not "overly focus on moments in time."

October 18, 2021

Climate backfire: Coal-fired power jumps as natural gas prices soar

Coal-fired electricity generation climbed this year in the U.S. for the first time since the Obama administration, spurred by spiking natural gas prices, a setback for the Biden climate agenda and a sign that the president's drilling crackdown may be backfiring.

October 18, 2021

Bidens blasted for violating D.C. mask mandate at upscale Georgetown restaurant

President Biden is being accused of hypocrisy for failing to wear a mask Saturday at a swanky Georgetown restaurant in an apparent violation of the District's rules on facial coverings.

October 18, 2021

Biden accused of exacerbating labor shortage with ‘far-left socialist agenda’

U.S. employers are still struggling to find workers six weeks after enhanced federal jobless benefits expired, but that doesn't mean Republicans are letting President Biden off the hook.

October 17, 2021

Garland blasted for unleashing FBI on school board squabbles

Attorney General Merrick Garland sees a rising domestic threat to the nation's public schools, but others are struggling to identify anything more insidious than irate parents getting rowdy at their local board of education meetings.

October 14, 2021

Not one dollar: One-third of voters unwilling to spend anything to counter climate change

Most Americans are concerned about climate change, but that doesn't mean they want to get stuck with the tab.

October 13, 2021

Zero bites: Gov. Jared Polis brags that Colorado tied for fewest shark attacks

Gov. Jared Polis has reason to be proud of Colorado: Not only is it a great place to ski and snowboard, but no state has done a better job of keeping people safe from shark attacks.

October 13, 2021

Watchdog group urges IG to investigate whether Tracy Stone-Manning lied to Congress

Tracy Stone-Manning now heads the Bureau of Land Management, but that doesn't mean the uproar over her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot is over.

October 12, 2021

‘Cringeworthy’ Harris video on NASA featured child actors

Vice President Kamala Harris was already being heckled for her ultra-effusive appearance in a YouTube children's video about NASA, and then word spread Monday that the kids involved were child actors.

October 11, 2021

‘Unprecedented’: Newsom regulations target lawnmowers, ketchup, toys

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, fresh off last month's recall victory, signed a bundle of bills over the weekend that delivered a fresh layer of woke regulations to his allies on the Democratic left.

October 11, 2021

Anti-Biden ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ catchphrase becomes all the rage on right

Little did NBC NASCAR reporter Kelli Stavast know that she had just launched an instant political sensation last weekend when she said fans were cheering driver Brandon Brown -- and not shouting a profane anti-Biden chant.

October 10, 2021

Pfizer downplays COVID-19 vaccine’s ties to fetal tissue from abortions: Project Veritas

No pharmaceutical company is eager to broadcast the role that abortion-derived fetal cell lines played in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, and that reportedly includes Pfizer.

October 7, 2021

GOP lieutenant governors urge Biden to stop rationing COVID-19 therapy

Fifteen Republican lieutenant governors have urged President Biden to reverse his administration's decision last month to seize distribution of monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19, calling it an "unjustified, targeted attack."

October 6, 2021