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Colorado’s Travis Hunter wins Heisman trophy, edging out Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty
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Colorado’s Travis Hunter wins Heisman trophy, edging out Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty

By  Ryan Saavedra | Daily Wire Travis Hunter, the two-way Colorado star who dominates both sides of the ball as a receiver and a cornerback, won the 2024 Heisman Trophy Saturday night in New York City. Hunter beat out Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel, Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty, and Miami quarterback Cam Ward for the most prestigious award in college football that is awarded annually to the player who is voted the most outstanding player. The Heisman Trophy is the crown jewel of the numerous awards Hunter racked up during his unprecedented season. The other awards he won include the AP Player of the Year, Biletnikoff Award (best receiver), Bednarik Award (best defensive player), Lott IMPACT Trophy (defensive impact player of the year), Paul Hornung Award (most versati...
ABC news to apologize, pay $16 million in defamation suit settlement with Donald Trump
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ABC news to apologize, pay $16 million in defamation suit settlement with Donald Trump

By Haley Strack | National Review ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement in a defamation suit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, which requires the network to apologize, contribute $15 million to a “Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff,” and pay Trump’s legal team $1 million. Defendants also must say they “regret” the defamatory comments, which Stephanopoulos made on-air in March during a broadcast with South Carolina representative Nancy Mace, that spurred Trump’s lawsuit. During the broadcast, the news anchor asked Mace why she supported Trump, who he said was found liable in Manhattan for raping E. Jean Carroll. “You’ve endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable...
Coffee prices hit record high after challenging growing season
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Coffee prices hit record high after challenging growing season

By Ashley Soriano | News Nation Via The Hill Higher coffee prices could be brewing for consumers as the global coffee market smashed a 47-year record. Arabica coffee, a type of coffee bean largely grown in Central and South America, sold for $3.44 a pound earlier this week, beating the prior record high of $3.35 set in 1977. Brazil is the leading producer of arabica, the world’s most popular variety, and extreme drought has led to smaller harvests, driving world prices up. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
Chinese Balloon 2.0: Biden White House dismisses mystery drone sightings, suggests mistaken identity
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Chinese Balloon 2.0: Biden White House dismisses mystery drone sightings, suggests mistaken identity

By Lucas Nolan | Breitbart The Biden administration has dismissed the recent wave of drone sightings on the East Coast, suggesting that most reports are likely cases of mistaken identity involving legally-operating aircraft. The New York Post reports that the mysterious drone sightings that have been reported in New Jersey, New York, and surrounding areas over the past few weeks have left residents and local authorities puzzled and concerned. However, the White House has taken a different stance on the matter, with national security council spokesman John Kirby dismissing the reports during a briefing on Thursday. Kirby stated that federal investigators have been unable to verify any of the more than 3,000 reports of car-sized drones patrolling the night skies. He suggested that m...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi injured, hospitalized while traveling to Luxembourg
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi injured, hospitalized while traveling to Luxembourg

By Greg Norman , Chad Pergram | Fox News Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury and has been admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg, Fox News has confirmed. The 84-year-old California representative was traveling to Luxembourg for Battle of the Bulge remembrances. The extent of the former speaker's injury is unknown at the time of this reporting. A person familiar with the incident told The Wall Street Journal that Pelosi tripped and fell following a group photo that she took with other lawmakers and officials there. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
After sightings above three states ‘for weeks’ some want action or threaten to take matters into own hands
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After sightings above three states ‘for weeks’ some want action or threaten to take matters into own hands

By Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita | Fox News New Jersey residents frustrated with a lack of answers regarding dozens of potential drone sightings in the skies above their homes are threatening to take action on their own if the government doesn't start providing answers. James Ward, a Jersey Shore realtor, shared video on Facebook that he said showed "SUV-size drones" above Island Beach State Park taken Sunday. It's difficult to judge their size in the clip, which showed a number of lights hovering in the sky. "Dozens of SUV-size drones in all directions," the caption read. "Emerging at same time and flying over the ocean and then heading in different directions – what do you think?" READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
Inflation rose to 3% in November in producer price index, surprisingly hot
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Inflation rose to 3% in November in producer price index, surprisingly hot

By Zach Halaschak | Washington Examiner Inflation, as measured by the producer price index, rose four-tenths of a percentage point to 3% for the year ending in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. The hot inflation rate is more than economists had anticipated and adds to recent signs that price pressures have not yet abated as President-elect Trump prepares to take office. In fact, November marked the largest rise in PPI inflation since February 2023. On a month-to-month basis, the producer price index increased by 0.4%. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Congress is ramming through a $895 billion pork-filled defense bill before Trump takes office
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Congress is ramming through a $895 billion pork-filled defense bill before Trump takes office

By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Clocking in at 1,813 pages, the 2025 NDAA is stuffed with items unrelated to defense policy and void of conservative priorities. Congressional leaders are gearing up to ram through a $895 billion pork-filled defense bill before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office next month. According to The Hill, the House is expected to vote on the 1,813-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 on Wednesday. Released on Saturday night, the legislation — which was negotiated behind closed doors by congressional leadership — is stuffed with items unrelated to defense policy and void of conservative priorities included in the version passed by the GOP-controlled House earlier this year. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE FEDER...
Lawmaker demands accountability at UPenn after prof praises accused assassin Luigi Mangione
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Lawmaker demands accountability at UPenn after prof praises accused assassin Luigi Mangione

By Charles Creitz  | Fox News  A Pennsylvania congressman fired off a scathing letter overnight to the University of Pennsylvania’s president demanding the firing of a left-wing professor whose social media posts lauded Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In his letter, GOP Rep. Dan Meuser called for Cinema & Media Studies professor Julia Alekseyeva’s firing and noted the university had just finished weathering another scandal relating to its soft response to antisemitic and pro-Hamas protests. Alekseyeva made her online accounts private this week after blowback for saying – among other things – that she is proud to be a UPenn Quaker like the accused killer. Thompson's murder sparked a left-wing outcry depicting ...
Burgess: Here’s how Trump Administration can save American education
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Burgess: Here’s how Trump Administration can save American education

By Matt Burgess | Commentary, Konstantin Kisin President-elect Donald J. Trump has a clear mandate to reform higher education in his second term, for two reasons. First, Vice-President Kamala Harris’ association with unpopular ‘woke’ ideas emanating from higher education was one of the biggest reasons Trump won the election. Some of these ideas merely offended the average American’s moral sensibilities—like the idea that America is fundamentally bad; that people should be judged, admitted to college, and hired on the basis of their race or gender; or that there is moral equivalence between Israel (the Middle East’s only democracy) and Hamas (an openly genocidal terror group that uses its own citizens as human shields). Other ideas—like ‘defund the police’, open bo...

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