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Multiple hoaxes regarding former President Donald Trump s words or actions have continued to flourish during the 2024 ...

I cannot downsize my memories. Downsize is such a popular word today and usually interpreted as getting rid of things. That’s ...

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At some point in the past year, one or more hackers quietly breached a background-checking company called National Public Data (NPD) and exposed millions of U.S. social security numbers (SSNs), e-mail ...

They went through Penn State week and it was called a rivalry, but as this week goes on and the Pitt game draws near, West ...

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To drive home the point, McCall included in his letter a paragraph-long dictionary definition of the word “assume ... It was ...