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When college football coaches get fired, their massive payouts reveal a system where failure still equals success.

Monday marks the start of early voting in Texas' Nov. 4 general election. The only statewide contests this year are ballot propositions to amend the state constitution – 17 of them, to be exact. More ...

House Republicans Jim Jordan and Chip Roy demand documents from liberal nonprofits over alleged Antifa support in new ...

Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to end investigations and restore research funding for ...

Americans have developed a unique “disdain for pain,” leading to the excessive use of opioids and other unproductive ...

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To garner attention for their cause, “people needed to hate us to have a reason to talk about us. So we kept doing things that we called media-baiting,” Malcolm said. The more controversy they caused, ...

At the America First Policy Institute’s Global Energy Summit, speakers derided climate action and heralded their efforts to reverse key environmental initiatives.

After years of federal efforts to revive nuclear power, old mines are stirring again in Wyoming, Texas and Arizona, while new ones line up for permitting expedited by a Trump executive order.

The new exemption would save homeowners an average of $484 this year, after approving a $700 average savings on property taxes two years ago.