A nonprofit voter engagement group founded by high-profile Georgia perennial candidate Stacey Abrams reportedly suffered dozens of layoffs two weeks after facing a six-figure state ethics fine for campaign finance violations.Scores of workers at the New Georgia Project (NGP) have been laid off since Dec. 27, with a dozen more being pink-slipped at the end of January, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.The group describes itself as a “nonpartisan effort to register, civically engage, and build power with the New Georgia Majority… the growing population of Black, brown, young and other historically marginalized voters.”It received attention for helping Democrats flip Georgia…
Embracing the spirit of uncluttered simplicity, Opera is inviting ten lucky testers to try out a ‘hygge desk’ in Norway. Is your desk ‘hygge’? For most of us, our workspace is a cluttered nightmare, littered with stale coffee and unfinished paperwork. But what if you could work from somewhere totally…
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Christmas came early for bitcoin this year. On the back of record-breaking launches of ETFs backed by the likes of BlackRock and Fidelity, which have accumulated $112 billion in bitcoin, and president Donald Trump’s reelection in November, the digital asset crossed $100,000. Enthusiasts are expecting 2025 to be more bullish…
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Paul “Triple H” Levesque was surprised at WWE HQ last week when CEO Nick Khan and legends Shawn Michaels and Undertaker revealed he would be the first member of the 2025 Hall of Fame class.Levesque will go into the Hall of Fame as a solo wrestler. He was inducted into…
American Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles called out Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill after he won the 60-meter at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on Sunday.Lyles crossed the finish line in 6.52 seconds, beating out the Bahamas’ Terrence Jones, Italy’s Marcell Jacobs and fellow Americans P.J. Austin and Trayvon…
Former NFL quarterback-turned-analyst Dan Orlovsky sat on the ESPN desk for “Get Up” the day after Championship Sunday with his head down. Taking a breath, he spoke his mind after seeing the Buffalo Bills fall to the Kansas City Chiefs again in the playoffs – four straight times Josh Allen &…
Last April, John Calipari decided to “step away” from the University of Kentucky after 15 seasons; a day later, he joined the University of Arkansas.Well, Calipari returned to Kentucky on Saturday night, and despite a championship in 2012 and a .771 winning percentage there, boos still managed to be loud…
The Dallas Mavericks were far from energized in their first game since the team traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers and acquired Anthony Davis.The Mavericks allowed the Cleveland Cavaliers 91 points at halftime and lost the game 144-101.SIGN UP FOR TUBI AND STREAM SUPER BOWL LIX FOR FREE…
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New Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has raised eyebrows on social media for some of her unique style choices.”Kristi Noem seems to think that serving as a Cabinet secretary is akin to attending a Halloween party,” one user on social media said in response to Noem appearing on NBC’s “Meet…
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Amid a wave of early shakeups in the new administration, President Donald Trump has twice this month proposed “denuclearization” talks with U.S. adversaries.”Tremendous amounts of money are being spent on nuclear, and the destructive capacity is something we don’t even want to talk about today, because you don’t want to…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that many of the Federal Aviation Administration’s systems remain “antiquated” and are in need of updates amid a “plummet” in recruitment for air traffic controllers.Duffy made the statement during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream. The Trump administration official affirmed that…
A bill introduced in the Washington state legislature would require drivers with a history of speeding to have a speed limiting device placed on their cars.House Bill 1596 was proposed after supporters say an increase in fatal accidents was caused by speeding. The bill was heard in the House Transportation…
Parents are “overjoyed” with the trajectory of the education system under President Donald Trump after years of pushing back on so-called woke practices in schools, a parents’ rights education group told Fox News Digital.During his first two weeks in office, Trump signed several education-related executive orders on school funding and…
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Let’s get lucky — and let’s get to listening. At long last, Jupiter — our gas-giant planet of good fortune, abundance, games of chance and inclinations of excess — is going direct in Gemini. After a four-month retrograde, he’s striking up the roulette wheel, and we should begin to feel more engaged in and enlivened by communications of all kinds and hopefully be able to more clearly recognize and respond to mechanisms of malicious misinformation. Jupiter is considered an outer planet, meaning its effect on day-to-day life is less intensely felt than inner planets like Venus and Mercury. Jupiter’s pull…
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Plaintiffs affected by the New Year’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans have filed a civil lawsuit against the city’s leadership and private companies hired to consult the city about safety planning in the French Quarter for negligence.Terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas killed 14 civilians and injured 57…
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