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Now that’s winning one for “The Gipper” — the late actor and President Ronald Reagan. The film “Reagan” has surged to the top of the home sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5. “Reagan” was listed as #2 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list overall Monday for DVD, Blu-ray and digital download sales. It was listed No. 1 over the …

The mysterious case of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi has been marred by wild conspiracy theories – including that she was brainwashed by a cult or blackmailed by African hackers – and they may have literally driven her father to his death, her aunt said. Cops said Ryan Kobayashi, 58, leaped from a Los Angeles International Airport parking garage Sunday …

They blue off their hometown. The Blue Man Group, the long-standing and beloved off-Broadway show, will end its 34-year run in New York City in the new year. The show, which involves mime-like voiceless bald men painted head to toe in a vibrant shade of electric blue and a lot of drums, will deliver its last hometown performance on Feb. …

A man who was cleared by a polygraph test for the rape and murder of a teenage girl in 1979 has now been linked to the suspect with newfound DNA evidence, authorities revealed. 17-year-old Esther Gonzalez had been walking from her home in Beaumont, Calif., to her sister’s house in Banning, about 85 miles east of Los Angeles, on Feb. …

The white Florida woman who gunned down her black neighbor, a mother of four young kids, over a long-running dispute about the children playing outside her home was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday. Susan Lorincz, 60, claimed she was acting in self-defense when she shot and killed 35-year-old Ajike “A.J.” Owens, but the judge — and the all-white …

A beloved Michigan pastor was killed earlier this month after a driver who was in the country illegally allegedly blew a red light and struck the 72-year-old, according to authorities and family members. Stephen Singleton was on his daily morning run in Rochester Hills and was crossing the street within the crosswalk while wearing a reflective vest when he was …

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) appeared amused Monday at the sudden wave of support from her colleagues for the Senate filibuster as the Democrats prepare to become the minority party in the upper chamber.  “Please, please, please stop what you’re doing and read these quotes,” the Democrat-turned-independent wrote on X, linking to a Washington Examiner story on senators from her former …

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will be forced to open its books and reveal its sources of funding after a defamation suit it filed against a former employee completely backfired.  US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled Monday that CAIR’s donors, funding sources – including potentially foreign ones – and any assets owned by the group are all within the …

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs popular in corporate America and at US colleges that are meant to tackle discrimination might instead actually foment hostility and racial tensions, according to a new study. Research by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab found that certain DEI practices pushed on participants led some of them to become …

President-elect Donald Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan is putting together an extensive deportation plan for when he hits the ground running after they are both sworn into office in January. Homan spoke to The Center Square about his priorities, illustrating a marked difference from President Joe Biden’s border czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, who repeatedly said the border was …