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Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at the age of 74, her publicist announced.

The film “Cheaper By the Dozen” is a reality for actor/TV personality Nick Cannon. He and Alyssa Scott welcomed their second child together, a daughter. It is Cannon’s twelfth child and Scott’s third.

Bob the Drag Queen and Monét X Change will appear in an upcoming episode of “The Simpsons.”

Revered actor Anthony Hopkins has been sober for 47 years and in a just-released video, he celebrated the accomplishment, while providing encouragement for others.

The world population is projected to be 7.9 billion people on New Year’s Day 2023, with 73.7 million people added since New Year’s Day 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.

The long-running copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work.

President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands, and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.

Roads reopened Thursday in storm-besieged Buffalo as authorities continued searching for people who may have died or are stuck and suffering after last week’s blizzard.

The outlook for the energy sector in Texas is somewhat pessimistic as concerns about a recession limit the oil price that some explorers were hoping for, a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found.

More than 1,100 cities, towns, and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose only slightly last week, with the labor market remaining strong despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy and hiring.

Washington Times Opinion Editor Charlie Hurt discusses the Borat-like figure who won a House seat in New York, the FBI’s Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case, the Obamas’ marriage, and more.

A former Soviet soldier who chose to stay in Afghanistan when the Red Army withdrew following a disastrous decade-long occupation that ended in 1989 has died.

Kosovo closed its biggest border crossing with Serbia, police said Wednesday, after Serbs set up more barricades on their side in one of the worst regional crises in years.

As China drops its COVID-19 lockdown restrictions for travelers, other countries announced limitations on incoming visitors from the country because of its rapid jump in coronavirus cases.

The Vermont law requiring members of a number of professions to report abuse if they become aware of it contains an exemption for members of the clergy if they become aware of abuse during a setting that is considered privileged, such as during confession.

Cara Berg Raunick, who is Jewish, says a pregnant woman’s health and life is paramount, and she disagreed with legislators’ assertions that life begins at conception, calling that a “Christian definition.”

In response to Western price caps on Russian oil, President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday banned the export of oil to the United States and other Group of Seven and European Union nations.

Buffalo was set to emerge from a deep freeze Wednesday, bringing some relief but also the tragic possibility of finding more victims amid melting snow from the area’s deadliest storm in decades.

Modest Mouse has confirmed that its drummer Jeremiah Green is battling cancer.

Breitbart immigration reporter Neil Munro discusses the Supreme Court preserving Title 42 border safeguards for another few months.

Storm-battered Buffalo braced Tuesday for fresh snow while still striving to recover from an epic blizzard that killed at least 34 people, stranded others in cars for days and shuttered the city’s airport.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday that Japan will tighten border controls for COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there.

Taiwan on Tuesday announced an extension in mandatory military service from four months to one year, citing the threat from an increasingly hostile China.

Host Alex Marlow discusses Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s big gift for Vice President Kamala Harris: three buses full of over 100 border crossers.

Days of freezing temperatures in Deep South areas that usually freeze for only hours are threatening dozens of water systems as burst pipes leak millions of gallons of water.

The winter storm ravaging most of the United States during the Christmas holidays has claimed at least 27 lives in western New York and at least 57 nationwide, officials estimated Monday.

Holiday sales rose this year as American spending remained resilient during the critical shopping season despite surging prices on everything from food to rent, according to one measure.

A Los Angeles jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion.

Former child star Orlando Brown has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an alleged altercation in Lima, Ohio.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) discusses the passage of the omnibus spending bill, why more Americans are dying at a younger age, and the fentanyl epidemic.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel discusses her RNC re-election race, the criticisms of her leadership, and her priorities if re-elected.

Ret. U.S. Navy captain and 2022 congressional candidate Hung Cao discusses the military vaccine mandate and how Virginia’s Loudoun County is still the epicenter of the anti-woke parental rights movement.

Breitbart Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris discusses by the Twitter Files’ revelations about the FBI’s role in censoring the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” reporting during the 2020 election.

Breitbart entertainment reporter David Ng discusses woke Disney’s stock plunging last week and the company being deemed not woke enough in GLAAD’s LGBTQ inclusivity report card.

“Avatar: The Way of Water ” didn’t make quite as big of a splash as many assumed it would, but James Cameron’s big budget spectacle still helped breathe life into the box office this weekend. The sequel earned $134 million