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A shooting at a Christmas tree lighting event in Concord, North Carolina, on Friday left four people wounded, according to police.Concord Police said three victims were listed in critical condition and one was in stable condition. All four victims were rushed to a hospital for medical treatment.The shooting happened at the city's annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Union Street S near the intersection with Corban Avenue shortly before 7:30 p.m.FATHER MAKES CHILLING CONFESSION ABOUT INFANT AFTER 4 OTHER CHILDREN FOUND DEAD OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA HOMEPolice, Concord Fire and Cabarrus County EMS personnel were already at the event and responded immediately

"McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys" star Steve McBee Sr. is hoping to receive a presidential pardon after receiving his prison sentence.The 52-year-old reality star told Fox News Digital that he hopes to ask President Trump for a full pardon, after he was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving crop insurance."We have the hopes that he will see that this was a trophy prosecution, a complete weaponization of the DOJ and overreach," he said. "I'm not saying there wasn't a clerical mistake made, but it's so minor.""I mean, they have the

Rice University is pulling out of all the stops to ensure they have a packed stadium for its game against No. 22 ranked North Texas on Saturday night.They are offering free 12-ounce beers for students 21 and older at a stand near their stadium, a free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream voucher, a free T-shirt for the first 500 students, and a $15 voucher for two food trucks. All the perks require a student ID. Rice announced the student perks in a post to X, which has since been deleted, but Fox News Digital confirmed the promotion is still ongoing.CLICK HERE

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI came to the conclusion that Butler, Pennsylvania, would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone — after a massive team doggedly pursued interviews with thousands of foreign and domestic individuals as part of an unprecedented global investigation into the 2024 shooting of President Donald Trump, the bureau told Fox News Digital as part of a lengthy, behind-the-curtain rundown of the probe.FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and a senior official with direct involvement in the Butler, Pennsylvania, investigation sat down for an unprecedented interview with Fox News Digital for more than an hour Thursday afternoon

President Donald Trump said the Democratic senators’ viral video urging service members to "refuse illegal orders" should be "punishable by death," intensifying outrage across the political spectrum — and confusion about what that advice could actually mean under federal law.While the lawmakers behind the video — led by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and joined by Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and several Democratic House veterans and intelligence officers — framed the appeal as a defense of the Constitution, military legal codes make clear that refusing orders, even ones a service member personally believes are unlawful, can carry devastating penalties. "You can’t expect

"Affordability" was the hot-button word on the 2025 campaign trail, as Democrats separated themselves from the Biden-era economy and lobbed attacks on President Donald Trump for current cost-of-living woes. And on Friday, the main champion of the "affordability" platform in the 2025 election cycle, socialist New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, will travel to the White House for his first meeting with Trump. The socialist candidate, who was relatively unknown until his primary defeat against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, hammered home during his campaign that his policies would ease New Yorkers' notoriously high housing prices, cut food costs and bring

Liberal MS NOW host Rachel Maddow went viral Thursday after she was spotted at the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney.Maddow, who once called Cheney "the maestro of terror politics," was seen in the pews of Washington National Cathedral sitting next to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Two seats over was veteran Democratic strategist James Carville. The image of Maddow appearing at Cheney's memorial service caught many by surprise. NATIONAL CATHEDRAL HOSTS FUNERAL FOR FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY"If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral," New York Times correspondent Peter Baker

Otto von Bismarck once said, "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America." For much of our history, the Iron Chancellor was right about the third part. Abundant resources, entrepreneurial spirit and a system that rewards innovation propelled us to global pre-eminence in the 20th century.  We invented the internet age, birthed the world's most valuable tech giants, and now lead the artificial intelligence revolution. The artificial intelligence boom promises to be more eventful than the dawn of the internet. It will lead to a higher quality of life for everyone in the first country