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Mike Rowe, well-known storyteller, announces 'Something to Stand For,' new film celebrating America

FIRST ON FOX: A popular host, storyteller, producer and author has a new project coming out — and “it lines up, not coincidentally,” with the Fourth of July, he told Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview. Speaking in a video interview from his home studio in Northern California, Mike Rowe, host and narrator of “How America Works,” “Dirty Jobs” …

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Biden wants to ‘bastardize’ his family stories to get ‘weird political points with certain demographics’

Fox News Contributor Joey Jones said President Biden continues to make mistakes in his attempts to appeal to voters on this Sunday’s episode of “The Big Weekend Show.” “It upsets me that he’s willing to take the tragedies within his own family and bastardize them so that he can score some weird political points with certain demographics,” Jones said. The …

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WWII veteran on state of America today: 'I feel like a foreigner in my own country and I don't like it'

As Americans recognized the 80th anniversary of D-Day, World War II veteran Ronald “Rondo” Scharfe issued a pointed message about the current state of the country he risked his life to protect. Scharfe, who famously lied about his age to join the military at 16 years old, sat down Tuesday with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum in Normandy, France, to …

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Biden blasted for D-Day speech critics say resembles Reagan's: 'Why would he do this?'

President Biden was criticized by conservatives Friday over a speech at France’s Pointe du Hoc marking the anniversary of D-Day that they said closely resembled a speech former President Reagan delivered there 40 years ago. “Unreal,” Young Americans for Liberty posted on X on Friday. “It appears that Biden’s D-Day speech is just a paraphrase of Reagan’s D-Day speech.” “Joe …

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Biden references 'instinct' to 'walk away' from democracy in Normandy speech

President Biden on Friday repeatedly referenced an “instinct” to “walk away” from democracy during a speech in Normandy about the heroics of the Army Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc more than 80 years ago on D-Day. “We talk about democracy, American democracy. We often talk about the ideals of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. What we don’t talk …

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American Battle Monuments Commission honors 150 WWII veterans in Normandy for 80th anniversary of D-Day

One hundred fifty World War II U.S. veterans, along with volunteers and representatives from the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), were present at Normandy American Cemetery in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day — June 6, 1944 — on Thursday. ABMC historian and Army veteran Benjamin Brands spoke to Fox News Digital from Normandy for background on Operation …

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France shares eternal flame with US for D-Day Commemoration

WASHINGTON D.C. – An eternal flame that began burning in Paris more than 100 years ago made its way to the U.S. in honor of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that became a major turning point during World War II. The “Flame of Liberty,” or the “Flamme de la Liberte” as they call it in France, is a …

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Jack Carr recalls Gen. Eisenhower's D-Day memo about 'great and noble undertaking'

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!” So began Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1944 “Order of the Day” memorandum, delivered on June 5, 1944, the night before the momentous D-Day landings in Normandy, France, during World War II. Copies of the letter — meticulously drafted by Eisenhower himself, beginning in February of that year, according to the National …

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Biden's 'perpetual state of confusion' on display in Normandy amid rising cognitive questions

The Republican National Committee (RNC) research division posted several videos on X that appeared to show President Biden in “a perpetual state of confusion” following his speech in Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The RNC research account, which is managed by former President Trump’s campaign and the RNC, rattled off several posts on X of …

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Ronald Reagan's principles, patriotism remembered 20 years after his death at legacy celebration

As the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation commemorates the 20th anniversary of the former president’s death, both the pressing challenges facing Americans in 2024 and the milestone 80th anniversary of D-Day are front of mind for foundation leaders. “It’s valuable to reflect on the tremendous successes of the Reagan presidency and to draw lessons for today,” foundation President David Trulio told …

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