By Joseph M. Hanneman Three more criminal-case defendants have joined a petition seeking to have the U.S. Supreme Court review the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) novel use of an evidence-tampering statute to prosecute those who protested 2020 presidential election results at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Defendants Christopher J. Warnagiris, 43, Christopher J. […]
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Timeline: COVID-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis
By Zachary Stieber 2020 Sept. 22, 2020: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies myocarditis as an adverse event of special interest, or a potential side effect. Oct. 30, 2020: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identifies myocarditis as an adverse event of special interest. December 2020: One case of pericarditis reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event […]
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Threads Blocks Search Results for ‘COVID’ and ‘Vaccines,’ Upsetting Users
By Bryan Jung Threads, Meta’s recent competitor to Twitter, is facing harsh criticism for blocking search results for terms related to the pandemic, including vaccines. The new text platform, which is linked to Instagram, rolled out its new search function last week, a major step towards giving it more parity with X, formerly known as Twitter. […]
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Liberty Safe Announces New Privacy Measures After Public Backlash Over FBI Data Release
By Naveen Athrappully Gun safe manufacturer Liberty Safe announced changes regarding the storage of customer access codes following backlash for handing over data to the FBI. On Sept. 6, Liberty Safe confirmed that it was contacted by the federal agency on Aug. 30 requesting access codes to the safe of an individual for whom they had a search […]
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Judge Skeptical as Prosecutors Claim Trump Georgia Trial Could Take Four Months
By Jack Phillips A Georgia judge handling the trials of former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants appeared to be skeptical of prosecutors’ proposals to bring all the co-defendants together for a trial starting next month. “It just seems a bit unrealistic to think that we can handle all 19 in forty-something days,” Fulton County […]
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‘Dangerous’: Law Professor Sounds Alarm on Attempts to Disqualify Trump
By Jack Phillips An attempt to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on 2024 presidential ballots based on a theory derived from the Constitution’s 14th Amendment was dismissed by a prominent law professor on Tuesday. A theory that has recently been floated in the media claims that the former president could be blocked from […]
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Congress Gears Up for Spending Fight as Government Shutdown Looms
By Jackson Richman With the Senate returning next week and the House resuming in two weeks, Congress is bracing for a spending fight as a government shutdown looms when federal funding for the 2022-2023 fiscal year expires at the end of September. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has acknowledged the possibility of doing a short-term […]
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Trump Challenges Political Orthodoxies in Tucker Carlson Interview
By Janice Hisle Former President Donald Trump defied the Republican National Committee by not participating in the first presidential debate on Wednesday and instead opted for a wide-ranging pre-recorded interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. In the interview, which was broadcast simultaneously with the GOP debate, President Trump spoke of the challenges he faced […]
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One Organization’s Efforts May Have Tipped 2020 Election to Democrats, Report Says
By Nathan Worcester A new report from the Capital Research Center has shed light on the Everybody Votes campaign, also known as the Voter Registration Project, projecting that the endeavor registered enough Democratic swing state voters that it “may have decided the 2020 presidential election and could decide 2024.” “The Everybody Votes campaign used the […]
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How NewsGuard Became the Establishment Guard Against Independent Media
By Petr Svab As difficult as it is to run an independent media outlet, there’s a company making it substantially harder. Its name is NewsGuard. The company claims to rate online content, including from media outlets, for trustworthiness, but a closer look shows it does much more than that—its business model produces censorious pressure on […]
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Judge to Hold Emergency Hearing on RFK Jr.’s Google Censorship Lawsuit
By Jeff Louderback Two weeks after he filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google over allegations they engaged in a “censorship campaign” against his remarks about vaccines, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have his case addressed at an emergency hearing on Aug. 16. Federal Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins set […]
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FDA Alert: Fruit With Potentially Deadly Bacteria Recalled in a Dozen States
By Jack Phillips Green organic kiwifruit is now under recall in 14 states due to a potentially deadly listeria contamination, according to an announcement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website. David Oppenheimer and Company said it is voluntarily recalling some of its clamshell packages of kiwi after testing found Listeria monocytogenes in some of […]
