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Experts are speculating that climate change and other factors are driving the increase in kidney stone cases among children and teens. Experts told NBC News that just three decades ago, kidney stones were largely a disease that affected middle-aged White men, but they now increasingly affect children and teens, especially in the summer."My research group has focused on the relationship between temperature and kidney stone presentations for a decade," Dr. Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital when asked about climate change and kidney stones."The summary is that hot days increase the frequency...

A study examining murders in 2021 based on death certificate data projects that one out of 179 Americans will eventually be murdered over the course of their lifetimes if the country’s murder rate remains at 2021 levels. “That means if you’re in the United States, you live here, you’re born and you spend your life here, your odds of your life ending by murder are one in 179 over your life. Not over a year or any other timeframe.” “It’s just somebody’s gonna murder you before you die of natural causes, an accident, suicide, whatever it may be,” Jim Agresti,...

Violent crimes like murders have plagued the U.S. over the last two years, and many experts blame the fallout from the pandemic and 2020’s summer of protests and riots following the death of George Floyd. The New York Times recently argued that 2020’s skyrocketing increase in legal gun purchases has also contributed to the spikes, an explanation experts are pouring cold water on. "First off, let's go back 30 years," the Heritage Foundation’s Charles Stimson told Fox News Digital in a phone interview this month. "For the last 27, 29 years, our country has had a dramatic decrease in violent...

One outraged mother said, 'That was the great message she learned that day' A California parent was outraged after she saw video of her daughter and other preschool students chanting in class that they wanted President Biden out of office. "Who's our president," a preschool teacher at Turning Point Christian School in Norco asked the young students, according to a short video posted on a school messaging app. "Biden," the students responded, KABC reported. "What do we want to do with him?" the teacher asked. "We want him out," the students responded in unison twice.

Georgia’s public university system will not rename any of its 75 buildings with ties to slavery or racial segregation, explaining that "history can teach us important lessons." "The purpose of history is to instruct," the Board of Regents for Georgia’s public university system wrote in a statement. "History can teach us important lessons, lessons that if understood and applied make Georgia and its people stronger." The board voted unanimously on Monday against such changes, nearly a year after it established a committee to study the names and potential changes. The internal committee had advised that changes be made to 75...

NEW YORK - A Texas church is coming under fire over a video showing people inside the place of worship chanting the viral anti-Biden phrase, "Let’s Go Brandon." "A euphemism for, you know, less than well wishes for the president of the United States and it has become a kind of a radical conservative rallying cry," Oklahoma pastor Jeremy Coleman said of the video showing people within the nondenominational Cornerstone Church in San Antonio chanting the phrase.

An elderly retired firefighter in Chicago with a concealed carry license fatally shot a robber in broad daylight, according to police. The unidentified 77-year-old man was in a parking garage in the West Chesterfield neighborhood of Chicago at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The robber, who was also armed, pulled into the garage and demanded the elderly man fork over his possessions. The man then produced his firearm and shot the robber in the head and chest, killing him, according to police. Chicago police said the man had a valid Firearms Owner Identification Card and a Concealed Carry License. The Chicago...

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz mocked Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her previous visit to a migrant facility, and issued a "simple challenge" to her and her colleagues to visit the "Biden cages" holding migrants amid the border crisis. "Mr. President, every Democrat who stood up and lamented kids in cages, in the House of Representatives, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, has a famous photo of her grasping her head by the kids in cages," Cruz said as he imitated the photo. "Well, I’m going to give a simple challenge for Representative Ocasio-Cortez and for every Democrat in this body. Go see the Biden...

A one-time Black Lives Matter movement leader in Iowa City was arrested after allegedly lying to authorities about a killing that took place in his apartment. Mazin M. Mohamedali, 20, was arrested Saturday and faces one count of accessory after the fact. Police reported that Mohamedali, who previously identified himself as a leader of a racial justice group called the Iowa Freedom Riders leader, knew that 19-year-old Quincy Russom had been killed in his Iowa apartment on Feb. 12 during a suspected robbery but waited to call 911. Police also said that he gave false descriptions of people involved with...