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Inadequate support: The study by Schwab et al. didn’t provide evidence showing that sudden deaths are “likely” caused by COVID-19 vaccination. The study was focused on providing descriptive data about myocarditis and not data on its incidence or risk estimation post-vaccination, as acknowledged by the authors. KEY TAKE AWAY While COVID-19 vaccines have indeed been associated with an elevated risk of certain adverse events like myocarditis, COVID-19 itself is associated with greater risks, including cardiac complications. To date, the scientific evidence shows that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks. FULL CLAIM: “Major New Autopsy Report Reveals Those Who...

THE FACTS: A misleading article spreading widely online this week attempts to link recent child and young adult deaths in the U.S. to COVID-19 vaccines.“CDC quietly confirms at least 118k Children & Young Adults have ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA since the roll-out of the COVID Vaccines,” reads its headline. The article originally appeared in November on The Exposé, a website that has repeatedly spread COVID-19 misinformation. A screenshot of the article’s headline was shared in multiple Facebook and Instagram posts. One Instagram post had more than 15,500 likes as of Thursday. As evidence, the article cites CDC data as...

The 2020 elections in Arizona have resulted in multiple election challenges, and voters who aware of the dubious nature of some of them might conclude that they are collectively “Much Ado About Nothing.” But at least one of the election lawsuits not only merits further consideration, it is worth the time of Arizona’s legal system to fully evaluate it instead of rushing to judgment. “Lake’s lawsuit is a Hail Mary that seems as much about the 2020 election as the 2022 election, and it will be tough to convince the judge not to dismiss it early in the process.” said...

Comedian David Baddiel and actor Miriam Margoyles were among those sharing memories of Lesley LandTributes have poured in following the death of Jewish PR whiz Lesley Land. The 41-year-old, who died suddenly last Friday, had racked up over two decades of experience in the television industry, recently working on David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count documentary. The Channel 4 publicist joined the UK public broadcaster back in 2014 as publicity manager for comedy and entertainment. She had recently been working across the channel’s factual entertainment, features and daytime programming. Ms Land was the daughter of talent agent Anita and the...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents show. Samuel Bateman was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, until he left to start his own small offshoot group. He was supported financially by male followers who also gave up their own wives and children to be Bateman’s wives, according to an FBI affidavit.

A Delta Airlines employee is on the mend after she was struck by a service truck at Atlanta’s airport over the weekend. The collision occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, as the ramp agent was guiding a flight into one of the gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to Atlanta police. That’s when the driver, who police said was admittedly distracted by his tablet, struck her on the tarmac. The woman’s family shared video of the incident online, showing the moment the truck hits her from behind. Officers responded to Concourse C and found the agent on the...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday that President Joe Biden “has done the work” to secure the southern U.S. border, even as rising numbers of migrants continue to surge across it. Jean-Pierre was answering a question in the White House briefing room about the imminent end of Title 42, the rule that allows U.S. authorities to turn away migrants due to the pandemic emergency. It is one of the only enforcement tools that the Biden administration has retained, after President Biden issued a slew of executive orders upon taking office that rescinded President Donald Trump’s policies, including...

The Biden administration on Thursday (Dec 15) added Chinese memory chipmaker YMTC and 21 "major" Chinese players in the artificial intelligence chip industry to a trade blacklist, broadening its crackdown on China's chip industry. YMTC, long in the crosshairs of the US government, was added to the list over fears it could divert US technology to previously blacklisted Chinese tech giants Huawei and Hikvision. The move, laid out in the Federal Register, will bar YMTC's suppliers from shipping US goods to it without a difficult-to-obtain license. The 21 Chinese AI chip entities being added to the trade blacklist, which include...

Inflation has devoured Americans’ wage gains, but President Joe Biden’s a truth-teller when he made it appear that Americans are swimming in cash, per PolitiFact’s logic. PolitiFact praised Biden’s outrageous gaslighting on the latest inflation report that showed a 7.1-percent year-over-year price increase. PolitiFact said “Biden acknowledged that inflation was still too high and more needed to be done," just before highlighting his talking point that, “‘For the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up.’” PolitiFact’s so-called Truth-o-Meter belched out the classification: “Mostly true.”

The city's school district announced yesterday it will require all K-12 students to wear masks in classrooms and hallways from January 3 to 13 - the first ten days after school returns from winter break.

[Catholic Caucus] “The Current Crisis of Faith in the Church Has Its Ground in the New Mass”The following superb article by Austrian priest Fr. Michael Gurtner appeared in German at the site katholisches.info on November 27, 2022; the translation is published here with permission.—PAKAt present, the modern Church is working to change its internal constitution, transforming itself and by its own initiative from a hierarchical Church, as willed and instituted by God, to a “synodal” (and therefore humanly constructed) Church. In the one and only Church of Jesus Christ, which is the Catholic Church, a process of successive detachment from...

Get Woke, Go Broke: Washington Post Staff Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Layoffs Announced After losing more than half a million subscribers in the past two years, did the far-left writers and employees at the Washington Post really think they would avoid any consequences? It would appear that they are exactly as oblivious as many people suspected. A recent hidden camera video has surfaced of the latest Washington Post employee “town hall” meeting, in which CEO Fredrick Ryan delivers the bad news that the company will be executing worker layoffs after subscription revenues plummeted. Not surprisingly, the employees (presumably made...

The first openly transgender woman slated for execution in the US is appealing to Missouri’s governor for mercy, citing mental health struggles. Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her life before her Jan. 3 execution. She was convicted of killing her 45-year-old ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther on Nov. 20, 2003. Guenther was raped and stabbed to death in St. Louis County.

In the past year alone, the Walt Disney Co. fought Florida over its ant-grooming Parental Rights in Education law, created multiple transgender characters for its children’s shows, put gay characters at the center of its big-budget movies, and even launched an LGBTQ-themed apparel line. And still, Disney isn’t gay enough for the folks at GLAAD.

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has cautioned the crypto community about self-custody, suggesting that 99% of people choosing to take possession of their crypto will likely lose it one way or another.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency tasked with enforcing the nation’s securities laws, has been a foundational piece of the administrative state constructed by the Left over the past century. Over the past few years, however, the SEC has come under fire for potential abuses of power, particularly involving its use of administrative law judges to decide its own cases. The SEC’s use of its own judges gives it a clear home court advantage—one that a federal appeals court recently deemed unconstitutional. Now, it appears the SEC may be headed to the Supreme Court with the very constitutionality...

The Washington Post was forced to issue a correction to an op-ed piece that lamented the absence of black players on Argentina’s national soccer team — even though the black population of the South American country is less than 1%.

The United States “took too long” to commence espionage efforts against Chinese health officials to learn more about the COVID-19 pandemic from the outset, according to Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee. In a declassified report (pdf) released Dec. 14, committee members credit intelligence agencies with their early warnings of a potential pandemic but hold that the lack of clandestine intelligence collection as the virus emerged in late 2019 and early 2020 was detrimental to the government’s insight into the situation. “The IC’s [intelligence community’s] reporting throughout January ‘was based on open source reporting, diplomatic reporting,’ and its own...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge handed guns rights advocates a victory Thursday and placed a new, voter-approved ban on high-capacity magazines on hold until questions about its constitutionality can be decided. Harney County Judge Robert Raschio released the written ruling after a lengthy court hearing earlier this week in which attorneys for gun rights groups sought a preliminary injunction to stop the narrowly passed ban on magazines of more than 10 rounds. “That the large capacity magazine bans promote public safety is mere speculation,” Raschio wrote. “The court cannot sustain restraint on constitutional right on mere speculation that...

Russia: Parolin Apologises for Francis’ Ill-Considered WordsRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on December 15 that Russia had received an apology from the Vatican's Secretary of State over Francis' comments against Chechens and Buryats (en)."This incident is settled," she said, after Francis's claim that Russian soldiers from these two nations where the "cruellest" fighters in Ukraine.