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Hospitals in multiple countries reportedly declined to treat a 3-year-old boy with a serious heart condition because his parents weren't vaccinated against COVID-19. Hospitals have faced criticism for prioritizing transplants for vaccinated individuals and some health care workers have expressed frustration in having to treat influxes in unvaccinated people. For a boy in Cyprus, the inoculation made it more difficult for his parents to find a hospital to treat him. The boy was hospitalized due to his heart condition, according to Politico, and hospitals in Cyprus were unable to perform the surgery. So, the health ministry arranged for the boy...

South Carolina Republican Pressley Stutts died of pneumonia, kidney failure and blood clots after a month in the hospital with COVID-19 Stutts had been on the ventilator for a week before his death Thursday The US Navy veteran led a group loyal to former President Donald Trump to force resignation of several Greenville County GOP leaders Stutts previously met Trump and attended January 6 demonstration in DC Stutts was vocal opponent of vaccination and mask mandates ...Pressley Stutts succumbed to the illness at Spartanburg Regional Hospital on Thursday, a week after being put on the ventilator, according to party leaders...

Conservative radio host Mark Levin endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) late Wednesday as a tribute to former first lady Nancy Reagan. “I decided today was the day ultimately because of Nancy Reagan’s death,” he said on “LevinTV.”

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — A Minnesota man who killed two teenagers who broke into his home can be heard on an audio recording talking to himself for hours after the shooting and at one point, apparently describing the slain teens as "vermin." Byron Smith, of Little Falls, faces first-degree premeditated murder charges in the deaths of 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nick Brady on Thanksgiving Day in 2012. Smith, 65, claimed he was defending himself and feared for his life after several break-ins at his home. Prosecutors, though, say Smith planned the killings. They say he sat in a chair...