U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said on Thursday.
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Households making under $75,000 will carry roughly 26% of the $500 billion burden, while millionaires will pay just 19.8% of it, according to a new Heritage Foundation report.
On a rain-soaked field at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, the Las Vegas Raiders beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-11, giving coach Josh McDaniels a homecoming victory.
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Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Thursday she agreed to “move forward” on a $430 billion drug pricing, energy and tax bill, subject to a Senate arbiter’s approval of the bill, which Democrats intend to pass over Republican objections.
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The declaration will put the focus of the government’s prevention efforts on vaccines, allowing the Food and Drug Administration to find new strategies that could help distribute vaccines to “affected communities” and increase the number of doses of the vaccine that are available.
In a parade of pessimism, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted the situation at the southern border has reached the point of chaos, lamented an uptick in violence, and sought to mitigate allegations his agency has an anti-conservative bias during his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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China’s firing of missiles during military drills around Taiwan was an unjustified escalation, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as Beijing said it would impose sanctions on House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting the island.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he had suspended a Tampa-area state attorney who had previously stated he would not seek to prosecute violations of Florida’s new abortion law and promised to support the rights of children to receive gender reassignment surgeries.
Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for a drugs offense.
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New reports show that young girls are going through puberty as surprisingly young ages.