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Visiting Maine weeks before the state’s primary election, Vice President JD Vance accused Democrats of capitulating to fraudsters. Calling Maine the "bronze medalist" in fraud after California and ...

Social media users are casting doubt and causing confusion about the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, saying that one of the passengers is a "crisis actor." ...

Florida is the only state in the nation removing children from its low-cost health insurance program, KidCare, because of missed payments. It removed about 43,000 children from December 2024 to ...

Kennedy Jr. has, historically, been very public about his concerns about what is plaguing the nation’s well-being. His long, complicated history with vaccines is well-documented. So is his ...

In Ohio’s gubernatorial race, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy blames Democrat Dr. Amy Acton, former health department director, for calling off the state’s March 2020 primary election during the ...

WASHINGTON — In a case that could chill freedom of speech and adversely affect misinformation research and fact-checking, lawyers representing academics, journalists and researchers argued in federal ...

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Videos de mujeres y un hombre retorciéndose y botando espuma por la boca no son de personas infectadas con el hantavirus, contrario a lo que dicen videos engañosos en redes sociales. Las imágenes ...

That’s especially reassuring considering the seven U.S. passengers who got off the boat and flew home before the outbreak was flagged showed no symptoms during their travels, according to Dr. Jay ...

In 2019, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal charges of recruiting dozens of underage girls for sex acts at his residences between 2002 and 2005. The financier with connections to ...

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