TALLAHASSEE — Amid rising teen anxiety and suicides, Florida lawmakers are moving ahead with a solution: Stop them from using social media. Under House Bill 1, kids under 16 would be prohibited from using social media. Another bill would block them from accessing online pornography. To top legislators and other advocates, social media is akin […]
Amid spikes of social media antisemitism driven by the Israel-Hamas war, the discovery of a tunnel near a well-known Brooklyn synagogue spurred similar misinformation. The tunnel first made news in December in a local Crown Heights neighborhood media outlet. But the tunnel near the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters became a national story after police arrested […]
Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton spoke out last week on NBC’s “Today” show about what she said was a rare pneumonia that almost killed her and resulted in an expensive, monthlong hospital stay. It was a shocking reveal. One key comment jumped out for people who follow health policy: Retton said she was uninsured, […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will learn how her campaign is resonating with voters after the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, the first presidential nominating contest of this election year. Already, the former South Carolina governor — who became well known as one of the Affordable Care Act’s loudest critics during her tenure […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley saw a path to besting the quadruply-indicted former President Donald Trump when they entered the primary to become the Republican presidential nominee. With days until the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses and the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary, voters will tell these candidates exactly how […]
Soon after a federal court unsealed documents stemming from a lawsuit related to financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, some Donald Trump supporters trumpeted what they said was great news for the former president. “#BREAKING: Epstein documents confirm that Donald Trump did not visit Jeffrey Epstein’s home or island,” one viral Instagram post said […]
Florida’s top health official suggested without evidence that tiny DNA fragments in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous and said the shots should not be used, but epidemiologists and vaccine researchers disagree. In a Jan. 3 statement, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, implied that recipients of the vaccine could pass on DNA fragments to […]
While his leading Republican competitors tangled on a Des Moines, Iowa, debate stage across town, former President Donald Trump shared attention-grabbing anecdotes and recycled claims in his own town hall. The Jan. 10 event hosted by Fox News five days before the Iowa caucuses covered a wide range of topics, including foreign policy, COVID-19 and […]
Four minutes into the Iowa Republican presidential debate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley directed viewers to a website her campaign started to counter what she called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “lies.” “You’re gonna find out tonight there’s going to be a lot of Ron’s lies that have happened,” Haley said in the Jan. 10 CNN […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley sparred over whether to raise the Social Security retirement age during a CNN Republican presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa. Haley said life expectancy is longer today, so the age to start collecting Social Security benefits should be older than the current 65 […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley tried to highlight some weaknesses in Florida’s economic performance during a presidential debate against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis often lists the ways Florida is the nation’s top-ranked state, from gross domestic product to education to entrepreneurship. (We fact-checked his list.) “But if he’s gonna talk about his economy, […]
During a back-and-forth on immigration during the Jan. 10 Iowa debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned a Brooklyn, New York, school. “Think about what’s happening to our country. Just this week, we saw the news that a high s– that a school in Brooklyn, New York, had the kids stay home,” DeSantis said. “They were not […]