A law that would have granted registered Delaware voters the right to vote by mail for any reason was struck down by the state’s Supreme Court on Oct. 7. But that doesn’t mean no one in Delaware will be allowed to vote by mail. Voters can still use absentee ballots under certain circumstances, and those […]
If you’re a male Floridian between the ages of 18 and 39, recent news about the COVID-19 vaccines might have been alarming. Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and the state’s department of health released new guidance recommending against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for that demographic. They said there was an 84% increase in cardiac-related […]
Chuck Grassley and Mike Franken tossed several barbs at each other in their lone televised debate for a U.S. Senate seat from Iowa. For example, there was the time Franken took Grassley to task, saying Grassley opposed anything that helped women. “This is a guy who’s made it his career to ban abortion, to support […]
In the first debate of Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said Republican challenger J.D. Vance holds a “very extreme position” against abortion. “J.D., you called rape ‘inconvenient.’ Right?” Ryan said during the Oct. 10 U.S. Senate debate sponsored by Fox 8 News Cleveland. “Rape is not inconvenient. It is a significant […]
Those who have followed the near 50-year aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade, a 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, know the ruling never settled the highly contentious topic of legal abortion. The 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe – Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – extended the arguing […]
U.S. immigration officials recorded more than 2 million encounters with immigrants at the southwest border in the fiscal year that ended in September. Some people have used this data to spread the white supremacist “great replacement theory” — a conspiracy theory holding that Democrats and Western elites are deliberately using immigration to “replace” white people […]
Former president Donald Trump told crowds in Nevada and Arizona that his handling of presidential documents was praiseworthy compared with that of George H.W. Bush, who died in 2018. In his Oct. 8 rally in Nevada, Trump melded references to the former president, a bowling alley, and a Chinese restaurant in an effort to downplay […]
It’s not every day that an American president warns of nuclear disaster and draws on Biblical imagery to do so. But President Joe Biden did just that Oct. 6 when he told Democratic donors the threat of “Armageddon” is higher than it has been in decades. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy […]
ATHENS, Greece — Dubious news and online content is everywhere. Even here, in the birthplace of democracy. The challenges facing media outlets across the globe are many, including widespread public distrust, dubious claims spreading virally on social media, and a broken economic model for the news industry. But while these problems are common in many […]
Arizona offers Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat and win control of the chamber. Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly leads Republican Blake Masters in the polls, but Masters is within striking range. In an Oct. 6 debate, the two candidates, plus Libertarian Marc Victor, highlighted their differences on abortion and immigration. This […]
The claims we looked at in September 2022, as the November election drew closer, became more pointed — and often more off the mark. Each month we offer readers of High Five — a look at some of our most-clicked, but also some others that are especially relevant or timely — such as the ones here involving the […]
The U.S. reached a grim milestone in April 2021: more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in a single year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention press release on this statistic said that opioids, especially the synthetic opioid fentanyl, drove the rise. U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Irving, tweeted Aug. 19: “Fentanyl is the […]