Louisville medical worker Breonna Taylor died in March 2020 after police officers raided her apartment and fired shots while executing what has become known as a no-knock warrant, now banned there. A year after Taylor’s death, social media claims are suggesting that the Biden administration is advocating for no-knock raids for the purpose of confiscating […]
An HBO documentary series about QAnon ended with a big revelation: the unmasking of “Q,” the anonymous internet poster who fueled the baseless conspiracy theory that gained a national following. The finale episode of “Q Into the Storm” by filmmaker Cullen Hoback features an interview with Ron Watkins, the former administrator of the fringe message […]
The legal defense for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd, tried unsuccessfully to get two witnesses to testify that Floyd said he “ate too many drugs” as he was pinned under Chauvin’s knee. Defense attorney Eric Nelson did not come away with the answer […]
Question: Are New York’s voter laws more restrictive than Georgia’s? Answer: In some ways yes. In some ways no. But comparing them as they are now leaves out some important context. When Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game from Georgia in response to the state’s new voting law, some Republicans countered that MLB ought […]
Did “60 Minutes” selectively edit video footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to portray the state’s coronavirus vaccine in a negative light? That’s what DeSantis and some of his supporters are saying. The report by “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi looked at how wealthy Floridians were among the first to get coronavirus vaccines in the […]
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Georgia’s new voting law has ignited a fight over whether the law expands or shrinks access to the ballot. Republican lawmakers changed voting rules after Democrats won 2020 and 2021 statewide races thanks to strong turnout among Black voters. A few major corporations broadly attacked the law, but the most significant action came from Major […]
Confused by what people are saying about H.R. 1, the hotly contested voting and elections bill? We can’t blame you. The 791-page Democratic-backed bill — which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote and awaits action in the Senate — is complex and wide-ranging. It combines proposals for voter registration, absentee […]
Americans who want to go to concerts, fly on certain airlines or attend weddings in the next few months may have to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. That approach has recently become a target for online misinformation and political spin. Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the idea of vaccine passports “Orwellian” and said […]
In the early days of the pandemic, a Facebook page for Earthley promised an easy way to avoid getting COVID-19. The wellness company promoted a Vitamin D cream and an elderberry elixir to strengthen the body’s immune response and “help fight off the possibility of you or your family getting the coronavirus.” The post appeared […]
Undoing many of the policies of his predecessor is one of President Joe Biden’s top priorities. In early February, Biden even got a little defensive about all the executive actions he was taking in his first days in office to halt policies set by President Donald Trump. “I’m not making new law,” he said Feb. […]
Question: How can the COVID-19 vaccines be safe when they were developed so fast? Answer: The development of the first vaccines may have seemed to occur at a dizzying pace. After all, scientists identified a new virus and created vaccines to protect against its most severe effects within a year. But the research underpinning these […]