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By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigationsDecember 7, 2022 Wedged in the southern flank of Virginia, Charlotte County is home to some 11,500... Read More
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, researchers looked at the number of mastectomies in a major health system in... Read More
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Read More
As regulators stay on the sideline, a growing industry expands its reach but leaves some pregnant patients feeling misled and heartbroken. Read More
“Staff complacency” allowed a man to break out of a prison bus — and kill a family. Read More
Fatal police shootings by officers in at least 2,250 departments are missing from federal records since 2015, according to The Washington... Read More
Nearly one million Americans have no immediate family members to provide assistance if needed. The number is expected to grow. Read More
A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise. Read More
More than 30,000 customers of Duke Energy remained without electricity Monday after infrastructure in Moore County was damaged by gunfire. Read More
Revealed: a private autopsy report shared with the Guardian concludes Desir’s death was a homicide. This article contains description of... Read More
Halfway house operators in Colorado have long been cited for failing to comply with standards, lapses that can lead to dangerous... Read More
They run the mayor’s favorite restaurant, and he says they have put their troubled pasts behind them. Some of their former business... Read More
Moore County declared a state of emergency, issued a curfew at 9 pm ET and closed county schools on Monday. Read More
How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property. Read More
Cascading deaths from fentanyl and other drugs transformed this small N.C. city and left indelible scars. Read More
The state is undertaking the nation’s most ambitious effort so far to compensate for the economic legacy of slavery and racism. Read More
The theft of state unemployment funds is the first pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government... Read More
The federal funds benefited some well-off medical systems but weren’t enough for many that were struggling to provide pandemic care,... Read More
Newly released messages discuss how to discredit the idea that the virus escaped from a lab. Read More
Biden's former COVID adviser tries to discredit randomized controlled trial that found no statistically significant real-world performance... Read More
Firefighting delays in the city of Urumqi, seen by many Chinese as related to strict pandemic controls, set off wide demonstrations against... Read More
Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the... Read More
Paxlovid can be a lifesaving treatment for COVID. Why do so many patients turn it down? Read More
I had to accept my limits, but that didn’t mean I was helpless. Parents are still the most important influence on their kids. Read More
Story at a glance The share of college applicants who submit test scores has plunged since pre-pandemic times. Fewer than half of early... Read More
Social justice joins discounted cash flows on the syllabus as essential knowledge for aspiring corporate leaders. Read More
A colorful crowd of doctors, researchers and women’s activists convened in the Latvian capital to explore ways to use pills to circumvent... Read More
As websites selling horrific child-abuse images have proliferated on the Read More
Women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse are saying the banks facilitated his alleged sex-trafficking operation and ignored red... Read More
Former Yeezy team members claim West showed them explicit images of Kim Kardashian and used fear and manipulation to assert dominance. A... Read More
The men whose photos are used for catfishing have little recourse other than to continuously report fake profiles across social media... Read More
Bernie Madoff was arrested in a matter of days after his fraud came to light, but SBF is still a free man. What gives? Read More
Gas stations spar with utility companies, rural areas predict years of losses on chargers, spotty equipment threatens reliability: The U.S.... Read More
Companies with deep resources are outsourcing management to apps and algorithms, putting home ownership further out of reach. Read More
Choices made throughout the production process can result in audio problems. There are some things you can do. Read More
The Markup found that tax preparation services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have sent users’ personal financial information... Read More
In the underground world of pronatalism, the elite think it's their duty to fill the earth with their kids — and are funding tech to make... Read More
Accountable Tech, a dark money group with links to Hillary Clinton's Onward Together nonprofit, has targeted Twitter advertisers amid Elon... Read More
For six years, beginning in 2014, the accounting firm for the Southeast Alabama Community Action Partnership warned administrators that the... Read More
Stop looking for a smoking gun. That’s not how this game works. Read More
Boies Schiller Flexner received $10M in forgiven pandemic loans from the federal government — while donating nearly $1M to Dem candidates,... Read More
America’s top former intelligence officials were silent Saturday after the release of internal Twitter documents detailing how The Post’s... Read More
The internal Twitter communications released by new owner Elon Musk provide color to what appeared to have happened in the unprecedented... Read More
In a 41-tweet thread deemed the "Twitter Files," Taibbi provided context as to why the network banned the New York Post's story on Hunter... Read More
By John R. Lott Jr. & James Varney, RealClearInvestigationsDecember 1, 2022 Violent crime is becoming common in Sweden, shocking residents of... Read More
What does it mean to live in a Russian penal colony? Experts share insight into the hardships WNBA star Brittney Griner is likely facing. Read More
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has appointed dozens of honorary consuls. Many have spread pro-Kremlin sentiment around the world. Read More
Beijing has set up more than 100 so-called overseas police stations across the globe to monitor, harass and in some cases repatriate Chinese... Read More
One Alberta official says the mandatory buyback is not “an objective, priority or goal” and the province is “not legally obligated to... Read More
In neighboring Indonesia, nickel extraction is causing environmental and social devastation. Read More
Tiny Livemmo won nearly 20 million euros to reverse its decline. Figuring out how to spend it is a big job, but someone’s got to do it. Read More
The vessels shipped thousands of tons of stolen Ukrainian grain to global buyers, using a sophisticated system of feeder vessels and floating... Read More
After nine years as a homeless drug addict in Los Angeles, Jared Klickstein finally checked himself into a drug treatment center. Unlike the... Read More
Fretting over your 401(k) lately? For all the current turbulence in these retirement plans – from their rocky recent market performance to... Read More
By James Varney, RealClearInvestigationsSeptember 28, 2022 Strung out on drugs half her life, Brandi Edwards, 29, said the longest she held a... Read More
Like many retirees, Jesus Nunez knew he was due a pension but was having a hard time tracking it down. Now 66, the Burbank, Illinois,... Read More
On the morning of the last day of his life, Adam Rashid called his parents to tell them he was about to be discharged from Zuckerberg San... Read More
New York should legalize human composting, a more environmentally friendly approach to death. Read More
It’s time to break up the nation’s largest school districts. Read More
Men ages 35 to 44 are staging a lackluster rebound from pandemic job loss, despite a strong economy. Read More
By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigationsApril 5, 2022 Just a few years ago, concepts such as “white supremacy,” “systemic racism,”... Read More
The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers, regulators and others to... Read More
For most of the 20th century the FBI has owned the reputation of being America’s police force. The list of the FBI’s “good apple”... Read More
Managers in the EPA’s New Chemicals Division have refused to assess the risk of cancer and other harms of chemicals deemed to be... Read More
Part One of a Two-Part Series (Part Two Here) The national racial reckoning over reparations and critical race theory is taking over the... Read More
First of Two ArticlesPart 2: In Scotland, They'll Take the Woke Road By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigationsDecember 28, 2021 PARIS —... Read More
Second of Two ArticlesEarlier: France, Where Wokism Is a Oui Bit Different By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigationsDecember 29, 2021... Read More
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- Why GOP's Hunter Biden Probe Is Legit, Unlike Russiagate - David Harsanyi, Daily Signal
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- "Resistance (at All Costs)" by Kimberley Strassel
- "The Plot Against the President" by Lee Smith
- "Catch and Kill" by Ronan Farrow
- "Justice on Trial" by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino
- "The Russia Hoax" by Gregg Jarrett
- "The Threat" by Andrew G. McCabe
- "Secret Empires" by Peter Schweizer
- "Russian Roulette" by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- “Shattered’’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
