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#10 Ohio Judge Strikes Down Social Media Parental Consent Law, Raising Concerns Over Online Child Safety - Brooklynn Robinson for UncoverDC, Tracy Beanz, ABC World News, WOSU News, and NBC4 Columbus on X
On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, an Ohio federal judge struck down the state of Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act. This law requires parental consent for children under the age of 16 to access various social media platforms. While the ruling has been praised as a victory for free speech by tech industry advocates, it has also brought on fears about the growing dangers of online child exploitation. This reignited a national debate over protecting young social media users in the digital age without infringing on their constitutional rights. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the law in July 2023 as part of the state's annual budget, and the Social Media Parental Notification Act was set to take effect on January 15, 2024. The law mandated that social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat obtain parental consent before allowing users under 16 to create accounts...#9 The $8 Billion Question: Does Gardasil Cause Ovarian Failure? - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, William Makis MD, Julie Donuts, Freedom Angels2.0, and Jacqui Deevoy on X
With over 200 known types—and roughly 75 percent of those considered not harmful—the National Institute of Health (NIH) reports that human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. In fact, most sexually active women and men become infected with HPV, and the majority of those infections are cleared by the body’s immune system, leading to recovery from the disease without symptoms or complications and with HPV-specific antibodies in place to help prevent future infections. Indeed, more than 90 percent of those infected naturally clear the infection from the body within two years...#8 Trump Terminates NPR, PBS Federal Funding With Sweeping Executive Order - Victor Nava for New York Post, Benny Johnson, Rapid Response 47, Alex Jones, Election Wizard, and Jay - MAGA Response on X
President Trump signed an executive order late Thursday night terminating federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). NPR and PBS, which conservatives have long targeted for cuts, both receive partial funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which the president argued is unnecessary in the current media environment. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order...
#7 Trump Offers Advice to University of Alabama Graduates in Speech Interspersed With Politics - Kim Chandler and Michelle L. Price for AP News, johnny Maga/Rapid Response, Bo Loudon, Trump War Room, The University of Alabama, and Brilyn Hollyhand on X
President Donald Trump offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday in a speech interspersed with impressions of transgender weightlifters, accusations that judges were interfering with his agenda, and attacks on his predecessor, Joe Biden. The Republican’s jolting speech was standard fare for Trump and well received by the crowd in deep-red Alabama, which backed him in all three of his presidential runs. “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America,” the president told the graduates. But he quickly launched into a campaign-style diatribe, saying that the U.S. was being “ripped off” before he took office and that the last four years, when he was out of power, “were not good for our country.” “But don’t let that scare you,” he said. “It was an aberration.”
#6 Trump Ousts Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser – And Then Announces Him as U.N. Ambassador Nominee - Rhian Lubin and Andrew Feinberg for Independent, Mike Waltz, Emerald Robinson, Liz Wheeler, Jason Robertson, David Leatherwood,
President Donald Trump has tapped Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after ousting him as National Security Adviser. The shake-up comes just weeks after the Signalgate scandal, in which Waltz inadvertently added a journalist from The Atlantic to a chat discussing war plans in Yemen. Trump announced the move in a post on Truth Social Thursday afternoon after reports of Waltz’s departure broke...
#5 Trump Taps Dr. Phil for Religious Liberty Commission - Lauren Irwin for The Hill, Dr. Phil, Benny Johnson, Oli London, and Raheem. on X
President Trump has chosen Dr. Phil McGraw to join the Religious Liberty Commission. McGraw joined Trump on Thursday for a celebration in the White House’s Rose Garden in honor of the commission’s creation and the National Day of Prayer. McGraw briefly spoke during the ceremony after being introduced by Trump. He’s been a supporter of Trump’s campaign and an advocate for his administration’s immigration policies. “I can’t tell you how proud I am to see religion coming back to the White House. God bless you for doing this,” McGraw said...
#4 Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Criticizes Trump’s Attacks on Judges - Reuters, NBC Politics, Josh Gerstein, Newsweek, HuffPost Politics, and Torrenzano on X
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday attacks by Republican President Donald Trump and his allies on judges were “not random” and seemed “designed to intimidate the judiciary.” Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Trump in March for urging the impeachment of a federal judge, laying bare tensions between the country’s executive and the judiciary as Trump’s sweeping assertions of power encounter judicial obstacles. “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,” Jackson said at a judges’ conference in Puerto Rico...
#3 Elon Musk Exposes Fraud That DOGE Found in Various Agencies: There Are ‘Layers of Stealing' - Madeline Coggins for Fox News, The Vigilant Fox/Jesse Watters, KanekoaTheGreat, ALX, DogeDesigner, Diane, Ca, Bobby Diesel,
As President Donald Trump marked his 100th day in office on Tuesday, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has cut at least $160 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. While the department has made several high-profile cuts during the Trump administration's first 100 days, DOGE head Elon Musk shared that Trump's cost-cutting is just getting started. "It's a long-term enterprise," Musk said during an exclusive interview Thursday on "Jesse Watters Primetime." "Because if we take our eye off the ball, the waste and fraud will come roaring back."
#2 Kudlow Says Real GDP Is Booming Beneath the Surface of Q1 Data - John Carney for Breitbart, Fox Business, Red Line News, Bill Mitchell, Rich Now, and The New York Sun on X
Larry Kudlow says the recession talk sweeping through Wall Street and the press is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the latest GDP numbers — and a refusal to acknowledge the early effects of President Trump’s economic agenda. On his Fox Business Network show Wednesday, Kudlow took direct aim at what he described as a “media and Wall Street obsession” with the headline 0.3 percent decline in real GDP during the first quarter of 2025. The liberal press and their pals on Wall Street are talking about recession — because the first quarter GDP was scored with a slight decline of three-tenths of 1 percent,” Kudlow said. “Yet if you look under the hood of the GDP report, and carefully parse through the numbers, what you actually come up with is a rather strong economy, that’s growing at something like 3 percent.”
#1 HHS to Require Placebo Testing of ‘All New Vaccines,’ Raising Questions About Approval of Updated COVID-19 Shots - Meg Tirrell for CNN, Jan Jekielek, Holden Culotta, Sayer Ji, Epoch Health, The Jaxen Report, and Children's Health Defense on X
The US Department of Health and Human Services said it will require that all new vaccines be tested in placebo-controlled trials before they’re licensed for use, raising urgent questions about the system used to clear updated Covid-19 boosters each respiratory virus season. “Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, all new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” HHS said in a statement Wednesday. Covid-19 vaccines, first cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration in late 2020, have been updated each year in a system similar to that used for flu vaccines, so they can better target circulating strains of the virus. The vaccine constructs remain the same each year, but the version of the virus they protect against can be tweaked. The FDA typically selects strains for the updated vaccines in June so they can be ready for distribution by the fall...
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