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The White House declared the site of the Maui wildfires a disaster area, and the Department of Defense has provided more than 400 troops, air support and other resources in firefighting and recovery efforts. Yet posts on Instagram misrepresent the federal response and one falsely claimed “the military is standing down.”
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A meme circulating on Facebook claims without evidence that Hillary Clinton has made $95.5 million since she ran for president in 2016, and falsely implies that she and former President Barack Obama enriched themselves by “steal[ing] your money.”
The U.S. is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases, so it may be prudent for people to wear masks when out in public and take a few extra precautions. But the government is not planning to implement mask mandates or “lockdowns,” despite claims from the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Democrats tend to win in densely populated counties, while Republicans win more sparse, rural counties. In 2020, the counties won by President Joe Biden had 67 million more residents than counties won by former President Donald Trump. Yet a social media post falsely asserts that because Biden won with fewer counties than Trump, “something isn’t adding up.”
WATCH: Trump clearly confused about who he ran against and how many World Wars there have been. 😧
Documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins received 58 royalty payments from 2010 to 2021 for their research. Only three of the payments came in 2020 or 2021; the rest were made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But social media posts falsely claimed all the payments were “for allowing companies to use their COVID-19 vaccines.”
Elon Musk launched a baseless Twitter attack on George Soros, a frequent target for antisemitic conspiracy theories, accusing the financier of hating humanity days after Soros disclosed having sold off a modest stake in Tesla. The CEO of the American Jewish Committee Ted Deutch and CNN’s media analyst Sara Fischer join Jake Tapper to discuss.
A long-awaited report by Republican-appointed special counsel John Durham failed to find the “crime of the century” that ex-President Donald Trump said targeted him at the center of the Russia investigation. But it delivered him a potential political payoff nonetheless.
In an interview with a local Alabama radio station, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville was asked if he believes White nationalists should be allowed in the military. He responded, “I call them Americans.”
Frank Sesno, former CNN Washington Bureau Chief who is now a professor at George Washington University, was set to be an expert witness in the Fox News-Dominion trial. He joins CNN’s Michael Smerconish to break down the latest about Fox News and the recent decision by the network to part ways with Tucker Carlson. #CNN #News
Fox News abruptly announced Monday that its top-rated primetime host Tucker Carlson is leaving the network. The move comes less than a week after Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems over accusations that its hosts, including Carlson, aired false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Geoff Bennett discussed Fox’s decision with Brian Stelter.
16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot twice when he rang the wrong doorbell trying to pick up his little brothers. 84-year-old Andrew Lester pleaded not guilty to the shooting. Klint Ludwig, Lester’s grandson, speaks to CNN’s Don Lemon about the incident.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN. CNN’s Sara Murray reports.
Dennis Purifoy survived the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Sitting in his cubicle on the ground floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, he saw the flash of an explosion on his computer screen and was covered by debris. Sixteen of his co-workers and 24 visitors died. The attack opened his eyes to the reality of hate and terrorism, and he now urges law enforcement agencies to pay more attention to the rising threat of far-right extremism in the country. He believes that the divisions and polarizations in society make it easier for people to think in terms of “me or us versus them,” and he is more concerned about it today than he has been in a while.
The defamation trial against Fox News concluded before it even began. Dominion Voting Systems alleged the right-wing network knowingly broadcast lies that its voting machines were used to steal the 2020 presidential election. On Tuesday, Fox agreed to settle the case and pay Dominion $787 million. Geoff Bennett discussed the settlement with NPR’s David Folkenflik.
WATCH: Dominion Voting gives remarks after settlement with Fox News on 2020 election defamation case
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee headed to New York for a hearing honing in on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He’s the prosecutor who brought criminal charges against former President Trump. The hearing was billed as a look at Bragg’s record on prosecuting crime, but turned into a back and forth between protesters, witnesses and members of Congress. Lisa Desjardins reports.
The pandemic highlighted the power of local health departments and brought backlash from people who said these authorities were overreaching. In the wake of the turmoil, many were overhauled, leaving an outsized impact on rural parts of the country. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, Dr. Alok Patel reports for our series, Rural RX.
A week after the arraignment of Donald Trump, we’re learning new details about a covert effort by Russian and Chinese-backed actors aimed at sowing division among the American electorate and increasing distrust in institutions. Laura Barrón-López discussed the findings with Colin Clarke of the Soufan Center And Zach Schwitzky of the data science firm Limbik.
The country is closely watching how the battle over abortion medication unfolds in federal courts. It follows a Texas judge’s decision to overturn FDA approval of the mifepristone. But there’s also growing concern over what that ruling could mean for the drug approval process in general. Amna Nawaz discussed what’s at stake with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the former FDA principal deputy commissioner.
In our news wrap Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Republican Rep. Jim Jordan over a House Judiciary Committee inquiry into the Trump indictment, witnesses say Myanmar government airstrikes killed as many as 100 people including dozens of children and President Biden arrived in Northern Ireland to mark 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement.
During a 1991 interview on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, former Chief Justice Warren Burger was asked what he would change in the Bill of Rights. He called out the Second Amendment.
“If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment,” Burger told the NewsHour’s Charlayne Hunter-Gault. “This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud – I repeat the word ‘fraud’ – on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
The interview was part of a series marking the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
He pulled out his tiny copy of the constitution and read the Second Amendment aloud, which states that “a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“If the militia, which was going to be the state army, was going to be well-regulated,” Burger asked, “why shouldn’t 16 and 17 and 18, or any other age, persons be regulated in the use of arms the way an automobile is regulated?”
Months before Burger’s appearance on the NewsHour, former President Ronald Reagan called on Congress to pass the Brady bill, a piece of legislation named for his press secretary who was wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt against him.
“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns,” Regan wrote in a March 1991 New York Times op-ed. “This level of violence must be stopped.”
It took another two years before President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law.
In the NBC News podcast “Truthers: Tiffany Dover is Dead*,” Brandy Zadrozny followed the story of a nurse who became an unwilling icon of the anti-vaccination movement. But the one person Brandy couldn’t track down was Tiffany Dover herself. Until now.
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