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VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,103,893 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 23,615 deaths and 188,135 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 4, 2022.

In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it's "Time to Increase Defense Spending."

The U.S. has not made public the evidence it says is underlying its most specific warnings on possible Russian planning or timing.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told conservative website Daily Signal he's all for anti-vaccine trucker convoys to "clog up" metro areas across the U.S. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been well aware that truckers could soon embark for Washington, D.C. Still, this weekend, a more immediate threat could be a convoy headed to the Super Bowl in California. 

Department of Defense launches campaign for Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the military.

Consumer Price Index jumps 7.5%.

Police in Wellington, New Zealand broke through and aggressively disrupted a group of people protesting mandates on Parliament grounds.

Jeanie Evans, 68, of Effingham, Kansas, died of "anaphylaxis due to COVID-19 vaccination," according to her autopsy report. Evans died March 24, 2021, one day after her first dose of Moderna’s vaccine.

Vehicles barricaded New Zealand's capital city of Wellington Tuesday, as protesters demand an end to vaccine mandates.

Thousands rallied to join the Canadian protests against mandates and restrictions in the western region of the country this past weekend.