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According to a report by Michael Shellenberger, the FBI made an "organized effort" to target social media and news companies, including Twitter, that reported on the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and Twitter received repeated requests for information from the FBI that it had previously stated it would not share outside of normal legal channels.

The FDA authorized Pfizer's COVID vaccines for use in American adults and children based on data from a committee whose members are paid by Pfizer.

Louisiana’s Secretary of State, Kyle Ardoin, announced Monday that he is banning TikTok on all devices issued by the Department of State.

The number of documented attacks on churches has steadily increased in recent months and years, with a dramatic uptick in 2022 in abortion-related vandalism related to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a landmark new report.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may be linked to higher instances of adverse effects in people over 65, including blood clots and heart attacks, according to a study by the FDA, but the agency still maintains that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks of contracting COVID-19.

The BQ and XBB subvariants of the COVID-19 virus Omicron have altered antibody evasion properties that make them more difficult to neutralize with current vaccines and monoclonal antibodies, according to a study published in the journal Cell.

A large anti-NATO rally was held in Paris, France on Saturday by the right-wing Les Patriotes party, with protesters calling for a review of France's policies towards the US-led bloc and Moscow and denouncing anti-Russia sanctions.

Despite high vaccination rates in China, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation projects that the country will see an "explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023," with peak cases and approximately 322,000 deaths expected around April 1, when around one-third of the population is projected to have been infected.

At least 420 acts of hostility against churches occurred in the United States over the past five years, while 57 of those hostile acts between January and September 2022 have been related to abortion, an analysis suggests.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin banned the use of several Chinese-owned apps, including TikTok and WeChat, on state government devices and wireless networks on Friday, calling them a threat to national security.