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A 62-year-old German man who was administered 217 COVID-19 vaccines reported no side effects and no cases of the virus; researchers found that the 217th shot had further boosted the man’s immunity. Read More
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President Biden said the U.S. would begin airdropping food and supplies to Gazans, but twice confused Gaza with Ukraine during his announcement. Read More
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Weekly Review

An unidentified flying object observed traversing the skies of Salt Lake City, Utah, turned out to be a balloon; a joint military command issued a fighter jet to intercept it. Read More
Publisher’s Note

Will Trump Become a Dictator?

Hitler committed high treason; Trump stuck with incitement. Read More
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Nearly one-fifth of Americans believe in a conspiracy theory involving the strategic government use of Taylor Swift to increase Biden’s reelection chances. Read More
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Nikki Haley lost Nevada’s Republican primary to the “None of These Candidates” ballot option. Read More
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In Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old self-published author of dystopian science fiction who recently sued the United States over his student-loan debt used a machete to behead his father, who had been a federal employee for 20 years, and then posted a video of himself holding the head in a clear plastic grocery bag as he called for the execution of all government workers. Read More
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Weekly Review

The president of the Philippines used a taxpayer-funded helicopter to fly to a Coldplay concert. Read More
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution stipulating investigation into human rights abuses before additional U.S. aid is disbursed to Israel; the measure was rejected. Read More
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Tunnels were discovered beneath a Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn; a rabbi called the group of men who had dug the illegal structures and later clashed with police “rogue, and, frankly, unwell youths.” Read More
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Weekly Review

An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing after a door-size section of the plane blew off 10 minutes after takeoff. Read More
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Weekly Review

An Amazon warehouse in New York asked its employees if they were facing financial hardship during the holiday season and encouraged them to write to the company’s mascot, an orange blob named Peccy, to fulfill their “holiday wishes.” Read More
Publisher’s Note

One-State Solution

Absurd? Utopian? Not more so than “the two-state solution,” which has become a cynical trap advocated by hypocrites. Read More
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Weekly Review

The House passed an $886 billion defense bill, which set a new record for military spending and included measures that the House Armed Services Committee said would “end wokeness in the military.” Read More
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In Rainier, Washington, a candidate for city council did not cast a ballot in his own election and then lost by one vote. Read More
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Weekly Review

A government official in Paraguay resigned after he signed a “memorandum of understanding” with a fictional country. Read More
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A far-right politician who was once banned from visiting the United Kingdom owing to the extremity of his his anti-Islam views won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the Dutch election. Read More
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Weekly Review

Donald Trump’s campaign said that those who compare his rhetoric to that of fascist dictators would be “crushed.” Read More
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Weekly Review

Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators brawled outside Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance. Read More
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Weekly Review

Several people who attended ApeFest in Hong Kong were diagnosed with welder’s eye. Read More
Publisher’s Note

Violence in Pictures

“Of course, I advocate for ‘reality’ as much as possible, in the hope that exposure to violence, especially to the real consequences of war by way of brutal images that lay bare both death and injuries, will make the world wiser.” Read More
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Weekly Review

Scientists studied the ways in which sperm defy Newton’s laws of motion. Read More
Podcast

Pulp Fiction

In the stacks: on the tristate collectors of yesterday’s future Read More
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Weekly Review

A New Orleans tattoo shop owner was cleared of charges in a ransom plot to turn the Jefferson Davis memorial chair into a toilet. Read More
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Weekly Review

It was reported that a Kansas teacher and stand-up comedian had been fired for TikToks in which he described “crop dusting” students with “big milky lactose intolerant farts” and teaching them that Abraham Lincoln was the inventor of the car. Read More
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Weekly Review

Several Amish people were reported shunned after the U.S. government’s Wireless Emergency Alert test revealed that they had phones. Read More
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Weekly Review

A Chucky doll was handcuffed and arrested in Colombia after a man used it to intimidate robbery victims. Read More
Podcast

Party Fouls

Insurgents stand against the DNC Read More
Publisher’s Note

A Digital Coup

"Zuckerberg fancies himself the pharaoh of the Web. He uses it to act beyond all regulatory limits, in defiance of national borders and democratic principles." Read More
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Weekly Review

An Australian tested local regulations by naming her son Methamphetamine Rules. “He’s a very chill child,” the mother said. “So not anything like a meth user.” Read More
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