Kentucky Republican Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> said he would move to hold up any spending bill providing more money to Ukraine as the deadline for Congress to fund the federal government approaches.
Paul, a frequent critic of foreign aid, announced on Wednesday that he would not allow an expedited funding bill that includes financial support for Ukraine to make it quickly through the Senate. 
“Today I&#8217;m putting congressional leadership &amp; [Joe Biden] on notice that I will oppose any effort to hold the federal government hostage for Ukraine funding. I will not consent to expedited passage of any spending measure that provides any more US aid to Ukraine,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1704485590085812595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
In an <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-federal-government-should-not-be-held-hostage-for-ukraine-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed published</a> on Wednesday, Paul said he had concerns over what approving more aid would do to the national debt and voiced skepticism about U.S. strategy and interests in Ukraine. 
“When will the aid requests end? When will the war end? Can someone explain what victory in Ukraine looks like? President Biden certainly can’t. His administration has failed to articulate a clear strategy or objective in this war, and Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has failed to make meaningful gains in the east,” he wrote. 
Paul has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cannot-save-ukraine-by-dooming-the-u-s-economy-rand-paul-blocks-immediate-vote-on-billion-dollar-ukraine-package" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously held up</a> Ukraine aid, saying there should be more oversight for the billions of dollars in humanitarian and military support being sent over. 
On Thursday, a group of other Republicans, led by Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and Texas Rep. Chip Roy, sent a letter to Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, <a href="https://www.vance.senate.gov/press-releases/senator-vance-colleagues-reject-indefinite-war-in-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that they, too, would oppose further aid to Ukraine. The nearly 30 Republicans, including Paul, say they plan to vote against the additional $24 billion requested by Biden for Ukraine. 
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“The American people deserve to know what their money has gone to. How is the counteroffensive going? Are the Ukrainians any closer to victory than they were 6 months ago? What is our strategy, and what is the president’s exit plan? What does the administration define as victory in Ukraine?” the letter said. “It would be an absurd abdication of congressional responsibility to grant this request without knowing the answers to these questions.”
The Republican opposition comes as Ukrainian President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/volodymyr-zelensky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volodymyr Zelensky</a> lobbies Capitol Hill for more support. His request appears to be favored by Senate leadership, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but it could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-denies-zelensky-opportunity-to-address-joint-session-of-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face more headwinds</a> in the House.

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People are being misled about studies examining the effectiveness of face masks against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID,</a> according to Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a>.
Jonathan Karl, a co-anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYq5aF3SVk">pressed Fauci</a> on the efficacy of masking near the end of an interview on Sunday. &#8220;There’s a new study out that suggests that masks were actually not effective, at least in a global sense, in containing the pandemic,&#8221; Karl said. &#8220;What is your sense, looking back at all this? Did masks prove to be less effective than you anticipated?&#8221;
Fauci responded by insisting that &#8220;some of the studies are confusing&#8221; and then singled out an <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full">analysis</a> released in January by The Cochrane Institute, which raised the prospect that masks hardly made a difference in stopping the spread of respiratory viruses such as COVID.
The study prompted headlines saying that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">face masks made</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/face-masks-made-little-to-no-difference-in-preventing-covid-study/">&#8220;little to no difference&#8221;</a> in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic, but Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review">responded with a statement</a> in March saying it was an &#8220;inaccurate and misleading interpretation&#8221; to claim that the study found that &#8220;masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
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Fauci JUST NOW: “There are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work.” <a href="https://t.co/hJeT6EZXyw">pic.twitter.com/hJeT6EZXyw</a>
&mdash; DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1700890098898792928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The study that recently has been now quoted a lot and causing a lot of confusion is this Cochrane study, which even the people who run the Cochrane study say that that study can be misleading because people have commented on that study saying, &#8216;Absolutely masks don’t work,&#8217; which is absolutely not the case because there are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work,&#8221; Fauci said.
&#8220;And there’s a lot of confusion where you take a broad series of studies, and you look at them in a meta-analysis,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Only a couple of those studies were specifically looking at COVID. So, I think we’d better be careful that that study that people keep talking about can be very, very misleading. There’s a lot of good data that masks work.&#8221;
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Fauci, now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-joins-georgetown-as-distinguished-university-professor">part of the faculty</a> at Georgetown University, was a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. Toward the end of his tenure in government, Fauci faced blowback for how he jumped from advising people not to wear face masks early in the COVID pandemic to advocating for masking against the virus, a change he attributed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8735-4022-a1f5-1580bc732c45">to the emergence of new data</a>.
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Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis.  More subterfuge. <a href="https://t.co/UcjOa8flkr">pic.twitter.com/UcjOa8flkr</a>
&mdash; Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1698372490639327556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In an interview that aired on CNN last week, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks">insisted</a> that &#8220;many studies&#8221; show masking protects people on an &#8220;individual basis&#8221; rather than on a &#8220;broad population&#8221; level.
One of Fauci&#8217;s most vocal critics, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), shot back in a post to X. &#8220;Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large, but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge,&#8221; Paul said.

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Video footage emerged on Tuesday showing the moment that a staffer for Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) was brutally stabbed in Democrat-controlled Washington, D.C.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/video-rand-paul-staffer-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> the footage of Glynn Neal allegedly attacking Phillip Todd back in March after Todd left a restaurant with a friend.
Todd and his friend were walking out of the frame of the video when the suspect charges in and tackles Todd to the ground and begins repeatedly stabbing him.
&#8220;What the f***,&#8221; a voice on camera says before Todd&#8217;s friend rushes in to get the suspect off of him. The two men then run away as the suspect gets up and leaves in the opposite direction.
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NEW video of Sen. Rand Paul’s staffer being brutally stabbed in DC. Content warning: <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/0tHai4Fz0U">pic.twitter.com/0tHai4Fz0U</a>
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Neal was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-expects-stabbed-rand-paul-staffer-to-make-full-recovery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with assault with intent to kill using a knife, a felony. Court <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/politics/rand-paul-staffer-stabbed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">records</a> indicate that Neal was released from federal prison roughly 24 hours before the attack.
Neal remains in jail while continuing to undergo &#8220;a series of psychological evaluations before his next court appearance in September&#8221; after he was deemed unfit to stand trial, according to <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/dc-suspect-who-stabbed-rand-paul-staffer-incompetent-to-stand-trial-will-remain-in-prison-for-further-tests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 29</a>.
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&#8220;As the parents of Phillip Todd, we would like to give an update on our son’s condition, which will hopefully answer many of the questions we’ve received,&#8221; Todd&#8217;s parents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-expects-stabbed-rand-paul-staffer-to-make-full-recovery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> back in March after the attack. &#8220;In return, we ask to respect our privacy and the privacy of our extended family so that we can focus on our son’s recovery.&#8221;
&#8220;He was randomly and brutally attacked by a person armed with a knife, who, according to the police report, attempted to kill him,&#8221; they continued. &#8220;The intervention of our son’s friend helped prevent the wounds from being fatal. Our son is in a stable condition, having undergone trauma surgery to address the wounds in his body. He also has a fracture on his skull, which will be treated with non-invasive neurosurgery. He is expected to make a full recovery due to his young age and good health. Our son and our family draw strength from our faith to see us through this challenging time. Phillip is conscious and alert and has repeatedly stated, ‘the joy of the Lord is my strength’ (Nehemiah 8:10).&#8221;

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> passed its own version of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ndaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Defense Authorization Act</a> (NDAA) on Thursday without adding an amendment to pull Pentagon funding for abortion travel, setting up a likely fight with the House. 
The Senate’s NDAA was widely backed by both Republicans and Democrats, passing in an 86-11 vote. 
&#8220;What&#8217;s happening in the Senate is a stark contrast to a bipartisan race to the bottom we saw in the House where House Republicans are pushing partisan legislation that has zero chance of passing,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/27/senate-defense-bill-clash-house-gop/70478555007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;House Republicans should look to the Senate to see how things get done.&#8221;
The group of Republicans who voted <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00212.htm#position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against</a> the bill included Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN). 
“I’ve worked in good faith throughout this process to secure as many wins for Ohio as possible, and I’m proud that many of those priorities have been included in the final version of the NDAA,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vance</a> said in a <a href="https://www.vance.senate.gov/press-releases/senator-vance-opposes-final-passage-of-the-ndaa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on his opposition to the bill. “However, I cannot in good conscience support the broader package, which commits the United States to years of additional military aid for the war in Ukraine. It’s disappointing to me that these significant priorities that would benefit Ohioans have been bogged down with such deeply problematic foreign policy proposals.”
An amendment from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to reinstate soldiers who left or were discharged over the COVID vaccine failed, while an amendment to prohibit the purchase of American farmland by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea passed. The Senate also added a measure to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-moves-to-block-sale-of-oil-from-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban sales of oil</a> from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia.
Paul <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rand-paul-fights-preserve-constitutions-prominence-over-nato-authority" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> an amendment that would clarify that Congress has final authority on war declarations, but it was defeated 86-13. Paul said he wanted to make sure that “Article 5 of the NATO treaty does not supersede the Constitution.”
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Democrats and the media have claimed House Republicans politicized the bill by stripping the Pentagon’s authority to allocate money for women in the military to travel for abortions if they are in a state with pro-life protections.  
The House version, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-military-spending-bill-with-conservative-amendments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which passed 219-210</a> along mostly partisan lines, also prohibited military funding going toward sex change operations on military members. Military members are given a 5.2% raise in both versions of the NDAA. 
“Under this bill our men and women in uniform, who make sacrifices for our nation every day, will receive the biggest pay raise in decades, radical programs that are forced on our troops at the expense of readiness are eliminated, cutting-edge technology that is essential for the future of this country and will help deter Communist China will receive more investment, and taxpayers will save $40 billion as this bill roots out wasteful spending,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/house-republicans-vote-to-defend-our-nation/">said</a> after the House passed its version.

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With House Republicans floating an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/impeachment">impeachment</a> inquiry against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) chastised the Democrats on Thursday for how they used the process against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>.
In an <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=433129">interview</a> with host Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the lawmaker said Republicans &#8220;should be better than the Democrats,&#8221; who he said &#8220;rushed&#8221; to impeachment during the last administration.
&#8220;I think there needs to be continued investigation,&#8221; Paul said, referring to committee-level probes into the Biden family and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jonathan-turley-torches-the-fbi-where-evidence-goes-to-die">concerns Republicans have</a> about a pattern of millions of dollars flowing from foreign nationals under suspicious circumstances.
Paul suggested that congressional investigators keep pressure on the FBI to make disclosures and to track down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-reveals-fbi-informant-file-references-17-biden-audio-recordings">17 audio recordings</a> of Biden and his son Hunter mentioned in an FBI document detailing claims by a confidential human source concerning an alleged multi-million-dollar bribery scheme <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/biden-bribe-file-released-burisma-chief-said-both-joe-and-hunter-involved/">and a Ukrainian oligarch</a>.
Still, Paul argued that it would be premature for the GOP-led House to escalate their investigative work to an impeachment inquiry.
&#8220;I think it would be better to gather more before an impeachment. If there&#8217;s going to be impeachment, let&#8217;s have quite a bit of evidence out there [so] that the American people are actually behind this,&#8221; Paul said.
The House, then led by the Democrats, impeached Trump twice while he was in office: once for allegedly abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress over his dealings with Ukraine, and a second time for &#8220;incitement of insurrection&#8221; following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Both times the GOP-controlled Senate acquitted Trump.
Now, with Republicans in command of the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-indicates-republicans-are-moving-toward-impeachment-inquiry-of-biden">said this week</a> that investigations into Biden — who called the allegations of corruption <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/08/fbi-tip-says-burisma-bribed-bidens-prez-asks-wheres-the-money/">&#8220;a bunch of malarkey&#8221;</a> — are &#8220;rising to the level of impeachment, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed.&#8221; McCarthy stopped short of committing to such an inquiry.
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Paul said he does not &#8220;really want to impeach every president that comes forward,&#8221; adding that he thinks &#8220;the Democrats set a terrible precedent in impeaching Donald Trump just because they didn&#8217;t like him, basically.&#8221;
The senator said he believes it is &#8220;not good for the republic to keep impeaching presidents.&#8221; He also mentioned indicting presidents, a reference to Trump and the charges he now faces across multiple investigations.
&#8220;All of this stuff is destructive,&#8221; Paul said.

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Rand Paul Blasts Dems For Setting ‘Terrible Precedent’ With Impeachment

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Sen. Rand Paul, reinvigorated by newly-released emails from 2020 showing Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that scientists at Wuhan University were known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments, is <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12308421/Anthony-Fauci-accused-perjury-Former-White-House-doctor-LIED-oath-funding-gain-function-research-China-feared-started-Covid-pandemic-Republican-Senator-claims.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> for Fauci to be investigated for lying to Congress.
The Kentucky Republican wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week, saying Fauci had committed perjury when he told a Senate committee in July 2021 that the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).” Fauci served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984-2022; NIAID is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The 2020 email from Fauci revolved around a call he shared with various scientists, including Francis Collins, (former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute), who were “concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was inserted.”
This key passage immediately followed: &#8220;The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.&#8221;
In September 2021, Richard Ebright, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab-research-documents-show-gain-function-1627351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told </a>Newsweek that documents released by The Intercept proved “unequivocally” that NIH grants were used to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Paul pointed out that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined in June that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University did receive NIH funding.
Paul noted that the GAO report “noted that NIH funded the WIV’s project ‘Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence’ and included “genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized coronavirus strains. &#8230; GAO also found that NIH funded the Wuhan University’s collaboration with WIV on viral detection in the Yunnan province.”
The GAO <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106119.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “Specifically, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided $200,000 in grant funding to Wuhan University, the only selected Chinese entity to receive funding directly from a federal agency. &#8230; All three selected Chinese entities received first-tier subawards from award recipients or second-tier subawards from another subrecipient. Specifically, we identified seven subawards to the three entities: Wuhan University: Two subawards totaling $240,496 disbursed, WIV: Three subawards totaling $1,413,720 disbursed, and AMMS: Two subawards totaling $514,129 disbursed. &#8230; Funding was disbursed under five of the seven subawards to the selected entities in calendar years 2014 through 2021.”
Fauci told the Senate Committee in 2021 that “gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Doctor Shi [Zhengli] and was funded by the NIH.”
Paul pointed out that a paper by Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists mentioned efforts to produce a “chimeric” coronavirus. Such a virus would have been altered by humans, definitionally making it “gain of function.”
Paul stated that the information “explicitly matches the definition of gain-of-function research,” while Fauci had said, “This paper was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.”

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has agreed to spend more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to expand access to sex change operations for minors, drawing criticism from Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY), Marco Rubio (FL), and Ted Budd (NC).
Titled the “<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_U01OD033248_7529" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TRANS-NIH RESEARCH SUPPORT</a>,” the agreement is between the NIH and the <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/transgender-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham and Women’s Hospital</a>, as well as the Children’s Hospital Corporation, which <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/79099MF:US#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does business</a> under the name of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children’s Hospital</a>. The deal, which lists an obligated funding amount of $3,266,707, began in September 2021 and ends on August 31, 2023. 
The nearly $3.3 million plan aims to create a “Trans Health Guide” intended to “expand the local workforce of gender-affirming care providers” and “advance equity and reduce mental health disparities for TGD youth through … systemic changes that increase access to gender-affirming care.” 
People between the ages of 13 and 24 are considered transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth.
“As a senator and a physician, I am deeply concerned about the NIH&#8217;s use of taxpayer money to fund dangerous and controversial youth transgender research,&#8221; Sen. Paul told The Daily Wire. “The well-being of our youth is of utmost importance and subjecting them to harmful and experimental medical procedures is unacceptable.&#8221; 
The grant description claims that “access to gender-affirming care and family support are known to be critical determinants of mental health outcomes for TGD youth.”  The project focuses on “five southeastern states with large black transgender populations and limited access to gender-affirming care.”
Additionally, the program includes a “free online training course for continuing education credit,” as well as a platform to hold “consultations with specialists.” 
Sen. Rubio joined Paul in condemning the grant.
&#8220;The NIH should not use U.S. taxpayer dollars to encourage or promote transgenderism in children, especially when that means subjecting kids to damaging and irreversible surgeries and hormones,” Rubio told The Daily Wire. “The U.S. government should not overlook or diminish the biological reality that underpins human existence.”
“Promoting transgenderism among children raises significant concerns about their physical, social, and psychological well-being. We must protect the innocence and future of our children.&#8221;
The Trans Health Guide <a href="https://www.transhealthguide.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> goes into greater depth, explaining that healthcare providers “will be able to access free training materials on working with transgender and other gender-diverse youth” and “gender-affirming medical and mental health care.” 
The guide is designed to provide “an interactive educational digital platform for TGD youth and caregivers.” The site describes the project as a “multi-level intervention to improve the health of transgender and gender-diverse youth, focusing on TGD youth of color.”
“Our government should not be furthering the fallacy that chemically transitioning children is safe and effective,&#8221; said Sen. Tedd Budd (R-NC). “Taxpayer dollars should not be used to encourage gender transition interventions on young people.”
The NIH recently came under scrutiny after it was revealed that two individuals involved in its study on &#8220;Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones” committed suicide. 
Five Republican Senators, including Paul, Rubio, and Budd, along with ten GOP congressmembers, sent a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Acting Director of the NIH, Dr. Lawrence Tobak, blasting the study. 
&#8220;Rather than shutting the study down after such serious adverse events, the researchers published their paper, concluding that the study was a success because cross-sex hormones had altered subjects’ physical appearance and improved psychosocial functioning,&#8221; the letter said.
Boston Children’s Hospital, which has received heavy criticism over its medical transitioning of youth, was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> as one of the participants in the study. 
January Littlejohn, a Senior Fellow Patient Advocate for <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FFNDWNXsBcZdmqZzMVxZLhMWFjSsLNNq">Do No Harm</a>, blasted the NIH’s support of child transgenderism as an “outrageous use of taxpayer money,” going on to criticize the medical research agency for pushing “irreversible, harmful treatment interventions on vulnerable and confused children.”
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“Boston Children’s Hospital lost all credibility when they released videos of their doctors stating children ‘<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11280475/Harvard-hospital-claims-babies-know-WOMB-transgender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seemingly know from the womb</a>’ they are transgender and <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/sites/default/files/media_migration/f0f27297-03a5-4650-b31c-c22b46bcffa6.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to performing irreversible gender surgeries on minors,” she added. 
Dr. <a href="https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/us/faculty-advisory-board/jeremi-carswell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremi Carswell</a>, a pediatric endocrinologist and the director of the Gender Multispeciality Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, has admitted on camera that puberty blockers are given out “like candy” and acknowledged they can cause fertility problems. She also said “providers are very, very swayed by our patients” in the field of transgender medical interventions. 
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WATCH 🚨: Director of the <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonChildrens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BostonChildrens</a> Gender Clinic admitted that puberty blockers can CAUSE INFERTILITY and are given to kids &quot;LIKE CANDY.&quot; 
Here&#39;s a thread of Dr. Jeremi Carswell&#39;s shocking statements, starting with her admission that puberty blockers can sterilize kids: <a href="https://t.co/U6XyY4H7wz">pic.twitter.com/U6XyY4H7wz</a>
&mdash; Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1579559275709759488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm&#8217;s board chair, contrasted the NIH’s support for transgender medical interventions with the approach taken by other developed Western nations.
“What is needed from our government is the same commitment that Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK have made to protecting children from undergoing these life altering procedures,” he said. 
The NIH and the Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital did not respond to a request for comment.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) criticized former President Donald Trump this week for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-on-fauci-i-was-not-actually-allowed-to-fire-him-but-i-wouldnt-usually-let-that-get-in-my-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> during an interview that he could not fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, saying that even if that were true, there was no reason why Trump had to put Fauci in charge of managing the U.S. government&#8217;s response to the pandemic.
&#8220;He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around,&#8221; Paul told Fox News host Jesse Watters. &#8220;Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation, it&#8217;s Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source. So he should have fired him.&#8221;
When asked if he thought Fauci was going to play a big role in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Paul said, &#8220;It may because Fauci did stick around.&#8221;
&#8220;There may be civil service rules about actually firing him, but there&#8217;s no reason he had to head up the pandemic committee, the COVID Committee,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;So he was on the committee. In fact, if not the lead, he was the committee with the vice president. They met all of the time.&#8221;
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_78AAD95C-73DD-1A7B-809A-4A0679DA922D@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Under federal civil service law, Trump did not have the power to directly fire Fauci, although he could have  ordered political appointees to begin termination proceedings if they had cause, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/can-trump-fire-fauci/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>. Trump could have diminished Fauci&#8217;s role in press briefings and the making and implementation of COVID policy, however.
Paul said that Fauci &#8220;pushed out&#8221; then-CDC Director Robert Redfield from the committee, who Paul said was &#8220;the one sane voice on the committee.&#8221;
&#8220;The one thing that could have saved thousands of lives before the vaccine, was that the nurses and the assistants and the people taking care of people in the nursing home, we should have put people in those positions who had already been infected and recovered, knowing that naturally acquired immunity would then protect those senior citizens from getting infected,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;And we never did that because Fauci kept saying, &#8216;well, we&#8217;re not sure, we&#8217;re not sure.'&#8221;
&#8220;Well, immunity, we are pretty certain of,&#8221; Paul added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what vaccines are based on his naturally acquired immunity from the disease. We try to simulate that with a vaccine. So &#8212; but by denying it, I think many lives were cost, and there would have been a better way, I think, under the Trump administration to marginalize and push Fauci out of the spotlight and keep his nonsense and his misinformation from infecting the rest of us.&#8221;
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Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandPaul</a> rips Trump for keeping Fauci around:
&quot;He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around. Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation. It&#39;s Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source, so he should… <a href="https://t.co/7PgKg1AnQj">pic.twitter.com/7PgKg1AnQj</a>
&mdash; Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) <a href="https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1671307345236770817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-law-enabling-tribes-to-bar-non-native-families-from-adopting-native-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court Upholds Indian Child Welfare Law</a>
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a 1978 law that states Native American parents should have priority preference when Native American children are up for adoption. The Law was challenged by several non-Native American families, who argued that Congress had gone outside of its constitutional authority. In a 7-2 vote, the majority opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett who ruled that, “Congress’s power to legislate with respect to Indians is well established and broad.” President Joe Biden praised the decision, saying, it kept in place &#8220;a vital protection for tribal sovereignty and Native children.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-government-agencies-hit-with-cyberattack-chinese-spies-breach-hundreds-of-networks-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Agencies Hacked</a>
Several U.S. federal government agencies were effectively hacked due to a vulnerability in a widely used software called “MOVEit.”  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed to CNN that it “is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions.” It’s unclear who is responsible for the attack.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/human-brains-skin-from-harvard-morgue-sold-on-black-market-feds-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Morgue Manager Accused Of Selling Body Parts</a>
Several people are accused of stealing and selling human remains from Harvard Medical School’s morgue.
A grand jury has indicted the morgue manager, 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, in the criminal plot, which, according to the complaint, lasted from 2018 to earlier this year. The federal complaint was filed in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where one of the defendants lives. Lodge allegedly allowed buyers to come into the morgue and pick and choose what remains they wanted to buy. He also allegedly stole parts of donated cadavers including brains, skin, and bones, took them home to his New Hampshire residence, and shipped them to buyers by mail. Six other people, including Lodge’s wife Denise Lodge and a mortician from Arkansas, have all been charged in the scheme.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/space-force-general-admits-shed-prioritize-gender-surgery-access-over-qualified-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Space Force General Admits She’d Prioritize Gender Surgery Access Over Qualified Officers</a>
Space Force Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt is under fire for admitting during a recent Department of Defense Pride event that she would allow access to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/missouri-governor-signs-bills-banning-transgender-treatments-for-minors-protecting-womens-sports">gender-affirming care</a>” to take priority over qualifications when deciding where to assign officers. 
Burt has gone viral in a video this week in which she explains how she handles several states that have passed laws <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children">banning transgender surgeries</a> — and in some cases, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. In the speech, Burt states that while she would normally consider job performance and qualifications before selecting officers for certain jobs, she also has had to consider whether her troops and their families would be comfortable taking jobs in certain states.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeptofDefense</a> &quot;pride&quot; event last week gets more bizarre with scrutiny. 
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&mdash; William Thibeau (@WilliamThibeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/WilliamThibeau/status/1668979208016494592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rand Paul Plays Hardball For COVID Docs
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky vowed on Thursday to block all nominees and legislation in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions until key documents related to COVID and its origins are released. 
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Until such time as the majority decides it would like to cooperate with me in a bipartisan fashion to obtain the COVID documents necessary to conduct oversight, I will object to every piece of legislation and nominee coming out of this committee. <a href="https://t.co/stFn9SWtqU">pic.twitter.com/stFn9SWtqU</a>
&mdash; Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul/status/1669352798411182081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-buy-iron-dome-air-defense-system-from-israel/#:~:text=The%20Bundestag's%20budget%20committee%20released,Israel%2Dmade%20air%20defense%20system.&amp;text=BERLIN%20%E2%80%94%20Germany%20has%20the%20green,get%20its%20own%20Iron%20Dome." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany Getting Its Own &#8216;Iron Dome&#8217;</a>
The<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-buy-iron-dome-air-defense-system-from-israel/"> nation of Germany</a> is moving ahead to purchase new technology similar to Israel&#8217;s “Iron Dome” defense system. The Budget Committee of Germany’s National Parliament released its initial payment of €560 million toward the purchase of the Israel-made Arrow-3 air defense system. The purchase is part of the European country&#8217;s  €100 billion defense upgrade.
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Concord, NH – June 14: Former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge, 55, shields his face with a printout of the indictment against him as he walked from the Warren B. Rudman United States Courthouse, following his arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts.

Thursday Afternoon Update: Harvard’s Alleged Morgue Marauder, Rand Paul Plays Hardball For COVID Docs, Germany Getting Its Own ‘Iron Dome’

Thursday Afternoon Update: Harvard's Alleged Morgue Marauder, Rand Paul Plays Hardball For Covid Docs, Germany Getting Its Own 'Iron Dome'

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As a deal hashed out between President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) to avoid a U.S. debt default makes its way through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>, several Republican senators have already come out against the bill, saying that it does not go far enough to cut spending. 
Those opposed to the deal, known as the <a href="https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-fiscal-responsibility-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fiscal Responsibility Act</a>, include Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), while others have expressed concerns about the bill in its current form. 
“I think the Biden-McCarthy debt deal is a disaster for the country. It does not significantly change the trajectory of the debt. Each year we’ll spend more money and the debt will grow $4 trillion in two years. It’s not very conservative,” Paul <a href="https://www.kktv.com/video/2023/05/31/sen-rand-paul-reacts-deal-debt-ceiling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters this week. 
Paul added that he planned on introducing a “conservative alternative” to the deal, which <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-rand-paul-announces-conservative-alternative-to-biden-mccarthy-debt-deal/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%93%20Today%2C%20U.S.,responsible%20reforms%20and%20necessary%20cuts." target="_blank" rel="noopener">would implemen</a>t a $500 billion hike on the debt ceiling to allow Congress more time to negotiate, put caps on total spending, and mandate that increases in federal outlays cannot exceed increases in federal revenue. 
Lee previously <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1661716721575804928" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to use any procedural tool necessary to “impede” a debt ceiling deal that he believed did not cut spending enough, and he has voiced opposition to the agreement as it currently stands. 
“I believe McCarthy was misled, not malicious in signing onto this deal. But the deal simply does not do what its proponents claim it does — not even close. It’s time to go back to the drawing board or, even better, go back to what the House already passed,” Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1663666847697207296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
Cruz <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1662883736386404352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to the deal as a “blank check” for Biden, saying that it gave Democrats “$4 trillion things” that they wanted. Hawley <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article275902901.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Kansas City Star that he opposed the deal because it didn’t address America’s trade deficit with China. 
“I think until we get serious about that, we can talk about fiddling with this or that set of numbers but until we get serious about really correcting that imbalance and bringing back jobs and industry, we’re not going to make the change that we need to see,” he said. 
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Meanwhile, Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was a “firm no” to the proposal in its current form, and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1663245067509694477?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> concern over spending cuts in the deal. 
The McCarthy-Biden agreement <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-ceiling-bill-house-rules-committee-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advanced past</a> the House Rules Committee in a 7-6 vote on Tuesday afternoon, with key conservatives Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) voting against and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) voting in favor. 
House leadership has expressed confidence that they will have enough votes to get the deal through the lower chamber though it will face opposition from members of the House Freedom Caucus, meaning it will likely require Democrat votes to pass.
McCarthy has acknowledged the bill&#8217;s detractors but said it was the best they could do with a Democrat-controlled Senate and presidency.
“Maybe it doesn’t do everything for everyone, but this is a step in the right direction that no one thought that we would be able to today,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-kevin-mccarthy-touts-wins-conservatives-secured-in-tentative-debt-ceiling-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McCarthy said</a>. “I’ll debate this bill with anybody. Is it everything I wanted? No, because we don’t control all of it. But it is the biggest rescission in history. It is the biggest cut Congress has ever voted for in that process.”

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Pope Francis Hospitalized
Pope Francis was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-francis-hospitalized-in-rome-will-stay-a-few-days-vatican-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospitalized</a> today with a lung infection, and according to the Vatican will remain admitted for several days of treatment. Vatican officials say the pope does not have COVID. A spokesman said the 86-year-old pope had been suffering breathing troubles in recent days and went to the hospital for tests. The hospitalization was the first since Francis had his colon removed in July of 2021.
Nashville Shooting Update
As Nashville reels from the Covenant School shooting, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/head-of-nashville-school-murdered-when-she-ran-toward-shooter-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">details of heroic action taken</a> by students, teachers, and staff are trickling in. In one instance, the late Dr. Katherine Koonce, age 61, the head of the School, reportedly ran toward the shooter before she herself was gunned down. 
Koonce is being praised for her bravery after a witness said she ran toward the shooter to stop her on Monday. According to Nashville Councilman Russ Pulley, a witness said that Koonce &#8220;was on a Zoom call when she heard the first shot. She immediately ended the call, got up, and headed straight for the shooter.&#8221;
Pulley told Fox news that Koonce, “did what principals and headmasters do; she protected her children.” Koonce also prepared the children and staff with advanced-level active-shooter drills. That training is also being credited for saving lives.  
D.C. Crime Rate Under Scrutiny
On Saturday, a staffer for Senator Rand Paul was stabbed in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., allegedly by a former convict who was released from a city prison just days before. The staffer is expected to survive, but the attack highlights the growing crime in D.C. Congress held a previously scheduled hearing on crime in the city on Wednesday, hearing from city leaders as to what is behind the rising crime. 
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Washington, D.C. Police Union President Gregg Pemberton outlines just SOME of the anti-police, pro-criminal legislation introduced by the Democrat-controlled D.C. Council over the past two years <a href="https://t.co/8aahp4F0x6">pic.twitter.com/8aahp4F0x6</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1641091424006356993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesComer</a>: &quot;Carjackings in [Washington, D.C.] have increased 105% compared to this time last year — 56% of these carjackings are committed by juveniles. Totally property crime is up 28%. Homicides are up 37% since 2019.
&quot;D.C. clearly has a crime crisis.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mSeeVb5uvV">pic.twitter.com/mSeeVb5uvV</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1641080548561940480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Senator Paul released the following statement on the attack: &#8220;I ask you to join [wife] Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thanking the first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions.&#8221;
Biden Wants More Banking Regulations
President Biden will reportedly seek stronger banking regulations in response to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Republicans such as Senator Katie Britt of Alabama warn that rushing to give the federal government more power is premature. Here she is on Wednesday addressing Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Michael Barr during a hearing on the matter:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenKatieBritt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenKatieBritt</a> blasts regulators following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank:
&quot;I think this is what people hate about Washington: we have a crisis and you come in here without knowing whether or not you did your job, and you say you want more [power/regulation]&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/me9tlXKK3I">pic.twitter.com/me9tlXKK3I</a>
&mdash; Will Hild (@WillHild) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1641076001470922754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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North Carolina Rpeals Permit Req. For Pistol Purchase
North Carolina lawmakers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pistol-permit-veto-override-north-carolina-b9d0ee55bf658ca72043bd3f706b128f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> on Wednesday to repeal the permit requirement to buy a pistol, overriding Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto. 
Levi&#8217;s Will Use AI Fashion Models
And Levi’s has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/levis-says-it-will-use-ai-clothing-models-in-the-name-of-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it will start using AI-generated fashion models as part of an effort to increase “diversity” for online shoppers of the denim company’s clothing. The company will partner with Lalaland.ai. Levi&#8217;s human models will not be replaced, and instead, the AI will “supplement” them to create a more “personal” online shopping experience.
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Wednesday Afternoon Update: Pope Hospitalized, D.C. Crime Rate Under Scrutiny, Levi’s Will Use AI Fashion Models

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul&#8217;s</a> (R-KY) staffer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rand-paul-says-staffer-brutally-attacked-in-dc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who was attacked</a> by a knife-wielding man in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-withdraws-overhaul-of-criminal-code-after-biden-rebuke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, last weekend is expected to make a full recovery, according to his parents.
Chuck and Helen Todd released a statement on Wednesday providing an update on the health of their son, Phillip Todd, and asking for privacy so that they can focus on his rehabilitation, as reported by <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/rand-paul-staffer-phillip-todd-stabbed-washington-dc-crime-attack-injuries-stable-condition-trauma-hospital-h-street-victim-suspect-arrest-weapon-knife-mpd-police-investigation-attempted-homicide-capitol-hill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC affiliate 7News</a>.
Phillip Todd &#8220;was randomly and brutally attacked by a person armed with a knife, who, according to the police report, attempted to kill him. The intervention of our son&#8217;s friend helped prevent the wounds from being fatal,&#8221; the statement said.
&#8220;Our son is in a stable condition, having undergone trauma surgery to address the wounds in his body,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;He also has a fracture on his skull, which will be treated with non-invasive neurosurgery. He is expected to make a full recovery due to his young age and good health.&#8221;
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said Todd sustained injuries to his head, ear, torso, and lungs during the stabbing incident on H Street NE on Saturday afternoon. <a href="https://eaccess.dccourts.gov/eaccess/search.page.3.1?x=gCQCUNDqLBUi4NX*q1SNGH5pPisBRn9BJ9WE7-*5bXMDtqDrXZ1-z0murPb9dAMtUuY14zL1edoXMEnaugxvnFoLkVF-UtXabnx0er1GUCFvvQ7D5sch4gRspta76bDNl-mEqTsZPZlcZ1SINzU-naq8nM6sByd28n7T4WzOqGY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An affidavit</a> shows the attack came at random after Todd and a friend exited a restaurant. Todd told a detective he did not know the suspect, nor did the suspect demand anything of him before the violence began.
Police said the friend who accompanied Todd tackled the suspect to the ground, allowing Todd and the friend to run away and seek help. Detectives tracked down and arrested 42-year-old Glynn Neal of Southeast D.C. on Sunday using a cell phone recovered from the scene, according to the affidavit. Neal has been charged with assault with intent to kill using a knife, a felony. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 6.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/politics/rand-paul-staffer-stabbed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Court records indicate</a> that Neal was released from federal prison roughly 24 hours before the attack.
Chuck and Helen Todd said their &#8220;hope is that Washington D.C. continues to be the safe and beautiful city our son loves so much.&#8221;
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In addition to thanking police, first responders, and hospital staff for their efforts, Todd&#8217;s parents expressed gratitude to Paul and his chief of staff for making a personal visit to their son to offer encouragement, Senate Chaplain Reverend Black for praying over Phillip, the Antioch Church, and everyone else who reached out with prayers and offered to help.
&#8220;Our son and our family draw strength from our faith to see us through this challenging time,&#8221; they added. &#8220;Phillip is conscious and alert and has repeatedly stated, &#8216;the joy of the Lord is my strength&#8217; (Nehemiah 8:10).&#8221;

Family Expects Stabbed Rand Paul Staffer To Make Full Recovery

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