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"Facts Matter" investigates complex issues based on the principles of traditional journalism: no spin, no favorites. We give you the facts—you decide the rest.
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Today, let’s go through a CDC update—both in terms of a viral outbreak onboard a cruise ship and some incoming major changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
In Utah, a state judge recently awarded a family nearly $1 billion in compensation after a local hospital completely botched the delivery of their baby girl—such that the baby will likely suffer a lifetime of disabilities. Let’s go through the details.
On Sept. 29, court documents were filed showing that YouTube had agreed to pay nearly $25 million in order to settle its lawsuit with President Donald Trump and others. Let’s go through the details of the case, as well as the where the money will go.
In one of the largest settlements in U.S. history, Amazon settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission on Sept. 25 for a staggering $2.5 billion. And it’s worth mentioning that more than half of that money is earmarked for customers—meaning that if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can get a small piece of that settlement. Here's the history of the case, as well as how you can check whether you qualify for the money.
The Department of Homeland Security has been relatively busy recently, with the most recent topline developments including a serious warning issued to three states: California, New York, and Illinois.
The IRS just released an important update to the “no tax on tips” provision included within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025. Let’s go through what the provisions say, as well as see if your job qualifies.
President Donald Trump has filed a new defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. A New York judge has dismissed two terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione. The federal government is sending the National Guard into Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s discuss all these stories together.
Let’s go through the most recent developments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—both from the government and civil side.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision on Sept. 8 in favor of the Trump administration, allowing it to, once again, set up ICE checkpoints in Southern California. Let’s go through the backstory of this ruling as well as what it means going forward.
Chagas disease has become so ubiquitous in the southern part of the United States that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently put out a report saying that it’s now time to consider it “endemic.” Let’s go through what the disease is, how it’s spread, and what you can do to keep yourself safe.
Scammers on Amazon have become more creative and brazen. Let's go through the top 6 scams that they use to try to steal your hard-earned money, so that you can avoid them.
Aside from the sanctions, war, and inflation, Iran is facing another major problem: a water crisis that is forcing the country's citizens to ration water (if they can find it). Let’s go through the causes of the crisis.
On Aug. 25, the FDA informed the public that the agency officially suspended its approval for Valneva’s Ixchiq vaccine.Ixchiq is a vaccine for Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine was initially approved to be administered in the United States in November 2023, under the FDA’s fast-tracked accelerated approval pathway.Let’s go through what the data showed, as well as why the FDA decided this move to stop the vaccine was necessary.
In a recent statement, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his intention to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Let’s go through the history of this program, how it works, and the problems that Kennedy is attempting to fix.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that it has been able to get more than $55 million in compensation to American workers who were impacted by the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including those who had sought religious accommodation. Let's go through some of the more recent cases.
After discovering a case of bird flu jumping from a dairy cow to a human, scientists have been scrambling to reverse engineer that strain of the virus and test it in laboratory settings. To that end, let’s discuss several papers that came out of this effort.
One of the surprising aspects of the American electoral system is that while regular gerrymandering is frowned upon, racial gerrymandering is actually required by law. Meaning that if you redraw a congressional district to benefit your political party, you might get criticized for it, but that’s about all. Under certain circumstances, however, if you redraw a state’s congressional districts and don’t go out of your way to give more weight to minorities, then that is actually illegal. Essentially, states have to consider race when apportioning their congressional districts.At least, they have to for now—because it looks like the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to change this soon.Let’s go through the details together.
With midterm elections coming up next year, GOP state lawmakers in Texas are taking action. In a newly designed congressional redistricting map, they created five new right-leaning districts—the populations of which voted for Trump in the last presidential election.Texas Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on the map, but warrants for their arrests have now been issued.Let’s go through the details of this drama together.
On July 23, Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey, released a statement regarding a former Atlantic City official who was being sentenced to 2 years behind bars for the crime of submitting fake mail-in ballots.He was found guilty for his role in the procurement, casting, and tabulation of fraudulent mail-in ballots submitted in connection with the general election on Nov. 8, 2022.The man in question is a political organizer and former president of Atlantic City’s city council—Craig Callaway. His story is quite interesting—because not only does it highlight a concrete example of major ballot fraud, but also, it shows us how this type of fraud cuts across party lines—being used by both Republicans and Democrats.We covered this story briefly when the charges against Callaway first came to light last year. Now let’s go through the details of his election operations in Atlantic City.
Let’s go through the most recent update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding Long COVID—and then crunch some numbers to see how many people might be collecting disability payments for it.
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ICE is being too nice!
@1:45 dimocrats require the continued presence of their strongest voting bloc, that is only preceded by AWFL's, to maintain their power structure. Their #DerangedProgramableAutomatons base led by #dimocrats will stop and nothing in defending any and all #criminalinvader's, no matter the violent offense, over victimized Americans who absolutely refuse to vote for dims and their fantasyland lunacy.
Communist cockroaches scurry when the light of truth is turned on. Thanks!
This is still happening, even after the last disaster?
At last a sensible approach. Let's see if there is a backbone for follow through.
I can't believe the state legislature officials exercising their grandiose display of power brokering forced her constituents to go unrepresented as long as they did. Disgusting and shameful.
Hundreds of thousands of these 'student' communists are still being welcomed into the nation by this administration with open arms. Our security apparatuses must be right everytime an instance like this occurs. It only takes one failure to end this nation as we have known it leading to mass domestic maiming and casualties. Are you faithful that these agencies will prevail everytime or is it time to revisit with our politicians who we allow to breach our borders and for what reasoning we should?
DOGE works!!! Who knew? particularly if your world view is informed only by partisan academics or #LeftWingLegacyMedia
The ratification of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, another progressive era feat, destroyed what the founders intended the Senate to be, which was to represent the interests of the States in a balance of power of with the People and prior to that time, the restrained Federal gubmit. The 17th morphed that balance into just another popularity contest of name recognition presented to an inattentive electorate resulting in the result of an ever expanding tyrannical nanny state.
Not a fan of lawfare, but it is time to reciprocate. Congrats!!!
Interesting legal case. Crazy twist! 5 stars on the story.
Another excellent podcast. thanks for providing this information. 5 stars!
It's not a 100% win for Trump if a judge rules that J6 was an insurrection and he engaged in it. Trump should appeal that ruling, especially the ruling that he engaged in insurrection. I don't know if he can appeal a ruling that an insurrection happened, but he should try.
Thanks for a ve4y informative episode. 5 stars!
five stars
How come now that we can prove literally EVERYTHING Facebook suppressed, no ones doing anything about it??