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By Rohit Kumar A video showing a few people exiting a building, being arrested, and taken away in a car is being shared with a false claim that it shows the six accused in the NEET paper leak case were hiding in the Congress office in Deoghar, Jharkhand. BOOM found that the video was recorded at Patna's Lok Narayan Jaiprakash (LNJP) Hospital. On June 23, 2024, the Economic Offenses Unit (EOU) officers brought six individuals arrested in connection with the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) exam to the hospital for a medical examination. The National Testing Agency (NTA), which over...
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By Hazel Gandhi A viral screenshot purporting to show Congress' National Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate insulting Sonia Gandhi in a 2012 tweet, is fake. BOOM found that the screenshot is fabricated and Shrinate did not make the derogatory post against Sonia Gandhi. The viral screenshot is dated April 24, 2012, and claims to show Shrinate sharing a photo of Sonia Gandhi with the caption that translates to, 'Why madam? have all the dance bars in Italy shut?' The screenshot was shared on X with the caption, "Sonia Gandhi was a dancer in Italy, I am not saying this, Supriya Shrinet is saying this" ...
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Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party Convention, asking delegates to vote for him, promising, "I will put a libertarian in my Cabinet!" But Libertarians nominated Chase Oliver instead. Unlike most political candidates, Oliver learned about the world by working regular jobs. "My first job was dishwasher," he tells me. "But then I did every job you could do….I moved into the world of logistics, moving goods from one side of the world to the other, and I got an appreciation for free markets." For my new video, I grill Oliver about what it means to be a libertarian. "Someon...
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By Rishabh Raj A viral video purporting to show India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru admitting in an interview that he never participated in India's fight for independence from the British, is altered and fake. BOOM found that the audio of the clip has been tampered with by replacing the word 'Jinnah' with the word 'I'. In the original video Nehru said Jinnah referring to Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. In the viral clip, Nehru can be heard saying, "I was not involved in the fight for Independence at all. In fact, he opposed it. Muslim League was started in about 1911, ...
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"Building anything important in America requires layers of approvals from multiple levels of government," wrote Philip K. Howard in his 2014 book, The Rule of Nobody. "Environmental review has evolved into an academic exercise, like a game of who can find the most complications….Courts have become enablers of people to use the law for selfish ends." That sounded radical then, but 10 years later, such assessments are becoming mainstream. Recent commentators have included Ezra Klein in The New York Times, Jerusalem Demsas in The Atlantic, and Matthew Yglesias in a Bloomberg column. Demsas' artic...
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This week's featured article is "What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?" by Matt Welch. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel? appeared first on Reason.com.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which until Friday had approved only tobacco-flavored nicotine vaping products, has now officially allowed the sale of menthol-flavored NJOY Daily disposable e-cigarettes and menthol-flavored pods for the previously authorized NJOY Ace device "after extensive scientific review." The decision reflects the FDA's preference for closed, nonrefillable "electronic nicotine delivery systems" (ENDS) and its aversion to letting former smokers buy the flavors they prefer, both of which sacrifice the interests of adult consumers in the name of preventing underage u...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing Madhya Pradesh's former Chief Minister and Congress leader Digvijay Singh dismissing a woman trying to approach him is viral online with the false claim that she was shooed away after asking for the Rs 8,500 promised by the Congress to women of poor households during their election campaign. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video dates back to February this year and shows Digvijay Singh dismissing the woman for reasons unrelated to the Congress' election promises. During his election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Congress' Rahul Gandhi spoke about implemen...
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New legislation would repeal parts of the Comstock Act, a Victorian-era law that's being revived to attack abortion pills. Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act was a big deal in earlier eras, sending people to prison for publishing information about birth control, critiques of marriage, and more. The law is vague and broad, banning the mailing of any "article, matter, thing, device, or substance" that the government deems "obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile," along with anything "designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use." Essentiall...
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At a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R–Utah) asked why there's "so much energy" around the question of whether the pandemic began in a lab or spilled over from a natural source. "We'll never be 100 percent sure about one or the other," said Romney. "Given that it could have been either, we know what action we need to take to protect from either….One, we should clean up the wet markets. And two, tighten the labs." In recent months, the idea that COVID might have origin...
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