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NASHVILLE, TN - In 2016, David Ihben moved his wife and three children from Chicago to Jamestown, in rural Tennessee, with high hopes for a new and calmer life.
But the dream turned into a nightmare for David and his children in December 2019, when divorce proceedings and a subsequent custody battle resulted in the forced vaccination of the children — and changed the family’s fortunes forever.
Ihben said his ex-wife decided “this wasn’t the life she wanted.” So they were attempting to develop a parenting plan in family court — when Tennessee judge Todd Burnett “pulled up the vaccine issue” after discovering the couple’s children were unvaccinated — and forced the parents to vaccinate their children.
Ihben’s two oldest children — daughter Hannah and son Joseph — were spared significant adverse events following their vaccination.
But his youngest son, Isaac, wasn’t so fortunate. After receiving 18 vaccines in one day, Isaac developed severe regressive autism. Today, he requires around-the-clock care.
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TAMPA, FLA - A Florida woman is suing an AI chatbot creator, claiming her 14-year-old son died by suicide after he became consumed by a relationship with a computer-generated girlfriend.
The mother, Meg Garcia, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Florida federal court. She says Character Technologies Inc. — the creators of Character.AI chatbot — should have known the damage the tool could cause.
The 138-page document accuses Character Technologies Inc. of liability, negligence, wrongful death and survivorship, unlawful enrichment, violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other claims.
The lawsuit requests Character.AI limit the collection and use of minors’ data, introduce filters for harmful content, and provide warnings to underage users and their parents.
Garcia’s teenage son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide on Feb. 28, after a monthslong, “hypersexualized” relationship with an AI character “Dany,” which he modeled after the “Game of Thrones” character Denaryus Targarian. “Dany” was one of several characters Sewell chatted with. Click here to read more.
PITTSBURGH — Lancaster County officials announced an investigation Friday after election workers found some 2,500 voter applications that they suspect are fraudulent.
Two batches of applications were dropped off last-minute at the county elections office to meet Pennsylvania’s Oct. 21 voter registration deadline, officials reported at a Friday news conference.
District Attorney Heather Adams said investigators found problems with 60% of the voter registration forms they’ve reviewed so far, including incorrect addresses, false identification information, false names and names that don’t match Social Security information.
“Staff noticed that numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting [and] were filled out on the same day,” Adams said.
“It appears to be an organized effort,” she went on, linking the phony applications to paid canvassing by one or two organizations that conducted recent county registration drives and are believed to be active in two other counties.
“It doesn’t seem that it’s any one party. In some cases, they’re registering in different parties,” Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino said, emphasizing that the real concern is the increased risk of voter fraud. Click here to read more.
SOUTH POINT, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been arrested for stabbing an elementary school principal.
According to the South Point Police Department, officers were called to the South Point Elementary School on Thursday regarding a stabbing on campus.
South Point police said principal Bill Christian was stabbed multiple times by a parent, later identified as Joshua Collins, at the school.
Officers were able to subdue Collins once at the scene and first responders administered aid to the injured principal.
No children were harmed, but Christian was taken to the hospital with severe injuries. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Biden-Harris administration released data on Oct. 17 suggesting its push to electrify everything will ratchet up costs for American households, contradicting one of the White House’s favorite selling points for its green agenda, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Biden-Harris administration has made a crackdown on residential fossil fuel consumption a key aspect of its environmental strategy, justifying the push in part on the grounds electrification will lower energy costs. Now, Oct. 17 residential energy price data from the Department of Energy (DOE) shows electricity was roughly four times as expensive as natural gas in 2024, with experts telling the DCNF the White House’s electrification push is an example of extremist climate policy hurting everyday Americans. (RELATED: Forget Stoves! The Biden Admin Is Working Overtime To Phase Out All Your Gas Appliances)
“The Department of Energy has consistently shown that natural gas is a much cheaper energy source for households than electricity,” Daren Bakst, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, told the DCNF. “Government policies trying to block the use of natural gas in favor of electricity will significantly drive up prices, making home heating and appliance use needlessly expensive. Click link to read more.
