TV News LIES

A Dec. 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes an image of a news headline that states, “Schools Can Force-Vaccinate Children Against Parents’ Wishes, State Supreme Court Rules.” It also includes a photo of an X post claiming a 6-year-old boy was “forced to take a Covid mRNA injection by his school.”

The Instagram post received more than 2,000 likes in 11 days, and similar versions have also circulated on the platform.

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On the brink of losing their supermajority in the state legislature, North Carolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto on Wednesday to enact a new law that gives them control over elections in the state and strips the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of some of their powers.

Currently, North Carolina’s governor appoints the five members of the state board of elections, allowing him to select a three-person majority from his party. The new law transfers that appointment power to the state auditor. A Republican won control of the state auditor race this fall for the first time in more than a decade.

The bill also changes how local election boards in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties would be appointed. Currently the state board appoints members and the governor appoints the chair. Under the new law, the auditor-appointed state board would still pick the local boards, but the auditor would pick the chair. Taken together, the new law would give Republicans control over both the state and local boards of elections.

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Israel on Saturday said it killed an aid worker accused of involvement in the October 7 attacks, as Palestinian sources reported dozens killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza.

The incident saw five people killed in an attack on a car near the southern city of Khan Younis, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. They were said to include three employees of the aid organization World Central Kitchen (WCK).

The charity said it was "heartbroken to share that a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen colleagues was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza."

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that they had been monitoring a suspected militant based on "credible information regarding his real-time location."

TVNL Comment:  No trial, no evidence, no due process, just assassination. Yeah, this is the only 'domocracy' in the region.

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President-elect Trump announced that Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, would serve as the U.S. Ambassador to France.

“I am pleased to nominate Charles Kushner, of New Jersey, to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to France. He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests,” Trump wrote in a Saturday post on Truth Social.

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

The pick, which will roil many public health experts, comes after Trump promised to let Kennedy “go wild” with health and food policy in his administration after Kennedy dropped his own presidential bid to endorse the now-president-elect. It’s also a sign of the opening Trump sees after he scored a decisive electoral victory and Republicans won a comfortable majority in the Senate.

The war in the Gaza Strip is taking a catastrophic toll on children. At least 14,000 children have reportedly been killed, according to the latest estimate by the Palestinian Ministry of Health; thousands more have been injured. There are no safe spaces. All of Gaza’s children have been exposed to the traumatic experiences of war, the consequences of which will last a lifetime.

Around 1.9 million people – about 9 in 10 of Gaza’s population – are estimated to have been internally displaced. Half of them children. They do not have enough access to water, food, fuel and medicine. Their homes have been destroyed; their families torn apart. Many children have been displaced multiple times, and have lost homes, parents and loved ones. They need to be protected, along with the remaining services that they rely on, including medical facilities and shelter.

Gaza’s children have endured unimaginable horrors – they deserve an immediate ceasefire and a chance for a peaceful future.

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