#false-claim

#false-claim

Nadine Dorries has launched an attack on the current government, claiming she is actually smarter than these guys in No10.The former culture secretary, who is said she is quitting as a Conservative MP, has also made the false claim that Boris Johnson was top of his year at the University of Oxford, while Rishi Sunak came 200-and-something.

A false report of an active shooter drew police to Ontario Mills mall Monday, investigators said."A shooting did not happen," Ontario Police Chief Mike Lorenz wrote in a tweet."Ontario PD is investigating the person who made the false claim."Video posted to social media showed a largely empty food court strewn with overturned chairs.

Despite admitting that he has never met anyone who "understands" what he characterizes as the transgender "agenda," North Carolina's anti-LGBTQ+ Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R) claims that "clinics" are performing "transgender surgery" on 5-year-olds.Robinson, who officially announced his bid to become North Carolina's next governor, made the false claim twice over the weekend, during an appearance in Georgia at the Faith Over Fear Rally, an event hosted by gun rights activist Lucretia Hughes, WGHP reports.

The foreperson of the Atlanta-based grand jury that investigated former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election told CNN on Tuesday that the panel is recommending multiple indictments and suggested the big name may be on the list.Can you imagine doing this for eight months and not coming out with a whole list of recommended indictments, Emily Kohrs told CNN.

President Vladimir V. Putin on Friday rejected suggestions that Russia had become isolated over its invasion of Ukraine, telling an audience in St. Petersburg that the Russian economy was resilient and that Moscow's ties with other nations had grown.The Russian leader spoke at the annual international economic forum in St. Petersburg, which long was the country's premier event for attracting Western investors.

[ NB: check the byline, thanks./~Rayne]
Two days after a warrant was served on Mar-a-Lago last August, I wrote this:

We could have seen it coming after all this time.They're reliably predictable, no crystal ball required.Trump appears to be in trouble: The FBI serves a warrant on Mar-a-Lago, seizing papers.

The Supreme Court as seen on April 21.Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday revived two whistleblower lawsuits that allege Safeway and SuperValu overcharged the government for prescription drugs to the tune of $200 million.The cases involved allegations that major retail pharmacies across the country knowingly overcharged Medicaid and Medicare by overstating what their "usual and customary prices" are.

A data breach at the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has exposed the data of 237,000 former and current federal employees.The breach was found to have affected USDOT's TRANServe system for employee commuting reimbursement, which contains personal data pertaining to government workers.USDOT stressed that no wider transport systems are linked to TRANServe, and no criminal use of the data has been detected at present.

Gwyneth Paltrow said she was pleased with the outcome of a high-profile US skiing collision lawsuit, after she was found not to be at fault for the 2016 incident.The Oscar-winning actress said she felt that acquiescing to a false claim compromised my integrity, and thanked jurors after the verdict was returned in her favour.

Officials have failed to correct a false claim in a major counter-terrorism report that there have been no far-right attacks in recent years.The Independent Review of Prevent concluded that the intervention scheme should be recalibrated to focus more on Islamists, rather than other ideologies that currently take up a greater portion of its work.

The case of Dr. Terry Sanderson, who claimed the Oscar-winning actress hit him in a reckless 2016 skiing incident, has concluded after eight days of testimony.Gwyneth Paltrow is not liable for the injuries incurred by a man involved in a 2016 ski crash, Utah courts decided Thursday.Following eight days of contentious testimony and a short deliberation, the case of Dr. Terry Sanderson - a retired optometrist who sued the actress for more than $3 million in 2019, before the amount was later reduced to $300,000 - was dismissed.

President Joe Biden has made another false claim about gas prices.During a Thursday speech in Syracuse, New York, Biden accurately said that gas prices, now averaging about $3.76 per gallon, have declined by roughly $1.25 since this year's June peak of over $5 per gallon.But then he claimed, Today, the most common price of gas in America is $3.39  down from over $5 when I took office.