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Facts Matter

The Epoch Times

"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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12:17

RFK Jr. Announces Major Overhaul of Vaccine Injury...

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2025/08/22

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.

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14:30

Federal Compensation Agency Gets $55 Million So Far...

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2025/08/20

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 themore recent cases.

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12:18

Scientists in Georgia Manufacture New Lab-Made Strain...

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2025/08/15

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.

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15:18

The Supreme Court Case That Could End Racial...

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2025/08/13

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,

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13:21

Arrest Warrants Issued for Texas Democrats Who Fled...

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2025/08/08

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.

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14:49

Former City Council President Gets 2 Years in Prison...

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2025/08/06

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

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10:26

CDC Releases Update on Long COVID Symptoms

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2025/08/01

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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17:28

“Big 4” Consolidate 80% of Beef Supply; Steak Prices...

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2025/07/30

With a new Department of Agriculture report showing a nationwide cattle shortage—alongside a corresponding spike in the price of ground beef—let’s examine the monopoly that’s developed in the beef processing sector and how it’s affecting American ranchers.

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08:39

Newly Surfaced Leaked Audio: Trump Says He Warned...

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2025/07/25

An audio recording of President Donald Trump was recently leaked, in which the president claimed to have threatened Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping that he would bomb Beijing if China invaded Taiwan.The leak came as tensions continue to grow in the Asia-Pacific region, with the Chinese regime acting with ever more aggression and increasing its air and sea incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification and exclusive economic zones.Let’s listen to the audio recording, and then go

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10:22

RFK Jr., Marco Rubio Announce US Rejection of WHO...

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2025/07/23

On Friday, July 18, the Trump administration formally announced that the United States will be rejecting a certain World Health Organization agreement. Specifically, this was an agreement that U.S. officials say would have granted the WHO certain powers over America in the event of another pandemic. Let’s go through the details together.

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11:36

3 Former Council Members Caught by FBI, Sentenced to...

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2025/07/18

In Pennsylvania, 3 former local officials have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme to steal a local mayoral election.The scheme involved dozens of individuals having their identities used, both wittingly and unwittingly, to request mail-in ballots and cast fraudulent votes.Let’s go through the details of the scheme together, as well as how it was ultimately uncovered by the authorities.

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09:08

Japan Dumps 12th Batch of Nuclear Wastewater Into...

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2025/07/16

Unbeknownst to most people, Japan recently released its 12th batch of radioactive nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.This latest batch of discharge weighed approximately 7,800 tons, or around 15.6 million pounds.Including this latest batch, it means that Japan has dumped an estimated 86,000 tons of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean thus far. This sounds like a lot, but it’s actually only the beginning. Its plan is to continue doing this for the next 30 years, and in the process, dump

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07:02

Pardoned Jan. 6 Defendant Receives Life Sentence

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2025/07/11

A man who was pardoned for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach was recently handed down a life sentence for what he attempted to do while awaiting trial. Specifically, for his plan to murder the FBI officials who were working on his case. Let's go through the story together.

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15:30

RFK Dismisses All 17 Members of CDC’s Vaccine...

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2025/07/09

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee on June 9—specifically, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). It’s essentially the CDC’s vaccine expert panel responsible for studying the effects—including the side effects—of vaccines that are still in development, as well as those that are already on the market.Let’s go through the details of why he chose to gut this committee, as well as who he chose to replace the fired members.

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11:39

Who Counts? Trump to Reform Census to Avoid Counting...

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2025/07/04

After several years of record-breaking illegal immigration, the second Trump administration is looking to make a significant change to the way that the U.S. Census is conducted. Specifically, they are seeking to end the practice of including illegal aliens when counting up a state’s official population. Last month, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller, said that the second Trump administration was determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are

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09:04

Supreme Court Sides With Religious Parents, Allows...

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2025/07/02

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of parents who were having a dispute with their local school district. Specifically, these were religious parents who wanted to make sure that their elementary-aged kids were not being exposed to LGBT storybooks.The parents wanted to be able to opt their kids out of having to learn that material.After several years of litigation, the parents proved successful in their case, and in the process they opened the door for the rest of the country to do the

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08:09

US Supreme Court Allows State Bans on Transgender...

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2025/06/27

In 2023, the state legislature of Tennessee passed a law called SB 1, which explicitly banned minors who identified as transgender from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It was also later amended to ban “gender-affirming surgeries”.The text of the bill prohibited health care providers from administering puberty blockers or hormones for the purpose of “enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex [or] treating purported discomfort

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10:27

White Dairy Farmer Sues Trump Administration Over...

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2025/06/25

In a surprising twist of events, a white dairy farmer from Wisconsin is suing the Trump administration for discriminating against white farmers. The details of this story trace back to a Biden administrationdiversity, equity, and inclusion program hidden within the American Rescue Plan.Let’s go through the legal history of this program, as well as what remnants of it remain within the U.S. Department of Agriculture today.

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10:05

Supreme Court Sides with White Straight Woman in...

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2025/06/20

The US Supreme Court has just issued a unanimous ruling in favor of a white, straight woman who was allegedly discriminated against at work.This new ruling opens the door wider for these types “reverse discrimination” cases — cases where the person getting discriminated against is part of the quote unquote majority group.Let’s go through the details of the case together, as well as what this ruling means for all of us moving forward.

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16:26

Another Chinese Researcher Arrested for Smuggling...

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2025/06/19

About a week ago, we published an episode on this program detailing how two Chinese nationals—a researcher at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend—were caught by the FBI attempting to smuggle a dangerous pathogen into the United States. This was a deadly fungus that could be used to target crops.We ended that episode by considering out loud: How many other Chinese researchers here in the United States are possibly doing the same thing?Within a week, another Chinese researcher, who was also

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