A University of Utah student was arrested by campus police Monday after threatening the school’s College Republicans chapter during an event. Dean Stewart, whose LinkedIn page invites people to refer to him with “any pronouns,” was charged with threat of violence, interfering with a police officer and disorderly conduct after the incident. Vice-Chairman Riley Beesley of the Utah Federation of College Republicans said in a Tuesday post on X that Stewart referenced the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk. (RELATED: Anti-ICE Mob Attacks Journalists In Vehicle As They Flee Chaotic Scene)“He says: ‘I’m going to Kirk you,’…
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“J. D. Vance” by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 Fake news hacks are attempting a new tactic while slamming the Trump Administration’s approach to deportation: rewriting Barack Obama as an immigration hardliner. However, Vice President JD Vance is determined not to let that happen. On Tuesday, liberals erupted after footage emerged of a woman’s confrontation with ICE agents in Minneapolis after she was caught driving on a blocked street. The woman claimed she was trying to reach a doctor’s appointment, but the agents were unmoved. After exchanging words, the agents busted her window, yanked her out of the car, and…
The U.S. Capitol building at sunset in Washington on Jan. 12, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesWASHINGTON—A House committee advanced a bill on Jan. 14 that would ban future stock trading by members of Congress—with the support of House GOP leadership.The tally in the House Administration Committee was 7–4.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a Make America Healthy Again Commission Event in the White House on May 22, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump will sign the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act on Wednesday, overhauling previous U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines that required milk served in school cafeterias to be fat-free or low-fat.Now, schools have the freedom to serve whole milk, flavored or unflavored, as well as organic milk.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser.…
A comeback of epic proportions.PublishedJanuary 14, 2026 12:10 PM EST•UpdatedJanuary 14, 2026 12:10 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkThe qualifying rounds for the 2026 Australian Open, set to begin later this month, are typically reserved for the tennis sickos out there who follow the sport extremely closely. Nevertheless, the rounds are filled with players fighting for their lives, so to speak, which makes for some dramatic action and awesome stories.The second round qualifying match between American Nishesh Basavareddy and Austria’s Sebastian Ofner checked all the boxes imaginable.Ofner took the first of three sets 6-4 before Basavareddy returned the favor in the second frame…
The EU’s Copernicus climate agency found the last few years, average temperatures have already surpassed what was seen as a long-term limit.(CN) — The planet’s warming trend has accelerated so quickly that Earth could exceed the 2015 Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold more than a decade earlier than expected, according to a Copernicus report showing 2025 was the third-hottest year on record globally.The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union’s climate monitor, published its report Wednesday, coordinating the release with other climate agencies, including NASA and the World Meteorological Organization. The findings of the different agencies were very similar.Using several methods,…
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley on Wednesday subpoenaed three telecommunications companies for unredacted records related to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation that swept up data on more than 400 individuals including their phone records. The senators previously requested such records from the companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen, but their responses were heavily redacted or failed to provide “the names of the individuals or entities associated with the phone numbers in the subpoenas,” said Grassley, of Iowa, and Johnson, of Wisconsin. The subpoenas were sent by Johnson’s Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and co-signed…
The United States military has ordered some personnel to evacuate the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar amid ongoing demonstrations in Iran and President Donald Trump’s suggestion of possible military action, the Associated Press reported, citing “a U.S. official.”Al Udeid previously came under Iranian fire in the wake of U.S. strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program last year. The scope of the evacuation remains unclear. Qatar’s International Media Office addressed the reports on Wednesday stating that “The IMO reaffirms that the State of Qatar continues to implement all necessary measures to safeguard the security and safety of its citizens…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., claimed this week that she is under investigation by federal law enforcement over her participation in a viral video in which she and other Democratic lawmakers urged members of the military and intelligence community to ignore “illegal” orders.Slotkin joined other Democrats in November to make the video, including Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who has faced disciplinary action from the Department of War. The Michigan Democrat stated that the U.S. Attorney for D.C.’s office had contacted the Senate sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview, the New York Times reported. It remains unclear whether she will face any charges. Kelly,…
Arizona GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh urged Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to grant clemency for Tina Peters, a former County Clerk convicted in connection with an election security breach in the 2020 election.”I wrote this letter to Colorado Governor @JaredPolis, urging him to put partisan politics aside and grant clemency to Gold Star Mother and election integrity whistleblower @realtinapeters,” Hamadeh posted on X on Tuesday. “We live in hyper-politicized times, and this gesture of compassion would go a long way toward easing tensions in our country. I encourage him to do the right thing and free Tina Peters.” Hamadeh’s post…
An Iranian shopkeeper is facing a possible hanging, despite President Trump warning Iran of consequences if Iran hanged people detained during the protests.Erfan Soltani, 26, was set to be executed Wednesday, accused by the Iranian government of participating in the protests against the regime, according to a human rights group Hengaw, which is in contact with his family, CBS News reported. Hengaw representative Awyar Shekhi told the news outlet Tuesday that the Iranian government “said that he was arrested because of the protest, but we don’t know if he actually participated in the protest, because there is absolutely no information…
EXCLUSIVE: For six weeks, Google News quietly worked to throttle coverage of widespread fraud allegations in Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota, an exclusive Media Research Center analysis found. Google News, a digital gatekeeper that shapes what millions of Americans see each day, kept its readers in the dark as the Minnesota fraud scandal intensified, publishing just four stories on the matter out of 840 in its top 20 morning editions from Nov. 28 to Jan. 9. The scandal gained national attention in November amid reporting that a group of Somali Americans exploited a COVID-19 relief program and later became linked to broader child…
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Netflix Rumors are running rampant online that Matt and Ross Duffer used OpenAI’s ChatGPT when producing the last season of “Stranger Things” after fans zoomed on a still from a behind-the-scenes documentary that appears to show that one of the brothers had the AI chatbot open while working on the script. “WTF man, now we know why season 5 sucked,” wrote one upset fan of the show on X-formerly-Twitter in response. Martina Radwan, director of the documentary “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5,” told…
China is facing mounting economic pressure as President Donald Trump threatens 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Iran, security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The president announced Monday that the tariffs would take effect “immediately,” drawing on his favored diplomatic tool as he seeks to pressure Tehran into ending its bloody crackdown on nationwide demonstrations against the regime. In recent weeks, Trump has openly supported and encouraged Iranian protesters, saying on Tuesday that “help is on its way” to the “Iranian patriots.”While the measure is likely to further isolate Iran — already reeling from years of U.S.…
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter Wednesday. The search was as part of an investigation into a government contractor who is accused of illegally retaining classified materials, The Washington Post reported. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia when the FBI arrived, the newspaper reported. FBI agents searched her home and devices. They seized her phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch. One of the laptops was a Washington Post-issued laptop. Investigators told Natanson she is not the focus of the probe. According to the warrant, law enforcement was investigating Aurelio Perez-Lugones. Perez-Lugones is a system administrator in…
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Today at 2:30 p.m. ET in Colorado, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters will have her appeal hearing to overturn her conviction on seven counts relating to her efforts to secure a forensic image of the Dominion Voting System software while it was under her custody prior to a “Trusted Build” performed by the Secretary of State of Colorado. The Gateway Pundit covered her trial and has also covered the efforts to get the 70-year-old Gold Star mother out of prison since the trial. BREAKING: Former Mesa, CO Clerk and Election Patriot Tina Peters Found Guilty on 7 of 10…
Minnesota has become synonymous with Somali welfare scams, but that is only because we are ground zero when it comes to Somali migration. But just like ground zero, while damage is maximized here, there is plenty of damage wherever the force of the bomb strikes. And as Somalis have spread around the country, so have the scams. Of course, it’s not only Somalis who commit fraud in this country; they just happen to come from a culture where anybody who doesn’t take advantage of the system is considered an idiot. Advertisement So let’s look at a smaller, but significant incident that…
U.S. Attorney for the District of Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, goes public explaining the backstory of the DOJ reviewing the Federal Reserve Board and Chairman Jerome Powell. As noted by USAO Pirro, Chairman Powell refused to respond to questions for two months despite three repeated requests. The DOJ was then forced to issue a subpoena to get a response. Again, Powell never responded; instead, he went to the media to claim he was being politically targeted. WATCH: [embedded content] .
Trump strategically bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities, bringing some stability to the region — maybe democracy. Dems rail against it. Then Trump sends Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Minneapolis to arrest illegal alien murderers, rapists and child molesters. Dems stand against it. Bored lesbians organize to harass ICE. Then Trump snatches up evil Venezuelan dictator Maduro without a casualty. Dems reflexively protest to support Maduro. We are in odd times. It was easier and safer for our special forces to find Maduro in his bedroom in Caracas than for a reporter to find a kid at a Somali daycare in…
Attorney General Pam Bondi appears during a press conference in Washington on Dec. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesA journalist for The Washington Post was subject to a search warrant this week from the FBI and the Department of Justice, as an investigation continues into a government contractor accused of leaking classified information.“This past week, at the request of the Department of War, the Department of Justice and FBI executed a search warrant at the home of a Washington Post journalist who was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated…
BRUSSELS (CN) — U.S. defense contractors will be pushed to the back of the line under Europe’s 90-billion-euro ($95 billion) Ukraine loan, with new rules unveiled Wednesday requiring Kyiv to buy European and Ukrainian weapons first as support under President Donald Trump dwindles.The European Commission — the EU’s executive arm — on Wednesday presented the legislative blueprint for the loan package EU leaders agreed to last month to keep Ukraine’s government running through 2027. The fine print shows that 60 billion euros set aside for weapons must go to European and Ukrainian suppliers first.American companies can only compete if the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, deep-space radio blips they want to review for signs of extraterrestrial life. And they couldn’t have done it without 11 years of volunteer work from millions of PC owners around the world. What is SETI@home? Even with today’s advanced computers, the world’s most complex data problems can’t be solved by a single machine. Instead, it’s far more efficient to break up tasks among many separate computers. For decades,…
A reporter confronted Democratic Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter on Tuesday over her accusations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the U.S. Border Patrol’s shooting of two individuals linked to Venezuelan crime syndicate Tren de Aragua (TdA). Dexter put out a statement on Jan. 8 where she accused ICE of spreading “terror, chaos and cruelty” throughout the U.S., even though the shooting involved Border Patrol and not ICE. Outside of the Capitol, Dexter stumbled as Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin asked why she did not wait for all of the facts to come to light before weighing in.“Why didn’t…
Sen. Rand Paul was on Joe Rogan and blew him away over the Fauci-pandemic case that isn’t. The Department of Justice won’t prosecute the case, but Sen. Paul doesn’t want Drs. Fauci and Collins to get away with it. He said that first of all, Dr. Anthony Fauci shouldn’t get away with lying to Congress, and secondly, can you really pardon someone for ten years? He wants a judicial decision on that, so it has to go to court. The DoJ Won’t Do Anything He has gotten a lot of information from Secretary Kennedy, and he’s not giving up. “It…
CNN framed 6% inflation under former President Joe Biden more positively than 2.7% inflation under President Donald Trump in separate X posts. “US inflation is still high, but it’s falling,” CNN wrote in a March 14, 2023, X post about the 6% inflation at the time. On Tuesday, CNN wrote that “US inflation remained at 2.7% in December, underscoring persistent cost of living challenges.” (RELATED: Corporate Media Still Too Scared Of Pronoun Mafia To Admit Only Women Get Pregnant) How CNN frames 6% inflation under Joe Biden vs. 2.7% inflation under Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/aei8JnQEl5 — Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) January 13, 2026…
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, January 14, 2026Pastor John-Paul Miller (R) of Solid Rock at Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and his late wife, Mica Miller (L). | Screengrab: YouTube/Solid Rock; John-Paul MillerSouth Carolina Pastor John-Paul Miller, who is accused of making false statements to federal investigators and cyberstalking his estranged wife, Mica Miller, for nearly two years until she took her own life in 2024, has pleaded not guilty to the charges in federal court.Painted as a flight risk by prosecutors during his court appearance in Florence on Monday, Miller, the 46-year-old former leader of Solid…
The ICE agent who fatally shot the woman who tried to run him over during a lawful immigration operation in Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding to his torso. Renee Good was fatally shot after she used her vehicle as a weapon as ICE agents descended on a neighborhood in Minneapolis last week. President Trump and DHS Chief Kristi Noem previously said the ICE agent was taken to a local hospital and treated. “I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously,…
A man is suing McDonald’s and two franchise holders, alleging that a vagrant attacked his wife at the drive-through in 2024 and employees failed to intervene. Jose Juan Rangel claims that known vagrant Charles Cornelius Green Jr. attacked him and his wife at the McDonald’s drive-through in Los Angeles, California, on Mar. 9, 2024, according to the lawsuit obtained by Law & Crime. Green Jr. allegedly approached Rangel’s vehicle, lunged at him and struck him repeatedly through the open driver’s side window. Employees witnessed the assault via the drive-through window and on live footage but did not call law enforcement…
Sales at a mall in Columbia, Md., on Nov. 24, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesU.S. consumers opened their wallets at the start of the holiday shopping season as retail sales posted their best month since July.November retail sales rose 0.6 percent, from a downwardly adjusted 0.1 percent decline in the previous month, according to the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau on Jan. 14.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
A repeat offender who injured and disfigured a stranger with a pipe will not serve any jail time under Illinois policy, CWBChicago reported Sunday. Piere Thorne, who has been arrested 57 times, struck the 53-year-old victim from behind with the metal object in a random assault in December 2022, the outlet reported, citing court documents. Democratic Judge Joanne Rosado reportedly sentenced Thorne to four years in prison through a plea deal, but he received credit for 752 days spent in custody and a 50% sentence reduction, meaning he will not spend further time behind bars. (RELATED: JB Pritzker Said Cashless…
Someone check in on this woman, please. “i married my dog for my 50th birthday… BLESS!” wrote Jenny Lewis, leader singer for Rilo Kiley, on Saturday. Lewis attached photos of the “wedding,” including Polaroid shots of her in a wedding veil and gown, where she posed next to her dog. Lewis’ canine groom, Bobby Rhubarb, is a cockapoo, says The Independent. Bobby Rhubarb was the subject of Lewis’ 2021 single, “Puppy and a Truck,” according to Rolling Stone. The song begins: “My forties are kicking my ass / And handing ’em to me in a margarita glass / I was infatuated…
Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting — then years of elevated criminal violence — should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, Good’s tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation’s democratically enacted immigration laws. It’s the protesters’ veto, an assertion…
Alfonso came out of the Army hoping to work in the medical field to help people as he had in combat. He began as a medical biller and coder and went to work for Planned Parenthood. He first felt like he was doing a service for women. Alfonso’s father left when he was a child and he did not have the opportunity in his upbringing for faith in God to take hold. He struggled without a father figure and had a desire for the presence of God in his life. It was after Alfonso survived a near fatal combat incident in the Army…
AI-Generated image by Grok: Elon Musk and his Starlink are a threat to the Ayatollah Khamanei regime. Starlink has shown what a game-changer it is. At the beginning of the massive popular demonstrations in Iran, Elon Musk took the bold initiative of providing free Starlink services for the protestors. A few days in, Iran shut down the Internet in the entire country. For the first time since 2019, a nationwide blackout was imposed, disrupting phone networks and landline telephones. Starlink became the sole web outlet for protesters to get informed, communicate, and share the images of the momentous developments with…
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International travelers leave the Customs and Immigration area of Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., on June 29, 2017. Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—The United States is pausing visa processing for 75 countries, the State Department told The Epoch Times.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the development in a post on X on Wednesday and linked to a report from Fox News, which first reported the move.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
Wednesday’s edition of The View featured an exercise in being unable to temper expectations to confirm with the reality and over reacting for political points. America was almost a full year into President Trump’s second term in office and the ABC co-hosts were still stuck in 2016 in terms of gripes about Trump – the man who’s crassness helped get him elected – being ‘unpresidential.’ What did he do this time? Well, he flipped off a union autoworker who flung an insult at him. In the soundbite shared by Behar, someone could be heard allegedly calling him a “pedophile protector”…
Karol Nawrocki is an interesting character. The relatively new conservative president of Poland, having finally taken the oath of office after a tumultuous baptism of opposition fire and electoral shenanigans brimstone in early August. He is no friend of the European Union, and has been vocal from the beginning about his intentions to protect Poland’s sovereignty as a country from the EU’s ever-expanding ambitions for control. This puts him and the country’s prime minister, the Europhile Donald Tusk, at opposite ends of the political spectrum in what is now a split coalition government. Advertisement …The way the Polish government is…
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota continued to slander Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and incite violence against them Monday by pushing the lie that leftist activist Renee Good was “murdered” as part of an “execution” by an ICE officer, even though he reacted in self-defense. Omar is a radical Muslim who represents Minnesota’s 5th district, where multi-billion-dollar fraud schemes perpetrated by Somali “refugees” were recently uncovered. On Monday, the Democrat told CNN host Erin Burnett the Jan. 7 shooting of anti-ICE agitator Renee Good was a calculated “murder,” despite video evidence showing it was done in self-defense. “You spoke out,…
It’s been almost a full week since the shooting involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis, and the story shows no signs of going away. Also here to stay for the foreseeable future is the left-wing media narrative that ICE is breaking the law, and the protesters that confront ICE agents with automobiles, bottles, rocks and more, are just innocent, average law abiding, concerned citizens looking to make a stand against brutality. That kind of argument didn’t go over well on Tuesday’s edition of The Five on the Fox News Channel. During their segment on the continuing protests in Minneapolis, Dana Perino addressed the…
During an interview in Detroit with “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil, President Trump responded to the accusation that his success in foreign policy is distracting the administration from focusing on domestic policy objectives. To be clear, I do not assess any reasonable credibility to this type of claim. Factually, the closed border, growth in real wages, containment of inflation, use of tariffs to change corporate behavior to benefit Main Street, expanded growth in GPD and American manufacturing, the shrinking of the trade deficit, a smaller budget deficit, ongoing ICE operations and deportation goals, etc. are all happening at the…
Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk’s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults and children. At least that’s the case in the UK, providing the closest thing we’ve currently got to a gauge of the public sentiment on the issue. In a new survey conducted by YouGov amid the latest controversy surrounding the xAI chatbot, a staggering 97 percent of respondents said that AI tools shouldn’t be allowed to generate sexually explicit content of children, and 96 percent said they shouldn’t be able to generate “undressed” images of minors only wearing clothing like underwear, either.…
Skeletal remains that washed up on a Washington beach nearly two decades ago belong to a former Oregon mayor who vanished during a crabbing trip in 2006. Forensic scientists at Othram, a Texas-based genetic genealogy lab, positively identified the remains as Clarence Edwin “Ed” Asher, according to a press release from the company. Asher was 72-years-old when he disappeared on Sept. 5, 2006, while crabbing in Tillamook Bay along the Oregon coast.The Astorian reported at the time that Asher left Garibaldi’s Old Mill marina around 10 a.m. and planned to return by 3 p.m. His wife contacted Oregon State Police…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CN) — Jade Sívori, 33, could only see smoke when the fire reached the hills next to the home where she lives with her 1-month-old daughter. And when she saw ashes falling from the sky, she realized it was time for them to go. Members of their community helped them evacuate from their place in Puerto Patriada, on the shores of Lake Epuyén, a protected area in the Patagonian province of Chubut.Sívori, a photographer, said the native forest was swept by fire in a way she had never seen before. Her area became one of the hot…
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation to create a special inspector general tasked with investigating fraud across federally funded programs nationwide, following revelations of widespread abuse tied to child assistance programs in Minnesota, Fox News Digital has learned. The proposed legislation would establish a new oversight official empowered to conduct audits, investigations, and broad supervision of federally funded child assistance programs throughout the United States. Under the bill, the inspector general would be required to submit quarterly reports to Congress and refer any suspected criminal activity directly to the Department of Justice. ACCOUNTABILITY PUSH: A new bill from GOP…
Multiple American citizens previously detained in Venezuela have been released, the Trump administration announced Tuesday, a development officials described as a step toward improved cooperation with Venezuela’s interim authorities, as reported by the New York Post. In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the U.S. State Department said, “We welcome the release of detained Americans in Venezuela,” adding, “This is an important step in the right direction by the interim authorities.” The department did not specify how many U.S. citizens were freed. Trump’s Sovereign Wealth Fund: What Could It Mean For Your Money? A person familiar with the matter, speaking on…
The Washington Post on Wednesday said that the FBI searched the home of a reporter for the newspaper in a classified documents probe of a government contractor.The FBI searched Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s devices and seized a phone and a Garmin watch at her Virginia home, the newspaper said, according to The Associated Press. The search was related to an investigation into a system administrator in Maryland who authorities allege took home classified reports, per an affidavit. The system administrator, Aurelio Perez-Lugones, was charged earlier this month with unlawful retention of national defense information, according to court filings. Natanson covers…
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Many in the UK are trying to ban first-cousin marriages, which lead to health and cultural problems. Muslims marry first-cousins routinely, from 50% to 80%, depending on the country they came from. It is rare in the US, and most states ban it for health risks and the risk of incest. Consanguineous marriages significantly increase the risk of birth defects and intellectual disability. In some cultures, they lead to sexual coercion. In the UK, 4% of infant deaths are caused by birth defects stemming from first-cousin marriages. It is about three times the rate of deaths from substance abuse. Despite…