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- Responsible Statecraft: Israel Paying Influencers About $7,000 Per Post (2025)
News Report · 2025
Responsible Statecraft
Responsible Statecraft, September 2025: estimates Israel's campaign pays influencers roughly $6,143 to $7,372 per post, from $552,946 spread over 75 to 90 expected posts. This is…
- Resumption of active recommendation of the human papillomavirus vaccine in Japan (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Ujiie M (Jpn J Infect Dis / PMC9746481, 2022)
Quantifies the harm of the 2013 suspension (coverage fell from ~70% to under 1%, 0.3% in 2016) and documents the April 2022 nationwide resumption with free…
- Reuther Library Timeline: The Treaty of Detroit (1950)
Document · 1950
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University
Wayne State's Reuther Library: on May 2, 1950, the UAW and GM signed the "Treaty of Detroit," a five-year contract with cost-of-living raises, health benefits and…
- Review of Alleged Patient Deaths, Patient Wait Times, and Scheduling Practices at the Phoenix VA Health Care System
Government Record · 2014
VA Office of Inspector General
The OIG reviewed 3,409 patients and 45 case reviews, identifying 28 patients negatively affected by delays, including six deaths, and 17 other cases with care deviations,…
- Review of DEA Cash Seizures: Notification of Significant Concerns
Government Record · 2024
DOJ Office of the Inspector General
This official notification was opened, but a concise passage was not retained for quotation. It does not replace the requested March 2017 DEA review.
- Review of the Federal Reserve’s Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank
Government Record · 2023
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
The Barr review identified bank-management failures and supervisory/regulatory shortcomings. It does not describe a costless rescue.
- Revocation of Emergency Use Authorization for the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine (FR Doc. 2024-23637)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Federal Register notice confirming that Janssen Biotech requested withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine EUA on May 22, 2023, and that FDA revoked the authorization effective June…
- RFK Jr. says COVID shots no longer recommended for healthy kids and pregnant women (2025)
News Report · 2025
NPR (Will Stone, Pien Huang)
NPR's contemporaneous report on HHS Secretary Kennedy's May 2025 announcement removing COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and pregnant women from the CDC schedule, quoting FDA Commissioner…
- RFK Jr.’s Flawed Justifications for ‘Clean Sweep’ of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel (2025)
News Report · 2025
FactCheck.org
Independent fact-check documenting that Kennedy's 97% figure misapplies the OIG omission statistic to conflicts of interest, that ACIP disclosure rules tightened in 2022, and that at…
- Richard A. Arenberg: Oral History Interviews (Senate Historical Office)
Transcript · 2010
Richard A. Arenberg; Senate Historical Office
A Senate staffer's 2010 oral history describing the Greenbrier congressional bunker: more than 112,000 square feet, steel-reinforced walls two feet thick.
- Ring and Flock Cancel Partnership
Document · 2026
Ring
Ring's February 2026 statement that the Flock integration was cancelled and never launched, and that no Ring customer videos were sent to Flock.
- Ring Expands Community Requests to Additional Community Safety Partners
Document · 2025
Ring
Ring's October 2025 announcement that police using Flock's systems would be able to request Ring doorbell video through its Community Requests feature.
- Risk Reporting and Analytical Services Agreement (BlackRock)
Government Record · 2009
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory
The New York Fed's agreement with BlackRock for risk reporting and portfolio analytics. The original selection was competitive; continuing as the sole analytics provider rested on…
- Robertson v. United States, No. 18-609, Order of April 15, 2019
Court Filing · 2019
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court substituted Robertson’s widow, granted certiorari, vacated the judgment, and remanded for consideration of mootness following his death. The order did not decide the…
- Rockefeller Foundation: Innovating for a Bold Future (2020)
Document · 2020
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation's own 2020 look back at its 2009 scenario exercise and the Lock Step pandemic scenario.
- Rockefeller Foundation: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010)
Document · 2010
The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network
The 2010 Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network report containing the Lock Step scenario: a world of tighter top-down government control after a pandemic. The report…
- Rockefeller Foundation: Scenarios for the Future of Technology, Lock Step (2010)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2010
The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network
Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network, May 2010: the Lock Step scenario imagines tighter top-down government control after a fictional pandemic kills eight million. The report…
- Rubio: Protecting and Championing Free Speech at the State Department (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, April 2025: closed R/FIMI, the successor to the Global Engagement Center, and said the office spent millions to silence Americans. The…
- S. 2357, Protect Children’s Innocence Act, 118th Congress (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Sen. J. D. Vance
S. 2357 was introduced by Senator J. D. Vance on July 18, 2023 and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. No Senate or House passage was…
- Sackett v. EPA (2012)
Court Filing · 2012
Supreme Court of the United States (Scalia, J., for a unanimous Court; Alito, J., concurring)
U.S. Supreme Court, March 2012, unanimous: the Sacketts could go to court to challenge EPA's 2007 compliance order on their small lot near Priest Lake, Idaho.…
- Sackett v. EPA, 598 U.S. 651
Court Filing · 2023
Supreme Court of the United States
Sackett narrowed Clean Water Act jurisdiction in 2023. It did not cause Robertson’s 2019-2020 post-death vacatur and abatement.
- Safeguarding Pharmaceutical Supply Chains in a Global Economy
Government Record · 2019
Janet Woodcock, M.D., FDA
FDA's Janet Woodcock, October 2019 testimony: only 28 percent of the factories making drug ingredients for the U.S. market were in the U.S., and the FDA…
- Sandia: Active Denial Technology (2005)
Government Record · 2005
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories, 2005: the Active Denial System fires a 95 GHz beam that penetrates about 1/64 inch into skin, causing intense pain. Exposure is limited…
- Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745
Court Filing · 1982
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that a state must prove its case by at least clear and convincing evidence before permanently terminating parental rights.