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11/21/2022

Follow Rhetor News if you’re looking for a new app that will change the way we react to and interact with the news on a daily basis!

06/06/2022

Since 2004, more than 2,000 American newspapers have stopped their presses and closed their doors, as noted by Margaret Sullivan in Ghosting the News. If we don’t take effective action, this trend will continue, to the detriment of the American people.

We have a strong solution in a time that the evolution to digital is creating unique and novel challenges for the journalism industry.

06/04/2022

The industry implosion has left almost half of the counties in America with only one newspaper, which is usually a weekly. Additionally, 171 counties do not have a newspaper at all.

Rhetor news is a social media platform for daily news readers, designed to revive the collapsing local U.S news industry.

06/01/2022

A Salon report cited a UNC study stating, “the United States has lost nearly 1,800 local newspapers since 2004”. This is a global issue as well. A Washington Post piece by Douglas McLennan states, “Britain has nearly 200 fewer regional newspapers than in 2005”.

A lack of local news coverage will lead to entire regions stateside and globally being without media attention specific and unique to their needs. Without an adequate flow of information, people are unable to responsibly be informed at the ballot box, know about current events in their area or be informed on issues affecting their community. Larger news outlets also draw on vital facts and figures from local news reports to tell national stories in the proper context. Losing local reporters from this journalism network would deal a crushing blow to the quality of news we all consume.

Rhetor News will change this dialogue by compensating freelance journalists for providing credible news to local communities.

05/26/2022

Rhetor News is a platform that seeks to empower and compensate freelance journalists to cover stories in their local communities.

We aim to call on the talent of veteran journalists and train the younger generation to tell stories by capitalizing on their already-extensive experience from using the many social media options available today. Our startup provides a valuable solution at a critical time and we look forward to sharing more of our story with the world and answering any questions you may have.

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05/24/2022

A lack of local news coverage will lead to entire regions stateside and globally being without media attention specific and unique to their needs. Without an adequate flow of information, people are unable to responsibly be informed at the ballot box, know about current events in their area or be informed on issues affecting their community. Larger news outlets also draw on vital facts and figures from local news reports to tell national stories in the proper context. Losing local reporters from this journalism network would deal a crushing blow to the quality of news we all consume.

Rhetor News is creating a platform to deliver trusted news to local communities while supporting independent journalists.

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04/22/2022

Former President Obama during a Thursday speech placed blame on tech giants for failing to adequately handle disinformation being spread on their sites. He highlighted the real-world impacts of the spread of disinformation, discussing the spread of false information about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines and 2020 election conspiracies.

Former President Obama placed blame on tech companies for failing to address the disinformation problem he said the industry has amplified during a speech Thursday at Stanford University. The new …

01/04/2022

Holmes, who was once seen as one of the most promising leaders in Silicon Valley, could spend up to 20 years in prison for lying to investors and patients of the blood-testing company.

10/09/2021

Martha Sepúlveda will be the first patient with a nonterminal illness to receive euthanasia in Colombia, a country considered a pioneer in the right to a dignified death, both in Latin America and globally.

In Colombia, Martha Sepúlveda Campos will be the first person to die by euthanasia in the country without being terminally ill. She has ALS.

10/08/2021

No major religion has come out in opposition to the COVID vaccines. Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and the Catholic Church have all issued statements saying their religion does not prohibit members from getting it.

As religious exemptions are now being sought in droves, their use raises concerns that they pose a serious public health risk. But some say vaccine mandates are too much, too soon.

10/08/2021

A Maryland man accused of killing his pharmacist brother and two other people had complained that he believed his sibling was harming people with the Covid-19 vaccine, court documents say.

Jeffrey Burnham allegedly killed his brother, sister-in-law and another woman in Maryland last week before being arrested in West Virginia.

10/02/2021

A Texas OB-GYN recently had to tell a woman that her fetus had anencephaly — a condition where the baby doesn't have a brain. It's always fatal, and patients are typically given the option to terminate.

Except now the state's law prohibits it.

The law bans nearly all abortions, and doctors providing pregnancy care are hoping for more clarity soon, as legal challenges continue.

09/28/2021

JUST IN: A Maryland man who fatally shot 5 people in a 2018 attack at the Capital Gazette newspaper has been sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole.

Jarrod Ramos, 41, opened fire at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis in 2018.

09/23/2021

"For many fully vaccinated Americans, the Delta surge spoiled what should’ve been a glorious summer," writes the physician Craig Spencer. "Those who had cast their masks aside months ago were asked to dust them off. Many are still taking no chances. Some have even returned to all the same precautions they took before getting their shots, including avoiding the company of other fully vaccinated people.

Among this last group, a common refrain I’ve heard to justify their renewed vigilance is that 'vaccinated people are just as likely to spread the coronavirus.' This misunderstanding, born out of confusing statements from public-health authorities and misleading media headlines, is a shame. It is resulting in unnecessary fear among vaccinated people, all the while undermining the public’s understanding of the importance—and effectiveness—of getting vaccinated. So let me make one thing clear: Vaccinated people are not as likely to spread the coronavirus as the unvaccinated. Even in the United States, where more than half of the population is fully vaccinated, the unvaccinated are responsible for the overwhelming majority of transmission."

This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong.

09/22/2021

A black truck advertising for "Wilmore Funeral Home" brought a stark and unexpected message to downtown Charlotte

09/21/2021

Autopsy results have confirmed that the remains found Sunday in Wyoming are those of Gabby Petito, according to the FBI in Denver.

Autopsy results have confirmed that the remains found Sunday in the Bridger-Teton National Forest are those of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman who disappeared while on a trip exploring national parks with her fiancé, according to the FBI in Denver.

09/21/2021

Covid-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic.

The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country.

09/21/2021

"We're now fighting two pandemics, one of the harder ones of misinformation."

Dr. Newman is facing pressure from local parents, who are backing a recall effort to remove her from the school board for her recommendation that kids wear masks in schools.

Dr. Tracie Newman, a pediatric specialist at Sanford Health in North Dakota, is facing pressure from local parents backing a recall campaign to remove her from the school board for her recommendation that kids wear masks in schools.

09/20/2021

For the first time in recorded history, more people died in Alabama in 2020 than were born. The news comes as COVID cases among the unvaccinated are straining the state's health care systems.

Alabama's top health official said the state had "literally shrunk." According to preliminary data, it saw 64,714 total deaths and 57,641 births in 2020.

09/20/2021

BREAKING: All international travelers coming into the US will be required to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 starting in early November, White House says.

09/05/2021

3 dead, 3 injured in Washington, D.C., shooting after a person got out of a vehicle and opened fire on a group of people on a street Saturday night, police say.

Police said there might have been more than one shooter.

09/04/2021

An Oregon schools superintendent was fired during a Monday night school board meeting, after he enforced the state's mask mandate in the district's public schools, according to a local newspaper

09/01/2021

29 Sacramento students remain in Afghanistan after the U.S. evacuation ended earlier this week, school district says.

The last U.S. flight out of Kabul took off Monday, capping a bloody and chaotic end to America’s longest war.

08/31/2021

The new chief chaplain at Harvard University, which was founded to instruct clergymen early in the colonial period, is an atheist — and that’s fine by those who unanimously selected him for the role. Greg Epstein, the 44-year-old author of “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe,” assumes his new position this week. He formerly served as the university’s humanist chaplain since 2005.

“There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life."

Greg Epstein, the 44-year-old author of “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe,” assumes his new role this week.

08/29/2021

Oklahoma stores selling out of horse deworming medicine despite FDA plea not to take the drug.

Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration telling people not to take the deworming medication Ivermectin, stores in Oklahoma are having trouble keeping it in stock. Some have even posted signs warning not to eat the medication. KFOR’s Brya Barry reports.

08/29/2021

An unvaccinated teacher in California who went to her elementary school classroom while experiencing Covid-19 symptoms infects half of her students with the virus, as well as some of their family members, the CDC reports.

The CDC said that some of the affected children at the Marin County, California, school went on to infect other students, their siblings and their parents.

08/28/2021

Two high profile Islamic State group targets were killed and one was wounded when U.S. military forces conducted a drone strike on Friday in Afghanistan, the Pentagon says. "We know of zero civilian casualties," Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor says.

The strike was an apparent retaliatory attack against those who claimed responsibility for the attack outside Kabul's airport.

08/25/2021

Some 25% of SARS-CoV-2 infections among Los Angeles County residents occurred in fully vaccinated residents from May through July 25, a period that includes the impact of the highly transmissible Delta variant, U.S. officials reported on Tuesday.

08/24/2021

Lisa Brandon, a mother from Jacksonville, Florida, lost two of her adult sons to COVID-19 and now has to move out of their shared home. All three came down with the illness. But she was vaccinated - and believes they would be alive if they were too.

“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare,” Brandon said.

Aaron and Free’s conditions worsened after contracting pneumonia along with the coronavirus. The Jaggi brothers were admitted into the intensive care unit and put on ventilators, but ultimately succumbed to the virus 12 hours after each other. Older brother Free died on Aug. 12 and younger brother...

08/24/2021

Research suggests that when looking for a partner, women look for men roughly the same age as them (or perhaps a year or two older) and men prefer women in their early twenties, regardless of their own age. Are they choosing wisely?

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