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The continued pushing of a “lab-leak” theory is unsupported and dangerous.
Kenya has inaugurated William Ruto as president. The Christian leader has humble roots as a chicken seller.
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SAMBUT, Kenya — William Ruto spent his childhood on a plot of family land down an unpaved, narrow road in a quiet village in the Rift Valley, where he tended cows and helped till the field for maize and cabbage. But these days, Mr. Ruto, vice president of Kenya for close to a decade, wakes…
The basic argument against abortion was succinctly expressed just six weeks ago by Florida Sen. Rick Scott in the pages of The Wall Street Journal when he boldly pronounced that “the Republican position on abortion is based on a fundamental belief that life begins at conception.” Leaving aside exactly what conception means—is it the same as…