Swatting is a crime that involves making a false police report to trigger a heavily armed response, often a SWAT team, at a target’s home. The perpetrator will often call 911 claiming armed intruders are inside the target’s house, shooting at them and their family members.

These hoax calls have been on the rise in recent years. The targets all seem to have one thing in common: their politics.

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A new study has found a critical challenge in mental health treatment: 48 percent of depression patients do not respond to multiple antidepressant medications.

This phenomenon, known as treatment-resistant depression (TRD), is generally defined as depression that remains after a patient has tried two different types of antidepressant medication. Currently, there are limited guidelines available for managing TRD.

Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the study sheds light on a condition that leaves patients increasingly vulnerable.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz has been confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The Senate approved the former attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University in a 53–45 party-line vote. 

Oz, best known as the celebrity host of a long-running syndicated television program featuring health-related topics, was nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the agency, which administers health coverage payments for more than 160 million people and spends one in five taxpayer dollars through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.

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President Donald Trump on April 2 unveiled sweeping global tariffs aimed at reviving American manufacturing and countering what he describes as decades of unfair trade practices at the expense of the United States.

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Just 72 days after taking office, President Donald Trump announced on April 2 sweeping trade policy changes, introducing what he called “reciprocal tariffs” for all countries and declaring it “Liberation Day in America.”

For decades, the United States has kept low trade barriers, promoting free trade agreements with minimal or zero tariffs—at least on its part. Those days are now over.

Here are seven takeaways from Wednesday’s announcement.

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President Donald Trump is set to announce reciprocal tariffs for all nations starting April 2, the date he has dubbed “Liberation Day.”

Companies, markets, and governments are on edge, expecting the move to send shockwaves across the globe.

Liberation Day will impact all countries, Trump told reporters over the weekend aboard Air Force One. However, some countries will be more vulnerable due to their high trade imbalances with the United States and significant trade barriers against American goods, including China, India, the European Union, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Japan, and South Korea.

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New research from the American Heart Association reveals that young adults between 18 and 25 are experiencing heart-related risks at unprecedented rates, specifically because of factors like rising obesity, increased tobacco use, and sedentary lifestyles.

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We're in times of war, and war is a time when nations reflect. We think about the implications of our choices and the opportunity costs that could mean lives saved or lost at the front line. 

This is especially true when talking about disruptive military technologies. 

Joining us today to discuss the high-tech race between the United States and China is Dr. Arthur Herman, Senior Fellow at the Hudson's Institute and Director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative.

We will also talk about his book "Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II" and how it applies to what some would call "Cold War 2.0" fast-forward 80 years to today.

Talking about opportunism, what one would call a disaster in Ukraine presents opportunities that some regimes worldwide would want to leverage, particularly those with predatory schemes.

Yet, perhaps the same can be said for Western powers, and one opportunity in the world of money may be presenting itself.

In our story today, we talk about an unprecedented moment in the world of finances, the consequences of which have a great deal of significance on the Chinese Communist Party’s ambitions to dominate the global financial market.

Today, Dr. Christopher Balding, economist and former Professor at the Peking University HSBC Business School, joins us on “Forbidden News.”

While carefully studying the Ukraine War, how will the Chinese Communist Party military optimize its attack against Taiwan? And what should America do to help equip this front-line nation to defend against the biggest threat to America’s existence?

In this second part of our two-part interview, Colonel Grant Newsham and I talk about what the United States and its allies should do to break Taiwan out of isolation and how Taiwan can better defend against the prospective attack from the Chinese Communist Party.

Newsham is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy (centerforsecuritypolicy.org), Director at One Korea Network (onekoreanetwork.com), and the Yorktown Institute (yorktowninstitute.org).