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Sen. Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulDemocrats look for offramp from masking in public House passes bill making lynching a federal hate crime This week: Congress returns to Ukraine crisis, Supreme Court fight MORE (R-Ky.) says he is canceling his subscription toDirecTV after the company announced plans to drop pro-Trump conservative cable channel One America News (OAN) from its listings.

"Why give money to people who hate us?" Paul said in a tweet sent on Monday.

DirecTV on Friday made public its plans to not renew its contract with OAN,saying it had made thedecision following "a routine internal review."

Other Trump-loyal Republican lawmakers and conservative activists slammedDirecTV's decision over the weekend, claiming the move is evidence of alarger effort by powerful media companies to censor or sideline conservative viewpoints.

"The Lefts purge continues: -YouTube demonetizes Dan Bongino. -DirectTV drops One America News. -Twitter suspends Dr. Malone. Whos next?" Rep. Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGOP blocks House bill to ban race-based hair discrimination Lou Dobbs says he would be excited for Jim Jordan as House speaker, calls McCarthy a 'RINO' The real reason Jim Jordan is ranting against Jan. 6 committee staff MORE (R-Ohio) said in a tweet of his own.

"Pretty convenient that this comes within a week after Biden begged companies to silence 'misinformation', meaning his opposition," commented Rep. Lauren BoebertLauren BoebertPelosi says Boebert and Greene 'should just shut up' House passes bill to expand health benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits The Memo: Boebert's antics seen as new sign of politics' decline MORE (R-Col.).

OAN is one of several conservative media entities that have been sued in recent months for allegedly broadcasting false or defamatory claims about the 2020 presidential election results.

An investigative report fromReuters in October foundnearly all of OAN's revenue came from a single contract with telecom giant AT&T, which owns and operatesDirecTV.

Verizon Fios and smaller carriers have maintained OAN, and it is available to stream online through KloudTV, The Hill previously reported.

AT&T had faced increasing pressure tosever its ties to OAN following the recent lawsuits and other controversial content being broadcast on its airwaves.

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After YouTube suspended Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for violating its policies against coronavirus misinformation,some social media users claimed Paul would suffer more permanent consequences for his comments.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul just lost his license to practice medicine," reads text in an Aug. 11 Instagram post, one of several in this vein. "The American Medical Association (AMA) revoked the ophthalmologist's ability due to 'ethical concerns'and Pauls 'blatant disregard for the Hippocratic Oath.'"

Paulposted a video in which he claimed cloth masks weren't effective at slowing the spread of COVID-19.Research suggests they are, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends them for community use.

Some commenters on Instagram celebrated the decision to revoke Paul's license.

But there was no such decision.

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Thequote in the postswas takenfrom a satire website.Paul is still licensed to practice ophthalmology in his home state of Kentucky.

USA TODAY reached out to several social media users who shared the posts.

The origin of the social media claims is astory on a satire website.

Andrew Hall's satire blog Laughing with Disbelief published the article Aug. 10. The made-up article says the AMA revoked Paul's license because "Senator Rand Paul has chosen politics over science-based medicine" with his opposition to mask mandates.

The Instagram posts are an example of "stolen satire," where storieswritten as satire are reposted in a way that makes them appear to be legitimate claims.As a result, some social media users are misled.

Dale McGowan, managing editor of Patheos a religious news outlet that hosts Laughing with Disbelief told USA TODAY in an email the article was clearly labeled as satire.

"Like all of (Hall's)pieces, it links to a page called 'Is This Satire?' that further confirms that it is satire," McGowan said. "Like The Onion and Babylon Bee, it is not uncommon for Laughing in Disbelief satires to be misconstrued as news or stripped of those clarifying elements."

The posts say Pauls medical license was revoked by the AMA, but thats not the case.

The AMA cant revoke licenses because it doesnt issue them in the first place.

The AMA explains on its website that physicians must be licensed ineach state where they practice.They obtain that license from a state's official medical licensing board, not a private entity like the AMA.

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Pauls medical license is active.

Records from the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensureshow Paul is authorized to practice ophthalmology in Kentuckyand has been licensed since 1993.

The claim that Paul's medical license was revoked is FALSE, based on our research. The claim originated on Laughing in Disbelief,a satire website, but it was later shared in a way that presented it as fact. Public records showPaul has an active license to practice ophthalmology in Kentucky.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., weighed in on the White House's request to Congress for $10 billion in aid to Ukraine, saying he's not opposed to selling weapons to Ukraine, but the U.S. should be careful about giving weapons away and expanding on national debt, which would threaten national security.

On Thursday, the Biden administration requested at least $10 billion in new money to provide aid to Ukraine amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against the nation, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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Paul responded to the White House's ask, saying he's "not opposed" to selling weapons to assist Ukraine, but he's "opposed" to giving away weapons and expanding upon the United States' trillions of dollars in debt, which would "threaten our own national security."

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Im not opposed to selling defensive weapons to Ukraine. I am opposed to giving away weapons or money to buy weapons as I believe that we should not expand our $30 trillion debt that threatens our own national security," Paul told Fox News Digital.

The Biden administration's request comes as Ukraine faces increasingly heavy bombings and missile attacks from Russia. Meanwhile, Russian warships are headed toward Odesa for what U.S. officials anticipate will be an amphibious assault beginning as soon as Thursday.

"As part of the agreement lawmakers are working to finalize ahead of the March 11thdeadline, were also urging Congress toinclude supplemental fundingfor two urgent and immediate needs: supporting Ukraine, and continuing our ongoing COVID response efforts," OMB Acting Director Shalanda Young said Thursday.

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OMB also asked Congress for $22.5 billion in coronavirus-related aid. That money will go toward treatments, vaccines and virus tests.

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Fox News' Tyler Olsen contributed to this report.

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Tonight, you heard a speech by someone who doesnt know whats going on in the union, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday night. Or at least he is hoping you dont know.

President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union address Tuesday, but it was Paul who provided the real State of the Union. Whereas Biden spent much of the night vilifying Russian President Vladimir Putin and the crisis in Ukraine, it was Paul who put the focus back on the plight of the American people. When Biden did get around to addressing the United States, he described an alternate reality, ignoring the harsh conditions that have inundated the country during his presidency.

Whats the state of the union? Russias invasion of Ukraine has led to the worst crisis in Europe since World War II. Massive inflation is everywhere, the likes of which we havent seen since the malaise of Jimmy Carter, Paul said. Parents are frustrated from almost two years of bureaucrats messing with their kids schooling. Everyday Americans seeing their freedom, jobs, and livelihoods stolen from them by petty tyrants drunk on power with lockdowns and mandates.

Paul eviscerated Biden for all of his policy failures from his first year in office. The state of the union is frankly pretty poor, and Americans are largely unhappy with Bidens performance, Paul said emphatically.

Statistics show that he is right. Biden is polling at horrifically low levels. Inflation is decimating households, approaching the highest levels ever recorded. Then, Paul highlighted concerns over our countrys soaring national debt. Paul also addressed supply chain shortages and skyrocketing food prices that have left peoples bank accounts and refrigerators emptier than in recent years. The nirvana that Biden presented in his speech isnt based in any reality.

Of course, thats if you can even get the food. Supply chain issues from our COVID policies have continued to bring empty shelves and late deliveries of just about every item in our economy, Paul said. From meat to used cars, from raw materials to boatloads of goods, the delays are ongoing.

Paul has been a crusader against overturning the countrys mask mandates. Frequently, he has claimed they were nothing more than tyrannical theatrics a claim that has new currency now that mask mandates were suddenly dropped in the Capitol just in time for Bidens State of the Union. Suffice to say, that is quite the coincidence.

Furthermore, whereas Biden kept fibbing about his utopia, Paul addressed the reality of COVID-19 restrictions put into effect by Democrats throughout the country. Our two years of lockdowns, ballooning national debt, and out-of-control inflation threaten our national security, Paul said. Congress added trillions of dollars in new debt to pay people to stay home from the lockdowns that Congress mandated.

Paul also tackled the social justice topics of the moment.

Parents are being told theyre not in charge of their kids education, then watching as critical race theory and extreme gender issues are brought into their small childrens classrooms thats if their kids are even meeting in person in a classroom at all, he said.

Biden and his followers want you to believe theyre following the science, but it looks more like political science to many of us," he continued. "There have been many casualties of the Biden policies so far: science, freedom, prosperity, strength in the world."

But it wasnt just Biden whom Paul criticized. He appropriately went after the presidents enablers in Congress.

Democrats in Congress who clapped and cheered tonight bear much of the blame as well, he said. They passed the spending bills and enabled the appointees who have made this mess.

Most importantly, unlike the false realities created in Bidens speech, Paul was able to end on an optimistic path and provide guidance on how the country can recover from Bidens first year in office.

Thankfully, one thing I can say without flinching about Americans is that the state of our union can and will bounce back, he said. We can get our spending under control. We can retake our freedom. We can stop the left from taking over our schools, and we can fix our foreign policy again. ... It starts now. Parents are fighting back. People are listening to other voices with real science on their side. And men and women are running for office to take back Congress. Next year, I am hopeful the message will be better, our outlook brighter. For now, keep fighting and hoping, and our best days can and will be in our future.

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