Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, has come to the defense of the former president's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, following backlash over comments he made about childless Democrats, The Hill reported Thursday.

In 2021, Vance questioned Vice President Kamala Harris' fitness for office as someone who doesn't have biological children.

In a post Thursday on X, Leavitt wrote that Vance's comments are "being taken out of context and unfairly attacked."

CLAIM: During his Thursday night presser, President Joe Biden claimed that “more children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death.”

VERDICT: False, This is a regurgitation of an ongoing, false, leftist claim that guns are the number-one killer of children. Via fact checks, Breitbart News has shown again and again that in making this claim, the left counts people of voting age — ages 18 and 19 — as children.

Biden first made this claim on June 2, 2022, when he said, “Guns are the number one killer of children.”

At least 35 people were killed across Ukraine on Monday, as Russia launched a barrage of more than 40 missiles in a "massive" attack, Ukrainian officials said.

At least five cities fell under attack including the capital of Kyiv. Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv -- one of the most well-respected children's hospitals in the country -- was damaged, along with residential areas and other infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media.

A massive Russian missile attack across Ukraine on Monday has left at least 31 dead and more than 150 injured, officials say, with one projectile slamming into a children’s hospital in Kyiv. 

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now vowing to "hold Russia accountable for its acts of terror and Putin for ordering the strikes." 

In a series of messages posted on X, Zelenskyy said more than 40 types of missiles struck the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Slovyansk, and Kramatorsk, damaging apartment buildings and infrastructure as well. 

Nurse Olesia Filonenko was preparing for the first operation of the day at the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv when she heard explosions "somewhere far away."

"Then, in a second, everything was blown away," she told the Kyiv Independent.

"Dust, smoke. We were all blown out of the operating rooms and into the corridors."

Russian forces had just launched a massive missile strike on cities across Ukraine, with Kyiv coming under particularly heavy attack.

In 2021, when the new Biden administration was struggling to cope with a sudden influx of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, the government repeatedly overrode the concerns of lower-level workers who warned about placing them in certain households, documents and interviews show. 

The pandemic’s babies, toddlers and preschoolers are now school-age, and the impact on them is becoming increasingly clear: Many are showing signs of being academically and developmentally behind.

Interviews with more than two dozen teachers, pediatricians and early childhood experts depicted a generation less likely to have age-appropriate skills — to be able to hold a pencil, communicate their needs, identify shapes and letters, manage their emotions or solve problems with peers.

In a landmark announcement, the U.S. Surgeon General declared firearm violence a public health crisis in the U.S. on Tuesday.

Dr. Vivek Murthy warned in the advisory that gun violence poses a “serious threat to the health and well-being of our country,” that has not just a serious physical toll, but mental as well.

It marks the first time the government's leading public health body has honed in on guns.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared firearm violence a public health crisis, as gun deaths and injuries punctuate daily life in America.

On nearly every day of 2024 so far, a burst of gunfire has hit at least four people somewhere in the country. Some days, communities have endured four or five such shootings.

The United States surgeon general is declaring gun violence a national public health crisis. 

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on Tuesday stating that firearm-related violence and its immediate psychological ramifications on victims and bystanders has severely compromised public health.

"Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General's Advisory on firearm violence," Murthy said in a video announcement. "It outlines the urgent threat firearm violence poses to the health and well-being of our country."