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A Florida congressional candidate has obtained a stalking injunction against one of her likely opponents in the race, claiming he conspired with two other potential candidates to kill her.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Anna Paulina Luna, who is running in the Republican primary for the seat being vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D) as he seeks the governor's mansion, obtained a temporary injunction against William Braddock, who has previously stated his plans on running against her.

"I received information yesterday (at midnight) regarding a plan (with a timeline) to murder me made by William Braddock in an effort to prevent me from winning the election for FL-13," Luna wrote in her petition for an injunction.

"I feel and fear that this is an orchestrated attempt on my life being organized and carried out by William Braddock and he claims he is working together with Ms. Makki and Mr. Tito," she added.

"Ms. Luna has no comment at this time due to multiple ongoing law enforcement investigations of this matter," a spokesperson for Luna told the Times. "Those investigations are based upon Mr. Braddock's own threats and actions, and we are confident the facts will be public at the appropriate time."

The Hill has reached out to Luna's campaign for further comment.

A hearing to extend the injunction has been set for June 22, the Times reports.

In the injunction that was served to Braddock on Friday, Luna also singled out Matt Tito and Amanda Makki, who she referred to as her "political opponents."

As the Times reports, Tito called on Luna to suspend her campaign, saying she is unfit for office.

"I'm shocked but it's kind of like this is what she does," Tito said. "She can't debate you on the policy issues. She plays the victim better than anybody I've ever seen."

Braddock told the Times that he has only met Luna in-person once and does not even have her phone number. According to Braddock, he shook Luna's husband's hand at an event, thanking him for his service in the military and informed Luna that he would be running against her.

"This woman is off her rocker and she does not need to be representing anyone," Braddock told the newspaper.

The injection bars Braddock from going to a coffee shop popular with conservative groups or attending any events where Luna will be speaking.

Luna, who is running to unseat Democratic Florida Rep. Charlie Crist, has previously been endorsed by both former President Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla).

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China Says U.S. Is 'Very Sick' After Joe Biden Rallies G7 and NATO

China has dismissed the United States as "very sick" and needing "medication" after President Joe Biden rallied allies at the G7 and NATO summits this week and officially elevated Beijing in the West's security calculus.

"Gone are the days when one country or a group of countries dictated the world," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a daily press briefing on Tuesday.

Zhao accused the G7 of "distorting facts" after the three-day summit in England concluded on Sunday with a communique that rapped China multiple times for its policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, as well as for its trade practices and technological standards.

The document also made a historic mention of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, a topic of immensely high sensitivity to the Chinese leadership.

The communique seeks to "wantonly smear China and blatantly interfere in its internal affairs," said Zhao, who expressed Beijing's "firm opposition" to the joint statement by "a handful of countries."

"The United States is sick, very sick," Zhao said in China's harshest criticism of the Biden administration to date. "The Group of Seven should take America's pulse and prescribe medication."

Zhao's remarks about a "sick" Washington were cut from the English-language readout released by CGTN, the international arm of China's state broadcaster CCTV.

His words echoed those in a fiery response published by the Chinese Embassy in London on Monday. A spokesperson for the office chided the G7's attempt to build an anti-China "clique," which it said was "intentionally sowing confrontation and division."

The Chinese government also dismissed Biden's summit with NATO leaders, of which the communique on Monday included 10 mentions of China—described as presenting "systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to Alliance security."

Biden's declaration of U.S. commitment to NATO resulted in firm statements aimed at Russia, while leaders also raised concerns about China's "coercive policies," its growing nuclear arsenal and the "opaque" nature of its military modernization ambitions.

"We see coercive behavior, for instance in the South China Sea, and we also know that China does not share our values," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Brussels. "We need to respond together as an alliance," he added.

On Tuesday, the Chinese Mission to the European Union accused NATO of "Cold War mentality" and playing "bloc politics."

"We will follow very closely NATO's strategic adjustment and its policy adjustment towards China," said a statement on its website. "China will not present 'systemic challenges' to anyone, but we will not sit by and do nothing if 'systemic challenges' come closer to us."

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COVID-19 cases are falling in places where most people are vaccinated, The Washington Post found.

The opposite is true in many Western and Southern states where vaccination rates are lower.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 43.7% of the US population is fully vaccinated.

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Coronavirus cases in the US are largely rising in areas that have lower vaccination rates, a Washington Post analysis found.

Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Post produced a quadrant graph that shows the number of COVID-19 cases dropping in most states where majorities of people have been vaccinated and increasing in many areas where they haven't been:

Some 43.7% of the US population has been fully vaccinated - meaning they have received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot or both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine - and 52.5% has received at least one dose, the CDC said.

Vaccination rates are lower in many Southern and Western states, the data shows.

Experts told The Post they were concerned about what would happen in these areas as people mingled. All US states have loosened or removed their coronavirus restrictions over the past few weeks.

The total number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the US is expected to pass 600,000 this week.

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