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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before a Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing at the U.S. Capitol on, May 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP ...
Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said the state’s health department will end "every single" school vaccine mandate, which includes many routine children’s immunizations. Ladapo, who has a ...
The president is not dead. Trump spoke live at the White House on Sept. 2. Even as rumors of his death went viral, he had been photographed by news outlets and his Truth Social posts racked up ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem touted the results of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, saying more than 1 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally chose to leave the country.
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And although Trump’s Labor Day weekend was low-key — he golfed and met with his grandchildren — his official schedule wasn’t suspended. To the contrary, it detailed his meetings and golfing outings.
The adult screwworm is actually a fly, but it’s most dangerous in its larval stage. Flies lay their eggs in the fresh wounds or orifices of warm-blooded animals — it mostly affects livestock but can ...
Sen. Chris Murphy says mass shootings decreased as a result of a 2022 law. Is that true? Then-President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law in June 2022. The law, aimed at ...
The Trump administration again detained Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen and Maryland resident whose wrongful deportation case gained national attention at the beginning of the ...
Such false emergency calls are known as "swatting," or calling in a large law enforcement response to a non-existent crisis. On the same day, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was also ...
"The Obama administration did not change the census question related to citizenship," said Terri Lowenthal, a former congressional staffer and census expert. Instead, the question was included in the ...