Politics

The Food and Drug Administration abruptly canceled a critical meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), which gathers annually in March to determine what flu strains will be covered by next year’s vaccine. The sudden cancellation of the meeting comes amid anxiety at federal health agencies …

As President Donald Trump and his administration order ICE raids across the country targeting undocumented immigrants, Trump unveiled his plans to offer a shiny new “gold card” with a price tag of $5 million to “very high-level people,” among them “Russian oligarchs.” When speaking to reporters in the Oval Office …

Tens of thousands dead, even more injured, millions displaced, and countless others still unaccounted for. Gaza remains the site of widespread devastation as international negotiators attempt to extend a fragile ceasefire, but that isn’t stopping President Donald Trump from posting grotesque, greedy fantasies about turning the Palestinian region into one …

Last week, the Trump administration gutted one of the nation’s bedrock public health, environmental, and climate protection laws — the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA has long been a target of polluting industries, particularly the fossil fuel industry. It requires federal agencies considering approval of expansions or new operations to …

Since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) swept into Washington last month, an anonymous X account called DataRepublican has taken the government demolition crew’s supporters by storm. The account, and its alleged findings of mismanaged government agency spending, has been shared by Musk often, as well as Utah …

In one of the opening scenes of the award-winning movie There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis’ protagonist, Daniel Plainview, stands with his adopted son, little H.W., atop his shoulders, giving the movie’s famous “I’m an oil man” speech. Plainview uses H.W. as a prop to soften his image, describing himself …

The first meeting of President Donald Trump‘s second-term Cabinet on Wednesday offered ill omens for the health of Americans as well as populations abroad. Although neither appointed to a Cabinet position nor confirmed by the Senate, omnipotent adviser Elon Musk turned up for the occasion in his now-familiar “Tech Support” …

In Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the severity of a measles outbreak in South Texas that has already caused the first death attributed to the deadly virus in the U.S. since 2015. During Tuesday’s meeting, Kennedy was asked to …

The Federal Housing Finance Authority oversees roughly $7.7 trillion — with a T — in mortgage loans belonging to homeowners across the county. It’s in charge of regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government entities that form the backbone of the U.S. mortgage market — entities that have been …

Ed Martin — the D.C. federal attorney who recently referred to himself as “President Trump’s lawyer” — may be expanding his partisan services to other embattled Republicans. Martin declined to sign off on an arrest warrant against MAGA Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who last week was accused of physically assaulting …