To assist him in his quest to determine the cause —or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have access to a so-called “disease registry” of autistic people, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya announced …
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Since March 5, Ash Wednesday, Black congregations around the nation have stopped patronizing Target for Lent. The 40-day fast, led by Dr. Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, was in response to Target’s compliance with President Donald Trump’s orders to get rid of diversity, equity, …
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In 2020, Dan’s wife lost a pregnancy. When Dan, a 41-year-old from Minnesota, told his parents about the loss, his mother said that the Covid vaccine was responsible for the miscarriage (though multiple studies found that it did not increase risk). In the months leading up to that, she had …
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TikTok users have been in full panic mode in the midst of President Donald Trump’s ongoing game of chicken with tariffs and the U.S. economy. Now, the conversation has finally reached a boiling point over … handbags? Trump’s tariffs mean an astronomical consumer burden on everything from wedding dresses to …
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As Donald Trump makes headlines by threatening to send more legal U.S. residents (and even citizens) to a gulag in El Salvador, his crypto fortune continues to grow. And his family is doing business with some decidedly suspect investors who may see unlimited upside in cozying up to the man …
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that takes aim at ticket scalpers and “rent-seeking behaviors surrounding the ticketing industry.” The order denounced scalpers for using “bots and other unfair means to acquire large quantities of face-value tickets” and reselling them at “an enormous markup on the secondary market, …
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On Jan. 29, 2025, the Ministry of Health of Uganda officially declared an Ebola outbreak in Kampala, with 10 confirmed cases reported as of March. This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda since 2000. The hemorrhagic virus is highly infectious and fatal, prompting public health officials to seek containment. …
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President Donald Trump perpetuated and expanded on a lie he told during his joint address to Congress where he claimed the Biden administration spent millions of dollars on scientific research to make mice transgender. Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that aired today said that the head …
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Even among the many lies and distortions in President Donald Trump‘s never-ending address to Congress on Tuesday evening, one claim stood out. The chief executive of the United States told the country that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had uncovered an outrageous expenditure authorized by the previous administration: …
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President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through government agencies, instituting mass firings and structurally destabilizing teams in the Federal Aviation Association, the Forest Service, and the Department of Veteran Affairs, among others. Musk’s latest attempt to gut the federal workforce through the so-called Department of …
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