Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and his department have made a series of misleading statements that alarmed vaccine experts and advocates in recent days " including that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine includes "aborted fetus debris". Health department officials released statements saying they could alter vaccine testing and build new "surveillance systems" on Wednesday, both of which have unnerved experts who view new placebo testing as potentially unethical. Prior to being confirmed to the role of health secretary, Kennedy was arguably the nation's most prominent anti-vaccine advocate and led a non-profit known for prolific misinformation. He also earned money by referring clients to law firms suing vaccine makers.
President Donald Trump held a rare televised Cabinet meeting on Wednesday to commemorate the achievements of his first 100 days in office, which include gutting large parts of the federal government, starting an economically damaging trade war, and wrongfully deporting innocent people to El Salvador. "We have a lot of things going," Trump said, accurately enough. Trump's Cabinet members, including Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, spoke in glowing, sycophantic terms about their boss. But Attorney General Pam Bondi took it a step further, claiming that Trump had actually saved the lives of around two out of every three Americans. Bondi cited recent fentanyl seizures as the reason for this supposedly momentous accomplishment.
Indiana's Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith is under fire from historians and other officials after making controversial remarks about the Three-Fifths Compromise. That compromise was reached during the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and it determined that three of every five enslaved persons in the U.S. would be counted toward a state's Congressional representation. Beckwith posted a video on social media defending the compromise, claiming it helped "eradicate slavery" and was "a great move by the North." "This was a great move by the North to make sure that slavery would be eradicated in our nation," Beckwith said in the video. "It actually limited the number of pro-slave representatives in Congress by 40%" .
"Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war," Punchbowl News reports. "So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product." read more
President Donald Trump has pardoned a former Las Vegas City Council member and one-time Nevada gubernatorial candidate who was found guilty of fraud last year, the latest example of the president using his pardon power to reward allies. read more
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