Month: May 2025
May 27, 2025
Health Care
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma. The health secretary said...
May 27, 2025
Politics
Trump admin pauses all student visas, considers vetting new applicants’ social media
Both the State Department and Department of Homeland Security have moved to strip thousands of visas from foreign students. Both the State Department and Department of Homeland Security have moved to strip thousands of visas from foreign...
May 27, 2025
Politics
Zohran Mamdani makes massive gains in NYC mayoral race — but still can’t topple Cuomo’s lead: poll
The survey, released Tuesday by Mamdani's camp, has the DSA assemblyman coming in with 27% of the vote in the first round of rank-choice voting, with the next candidate...
May 27, 2025
Politics
US will maintain control of key US Steel decisions even with Nippon takeover: senator
“It’ll be a US CEO, a US majority board," said Republican Sen. David McCormick. “It’ll be a US CEO, a US majority board," said Republican Sen. David McCormick.
May 27, 2025
Health Care
The CDC is no longer recommending Covid vaccines for healthy children, pregnant women
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the decision without waiting for an agency advisory panel to vote. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the decision without waiting...
May 27, 2025
Politics
Rahm Emanuel says ‘toxic’ Democratic Party needs rebrand as he appears to tease 2028 presidential bid
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be teasing a 2028 presidential run, urging reforms to a Democratic Party he described as "weak and woke" in a recent interview....
May 27, 2025
Politics
King Charles warns Canada is facing ‘unprecedented’ challenges in apparent rebuke of Trump’s annexation threats
"We must face reality: Since the Second World War, our world has never been more dangerous and unstable. Canada is facing challenges that, in our lifetimes, are unprecedented." "We...
May 27, 2025
Politics
NYC ‘Train Daddy’ Andy Byford joins Amtrak board to oversee Penn Station revamp
Byford resigned from his Big Apple role in February 2020 after butting heads with then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- now the favorite to become the city's next mayor....
May 27, 2025
Politics
Trump’s Ukraine envoy explains what needs to happen for ‘strength’ bloodshed to end as brutal Russian war rages
"I call it industrial-strength killing, when you've got casualties on both sides that are over 1 million and right now, conservatively, about 1.2 million,'' said the US special envoy...
May 27, 2025
Education
South Florida spellers compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
Two South Florida students have advanced to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 13-year-old Nikhil Sha is from Miami, representing Miami Palmetto Middle School and 12-year-old Hadi Abbasi is from...