Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya will serve as interim director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the reported exit of Jim O’Neill, a Trump administration official confirmed Wednesday. It was reported last week that O’Neill, who also served as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and...
U2 is releasing a musical tribute to Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis, saying that "the power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power." The song, "American Obituary," is part of a six-track EP, "U2 Days of Ash," released Wednesday by...
An impending lawsuit led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) will challenge the Trump administration's changes to the federal childhood vaccine recommendations, Reuters first reported Tuesday. Bonta told the outlet that his team is "mobilized" to file the suit, which aims to overturn the decisions made by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has backtracked its initial decision last week of refusing to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine candidate after holding a high-priority meeting with the company. Last week, the FDA said it refused to file Moderna's application over regulatory issues. The company maintained that the refusal had nothing to do with...
A Democratic-aligned Colorado group is launching an effort to redistrict in the Centennial State after 2026 as the redistricting wars show no signs of letting up. Coloradans for a Level Playing Field filed four different versions for a ballot initiative on Tuesday, which would all largely ask voters to temporarily pass a new House map for the 2028 and 2030 elections, allowing them...
Democratic voters are expressing a less positive view of their party ahead of the midterm elections, according to recent polling data. In a new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about 7 in 10 Democratic voters said they have a positive view of the Democratic Party. These numbers are only slightly...
It’s a rich irony that after decades warning about how Democrats would corrupt our country with state-sponsored atheism and moral relativism, Republicans can now lay claim to perhaps the most godless and amoral administration in American history.
Santita Jackson, the daughter of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, on Tuesday remembered her father as a courageous man who would "put his life on the line" for the causes he fought for and believed in. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday after battling the neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). He was 84. His daughter...
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday said President Trump should have set a departure date for Iran's supreme leader a “long time ago” as indirect talks between the Washington and Tehran are set to continue. “I think he should have done that a long time ago and indeed I think the U.S. has...
"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday dismissed CBS's denial that it blocked his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) from airing as “crap.” “They know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS lawyers, who, for the record, approve every script that goes on the air,”...
