A deal between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is teetering over steep demands from Tehran for the United States and vice versa. Iran on Sunday said the agreement to set up new shipping lanes was in its final stages, but repeated that the vital waterway would only reopen once Washington met...
President Trump said Monday he has not spoken to Attorney General Todd Blanche nor Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., regarding prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci. “I have not spoken to them about that, no,” Trump told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott in the Oval Office. Last Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental...
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. "As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today's executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release. ...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines The Trump administration appeared to be backing away from making moves on changing vaccine policy in recent months, perhaps wary of political backlash ahead of the midterm elections. But it all came roaring...
A U.S. Appeals Court on Monday declined to drop the thousands of online safety lawsuits against social media firms, ruling Meta and TikTok appealed the cases too early. In an opinion issued Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined the technology liability shield — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — cannot...
President Trump signed an executive order Monday advancing "Make America Healthy Again" vaccine priorities, issuing recommendations to split up combined vaccines and to reduce the number of childhood immunizations. "Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR,...
Democrat Roy Cooper has a healthy lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the North Carolina Senate race, according to a new poll. Half of the 915 respondents to the Carolina Forward survey, conducted by left-leaning Change Research, backed Cooper with less than three months before the general election. That gave the former two-term North Carolina...
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted Rep. Max Miller’s (R-Ohio) seat from “Likely Republican” to “Toss Up” on Monday, underscoring the growing political fallout from allegations of domestic violence against the incumbent. Miller has faced mounting scrutiny in recent weeks over allegations from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, that he hurled hot water at her, pointed...