Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
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RFK Jr. suggested measles deaths were fabricated while cases hit a 35-year high
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the secretary of Health and Human Services. When Pennsylvania reported two measles-associated deaths, he used that office to suggest the deaths "may even have been altogether…
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Congress knows Social Security is about to cut millions of Americans' checks by 20 percent
Seventy million Americans receive Social Security checks every month. According to the Social Security Administration's own trustees, the fund that pays those checks runs dry in late 2032. When that…
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Missouri Republicans are using an anti-trans ban to sell abortion repeal
Missouri voters approved a constitutional right to reproductive freedom in 2024. Republican officials want a different answer. They put a new Amendment 3 on this November's ballot that would erase…
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The federal data purge makes Trump's damage harder to prove
Power loves a problem it can stop measuring. An overdose surge is easier to miss after the emergency room survey ends. Violence against transgender people gets harder to prove when they vanish from a…
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Brendan Carr turned broadcast licenses into loyalty permits
Donald and Melania Trump demanded that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel on April 27 because he told a joke they hated. The next day, Brendan Carr's Federal Communications Commission ordered all eight stations…
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Trump's anti-trans order has no place in the 988 Lifeline
988 Lifeline administrators rejected The Trevor Project from the specialized LGBTQ+ youth crisis service the organization helped build. They offered no public explanation. The Trevor Project told The…
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The White House wants six MMR shots where two already work
A childhood MMR schedule that uses two injections and is 97 percent effective against measles is apparently too simple for Donald Trump. His new executive order tells Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s…
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Trump Put Postal Workers Between Voters and Their Ballots
Donald Trump wanted postal workers to become gatekeepers for the ballot. His executive order directed the United States Postal Service to help build a national system for deciding which voters could…
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HHS calls fewer teachers and shorter days Head Start savings
The Trump administration says it found about $2.2 billion in annual savings inside Head Start. Its own Aug. 7 proposed rule models where the money would come from: fewer teachers, shorter preschool…
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A $4 billion subsidy for killing offshore wind
The Trump administration has built a nearly $4 billion subsidy for producing less energy.