Sunday, September 6, 2026

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Wednesday night massacre at CDC: Resignations, walkout, and a showdown over...

After the removal of Director Susan Monarez, top CDC officials resign and staff walk out as RFK Jr.’s HHS faces bipartisan alarm.

Senate Democrats investigate RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine purge at CDC

Bernie Sanders and top Senate Democrats demand answers after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousts all 17 CDC vaccine experts and installs anti-vaccine activists in their place.

‘A clown show:’ RFK Jr. fires CDC panel & stacks it...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization.

Food museums uncover the culture, science, and history behind the food...

Institutions like New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink are making food literacy fun.

Harm reduction, not border cops, credited for historic drop in US...

Experts say grassroots public health efforts—not federal drug crackdowns—are driving the largest decline in overdose deaths ever recorded, despite ongoing political attacks on harm reduction.

The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for...

The agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.

Latest CDC data exposes U.S. healthcare’s fatal flaw: Profit over patients

As new CDC data lays bare, the U.S. grapples with a healthcare paradox: towering costs yet shorter lifespans. Explore how America's for-profit model is failing its people, spotlighting the urgent plea for Medicare for All.

Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it’s fine to...

The CDC reported that childhood immunization rates hit a 10-year low.

New bill terminates vaccine requirement for air travelers to US

The argument against the bill states that this could put "American health care at risk."

CDC eviction ban ended by Supreme Court: Four questions about its...

The ruling, by a divided court, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority in continuing a moratorium on evictions after Congress failed to pass new legislation.

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Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight

The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
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Federal judge blocks EPA attempt to strip California’s clean air waivers

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.
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Interfaith leaders say they were ‘misled’ into attending event with far-right Hindu leader

Mohan Bhagwat’s appearance at Madison Square Garden was the latest in an influence operation conducted by the RSS and its allies in the U.S.
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Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More...

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail ballot rule

North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.