Live Updates: RFK Jr. releases report on children’s health

  6m ago Kennedy says administration will study potential “connection between overmedicating our kids” and gun violence The report didn’t cover violence and specifically gun violence, in children’s health and safety, as one reporter noted.  Kennedy said the firearms question is a “complex question,” and the Trump administration is concerned with the “violence,” not the

DOJ charges man accused in deadly stabbing of Ukrainian refugee

Washington — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a federal criminal charge against the man accused of the deadly stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month.  The Justice Department announced that the suspect in the attack, Decarlos Brown Jr., is charged with one count of committing an act causing death

Missouri legislature advances new congressional maps amid Trump redistricting push

Missouri Republicans on Tuesday advanced a proposed congressional map, part of a mid-decade redistricting push started by President Trump to hold onto – and possibly expand — the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the U.S. House.   The proposed maps aim to make Missouri’s congressional delegation seven Republicans and one Democrat, a change from its current delegation

New Report Card Data Confirms We Can, And Must, Do Better on Education

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress — a nationwide test administered in 2024 — underscores what President Donald J. Trump has been saying all along: on education, we can, and must, be better. These results released today from the 2024 assessments were devastating: Just 31% of eighth grade students are proficient in science. Just