Inside the FDA’s vaccine uproar

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 New England Journal of Medicine. They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Dr.

Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president

During her opening remarks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, Erika Kirk,  CEO of the influential conservative organization, endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028. “We are going to get my husband’s friend, JD Vance, elected 48 in the most resounding way possible,” the widow of Charlie Kirk, the slain co-founder of Turning

Noem says Brown suspect got U.S. visa through diversity lottery, pauses program

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced late Thursday that the Trump administration will pause the diversity visa lottery program, which she said was used eight years ago by the now-deceased man accused of killing two Brown University students and an MIT professor. “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem

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U.S. strikes 2 more alleged drug boats, bringing total death count to over 100

The U.S. military says it struck two more alleged drug-carrying boats on Thursday, bringing the total death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong campaign to upwards of 100. The latest two boats were traveling in the Eastern Pacific along “known narco-trafficking routes,” U.S. Southern Command announced in a post on X. The military said the

Milwaukee judge found guilty of obstruction after allegedly helping migrant evade arrest

A jury convicted a Milwaukee judge on one count of felony obstruction Thursday, the Associated Press reported, after she was accused of helping a man who was in the U.S. illegally evade federal immigration authorities during a law enforcement operation at her courthouse. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was acquitted on a count of

Trump administration pauses immigration cases for people from another 20 countries

The U.S. government has expanded a sweeping pause on legal immigration applications to include those filed by people from an additional 20 countries that President Trump added to his “travel ban” proclamation this week, a U.S. official with direct knowledge told CBS News on Thursday. The move, which mainly affects immigrants who hail from certain