Hundreds of current and former employees for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department have signed a letter blasting agency leader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his handling of a recent shooting at a CDC building in Atlanta and, they claim, his ongoing spread of vaccine misinformation. Dr. Celine Gounder has details. Original CBS News
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed into law a contentious congressional redistricting plan, as state Democrats seek to counter a Trump-backed effort to add to the GOP’s House majority by redrawing Texas’ congressional maps. The new map — which still needs to be approved by voters — would shift five of California’s Republican U.S. House seats
A longtime Democratic House lawmaker from Texas said Thursday he won’t run for another term if a Republican redistricting plan pushed by President Trump stands as law in the state. The announcement from 78-year-old Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who has served in Congress since 1995, means Texas Democrats appear to have avoided a potentially messy congressional primary between
The California Legislature on Thursday approved Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s contentious redistricting plan, sending it to Newsom’s desk for an expected signature as state Democrats sought to move quickly to counter a Trump-backed effort to add to the GOP’s House majority by redrawing Texas’ congressional maps. The new map would shift five of California’s Republican
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with the cancellation of National Institutes of Health research grants tied to issues like gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion. In a 5-4 decision, in which Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided in part with the majority, and Chief
Washington — President Trump addressed a crowd of federal law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, amid an anti-crime initiative that has swamped the capital with police and National Guard members. The president visited a U.S. Park Police facility in Southeast D.C., where he thanked federal agents and handed out hamburgers that he said
A sign of the National Institutes of Health stands near an entrance to its campus in Bethesda, Maryland, on February 10, 2025. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images The Supreme Court voted 5–4 on Aug. 21 to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants linked to