Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said the project will take longer than Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. initially indicated. The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on April 22 that the new project to identify the causes of autism will likely involve patient records and outside researchers. “We’d like to … get access
It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China’s global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets. While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial
Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison was not aware of a federal investigation into the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme when he took a friendly meeting with its perpetrators in December 2021, he said in a Star Tribune op-ed. His defense flatly contradicts a statement his office released months after the meeting crediting him with
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) humiliated herself on Sunday when asked if she regretted her repeated praise of former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness, which continued until the moment he dropped out of the race. “I said what I believed to be true,” Warren said during an interview with liberal podcaster Sam Fragoso. “Look, he
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the government likely violated the law in its rush to dismantle federally-affiliated media groups. A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to reverse its efforts to shut down Voice of America (VOA) and restore the decades-old federal news service. In an opinion delivered on April
The vice president said he believes there is much more the two nations could accomplish together. Vice President JD Vance called for stronger relations between the United States and India in the areas of defense and energy on Tuesday, as the two nations work to advance trade negotiations. Vance, on a four-day trip to India
Barr is running against former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron for McConnell’s Senate seat, which the senator has held for over 40 years. WASHINGTON—Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) on April 22 announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate election in Kentucky in 2026, for the seat currently held by senior Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the former