Former CIA director John Brennan on Wednesday commented on reported scrutiny he has faced from the Justice Department (DOJ), saying he’s “had no contact” with federal officials. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the DOJ saud that former FBI director James Comey and Brennan were facing a “criminal investigation.” “I don’t know whether or not there’s any, you know, validity to it. If there is — it was a referral,”…
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly postponed a meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force originally scheduled for Thursday, according to an email sent to people who planned to attend. “The Immediate Office of the Secretary is postponing the July USPSTF meeting. Moving forward, HHS looks forward to engaging with the Task Force to promote the health and well-being of the American people,”…
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said the relationship between President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had a “troublesome ending,” despite the close and almost fatherly relationship the two shared. In an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, Wiles was asked how she would describe the relationship and expressed that she didn’t understand what went sour. “He had a sort of fatherly fixation with Donald…
Major American brands have vowed to remove synthetic food dyes from their products, but M&M’s and Skittles, made by Mars, remain colorful holdouts. Mars has continued to use synthetic dyes in its candies after backing off a 2016 plan to remove all artificial colors from its food portfolio. The company reversed course after it found that consumer attitudes varied by country, with Europeans largely opposed to synthetic dyes, while others…
CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — While you are soaking up the summer sun, doctors say you can still get sick, including from two new COVID strains that are going around. Dr. Paul Richardson at Conway Medical Center in Conway, South Carolina, told Nexstar’s WBTW that even though the nimbus and stratus strains are now out there, he has not seen a major increase in COVID cases or hospitalizations so far this…
Elon Musk’s favorability dropped again this past week amid his renewed feud with President Trump and move to launch a separate political party. In the last week, Musk’s net favorability in the aggregate kept by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) dropped 3.4 points, falling just more than 20 points in the negative. The percentage that view the onetime Trump ally unfavorably reached its highest point of the president’s second term at…
The United States has broken its record for the highest number of measles cases in the country since the disease was eliminated in 2000, according to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s a massive public health setback that comes amid falling childhood vaccination rates and a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment fueled by lingering COVID-era distrust in public health authorities and a strengthening anti-vaccine movement. Just…
The Senate Health Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The panel voted 12-11 to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez to be the next CDC director. “The United States needs a CDC director who makes decisions rooted in science, a leader who reformed the agency and worked to restore public trust in health institutions with…
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is leaving her role at Elon Musk’s social media company after two years. “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company,” she wrote in a post on the platform. “I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI said Tuesday it was deleting posts from its chatbot, Grok, after it began producing antisemitic responses. Following a Friday update, Grok began writing posts on X — Musk’s social media platform — making broad generalizations about people with Jewish surnames and perpetuating antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish people in Hollywood. When asked by one user about the change, Grok responded, “Elon’s recent tweaks just…