Science

'Wild to see': CNN anchor astonished by hurricane forecast

A pair of hurricanes are churning up dangerous rip currents and huge waves along the Atlantic coast and battering Bermuda with a powerful one-two punch.

Hurricanes Imelda and Humberto are spinning in the western Atlantic Ocean this week after collapsing five unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and CNN's Derek Van Dam told viewers what to expect from the powerful storms.

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'I feel guilty': Former anti-vaxxers horrified by RFK Jr disaster

When Heather Simpson decided she wanted to become a mother, she began researching healthy lifestyle choices to increase her chances of becoming pregnant.

As she researched, she kept coming across ads for a docuseries called The Truth about Vaccines, so she and her then-husband paid $200 to access the nine-hour series.

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'Truly insane': Trump posts bizarre QAnon claim he will heal people with alien 'medbeds'

President Donald Trump posted a video apparently created by artificial intelligence promising to heal people through a QAnon conspiracy with so-called medbeds involving alien technology.

The video posted on Saturday on Truth Social begins with Lara Trump's likeness announcing that the president had unveiled "a historic new health care system, the launch of America's first medbed hospitals, and a national medbed card for every citizen."

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'We feel it is important to fact check': MSNBC pushes back on new Trump Tylenol claim

MSNBC Dr. Vin Gupta was hauled into the studio to call out President Donald Trump's tall tale about Tylenol.

In a Truth Social post Friday morning, Trump demanded in all capital letters that pregnant women "DON’T USE TYLENOL..."

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Trump launches AI program to deny Medicare services

Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.

The pilot program, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, amounts to a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires patients or someone on their medical team to seek insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. It will affect Medicare patients, and the doctors and hospitals who care for them, in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington, starting Jan. 1 and running through 2031.

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'Very dangerous': Fired CDC director spills about 'very upset' RFK when she confronted him

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. became "very upset" when the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told him that there was no science to back up his anti-vaccine claims and demands, the ex-director said.

Testifying to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, fired CDC director Susan Monarez was asked to share the conversation she had with Kennedy when he asked her to support whatever the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said they wanted.

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'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates.

"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

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RFK Jr.'s nephew demands his resignation: 'Threat to every American'

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) is demanding his uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign, saying he's endangering American lives.

In a statement he posted on X, the younger Kennedy said, "Robert Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the health and well-being of every American. A United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is tasked with protecting the public health of our country and its people. At yesterday's hearing, he chose to do the opposite: to dismiss science, mislead the public, sideline experts sow confusion."

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Trump admin and RFK Jr. buried major study on impact alcohol has on cancer: report

In an exclusive report from VOX, it was revealed that President Donald Trump's administration buried a study that detailed the impact alcohol has on cancer.

Reporter Dylan Scott noted that the alcohol industry is working to ensure "most Americans still don’t know that alcohol can cause cancer." Now, however, a major analysis has evidence that there is a "link between drinking alcohol and getting sick and dying from various causes, including cancer."

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GOP senator sounds alarm on Trump admin health moves: 'Raises considerable questions'

Most Republican lawmakers are staying relatively silent about the ongoing shakeup at the Center for Disease Control, but one decided to stand up on Saturday.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who has been a thorn in Trump's side at times but has sided with him in other instances, took to social media over the weekend to declare her concern after the director of the nation’s top public health agency was fired after less than one month in the job.

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'Children in this country are in the most dangerous position ever': Doctor issues warning

Dr. Susan Monarez was forced out of President Donald Trump’s administration after she refused to endorse purported junk science promoted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies. Several other top experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and at HHS also resigned in protest, similarly refusing to approve the allegedly false medical information.

This exodus of experts at the nation’s top public health agencies is putting U.S. children at risk for the return of once-eradicated diseases. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reports that measles cases have reached their highest levels since the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

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'Fear and chaos': Trump reportedly plans to undo own signature achievement 'within months'

President Donald Trump may soon be undoing one of his signature first-term achievements.

The Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine off the market "within months," one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates told The Daily Beast.

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'Horrible!' Trump accused of using immigrants as guinea pigs for terrifying tech trial

WASHINGTON — Before leaving town for the August recess, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz was forced to pull a measure aimed at limiting federal government use of facial recognition data captured at airports by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

But the Texas Republican says he’s got no problem with federal agents deploying more invasive facial recognition technology against immigrants.

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