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Trump makes 'emergency' Supreme Court power grab after AI plot by tech pals thwarted

President Donald Trump's administration filed an "emergency" Supreme Court plea to remove the register of copyrights at the Library of Congress, which had refused to support the plans of AI companies owned by his billionaire supporters.

In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Trump lacked the authority to remove Shira Perlmutter because she worked for Congress, not the executive branch. Trump first tried to fire Perlmutter in May after she released a pre-publication version of the third part of the Copyright Office's report "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence," which suggested that AI companies could be infringing on copyrighted works.

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Elon Musk returns to deliver devastating putdown to Trump's head of NASA

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was not smart enough to lead NASA after he threatened to pull a moon landing contract from the billionaire's rocket company.

On Tuesday, Musk responded to a comment on X that criticized Duffy for his dual role as transportation secretary and NASA administrator.

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Fireworks as The View bombards RFK Jr's wife: 'Your husband is the least qualified'

Cheryl Hines, the wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., has a new book out, but in her discussion with "The View" it was clear that her husband overshadowed the conversation Tuesday.

Co-host Sunny Hostin, whose own husband is an orthopedist who graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, forced Hines, a star on the comedy hit "Curb Your Enthusiasm," to answer questions she had about some of Kennedy's comments and conspiracy theories.

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'Oops': Trump health official admits half of 'sweeping' layoffs at CDC were a mistake

Donald Trump's administration is walking back about half of a reported 1,000 health agency cuts.

MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny was on air on Saturday when she broke the news, saying she had received a call from an official from HHS "literally five minutes" prior to going on. The cuts were previously reported.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes wild new claim about the cause of autism

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that circumcised children were at a greater risk for autism.

During a White House cabinet meeting on Thursday, Kennedy reiterated earlier calls for pregnant women not to take Tylenol.

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'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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