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HHS Advances Kennedy’s Old ‘Placebo’ Vaccine Safety Claims
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a long history of undermining confidence in vaccine safety, including by repeatedly claiming that vaccines are not tested in placebo-controlled trials, a familiar anti-vaccine trope. Now, an HHS spokesperson has used similar language in a statement…
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Democrats exaggerate committee vote on deporting citizens
As judges issued rulings critical of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policies, Democrats took to social media to paint Republican lawmakers as supportive of deporting U.S. citizens. “Republicans just voted in the House Judiciary Committee to allow Trump to DEPORT U.S. citizens to a foreign country,” Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., wrote in an April 30…
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Hegseth blasts ‘Biden initiative’ Trump signed into law
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on a mission to rid the military of “woke,” which he said includes the Women, Peace and Security program. Hegseth said April 29 that he “proudly ended” the program, describing it on X as “yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative” and a United Nations program “pushed by feminists and left-wing…
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Fact-check: RFK Jr. claim that DOD arm is spraying chemicals
During a town hall hosted by TV personality Phil McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that one of the Defense Department’s research and development arms might be spraying Americans with harmful chemicals. An audience member who identified herself as Emily prompted Kennedy’s comments. “My biggest…