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Kennedy is a former environmental lawyer who is utterly unqualified to hold any position with power over anyone’s health, much less a huge department that includes the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Mother Jones wrote, “If Kennedy—who has also promoted dangerous and ludicrous ideas about fluoride, 5G technology, and the causes of HIV/AIDS, among innumerable other pseudoscientific claims—assumes the position, ‘the damage he could do is near infinite,’ warns Dr.

An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide. Via HuffPost: Northwest Naturals, a pet food company based in Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday it had voluntarily recalled one batch of its two-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for the virus.

In a blow to right-wing efforts to ban books and criminalize librarians, a federal judge on Monday struck down key provisions of an Arkansas law as unconstitutional—though the fight is far from over, with the Republican state attorney general planning to appeal. Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 372 in March 2023.

Donald Trump said Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has asked to visit him at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Friday night, Reuters reports.

“Two top Canadian ministers will meet with members of President-elect Donald Trump’s circle in Florida on Friday about a border security plan that Canada hopes will ward off Mr. Trump’s threats to impose economically damaging tariffs on imports from Canada,” the New York Times reports. “The meetings will build on a dinner Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had with Mr.

I’m sick and tired of a small subculture taking for itself a symbol of tremendous natural beauty and core Judeo-Christian religious significance.