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Trump administration to shrink federal health agencies by 20,000 employees
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy will cut 3,500 jobs from the Food and Drug Administration and 2,400 from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.CBS News - Mar. 28 -
Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting misinformation, lies
The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official for allowing “misinformation and lies” to guide his thinking behind the ...ABC News - 6d -
Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors
Aid workers delivered the first shipments of help to Myanmar, but will have to cross a country buckled by the disaster and divided by civil war, arms dealers and drug syndicates.The New York Times - 5d -
Fugitive wanted over deadly prison escape caught on tropical island
Police arrested a fugitive on the tropical holiday island of Phuket over a deadly prison breakout that freed a notorious drug lord nicknamed "The Fly."CBS News - 4d -
What to Know About Adderall, Ritalin and Other Prescription Stimulants
The health secretary said the drugs have “damaged” children, but doctors say prescription stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall help millions of people.The New York Times - 4d -
Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.The New York Times - 4d -
On the Canadian border with a Mexican cartel smuggler
A self-described member of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel told 60 Minutes that drugs and people pass both ways between the U.S. and Canada.CBS News - 4d -
Braves' Profar gets 80-game ban for PED violation
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar was suspended for 80 games by Major League Baseball on Monday after a positive test for the performance-enhancing drug chorionic gonadotropin.ESPN - 3d -
Supreme Court Rules Against Makers of Flavored Vapes Popular With Teens
The justices handed a win, for now, to the Food and Drug Administration in its rejection of applications from makers of flavored liquids used in e-cigarettes.The New York Times - 2d -
More top vaccine regulators out at FDA, threatening new approvals
More top vaccine regulators at the FDA have either left or been forced out, which could hobble the agency's ability to approve new vaccines and drugs.NBC News - 23h -
Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could be Foreign-Made Pharmaceuticals
President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs.The New York Times - 23h -
Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok
The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.The New York Times - Mar. 29 -
Immigration Officials Detain Former Taliban Ambassador to Spain
Mohammad Rahim Wahidi, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was detained for more than 30 hours upon returning to the country over the weekend.The New York Times - 3d -
South Korea’s President Will Learn His Fate on Friday
The Constitutional Court will announce on Friday whether Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached in December for declaring martial law, will be permanently removed from office or restored to power.The New York Times - 3d -
Supreme Court Weighs South Carolina’s Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood
The court will decide whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue to receive services under a law that lets them choose any qualified provider.The New York Times - 2d -
What Will Elon Musk Learn From the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election?
After a failed $20 million effort to tilt a State Supreme Court race, Elon Musk joins the ranks of billionaires frustrated by the laws of politics.The New York Times - 2d -
In Trump’s Fight With Perkins Coie, the Richest Firms Are Staying Quiet
None of the nation’s top-10 firms by revenue have signed a legal brief demonstrating support for the law firm that is resisting an executive order.The New York Times - 2d -
India's parliament passes controversial bill that would change Muslim endowments
India’s parliament has passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowmentsABC News - 2d -
Trump’s high-risk, high-reward Liberation Day tariffs
Are President Trump's Liberation Day a masterstroke of economic nationalism or a reckless gamble that could upend international trade laws and the broader economy? The smart money is on Door No.2.The Hill - 1d -
New EEOC Chief’s DEI Investigations Draw Outcries
Andrea Lucas’s pressure campaigns, especially against big law firms, are rebuked by lawyers and other experts. ‘This isn’t how the EEOC works,’ says one critic.Inc. - 1d -
Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China
A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration over its tariffs.The New York Times - 1d -
Cops and firefighters stick it out on the hockey rink for Guns 'N Hoses
Northeast Florida law enforcement officers and fire and rescue members renew their hockey rivalry on April 12 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.Yahoo Sports - 23h -
Celebrations as South Korean Court Removes Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol
The country’s Constitutional Court formally ended the presidency of Yoon Suk Yeol for declaring martial law, ending months of turmoil. But the country remains deeply divided.The New York Times - 17h -
Judge jails Trump clemency recipient Jonathan Braun after child assault arrest
Jonathan Braun's family used connections it had to the family of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to set in motion the clemency from the president.CNBC - 9h -
US extends deadline to keep TikTok running
The president has granted the app a second 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires it to either sell its US assets or face a ban.BBC News - 6h -
Dreamers review – this teen dance drama is too subtle for its own good. Where’s the debauchery?
Where other teen shows ramp up the sex, drugs and scandal, this Leeds-set saga about rivalries in a dance school keeps it real – so real it almost refuses to be entertaining. The implausibility of ...The Guardian - 5d -
New blood test checks for Alzheimer’s and assesses progression, study says
Procedure for patients with thinking and memory problems could help medics decide which drugs are most suitable. Researchers have developed a blood test for patients with thinking and memory ...The Guardian - 4d -
Former Medellin Cartel boss released in Colombia after a judge rules his sentence expired
Colombian authorities have released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking sentence issued in Colombia against the 75-year-old had expiredABC News - 4d -
New FDA commissioner signed off on vaccine chief's ouster: Reports
Newly sworn-in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary signed off on the plan to push out the agency’s top vaccine official, Peter Marks, in one of his first acts as chief, ...The Hill - 4d -
Top vaccine official sends warning
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Top FDA official's exit sends ripples through Washington Peter Marks, who led the Food and Drug ...The Hill - 4d -
Border wars: Syria’s new authorities grapple with Lebanese smugglers
Attempts to seal porous borders through which guns, drugs and fuel flowed in Assad times are turning local tensions deadly. Hidden trails snake through the mountains in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa ...The Guardian - 4d -
‘FDA as we've known it is finished': Former commissioner
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf said the federal agency that he’s known for years “is finished” after mass layoffs began Tuesday morning. “The FDA as we've ...The Hill - 3d -
He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He’s Facing Charges of Injuring a Child.
Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old.The New York Times - 3d -
Could antibiotics stop working? Yes – but the biggest danger isn’t prescription-happy GPs | Devi Sridhar
To prevent a catastrophic failure of the drugs modern medicine relies on, look to animal farming in middle-income countries. If the antibiotics we use to treat infections ever stopped working, the ...The Guardian - 2d -
Supreme Court rules in favor of FDA in dispute over flavored vapes
The Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday and found the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acted lawfully when it blocked two vaping companies from marketing fruity ...The Hill - 2d
