Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention softened its longstanding position in November 2025, shifting from “vaccines do not cause autism” to stating the evidence isn’t strong enough to completely rule out a possible link, citing several older studies on aluminum adjuvants and vaccine timing.

Months later, key studies used to justify that change were retracted by journals for methodological flaws, sparking backlash from Kennedy, who demanded greater transparency, while the CDC’s revised stance faced fresh scrutiny.

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The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne say they have run Rosary Hill Home for 125 years, providing free palliative care to thousands of poor, terminally ill cancer patients without taking taxpayer money.

New York’s LGBTQ Long-Term Care Bill of Rights now threatens them with fines, license revocation, or prison for refusing to use preferred pronouns, allow opposite-sex bathroom use, or undergo gender ideology training, prompting a religious-freedom lawsuit in which the U.S. Department of Justice has joined them as a co-plaintiff.

Aside from the significant losses that were handed to him in a series of Supreme Court decisions, President Donald Trump did score one significant victory.

The case in question was called Trump v. Slaughter, and the decision in that case bestowed significantly more power and authority not just to Trump, but to the office of the president itself—whoever that may be in the future.

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In what amounts to a major win for Second Amendment advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down one of the most restrictive state-level gun laws—a law that required gun owners to get express permission to carry their weapons in stores and hotels.

Let's go through the backstory of this law, the unique rationale behind it, as well as what the new ruling means for the country as a whole.

A woman named Carleen Noreus ran a massive diploma mill in South Florida, selling nearly 3,000 fake nursing diplomas for around $25 million over seven years to people who never completed the required training.

The scam, uncovered as part of the larger federal Operation Nightingale, allowed more than 2,200 unqualified "graduates" to pass licensing exams and work as nurses across the country, endangering patients until her recent guilty plea on wire fraud and money laundering charges.

The US Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a criminal defendant in a case that was rather interesting. It presented a simple question: Are prosecutors allowed to force you to sign away your right to appeal, and then slap you with a—potentially—unconstitutional punishment?

Basically, can plea deals be formulated such that you get hit with an unconstitutional penalty, but then you also can’t appeal that penalty?

And the answer is: No. They cannot. Although, as always with these Supreme Court rulings, there is a lot of nuance, so let’s go through the details together.

A 2021 federal law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 24220) mandates that all new U.S. passenger vehicles starting in 2027 must include "Advanced Impaired Driving Prevention Technology." These appear to be taking the shape of passive AI systems using infrared cameras, biometric sensors, and behavioral tracking to detect driver impairment and automatically intervene by limiting speed, pulling over, or shutting down the vehicle.

While intended to improve safety, the mandate raises major concerns about constant surveillance, massive data collection shared with insurers and third parties, high rates of false positives, and the erosion of personal freedom in what has long been a symbol of American autonomy.

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So many corporations, wealthy individuals, and middle-class people are leaving California that it’s beginning to affect their tax base in a real way. Let’s go through the details together.

Scientists have made a new scientific breakthrough in the study of the human body.

Researchers in the United States have discovered something amazing: a third circulatory system within the human body.

Alongside the previously known cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, this interstitium system (as it’s being called) appears to allow the different organs of the human body to pass things along to one another.

Which in-and-of-itself is an amazing discovery, but it’s made even more exciting by the fact that this newly discovered system maps very well onto the model of the human body that’s been used in traditional Eastern medicine for thousands of years (in practices like acupuncture, for instance).

Meaning, this discovery might very well be the missing link between Western and Eastern medicine.

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Youhuang Xiang, a biology researcher at Indiana University, was arrested for smuggling plasmid DNA derived from E. coli bacteria from China. He concealed the biological material by labeling the shipment as “women’s underwear” on the manifest, admitted during questioning that he did it to evade customs detection. He also admitted to previously lying about his Chinese Communist Party membership and government lab affiliations. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison, a $500 fine, supervised release, and immediate deportation.

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