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What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

State Sen. David Bullard wants to force the Bible into classrooms. He just doesn't want atheist teachers having a say in how it's taught.

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At least 20 staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

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At least 28 people have been fired from the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan since Friday as part of the sweeping cuts to the federal government workforce by

The students impacted are all seeking careers in special education.

Dr. Paul Offit in an interview with PBS NewsHour blamed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and fellow "anti-vaccine activists" for the deaths of 83 people, mostly children, in Samoa. GEOFF BENNETT, PBS: So, RFK Jr. is widely known as an anti-vaccine activist. He has a much larger platform now as he runs for president. He says that many if his views are misunderstood, they're taken out of context. Help us understand what he's been promoting and what the science tells us about it. DR. PAUL OFFIT: Well, he's been promoting false information about vaccines. He's been promoting the notion that vaccines cause autism, which is clearly not true, or cause a variety of other chronic diseases, like diabetes or multiple sclerosis or attention-deficit disorder. And that's all not true. So, what he does is, by putting misinformation out there, he causes people to make bad decisions that put themselves and their family at risk. BENNETT: You also point to one episode where he spoke out against the measles vaccine. What was the impact of that? OFFIT: In Samoa, there were two children that died immediately following receipt of a measles vaccine. And the way it works into Samoa is, they have a MMR vaccine in powdered form. It needs to be diluted in water. Two nurses made a mistake. Instead of diluting it in water, they diluted it in a muscle relaxant. Those children stopped breathing and died immediately. Now, very quickly, within two weeks, it was realized what that mistake was. It was a nursing error. But, nonetheless, RFK Jr. seized on that. He flooded Facebook with information that measles vaccine is killing children in Samoa. He went to Samoa. He met with anti-vaccine activists. He met with senior officials in Samoa and kept the drumbeat alive that measles vaccine was killing children in Samoa. As a consequence, vaccination rates fell from 70 percent to 30 percent. And between September and December of 2019, there was a massive measles epidemic. In this island nation of 200,000 people, there were 57,000 cases of measles and 83 deaths. Most of those deaths were in children less than four years of age. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had everything to do with that. And that shows you how disinformation can kill.

Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign ...

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The Department of Energy employs approximately 14,000 workers and oversees 95,000 contractors across energy and security sectors.

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The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert