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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, was approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — despite concerns previously vocalized by Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).

Cassidy went on to vote for the nominee.

Two U.S. biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants.

United Therapeutics along with another company, eGenesis, have been working since 2021 on experiments implanting pig kidneys into humans: initially brain-dead patients and more recently living recipients.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that the first flights carrying migrants to be housed at Guantanamo Bay were officially "underway."

During an interview on Fox Business, Leavitt insisted that President Donald Trump was not "messing around" with his plan to eradicate migrants from the United States.

President Donald Trump made one last push on his Truth Social platform ahead of the Senate committee vote that advanced anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the full Senate for a vote to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

"20 years ago, Autism in children was 1 in 10,000. NOW IT’S 1 in 34. WOW! Something’s really wrong. We need BOBBY!!! Thank You! DJT," wrote Trump — a reference to the long-debunked idea of a link betwen autism and vaccines.

Anti-vaccine conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was cleared to go before a full Senate vote for confirmation to lead the Health and Human Services Department after a Republican skeptic gave him his vote.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) announced on Tuesday that he would support confirm the nominee to head the department.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski rained scorn on Donald Trump's boast about the sudden release of water from two dams in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

The president has been patting himself on the back by ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to allow irrigation water into engineered waterways, ostensibly as drought relief after devastating wildfires in the region, but the Los Angeles Times reported that much of the water wound up in retention basins and soaked into the ground – which won't help farmers who depend on the water to irrigate their crops in the summer.

by Linda GIVETASH

The gates at a Johannesburg LGBTQ clinic called OUT have been closed for more than a week and HIV prevention and treatment services suspended for its 6,000 clients.

President Donald Trump's administration reportedly threatened to halt grants for scientific studies that mention words like "female," "women," "systemic" or "trauma."

Darby Saxbe, a professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, shared a leaked list of words that could cause scientific studies to be flagged by the National Science Foundation.

After President Donald Trump offered a buyout for federal workers, one employee who works at a federal agency decided to take the deal — and has not heard back, despite the deadline being Thursday. The employee shared their experience with ABC News on Monday.

The “Fork in the Road” program offers federal employees the option to resign but continue receiving pay until September. The move is part of an attempt by the Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk to shrink the government. Some experts have said this move would be illegal because it is promising funds for a budget that Congress has not yet approved.

Although President Donald Trump and his White House are trying to spin his decision to back off slapping Canada and Mexico with massive tariffs as a triumph, Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) is pouring cold water on their exuberance.

Appearing on CNN, Ryan said that he agreed with a Wall Street Journal editorial that said that the president backed down from his threats against Mexico and Canada without gaining any significant concessions from the two countries.

North Carolina, once considered deep red, showed how much of a swing state it has become in the 2024 election. Now-President Donald Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 3.2 percent in North Carolina, but the state's residents also voted to replace a term-limited Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, with another Democrat: now-Gov. Josh Stein.

North Carolina isn't as Democratic-friendly as Virginia, which Harris carried by 6 percent. But it is a better state for Democrats than Florida, a state Trump carried by 13 percent.