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  • KennedyHealth

    ‘Not the MAHA that we signed up for’: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. learns the perils of power and keeping his grassroots movement together

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • kennedyPolitics

    Kennedy admits that he personally ordered CDC to update website on vaccines and autism, contradicting many years of guidance

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • JD VanceHealth

    JD Vance on RFK and the MAHA movement: Many times in history, ‘all the experts were wrong’

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • Signage showing that USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is accepted, is displayed at Wild Onion Market, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)Politics

    Uncertainty over federal food aid deepens as the shutdown fight reaches a crisis point

    By Stephen Groves, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Senior woman has financial problems. Counting money, monthly pension, don’t have enough money for paying bills.Politics

    MAGA voters are losing patience with the GOP’s ‘concepts of a plan’ on health care as premiums soar

    By Joey Cappelletti, Ali Swenson, and others
  • TrumpHealth

    ‘We want more babies, to put it nicely’: Trump strikes deal for drugmaker to lower cost of common IVF drug

    By Ali Swenson, Michelle L. Price, and others
  • ACALaw

    ‘Do I spend $500 on a doctor’s visit or do I buy groceries?’: Meet some of the Americans who could lose health insurance soon if ACA tax credits die

    By Ali Swenson, Kendria LaFleur, and others
  • US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on "The President's 2026 Health Care Agenda" at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025.Politics

    Hundreds of CDC ‘disease detectives’ fired—then reinstated—in mass layoffs tied to Trump shutdown

    By Ali Swenson, Jonel Aleccia, and others
  • President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listen.Health

    Health experts appalled by Trump’s ‘irresponsible’ mantra urging pregnant women ‘Don’t take Tylenol’

    By Ali Swenson, Lauran Neergaard, and others
  • TrumpTech

    Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ ditches Biden guardrails, ‘red tape,’ wants chatbots to cut out their liberal bias

    By Matt O'Brien, Ali Swenson, and others
  • White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a bill that regulates stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AI

    Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ to mix tech industry wishlist with culture war attacks on ‘woke AI’

    By Matt O'Brien, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Pam Bondi, Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump dismayed by MAGA’s obsession with ‘a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein’

    By Ali Swenson, Nicholas Riccardi, and others
  • FILE – Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., walks to the chamber as senators arrive for votes and policy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    Republican Sen. Thom Tillis won’t run in 2026 after opposing Trump’s bill and being threatened with a primary challenge

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • United States Military Academy graduating cadets line up during commencement ceremonies in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)Leadership

    Trump tells West Point graduates ‘we do not need an officer corps of careerists and yes men’

    By Seung Min Kim, Ali Swenson, and others
  • US President Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump plan to require proof-of-citizenship to vote shot down by judge

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press