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Dr. Nicole Saphier, surgeon general nominee, testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions during a confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Trump’s 3rd surgeon general pick, faces Senate questions over her vaccine stance

September 16, 2026 at 3:51 p.m.

Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s third surgeon general nominee, was grilled at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday about her stance on childhood vaccines.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

President Donald Trump promises $500 Obamacare rebate checks for 1M enrollees in 30 states

September 10, 2026 at 10:26 a.m.

The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees across 30 states, whom the White House alleges were overcharged by the Biden...

FILE – Voters cast their ballots during the primary election in Windsor, Conn., Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rusty Jones, File)

Noncitizen voting claims animate President Trump’s attacks on midterms and set up potential result challenges

August 29, 2026 at 1:41 p.m.

Voting by noncitizens is extremely rare and is punishable as a felony that carries the potential for deportation.

FILE – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)

Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that

August 27, 2026 at 7:32 a.m.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that a 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had...

Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, speaks during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Donald Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, to lead the Food and Drug Administration

August 19, 2026 at 2:17 p.m.

Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, has been picked to lead the Food and Drug Administration, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.

President Donald Trump holds up an image taken from his Truth Social account as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. watches during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Trump signs executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots

August 10, 2026 at 3:17 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before Vice President JD Vance at the Wisconsin Air National Guard facility at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

The Trump administration is ending a Medicare drug subsidy program. Here’s how it could affect costs.

July 30, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face steeper monthly costs in 2027, after the Trump administration concludes a temporary subsidy program that has helped offset premiums...

Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Anthony Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment and declines to testify in GOP-led Senate panel’s COVID-19 hearing

July 29, 2026 at 12:13 p.m.

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

People vote in the Democratic primaries at Blair-Caldwell Library in Denver.

Why American elections are so complicated — and secure

July 17, 2026 at 7:37 p.m.

One of the strongest security features of American election is that they are not conducted at the federal level.

FILE – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrives on stage at the inaugural Make America Healthy Again summit, Nov. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

EPA promised a Make America Healthy Again agenda. It has yet to materialize, frustrating activists.

July 10, 2026 at 8:37 a.m.

The apparent reversal on release of a formal environmental health agenda is the latest in a cascade of disappointments for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement, who say...

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