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A new research study shows that hepatitis B vaccination rates among newborns in the U.S. declined by more than 10 percent from its peak in early 2023.  The study, published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, determined via an analysis of over 12.4 million newborns tha

President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, on Wednesday said she won’t broadly encourage parents to vaccinate their children against measles, the flu or whooping cough, as previously done by her predecessors.  Means testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

House Democrats kicked off their annual retreat Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after President Trump criticized and clashed with members of the caucus during his record-long State of the Union address. While many Democrats in both chambers of Congress chose to boycott the speech altogether, Re

Vice President Vance on Wednesday said the U.S. is seeking a diplomatic deal with Iran in their upcoming talks, adding that President Trump has the sole authority on whether the U.S. will strike the Middle Eastern country. “The president has been crystal clear as he could be,” Vance told Fox News’s

Trump’s address was not a pivot to persuasion — it was a doubling down on confrontation as strategy. And it revealed was how much of this presidency depends on maintaining narrative control.

Democrats, unable to achieve their goal of making Trump die in prison, are angrier and more unhinged than ever.

President Trump delivered a record-setting State of the Union address Tuesday night, when he zeroed in on his signature economic and foreign policies, while laying criticism on the Supreme Court and Democrats. Four justices listened but did not react. The president touted his successes, while brandi

A manufacturers lobbying group is pushing back against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent pledge to look into the safety of ultra-processed foods.  The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), which represents 14,000 companies in every sector, including the

Documents released by the Justice Department briefly mention a woman’s unverified accusation that Donald J. Trump assaulted her in the 1980s, when she was a minor. But several memos related to her account are not in the files.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers is resigning from positions at the university due to his discovered ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.   Summers will leave his role as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and will not take on new positions with the unive

The 2028 Democratic presidential nomination contest is wide open and subject to lots of change, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris leading the field in an early head to head matchup, while other Democrats such as Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ma

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) condemned the “yelling and screaming” from some Democratic legislators during President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday.  “I don’t care if it’s a Republican or Democrat, it’s a president. Just don’t do that,” Fetterman told Fox News’s Bill Hemmer early

With his job approval ratings ticking down, President Trump said that his second term so far was “a turnaround for the ages.” Did he persuade voters?

Over a dozen states sued the Trump administration for rolling back vaccine recommendations for children, which the officials argued pose a health risk to Americans. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. district court for the Northern District of California, challenged the Jan. 5 decision memo from the Cen

Democratic congresswomen put out a call to wear white at the State of the Union. It didn’t work.

The former first lady, senator and secretary of state had no dealings with Jeffrey Epstein but is once again under pressure to answer for the actions and relationships of her husband.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) lashed out against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over Obamacare during a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday for President Trump’s surgeon general pick, Casey Means, leading to a brief but tense exchange between the lawmakers. Mullin used much of his time railing aga

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) branded the president’s Tuesday State of the Union speech as “Donald Trump’s state of delusion.” “He’s in a bubble. He doesn’t even know what the average American is going through,” Schumer said of President Trump on Wednesday in an appearance on CNN’s “

“We all know the answer is no,” the Virginia governor argued in her rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union address.

On the defensive over the economy and with the midterms approaching, President Trump made clear that his political strategy is to paint Democrats as unpatriotic and ‘crazy.’

President Trump turned his State of the Union address into full-blown political theater, handing out medals to war veterans and tossing the spotlight to ice hockey players.

In an address that was heavy on theatrics, President Trump lashed out at Democrats as “crazy” and unpatriotic.