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RFK’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Shot Is Ripping the Anti-Vax World Apart
Mother Jones illustration; Andrew Harnik/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the anti-vaccine world, few immunizations are as demonized as the measles, mumps, and rubella or MMR shot. For years, vaccine “skeptics” have falsely claimed that the MMR vaccine causes autism, or sickens…
Read MoreComplaint Filed on MI Teacher Who Scolded Student for Sitting During Pledge
An Arab American 8th grader in Plymouth, Michigan, was berated by a teacher earlier this year for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance — a direct violation of her First Amendment freedoms, the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) said last week. On January 10, 14-year-old Danielle Khalaf sat during her class’s daily…
Read MoreElon Musk Spreads Falsehoods About Social Security, Calling It a “Ponzi Scheme”
Musk pushed the repeatedly debunked claim that Social Security was making payments to “dead people.”
Read MoreTrump Perpetuates Undeclared War in Somalia With Renewed Airstrikes
On February 1, 2025, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), in coordination with the federal government of Somalia, conducted the first airstrikes in the country under the new Trump administration. The strikes targeted the Golis Mountains, a rocky, cavernous region in the northwestern part of the country that is said to be a hub for ISIS-Somalia (IS-S).…
Read MoreTrump Administration Moves to Gut Anti-Money Laundering Law
The announcement was panned by economists and other critics, who called the move an on-ramp for corruption.
Read MoreIsrael Suspends Aid Into Gaza, Bringing Ceasefire Closest It’s Been to Collapse
The ceasefire in Gaza came closest to collapsing since it began in mid-January after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s halt of the entry of humanitarian aid into the strip. The first phase of the ceasefire deal came to an end on Sunday as Israel continued to refuse to begin negotiations over the second…
Read MoreRFK Jr. Ends 50+ Years of Public Input in HHS Rulemaking Process
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new policy on Friday that ends over 50 years of public involvement in the department’s rulemaking process by eliminating public comments in certain cases. Under this policy, the department is no longer required to hold a public notice-and-comment period after publishing proposed rules on…
Read MoreUS-Europe Rift Widens as Putin Welcomes Trump’s Shifting Ukraine Stance
Kenneth Roth, visiting professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and former executive director of Human Rights Watch, responds to the shocking Oval Office meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance, in which Vance and Trump publicly admonished Zelensky over the Russia-Ukraine war…
Read MoreFaith Leaders Resist Trump’s Christian Nationalism in a Battle of Theologies
“There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration.…
Read MoreTrump Issues Legally Shaky Order Asserting English as Official Language of US
More than 67 million people in the US speak a language other than English in their homes.
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