Trump is targeting Somalis with racist remarks ahead of expected immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota. And, a CDC advisory panel will revisit long-standing vaccine recommendations.

After President Trump’s official pardon last night, Juan Orlando Hernández was released from a federal prison in West Virginia. Hernández, who led the Central American country from 2014 to 2022, had been sentenced to 45 years in prison for flooding the U.S. with cocaine.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday denied that politics played a part in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to roll back mask mandates on Thursday. “The CDC — the doctors and medical experts — were the ones who ...

On Wednesday, the CDC reversed its long-held position that there's no link between vaccines and autism. "This is the day CDC died," a former agency official said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

Multiple CDC officials familiar with the situation said the change was made by political appointees without input from relevant agency staffers.