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A Youth Suicide Researcher Speaks Out Against Trump’s War on Science

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Last week, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps of the flagship New York Public Library in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to “Kill the Cuts”—and stand against President Donald Trump’s crackdown on science. That crackdown, as my colleagues and I have previously reported, has been severe. In less than four months in office, the […]

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If Trump Cares So Much About Fentanyl, Why Is He Cutting Addiction Treatment Funding?

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In the name of reducing fentanyl overdoses, the Trump administration has gone to the extreme—levying tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China; listing cartels as terrorist organizations; calling for the death penalty against drug dealers; and weighing drone strikes in Mexico. “When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave him a mandate to […]

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How Does Climate Change Affect Our Brains? Trump’s NIH Just Cut Funding to Study It.

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On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been dreading: The Trump administration cut funding for a new center she had been tasked with co-leading called “Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change.” CHART focused on researching the effects of climate change […]

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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]

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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE.

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In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery and a chemotherapy port, both related to cancer for which he had already received care through the VA—were denied. Puhl, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, holds the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musk’s “Department of […]

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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. In his first sit-down interview in his role as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—which was taped Tuesday and aired on CBS News Wednesday morning—Kennedy claimed to endorse the vaccine after a record […]

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During a Past Measles Outbreak, RFK Jr. Dismissed Concern as “Hysteria”

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In early 2015, the California Department of Public Health identified a case of measles in an 11-year-old who had recently traveled to Disneyland. Within a month, at least 125 US residents were stricken with the disease. About a third of them had visited the Magic Kingdom theme park, many were unvaccinated, and the outbreak spread […]

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