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Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says US autism cases are climbing at an ‘alarming rate’

By AMANDA SEITZ
Apr 16, 2025 8:02 pm - WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to cond...
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

By Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein, Joel Achenbach and Lauren Weber
Apr 16, 2025 7:51 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly one-third cut in discretionary spending by the Department of Health and...
Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings into Trump administration

By Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu, Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck
Apr 16, 2025 7:47 pm - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said that he would launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration official...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Apr 16, 2025 7:39 pm - Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are femal...
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status

By Jacob Bogage by Jeff Stein
Apr 16, 2025 7:38 pm - The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, according to three people familiar with t...
El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man

By Theodoric Meyer
Apr 16, 2025 7:16 pm - El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle o...
Dog reunites with Israeli family after disappearing for 18 months in Gaza

By SAM MEDNICK
Apr 16, 2025 5:17 pm - BINYAMINA, Israel — Rachel Dancyg never thought she would see her dog again after it disappeared in the Hamas attack that sparked the ongoing war with Israel. Her ex-husb...
Trump’s tariffs are ‘highly likely’ to push prices up, Fed chief warns

By Rachel Siegel
Apr 16, 2025 4:19 pm - President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “highly likely” to spur a temporary rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday, cautioning that those effects could end up being longer-lasting.
Hegseth suspends 2 senior political aides amid Pentagon leak inquiry

By Dan Lamothe
Apr 16, 2025 3:57 pm - Two senior aides to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, both political appointees, have been suspended amid a Pentagon inquiry into the apparent leak of sensitive information...
Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel

By Miriam Berger, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Hazem Balousha and Hajar Harb
Apr 16, 2025 3:37 pm - JAFFA, Israel — The move by Hamas in recent weeks to try to stop a wave of protests against it in Gaza reflects the group’s determination to continue silencing dissent ev...

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