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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 28, 2026.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who says he has used some of the compounds, is using "enforcement discretion" instead of rulemaking. Consumer groups warn it puts patients at risk.
'We've accomplished in 19 months things that would have seemed unthinkable two years ago,' Kennedy said, citing the cut-down childhood schedule and the remade vaccine advisory panel, both of which a judge has since halted. Gov. Josh Shapiro said he 'couldn't bring himself' to tell people to get the measles shot.
HHS proposed scrapping more than 100 pages of federal regulations governing the preschool program for 700,000 poor children, handing oversight to state childcare licensing agencies. A 60-day comment period starts now.
Burke Law Group lists immigration among two dozen practice areas but has no staff specializing in it. The contract starts Aug. 15, two weeks after the previous provider's deal expired unrenewed.
The government contract that pays for legal representation of unaccompanied minors expired Friday. Providers say HHS is withholding $65 million and will only pay if they hand over confidential information about the children they represent.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated minimal engagement with managing his sprawling department as he focuses narrowly on food and vaccine policies, according to administration sources.
Senior Trump-era appointees told FDA scientists their findings had 'messaging concerns,' even as Judge Sara Ellis's March 16 order restoring the old ACIP charter heads to the Seventh Circuit.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public vaccine criticism under White House orders, but inside his department, a sprawling research effort examining vaccine safety remains a top priority.
A 1996 welfare law has long allowed denial of new passports for delinquent parents — but the Trump administration is the first to actively cancel passports already in circulation.
Health Secretary who has sought to roll back vaccine policy testified that measles vaccine is safe and effective 'for most people' and safer than getting measles.