“It’s not at all fair to say look at Denmark unless you can match the other characteristics of Denmark,” said Anders Hviid, a leading vaccine safety researcher. In the U.S., “it turns out to get crazier and crazier in public health from month to month,” Hviid said. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

DOJ's Epstein files are out www.ms.now/news/justice...

Among the reasons cited for the HHS slashing funding to AAP: "use of identity-based language,' including references to racial disparities and 'pregnant people,' and insufficient focus in at least one grant program on nutrition and chronic disease prevention" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We’re so back (literally) www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-wor...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal defense in sexual harassment lawsuits has cost New York state taxpayers $21 million so far, @thecity.nyc reports. When reached for comment, Cuomo’s spox said, “There’s such a thing as defending yourself. This is America.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...

“Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a tranche of new images from the Jeffrey Epstein estate Friday that included photographs of former President Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and, most notably, President Donald Trump.” www.ms.now/news/house-d...

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc... ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: “FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville” www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo? Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:

So anti-Mamdani he wants you to vote for Cuomo or who’s that other guy…Curtis…Silva? Sure

Americans are gonna be more insufferable than ever I fear

“The Zeteo documentary, citing an anonymous source, said that U.S. officials had initially decided after a site visit that Ms. Abu Akleh had been deliberately targeted, before changing their conclusions in the final version of the report to avoid upsetting Israel.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

How Mahmoud Khalil—detained by ICE in "the black hole" in Louisiana alongside 1000 others, refused by ICE to be present for his wife giving birth—first saw photos of his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Former and current staffers paint a picture of an erratic senator who has become almost impossible to work for, and whose mental health situation is more serious and complicated than previously reported.

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent' gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.

Under immense legal pressure to back its case against Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration is calling into question aspects of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's personal life as well www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

NEW: A Columbia University student was detained by immigration authorities in Vermont during his naturalization interview on Monday in “direct retaliation” for his participation in protests against the Israel-Gaza war, his lawyer says.

Bernie Sanders at Coachella rn, introducing Clairo with a speech criticizing Trump

JUST IN: Trump administration can proceed with Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation, judge rules www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Harvey Weinstein, whose lawyers have said is in extremely poor health and suffering in jail, nevertheless has the wherewithal to weigh in on the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni mess www.tmz.com/2025/04/09/h...

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.” michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...

"Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore do not get overtime for their unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station, according to NASA rules. But they do get $5 a day for 'incidentals.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

NEW — 8 members of Congress are asking Marco Rubio for answers on the killing of American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi. Blinken never responded to a similar letter. It's now been 194 days since Israeli forces killed her. Signed: Sens. Welch, Murray, Sanders, Merkley, Van Hollen Reps. Jayapal, Jacobs, Castro

OPINION by @clarissajanlim.bsky.social: Facing deportation, Mahmoud Khalil calls out Trump and Biden, as well as Columbia’s leaders. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

NEW: Betar US, a far-right pro-Israel group who claimed credit for the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, told me that they've created a "deportation list" and say they submitted “thousands of names” to Trump administration officials for similar treatment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Columbia says it’s suspending, expelling & revoking the degrees of students who protested over Gaza last year, as eight people, including Mahmoud Khalil, sue to prevent the university from handing over disciplinary records to a House committee www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Federal immigration authorities deported a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer and her undocumented parents to Mexico when they were on the way to an emergency medical checkup in Houston last month. The girl is a U.S. citizen. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

New — Donald Trump celebrates the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, calls him "a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student," and says "This is the first arrest of many to come."

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Last fall, Sam Nordquist traveled 1,000 miles to be with a woman he’d fallen in love with online. He ended up imprisoned in a small hotel room in upstate New York, being tortured to death by seven people, including the woman for whom he’d trekked across the country, authorities said.

Lindsey Boylan, the first woman who came forward to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment: “If anything has changed, momentarily, it’s that across our country, across issues, people who should be speaking up, aren’t.” apnews.com/article/cuom...

ABC News layoffs got me! that means I’m back on the market for full-time role/freelance work doing journalism on all my fave topics: court cases, internet ephemera, national news, pop culture, crime, truly whatever gets the group chat popping. hit an unemployed gal up! DM/email in bio xoxo💋

Democrats' silent protests on Tuesday — their color-coordinated outfits, their placards, their quiet walkouts — did little to allay concerns about their passivity in the face of Trump’s chaotic onslaught www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor of New York under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations in 2021, is entering the race for mayor of New York City. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

An Illinois man was found guilty of murder and hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy to death and injuring his mother. Prosecutors say the man was enraged by the Israel-Hamas war and motivated by anti-Muslim hate www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An attorney for the Tate brothers said they "feel secure in America for several reasons, the primary one being that Donald Trump is the President."

Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

260 foreigners rescued from virtual slavery in Myanmar’s online scam centers are being repatriated apnews.com/article/myan...

“A record number of journalists were killed worldwide in 2024, figures published today by the Committee to Protect Journalists show. Israel is responsible for nearly 70 percent of that total. At least 124 journalists across 18 countries were killed last year.”

RFK Jr., one of the nation's leading anti-vaccine activists and health conspiracy theorists, is confirmed as health secretary. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Tulsi Gabbard, once considered a long shot for Director of National Intelligence, is confirmed by the Senate. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

“The 22nd Amendment prohibits anyone from being ‘elected to the office of the President more than twice.’” @clarissajanlim.bsky.social writes how hard it is to determine how much stock to put in Trump’s toying with the possibility of a third term. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

‘High protein’ is the latest buzzword lining grocery stores shelves. Americans can’t get enough of its favorite macronutrient. Big Food is heeding the call.

After buyouts and layoffs, lots of very talented journos are leaving HuffPost today, including many 10-year HuffPost veterans, rare in digital media. Politics, national, culture, life, crime, breaking, copy, visuals all impacted. A deep, counterproductive cut. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...