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The Daily Beast reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is worried about testosterone levels in American teens. The health secretary expressed concern about declining testosterone levels among teenagers as he spoke to Fox News on Tuesday night about a newly announced initiative to phase out eight artificial food dyes. “Seventy-four percent of our kids cannot qualify for military service,” he said. …

The Anchorage Daily News reports: A jury concluded Tuesday that The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for an error in a 2017 editorial that she says damaged her reputation. The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict after lawyers for Palin and the newspaper delivered closing arguments at a Manhattan …

“Within these agencies, a lot of them are going to cover their tracks and cover things up and destroy a lot of evidence. It’s gonna be very frustrating for the American public because this is their information. They deserve the truth. It’s been hidden from them way too long. “Start with Building 7. I don’t know if you can find …

“It is your patriotic duty, I’ll say it again, it is the patriotic duty of all Americans to take care of themselves. Because it’s important for serving in the military but it’s also important because healthy people don’t consume health care resources. The best way to reduce drug spending is the use less drugs because you don’t need them because …

“I’m approaching that agnostically. We’re going to be very transparent in how we design the studies. We’re going to farm the studies out to 15 premier research groups from all over the country. We’re going to look at mold. We’re going to look at the age of parents. We’re going to look at food and food additives. “We’re going to …

Politico reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz took the Make America Healthy Again movement on the road Tuesday, reveling in their power to shape public health in an appearance riddled with false statements and dubious claims. Kennedy, the Health and Human Services secretary, spoke of the current “crisis” of chronic disease, autism and reminisced about his childhood …

The Hill reports: Leadership at The Autism Society of America is pushing back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s recent pledge to find the cause of autism spectrum disorder. Kennedy promised to launch a “massive testing and research effort” on Thursday to figure out what has caused the “autism epidemic” by September. “We find that unrealistic and …

Politico reports: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but. Over the course of 40 minutes, Kennedy, in largely off-the-cuff remarks, asserted that the “Deep State” is real, referenced past CIA experiments on human mind control and accused the employees he …

“Will it lead to recession? I don’t know. I’ll leave that for people with much higher IQs. I went to community college. But is Scott Bessent on a warpath to create a wall around our home? And I like using the home analogy, the metaphor. I’m sorry, it’s gonna get old. But Scott Bessent is out there to reinforce against …

The Daily Beast reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t convinced that “society” should pay to treat people with unhealthy habits. Asked in a CBS interview about the basic level of care every American should receive and who should pay for it, Kennedy said that “when it comes to healthcare, that’s a difficult question” with moral and philosophical considerations. “People have …

USA Today reports: Television host and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed on Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on a 53-45 vote that split the U.S. Senate along party lines. During his confirmation hearing last month, Oz vowed to empower patients to take charge of their health care and crack down on fraud, waste and …

The Daily Beast reports: Federal prosecutors dropped their charges against a man accused of assaulting South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) Tuesday. Mace accused James McIntyre, a national foster care advocate, of assaulting her, claiming that he shook her hand in an “exaggerated, aggressive” manner. A Tuesday filing in D.C. Superior Court revealed that the misdemeanor charges against McIntyre, who …

“Susan Crawford did not win in Wisconsin and the media can grab that all they want! There’s a little bit of a deviation here. They vote in voter ID, but yet the candidate that doesn’t want voter ID wins. Hello! It doesn’t happen. My team’s digging into it. This is just disgusting! I’m just getting the numbers. Numbers don’t lie. …

Politico reports: MAGA election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has eyes on what could be his next gig. And it isn’t selling pillows. Lindell on Monday teased a run for Minnesota governor, a race that could see him face off against popular incumbent Tim Walz, who is said to be sizing up a third term in the post. …

“Now, there’s something far more pernicious and nefarious going on here that is really bad. And I really do hope that Goldberg gets charged for possession of national defense information. It’s what they charged Trump with. The entire Mar-a-Lago raid was predicated upon what Jeff Goldberg just did. “He had, according to him, classified information that he was retaining. National …

The New York Times reports: Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary. Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of …

The Washington Post reports: A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations and autism has been tapped by the federal government to conduct a critical study of possible links between the two, according to current and former federal health officials. The Department of Health and Human Services has hired David Geier to conduct the …

Mother Jones reports: The fake website, RealCDC.org, was first spotted in late January by intel threat researcher Kyle Ehmke. While the page displayed no content then, he noted it was administered through the same Cloudflare account as Children’s Health Defense’s website and other domains related to CHD. By March 20, according to Ehmke’s later research, and as corroborated by archived …

NBC News reports: In an interview with Fox, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr. praised cellphone restrictions in schools and listed health hazards that he said were linked to phone use among children and teens — some backed by scientific research, others less so. Kennedy cited established links between social media use and depression and poor school performance. …

The Daily Beast reports: Joe Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic, has attempted to negotiate with Donald Trump from prison, asking the president to release him and his inmate fiancé Jorge Marquez. The star of the Netflix show Tiger King took to X late Monday night to make his case. Appearing to address Trump, whom he endorsed in the 2024 …