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What Happened Today – February 8, 2026

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swears in Mehmet Oz as CMS Administrator in the Oval Office, April 18, 2025

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swore in CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz in the Oval Office, months before Oz urged Americans to get the measles vaccine Kennedy spent years discrediting. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley)

Democrats have five days to negotiate ICE reforms before the only leverage they have disappears until fall. The Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 that anyone who entered the country without going through a port of entry can be held without a bond hearing for the duration of their case, overruling more than 350 federal judges who … Read more

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