U.S. death rate falls 4.6 percent to the lowest recorded in the nation’s history, 689.2 per 100,000 people, in provisional 2025 CDC data.
A congressionally ordered National Academies report urges the FAA to regulate cosmic radiation as an occupational hazard for flight crews, with pregnant workers facing some of the greatest risk.
The Commerce Department lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 AI model, restoring public access 18 days after officials pulled the Mythos-class system over a security flaw.
A reversal of decades of wildfire science draws scrutiny after three federal firefighters die in Colorado under Trump’s new full-suppression policy and untested fire agency.
The administration asks OpenAI to limit its next model to government-approved partners before any public release, the first time Washington has preemptively restricted an AI model’s launch.
A nonprofit relaunches the government’s deleted climate.gov, restoring 15 years of data, research, and the National Climate Assessment the Trump administration took down.
The NSA is losing access to an Anthropic AI model that Senator Mark Warner said broke into the agency’s classified systems within hours.
A Covid vaccine study showing the shots roughly halved severe illness was blocked from the CDC’s journal and published instead by the American Medical Association.
The National Science Foundation reverses its dismantling of a $386 million ocean monitoring network after a bipartisan revolt and a unanimous Senate bill led by Merkley and Murkowski.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers demands the National Science Foundation halt the dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory network, accusing it of skipping legally required notice to Congress.
A B-52 bomber crashes on takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base during a routine radar-modernization test, killing all eight aboard.
Anthropic sends staff to Washington to get the export controls lifted after they forced it to shut down its two most powerful AI models.
Fourteen Republican attorneys general ask the EPA to regulate the abortion pill mifepristone as a water contaminant, a claim environmental scientists say has no evidence.
The Pentagon releases a third batch of UFO files it bills as transparency, though they show strange lights and no proof of alien craft.
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic’s two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
National Science Foundation decommissions a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network as Alaska’s fisheries face salmon crashes, crab collapses and repeated marine heatwaves.
New Mexico confirms its first New World screwworm case in 60 years as the flesh-eating parasite spreads beyond Texas.
Agriculture Department confirms a second Texas screwworm case, the flesh-eating pest’s first U.S. cattle return since 1982.
American Diabetes Association has state troopers remove five doctors from its conference for handing out an editorial from its own journal criticizing Trump’s research cuts.
FDA launches a six-month safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a step toward restricting mail and telehealth access that antiabortion groups demanded.
Trump invokes the 1950 Defense Production Act to steer nearly $700 million toward reviving coal plants, as the fuel sits in two-decade decline.
Environmental groups sue after federal agencies shrink protected grizzly habitat in Montana from 2,500 acres to one acre, clearing the way for logging.
The National Science Foundation suspends $21 million in UC Berkeley grants over undisclosed foreign funding from allied nations that several researchers say they never received.
National Science Foundation tells disabled employees to retest existing accommodations in a new building before honoring them, the union says.
Trump signs executive order directing the CDC to cut recommended childhood vaccines nearly in half, dropping shots for six diseases.
NIAID scientists at NIH barred from speaking with WHO during active U.S. hantavirus and Congo Ebola outbreaks, four months after Trump’s WHO withdrawal.
Pope Leo’s first encyclical condemns AI militarization with Pentagon-blacklisted Anthropic co-founder Olah beside him at the Vatican.
Energy Secretary Wright tells Utah summit that global warming is real but “no big deal,” not among the world’s top 5 or 10 problems, urging Americans to drop “doomster” climate views.
Commerce Department takes equity stakes worth $2 billion in nine quantum firms including one backed by Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm and another taken public by a Pentagon official.
Trump postpones AI security order after Sacks, Musk, and Zuckerberg lobbied against pre-evaluation provisions in overnight phone calls.
Kennedy fires chair and vice chair of preventive services task force that determines which screenings insurers must cover at no cost under ACA.
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Utah measles cases hit 663 as state remains national hotspot, its largest outbreak in over 40 years, with 51 hospitalized and 567 unvaccinated.
Pentagon releases first 161 declassified UAP files including nearly 30 videos, three months after Trump February disclosure directive.
National Science Foundation suspended 18 UC Berkeley grants in April despite federal court injunction barring such cancellations.
FDA withdraws publication of COVID and shingles vaccine safety studies, citing conclusions HHS says exceeded the data.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban AI nudification apps with $500,000 per-image fines after one man digitally undressed more than 80 women.
FDA expands early access to Revolution Medicines pancreatic cancer drug daraxonrasib after late-stage trial nearly doubled survival.
Justice Department indicts former Fauci aide David Morens, 78, on two counts of concealing pandemic-origin emails as administration promotes lab-leak theory.
Trump fires all 24 members of National Science Board overseeing $9 billion National Science Foundation.
USDA moves to close world’s largest agricultural research complex in Maryland despite congressional appropriations language barring closures without committee approval.
Justice Department moves to reclassify cannabis to Schedule III, would be first federal loosening since 1971 Controlled Substances Act.
CDC overrides scientific review to block publication of report showing COVID vaccine halved ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter.
Hegseth makes flu shots voluntary for U.S. service members, ending a mandate in place since 1945 and rejecting Navy health guidance on readiness.
Trump nominates former deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz to lead CDC, replacing fifth acting director Bhattacharya since 2024.
Maine passes the nation’s first statewide ban on new large data centers, pausing permits until November 2027 to study energy and water impacts.
NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts splash down safely after humanity’s first trip to the moon in 53 years, breaking Apollo 13’s distance record.
CDC acting director delays publication of report showing covid vaccine cut hospitalizations by 55%, raising fears of scientific suppression under Kennedy.
Judge rules Harvard scientist’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she spent a year in immigration detention over biological samples from her cancer research.
After a judge blocked his hand-picked vaccine advisors for lacking expertise, Kennedy rewrites the CDC panel’s charter to give himself broader appointment power.
