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.
Artemis 2 astronauts break humanity’s all-time distance record during lunar flyby, surpassing Apollo 13’s mark after more than 50 years.
Trump moves to close the nation’s premier federal bee research lab six months after scientists there identified the cause of 1.6 million colony deaths.
Artemis II completes critical engine burn to leave Earth’s orbit, sending four astronauts on a course to fly around the moon and back.
EPA official overseeing methane rule rollback secretly authored the oil industry’s arguments against those same rules while working as a lobbyist, ProPublica finds.
CDC pauses diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and over two dozen other diseases after losing 20% to 25% of its workforce to downsizing.
NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission, the first crewed lunar voyage since 1972.
Trump’s “God Squad” convenes for the first time in over 30 years and votes unanimously to exempt all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas drilling from Endangered Species Act protections.
USDA relocates Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City, closes all regional offices, and consolidates research operations in the largest restructuring in the agency’s history.
EPA watchdog finds nearly 100 Superfund toxic waste sites vulnerable to flooding and wildfires, with 13 million Americans living within three miles of them.
Artemis 2 crew arrives at Kennedy Space Center for NASA’s first crewed moon mission since 1972, with launch targeted for April 1.
Hegseth invokes national security to seek first-ever Endangered Species Act exemption for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening 50 remaining Rice’s whales.
Climate scientist Kate Marvel resigns from NASA after approved research went unfunded and her lab lost its lease, part of a 10,000-scientist federal exodus.
FCC bans all new consumer routers manufactured outside the United States, citing supply chain risks tied to Chinese hacking campaigns against U.S. infrastructure.
Federal judge says the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic looks like “an attempt to cripple” the company for refusing to allow unrestricted military use of its AI.
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA’s endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.’s overhauled vaccine panel from meeting or implementing changes to childhood immunization schedule.
NASA unanimously clears Artemis II for an April 1 launch, sending astronauts around the moon for the first time in over 50 years after months of delays.
FDA rejects autism use for drug its own commissioner promoted, approves it only for rare genetic condition affecting fewer than one in a million.
Anthropic sues over a dozen federal agencies and Pentagon leaders, calling its blacklisting for refusing to allow autonomous weapons and mass surveillance unconstitutional retaliation.
OpenAI robotics chief resigns over Pentagon deal, saying mass surveillance and lethal autonomy “deserved more deliberation,” days after Anthropic was blacklisted for the same objections.
Pentagon tech chief says Anthropic was blacklisted after refusing to allow fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of Americans, calls company’s safety limits “irrational.”
FDA vaccine chief Prasad to leave for a second time next month after falsely claiming Covid shots killed children and facing backlash over rare disease delays.
DOJ lawyer tells federal judge that RFK Jr.’s vaccine authority is “unreviewable,” including the hypothetical power to recommend Americans get measles instead of a vaccine.
Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply chain risk, the first American company ever blacklisted, after the AI firm refused to allow its models for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance.
Tylenol orders for pregnant ER patients fell 10% after Trump warned against use, while prescriptions rose 71% for an unproven autism drug he promoted, Lancet study finds.
