Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to conspiring to conceal federal records about COVID origins research using his private email.
GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci’s 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Trump signs an order limiting hepatitis and meningitis vaccines to high-risk children and splitting the MMR shot, repeating debunked autism claims as he signs.
Pentagon releases 41 UFO documents, photos, and videos spanning 1950 to 2026, its fifth batch since Trump ordered the records public in February.
Kennedy tells CDC scientists not to trust scientific authorities a day before the anniversary of the shooting that killed an officer at their campus.
White House weighs an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, overriding aides’ advice to avoid the issue before midterms, Bloomberg reports.
FDA approves the nation’s first mRNA flu shot for adults 50 and up, a year after Kennedy’s HHS canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA research.
Louisiana prepares to transfer 130,000 acres of coastal marshland from an ExxonMobil pollution settlement to SpaceX for a Starship launch site, the Times-Picayune reports.
California’s first-in-the-nation AI transparency law takes effect, requiring AI-generated content to carry embedded origin data users can trace.
Coordinated cyberattack knocks water utilities offline across more than 30 Minnesota communities, with one town warning residents its tower held limited reserves.
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
Kennedy declares the cyclosporiasis outbreak “under control” as Mexico disputes the FDA’s link to Taylor Farms and no sample has tested positive.
U.S. measles cases hit 2,295, the most since 1991, passing last year’s record total with more than five months left in the year.
Trump approves a 30-year nuclear deal that may let Saudi Arabia enrich uranium while waging war to stop Iran’s enrichment program, AP sources say.
Trump orders debarment officials to review a judicial science manual over its climate chapter, which the judiciary already withdrew under Republican pressure.
FDA approves Merck’s Lipfendra, the first cholesterol-lowering pill in a drug class dominated by injections, cutting LDL nearly 60% in trials.
Trump names a climate skeptic with no climate science training to lead the National Climate Assessment, the congressionally mandated report his administration already pulled offline.
Michigan cyclosporiasis cases quadruple to nearly 700 in six days as CDC investigates the parasitic intestinal illness across 18 states, with 20 hospitalized.
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.
