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After RFK Jr. ends vaccine funding, Louisiana's Bill Cassidy says cuts don't fit Trump agenda

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is admonishing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's decision to cancel about $500 million in vaccine ...

RFK Jr. Cancels $500M in mRNA Vaccine Research Projects

THURSDAY, Aug. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

RFK Jr.'s vow to overhaul vaccine injury program echoes grievances of anti-vaccine movement

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to rework the U.S. program for compensating Americans injured by ...

Colbert Has a Brutal Two-Word Response to ‘Roadkill-Munching’ RFK Jr.

Stephen Colbert tore into Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the health secretary cancelled $500 million in mRNA research. “Bad news ...

'Traditionally, it was a Democrat issue': How RFK Jr. is getting left-leaning food laws into deep-red states

Nine Republican states have so far taken steps to regulate food since Kennedy took office with an endorsement from the ...

RFK Jr. halts $500 million for mRNA vaccine research

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine ...

What are mRNA vaccines and what is the impact of RFK Jr. slashing $500M to research them?

This was one in a continuing line of moves that has put RFK Jr.'s vaccine skepticism into public policy, though scientists ...

The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an ‘angry nobody’

The Trump administration recently released a cache of classified files on the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in ...