Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify on Capitol Hill on Thursday, a week after turmoil engulfed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the HHS, will hear from Kennedy on President Donald Trump’s healthcare agenda, dubbed by the secretary as the Make America Healthy Again movement. While the committee does...

The high-stakes political fistfight between Republicans and Democrats over congressional redistricting ahead of next year’s midterm elections shifted to a new battleground this week. A special session of Missouri’s legislature to redraw the solidly red state’s congressional districts and give the GOP control of one additional House seat kicked off on Wednesday with public hearings scheduled for Thursday. “Missouri’s conservative, common-sense values should be truly represented at all...

Ashley Biden, daughter of former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, wrote on social media that it was “one of the hardest summers of my life.” The post comes after a summer during which the former first daughter faced two main challenges: her divorce and her father’s cancer diagnosis. “August 2025. The summer of 2025 was one of the hardest summers of my life. I...