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Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been scrapped, the administration is quietly assuring allies that payout plans remain on track, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports.
RFK Jr. claimed his calendar, including meeting details, is public.
But those records have not been released — despite more than a year of FOIA requests from @statnews.com reporters.
More on the state of transparency at HHS, w/ @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social
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CDC today released data showing self-reported alcohol use during pregnancy increased in the US between 2021 and 2024. Roughly 15% of women reported drinking, or nearly 1 in 8 pregnancies. We detailed this problem last month (1/2)
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Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion fund has been scrapped, the administration is quietly assuring allies that plans remain on track.
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None of STAT's requests for Kennedy's schedule have been completed, and some haven't even been acknowledged.
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Northern Ireland.
Musk called to prosecute politicians for allowing ‘dangerous third world savages’ into the UK.
STAT's @jaspar.bsky.social ran an analysis of raw CDC data for our story published in May. We found drinking rates ticked slightly downward in 2024, a single-year change. It's too early to say whether that's a trendline or an outlier. That Q really matters (2/2) www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/d...
!!! RFK Jr. claims his calendar is publicly available. We’ve been trying to get it for a year, via @statnews.com
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Remember when Musk told investors that Twitter would 5x revenue to $28 billion by 2028 and more than 4x its users to nearly 1 billion? Well, that's no where near happening.
Instead he's made even loftier predictions for a much larger company that will go public tomm: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/t...
Didn't see this reported anywhere but it feels like it's worth noting that Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) said she met with Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon on June 4 and they aired out their grievances over "gender ideology" in schools.
Not ideal.
Rioters in Belfast set cars and homes ablaze in immigrant communities.
A new study found that the number one environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status of a child's family. www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/s...
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More than 1 in 8 pregnant women report drinking. Doctors warn fetal alcohol disorders may be more common than many realize, perhaps more common than autism.
Trump: "Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening."
