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Governor Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo have announced that Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, making it the first in the nation to do so. Vaccines protecting against once-common and sometimes deadly childhood diseases like polio and measles have long been required for children at schools across the U.S.DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The vaccine announcement, which Ladapo said would allow…

Politics / September 3, 2025 With Trump’s power grabs escalating, the Democratic establishment is still taking the time to fret over a rising star in its own party. Ad Policy NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 29: New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March in June.(Rob Kim / Getty Images) American history abounds with well-known monuments to brittle intellectual orthodoxies, from the Scopes trial to the cult of the Marvel blockbuster. To that illustrious lineage, we can add the perennial spectacle of the Democratic establishment blanching before the prospect of a successful…

Damage in California Gold Rush town of Chinese Camp as lightning sparked-fires scorch 3 counties Damage in California Gold Rush town of Chinese Camp as lightning sparked-fires scorch 3 counties 03:41 A wildfire known as the 6-5 Fire has scorched homes in a historic California Gold Rush town that was settled around 1850 by Chinese miners. Photos show the quick-moving blaze, which rapidly expanded to more than 10 square miles and grew without containment on Wednesday.The wildfire forced the evacuation Tuesday of the Chinese Camp and surrounding highways, according to CalFire, the state’s chief fire agency. Other areas were under…

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and two prominent members of Congress who have led the charge for more information to be released on Epstein’s abuse on Wednesday called for the rest of the files to be released. “Our government could have saved so many women, but Jeffrey Epstein was too important and those women didn’t matter,” said Marina Lacerda. “Why? Well we matter now. We are here today, and we are speaking, and we are not going to stop speaking.”Epstein was facing trial on sex trafficking charges when he died in federal custody in 2019 in what numerous investigations deemed a…

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) speaks during a news conference with immigration experts, DACA recipients and DREAMers to mark the 13th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in Washington, D.C. on June 11, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds//AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds//AFP via Getty Images More than three dozen Democratic and independent senators are asking Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to clarify the agency’s position on beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Also known as DACA, the program was created in 2012 to protect from deportation children who arrived…

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted again this week, spewing lava 500 feet into the air from the crater at its summit, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The eruption ended around 8 p.m. local time on Tuesday night, after producing approximately 337 million cubic feet of molten rock over a 13-hour period. This marked the 32nd episode in an ongoing eruption event at Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, which began in December. Lava from the eruption has been contained inside the summit of the crater at Hawaii Volcanoes National State Park, a massive protected and uninhabited area located on the Big Island…

September 3, 2025 Congressional Democrats should demand that he retract his grotesque claims or resign. Ad Policy White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks during a television interview with CNN outside the White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025. (Allison Robbert / Getty Images) We are all familiar with the Trump presidential strategy of “flooding the zone.” Its premise is that the mainstream media is incapable of running with more than one or two stories at a time. Therefore, if you hit the system on multiple fronts simultaneously this will take the wind out of any…

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point’s library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military leader. There also are plans to restore a bust of Lee that had been removed from a plaza at the U.S. Military Academy, and a quote from Lee about honor that was removed from a separate plaza is now on display beneath the portrait, an Army spokesperson said Tuesday. The items were removed to comply with a Department of Defense directive in 2022 that ordered the…

What was happening in the criminal case of Nathalie Rose Jones, who was facing charges in Washington, D.C., federal court this summer, wasn’t typical.  A grand jury of Washington, D.C., citizens on Tuesday had denied the Justice Department’s request to indict Jones, who was accused of a federal crime for allegedly posting an Instagram threat against President Trump.In the nearly empty, dimly lit courtroom, Judge Moxila Upadhyaya listened to arguments from attorneys for nearly 15 minutes and surveyed the case file before her. She paused, looked up at the federal prosecutor standing 10 feet away and asked what the Justice…

An AI-generated image of former President John Adams is part of an exhibit that is a partnership between the Trump administration and conservative nonprofit PragerU. The White House/PragerU hide caption toggle caption The White House/PragerU A new history exhibit commissioned by the Trump administration has some historians perplexed, as the administration’s pushback on arts and history raises questions about omitting marginalized voices in the nation’s history. Eighty-two paintings — including portraits of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as key events from America’s founding — make up The Founders Museum. The exhibit, just steps from the…