Trump’s broad ban on risky gain-of-function research nears completion

President Donald Trump could sign a sweeping executive order banning gain-of-function research — research that makes viruses dangerous in the lab —as soon as May 6, […]

Ex-NIH leader repeats denial that ‘transgender mice’ experiments ever happened

President Joe Biden’s former director of the National Institutes of Health said that the institutes never funded “transgender” mice experiments despite a litany of NIH projects detailing […]

DNI Tulsi Gabbard forms task force to curb spy agency abuses

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday announced the formation of a task force that will declassify intelligence and attempt to uproot the politicization of the […]

New reports unearth buried intel on origins of COVID

Intelligence undermining the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began naturally at a wet market has been buried for years despite a 2023 law requiring declassification, according to […]

Fauci’s wife, an NIH bioethicist who never probed ethics of Wuhan research, fired

Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony Fauci, was among the health bureaucrats who […]

Trump admin gives DC health bureaucrats a choice: Move to Alaska or resign

Some leaders of the many sprawling agencies and centers that make up the Department of Health and Human Services have been given a choice: Move out of […]

Exclusive: Researchers axed data point undermining ‘narrative’ that white doctors are biased against black babies

A researcher who argued that infant mortality is higher for black newborns with white doctors because of racial bias omitted a variable from the paper that “undermines […]

RFK slashes 10,000 jobs in first step to gut ‘bureaucratic sprawl’ at HHS

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to slash 10,000 employees in a major restructuring of the whole department, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced […]

‘The pandemic is over’: All NIH COVID grants eliminated under new directive

A two-sentence paragraph in a new guidance document to National Institutes of Health grant managers brings a five-year surge of COVID-19 research funding to a screeching halt. […]

Trump administration revokes billions in COVID spending

Five years after the first COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will pull back billions in pandemic spending from state and local public […]

‘You need a pitbull’: House task force to probe whether CIA misled Congress on JFK assassination

The House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold its first hearing on the newly released John F. Kennedy files on April 1 and […]

‘Controlled American sources’: CIA agents posing as State Department officials outnumbered real ones, JFK doc shows

Several foreign embassies housed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents posing as genuine State Department officials between1950 to 1960, according to a document found in the […]