Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Friday that the Trump administration will begin allowing states to bar recipients of federal food assistance from using the money to pay for soft drinks — a core component of his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. Mr. Kennedy announced the change to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance … Read more
The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as part of a dramatic reorganization designed to bring communications and other functions directly under the purview of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The layoffs, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, amount to a … Read more
Several top Trump administration officials are set to give briefings next month to an influential group of conservative donors allied with Vice President JD Vance. The group of donors, the Rockbridge Network, which has gained prominence in conservative circles, is hosting the officials at its next retreat in Florida from April 13 to April 15, … Read more
Babies are not ordinarily a fixture of closed-door White House meetings. But when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, convened a group of women this month for a discussion on nutrition and other topics, a healthy-eating activist who calls herself “the Food Babe” was stunned to see President Trump’s press secretary with her eight-month-old … Read more
In June 1973, a C.I.A. employee wrote a memo at the request of William E. Colby, the agency’s director, listing various ways the C.I.A. had, to put it delicately, “exceeded” its charter over the years. The seven pages matter-of-factly described break-ins at the French Consulate in Washington, planned paramilitary attacks on Chinese nuclear facilities and … Read more
In the 64,000 pages of documents released this week regarding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, there appeared to be no redactions, those blacked-out sections that typically dot sensitive material, even once it is declassified, to mask confidential or compromising data. Critics said that failure was evidence of an F.B.I. rush to vet … Read more
The release of about 64,000 documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday started a race to find a revelation, as journalists, historians and amateur sleuths scoured the pages in hopes of finding something, anything, that could be considered consequential. Instead, the big reveal was that there wasn’t much of a reveal … Read more
For years, as the government has declassified and published documents related — some very tenuously — to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the assumption expressed by conspiracy theorists and some historians was that anything still being withheld could be big. That assumption led some of President Trump’s allies, including Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F. … Read more
The Justice Department is moving to unseal F.B.I. surveillance records of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about two years before their court-ordered release. The request was made over the objections of the civil rights organization Dr. King founded, which fears details of his private life will be used to tarnish his legacy. In … Read more
Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, was not among the many people poring over the new trove of government files about Kennedy’s assassination when it was released on Tuesday. Instead, Mr. Schlossberg was on social media criticizing President Trump, Republican lawmakers and the news media over the handling of the files. … Read more