26 h. ago Trump casts doubt on his own COVID vaccines program after RFK Jr threatens restrictions

Trump wants drugmakers to ‘justify the success’ of Operation Warp Speed following wave of CDC resignations and warnings from public health officials

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57 h. ago Over 340,000 benefit claimants lose support as DWP closes claims

New data from the DWP shows hundreds of thousands of people will not be given support

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3 d. ago As RFK Jr. promises answer to autism, Trump’s war on universities leaves research twisting in the wind: ‘It’s infuriating’

Cutting off grants for international collaborators, punishing universities and freezing their money has all created a situation of uncertainty. One researcher tells Eric Garcia ‘makes you feel like you're losing your mind’

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3 d. ago Megadoc review – absorbing account of an impressive and indomitable Francis Ford Coppola at work

Venice film festivalMike Figgis’s valuable documentary shows how Coppola worked with actors on his $120m passion project MegalopolisWhen Francis Ford Coppola finally started work on his retrofuturist ancient Rome drama-parable Megalopolis (the self-funded passion project he had been nurturing for decades), he invited another director to be a fly on the wall and make a record of his work in progress. This was Mike Figgis, whose limber digital film-making skills were ideal for the task. The result is a thoroughly watchable, respectful, valuable and intimate account of a great film-maker at work – particularly rehearsing actors, a part of directing very rarely shown. (Coppola takes his cast through some wacky exploratory games, like an experimental theatre company.)It’s always impressive to see the indomitable Coppola in full rhetorical flow: holding forth, opining, schooling one and all on what happens when a film is made and how glorious it is to spend and even lose money in the serv...

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5 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as health chief fired in RFK Jr's anti

RFK's campaign to Make Measles Great Again goes from strength to strength, Trump gets sued by someone he tried to fire illegally and more wild things that happened in Trump World in the last 24 hours

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5 d. ago FACT FOCUS: Rural hospitals are expected to lose money from Trump's bill, despite RFK Jr.'s promise

Rural hospitals are bracing for financial losses due to President Trump's tax and spending cut bill

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6 d. ago ‘Horror show’: RFK Jr and Trump fearmonger about autism in marathon cabinet meeting while research is axed behind scenes

Kennedy has said he will release his own report on the ‘epidemic’ of autism next month

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7 d. ago Donald Trump and RFK Jr could 'ban Covid vaccine in months' despite 'chaos' risk

Dr Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist, a close associate of Robert F Kennedy Jr, claims that the Trump administration is ready to ban the Covid vaccine even amid fears of "chaos"

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1 week ago Kirsten Dunst puffs on cigarette in LA after admitting she wants to make a movie where she doesn't 'lose money'

Kirsten Dunst was spotted enjoying a smoke break outside a cafe in Los Angeles on Monday.

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1 week ago Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ makes ‘no sense’ and could lose Treasury money, former IFS chief warns

The chancellor is reportedly planning to levy capital gains on the sale of first properties

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1 week ago Reeves ‘mansion tax’ makes ‘no sense’ and could cause Treasury to lose money, former IFS director warns

The chancellor is reportedly planning to levy capital gains on the sale of first properties

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2 w. ago Chris Pratt defends RFK Jr’s policies against ‘unreasonable’ hatred: ‘I want them all to be successful’

‘Jurassic World’ actor’s wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, is a cousin of RFK Jr.

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3 w. ago In Trump’s America, vaccination rates are declining and measles is spreading | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Trump and RFK Jr have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century – our public health infrastructureNew data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: in 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached a record high.These statistics became all the more disturbing last fall when, shortly after 286,000 children began their educations without proof of full immunity against measles, a man who has bragged about never getting a flu shot was re-elected to the presidency. Since then, the US has contended with its largest measles outbreak in three decades, while the leaders who should be stamping out this crisis are instead fanning the flames. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago One in seven Scottish pubs and restaurants 'considering closure' amid 'brutal' conditions

A survey by the Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA) found ‘the most negative results’ in a decade

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3 w. ago RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world | Devi Sridhar

The avian flu virus is now just one mutation away from easier transmission among humans. Donald Trump’s health chief is a grave risk to world healthProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou’d be hard-pressed to find many public health experts who have positive things to say about Donald Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Alongside his numerous policy failures, one Cornell University study found that he was the biggest source of Covid-19 misinformation. But if there’s one redeeming feature to Trump’s pandemic record, it has to be his leadership on Operation Warp Speed – a massive, government-funded initiative that played a pivotal role in fast-tracking Covid-19 vaccines.“Operation Warp Speed stands as one of the most remarkable scientific and humanitarian achievements of the past half-century,” the former US surgeon general Jerome Adams said. It directed billions of dollars into vaccine development and manufactur...

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3 w. ago Even Trump’s former Surgeon General has hit out at RFK Jr’s plans to gut vaccine research: ‘Going to cost lives’

Warning comes after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced cuts of nearly $500m in funding for mRNA vaccine projects, the technology that powered two major Covid vaccines

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3 w. ago ‘One in four councils could lose money’ under Government’s funding proposals

A report says the changes would create big ‘winners and losers’.

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3 w. ago Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a 'medical miracle.' Now RFK Jr. is halting advancement

President Donald Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a "miracle" for combating COVID-19

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3 w. ago Trump calls RFK Jr ‘three or four times a week’ with the same question

Robert F. Kennedy Jr says President Donald Trump is ‘keeping him under pressure’ with incessant phone calls

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4 w. ago State pensioners could lose DWP payments after 'unfair' £10,000 rule

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been urged to make a change to an 'unfair' rule that could see pensioners lose out on thousands of pounds in payments

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