Mr. Burgum will be in charge of nearly 500 million acres of public land, 1.7 billion acres of offshore waters, and more than 70,000 employees tasked with protecting wildlife and managing national parks and tribal lands.
The drug was tested in two large clinical trials, each with approximately 1,000 patients who had pain from surgery. In one, patients had an abdominoplasty, or tummy tuck; in the other, a bunionectomy.
Senators had objected to the financial conflict posed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to retain a financial stake in lawsuits against a major drug company. It remains unclear whether any proceeds would be redirected.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has referred clients to a law firm in cases claiming injuries from the Gardasil vaccine, made by Merck. The shots prevent cervical cancer that can be caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to widespread confusion. The backtracking didn’t help.
The Engage Men’s Health clinic in Johannesburg has been temporarily closed after the Trump administration ordered health organizations to stop distributing H.I.V. medications purchased through a U.S. funding program.
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
Astromaterials processors at the Johnson Space Center in Houston collected asteroid particles from the base of the OSIRIS-REx science canister after its return from space in 2023.
Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.
Michael Kratsios was one of the previous Trump administration’s earliest science and technology aides, leading tech policy initiatives on issues such as A.I., drones, quantum computing and cybersecurity.
The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.”
If confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would oversee the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies that issue key decisions for drug companies.
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.
For all its scope, the World Health Organization has a relatively modest budget — $6.8 billion for 2024 and 2025, comparable to that of the health department of Rhode Island.
The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now says will provide “for the common defense.”
Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.
In a scathing letter to lawmakers weighing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health secretary, Ms. Kennedy called her cousin unfit for the job and a “predator” who led family members to addiction.
Caroline Kennedy, at the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., last year. Ms. Kennedy has now publicly opposed her cousin’s nomination to be the nation’s health secretary, saying he is not qualified.
If confirmed by the Senate to be the nation’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have vast powers over immunization policies for children and adults.
President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton watched an oral polio vaccination at a health clinic in Arlington, Va., in 1993, part of his childhood immunization initiative.
One doctor is showing nurses, teachers and parents how to spot eye problems, many of which can be easily treated. Surgery, and even just glasses, can be life-changing, and keep kids in school.
Muanema Fakira holds Sumaya as they wait with other young patients for post-treatment checkups in Quelimane Central Hospital’s ophthalmology ward in Mozambique.
A shipment of medications in an AIDS clinic in Johannesburg. The freeze means many people with H.I.V. are facing abrupt interruptions to their treatment, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics awaiting distribution.
Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”
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