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Trump FDA overhauls COVID-19 vaccine approval to focus on older populations, high-risk individuals

The Food and Drug Administration is shifting its annual COVID-19 vaccine approval policies to focus on Americans older than age 65 and other “high-risk” individuals, while increasing the standard of evidence to approve COVID vaccines for low-risk individuals.  “The FDA will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data…

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Acting ICE director demands Tim Walz apologize for calling agents ‘modern-day Gestapo’

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is demanding that former Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz apologize after he called agents “[President] Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Lyons said that “if the governor doesn’t like the laws, he’s free to advocate that Congress change them, but he should refrain from putting ICE officers in danger by likening them…

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Iran’s Khamenei says Americans should avoid talking ‘nonsense’ in nuke talks

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium entirely “utter nonsense” and questioned whether future nuclear talks could succeed.  “For the Americans to say, ‘We won’t allow Iran to enrich uranium,’ is utter nonsense,” he said in a post on X. “We aren’t waiting for anyone’s permission.  “The Islamic Republic…

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