https://apnews.com/article/cdc-autism-vaccines-7b1890f626dd5921fafd00fdd1e6425a

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts.

The CDC “vaccine safety” webpage was updated Wednesday, saying “the statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”

The change is the latest move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to revisit — and foster uncertainty about — long-held scientific consensus about the safety of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products.

It was immediately decried by scientists and advocates who have long been focused on finding the causes of autism.

“We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage ‘Autism and Vaccines’ has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism,” the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement Thursday.

Widespread scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link between vaccines and autism. “The conclusion is clear and unambiguous,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a statement Thursday.

“We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in one of the best tools we have to keep children healthy and thriving: routine immunizations,” she said.

The CDC has, until now, echoed the absence of a link in promoting Food and Drug Administration-licensed vaccines.

But anti-vaccines activists — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who this year became secretary of Health and Human Services — have long claimed there is one.

It’s unclear if anyone at CDC was actually involved in the change, or whether it was done by Kennedy’s HHS, which oversees the CDC.

Many at CDC were surprised.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5617595-trump-lashes-out-media-presidency/

President Trump in recent days has lashed out at a familiar foe during a low point in his presidency: the press.

Trump has escalated his swipes at the media as he faces mounting pressure from a weakening economy, setbacks from November’s elections when Democrats won big across the country, and his reversal on the Jeffrey Epstein files, which have all contributed to mounting infighting within the GOP.

Much of his ire has focused on ABC.

On Thursday, in a Truth Social post, he demanded late-night host Jimmy Kimmel be pulled off air. A day earlier, he also said the television network’s license should be taken away and “we have a great commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that,” referring to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr.

Trump offered those remarks in response to a question by ABC News White House reporter Mary Bruce, who had asked the president questions about his decision to host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in light of the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Bruce also asked the president about the Epstein files, which led Trump to call her a “terrible person and a terrible reporter.”

It wasn’t the only time in recent days that Trump directed his anger toward women in the White House press corps. Earlier in the month, when a Bloomberg reporter attempted to ask the president an Epstein-related question, Trump, his finger in the air, fired back: “Quiet. Quiet Piggy.”

President Donald Trump's administration is not taking high prices seriously enough, according to one conservative commentator.

In a Monday night post to his official X account, Erick Erickson — the founder of conservative website Redstate — lamented to his 260,000-plus followers that the administration wasn't inspiring confidence among Americans that they were committed to lowering prices. While Erickson was once a "Never Trumper," he ultimately endorsed Trump's 2020 and 2024 bids for the presidency.

"This White House needs a new message about the economy because the message sounds like the Biden White House's message, denying reality," Erickson wrote. "I bought a 12oz bag of Community Coffee at the grocery store Sunday for $14.99. It was $11.99 at Kroger. And that's just one of many items."

Erickson emphasized his point by posting a clip of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller defending the administration's economic record on far-right network Newsmax. Miller's comments were spliced together with clips of Biden administration Council of Economic Advisors chairman Jared Bernstein insisting that prices for consumer goods under former President Joe Biden were under control.

"The Democrat media lies for a living. They're professional liars," Miller said in the clip. "... Under President Trump, in the last few months, we've seen the first significant reduction in prices and the cost of living since the last time President Trump was in office."

Erickson's argument is based on sound data: According to Federal Reserve data, the consumer price index for groceries is higher than it's ever been. The AAA gas price index shows that a gallon of gas is in excess of $3 per gallon on average. And while Trump specifically ran on lowering the price of eggs, egg prices climbed significantly during the first few months of his second term.

https://www.alternet.org/white-house-high-prices/

Larry Summers, former president of Harvard and renowned sexist, is the latest to be linked to Epstein. Discuss.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11530884/larry-summers-steps-back-jeffrey-epstein-emails/

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/jobs-report-revision-flips-trump-era-gain-loss-its-fueling-bad-poll

Thursday’s jobs report added to mounting evidence that the U.S. labor market is losing steam.

The September report, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), found that employment in July and August was overstated by 33,000.

Job creation in July was revised down by 7,000 from a gain of 79,000 to 72,000 and job gains in August were lowered by 26,000 from a gain of 22,000 to a loss of 4,000.

Originally slated for release on Oct. 3, the September jobs report was postponed amid the nation’s longest government shutdown, which temporarily furloughed BLS staff.

According to the report, federal employment has declined by 97,000 since its January peak. The BLS clarified that workers on paid leave or receiving severance remain classified as employed in its establishment survey.

The weaker jobs picture is mirrored in how Americans see the economy.

According to a fresh Fox News national survey, 76% of voters rate the economy negatively, compared with 67% in July and 70% at the close of former President Joe Biden’s tenure.

Voters largely blame President Donald Trump for the downturn, with about twice as many holding him responsible for the current economy as former President Joe Biden, and three times as many saying his policies have hurt them personally.

https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-to-be-primaried-11079953

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is expected to face a primary challenge in 2028, as discontent grows among some Democrats over his increasingly outspoken breaks with the party.

In a post on X, the Pennsylvania Working Families Party said it intends to mount a primary challenge against Fetterman in 2028, vowing to recruit a candidate who can take on the Democrat.

"We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman once again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the U.S. Senate," the post read. The party has not yet fielded a candidate.

Newsweek reached out to representatives of Fetterman via email for comment.
Why It Matters

This potential primary challenge highlights growing fractures within the Democratic Party and underscores the tension between party loyalty and progressive priorities. Fetterman’s willingness to break with Democrats on key votes, such as the recent budget bill, has fueled criticism from progressive groups like the Pennsylvania Working Families Party.

A primary challenge could force Fetterman to defend his record to the party’s base, potentially shaping the Democratic agenda in Pennsylvania and signaling how far party activists are willing to push incumbents who deviate from their policy expectations.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-now-at-risk-of-losing-seats-in-midterms-not-gaining-them-11085694

Texas Republicans could now lose seats in the November 2026 midterms, not gain them.

Because of a ruling on redistricting in the state, the party is unlikely to pick up new seats from redrawn electoral maps.

Meanwhile, according to unrelated analysis by political scientist Larry Sabato, the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the November 2024 election as they are shifting toward the Democratic Party.

Newsweek reached out to the Texas Republican Party to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.

Why It Matters

There has been a national redistricting fight in which Republicans and Democrats alike have attempted to draw new state maps to impact the results of future votes.

Redistricting could have a major impact on upcoming elections, including the November 2026 midterms, which will affect the balance of power in Congress and, in turn, Trump's ability to carry out his agenda. Republicans have a narrow majority of 219 to 214 in the House of Representatives, so if they lose a handful of seats it could have a huge impact on the last two years of Trump's term.

On Tuesday, federal judges ruled that Texas cannot use a new Republican-drawn congressional map, ruling that there was "substantial evidence" showing "that Texas racially gerrymandered." The map was expected to deliver five additional seats to the GOP.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/

Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.

In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta (META.O)
, opens new tab scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.
Rather than publishing those findings or pursuing additional research, the filing states, Meta called off further work and internally declared that the negative study findings were tainted by the “existing media narrative” around the company.
Privately, however, a staffer insisted that the conclusions of the research were valid, according to the filing.
“The Nielsen study does show causal impact on social comparison,” (unhappy face emoji), an unnamed staff researcher allegedly wrote. Another staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry “doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qx1lenvjo
Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office, an unexpected turn for the high-profile Republican.

One of Donald Trump's MAGA superstars and staunchest defenders, the Georgia congresswoman's relentless calls for releasing files related to late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and recent criticism of some of his policies led to a bitter public feud.

After the US president labelled her a "traitor", she said in a video announcing her departure: "I refuse to be a 'battered wife' hoping it all goes away and gets better."

Trump, who had threatened to support a Republican challenger to unseat Greene, called her resignation "great news for the country" in an interview with ABC News.

"For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD," he later wrote on Truth Social.

"Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!"

Greene said in her video statement, posted on social media, that she would leave the US Congress on 5 January 2026.

She said that she did "not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms".

She had been one of the loudest demanding the release of documents related to Epstein, an issue that once united Trump and his base but has since become divisive.

Trump had spent months arguing that the issue was a distraction concocted by his political detractors.

"Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for," Greene said in her resignation letter.

Over the last few months, she has gone on a number of high-profile news shows and was critical of Trump and fellow Republicans.

The identity of ‘Bubba’ has remained a mystery after the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails took the world by storm. In one of the mails, from the convicted child sex offender's brother, Mark, there is a mention of 'Trump blowing Bubba.'

The reference to President Donald Trump kicked up a row, with many speculating Bubba to be former President Bill Clinton, since that's been his nickname from back when he was an Arkansas politician. However, Mark Epstein confirmed to Newsweek that the Bubba mentioned here is not Clinton.

Now, a bizarre claim has been made that Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. This outlandish claim, to be sure, comes from unverified profiles and has been widely circulated online.

What to know about Ghislaine Maxwell's horse
While several social media profiles have claimed that Maxwell had a horse named Bubba, there is no official report on the same. However, Epstein's accomplice has made no secret of her love for horses.

In an interview with TalkTV, Maxwell had shared the time she interacted with the late Queen of England. She had said, “the story that we shared was about horses because I love horses and she loves horses and so we talked about horses briefly, I remember, and just shared a love of horses. And that was one of her great loves."

One person on X wrote, “Wait a minute. Ghislaine Maxwell owned a horse named Bubba!”. Another added, “Fun fact: Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. The plot thickens.”

A person claiming to be an independent investigative journalist, wrote, “Ghislaine Maxwell’s actual horse was named Bubba. No, seriously. Before Epstein’s “downfall” she had a show-jumper with UK registries.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/is-bubba-ghislaine-maxwells-horse-bizarre-claim-rises-amid-jeffrey-epstein-email-about-donald-trump-bill-clinton-101763315631939.html