Kennedy's Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine  —  Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.  —  The lawyer helping Robert F …

Texas files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider  —  This case sets up a legal battle between Texas' near-total abortion ban and New York's shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution.  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing …

Pelosi Hospitalized in Luxembourg After Falling  —  A person familiar with the incident said the former House speaker, 84, had tripped going down stairs at a palace.  She was taken to a hospital for treatment and evaluation.  —  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized on Friday …

Exclusive: Trump transition wants to scrap crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla  —  The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla (TSLA.O), according to a document seen by Reuters …

America voted for a dumpster fire — Democrats just need to let it burn itself out  —  There's a quiet but intense debate going on today in America, over how and whether the country will function over the next few years.  —  Despite Republicans having an ostensible House majority for the last two years …

OpenAI's Sam Altman to Donate $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund  —  Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations.  —  OpenAI said on Friday that its chief executive, Sam Altman, was planning to donate $1 million …

Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  Donald Trump's support in rural America appears to have virtually no ceiling.  In last month's election, Trump won country communities …

Democrats need to change their approach to Trump's second term, top Kamala Harris pollster says  —  One of the first public airings of Democrats' strategy suggests they should try something new this time around with the president-elect.  —  A pollster to Kamala Harris' presidential campaign …

Vance invites Daniel Penny to Army-Navy game  —  “Daniel's a good guy, and New York's mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance wrote in a post on X.  —  Vice-president elect JD Vance will bring Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran recently acquitted …

Trump calls for mystery drones to be shot down  —  President-elect Trump on Friday evening called for authorities to shoot down the mysterious drones that have been seen in the skies of New Jersey and around the country.  —  He also suggested the government must know more about the mysterious sightings.

Trump says GOP will push to eliminate daylight saving time  —  President-elect Trump on Friday said Republicans would push to eliminate daylight saving time, calling it “inconvenient” and “costly.”  —  “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time …

About 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll  —  Americans may have recently elected Donald Trump to a second term, but that doesn't mean they have high confidence in his ability to choose well-qualified people for his Cabinet …

'Everyone's demoralized.' Trump's climate threats rattle world's biggest science meeting  —  Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office.  —  Censorship.  Funding cuts.  Layoffs.

Gillibrand Presses Biden to Amend the Constitution to Enshrine Sex Equality  —  Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.

'I wish I didn't pull that damn fire alarm': Rep. Bowman reflects on his time in Congress, primary loss  —  “I wish I didn't pull that damn fire alarm, you know what I'm saying?”  —  A candid admission by New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman about a moment that made him the butt of jokes …

Six Childhood Scourges We've Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines  —  Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.  —  Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's picks for the government's top health posts …

Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight  —  Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed.  Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.

A toxic brew of money and threats is perverting the courts  —  Alex Jones and Elon Musk are using MAGA tactics to intimidate judges. … 📚  —  Earlier this week, The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones's Infowars fell apart in a manner that was as perplexing as it was depressing.