An unofficial tribunal led by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the UK of aiding Israel’s war crimes and being complicit in genocide. Its findings carry no legal weight, but the testimonies of those who witnessed the suffering in Gaza have been stark.
Published On 5 Sep 2025
Connecticut, Rhode Island and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states said Thursday that they’re suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha accused President Donald Trump of waging an “all-out assault” on the wind energy industry. The states’ lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, describes the Revolution Wind project as a “cornerstone” of their clean energy future, abruptly halted by federal officials without “statutory authority, regulatory justification or factual basis.”
Danish energy company Orsted filed a separate suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., also arguing that the administration lacks the legal authority to block the Revolution Wind project. Orsted said it would seek a preliminary injunction that would allow it to move forward with the project, which is 80% complete, with all underwater foundations and 45 of 65 turbines installed.
Interior Department spokesperson Elizabeth Peace said Thursday that the department doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
Work on the project was paused Aug. 22 when the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop work order for what it said were national security concerns. It did not specify those concerns.
Trump has been hostile to renewable energy, particularly offshore wind, and prioritizes fossil fuels for electricity. Revolution Wind is the second major wind project that his administration ordered to stop work. The first, an offshore wind project for New York, was later allowed to resume construction.
In separate recent federal court filings, the administration said it was reconsidering approvals for three other wind farms: the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, SouthCoast Wind and New England Wind. Combined, those projects could power nearly 2.5 million homes in Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island with clean electricity.
Democratic Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, said Trump and his Cabinet “need to end their war on American energy and jobs.”
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNN that he’s concerned offshore wind turbines distort radar detection systems, which could give cover to a bad actor to “launch a swarm drone attack through a wind farm.”
Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold called that a “specious and false narrative” pushed by someone with an “overactive imagination in search of a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.” Lippold was commanding the USS Cole when al-Qaida attacked it in a Yemeni port in 2000.
If drones get that close to U.S. shores to be near a wind farm without being detected by the military, he said, “we have had a massive intelligence — a national security — failure.”
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat and national security expert, has also disputed the administration’s rationale, pointing to the Defense Department’s involvement in reviewing the project.
When it approved Revolution Wind in 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it consulted with the Defense Department at each stage of the regulatory process for the lease area assigned to the wind farm. The DOD concluded that with some site-specific stipulations, any impacts to its training and activities in the wind energy area would be “negligible and avoidable,” according to the record of decision.
The state and federal reviews took about nine years.
Trump and several Cabinet members repeatedly slammed wind power as ugly and expensive during last week’s Cabinet meeting. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about the failure of a massive wind turbine blade at a different offshore wind farm under construction off Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Fiberglass fragments of a blade from the Vineyard Wind project broke apart and began washing ashore last summer during the peak of tourist season. Manufacturer GE Vernova agreed to pay $10.5 million in a settlement to compensate island businesses that suffered losses due to the blade failure.
Kennedy’s family famously opposed an earlier failed wind project not far from the family’s Cape Cod estate.
Trump said, “We’re not allowing any windmills to go up unless there’s a legal situation where somebody committed to it a long time ago.”
Revolution Wind was expected to be Rhode Island’s and Connecticut’s first large offshore wind farm, capable of providing about 2.5% of the region’s electricity needs.
Orsted began construction in 2024 about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of the Rhode Island coast. It says in its complaint that about $5 billion has been spent or committed, and it expects more than $1 billion in costs if the project is canceled. Rhode Island is already home to one offshore wind farm, the five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm.
Rhode Island and Connecticut have said that halting construction of Revolution Wind would harm the states, their residents, investments and the offshore wind industry. More than 1,000 people have been working on the wind farm, and Connecticut committed over $200 million to redevelop State Pier in New London to support the industry.
The states said they’re counting on the electricity from Revolution Wind, particularly in the winter, when demand in New England spikes and natural gas is prioritized for heating. The power would cost 9.8 cents per kilowatt-hour, locked in for 20 years. That’s cheaper than the average projected cost of energy in New England.
The head of Connecticut’s top environmental and energy agency, Katie Dykes, predicts it will cost the state’s electricity ratepayers tens of millions of dollars if the wind project doesn’t come online. She also noted the risk to electricity reliability in New England cited by the region’s independent system operator.
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Associated Press writers Matthew Daly in Washington and Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
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US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people, according to one of the agencies involved in the operation.
The 3,000-acre site, which was built by the Korean automobile manufacturer to make electric vehicles, had been operational for a year.
The Department of Homeland Security told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that agents executed a search warrant due to allegations of “unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes”.
Korean nationals were among those detained, the South Korean foreign ministry said, calling it an “unjust infringement” of their rights.
In a post on X, the Atlanta office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it joined a number of other agencies including ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to arrest 450 “unlawful aliens” at the plant in Bryan County.
It is unclear how many South Koreans were detained.
“The economic activities of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens must not be unfairly infringed upon during US law enforcement operations,” the foreign ministry statement said.
The ministry added that it was dispatching diplomats to the site.
“In Seoul, we also conveyed our concerns and regrets today through the US Embassy in Korea and urged them to exercise extreme caution to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of Korean citizens are not infringed upon.”
The state’s governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had touted Hyundai’s new electric vehicle operation as the biggest economic development project in the state’s history, employing 1,200 people.
The search by federal agencies had also shut down construction on an adjacent battery plant, CBS News reports.
President Trump campaigned for his second term in office on the back of a pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants although he said the priority would be those who committed crimes.
Lyrics provider LyricFind’s lawsuit against rival Musixmatch will go forward after a US federal court rejected a large part of Musixmatch’s motion to dismiss the case.
In a decision handed down on Wednesday (September 3) Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley allowed much of the case brought by LyricFind to go forward, though she dismissed some of its complaints.
“LyricFind plausibly alleges Musixmatch entered an exclusive agreement causing injury of the type antitrust laws are intended to prevent and substantially foreclosing competition,” Judge Corley wrote in her decision, which can be read in full here.
“This is a preliminary ruling in the legal process based solely on LyricFind’s allegations. Once the relevant facts are presented and examined, we remain confident we will prevail,” a spokesperson for Musixmatch told MBW following the ruling.
LyricFind sued Musixmatch and its key investor TPG in March, alleging that Musixmatch’s exclusive deal with music publisher Warner Chappell Music violates US antitrust laws.
That agreement, which went into effect this spring, grants Musixmatch exclusive rights to both sub-license Warner Chappell Music lyrics and provide the lyric data to third parties, even those who have direct licensing relationships with WCM.
LyricFind argued that the agreement was meant to push it out of the lyrics rights licensing and lyric data services marketplaces by removing its ability to provide a comprehensive catalog of lyrics, and that it also ties the hands of music streaming services like Spotify, as they now have to license WCM lyrics through Musixmatch “at monopolistic prices.”
In a motion to dismiss filed in June, Musixmatch called the lawsuit “meritless” and said it was a “textbook example of a disappointed competitor seeking to use the courts to achieve what it could not in the marketplace.”
Among other things, Musixmatch argued that the California court didn’t have jurisdiction, because Musixmatch is an Italy-headquartered company, LyricFind is Canadian, and the exclusivity deal with Warner Chappell was drafted under UK law.
But Judge Corley agreed with LyricFind’s arguments that the court has jurisdiction because many of the DSPs affected by it, such as Amazon Music and Apple Music, are headquartered in the US, and the largest part of Warner Chappell’s music catalog is American.
“LyricFind plausibly alleges Musixmatch entered an exclusive agreement causing injury of the type antitrust laws are intended to prevent and substantially foreclosing competition.”
US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley
LyricFind also claims that Musixmatch and TPG engaged in a “buy or bury” scheme against LyricFind. According to LyricFind’s complaint, Musixmatch attempted to acquire its rival, but when that didn’t pan out, it switched strategies to focus on exclusive contracts that would undermine LyricFind’s position in the marketplace.
LyricFind also alleged that Musixmatch violated a non-disclosure agreement signed while it explored acquiring LyricFind, and leaked confidential information to Spotify “in the hopes that doing so would help them avoid competing on price or quality.”
Notably, the court dismissed that part of LyricFind’s complaint.
“LyricFind does not allege what information was disclosed and the circumstances of the disclosure,” Judge Corley wrote.
However, the judge did allow LyricFind’s complaint against TPG over the alleged “buy-or-bury” conspiracy to go forward, concluding that LyricFind “plausibly alleges TPG independently participated in the… scheme.”
“This decision shows just how weak Musixmatch and TPG’s arguments to dismiss were, and highlights how desperate they are to sweep their anticompetitive scheme under the rug,” LyricFind Founder and CEO Darryl Ballantyne said in a statement.
“The court saw right through their frivolous arguments, and the case will now proceed. We are eager to dive into discovery and see exactly how deep this rabbit hole goes.”
LyricFind has until September 20 to amend the parts of its complaint that the court dismissed, and the case will move to discovery in the meantime, the judge ruled.Music Business Worldwide
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If you care about the future of swimming, not just at the elite level, but at every pool in every community across the country, then it’s time to consider AAU.
The Amateur Athletic Union, often remembered for its legacy, is becoming an increasingly important part of swimming’s future. AAU understands something we often forget: Growth doesn’t start at the Olympics. It starts at the local level with access, affordability, and opportunities to race.
Here’s how AAU can help grow the sport of swimming, and why smart coaches, clubs, and communities are starting to take notice.
1. Lower the Barrier to Entry
Swimming has become expensive. Between team fees, gear, tech suits, and governing body registrations, it can cost hundreds just to get started.
AAU changes that. With a $20 annual registration fee, affordable meet sanctions, and more flexible insurance options, AAU gives programs the chance to bring in more swimmers.
For families dipping their toe into competitive swimming, AAU offers a softer entry point. No sticker shock. No overwhelming schedules. Just the basics: pool, coach, meet. And that matters because if we want to grow swimming, we can’t scare new families away before they even hit the water.
2. Empower Coaches and Clubs
AAU is structured to put control back in the hands of the coach.
Want to host a meet? AAU can approve it in a day.
Want to run a developmental league? Do it.
Want to blend AAU with your USA Swimming athletes? Many already do.
There’s no gatekeeping. No endless paperwork. No bureaucratic slowdowns.
By giving clubs more autonomy, AAU lets teams build programming that fits their swimmers, not the other way around. That freedom is the backbone of sustainable growth.
3. Keep More Swimmers in the Sport Longer
Here’s a stat you won’t hear often: Most club teams have 30–50% of swimmers who never compete in a USA Swimming-sanctioned meet. They swim for fitness, for fun, or to prep for summer league or high school. But they’re not paying $80+ for a membership they won’t use.
That’s where AAU becomes critical. It allows those swimmers to stay insured, stay engaged, and still compete locally without forcing a full buy-in to the national system. That flexibility is key to retention, one of the most important (and overlooked) pieces of growing the sport.
4. Build a Local Meet Ecosystem
AAU gives clubs the tools to create their own competition circuits.
No travel. No waiting for LSC approval. Just a pool, a starter, and a plan.
This gives younger and newer swimmers a chance to race without the stress of big, intimidating USA Swimming meets. It builds confidence. It builds habits. And it builds a stronger culture at the grassroots level.
Plus, when clubs run their own meets, they keep more revenue, which helps fund scholarships, pay coaches, and improve facilities.
5. Create a Parallel Pathway, Not a Rival
This isn’t about picking sides. It’s about building a more complete swimming ecosystem. AAU doesn’t have to replace USA Swimming. It can complement it. Think of AAU as the community college of competitive swimming, a place where kids start, learn the ropes, and build toward bigger things. The clubs that do both AAU and USA Swimming are seeing the benefits. They’re growing faster. Retaining longer. And offering more options to more families.
We don’t see that as a threat to swimming. That’s a way you grow it.
If we want more Olympic champions, we need more swimmers.
If we want more swimmers, we need more access.
And if we want more access, we need systems that meet families where they are.
That’s what AAU offers. It’s not the only path, but it’s an important one to consider. For teams ready to think creatively, serve their full community, and build a stronger base for the sport they love, it might just be a smart move they can make.
Growing swimming doesn’t happen from the top down. It starts at the bottom, with local pools, local coaches, and local kids falling in love with the water. And right now, AAU might be the best grassroots tool we’ve got.
Read the full story on SwimSwam: How to Grow the Sport of Swimming with AAU
Anyone who has ever run over an animal will know how traumatic the experience can be, especially for the animal but also for the driver. And these are not isolated cases: in the USA alone, one million vertebrates die each year in collisions with vehicles. Roads and highways thus become an enemy of wildlife.
Moreover, deaths are only part of the problem: species have problems migrating, reproducing, or searching for other feeding areas, which is known as habitat fragmentation. This is what happened to the Los Angeles mountain lion population: besides the road accidents, it was forced into inbreeding because it could not move to other areas. It was the starting point of a great construction project: the largest wildlife bridge in the world.
The mountainous areas of Santa Monica in California, USA, cover more than 150,000 acres. These landscapes are home to a natural park where a rich fauna roams, including big cats, deer, snakes, lizards, and other creatures. The problem is that they are forced to cross the 101, one of the busiest highways in the country. It is estimated that some 300,000 vehicles travel through its ten lanes daily.
Among all these animals is a feline nicknamed the “Brad Pitt of the mountain lions,” although local scientists use a more aseptic name: P22. This animal has become a mascot of the area and has inspired several murals and even songs. It has also raised public awareness of the plight of the mountain lion. It is estimated that in the last twenty years, some twenty specimens have died after being run over in the 101, a very high figure considering that barely a dozen specimens remain in the area
With this starting point, public and private funds began to be raised to finance a new animal bridge. The total cost of the infrastructure, known as the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, is estimated at $90 million. Work, which began on April 22, 2022, on World Earth Day, will be completed by early 2025. The result? The world’s largest wildlife bridge or overpass, stretching 210ft long and 165ft wide. However, size is not the unique thing about it.
From the beginning, the bridge developed by a studio specializing in sustainable architecture was conceived as a solution integrated with the landscape. In many cases, level crossings of this type are built with concrete and only serve as a place of transit. In contrast, the Wallis Annenberg Crossing, in addition to allowing animals to cross, will accommodate local vegetation thanks to its earthen cover.
Part of the preparations for the project consisted of studying the terrain and vegetation of the area to establish continuity. Specialists in various disciplines, including mycology, have been involved. Once completed, it will glide into the surrounding natural landscape.
Road animal collisions present a challenge at ground level, but the dwellers of the skies also face difficulties. The American Ornithological Society (AOS) estimates that up to one billion birds die each year in the U.S. from impacts with building windows, especially glass skyscrapers. Given these figures, cities such as New York have already approved a directive to force the installation of glass to prevent this mishap in future buildings.
So far, the primary way to avoid these impacts was to apply ultraviolet filters and mark the glass, which was unsightly. Fortunately, a U.S. manufacturer has developed a new type of glass incorporating tiny “beads” visible to birds. Ninety millimeters in size, they are evenly distributed on an inner sheet of the glass pane. They are also compatible with other window treatments.
The aquatic realm also faces its architectural barriers. One example is fish species that migrate upstream annually to spawn, such as salmon, and the presence of dams can be disruptive to these migrations. How can this be solved? Several alternatives are being studied. One of the most striking is this salmon “elevator” installed in a dam in northern Spain, specifically in the Nansa river in Cantabria. In addition, an old fish ladder has been refurbished for the descent so that this species can complete its biological cycle.
Undoubtedly, one of the future challenges is moving towards more wildlife-friendly construction through architectural solutions and an increasing number of green spaces in urban areas. One of the most striking examples of vegetation integration we have seen recently, apart from the Los Angeles wildlife walkway, is the use of tree roots and branches to create living urban elements, such as bridges and walkways. In this article, you can learn more about that discipline, known as baubotanik.
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United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr sparred with US senators over his management of health agencies and past comments about COVID-19 vaccines and antidepressants. At several points during the hours-long Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, Kennedy said senators were making up information or distorting his record.
“You are being dishonest right now,” he told Democrat Senator Tina Smith after she said he had blamed antidepressants on a recent school shooting in her home state of Minnesota.
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When Republican Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana said the government was “effectively” denying people vaccines, Kennedy retorted, “You’re wrong.
“You’re just making stuff up to scare people, and it’s a lie,” he said to Senator Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat who said Kennedy was limiting access to COVID-19 vaccines.
PolitiFact fact-checked some of the most notable back-and-forth moments from Kennedy’s testimony.
Senator Mark Warner asked Kennedy whether he accepts that “a million Americans died from COVID.”
“I don’t know how many died,” Kennedy said.
“You’re the secretary of Health and Human Services,” Warner said. “You don’t have any idea how many Americans died from COVID?”
“I don’t think anybody knows that because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC,” Kennedy said.
More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19, according to multiple statistical estimates.
Many patients who died had comorbidities, including hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Researchers say that identifying causal relationships between comorbidities and outcomes in COVID-19 is methodologically difficult.
Cassidy asked Kennedy if he agreed that President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed, Trump’s 2020 initiative that resulted in the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines.
“Absolutely,” Kennedy said.
Cassidy said Kennedy’s support surprised him, because of Kennedy’s COVID-19 vaccine criticisms and actions. Kennedy cancelled funding for mRNA vaccine research, the science that led to the rapid development of the vaccine.
In 2021, Kennedy falsely said the COVID-19 vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made”.
In the September 4 hearing, Kennedy said that Operation Warp Speed was “genius” because “it got the vaccine to market that was perfectly matched to the virus at that time, when it was badly needed because there was low natural immunity and or people getting very badly injured by COVID.”
Hassan said Kennedy was limiting people’s access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“People who want to exercise their freedom of choice are being denied that because you are citing data that you won’t produce to the public,” Hassan said.
Kennedy pushed back.
“Everybody can get the vaccine,” Kennedy said. “You’re just making things up to scare people, and it’s a lie.”
The Food and Drug Administration has limited the groups of people who are approved to get the most updated COVID-19 vaccine. Anyone age 65 and older and any person 6 months and older who has at least one underlying health condition that increases their risk of severe COVID-19 infection are approved to get the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine, according to August 27 guidance.
People who don’t fit into those categories aren’t banned from getting a COVID-19 vaccine. But getting one might require doctors to prescribe the vaccine “off-label”, making the process more challenging and potentially more costly.
Smith said Kennedy blamed school shootings on antidepressants after the August 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that killed two children and injured 21 people. Kennedy said Smith was “just making stuff up” and he had not said that.
During an August 28 interview, a “Fox & Friends” host asked Kennedy if the government was investigating whether gender dysphoria medications play a role in violent crimes. Robin Westman, the 23-year-old who fired through the windows of the Minneapolis church during a morning Mass, was assigned male at birth and later changed names to reflect a female identity.
Kennedy said that the Health and Human Services Department is “launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence”. SSRI drugs – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors – are a class of antidepressant.
Kennedy previously has linked antidepressants to violent crime.
Psychiatry experts have told PolitiFact and other fact-checkers there isn’t a causal relationship between antidepressants and shootings. About 11 percent of the nation’s adult population uses antidepressants, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Experts say if there were a link between violence and the medications, they would expect higher rates of violence.
Senator Ben Ray Luján and Kennedy had a back and forth over Kennedy’s hiring of David Geier, a longtime vaccine critic.
In March, the Washington Post reported that Kennedy hired Geier to conduct a study of links between vaccines and autism.
Kennedy told Luján that Geier, who is working as a contractor, is not conducting a study. Instead, Kennedy said Geier had access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink, “the biggest repository for vaccine information”.
Kennedy didn’t specify what Geier would do with that information. However, at an August 26 White House Cabinet meeting, Kennedy said his department would have announcements “finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly, almost certainly, causing autism”.
Autism researchers and people on the autism spectrum have told PolitiFact that more people have been diagnosed with autism as its definition and diagnostic criteria expanded over time; autism has no identified single cause.
Senator Raphael Warnock brought up the deadly August 8 shooting at the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta, asking Kennedy if he had been to the campus as health secretary before the shooting.
“No,” Kennedy responded. Kennedy did visit the campus after the shooting, but no employees were there.
Patrick Joseph White, 30, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he fired nearly 200 rounds of ammunition, killing responding DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose.
Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they recovered “written documentation” showing that White distrusted the COVID-19 vaccine and blamed it for making him depressed and suicidal.
While speaking about a need for new CDC leadership, Kennedy said it’s “imperative that we remove officials with conflicts of interest and catastrophically bad judgment and political agendas”.
Later in the hearing, Senator Bill Cassidy told Kennedy he was wrong about the level of conflict of interest in the vaccine panel whose 17 members Kennedy recently fired.
“It was not 97 percent as alleged, rather, it was 6.9 percent,” Cassidy said.
To be on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices, members are required to declare conflicts of interest. At each meeting and prior to every vote, members are again asked to disclose conflicts of interest and to abstain from voting if they have one.
The CDC has published the conflicts of interest disclosed by each member at every meeting from 2000 to 2024.
An August 18 research report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association analysed conflicts of interest in the ACIP and the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee over the past 20 years. Researchers found conflicts of interest have dropped. Conflicts of interest in the ACIP fell to 5 percent in 2024.
Kennedy said “the CDC allowed the teachers union to write the order to close schools” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is misleading.
The American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teacher’s union in the US, consulted with the CDC in 2021 on its school reopening guidance, but it did not “write” the order to close down schools at the start of the pandemic.
A House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, spearheaded by Republicans, investigated whether the union had influenced the CDC’s school reopening policy.
According to the committee, the CDC in February 2021 shared a draft copy of its school reopening guidance with the teacher’s union and added a union-requested trigger that called for closing schools if COVID-19 cases reached a certain threshold.
According to a Democratic memo that Politico reported on in 2023, the CDC consulted multiple stakeholders before the union was aware of the guidance.
The CDC consulted about 50 organisations while developing its guidance, according to the memo, did not invite the teacher’s union to a forum to help preview the guidance, and the union received the draft days after the CDC sent it to several other groups for feedback. The union testified, Politico reported, that it learned about the draft guidance from The New York Times.
Kennedy touted his actions on “fluoride in our drinking water” during his opening statement. In April, Kennedy said he would advise the CDC to stop recommending fluoridated drinking water after misleadingly linking it to cancer and other health risks.
The CDC has long touted fluoridated drinking water as one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. Research shows that drinking fluoridated water at the United States’ recommended levels – 0.7 milligrams per litre – is safe and prevents cavities and tooth decay. Health risks associated with fluoride are tied to higher levels of exposure than what is permitted in US drinking water.
A new Florida law removed fluoride from drinking water, overriding local policies, this summer.
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Former US President Joe Biden recently underwent skin cancer surgery, his spokeswoman said.
Biden had Mohs surgery, she told the BBC’s US partner CBS News, but did not immediately provide further details.
The procedure is used to cut away skin until no evidence of cancer remains.
The 82-year-old had been spotted with a wound on the right side of his head in recent days.
In 2023, Biden had a cancerous skin lesion removed from his chest during a routine health screening.
In May, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
“Cancer touches us all,” Biden wrote on social media at the time. “Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places.”
Biden also had several non-melanoma skin cancers removed in the past, before he became president.
He has largely retreated from the public eye since leaving the White House in January and has made few public appearances.
The Bidens have long been strong advocates for fighting and curing cancer. Their adult son, Beau, died in 2015 from brain cancer.
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