Author: The Gazette
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These Trump voters are wary of COVID shots, but don’t want RFK to restrict other vaccines
By Julia Harte (Reuters) -Chad Hill thinks some questions need to be asked about vaccines. Hill has harbored doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine since it was introduced, due to how quickly it was developed and released. He suspects that medical experts who pushed the vaccine were compromised by ties to drugmakers. And he supported Health…
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Democrats want to reach young male voters. How to get them is up for debate
By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Democratic Party has made no secret of the need to reconnect with young male voters, a demographic that drifted toward Republican Donald Trump in the last U.S. presidential election and will be key in the 2026 midterms. But a year before the elections that will determine who controls…
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US Supreme Court starts new term, with major Trump cases in store
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court began its new nine-month term on Monday with major cases in store concerning presidential powers as Donald Trump probes the limits of his authority under the U.S. Constitution and federal law, while turning away a high-profile appeal by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine…
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US Health Secretary Kennedy speeds autism drug with GSK help
By Patrick Wingrove, Maggie Fick and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. could deliver a policy win for the Trump administration in just a few months after the Food and Drug Administration enlisted GSK to help it fast-track approval of a decades-old drug to treat an autism-related disorder. The FDA’s unusual…
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White House says no shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come
By David Morgan, Andy Sullivan, Steve Holland and Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Monday backed off President Donald Trump’s assertion that government employees were already being laid off due to the shutdown, but warned job losses could result as the standoff looked set to stretch into a seventh day. The Republican-led…
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Collins and Dooley go toe-to-toe in Georgia Senate fundraising battle
Rep. Mike Collins‘s (R-GA) campaign said it raised nearly $2 million in the third quarter, matching the early pace of Gov. Brian Kemp’s handpicked candidate Derek Dooley in the GOP primary to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in 2026. Collins, a second-term congressman and trucking executive who entered the Senate race in late July, said…
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S&P 500, Nasdaq reach all-time closing highs on AI dealmaking boost
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) -The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq advanced on Monday, as artificial intelligence-related dealmaking boosted investor sentiment even as the U.S. government shutdown extended through its sixth day. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 reached record closing highs, while the blue-chip Dow inched lower. Chips took the lead after AMD…
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Russia welcomes Trump’s remark on Putin’s offer to preserve nuclear arms limits
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday welcomed remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump who said that President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to voluntarily preserve nuclear arms limits set out in the New START treaty for another year sounded like a good idea. Putin in September offered to voluntarily maintain for one year the limits on deployed…
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Immune system breakthrough wins Nobel medicine prize for US, Japan scientists
By Johan Ahlander, Niklas Pollard and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments.…
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Changing asylum principles would be ‘catastrophic’, says UN refugee agency head
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Bowing to pressure to reform the refugee convention and asylum system would be a “catastrophic error”, the head of the UN agency for refugees said on Monday. The comments by UNHCR head Filippo Grandi form a response to U.S. moves to sharply narrow the right to asylum and reshape…