Alex Wayne
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Executive editor, KFF Health News | Read and republish everything we do for $0: https://t.co/DX586uIJen | [email protected] | Never cruise
Florida man | Washington, DC
Joined May 2009
Update: The White House media tracker—intended to name and shame journalists for bias and errors—incorrectly attributed questions in a press conference to a Fox News reporter. Fox News asked the White House to correct it and now there's a 404 error where the page once was.
NEW >> President Donald Trump and his staff escalated their attacks on journalists with a new media bias tracker on the White House site. The tracker comes after the president insulted female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. https://t.co/5Nw2R5caZz
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Gallup's poll = disaster for Trump. Nixon's the only prez with a worse net approval at this point in a 2nd term than him. Trump must break history for the GOP to keep House control in 2026. No 2nd term pres' net approval rose more than 5 pts from this pt through the midterms.
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According to a new report from active-duty and retired FBI agents, there was a bit of an issue when Patel arrived at Provo in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination: he would not leave the plane without an FBI raid jacket. They found a female special agents' jacket for him. But
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: When Witkoff, Kushner and Dmitriev met in Miama last month to craft a peace plan in Ukraine, they were also privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors
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“President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims”
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David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
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“In the days after Alaska, a European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump
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The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
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Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous.
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The National Guard shooting suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, came to the United States in 2021. Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and it was granted by the Trump admin in April 2025, under the Trump administration, law enforcement sources tell @MLevineReports @LukeLBarr & me
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This is a major problem. And one of the many reasons why these ridiculous side shows and secret meetings need to stop. Allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to do his job in a fair and objective manner.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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Louisiana's former surgeon general reportedly is/will be the deputy director of the CDC. Earlier this month, we published a story about how he addressed a deadly (and vaccine-preventable) whooping cough outbreak. Via @WWNO
https://t.co/1Gn40fossE
kffhealthnews.org
Louisiana health officials appear to have deviated from the usual steps for public health communications amid a whooping cough outbreak after it killed two infants.
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SCOOP: Speaker Mike Johnson recently cautioned the White House that most House Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. The message from Johnson, in a phone call with administration officials, came as President Trump’s advisers
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The top House Republican said of little GOP support for extending the expiring ACA subsidies.
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Trump's administration moves to prosecute Senator Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, under military law:
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations
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JUST POSTED: RFK Jr. told me he personally instructed CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines don't cause autism. He acknowledged that large studies of MMR vaccine and thimerosal show no link. But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science. https://t.co/pUOQ6eiZIx
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In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
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US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal https://t.co/p9sU5L2sgN
reuters.com
The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the...
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I’m a doctor who has seen people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong,
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“Earlier this year, Pulte was seen waiting outside the Oval Office with a posterboard depicting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other people in Trump’s orbit as thwarting the president’s agenda from within ...” By @KatyODonnell_ + @nancook
https://t.co/2HM0lYXa3F
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The US’s top mortgage regulator has frustrated many of Trump’s top aides, but the president himself likes Pulte’s pit-bull approach.
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This week on What the Health? From KFF Health News and @wamu885, host @jrovner interviews @Avik, a GOP health policy adviser and co-founder and chair of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. You can listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/0GYzJfYe6p
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Federal requirements limit how long and how far Medicare Advantage members have to travel to see doctors. But when doctors and hospitals leave the plans, Medicare officials rarely check if enough remain. @susanjaffe reports ⤵️
kffhealthnews.org
Health systems drop out of Medicare Advantage plans all the time. Yet government documents obtained by KFF Health News show that federal regulators rarely warn plans that their networks of health...
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The nation's top mortgage regulator has frustrated many of Trump’s top aides, but the president himself likes Pulte’s pit-bull approach. With @nancook
https://t.co/j97zusgwmB
bloomberg.com
The US’s top mortgage regulator has frustrated many of Trump’s top aides, but the president himself likes Pulte’s pit-bull approach.
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