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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders

On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to unpublish its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.

By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.”

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Trump’s pick for health secretary has many dangerous views – but some good ideas, too | Devi Sridhar

Par : Devi Sridhar

RFK Jr’s proposal to remove fluoride from tap water is a matter for debate. But his plans to improve school lunches and crack down on additives are laudable

The United States and Britain: two countries divided by a common language and by very different approaches to health, whether it’s how healthcare is accessed, what kind of food products are sold in supermarkets, what is advertised on TV or even what is in the water that we drink from our taps. Having lived in both countries for an extensive period, the UK, in my opinion, takes a more sensible approach to implementing pro-health and wellbeing policies, closely linked to EU regulations. But the US could soon be following suit, under a range of proposals from a surprising source: Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr. As I laid out last month, many of his ideas are potentially dangerous for public health – from bizarre conspiracy theories to anti-vaccineviews and campaigning – and completely divorced from data and reality. But a couple of them could turn out to be beneficial.

For example, the US still allows certain additives banned by the UK and EUto be added to ultra-processed foods such as cereals, sweets and biscuits, despite the fact that they have been linked to hyperactivity in children. Kennedy has suggested this week that he will ban some of these in food products. Depending on what exactly he does, this isn’t a radical suggestion: it may just put the US in line with what is done in other countries. It’s the same with his suggestions to regulate the advertising of pharmaceutical products and improve the nutritional quality of school meals.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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'Unfit to lead': Blue state governor lashes out at Trump for targeting DEI policies after DC plane crash

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says President Donald Trump is failing to lead the country through the American Airlines crash because he suggested DEI programs put FAA policy over safety.

Trump administration to pause federal government websites in effort to eliminate DEI, anti-Trump content

The Trump administration will put a pause on most federal government websites Friday evening in an effort to eliminate DEI content and any language that is opposed to President Trump’s agenda, Fox News Digital has learned.

US federal workers ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures

Internal email says agency is ‘reviewing’ programs and contracts that ‘promote or incubate gender ideology’

US state department employees must scrub gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian, joining the list of other agencies reportedly sent a similar memo.

The directive came from former ambassador Tibor P Nagy, now the acting under-secretary for management, writing to staff that the department was also launching a comprehensive review to eliminate what he called “gender ideology” from government communications and programs.

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Trump to impose tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China

US neighbors hit with 25% tariff and China with 10% as Trudeau pledges ‘forceful but reasonable’ response

Donald Trump has vowed to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China starting this weekend, potentially setting the stage for a damaging trade war between the US and three of its biggest trading partners. Trump also threatened to follow up with a further wave of tariffs against the European Union.

Goods exported from Canada and Mexico to the US will be hit with a 25% tariff, while products from China face a 10% levy, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters on Friday.

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Legal experts say Kash Patel's opposition to warrant requirement is not a major split

Legal experts say that while FBI director nominee Kash Patel's opposition to a warrant requirement shocked some lawmakers, the warrant requirement debate is far from new.

'Important lesson': Conservative activist reveals 'fascinating' experience at liberal Sundance Film Festival

Fox News Digital spoke to conservative activist Paul Martino about his experience at the Sundance Film Festival, which he says is slowly moving toward the middle politically.

Olympic medalist Scott Hamilton recalls final meeting with champion Russian skaters days before plane crash

Former American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton recalled his final meeting with Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov just days before they were killed in a plane crash near D.C.

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