Pakistan says it's continuing diplomatic efforts to end the war between the United States and Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But President Donald Trump told Al Jazeera he's got “no time schedule” to resolve the conflict reaching the six-month mark on Friday. Trump said he thinks the U.S. is “winning very big.” U.S. voters will soon get their say.
The Iran war has undermined Trump’s campaign pledge to steer clear of foreign conflicts and challenges Republicans clinging to narrow majorities in Congress. HHS responds to AP report on Kennedy’s letter about measles vaccine The Department of Health and Human Services said in response to questions from the AP that the Samoa visit “was unrelated to vaccines.” “Any claim or insinuation based on these letters that Secretary Kennedy lied under oath or to Congress is not only false but outright defamatory,” the department said in a written statement. Kennedy was not under oath during his confirmation hearing.
Knowingly giving material false testimony to Congress is a crime that carries a possible prison sentence regardless of whether a person is under oath, though it is rarely prosecuted. HHS did not make Kennedy available for an interview. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
The Samoan prime minister’s office and the former prime minister who corresponded with Kennedy did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy led. AP exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines.
New documents refute that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that his 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had “ nothing to do with vaccines.” New documents obtained by The and The Guardian refute that testimony. Kennedy, then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preceded the visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation’s measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who had received them.
In the letter, he used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times. The letter raises questions about how truthful Kennedy was in testimony before Congress. During an arduous confirmation process where he needed the support of some skeptical Republican lawmakers to advance, Kennedy also pledged to maintain vaccine policies that, once in office, he moved to change. ▶ Read more, including the letters from Kennedy and Samoa’s prime minister Outgoing White House press secretary talks Texas and her replacement Karoline Leavitt says there’s “no shortage of applications” to replace her.
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