Good afternoon and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells the Senate that turnover at the CDC was justified, Syria faces the country's worst drought in decades, and why politicians are increasingly blaming AI.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) |
Kennedy says CDC turnover was justified because of its COVID-19 response |
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate committee on Thursday that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leaders who left the agency last week deserved to be fired. He criticized CDC recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic tied to lockdowns and masking policies, and claimed — wrongly — that they "failed to do anything about the disease itself." Read more. |
