Trump sends military to war with media over Iran strike doubt

Thursday, June 26, 2025

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The Trump administration is going to war with the media over doubts about the Iran strikes, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief, and here's what physicians say RFK Jr. gets wrong about vaccine safety

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2 | Anna Wintour stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief after 37 years

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The Big Question 

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.

Many of these statements are factually incorrect. For example, in a newscast aired on June 12, 2025, Kennedy told Fox News viewers that 97% of federal vaccine advisers are on the take.

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Rare demonstration of how the Bunker Buster bombs dropped by the US on Iran work

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