• News Wrap: Ksenia Karelina released to U.S. in prisoner swap with Russia

    News Wrap: Ksenia Karelina released to U.S. in prisoner swap with Russia

    Apr 10, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... able to eliminate those exposures. Amna Nawaz: Kennedy's efforts will build upon decades of research into whether genetic or environmental factors might contribute to autism. He's frequently linked autism with vaccines, which has been debunked by the scientific community. While inflation generally cooled here in the U.S ...

  • How a mouse watching 'The Matrix' helped scientists create the largest map of a brain to date

    How a mouse watching 'The Matrix' helped scientists create the largest map of a brain to date

    Apr 09, 2025 06:39 PM EST

    ... s less known about the networks of neurons that perform certain tasks and how disruptions of that wiring could play a role in Alzheimer's, autism or other disorders. “You can make a thousand hypotheses about how brain cells might do their job but you can’t test those hypotheses ...

  • ICE: 'Administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison

    ICE: 'Administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison

    Apr 01, 2025 09:51 PM EST

    ... Baltimore on March 12 after working a shift as a sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore and picking up his 5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother’s house, his lawyers' complaint stated. WATCH: White House claims at briefing that deported man with protected legal ...

  • ACLU attorney on suing Trump administration for using wartime authority for deportations

    ACLU attorney on suing Trump administration for using wartime authority for deportations

    Mar 27, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... sister of one man, Neri Alvarado, and she said that her brother has no ties to Tren de Aragua. One of his tattoos is an autism awareness ribbon tattoo in honor of his little brother. And "Mother Jones" reports that ICE told Alvarado that they were finding and questioning everyone ...

  • CDC the latest federal agency to face leadership shakeup and cuts

    CDC the latest federal agency to face leadership shakeup and cuts

    Mar 26, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... CDC. Geoff Bennett: I also want to ask you about the vaccine skeptic David Geier, who will oversee a study checking connections between vaccines and autism. What should we know about his past work and the concerns there? Lena Sun: David Geier is not a physician. David Geier and his ...

  • March 17, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    March 17, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Mar 17, 2025 11:26 PM EST

    Monday on the News Hour, the Trump administration invokes wartime powers to deport hundreds of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The President dismantles Voice of America and the news and information it provided to people in autocratic countries. Plus, despite an increase in autism diagnoses, law enforcement often lacks ...

  • Why police still lack training to effectively respond to people with disabilities

    Why police still lack training to effectively respond to people with disabilities

    Mar 17, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... 2023, which included a requirement that the department have an outside expert develop a curriculum to train deputies on how to deal with people with autism. As you look back on it, what do you think that the deputies should have done differently? Donna Lou: A big one, I think ...

  • Senate Democrats weigh GOP stopgap bill as government shutdown looms

    Senate Democrats weigh GOP stopgap bill as government shutdown looms

    Mar 13, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... 1990s, early 2000s.He is himself a doctor of internal medicine, but he is known here in the controversies around his push for research on autism, and particularly when he was in Congress rejecting studies that debunked the idea that autism could be caused by vaccines. We know now there ...

  • Trump administration withdraws nomination of vaccine critic David Weldon for CDC director

    Trump administration withdraws nomination of vaccine critic David Weldon for CDC director

    Mar 13, 2025 01:56 PM EST

    ... charge at CDC who believes the lie that our rigorously tested childhood vaccine schedule is somehow exposing kids to toxic levels of mercury or causing autism." The White House did not issue a statement explaining the withdrawal, and Trump did not address it during a Thursday afternoon press availability. The ...

  • Read the full text of Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress

    Read the full text of Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress

    Mar 05, 2025 03:53 PM EST

    ... our children healthy and strong. As an example, not long ago — and you can't even believe these numbers — one in 10,000 children had autism. One in 10,000, and now it's one in 36. There's something wrong. One in 36. Think of that. So, we're ...