• CDC shooting highlights increasing rhetoric and hostility against health professionals

    CDC shooting highlights increasing rhetoric and hostility against health professionals

    Aug 12, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... shooter's home turned up documents expressing what they described as discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations. Tell me more about how this rhetoric, the misinformation about vaccines have played a role in this tragedy and have complicated the work that you and your colleagues do. Dr. Megan Ranney: Yes ...

  • After the shooting at CDC, RFK Jr. criticizes agency's pandemic response

    After the shooting at CDC, RFK Jr. criticizes agency's pandemic response

    Aug 12, 2025 06:42 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., refused to directly answer when asked during an interview with Scripps News on Monday what message he had for CDC employees who are worried about the culture of misinformation and skepticism around vaccines. Although law enforcement officials have made clear ...

  • Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines, authorities say

    Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines, authorities say

    Aug 12, 2025 04:32 PM EDT

    ... shooting, Hosey said. He died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer. Asked about threats based on misinformation regarding the CDC and its vaccine work, FBI Special Agent Paul Brown said Tuesday: "We've not seen an uptick, although any rhetoric that ...

  • Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says

    Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says

    Aug 06, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... from a scientific standpoint about the safety, the effectiveness, the overall ability to use these vaccines that won't be based on this kind of misinformation. Based on that, then the societies that will then make their recommendations surely have a database now upon which they can rest their case ...

  • 5 things to know about Gaza's worsening food crisis

    5 things to know about Gaza's worsening food crisis

    Jul 26, 2025 07:21 PM EDT

    ... to one U.S. group with close oversight by Israel. WATCH: Palestinians describe choice between starvation and risking death to get food aid in Gaza Misinformation and the lack of outside reporting due to Israel’s media restrictions have made it difficult to develop a clear picture of the situation ...

  • Republicans and independents have warmed on Supreme Court since 2022 abortion ruling, poll says

    Republicans and independents have warmed on Supreme Court since 2022 abortion ruling, poll says

    Jul 25, 2025 01:02 PM EDT

    WATCH MORE: Examining the facts about contraceptives as birth control misinformation spreads online “Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway. But this court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it ...

  • Conservative influencer Candace Owens sued for defamation over claims that France's first lady is a man

    Conservative influencer Candace Owens sued for defamation over claims that France's first lady is a man

    Jul 24, 2025 03:35 PM EDT

    ... New Zealand and Australia, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II. WATCH: How online misinformation is ‘supercharging’ conspiracy theories The 219-page complaint against Owens lays out "extensive evidence" that Brigitte Macron "was born a woman, she's always ...

  • July 22, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    July 22, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Jul 22, 2025 11:46 PM EDT

    ... and the Trump administration take steps to quell frustration over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The president of the Philippines visits Washington amid trade tensions and fraying relations with China. Plus, as some anti-abortion activists turn their focus to birth control, we examine the facts about contraceptives and online misinformation.

  • July 20, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    July 20, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Jul 20, 2025 10:19 PM EDT

    ... for central Gaza as more than 80 Palestinians are killed trying to get food aid. Thousands of lead pipes are finally removed from Flint, Michigan. A major destination for plastic waste from the United States is saying no more. Plus, the troubling rise of mental health misinformation on social media.

  • News Wrap: Number of missing from Texas floods drops to 3 people

    News Wrap: Number of missing from Texas floods drops to 3 people

    Jul 20, 2025 09:40 PM EDT

    ... fair share of that in better pay and benefits. The current agreement expires in October after the season ends. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, a milestone in Flint, Michigan, as thousands of lead pipes are finally removed and the troubling rise of mental health misinformation on social media.