https://www.scmp.com/rss/523213/feed The latest news and top stories on Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, the son of the assassinated former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy Jr oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). Formerly an environmental lawyer, he co-founded Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance. Kennedy is known for his vaccine-sceptic views, challenging... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr and his wife Carolyn Bessette, the subjects of Ryan Murphy’s hit series Love Story, died during a plane crash. Kennedy was piloting the private plane, and crashed it into the Atlantic Ocean. The couple and Bessette’s older sister Lauren, who also passed away in the accident, had been en route to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, to attend the wedding of Rory Kennedy. The youngest daughter of Ethel and Robert Kennedy, Rory was set to tie the knot with writer Mark... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3348365/who-rory-kennedy-and-what-happened-her-wedding-after-jfk-jrs-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3348365/who-rory-kennedy-and-what-happened-her-wedding-after-jfk-jrs-death?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:00:29 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, one of 2026’s biggest TV sensations so far, aired its season finale on March 26. The FX series chronicles the intensely scrutinised romance between John F. Kennedy Jr – son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – and Calvin Klein publicist Carolyn Bessette. The couple is portrayed by Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon, while JFK Jr’s cousin and close friend, Prince Anthony Radziwill, is played... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3348158/meet-erich-bergen-who-plays-jfk-jrs-royal-cousin-anthony-radziwill-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3348158/meet-erich-bergen-who-plays-jfk-jrs-royal-cousin-anthony-radziwill-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:24 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar Ryan Murphy’s hit FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette has been one of the biggest TV sensations of the year so far. The show, which explores the romance between John F. Kennedy Jr, son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette, has left a new generation swooning over the 1990s “It” couple, who died in a plane crash in 1999. The show has taken some creative liberties in its portrayal of the pair and has... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/icons-influencers/article/3347934/meet-rosemarie-terenzio-close-friend-john-f-kennedy-jr-and-carolyn-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/icons-influencers/article/3347934/meet-rosemarie-terenzio-close-friend-john-f-kennedy-jr-and-carolyn-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:00:13 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Alessandro Nivola takes on the role of American fashion designer Calvin Klein – Carolyn Bessette’s former boss – in Ryan Murphy’s hit TV anthology Love Story. The series, which dramatises the tumultuous relationship of the former Calvin Klein publicist and John F. Kennedy Jr, also sheds light on the designer’s relationship with Bessette and marriage to Kelly Klein. In episode six (spoiler alert) viewers see Bessette deliver what, to Klein, is the ultimate betrayal – her resignation. And with... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3347285/meet-alessandro-nivola-who-plays-calvin-klein-love-story-starring-sarah-pidgeon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3347285/meet-alessandro-nivola-who-plays-calvin-klein-love-story-starring-sarah-pidgeon?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:00:28 +0000 Dov H. Levin Dov H. Levin As Chinese science makes great strides, some US China hawks have been sounding the alarm. In their view, Chinese scientific progress is a significant national security threat to the United States, as it signals the relative decline of US scientific dominance and potentially creates dependence on China. In one extreme case of this view, Leland Miller, a senior consultant for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, declared in a recent interview that China discovering a cure for... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3346757/us-hawks-are-wrong-chinas-rise-science-benefits-america-too?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3346757/us-hawks-are-wrong-chinas-rise-science-benefits-america-too?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:30:07 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa While the internet has been obsessed with Ryan Murphy’s Love Story, which dramatises John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette’s tumultuous relationship and deaths in a 1999 plane crash, the series has also put the spotlight on Calvin Klein – Bessette was once a publicist for the brand – and his marriage to Kelly Klein, his second wife. The Kleins were married for 20 years, but had already separated for a decade when they finalised their divorce in 2006. Kelly was a close friend of Bessette and a... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346483/meet-calvin-kleins-ex-wife-and-muse-kelly-who-was-carolyn-bessettes-close-friend?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346483/meet-calvin-kleins-ex-wife-and-muse-kelly-who-was-carolyn-bessettes-close-friend?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:00:14 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar John F. Kennedy Jr, son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is widely considered one of America’s most timeless heartthrobs. The late attorney and publisher is now back in the spotlight thanks to FX’s Love Story. The hit series executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, which focuses on JFK Jr’s whirlwind romance with fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette, is currently the most popular title on Hulu, according to streaming data collection website FlixPatrol. The success... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346466/who-did-jfk-jr-date-his-love-story-carolyn-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346466/who-did-jfk-jr-date-his-love-story-carolyn-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:13 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Carole Radziwill, a former journalist and TV personality, was married to John F. Kennedy Jr’s cousin and close friend Prince Anthony Radziwill for five years before he succumbed to a rare form of cancer, passing away just three weeks after JFK Jr had died in a plane crash near Martha’s Vineyard. The now 62-year-old widow and her late husband were close friends of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette, whose tragic story is detailed in Ryan Murphy’s hit series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346375/who-carole-radziwill-and-why-jfk-jr-and-carolyn-bessettes-friend-not-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346375/who-carole-radziwill-and-why-jfk-jr-and-carolyn-bessettes-friend-not-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:00:10 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa JFK Jr, the son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, lived his life in the spotlight and was even adoringly dubbed the “Prince of America” by the media. Not surprisingly, his wife Carolyn Bessette, a former Calvin Klein publicist, found herself thrust into the limelight following their relationship. Throughout Ryan Murphy’s ongoing Love Story: JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette series, we get insights into their highly publicised romance, tumultuous marriage and eventual death in... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346362/meet-carolyn-bessettes-low-profile-parents-ann-messina-and-william-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346362/meet-carolyn-bessettes-low-profile-parents-ann-messina-and-william-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:00:33 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar FX’s Love Story may be the most-watched TV show on Hulu, according to streaming data collection website FlixPatrol, but not everyone is enjoying it. The series, executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, chronicles the highly publicised romance of John F. Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette, whose lives were tragically cut short in a plane crash in 1999, three years after their 1996 wedding. JFK Jr, son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is played by Paul Anthony Kelly,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346354/meet-ernest-hemingways-great-granddaughter-dree-who-plays-daryl-hannah-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3346354/meet-ernest-hemingways-great-granddaughter-dree-who-plays-daryl-hannah-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:00:20 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa In the latest episode of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, viewers got a look into John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s secret 1996 wedding ceremony in Cumberland Island, Georgia. When JFK Jr. and Bessette tied the knot, details of the wedding were sparse and only revealed later in the 2024 book, JFK Jr: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil. The nuptials took place in a small Baptist church on Cumberland Island with a short guest list... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3345725/who-was-anthony-radziwill-polish-royal-cousin-john-f-kennedy-jr?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3345725/who-was-anthony-radziwill-polish-royal-cousin-john-f-kennedy-jr?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:00:12 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s timeless romance captivated the world in the 1990s. Now, a whole new generation is obsessing over the couple, thanks to FX’s Love Story. The first season of the show, executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, focuses on the pair’s dizzying relationship unfolding under intense media scrutiny. It stars Tony-nominated actress Sarah Pidgeon as fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette and breakout talent Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr, son of former US president John F.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3345563/what-happened-designer-carolyn-bessettes-wedding-dress-narciso-rodriguez?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3345563/what-happened-designer-carolyn-bessettes-wedding-dress-narciso-rodriguez?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:00:12 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa In the latest episode of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, the Calvin Klein publicist is invited by JFK Jr. to join a family dinner in Massachusetts, leading to an uncomfortable encounter for Bessette (played by Sarah Pidgeon) when she is grilled by Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, for wearing a fashionable scarf to dinner and quizzed about current events. Despite Ethel’s initial cold treatment of Bessette, the Kennedy family matriarch later warmed... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3345241/who-was-ethel-kennedy-and-was-she-really-mean-carolyn-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3345241/who-was-ethel-kennedy-and-was-she-really-mean-carolyn-bessette?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:00:16 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Ryan Murphy’s new limited series, Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette on FX, looks back at the whirlwind romance and eventual tragic death of JFK Jr. and Bessette in the 1990s, an incident that further reinforced speculations of the so-called “Kennedy curse”. In July 1999, Bessette, her sister Lauren, and JFK Jr. were killed in a plane crash, with him as the pilot. The unfortunate incident left his elder sister, Caroline Kennedy – played by actress Grace Gummer in the series – as... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3344838/meet-meryl-streeps-daughter-grace-gummer-who-plays-caroline-kennedy-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3344838/meet-meryl-streeps-daughter-grace-gummer-who-plays-caroline-kennedy-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:00:14 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo A former senior US official has said working closely with allies and partners is the only effective way to constrain China. “Given the size and the immensity of the China challenge, the only way that the United States is going to be effective to meet that challenge is if we work with other partners and allies,” said Kurt Campbell, the former deputy secretary of state under Joe Biden. That is no doubt true, but good luck convincing them. When so many top officials within the US government up to... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3344272/how-unhinged-washington-unleashes-american-craziness-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3344272/how-unhinged-washington-unleashes-american-craziness-world?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:30:09 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Ryan Murphy’s new limited series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette chronicles the tragic romance of JFK Jr. (played by Paul Kelly) and the Calvin Klein publicist (played by Sarah Pidgeon) from their meeting in 1992 to their whirlwind romance. The series goes into their intimate nuptials and eventual death in 1999, when a plane piloted by JFK Jr crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing him, Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette. The show premiered earlier this month on February... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3344148/meet-michael-bergin-former-calvin-klein-model-who-dated-carolyn-bessette-told-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3344148/meet-michael-bergin-former-calvin-klein-model-who-dated-carolyn-bessette-told-love-story?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:00:12 +0000 Ishani Sarkar Ishani Sarkar FX’s Love Story is the internet’s latest obsession. The inaugural season of the biographical romance series created by Connor Hines and executive produced by Ryan Murphy chronicles the passionate relationship between lawyer and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr – also son of former US president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – and fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette. In the story so far, we see John-John (Paul Anthony Kelly) navigate his relationship with Daryl Hannah (Dree... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3343730/what-happened-between-daryl-hannah-and-jfk-jr-and-where-she-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3343730/what-happened-between-daryl-hannah-and-jfk-jr-and-where-she-now?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:00:16 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg One year after President Donald Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization, the process was formally completed on Thursday, though the nation is leaving behind unpaid debt of roughly US$260 million. All funding to the health agency has been terminated and people working with the WHO have been recalled from all offices and its headquarters, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday. The US has also ended all participation in WHO-sponsored leadership... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340913/us-walks-away-who-leaving-unpaid-tab-us260-million?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340913/us-walks-away-who-leaving-unpaid-tab-us260-million?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:26:21 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that several major medical organisations can move forward with their lawsuit challenging policies adopted under US Health Secretary Robert ‌F. Kennedy Jnr that they say will lower vaccination rates. US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston rejected ‍arguments by lawyers for US President Donald Trump’s administration that the groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, lack legal standing to pursue the case because they could not show they were harmed by... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338967/judge-allows-lawsuit-against-rfk-jnrs-covid-19-vaccine-policies-proceed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338967/judge-allows-lawsuit-against-rfk-jnrs-covid-19-vaccine-policies-proceed?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:00:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse American environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of late president John F. Kennedy, has died from cancer at the age of 35, her family announced on Tuesday. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family wrote in a statement posted on the JFK Library Foundation’s Instagram account. Schlossberg, a science and climate reporter for The New York Times, wrote movingly about her diagnosis with acute myeloid leukaemia in an essay... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338216/jfks-granddaughter-journalist-tatiana-schlossberg-dies-35?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338216/jfks-granddaughter-journalist-tatiana-schlossberg-dies-35?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:10:37 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump’s hand-picked board voted on Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts centre as the Trump-Kennedy Centre, the White House said, in a move that was quickly denounced as a “disgrace” by the Democratic leader of the House, who is on the board. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the vote on social media, attributing it to the “unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336973/world-famous-kennedy-centre-renamed-honour-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336973/world-famous-kennedy-centre-renamed-honour-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:42:59 +0000 Reuters Reuters A group of vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all US children receive the hepatitis B shot at birth, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains. The committee voted to keep the birth dose only for infants whose mothers test positive for the virus, replacing the 1991 universal recommendation that has protected all children from hepatitis B infections, which can lead to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335421/us-vaccine-advisers-say-not-all-newborns-need-hepatitis-b-shot-win-rfk-jnr?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335421/us-vaccine-advisers-say-not-all-newborns-need-hepatitis-b-shot-win-rfk-jnr?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:00:03 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter disclosed on Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in The New Yorker that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, wrote that she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34. After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukaemia with a rare mutation,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333821/jfks-granddaughter-says-she-has-terminal-cancer-criticises-cousin-rfk-jnr?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333821/jfks-granddaughter-says-she-has-terminal-cancer-criticises-cousin-rfk-jnr?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:45:06 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Mercury, a fixture of dentistry for more than 175 years, is finally set for extinction. Countries around the world agreed on Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams by 2034 in a decisive step towards protecting human health from the toxic metal. At a conference in Geneva, signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury – aimed at protecting humans and the environment from mercury pollution – called time on mercury amalgams. Nations agreed “to end the use of dental amalgam... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3332022/no-more-mercury-your-mouth-toxic-metals-use-tooth-filling-end-2034?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3332022/no-more-mercury-your-mouth-toxic-metals-use-tooth-filling-end-2034?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:20:55 +0000 Reuters Reuters In some neighbourhoods of heavily Democratic Washington, Halloween displays with a decidedly political tone have long been a tradition. Nine months into Republican US President Donald Trump’s second term, some residents are staging anti-Trump yard displays prompted in part by his administration’s budget cuts, job lay-offs and norm-breaking policies. This Halloween also coincides with one of the longest government shutdowns in US history. In a front yard close to the US Capitol, Donna Breslin,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330976/washington-halloween-displays-show-scariest-thing-democrats-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330976/washington-halloween-displays-show-scariest-thing-democrats-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:28:37 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Every other Friday, exactly at 3pm, a highly coveted product goes on sale and sells out within minutes. The limited release isn’t for the drop of a new sneaker or the latest Labubu. It’s for butter. Saxelby Cheesemongers sells up to 60 pounds (27kg) of cult favourite Animal Farm Creamery butter at an eye-popping US$60 per pound during its online-only flash sales. The average cost of butter is about US$4.36 per pound. Made in Vermont, Animal Farm’s super-creamy cultured butter isn’t available... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3329812/dairy-product-thats-become-unlikely-luxury-item-super-premium-butter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3329812/dairy-product-thats-become-unlikely-luxury-item-super-premium-butter?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:00:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of a US senator, the mother of a congressman and the sister-in-law of a slain president, has died at the age of 89, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr said on Wednesday. A daughter of privilege who could trace her lineage back to one of the victims of the Salem witch trials, Joan Kennedy’s marriage to Edward Kennedy tied her to an American political dynasty and tumultuous personal life marred by bouts of alcoholism. She passed away peacefully in her... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328290/joan-bennett-kennedy-wife-late-us-senator-ted-kennedy-dies-89?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328290/joan-bennett-kennedy-wife-late-us-senator-ted-kennedy-dies-89?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:11:08 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Pfizer will cut the price of all prescription drugs in the Medicaid programme for low-income Americans and sell new prescription drugs at a “most favoured nation” price in exchange for tariff relief. Trump also said he expects other drug makers to follow suit. US patients currently pay by far the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and Trump has been pressuring drug makers to lower their prices... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327440/trump-unveils-pfizer-price-cuts-white-house-presses-drug-makers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327440/trump-unveils-pfizer-price-cuts-white-house-presses-drug-makers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:40:06 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump on Monday urged pregnant women not to take Tylenol over an unproven link to autism and urged major changes to the standard vaccines given to babies. The announcement comes as the White House has vowed to revolutionise health in the United States, as experts across medicine and science voice broad concern over the administration’s initiatives. Medical professionals have long cited acetaminophen – widely known as paracetamol in the UK, Europe and much of the rest of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326451/trump-ties-autism-risk-tylenol-scientists-urge-caution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326451/trump-ties-autism-risk-tylenol-scientists-urge-caution?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:28:45 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump proclaimed Charlie Kirk a “martyr for American freedom” in a memorial ceremony to commemorate the political activist as Erika Kirk said she forgave the man who gunned down her husband. “On that day, this evangelist for American liberty became immortal,” Trump said on Sunday before tens of thousands of mourners inside the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona. “He’s a martyr now for American freedom.” Trump described how Kirk would ask him to fly across the country to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326322/trump-pays-tribute-charlie-kirk-tens-thousands-attend-memorial-service?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326322/trump-pays-tribute-charlie-kirk-tens-thousands-attend-memorial-service?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:16:07 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jnr’s family are calling for him to step down as health secretary following a contentious congressional hearing this past week, during which the Trump cabinet official faced bipartisan questioning about his tumultuous leadership of federal health agencies. Kennedy’s sister, Kerry Kennedy, and his nephew, Joseph P. Kennedy III, issued scathing statements on Friday, calling for him to resign as head of the Health and Human Services Department. The calls from the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324624/rfk-jnrs-family-members-say-hes-threat-americans-health-call-his-resignation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324624/rfk-jnrs-family-members-say-hes-threat-americans-health-call-his-resignation?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:18:43 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr said on Thursday that firing a top government scientist was “absolutely necessary”, as he faced blistering criticism from Democrats urging him to resign over his steps to curb vaccines. The Senate hearing, marked by sharp exchanges that often erupted into shouting matches, came days after the ousting of Sue Monarez, the former director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her dismissal, accompanied by several high-level resignations... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324395/rfk-jnr-defends-cdc-shake-democrats-call-his-resignation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324395/rfk-jnr-defends-cdc-shake-democrats-call-his-resignation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:49:44 +0000