Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday that the previous administration of Joe Biden manipulated abortion pill safety data, resulting in an apparent 22 times higher risk for serious complications than had been reported.
During questioning by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) on the Trump administration's health care agenda, the ongoing safety review of mifepristone, the first drug in a two-drug abortion regimen used by most women who seek abortions, was addressed.
In April, a study was released that showed nearly 11%, or one in nine women who take mifepristone, have a complication serious enough to seek emergency medical care.
Those complications included sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, and other adverse events occurring within 45 days following the abortion.
Lankford pointed out that since Biden loosened the restrictions on abortion pills in the wake of Roe V. Wade's overturning, "there’s all kinds of issues that are happening now on it."
The abortion drugs are now available without a prescription to make them easier to get, except when state laws prohibit them.
“So the question was: you’d said that there would be a review on that, just to be able to look at it, to make sure we’re following all safety protocols. Do you know a timing on that review?” Lankford asked.
Kennedy said the review was “progressing apace," according to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.
“We’re getting data in all the time, new data that we’re reviewing. And we know that during the Biden administration, they actually twisted the data to bury one of the safety signals with a very high safety signal around 11 percent,” Kennedy Jr. alleged, referring to the April study. “So we’re going to make sure that doesn’t happen anymore. We’re producing honest science and gold standard science on that. I’ll keep you abreast of where we are.”
The new study looked at more than 865,000 pill abortions that used mifepristone and were done between 2017 and 2023.
Kennedy called the study results "alarming" when he was questioned about them in May.
The use of abortion drugs has increased dramatically in recent years. Back in 2017, 39% of all abortions were done with medication, but in 2023, the most recent year data was available, 63% of abortions were done with medication.
That doesn't even account for abortions outside the U.S., or in cases where the pills were obtained through underground networks in states where they are banned.
Mifepristone works by blocking the action of progesterone, which causes the unborn child to die of starvation inside the womb. The second drug, misoprostol, then causes contractions so that the unborn child is expelled.
President Donald Trump hasn’t ever held back when it comes to making sure his social media is reaching all the right people.
According to a recent report by Breitbart News, the Team Trump social media accounts gained a cumulative 1.6 million new followers in the month of August alone.
Because of that, in addition to his existing accounts, the presidential social accounts reached almost 200 million more people than official Democrat accounts.
The accounts are led by X Strategies CEO Alex Bruesewitz, and recently released data indicates that the presidential accounts on TikTok and Instagram outpaced the official Democrat accounts by more than over 160,000,000 views.
Data shared with Breitbart News, which is known to be a conservative and Trump-friendly publication, showed that the accounts saw a “98,000,000 view advantage” on TikTok.
Similarly, the accounts have a “64,744,700-view advantage” on Instagram reels for the Team Trump accounts.
The account for TikTok saw 171,000,000 views in total, which was more than double the official Democratic Party account, @Democrats, which had 73,000,000 views.
The Trump account obtained 414,000 new followers on the platform, and those double views were also reportedly accomplished with only about half as many posts (48 posts for Team Trump, and 84 for the Democrats).
Over on Instagram, the result ratios weren’t very different. The data showed that Democrats basically got one view for every three views attributed to Team Trump accounts.
The Trump account received 97,945,000 reel views in August, which was almost three times that of the 33,200,300 views that @theDemocrats’ account got in the same timeframe.
Also, Team Trump got about 807,689 new followers on Instagram, and its Facebook received 427,618 followers, and had 53,516,214 views in August.
🇺🇸 TRUMP DOMINATES TIKTOK WITH 293 BILLION VIEWS
Trump content has exploded on TikTok in 2025 with 293 billion total views.
MAGA alone racked up 122 billion, while AmericaFirst hit 631 million.
His posts on stock market gains pulled 39 billion views, and falling food and gas… https://t.co/L6FViqIhsF pic.twitter.com/P7fdFuXiAW
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 4, 2025
Bruesewitz made a big promise in his statement about the socials’ growth and impact, saying that they would continue to run “circles around the Democrats.”
The social manager harkened back to a few weeks before when Politico published an article about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s social media team, pointing to 250,000 followers in a month.
“Meanwhile, our team amassed over 1.6 million new followers across major platforms in August alone—without any fanfare from Politico. Oh well!” Bruesewitz said.
“We’ll keep running circles around the Democrats, despite their massive spending advantage, because their team lacks talent, and we have the world’s top influencer, Donald J. Trump, leading the charge.”
President Donald Trump has suffered a number of assassination attempts, some of which have come closer than others, none of which have gone unnoticed.
Most recently, Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, made egregious threats against the president and was arrested, but has been mysteriously released by a federal judge, as Breitbart News reported.
Chief Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling after U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya already ordered Jones to be held without bond while being evaluated.
Boasberg, who was appointed under the Obama administration, has a history of political beliefs that stand contrary to those of the current president.
Jones was arrested last month and released, put under electronic monitoring, and told by Boasberg to visit a psychiatrist in New York City.
Jones, who hails from Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested during a Washington D.C. protest last month, due to her public claims about harming Trump.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro spoke for the attorney’s office in the District of Columbia, saying that the individual in custody made some egregious threats against Trump, and the arrest was necessary.
“Threatening the life of the President is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution. Make no mistake—justice will be served,” Pirro said.
She faced a multiplicity of charges, including threatening to kill, kidnap, or inflict harm on Trump.
Jonest posted about the threats in now-deleted social media content between Aug. 6 and Aug 16.
One of the posts featured Jones reportedly saying, “I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all the Affirmation present.”
Jones even went so far as to tag the White House in some of her posts, calling Trump a fascist, among other things, and attempting to gather cohorts to her cause.
Threatening the life of the President is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution. Make no mistake—justice will be served.
We extend our deepest gratitude to our dedicated law enforcement partners, especially the Secret… pic.twitter.com/P9qT0rHg2g
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) August 18, 2025
The Secret Service said that in an interview with Jones, she said, “If she had the opportunity, she would take the President’s life and would kill him with a bladed knife, carrying out her mission of avenging the lives lost during COVID.”
After her arrest on Aug. 16, during a protest at Dupont Circle, she admitted to making the threats against Trump, but denied wanting to hurt the president at that time.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-CA), who led the Judiciary Committee during both impeachments of President Donald Trump during his first term, announced Monday that he will not seek an 18th term in Congress in 2026.
Nadler will be 79 when he retires from Congress after 34 years.
He said that his experience seeing the mental decline and advanced age of former President Joe Biden convinced him of the need for generational change in the Democrat Party.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that," he said.
Nadler said he would not involve himself in the Democratic primary that would ensue.
His district in Manhattan is one of the wealthiest in the country.
He didn't say who he thought could replace him, but his longtime aide Assemblyman Micah Lasher may seek the seat, according to reports.
Nadler has hated Trump since the 1980s when they disagreed over development projects in the borough.
More recently, Nadler voiced opposition to mask-wearing by ICE agents even as attacks against them skyrocketed.
Earlier in the summer, Nadler seethed with rage when DHS entered his office and briefly handcuffed an aide while accusing his staff of "harboring rioters," a charge he vehemently denied.
He tried to pack the Supreme Court and wanted to impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh if Republicans gained the majority in the House, which they did.
Nadler was almost famous for talking out of both sides of his mouth, depending on who benefitted politically.
In 1998 he called the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton a "lynch mob," while in 2019 he criticized President Donald Trump for using the same term to describe his own impeachment.
His bald-faced lies about Trump during impeachment diminished the credibility of Democrats and ended up boosting Trump's popularity in the end.
Good riddance to Nadler, who became little more than a foil for conservatives and a laughingstock, the more he spewed his irrational hate.
President Donald Trump posted a trolling message Sunday afternoon to leftists who questioned his whereabouts and spread rumors over the weekend that he had died.
“NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Also, DC IS A CRIME FREE ZONE!”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker tweeted, asking for "proof of life" on Saturday in response to an earlier post by Trump about sending federal law enforcement into Chicago if officials there couldn't get crime under control in the near future.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first?
(Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here) pic.twitter.com/1hdPA6NENJ
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) August 31, 2025
It started on Friday when Harry Sisson, a Gen Z Democrat influencer, posted, “Donald Trump hasn’t been seen publicly in 3 days. The White House press pool didn’t see him once today. He has no public events scheduled for Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Where is Donald Trump???”
Soon, there were more posts offering to pay users who liked their tweets if Trump was actually dead.
The idea took on a life of its own, but all liberal hopes were dashed when Trump appeared back on the scene several times over the weekend.
White House correspondent for the Daily Caller posted that she had interviewed Trump for over an hour on Friday afternoon, and he golfed at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia on Sunday afternoon.
Trump turned 79 years old in June, but his last physical showed him to be in good health.
He looks much healthier than his successor/predecessor, former President Joe Biden, whose frail appearance and evident cognitive decline cost him a second term.
Through a spokesperson, Trump marked Labor Day by touting his "workers-first" initiatives, including pledges from companies to invest nearly $10 trillion into the labor force.
"President Trump believes that American workers are the heart and soul of our economy, which is why he’s championed an agenda that always puts them first — from signing the largest middle-class tax cuts in history to securing nearly $10 trillion in new investments to create high-paying jobs across our country," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News.
Rogers also said that the economy was entering a "Golden Age of Prosperity," with job growth, higher wages, and regulatory rollbacks.
Labor Day traditionally celebrates unions and organized labor, but Trump took it in a different direction to show that there were other ways to celebrate American workers.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired a DOJ paralegal who was caught flipping the bird at National Guardsmen working in Washington, D.C.
The paralegal, identified as Elizabeth Baxter, was on her way to work at the DOJ's environmental division when she flipped off a National Guard member and then bragged about it to a security guard working in the lobby of her building.
Baxter told the guard that she had encountered the National Guard member at the Metro Center Metro Stop when she made the obscene gesture and loudly proclaimed, “F–k the National Guard."
Her bad behavior didn't stop there, as she was later observed on that same day by DOJ security cameras flipping off the National Guard and saying, “F–k you!” Keep it classy, leftists.
Many of Washington, D.C.'s residents are grateful to have the National Guard in town, as there has been an unprecedented drop in crime. For the first time in years, its fairly safe to walk the streets of the nation's capital without risking being robbed at gunpoint.
Regardless of one's feelings about the situation in Washington, D.C., it's unacceptable for a public servant to be making obscene gestures to other public servants who are doing their jobs. Only a leftist would ever think it's acceptable to treat America's armed forces with such disrespect.
An investigation into Baxter's actions was quickly conducted, resulting in the issuance of a termination letter that read, "You are removed from your position of Paralegal Specialist, GS-0950-11, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and from the federal service, effective immediately."
In comments made to The New York Post, Bondi explained that, "Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC."
She went on to warn other DOJ workers by saying, "This DOJ remains committed to defending President Trump’s agenda and fighting to make America safe again. If you oppose our mission and disrespect law enforcement — you will NO LONGER work at DOJ.”
This incident with Baxter comes after another DOJ paralegal, Sean Charles Dunn, was charged with throwing a Subway sandwich at federal law enforcement. He was lucky to avoid felony charges for his absurdly boneheaded decision.
Interestingly, Baxter and Dunn worked in the same building and were both paralegals. Clearly, it's time for Bondi to review the hiring practices that have allowed for such a toxic and disrespectful culture to flourish.
The decision to deploy the National Guard to clean up D.C., since Democratic mayor Muriel Bowser would rather coddle criminals, has led to fantastic results with over 1,000 arrests made, according to Bondi.
Of particular note is the seizure of over 100 illegal firearms. Typically, leftists are demanding that weapons be seized, but because the Trump administration is disarming criminals and not regular citizens, leftists are angry.
Washington D.C.'s police union is also happy with the National Guard's presence, and the police union thanked the Trump administration for their focus on cleaning up the city, something D.C's metropolitan police have been unable to do thanks to soft-on-crime leadership.
This cleanup of Washington, D.C. has starkly illustrated how Democrats are on the side of criminals over regular Americans. Liberals like Baxter are flipping the bird at our troops who are making life better for law-abiding citizens.
America First Legal has launched a bombshell lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration concerning the side effects of puberty blockers on children.
AFL is trying to get its hands on Biden-era records related to the government's internal guidance on the use of puberty blockers and the negative side effects on children.
This lawsuit comes after the AFL filed a Freedom of Information Act request, which uncovered communications from the Biden administration to the FDA recommending the use of puberty blockers despite the knowledge that they caused mental health problems.
Essentially, it appears that the Biden administration was totally aware of the damage puberty blockers could do but recommended their use anyway to appease the demands of radical transgender activists pushing transition on minors.
The FDA's deadline to present documents has already passed, and now AFL is taking them to court. The fact that bureaucrats at the FDA are obstructing this request demonstrates how entrenched leftist ideologues are in federal agencies eight months into Trump's presidency.
The Biden administration was clearly pushing the use of puberty-blocking drugs on minors despite knowing about the negative side effects.
AFL counsel Will Scolinos pointed this out by saying, "The Biden administration pushed gender-denying treatments on American kids. Now, it’s time to expose what officials really knew." Those officials must be held accountable for their reckless political agenda.
What's worse is that leftists have insisted for years that there are no life-altering "treatments" being pushed on children who supposedly are "transgender."
So far, AFL has obtained documents proving that Biden's Division of General Endocrinology recommended puberty blockers despite the fact that they cause increased depression, suicidality, and seizure risks in children.
In an email, one FDA official from the agency's endocrinology division explained, "There is definitely a need for these drugs to be approved for gender transition," while acknowledging that they "increased risk of depression and suicidality, as well as increased seizure risk," in the very same email.
Ignorance is no excuse when it comes to children's healthcare, but now the AFL has confirmed that the Biden administration knowingly pushed a treatment that would damage the mental health of children who are likely already experiencing mental health issues due to transgender social contagion.
Puberty blockers are typically used to combat precocious puberty and ensure children go through puberty at the right time. However, transgender activists have pushed for their use to delay puberty entirely into adulthood.
Leftist activists want children to take puberty blockers to increase the "effectiveness" of transition surgery. These ideas fly in the face of proper medical ethics, as puberty blockers can disrupt puberty even after blockers are removed.
In cases, puberty blockers can cause infertility and damage bone density, and lead to lifelong hormonal disruption and dysfunction.
The transgender movement's insane ideas prey on vulnerable, confused children and leave them with lifelong scars, both mentally and physically. Those in the medical field who have allowed these ideas to run rampant must be held accountable.
During one of her morning press conferences, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum contended that deportations of Mexicans were higher during Bill Clinton's presidency between 1993 and 2001 than they are now under President Donald Trump.
“The largest period of deportations from the United States to Mexico was with Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 2001,” she said. “There was one year, 2000, with 1,150,906 Mexicans deported.”
Another former President, Barack Obama, deported 601,356 Mexicans during his first year in office.
So far, Trump has only deported 86,017 in the roughly seven and a half months of his second term.
Sheinbaum attributed the lower number of deportees to a sharp decline in attempted border crossings after Trump ended asylum when he took office.
“We have to say that there are fewer migrants entering,” she said. “There was a very important reduction in persons from Mexico and other nationalities after President Trump’s decision to close … to close the asylums.”
Admittedly, it is much easier to deport migrants when they are caught trying to cross the border than rounding them up and sending them back months or years later, as Trump is trying to do.
Surely there are many more Mexican illegal immigrants in the U.S. than that 80,000, but the process of deporting them will be slower and much more labor intensive, if the administration chooses to go after all or most of them rather than just those who have committed crimes.
For her part, Sheinbaum had not been Trump's biggest fan before he took office and even condemned his immigration raids as recently as June.
“We did not agree with the use of raids to detain people who work honestly in the United States,” she said at the time.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blamed Sheinbaum's comments in part for the violent protests in California that targeted ICE agents, Breitbart Texas reported at the time.
Sheinbaum seems to have come around in part because she's trying to negotiate a new agreement with Trump on trade and tariffs. She can't afford to look too hostile if she hopes to get favorable terms from Trump.
But her admission that Trump's border policies are working far better than those of his predecessors should resound throughout the world.
Unfortunately, it was only mentioned by Breitbart and a few copycats.
The issue of foreign aid is once again at the forefront of political discourse as the Trump administration looks to adjust how American taxpayer dollars are distributed.
In this case, the Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court allow the withholding of billions of dollars of congressionally approved foreign aid, as USA Today reported.
That aid would have been distributed before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, if the previous funding plan had moved forward.
However, the Department of Justice filed an appeal with the court this week, asking for the justices to pause a lower court’s order that would require the administration to distribute the money.
Solicitor General John Sauer said in the filing that the groups representing the aid contractors don’t have a legal basis to push the spending forward.
This is due to the fact that it’s up to Congress to challenge the administration if spending isn’t done appropriately by the executive branch, under a 1974 law called the Impoundment Control Act.
“Congress did not upset the delicate interbranch balance by allowing for unlimited, unconstrained private suits,” Sauer said.
“Any lingering dispute about the proper disposition of funds that the President seeks to rescind shortly before they expire should be left to the political branches, not effectively prejudged by the district court.”
Before the Supreme Court was involved in the case, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled in favor of the groups that rely on the aid. The Biden appointee said it was an obligation of the executive branch to distribute the funds by the end of next month.
The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition is one of the groups in question, and one of their officials is who is challenging the holdbacks. That official was allegedly not surprised by the ruling.
“Time and again, this administration has shown their disdain for foreign assistance and a disregard for people’s lives in the United States and around the world. But even more broadly and dangerously, this administration’s actions further erodes Congress’s role and responsibility as an equal branch of government,” said coalition’s executive director, Mitchell Warren.
“The question being put to SCOTUS is whether they will be complicit in further eroding the constitutional commitment to checks and balance.”
Trump’s DOJ races to the Supreme Court to stop lower court judges from forcing billions in foreign aid payouts before the deadline. pic.twitter.com/oQDG2R290j
— Robert Gouveia Esq. (@RobGouveiaEsq) August 28, 2025
Sauer thinks that the question should be left to Congress, and those who believed they would receive the money, believe the battle was already won, and it should go to them. The Supreme Court has yet to rule.
President Donald Trump has made a number of changes that made their way to the Supreme Court, and it appears that might be happening again.
Trump announced earlier this week that he was removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in what many saw as an unprecedented move, as ABC News reported.
However, this could be a legal battle for Cook that takes the case all the way to the nation’s high court, because it could be seen as political interference.
Some believe the move by Trump is an escalation in his push for control over the influential financial institution that is the Fed.
The president posted on social media on Monday evening about the change, saying he was removing Cook, effective immediately.
According to the president he this is due to allegations that she was involved in mortgage fraud before she joined the board.
“Pursuant to my authority under Article Il of the Constitution of the United States and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, as amended, you are hereby removed from your position on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, effective immediately,” Trump said in a letter to Cook.
🚨 LMAO! Leftist professor Paul Krugman says Lisa Cook’s literal MORTGAGE FRAUD is the equivalent of “cheating on a third grade exam”
Democrats are now openly backing fraudsters 🤣
The midterms are going to be EPIC. pic.twitter.com/X6LlhVHy29
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 26, 2025
Cook responded, saying that she wouldn’t step down, and that the president doesn’t have the authority to fire her.
“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” she said in a statement. “I will not resign.”
“I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”
Cook has long been an influential figure as she became the first black woman to serve on the Fed’s board of governors.
The Fed itself votes on the central banking system’s major interest rate decisions, and has a wide-reaching impact on economic issues.
Before she was appointed to the board, she was an economics professor and held roles in the Clinton, (second) Bush, and Obama administrations.