Closing summary
We are winding down our live coverage of the day in US politics, but will return on Friday to bring you up to the minute descriptions of a scheduled Trump-Musk press conference and other unscheduled events. In the meantime, here are a few of today’s leading developments:
A federal appeals court granted the Trump administration’s request to keep Donald Trump’s tariffs in place, for now, one day after a trade court ruled that they are almost all illegal and must be stopped.
Trump attacked the judges who ruled against him on Wednesday, including one he appointed himself, and suggested that he had been misled by a powerful Republican activist who recommended judges to him in his first term.
Trump announced that Elon Musk is leaving the White House on Friday, but suggested that his work in “helping” the administration will continue. “This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way”. Musk recently criticized the focus of Trump’s legislative agenda, the massive spending and tax cut bill that will increase the federal deficit by trillions.
One day after the nonprofit news site NOTUS discovered that at least seven of the studies cited in a new report from health secretary Robert F Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” commission do not exist, the report was quietly edited to remove at least some of the fiction.
RFK Jr's 'MAHA' report quietly edited to remove made-up sources
One day after the nonprofit news site NOTUS discovered that at least seven of the studies cited in a new report from health secretary Robert F Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” commission do not exist, the report was quietly edited to remove at least some of the fiction.
One of the invented sources was a paper supposedly written by Dr. Katherine Keyes and published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics under the title “Changes in mental health and substance use among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic”.
Keyes, who does exist, is an epidemiology professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, but she confirmed to ABC News that no paper with that title was ever written by her. JAMA Pediatrics told the broadcaster that it had published no such paper.
A search of the commission’s report on Thursday shows that the reference to Keyes and the imaginary paper has been removed from the document.
At least one other imaginary paper, supposedly published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, has also been removed from the report.
“Minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected, but the substance of the MAHA report remains the same”, Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the health department told ABC News.
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