The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety. A panel of experts he appointed will no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s newly revamped vaccine advisory panel voted on Thursday to recommend Americans receive seasonal influenza shots that are free from the mercury-based preservative thimerosal despite decades of studies showing no related safety issues.

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall’s flu vaccinations for just about every American but with a twist: Only use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that the "tone of our political discourse" puts freedom at risk, as he expressed the need to protect judges from threats.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday expressed concern about the "tone of our political discourse" as he defended the role judges play in a democracy and argued for the need to protect them and their families from threats.

Kennedy, who stepped down from the bench in 2018, issued a dire warning about "freedom" in his nearly 10-minute-long remarks at an event Thursday.

A semi truck flipped over on the Kennedy Expressway on Chicago's North Side on Wednesday night. The semi truck, hauling meat, rolled off the inbound Kennedy at Belmont Avenue and ended up in the outbound express lanes around 11:30 p.

Commuters on the Kennedy Expressway have faced major delays early Thursday morning after a fatal crash late Wednesday night in which a refrigerated semi-truck carrying meat rolled over near Belmont Avenue.

The driver of a semi truck hauling meat has died after a crash on the Kennedy Expressway on the city’s Northwest Side. The truck overturned about 11:35 p.m. in the southbound lanes at Belmont Avenue blocking the local lanes,