During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to go into HHS and impose my preordained opinions on anybody at HHS,” he said. “I’m going to empower the scientists at HHS to do their job and make sure that we have good science that is evidence based.”

Good afternoon, Chicago. A fourth person has died after a suspicious fire erupted at an apartment building in the Austin neighborhood yesterday morning, the Chicago Fire Department said today.

The Department of Health and Human Services has taken unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, approved, and recommended.

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.

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.

Harvard Kennedy School is being forced to cut staff in response to the Trump administration’s actions against the university, including a federal funding freeze and attempts to block international students from attending the school.

The Harvard Kennedy School announced a contingency plan for its international students Tuesday in the event that the Trump administration successfully bars the university from enrolling foreign students,

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee backed another option to protect infants against a dangerous virus — before turning to questions about fall flu vaccines and a preservative in a small fraction of them that some antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

Dr. Levi and Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse affiliated with an anti-vaccine group, voted against recommending clesrovimab; the other five members voted yes. After some confusion, the panel also voted to include the antibody in the children’s vaccine program.

Kennedy's vaccine committee endorses flu shots — but only if they don't include an ingredient antivax groups have falsely tied to autism.

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,