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WIRED
5 hours ago
- Health
- WIRED
Who Controls Your Health? Test Your Knowledge of the MAHA Movement
Jul 21, 2025 6:00 AM US health officials, from RFK Jr. on down, have made some wild claims. See if you can name the person responsible for these quotes and factoids.
Daily Mail
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Kennedy clan at war: Savage new matriarch blacklists family members... feuds explode... and fierce 'f***' rants erupt behind the scenes
Jerry Oppenheimer is a bestselling biographer who has written two books about the Kennedys, The Other Mrs. Kennedy, about the life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy and RFK Jr. and The Dark Side of the Dream. America's ' Royal Family ' – the Kennedys – has a newly crowned queen, quietly anointed by the clan's powerful matriarch Ethel Kennedy at 96, the Daily Mail has learned exclusively.
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
White House defends handling of Epstein files
RFK Jr. has big plans for your food. Here are the facts. May 2, 2025
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump says Coca-Cola will use US sugar: Will this be the new norm?
US President Trump says Coca-Cola (KO) will use cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup in its soda, though the company has not confirmed this statement. RBC Capital Markets managing director Nik Modi outlines what the change would mean for the wider food and beverage industry. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts here. We got to talk about then the big elephant in the room, the so-called Maha effect on this industry, right? The make America healthy again, RFK Jr. um effect here. President Trump just saying in a social media post in the last 24 hours that Coca-Cola has agreed to stop using high fructose corn syrup, will transition to cane sugar in its beverages. Um, Coke hasn't confirmed that it's doing that. Do you think this is where the industry is going? What effect is that going to have on margins, for example? Um, well, it it all depends on the the tariff situation, right? One of the reasons why I think sugar was not being used in the US is because it it was a much higher cost of good than high fructose corn syrup. Uh now, interestingly, when you think about quote-unquote Mexican Coke, right? This is the the Coca-Cola that comes from Mexico into the US and the glass bottles, that tends to do very well and and tends to uh sell at a premium. So, you know, I think there's some positive implications if that indeed happens, but it really is going to come down to what what the cost of good situation will look like uh as it relates to buying sugar and importing sugar into the US market. I mean, how big of a change would this be, you know, when you're talking about a reformulation for the, you know, the biggest products here. I mean, and presumably Pepsi would have to follow suit. Yeah, I mean, I I think it's just going to take a little bit of time to kind of get all the supply chains and all the manufacturing we re-equip, but remember, they already make the product. So it's not like they have to reformulate. They already have the formulation. Uh they just have to produce it at scale in the US market. Um, would they have the capacity to switch over American uh manuf because as you mentioned, Mexican Coke, it's in the name. It's Me they important from Mexico. Um, you know, presumably they would still have to import the sugar, right? To your point about the corn is here already. Um, so, you know, what is that how big of a supply chain changeover would are we talking about? Uh I don't think it's it's going to be that abrupt. Uh I think it is very manageable uh for for them and their and their bottlers, uh which also would be part of that process. Um so I I don't think that's really a big issue. Now, when it comes to artificial ingredients and things like that, obviously the entire food and beverage landscape are making adjustments. Um and and that's that's a good thing, right? The reality is no one ever wanted to be first because you don't want some kind of optical disadvantage using a natural dye versus uh an artificial dye for example. But if everyone has to do it, it harmonizes the playing field and brings ubiquity and then I don't really think we'll see much impact as a result. Related Videos Trump Diagnosed with Chronic Venous Insufficiency, White House Says Inside the storefront Beyoncé can't get enough of Novartis CEO on Psoriasis Drug, China Growth, Tariffs, M&A PepsiCo still has 'a lot of wood to chop': Q2 was 'not good' Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Gizmodo
4 days ago
- Health
- Gizmodo
More Signs RFK Jr. Wants to Be Your President in 2028
Sure, you may believe the current situation represents the worst possible political reality. But to that, I say, RFK Jr. 2028? It's no joke; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the longtime antivaxxer and current steward of the country's public health, may indeed be eyeing another presidential run. Axios first reported Wednesday that RFK Jr.'s super PAC co-hosted an organizing meeting last week over Zoom. While the meeting was ostensibly intended to drum up support for Kennedy's 'Make America Healthy Again' movement, at least some people think he's planning further ahead. 'A 2028 presidential campaign wasn't explicitly discussed, but two people with knowledge of the call came away believing it was a step toward another campaign for Kennedy,' Axios reported. Notably, the meeting was led by Tony Lyons, cofounder of the MAHA super PAC, and included calls from prominent MAHA-supportive influencers like celebrity Russell Brand and motivational speaker Tony Robbins. RFK Jr. is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services—a cabinet position he secured after ending his first doomed presidential run in the summer of 2024, followed by his endorsement of Donald Trump. Since then, both Trump and the GOP have largely embraced Kennedy's agenda. You Thought Anti-Vax Was Bad? These Are RFK Jr.'s Most Disturbing Beliefs About Health Under the guise of improving the country's approach to chronic illness, Kennedy has overseen widespread firings and funding cuts across the many agencies under HHS, including at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. He's pressured companies to remove synthetic food dyes from their products in favor of naturally obtained ones, despite limited evidence suggesting the former are generally riskier to people's health. He's appointed like-minded vaccine skeptics to important positions, some of whom have already succeeded at having their nonsensical beliefs enshrined as government policy. And he's pledged to tackle fictional threats like chemtrails while downplaying real ones like bird flu and the largest U.S. outbreak of measles documented in the last 30 years. Oh, and for some strange reason, he wants every American to be wearing a Fitbit by 2028. It's not at all certain that RFK Jr. will run for president again, nor that he'd have much of a chance if he did. After all, his first try—first running as a Democratic candidate, then independently—did flop. A recent Pew poll also found that a majority of Americans (43%) disapprove of his tenure as HHS chief, while only 36% are supportive. He'd also be 75 years old by the time he took office. But with Trump only having one term left (hopefully), there will undoubtedly be many would-be successors looking to take over the reins of the GOP. And few of these potential candidates right now have the sort of rapid fanbase that RFK Jr. can boast. If the last decade of politics in America should teach us anything, it's that nothing is truly impossible, for better or worse.
