Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has said they would remove requirements that schoolkids get vaccinated.
But Ladapo has refused to say whether kids should be vaccinated at all.
A three judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Second Amendment Issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation's "historical tradition of firearm regulation."
“No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,” Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. “To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation. But what the state may not do is extinguish the right altogether for ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens.”
The children in question were Amish, and the schools in question were Amish-run schools. Previously, New York provided a religious exemption, but that ended in 2019. The Amish in turn rejected the requirement to make sure their students were vaccinated. This led to three schools racking up fines that totaled $118,000.
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(NewsNation) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s upcoming report on autism is expected to link the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiencies as causes for autism.
The report being prepared is expected to include a review of previous autism research, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
It is also expected to suggest that the use of a medication derived from folate could be used to treat autism.
Autism has been a focus for Kennedy, who has questioned the increase in diagnosis, with 1 in 31 aged 8 affected by the condition. He has vowed to find a cause for the condition that many researchers say is largely genetic.
(NewsNation) — The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025, has a new rallying cry: “We must save the American family.”
Known for advocating for small government and conservative economic policy, the group is now promoting polices that call for deeper federal government involvement in family life, including encouraging married couples to have more children.
President Trump says that he will issue an executive order to require voter ID to vote and minimize mail-in voting, he posted on Truth Social.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!
Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military.
Most state and federal agencies in charge of public lands have a standing policy to go after every blaze with everything they’ve got, as soon as possible.
“The State of Wyoming, we do not have a let burn policy, we have a put-out policy, immediately,” Wyoming State Forester Kelly Norris said during a recent interview with Cowboy State Daily Show with Jake Nichols.
“The Bureau of Land Management has that same policy, obviously private lands have that same policy,” she added.
In remote areas of vast National Forest land in Wyoming, the U.S. Forest Service has a more leeway to allow natural fires to burn.
However, that can have dire consequences if a fire escapes a wilderness area, as did the massive Pack Trail Fire in northwest Wyoming in October 2024, Norris noted.
“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida,” Ladapo said at a press conference in Tampa, hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida would be the first state to completely drop all mandated vaccinations.
Ladapo said every immunization requirement “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
“Who am I as a government? Or anyone else? Or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body?” he asked.
Ladapo said some vaccines are mandated by the Florida Department of Health, but those requirements “are going to be gone.”
“We are going to work with the governor and law makers to get rid of the rest,” he added.