This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), worked across many of the world’s most food-insecure and climate-besieged regions, funding thousands of humanitarian, healthcare, food, and disaster relief programs. That all changed last year when, days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, […]
Longtime and controversial anti-vaccine activist David Geier is still working at the Department of Health and Human Services—and the agency is still refusing to specify exactly what he’s doing. In mid-April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate Finance Committee that he would give them a copy of Geier’s contract. According to a […]