🗞️RFK jr. moves to end CDC fluoride recommendation

April 8th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. plans to tell the CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water

• President Trump signed an executive order aimed at revamping America’s coal industry

• A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press's access to presidential events after the administration originally banned them over their dispute over the “Gulf of America”

• Maine’s Attorney General, Aaron Frey, has sued the Trump Administration to try to stop the government from freezing federal funding over the dispute involving transgender athletes in sports

• The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that required the Trump Administration to reinstate thousands of federal employees that worked at six different agencies

• The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled to allow President Trump to utilize the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport suspected Venezuelan gang members, however the alleged gang members will get a chance to challenge their deportation in court before leaving the country

• Venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is aiming to raise $20 billion for its largest-ever fund to invest in AI companies in the U.S.

• Apple plans to shift more iPhone production to India to avoid the higher U.S. tariffs on China

• South Korea has said they will not retaliate against U.S. tariffs and are seeking to negotiate a new trade agreement…they will not join China or Japan in efforts to counter the U.S. tariffs

• DOW down .84% / S&P down 1.57%

• South Korea said today that 10 North Korean soldiers crossed the border, in response the South Korean military fired warning shots

• Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s military captured two Chinese citizens who were fighting for Russia

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