Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should not lead the US health agencies, underscoring the risk of further eroding faith in vaccines.

Bipartisan critics of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are sharpening their arguments that he is unfit to serve as the nation’s top health official, embracing the extra time they have been given while Kennedy waits for his confirmation hearings to be scheduled.

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Here's when and where Robert F. Kennedy will get his first hearing as President Trump's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services.

During his first term, Trump said he’d release all remaining records on JFK’s assassination, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades, but he ended up holding some back due to potential harm to national security.

US President Donald Trump ordered the declassification Thursday of the last secret files on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death.

President Donald Trump said he'll declassify any remaining files from John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassinations.

President Trump ordered the public release of classified files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. NBC News' Peter Alexander reports.

In the executive order regarding the three assassinations, Trump wrote: “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.”

President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced author, lawyer, and 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee for secretary of health and human services on November 14, 2024. This presidential appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Donald Trump’s more controversial personnel choices have prompted fears that Tulsi Gabbard would compromise intelligence operations and Pam Bondi and Kash Patel would target political enemies over dangerous criminals.