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Hegseth defends second strike on alleged drug boat

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that he did not see the second strike on an alleged drug boat aimed at survivors of the initial U.S. attack. President Trump said the strikes are keeping drugs from reaching the American people. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez reports.



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Dec. 2, 2025, 9:21 PM EST / Updated Dec. 2, 2025, 9:35 PM ESTBy Owen Auston-BabcockRepublican Matt Van Epps has won a hotly contested special election for a deep-red congressional seat in Tennessee, NBC News projects, seeing off a Democratic challenge for the longtime GOP district.Though President Donald Trump carried the 7th Congressional District by 22 points in 2024, Republican super PACs poured millions into defending the seat as Van Epps faced off against Aftyn Behn, a Democratic state representative. Democrats spent almost as much trying to capture it, as Trump’s political standing has taken a hit this year and the Democratic Party made gains in November elections in New Jersey, Virginia and other states.Still, this red district remained Republican. Van Epps, an Army veteran and former state official, ran on reliably MAGA themes and promised to continue the legacy of former GOP Rep. Mark Green, who resigned from the seat earlier this year.But Democrats did significantly cut the GOP margin in the district from just a year ago. With about a sixth of the vote remaining, mostly from Republican-leaning areas, Van Epps had a 5-point districtwide lead.While Behn had an advantage among people who voted early, Van Epps prevailed by running up the score in votes cast on Election Day itself — suggesting Republican efforts to ramp up turnout were successful. National party figures flooded into the district and the two candidates engaged in a fiery, expensive ad war as both sides saw a low-turnout, closer-than-usual race developing.Former Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin canvassed with Behn, who represents part of Nashville in the state House. Trump held telerallies for Van Epps and took to social media to urge Republican voters to turn out, and House Speaker Mike Johnson joined the GOP nominee in the district on Monday.Johnson and Van Epps seemed cautiously optimistic about their chances in an interview with Fox News at a rally in Franklin, Tennessee.“A special election is an odd thing, anything can happen, so we take no vote for granted,” Johnson said, remarking that turnout is “often stifled” when elections don’t fall on the usual second Tuesday of November.In an interview with NBC News in October, ahead of the primary, Van Epps said he was campaigning on “security, opportunity and prosperity” and touted Green’s work with the Trump administration on border security, saying it “serves as a good way to pick up the ball and run with it.” His campaign has also focused on the cost of living, with ads criticizing career politicians for “reckless spending” and saying costs are “out of control.”Republican groups spent over $3.5 million in ads attacking Behn and trying to make Van Epps’ case, according to AdImpact. MAGA Inc., the primary super PAC aligned with Trump’s political operation, spent over $1.7 million in independent expenditures since jumping into the race in mid-November.The super PACs backing Van Epps worked to make Behn unelectable and convince GOP voters to come out to back the Republican against her.Super PACs backing Van Epps and conservative news outlets have used clips of Behn saying she was “a very radical person” and saying she “hates this city,” referring to Nashville. Trump got into the action, attacking Behn on social media and urging Republicans to go to the polls.Democrats hit back in TV, radio and online ads, with House Democrats’ main super PAC spending more than $800,000 and Behn’s campaign spending over $1 million.Behn and Democratic groups supporting her campaign attacked Van Epps in ads for saying he would not have voted for the bill to release files related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender. Trump signed the bill into law on Nov. 21 after doing an about-face on the legislative push.Van Epps, a colonel in the Tennessee Army National Guard, plans to keep his commission while in Congress. He told NBC News in October that he’ll serve where he’s needed by House Republicans but said he’d like to join the House Armed Services Committee, given his background in the military.Owen Auston-BabcockOwen Auston-Babcock is an intern at NBC News.Bridget Bowman contributed.
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Sept. 26, 2025, 2:33 PM EDTBy Aria BendixPresident Donald Trump on Friday gave a string of unproven medical advice about Tylenol and childhood vaccines, some of which directly contradicted guidance from his administration’s own health agencies under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The comments, posted to Trump’s Truth Social platform, echoed his previous remarks at a Monday press briefing where he announced that the Food and Drug Administration was warning doctors not to prescribe acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol — to pregnant women, claiming it may be tied to autism in children. The bulk of scientific research has not identified such a link.Trump again said Friday on Truth Social that pregnant women should not use Tylenol “unless absolutely necessary,” adding that young children should not take Tylenol “for virtually any reason.” The FDA warning applies to pregnant women, not children, and says Tylenol can be given during pregnancy in cases of high fever, when the fever may pose a health risk to the fetus. Trump’s comments also are inconsistent with those of Vice President JD Vance, who during an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday advised pregnant women to “follow your doctor” when it comes to taking acetaminophen.Trump does not have a medical or scientific background. The responsibility for setting vaccine or drug use recommendations falls to federal health agencies, not the White House.The president’s position on vaccines has wavered over the years. At times, he has encouraged their use and touted his first administration’s developing Covid vaccines at the beginning of the pandemic. However, his decision to appoint Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, as health secretary and his recent spreading of vaccine misinformation have raised alarms in the scientific community. At the White House event on acetaminophen last week, Trump seemed to offer his most emphatic support to date of Kennedy’s agenda, which has included commissioning a probe into the causes of autism. Trump embarked on a tangent about how children receive too many vaccines, echoing a common talking point among vaccine skeptics.“They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies,” he said. “It’s a disgrace.”The Department of Health and Human Services deferred comment to the White House. A White House official said Trump was amplifying the latest HHS guidance urging people to exercise caution before taking pharmaceuticals.Trump also wrote Friday that kids should get hepatitis B shots at age 12 or older, which goes against guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency says the first dose of the three-dose series should be given within 24 hours of birth because hepatitis B can be transmitted from mother to child during delivery. The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel had been considering delaying the shot until at least one month after birth — not until age 12 — but tabled the vote last week. Children can be infected at any age through contact with the bodily fluids of a person with hepatitis B. The incurable infection can lead to liver disease, cancer and death. 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Doctors have known about the risk for years, and many public health experts viewed the committee’s decision last week as taking choice away from parents. The vote did not change the CDC’s recommended vaccine schedule: Kids should get vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella twice — once at 12 to 15 months and again at 4 to 6 years, per the agency. Chickenpox vaccines can be given at the same doctor’s visit. Combination MMR and chickenpox vaccines can still be given to older kids, since there is no evidence of an increased risk of febrile seizure in this age group. Trump advised people on Friday to “take vaccine in five separate medical visits,” though it is unclear whether he was referring to specific shots or the childhood immunization schedule. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends seven well-child visits (when babies typically receive their shots) in the first year of life. However, not every doctor or parent follows that schedule to the letter, and the CDC offers ranges in which childhood immunizations can be administered.Aria BendixAria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.Monica Alba and Alana Satlin contributed.
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Nov. 7, 2025, 5:00 PM ESTBy Sara MonettaMalnourished and dehydrated people are crawling through the desert on their elbows and knees in constant terror of being caught by fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), humanitarian organizations have warned.The journey from the RSF-controlled city of el-Fasher to the town of Tawila is just 30 miles, but nonetheless perilous as gunmen rove around, robbing people, taking them hostage and in some cases slaughtering them by the dozen, the organizations say.Under international pressure, the RSF said Thursday that it was willing to engage in a U.S.-brokered humanitarian ceasefire. But the Sudanese military, which it has been fighting since April 2023, has yet to agree to a truce, and the State Department has said it is still working to get both parties to agree to a pause in the fighting amid warnings from the humanitarian organizations that the northeast African nation is returning to its genocidal past.While talks are ongoing, eyewitness accounts, videos shared to social media and an analysis of satellite imagery that has shown pools of blood visible from space have revealed the scale of the killing in the region and the increasing use of drone strikes by both sides as they seek to gain an advantage on the battlefield.Images of a former children’s hospital in el-Fasher show the appearance of new disturbed earth from Oct. 30, top left, to Nov. 3, bottom right.Yale Humanitarian Research Lab / VantorHanaa Abdullah Musa said RSF fighters detained her brother at one of several checkpoints she came across as she made her way to Tawila, which is home to hundreds of thousands of displaced people.“They drove him to some place,” she told NBC News in a voice note on Thursday. “Later in the evening, they told us they would bring him back, but they never did.”NBC News has asked the RSF for comment on Musa’s testimony.Musa, 20, said she had no choice but to keep moving toward Tawila after fighters took her phone and money at a previous checkpoint.She was one of only about 6,000 people to make it to the town from el-Fasher since the RSF takeover, according to humanitarian organizations working there, all of whom have expressed growing alarm about the paramilitary group’s activity in Sudan’s North Darfur.“Every single person who has arrived in Tawila has one or multiple members of their family that they cannot account for,” according to Shashwat Saraf, the country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, a humanitarian organization that provides aid to displaced people.
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