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Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr in Love Story.

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

  • Maureen Dowd

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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Having an anti-vaxxer in charge of America’s health system has been one of the factors hitting CSL’s performance.

How RFK, China and leadership woes became a $4b storm for this Australian corporate giant

CSL’s share price has now halved in 18 months, shredding more than $70 billion of shareholder wealth after the latest writedowns and operational struggles. 

  • Colin Kruger
Fries cooked in beef tallow are still fries.

Can we call butter and beef tallow ‘healthy fats’?

They may be back in food fashion, but are they as healthy as proponents say?

  • Sarah Berry

Trump 2.0 is all about power. His biggest move may be just days away

Under Trump 2.0, the so-called norms of the rules-based order are being tossed aside in favour of raw power and brute strength. But it won’t necessarily pay off.

  • Michael Koziol
Trump has (wrongly) warned pregnant women not to take paracetamol.

Trump blamed autism on this pain pill. Now, the gold-standard evidence is in

Studies promoted by the US president have shown small associations between a common medication and autism. A new analysis checked those results.

  • Angus Dalton
Tatiana Schlossberg attends a book signing in San Francisco in 2019.

She submitted a heartbreaking gift of an essay. Weeks later, she was gone

It was the kind of piece that rarely lands on an editor’s desk, both completely raw and perfectly realised. David Remnick accepted it immediately.

  • Jesse McKinley
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The number of US children catching measles is rising.

This is the damage RFK Jnr has done in less than a year

If Kennedy continues the course he’s now set, we will be left to explain to future generations how we came to abandon them.

  • Jeneen Interlandi
Olivia Nuzzi [left] and Ryan Lizza [right] with Robert F. Kennedy Jr [centre].

‘The Politician’, his alleged lover and why we hate celebrity journalists

It’s the scandal that has Washington insiders and die-hard media watchers buzzing, with every new chapter highlighting why, at its worst, the access and power of journalism can absolutely corrupt.  

  • Calum Jaspan
US President Donald Trump, right, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, US secretary of Health and Human Services, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in September.

US medicine regulator claims COVID jabs killed at least 10 children

A critic of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr described the internal memo an example of science “by press release”.

  • Christina Jewett
Longtime vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr was appointed US health secretary in January.

US health agency website updated to include false claims about vaccines and autism

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has repudiated its past insistence that vaccines do not cause autism, echoing rhetoric from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

  • Lena H. Sun