Fox News Politics Newsletter: ‘Rejection of Merit’ Is Bad Medicine, Says RFK Jr.

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-China may gain greater control of Panama Canal after BlackRock deal misses deadline

-Trump backs NYPD after gunman kills off-duty officer in Manhattan office tower shooting

-Michigan Dems seek to prosecute mask-wearing ICE, after state instituted $500 fine for being maskless during COVID

RFK Jr. Pulls Millions from Duke Health Amid DEI Concerns

FIRST ON FOX: Duke Health, the medical arm of Duke University in North Carolina, is seeing more than $100 million in federal funding frozen in compliance with President Donald Trump‘s executive order prohibiting DEI practices.

In a letter to Duke President Vincent Price, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Adam Silver and School of Medicine Dean Mary Klotman, Secretaries Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Linda McMahon outlined that racial preferences in hiring, student admissions, governance and patient care “betray” the mission of American health care and “endanger human lives.”

“The United States invests in medical care and research because of the sacredness of human life and value of human health,” the letter read. 

“There is arguably no other area of our educational system where the rejection of merit is more dangerous than in medicine, where the competence of doctors means the difference between life and death for patients, and where scientific discovery is the difference between life-saving cures and the ravages of disease.”…READ MORE.

White House

‘PUT OUT FIRES’: Trump boasts he ‘stopped about five wars’ while opening new Scotland golf course, vows to work with Netanyahu

‘OUGHT TO PAY’: Vance warns of ‘penalty’ for Dems who opposed the ‘big, beautiful, bill’ ahead of 2026 midterms

World Stage

NUCLEAR RED LINE: North Korea breaks silence on Trump’s return, sends message from ‘Rocket Man’

POLICE STATE: Farage torches UK minister over ‘disgusting’ predator jab in free speech clash

HUNGER POLITICS: Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: What to know about the US-backed aid group

‘THE ONLY WAY’: Ex-Israeli official offers bold 2-pronged strategy as ‘the only way’ to free hostages from Hamas

Capitol Hill

EYES PEELED: In the wake of Manhattan mass shooting, NYC lawmaker urges New Yorkers to remain ‘vigilant’

‘LIVING IN FEAR’: Mamdani’s rise, ‘vile hatred’ of US Jews the focus of ‘critical’ closed-door congressional huddle

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Fetterman cheers ICE arrests of illegal alien child sex offenders, Luna calls for death penalty

Across America 

‘RACIST’: Mamdani’s past ‘defund the police’ stance resurfaces after deadly Manhattan shooting

‘CAT-AND-MOUSE’: Ghislaine Maxwell threatens to dodge Epstein questions unless demands are met

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