Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

"Oooh, that's a big one." So said US president Donald Trump, as, among his first-day flurry of executive orders, he withdrew America from the World Health Organization (WHO). It's a move that may have flown "below the radar",

During the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 8,400 troops were expelled from the military after refusing the vaccine mandate.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

The president announced a major AI investment project, which Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said could be used to cure cancer.

As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."

The rescinded orders include directives boosting the Affordable Care Act exchanges, coordinating the government’s COVID-19 response and overseeing artificial intelligence tools.

The CEO of German insurer Allianz said on Wednesday that he expected fewer regulatory fines under U.S. President Donald Trump than under Joe Biden's administration, which he called "extortion". Allianz in 2022 settled with U.

Meanwhile, many of the SBA's EIDL loans are being charged off and considered in default. In 2021, the agency charged off $21.5 million in EIDL loans. In 2022, that grew to $198.2 million. Last year, the agency charged off $52 billion in EIDL loans — about 17% of its portfolio.