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Paul: Gay CDC official’s ‘lifestyle’ disqualified him from government
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Joseph ChoiTue, September 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
2 min readPaul: Gay CDC official’s ‘lifestyle’ disqualified him from government
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said a gay leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who resigned last week in protest of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had “no business being in government” due to the “lifestyle” he led.
Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, was among the four CDC leaders who resigned last week, saying in their resignations that the changes under Kennedy were preventing them from carrying out the agency’s public health mission.
“One of the guys that is the biggest proponent of doing all this is the guy who describes the risky behavior that he and his lifestyle involve,” Paul...
Texas officials defend response to deadly floods: ‘We saved as many people as we could’
CENTER POINT, Texas — Local and state officials who responded to the catastrophic flooding this month in Central Texas defended their actions in an interview with NBC News, saying they did everything in their power to save lives and are now considering what more could be done to prevent future tragedies.“Our teams did everything that they possibly could with this gruesome, devastating situation that happened, and we would not change the way we did that. And I think we saved as many people as we could,” Dalton Rice, the city manager of Kerrville, said.He spoke with NBC News alongside Jeff Holt, a Kerr County commissioner, and state Rep. Wes Virdell, over the weekend, before a new round of heavy rain and flooding threatened parts of the region. The officials said they did their best to...
Eminent officials say NASA facilities some of the “worst” they’ve ever seen
NASA Space Technology Enlarge / The primary mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope enters a vacuum test chamber at NASA's Johnson Space Center in 2017. A panel of independent experts reported this week that NASA lacks funding to maintain most of its decades-old facilities, could lose its engineering prowess to the commercial space industry, and has a shortsighted roadmap for technology development."NASA’s problem is it always seems to have $3 billion more program than it has of funds," said Norm Augustine, chair of the National Academies...
Officials encourage DSE candidates ahead of results
Technology tamfitronics Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that public secondary school exam results due this Wednesday should not define the future of candidates. He said regardless of the results, young people can find and develop their own future."Technology and innovation nowadays are rebuilding different industries around the world, as well as our lifestyles," Chan wrote on his weekly blog."So long as young people embrace changes, dare to imagine and keep learning, and are determined to move forward, they can surely break new ground and develop their own future." Chan also noted that there are ups and downs in life, and people should persevere through success and failure.He stressed that the government has been promoting development in innovation and a diverse economy, with the hopes of providing more quality jobs for young people, while...
