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Paxton's office did not respond to the Times' request for comment. He trails Democrat James Talarico 51 percent to 45 percent in a recent New York Times/Siena poll

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Rekha Lakshmanan of the Immunization Partnership warned that the investigation could have a "chilling effect" on pediatricians. Measles and polio vaccination rates among Texas kindergartners have already fallen from nearly 97 percent in 2019 to about 93 percent. .

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Paxton's announcement came 10 days after a federal judge ruled that Kennedy's health department had illegally retaliated against the academy by cutting $12 million in grants. The same day, Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group Kennedy founded, sued the academy.

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"This is another attempt at intimidation," said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a Vanderbilt University pediatrics professor. She added that pediatricians are "not being intimidated because their moral core is about the well-being of children."

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Paxton has since expanded the probe to the American Academy of Pediatrics, which has sued the Trump administration and won.

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"I took it very personally," she told the Times. "It felt like it was such a slap in the face and an insult."

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The doctor, who asked to be identified only by her middle name, Rachel, has treated children in her community for 20 years, but she has spent nearly $15,000 on legal fees so far, digging up receipts for $18 vaccines from a decade ago. Now she is reconsidering whether to keep practicing.

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Her answers went as far as a $40 batch of cookies a drug rep once brought to her office, but she said her most significant discounts were small price cuts for paying bills on time. Paxton's office replied with follow-up demands, calling some of her responses frivolous or improper.

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The 28-item demand sought every "reward, financial benefit, bonus, discount, return, rebate or other consideration" she had received from vaccine makers.

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childhood schedule would not be enough – and warned her to stay quiet. "You are requested NOT to inform other entities of this request, as this request relates to an ongoing confidential investigation that would be jeopardized and impeded by disclosure," the letter stated.

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The New York Times reported that Paxton's Consumer Protection Division sent her a letter in December demanding 10 years of vaccine purchase records and her practice's vaccine policy, and the letter added that citing the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommended

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, has buried a small central Texas pediatric practice in document demands as part of his investigation into what he calls a conspiracy to push parents into vaccinating their children.

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pretend you're doing something about the issue. Look, the issue is pretty straightforward. It's the Strait of Hormuz. It's closed, okay."

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"It's the old Trump administration bait-and-switch, which is announce first, act later. And what you've already announced, re-announced. And then pretend that's new economic policy and

it requires a lot of money that Bessent didn't have," said Steve Liesman. "So he said that. And most of the people who trade these bonds and have large trillion-dollar portfolios of them didn't think much of the comment."

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"Most of the people who I talked to in the bond market kind of laughed at that, because he is specifically not the house, unless he has a very large cache of cash, which he doesn't really have, and the effort of taking on the $40 trillion bond market,

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Speaking to MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle, CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman said bond market participants aren't happy with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for his recent statement that he's "The House," as in the dealer in a casino.

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Economics and public policy professor at the University of Michigan, Justin Wolfers, sent the host and an CNBC economics reporter into chuckles describing President Donald Trump policies, particularly on fuel prices, as a kind of Trump two-step.

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"If you funded the ballroom — any of those names, I think, are on the table," the source said." The corruption is everywhere, and it infects all parts of our government," Warren said about potential corporate oversight. “We can’t know how bad it is until we get an independent investigation."

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— Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft — should be specifically investigated for their donations to Trump's ballroom project, which have been criticized as thinly-veiled bribes.

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"We should get to the bottom of the corrupt relationship that exists between corporations in this country and the Trump administration," Murphy said. One anonymous former House Democratic aide said that leading technology giants

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leading tobacco company, Reynolds American, made to Trump’s super PAC just before the administration unveiled new e-cigarette rules."

Others, like Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, support a bigger push to investigate these companies, citing "questions he posed at a recent Senate hearing taking aim at a donation that a

I don’t look at the federal government to ever be used as a weapon,” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a moderate Nevada Democrat, added. “Our focus should be solving problems that we’re seeing happening. That’s where our focus should be — not weaponizing the federal government."

We’re going to have to be a little bit wise about when companies simply did something they had to do to survive this unprecedented level of corruption, compared to companies that actually got on board and profited more by being a partner in his corruption.”

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“We don’t want to turn into a banana republic where you lose an election and it’s all about retribution,” Rep. Bill Foster, an Illinois Democrat and senior member of the Financial Services Committee, told Politico. “A lot of the companies did things because Trump had a gun on their head.

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Politico noted that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a potential candidate for the Senate Banking Committee, "has already pressed major corporations over their contributions to Trump-linked causes."

As the Monday report explained, Democrats are poised to gain "broad subpoena powers over companies with ties to [President Donald] Trump and his family" if they take the House majority, as they are widely predicted to. Should they also retake the Senate,

Democrats are keen to begin "aggressive oversight" of the Trump administration if and when they regain power in the midterms, but according to a new Politico report, the party has descended into squabbling over how to crack down on a specific issue: corporate capitulation.

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She stated that the aim in trying to implement such far-reaching changes at once is “just to disenfranchise people.”

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Henderson was especially critical of the move to put into immediate effect the SAVE Act, a piece of legislation supported by Republican Senator Mike Lee from Utah, which would introduce new proof-of-citizenship requirements.

Deidre Henderson, who is Utah's chief election officer, said to KUER that trying to quickly introduce new voting requirements could have the effect of disenfranchising voters and causing chaos just a few weeks before the November election.

Utah's Republican lieutenant governor, already under investigation by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department after refusing to hand over private voter data, is intensifying her criticism of Trump and his allies' efforts to alter election rules ahead of the midterms.

Trafficking Victims Protection Act, along with a separate claim under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act.

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The lawsuit alleges that FirstBank knowingly benefited from participating in Epstein’s s**-trafficking venture through its banking relationship with him. Rakoff allowed that claim to proceed under the federal

The proposed class action accuses the bank of knowingly benefiting from and participating in Epstein’s s**-trafficking operation through its longstanding banking relationship with him. FirstBank and First BanCorp have denied the allegations.

A New York federal judge ruled on September 25 that survivors of Jeffrey Epstein may pursue most of their lawsuit against FirstBank Puerto Rico and its parent company, First BanCorp.

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The FDA notes that the side effects of these dyes could include a mild rash or allergic-type asthma, though this is uncommon in the general population and more frequently seen among people who have allergic reactions to aspirin.

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Gatorade drinks "may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote."

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According to the FDA, the recall was initiated Sept. 25 and the federal agency classified the recall on Oct. 2 as a Class II recall, meaning exposure to or the consumption of the recalled

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