Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, blame Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for contributing to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019.

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Working work toward solidifying the post of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly no longer serving as Chairman or Chief Legal Counsel for Children's Health Defense.

U.S. senators who support Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services will bear some responsibility for the consequences.

Members of two Senate committees will have a lot of ground to cover at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to be Health and Human Services secretary (which has yet to be scheduled ). They should devote most of their time probing how his long history of anti-vaccine advocacy will impact infectious disease control.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines and abortion rights are raising alarms across the political spectrum, as he's one of the more controversial picks for the president-elect's Cabinet.

COURTESY CSPAN U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz speaks on the Senate floor today to oppose the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. COURTESY CSPAN U.

The Senate Finance Committee will meet on Jan. 29 to discuss the confirmation of RFK Jr., whose stances on vaccines and abortion have raised questions from Democrats and Republicans alike.

The Donald Trump nominee’s dangerous anti-science views could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases right in our state. | Opinion

Kennedy Jr.’s rallying cry is what makes it so sickening. Make America Healthy Again? Like when we had more measles and malnutrition and cervical cancer? Obviously, MAHA is a suck-up to Trump and the white-nationalist “again” in MAGA.

During his first term, Trump said he’d release all remaining records on JFK’s assassination, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades, but he ended up holding some back due to potential harm to national security.

In the executive order regarding the three assassinations, Trump wrote: “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.”

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.