Trump's NIH director said agency 'got rid' of all beagle experiments on campus. Here's what we know
In early May 2025, claims (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration shut down a National Institutes of Health laboratory accused of killing beagles in the name of medical research.
One popular X post, viewed more than 76,000 times at the time of this writing, read: "NEW: The Trump administration's NIH under Jay Bhattacharya has just closed its "brutal" beagle experimentation laboratory - Fox It was accused of 'brutally k*lling thousands of beagles for 40+ years.'"
NIH closes experimentation labs accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for 40+ years
National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced on Fox News the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus.
The announcement comes just days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk posted on X that he would investigate funding beagle experiments.
Trump Ends Federal Funding of Gain-of-Function Research, Citing Covid-19 Pandemic
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon ending the allocation of federal funding toward risky gain-of-function research in foreign countries like China, where the Covid-19 pandemic is believed to have originated.
The order targets the funding of gain-of-function research conducted in “countries of concern,” including Iran, and other nations that don’t have high oversight standards for biological research, according to a White House fact sheet. The directive is said to prevent the potential outbreak of another pandemic.
Trump administration bars Harvard from future research grants
United States President Donald Trump’s administration has announced that Harvard University will no longer receive public funding for research in a sharp escalation of its dispute with the elite institution.
In a letter to Harvard on Monday, US Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon said the elite university had made a “mockery” of higher education and should no longer seek federal grants, “since no will be provided”.
‘Still much concern’ about UFOs: Ryan Graves
We could just be days away from a major step toward UFO transparency.
Ryan Graves, the first active duty military pilot to come forward regarding UFO sightings, joined “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” ahead of Tuesday’s Congressional UFO task force meeting.
The meeting will be followed by a roundtable with experts and then a full committee hearing next month.
It follows the National Archives updating its website last week with a button now on its website for all UFO-related documents to live in one place.
Judge questions deportation case of Russian-born Harvard scientist detained by ICE
An immigration judge has found the U.S. government’s initial deportation case against Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born Harvard scientist held in ICE detention, to be legally deficient, her attorney said, raising questions about whether the case can move forward.
The preliminary immigration hearing, held in Jena, Louisiana, included three trial attorneys and a deputy chief counsel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Petrova’s attorney Greg Romanovsky described their presence as unusual for an early-stage proceeding.
Russian Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova 'knowingly' smuggled illicit items to US: feds
Federal authorities said Harvard's Kseniia Petrova "knowingly broke the law" amid their ongoing push to deport the Russian scientist. Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at on Feb. 16 as she returned from a trip to Paris. Her attorney, Gregory Romanovsky, told Fox News that Petrova was bringing back frog embryos at the request of a professor at a French lab with which the Ivy League university was collaborating. According to Romanovsky, the sample was picked up in Paris and was supposed to...
New images could change cancer diagnostics but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk. The scientist, the 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport in mid-February.
Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). But the team and independent astronomers stress that more data is needed to confirm these results.