Jackie Flynn Mogensen

6 days ago | motherjones.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just green-lit a new Covid vaccine from Moderna, the company said in a press release Saturday. Now the vaccine will bump up against an administration that is loath to recommend it. The vaccine, called mNEXSPIKE, was approved for adults 65 and older, and people between 12 and 64 years old with “one or more underlying risk factor” defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including conditions like cancer, asthma, and HIV.

1 week ago | motherjones.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen

On Friday, the Trump administration released a detailed look at its proposed 2026 budget, including major cuts to federal science agencies that oversee research on everything from cancer to the cosmos. While the broad strokes of Trump’s budget had been released in early May, the new proposal reveals more about what specific programs the president would like to see cut—and its impact on American science.

3 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on vaccine hesitancy and the Covid pandemic, as well as gender-affirming care, climate change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other areas, according to a new draft guidance memo reviewed by Mother Jones.

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen

The Trump administration is coming for the National Climate Assessment. Officials reportedly cut funding for the federal program behind the congressionally mandated report, which describes how climate change impacts everything from agriculture and transportation to human health and economics in the United States. Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, researchers issue a new assessment, updated with the latest science, every four years.

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Nearly 30 years ago, in September 1996, Hurricane Fran swept through North Carolina. It was the most expensive natural disaster in state history—causing an estimated $10 billion in damage in today’s dollars and killing 37 people across the region. Raleigh took a direct hit, with the storm toppling thousands of trees and dumping nearly 9 inches of rain. In Rochester Heights, a historically Black neighborhood southeast of downtown, most homes were flooded.