During his presidential campaign, Kennedy developed a national profile for his criticism of the Covid vaccines and childhood immunizations.

The president-elect says the long-standing vaccine sceptic will "make America healthy again", in his first speech since election night.

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday that he'll lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he intends to immediately take up President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to reinstate a policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.