Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a former physician who has spent his career touting the safety of vaccines, will likely determine whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, becomes ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy publicly struggled with whether to back Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human ...

After Louisiana U.S. Sen. and doctor Bill Cassidy put aside his doubts over vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s fitness ...

A look at how Kennedy convinced Sen. Cassidy, a doctor and vaccination advocate, that he should become health secretary.

Days after Louisiana’s top health official ordered to an end to mass vaccination efforts and promotions in the state, ...

The fate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to run HHS may rest with a Republican wrestling with his training as a physician and ...

Bill Cassidy's vote to support RFK Jr.'s confirmation is an overt attempt to maintain support within the Republican Party.

Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy cast the swing vote on advancing President Trump's nomination of RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health.

Cassidy is expected to challenge RFK Jr. on his vaccine skepticism and views on public health in today's confirmation hearing.

Alcide Simmons said he has only one word to describe what it was like for his daughter, Brooke, as she struggled to spell and read: “torture.” “Spell ‘duck,’ Brooke,” Simmons recalled. “And it would ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, is facing pressure from his own party to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination. Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health Committee, expressed concerns ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy once stood up to Donald Trump's excesses, even as then-Senate GOP leader enabled them.Those days are ...