The role sees AOIBHA deeply involved with the festival, performing multiple support slots and culminating in her own headline show on 10 May.
Fluoride - a naturally occurring mineral recognised to- is added to water supplies in many countries, including the US, where around
Kennedy has long campaigned against the practice, and claimed in a recentthat Trump, as president, would be advising ”all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water”.: “Well, I haven’t talked to [Kennedy] about it yet, but it sounds OK to me. You know, it’s possible.”
In his post on X, Kennedy said fluoride was “associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease".But Prof Avijit Banerjee, chair of cariology and operative dentistry at King’s College London, said “the potential harmful effects of fluoride cited have not been associated with the very low levels of fluoride used in water fluoridation programmes”.
Kennedy cited a September 2024 ruling by a judge in California recommending further investigation into potential harms following the publication of a report suggesting possible links between exposure to higher levels of fluoride to lower IQ in children.
But that report has proved highly controversial. Dr Ray Lowry of the British Fluoridation Society notes that the ruling “was not an outright condemnation of fluoride; rather, it suggested that the EPA could investigate further to ensure an adequate safety margin.”When asked about Trump's first 100 days in office - which included dramatic attempts to expand presidential power - Biden said he would let history judge his successor, but "I don't see anything that's triumphant".
It was the kind of understatement that surely will irk some on the left. Since the start of Trump's second term, rank-and-file Democrats have been clamouring for their party to do more to resist the president's agenda.Biden said he didn't think Trump would succeed in flouting courts or the law, or diminishing congressional power, in part because the president's fellow Republicans are "waking up to what Trump is about".
"I don't think he'll succeed in that effort," he said.The idea that members of Trump's own party will turn on him is a recurring one for Biden. In 2019, he predicted there would be an "epiphany" among Republicans once Trump was out of the White House, ushering in a new era of bipartisanship.