Trump news at a glance: veterans affairs department muzzled after critical article

VA physicians and scientists ordered not to publish in medical journals without seeking clearance from Trump appointees. Key US politics stories from Sunday 1 June

Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered VA physicians and scientists not to publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump.

Veterans advocates say the decision fits into a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, and came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas.