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NIH closes experimentation labs accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for 40+ years
National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced on Fox News the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus.
The announcement comes just days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk posted on X that he would investigate funding beagle experiments.
A report from the White Coat Waste (WCW) project detailed the lab’s history of allegedly pumping pneumonia-causing bacteria into more than 2,000 beagles’ lungs, bleeding them out, and forcing them into septic shock for deadly experiments.
Following the announcement, WCW president and founder Anthony Bellotti praised President Donald Trump for ending the highly scrutinized project.
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FILE- The Humane Society of the United States previously helped rehome rescued beagles at the request of the DOJ. (Meredith Lee/ USHS)
«Taxpayers and pet owners shouldn’t be forced to pay for the NIH’s beagle abuse,» Bellotti wrote in a statement. «We applaud the President for cutting this wasteful NIH spending and will keep fighting until we defund all dog labs at home and abroad. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!»
FILE – The Humane Society of the United States previously worked with the Department of Justice and animal welfare partners, including Homeward Trails, to find new homes for rescued beagles. (Sue Bell/Homeward Trails)
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Shortly after the Trump administration took office, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in April it would phase out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin also announced his agency would reinstate a 2019 policy from the first Trump administration to phase out animal testing.
FILE – Homeward Trails, a Virginia-based animal shelter, previously rescued beagles from Envigo breeding. (Sue Bell/Homeward Trails)
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During Trump’s first term in 2019, the administration closed the government’s largest cat lab.
Bhattacharya said People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reached out to him following the closure of the beagle testing facility, sending him flowers.
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«Normally, I think NIH directors tend to get physical threats, but they sent me flowers,» Bhattacharya said on air.
PETA in 2021 highlighted Anthony Fauci’s alleged approval of funding for tests in Tunisia where beagle puppies were drugged, and their heads were locked in cages filled with hungry, infected sandflies.
A pair of beagles stand next to an anti-animal experiments banner. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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After the reports came out, 23 bipartisan lawmakers, including Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., sent a letter to Fauci addressing the heartbreaking experiments.
«Yesterday, I sent a letter to Dr. Fauci regarding cruel, taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies; debarking before drugging and killing them,» Mace wrote in an October 2021 post on X. «This is disgusting. What say you @NIH.»
Kathy Guillermo, PETA senior vice president of laboratory investigations, told Fox News Digital on Sunday night the organization is «delighted» by the news of the NIH facility closure.
«We are letting the new NIH Director know how important this step is for modernizing science, and we’re especially happy because these last experiments involved sepsis, which we have been working to end for several years. Sepsis experiments on animals are failures.»
Guillermo noted PETA has a lawsuit pending, filed under the Biden administration, to try to prevent the government from funding any more sepsis experiments.
NIH director Jay Bhattacharya announced the closure of the facility, which experimented on beagles. (Getty Images)
The Indiana-based company that bred the beagles for research, Envigo, pleaded guilty in 2024 to neglecting thousands of dogs at its Cumberland, Virginia, breeding facility, and will be required to pay more than $35 million in fines, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
«We are just thrilled to see that the [Envigo] beagles who were used [at the NIH location], will no longer be used,» Guillermo said. «We first exposed [Envigo] in an undercover investigation that eventually led to the closure of the facility and the release of 4,000 beagles to good homes.»
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PETA is awaiting information about the condition of the dogs that will be released, and if they are in good enough shape to be placed in a home, Guillermo said they stand ready to help.
«Dr. Bhattacharya has made a wonderful start, and there is a lot more work to be done, because animals are being experimented on, including beagles and other dogs, across the country,» she said. «So we’re looking forward to what comes next.»
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The White House and the NIH did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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La presidenta del PP de Madrid y del Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, durante la manifestación convocada por el Partido Popular contra el Gobierno de Pedro Sánchez. Foto EFECómo se elige
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UN’s nuclear watchdog warns its unable to confirm Iran’s program is ‘entirely peaceful’
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Iran’s refusal to play ball with the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, which is charged with monitoring all nations’ nuclear programs, has meant the body cannot verify whether Tehran’s program is «entirely peaceful» despite the regime’s claims.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, on Monday issued a warning statement that the agency has not only long been barred access to old and new nuclear sites, but that Iran has scrubbed locations in an apparent move to cover up its activities.
In 2020, the IAEA found man-made particles of enriched uranium at three sites, including Varamin, Marivan and Turquzabad. The locations were previously utilized in Iran’s nuclear program and gave the agency credence to believe Tehran had once again turned to deadly nuclear ambitions.
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Rafael Grossi is increasingly concerned about Iran’s nuclear program. (Albert Otti/picture alliance via Getty Images)
«Since then, we have been seeking explanations and clarifications from Iran for the presence of these uranium particles, including through a number of high-level meetings and consultations in which I have been personally involved,» Grossi said. «Unfortunately, Iran has repeatedly either not answered, or not provided technically credible answers to, the Agency’s questions.
«It has also sought to sanitize the locations, which has impeded Agency verification activities,» he added.
Grossi, who confirmed during an April trip to Washington, D.C. that the IAEA has not been involved in nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, said on Monday that he has been working «closely and intensively» with both parties in «support of their bilateral negotiation[s].»
The warning comes after the IAEA in a report late last month, also confirmed that Iran had drastically increased its stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium by nearly 35% in three months.
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This photo released on Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)
In February, the IAEA assessed that Tehran possessed 274.8 kilograms (605.8 pounds) worth of uranium enriched to 60%, but on May 17th it found Iran now has some 408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) – meaning the regime is just a technical step away from being able to make up to 10 nuclear warheads.
Last week, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came out in strong opposition to a U.S. proposal submitted to Tehran to end its nuclear program, though it remains unclear what details were included in the document, including on enrichment capabilities, and on Sunday, Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf claimed the proposal didn’t include any sanction relief.
The White House has remained tight-lipped about what was included in the document, though according to some reporting, President Donald Trump gave Iran until June 11 to reach a deal with the U.S., though Fox News Digital could not independently verify these claims.
On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed that «The U.S. proposal is not acceptable to us. It was not the result of previous rounds of negotiations.»
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran, on May 26, 2025. An interim nuclear agreement between Iran and the United States is not on Iran’s agenda, Baghaei said. (Shadati/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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«We will present our own proposal to the other side via Oman after it is finalized. This proposal is reasonable, logical, and balanced,» Baghaei reportedly said.
Some reporting has also suggested Iran might submit their proposal as soon as June 10, though the Iranian UN mission in the U.S. would not comment on or confirm these claims.
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Harris ripped for ‘appalling’ LA ICE raids statement placing blame on Trump: ‘The country dodged a bullet’
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris was slammed by conservatives on social media after she issued a statement on the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, blaming the Trump administration and calling the unrest «overwhelmingly peaceful.»
«Los Angeles is my home,» Harris posted Sunday as riots had broken out across the city for several days, led by protesters upset with federal agents arresting illegal immigrants in the city, prompting the Trump administration to send in the National Guard.
«And like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city,» she said. «Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.»
Harris added that the Trump administration is not concerned about «public safety» but rather «stoking fear.»
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris was widely mocked on social media by conservatives over her response to the LA anti-ICE riots. (Getty)
«Protest is a powerful tool — essential in the fight for justice. And as the LAPD, Mayor, and Governor have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful,» Harris said. «I continue to support the millions of Americans who are standing up to protect our most fundamental rights and freedoms.»
Harris’ comments were immediately criticized by conservatives online and by Trump officials.
«The country really dodged a bullet in November,» Fox News contributor Guy Benson posted on X.
In another post, Benson added, «Their official position is that they’re appalled by what’s happening in Los Angeles…because of Trump and ICE, not the violent rioters. In its current form, this party cannot be salvaged.»
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Police officers are enveloped in a cloud of smoke from tear gas and percussion grenades while guarding a highway on-ramp during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. (Omar Younis/Reuters)
«Thank you, America, for employing brain cells and rejecting this woman’s quest to become president of the United States,» Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich posted on X.
Others, including the conservative influencer account LibsofTikTok, took issue with Harris calling the unrest «mostly peaceful» by responding with pictures of rioters burning cars and attacking law enforcement.
«No surprise[sic] that the most incompetent Vice President in history stands with the illegal alien rioters,» GOP Sen. Tom Cotton posted on X.
White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields responded on X by saying, «America’s statement» along with a photo showing the gains President Donald Trump made across the country in the November 2024 election.
«No one is interested in your opinion,» Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Leo Terrell posted on X.
«President Trump didn’t start these riots,» California GOP gubernatorial candidate and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco posted on X. «He’s not out there lighting cars on fire, hurling projectiles at law enforcement or blocking freeways. This statement is an embarrassment and does nothing to diffuse the violent riots taking place across the city.»
«The Democrats and their ‘leaders’ own this.»
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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)
Steve Hilton, a Fox News contributor also running for California governor as a Republican, posted on X, «In this appalling statement you are siding with violent criminals over California communities; rioters over law enforcement; illegal immigrants over legal immigrants and American citizens.»
«You are a pandering machine politician who should never hold public office again.»
White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson posted on X, «We all know you support lawless, violent, illegal alien rioters. That’s why you lost so badly in November. Back to irrelevancy you go!»
Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’ office for comment but did not receive a reply.
Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to the city in an effort to quell some of the unrest, much to the dismay of Democratic officials.
The violent protests erupted as ICE officials carried out plans to remove individuals illegally residing in the left-wing city, which dubbed itself a «sanctuary» for illegal immigrants in November 2024 before Trump was sworn back into the Oval Office in January.
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Demonstrators protest outside a downtown jail in Los Angeles following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids on June 8, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
ICE raids began Friday, with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issuing a statement supporting illegal immigrants in the city and bucking the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom similarly criticized ICE efforts, branding the immigration raids «chaotic and reckless.»
«Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel,» a statement from the governor read. «Donald Trump’s chaos is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and undermining the workers and industries that power America’s economy.»
During the riots, ICE officers were targeted with violence that included throwing rocks and other projectiles along with vandalism in the form of graffiti calling for violence against ICE officers.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks shared a photo of one Border Patrol agent’s bloody hand, which was injured by a rock flying through the windshield. Federal sources said agents could have been killed by the flying debris and several officers have been reported as injured during the rioting.
ICE agents captured the «worst of the worst» criminal illegal immigrants during Friday operations, including murderers, sex offenders and other violent criminals, the agency said Sunday.
Los Angeles County Sheriffs stand during a protest in Compton, California, on Saturday, June 7, 2025 after federal immigration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
About 45 people were arrested across several locations, including two Home Depot stores, a store in the fashion district and a doughnut shop.
«Why do Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass care more about violent murderers and sex offenders than they do about protecting their own citizens?» asked Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
«These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Los Angeles streets,» she said. «Instead of rioting, they should be thanking ICE officers every single day who wake up and make our communities safer.»
Fox News Digital’s Taylor Penley, Emma Colton, Greg Wehner and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
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