In campaign news, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing questions about his health after The New York Times revealed he had a parasitic worm in his brain and was diagnosed with mercury poisoning over a decade ago. In a 2012 divorce deposition, Kennedy admitted he had cognitive problems including short- and long-term memory loss. He said abnormalities observed by doctors in a brain scan were believed to be due to “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.” Kennedy says he has fully recovered from both issues.