India, Sept. 23 -- Donald Trump is preparing to make an announcement about autism on Monday, September 22. The US President is scheduled to speak at 4 PM (local time), an event that health advocates and researchers are watching closely. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. previously pledged to identify the cause of autism by September, PBS News reported.

That promise raised alarms across the medical community, given Kennedy's long history of promoting claims that vaccines trigger the condition - theories rejected years ago by mainstream science.

Speaking over the weekend at a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Trump hinted he believes the search is over. "I think we found an answer to autism," he told...