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HHS postpones first vaccine advisory meeting of the RFK Jr. era. www.axios.com/2025/02/20/h...

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Drugmakers are portraying themselves as partners of Trump & RFK in fight against chronic diseases. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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BREAKING: Federal judge extends the restraining order on NIH capping indirect costs to 15% www.statnews.com/2025/02/21/t...

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The showdown between branded and copycat GLP-1 drugs for weight loss gets spicier. www.axios.com/2025/02/21/w...

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AdvaMed, the medical device lobby, pushed back on the Trump administration’s weekend firings of Food and Drug Administration employees.

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How much weight loss is too much? Pharma is pushing the limit with new obesity drugs

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An upcoming meeting of the ACIP, a key CDC vaccine advisory panel that is under scrutiny by RFK Jr., has been postponed. A U.S. official said it would be rescheduled.

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A new machine learning based test diagnosed Covid-19, HIV, flu, lupus, and Type-1 diabetes by studying immune cells.

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#Breaking - HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’

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Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.

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Fueled by pandemic frustrations, populist parties are embracing anti-vaccine figures — in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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#Breaking - Federal judge extends restraining order on Trump administration’s cap on NIH indirect costs

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The free app could help prevent asthma flare-ups that can land people in the emergency department

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Sam Nordquist didn't deserve this. Sam was reported missing on Feb. 9, 2025. Over that period of time, Sam was tortured and sexually abused repeatedly. Five people were charged with murder. Sam was transgender. This is what hate does. RIP Sam.🙏🏽🕊😪 www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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Words fail.

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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

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NEW: Idaho is trying to become the first state in the country to exclude women who have abortions from its expanded postpartum Medicaid coverage. The Biden admin rejected their proposal. The Trump admin announced today that it will reconsider it. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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ICYMI: The Trump admin surprised many this week with a SCOTUS brief defending Obamacare's independent panels that decide what preventive services insurance must cover, like mental health screenings & PrEP. But their argument still set off alarm bells... subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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NEWS: The Associated Press has sued the Trump administration over Oval Office, Air Force One, and similar access denial. The case have been assigned to Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... TRO memo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING: @pogo.org sued Trump and DOGE in federal court in D.C. today over the administration's efforts to treat DOGE records as presidential records not subject to FOIA for now. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague. * preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... * opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order pausing President Trump’s moves to fire thousands of employees who are on probationary status or deemed nonessential, clearing a roadblock for the new administration as it attempts to downsize the federal government.

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The polar vortex has taken on an unexpected pattern this winter — one that’s made part of the United States the most unusually cold place on the planet, at least so far this year.

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Banned from school by the Taliban, Afghan women fear President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign assistance will deny them a last chance at an education.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again. The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office more than twice.

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The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over.

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Column by Michelle Singletary: People have questions about Social Security, tax returns, and investments and want to know whether government cuts will affect their money.

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Doctors attending Pope Francis said “the pope is fine” and “working,” though they cautioned that he remains in significant danger as he fights a bout of double pneumonia.

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The Trump administration is sending asylum seekers and migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and China to Costa Rica and Panama. There’s no plan for what happens to them next // Andrea Salcedo writes from Panama City with @schmidtsam.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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The Trump administration has deported more than 400 migrants — from as far as China and Vietnam — back to some of these shelters, leaving them in legal limbo.

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Trooper, a bull terrier, was found on the side of a highway hours before Hurricane Milton struck Florida. He has since been adopted.

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“Many Americans are disturbed by President Donald Trump’s trampling of the Constitution and nuking of the federal government. But one group seems to love what Trump is doing: young men.” The latest from @crampell.bsky.social:

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In response to President Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover, actors, authors and other artists who were scheduled to hold events at Washington’s preeminent arts institution have begun backing out of scheduled appearances. Here’s a list of artists who have canceled:

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A Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to take down an editorial criticizing its mayor and city council, in a move that has alarmed free-speech advocates across the country and aggravated a years-long feud between the paper and the city’s mayor.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUES THE WHITE HOUSE to stop punishing the news agency, its clients and readers for not calling the Gulf of Mexico by the name President Trump wants // Jeremy Barr reports www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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Breaking news: A federal judge in Maryland on Friday temporarily blocked key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government and corporate America.

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Trump draws strong support from farm states. But his enthusiasm for increasing taxes on all imported products could ignite a global trade war that boomerangs on American farmers, the principal targets of foreign retaliation in Trump’s first term.

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From a source at NIH, some grants may be nixed because the investigator’s bio sketch mentions DEI-related activities, even if the science itself has nothing to do with it.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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"I just want to keep serving. I have served for nearly 20 years. I'm a combat aviator, test pilot, and I have served with honor and distinction," Cmdr. Emily Shilling said. to.pbs.org/4k7AHct

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Stubbornly high mortgage rates, rising rents and a lack of affordable housing have contributed to fewer home sales and rising homelessness. Housing was a key issue for voters in the November election that returned President Donald Trump to power.

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A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job in the United States and around the world.

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Six weeks after the start of the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential blaze and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.

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President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

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So far in 2025, House and Senate Republicans have introduced at least 26 bills aimed at loosening federal gun laws, according to a Trace analysis. In prior years, this would have been a herculean task. But with GOP-dominated Washington, it seems possible.

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New "Osterholm Update" podcast episode! @mtosterholm & @cvdall discuss RFK Jr's confirmation as HHS secretary, recent CDC & NIH layoffs, and a new Louisiana vaccine policy. They also cover seasonal and H5N1 flu activity and a measles outbreak in Texas www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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