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NY Times: C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.
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The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for children 6 months to 17 years old with a new condition. Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor or provider, which the agency calls “shared decision-making.”
The shots will also continue to be available under those terms to about 38 million low-income children who rely on the Vaccines for Children program, according to an emailed update from the C.D.C. on Friday.
However, the picture is less certain now for pregnant women, a group the C.D.C. had considered to be at high risk for a bad outcome from the virus. The official C.D.C. position for pregnant women is “no guidance,” according to a communication released from the agency Friday. Mr. Kennedy’s pronouncement on Tuesday had included a decision to drop the recommendation for pregnant women to receive Covid shots.
The C.D.C.’s new guidance on pregnant women is a troubling turn of events for experts familiar with research showing that their risk of stillbirth, hospitalization and death rises if they have Covid.
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NY Times: Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V. research and programs to prevent the disease.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 30, 2025
In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations into his businesses would “take me down.” “I can’t be president,” he wrote, “but I can help Trump defeat Biden and I will.”
After appearing on stage with Trump on October 5, Musk texted a person close to him: “I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.” About an hour later, he added: “This is not something on the chessboard, so they will be quite surprised. “‘Lasers’ from space.”
Musk invested about $290 million in the 2024 election and, when Trump took office, became a fixture in the White House, heading the “Department of Government Efficiency.” It set out to kill government programs by withholding congressionally approved funds, a practice that courts have ruled unconstitutional and Congress expressly prohibited with the 1974 Impoundment Control Act.
Musk vowed that his “Department of Government Efficiency” would cut $2 trillion from the U.S. budget, but he quickly backed off on those numbers. In the end, DOGE claimed savings of $175 billion, but that claim is unverifiable and CNN’s Casey Tolan says it’s probably wrong: less than half of it is backed up with any documentation.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Wired: DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is ‘Really Not Leaving’
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.
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Fred Wellman: White House Chief of Staff phone hacked and it’s not a joke
The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Thursday that White House Chief of Staff Susie ‘The Adult in the Room’ Wiles appears to have had her phone hacked by someone who has since been sending messages to officials impersonating her.
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Marvin Olasky: Remembering the era of compassionate conservatism: “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” But it could come back.
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NY Times: Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order
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NewsMax: Trump WH Nixes $3.7 Billion in Clean Energy Awards
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NPR: Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
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Newsweek: Largest Egg Producer in Southwest Partially Shutdown: What to Know
Bird flu has wiped nearly all of Hickman’s Family Farms’ chickens in Arizona, forcing the Southwest’s largest egg producer to cut staff and begin rebuilding its flock—a process expected to take about two years, the company’s President and CEO Glenn Hickman told Newsweek in a Saturday phone call.
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