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New York Times:
Kennedy's Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine — Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services. — The lawyer helping Robert F …
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Reuters:
Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programs with RFK Jr. — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
RFK Jr key adviser petitioned regulators to revoke approval of polio vaccine — Aaron Siri is helping Trump's health secretary pick to select top jobs despite long history of attacking vaccines — A key legal adviser to Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump's pick for health secretary …
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Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:
RFK Jr. adviser wants FDA to revoke approval for polio and hepatitis B vaccines
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Pelosi Hospitalized in Luxembourg After Falling — A person familiar with the incident said the former House speaker, 84, had tripped going down stairs at a palace. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and evaluation. — Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized on Friday …
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Fox News:
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi injured, hospitalized while traveling to Luxembourg — Pelosi, 84, was traveling overseas for Battle of the Bulge remembrances — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury and has been admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg, Fox News has confirmed.
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Associated Press:
Texas' abortion pill lawsuit against New York doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine — Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed …
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Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider — This case sets up a legal battle between Texas' near-total abortion ban and New York's shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution. — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing …
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Forbes
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump transition wants to scrap crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla — The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla (TSLA.O), according to a document seen by Reuters …
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Chris Truax / The Hill:
America voted for a dumpster fire — Democrats just need to let it burn itself out — There's a quiet but intense debate going on today in America, over how and whether the country will function over the next few years. — Despite Republicans having an ostensible House majority for the last two years …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats livid with exiting Sinema, Manchin: ‘Pathetic’
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
Democrats' problem with working-class voters is bigger than free trade
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The Nation
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — Donald Trump's support in rural America appears to have virtually no ceiling. In last month's election, Trump won country communities …
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Raw Story
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Democrats need to change their approach to Trump's second term, top Kamala Harris pollster says — One of the first public airings of Democrats' strategy suggests they should try something new this time around with the president-elect. — A pollster to Kamala Harris' presidential campaign …
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Harris to Deliver Speech Urging Young People to Stay Civically Engaged
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Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI's Sam Altman to Donate $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund — Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations. — OpenAI said on Friday that its chief executive, Sam Altman, was planning to donate $1 million …
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Associated Press:
About 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll — Americans may have recently elected Donald Trump to a second term, but that doesn't mean they have high confidence in his ability to choose well-qualified people for his Cabinet …
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Emily Baumgaertner / New York Times:
Six Childhood Scourges We've Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines — Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s. — Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's picks for the government's top health posts …
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Raw Story
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Gillibrand Presses Biden to Amend the Constitution to Enshrine Sex Equality — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Vance invites Daniel Penny to Army-Navy game — “Daniel's a good guy, and New York's mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance wrote in a post on X. — Vice-president elect JD Vance will bring Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran recently acquitted …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
A toxic brew of money and threats is perverting the courts — Alex Jones and Elon Musk are using MAGA tactics to intimidate judges. … 📚 — Earlier this week, The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones's Infowars fell apart in a manner that was as perplexing as it was depressing.
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Vox
Politico:
'Everyone's demoralized.' Trump's climate threats rattle world's biggest science meeting — Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office. — Censorship. Funding cuts. Layoffs.
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Watts Up With That?, Twitchy and New York Times
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump's Rage at FBI Darkens as GOPers Signal Surrender — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 13 episode of the — Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
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New York Times
Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
The Conspiracy World Is Pushing Paranoia About a Post-Inauguration “Plandemic” — Trump will face new viral threats, but anti-vax forces are twisting words to suggest a dark plot. — In the lead-up to Donald Trump's second inauguration, professional conspiracy peddlers are hard …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The New Age of Trump: Protection Money and FU You Money — Today's Secret show is a banger. I'm just going to give you one quote from Sarah as your teaser: — “I see how they get away with it now.” — Go listen to this thing right now. It's really good. — Secret Pod Is Here
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Annie Waldman / ProPublica:
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism — America's Mental Barrier: How Insurers Interfere With Mental Health Care — Secret Playbook: Leaked documents show that UnitedHealth is aggressively targeting the treatment of thousands of children …
Andrew Witty / New York Times:
UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: Brian Thompson Was Never Content With the Status Quo — As Brian Thompson's family, friends and colleagues mourn his killing, we are bearing a grief and sadness we will carry for the rest of our lives. Grief for the family he leaves behind.
Marcia Brown / Politico:
Trump's pick to lead USDA hasn't returned Vilsack's call — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called his likely successor at USDA, Brooke Rollins, and left a voicemail — but hasn't received a response, he told reporters Friday. “I received her cell phone number from a senator who had visited with her …
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RedState
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Meet the New FBI Boss. He Sued the Old Boss. And Got Laughed Out of Court — The short, strange story of that time Kash Patel sued FBI director Christopher Wray, the man Trump wants Patel to replace — The nomination of the Trump hyper loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director is unusual.
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Georgia judge rejects Trump campaign lawyer attempt to invalidate guilty plea — The Georgia judge overseeing the state's election interference case against President-elect Trump and several allies on Friday rejected ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro's attempt to invalidate his guilty plea in an election interference case.
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