The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, reconstituted with members handpicked by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 8-3 to end the universal recommendation that all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The vote overturns a 30-year policy credited with reducing …
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Within days of seven Republican senators voting to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, Republican state parties across the country moved swiftly to censure those senators for their votes of conscience. The censure wave began on February 13, 2021—the same day as the impeachment …
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The Senate’s second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began on February 9, 2021, with a four-hour constitutional debate centered on the fundamental question: can the Senate try a former president? In a 56-44 vote, the Senate affirmed that the trial was constitutional and could proceed, with …
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