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Measles outbreak in west Texas worsens due to vaccine scepticism

Madeline Halpert BBC News Reporting fromWestern Texas Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr traveled to be with the Mennonite community after a second child died of measles On an unusually crisp April day in a rural Texas town, dozens of Mennonite community members gathered alongside the nation’s top health official, Robert […]

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Trump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global Finance

There are not many certainties in the world of money, but this traditionally has been one of them: When life turns scary, people take refuge in American government bonds. Investors buy U.S. Treasuries on the assumption that, come what may — financial panic, war, natural disaster — the federal government will endure and stand by […]

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The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines

During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety, public health experts say. Newsportual Institutes of Health halted funding for researchers […]

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Who Wants to Run Vanity Fair? Everyone? Anyone?

Radhika Jones shocked the magazine industry last week when she said she would be stepping down from the top job at Vanity Fair after more than seven years. Names of possible successors shot back and forth among insiders. A question also swirled in the wake: Is it still a good job? Once one of the […]

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Trump’s changing tariffs causes panic buying and paralysis

Natalie Sherman BBC News Reporting fromNew York, New York BBC Days after Richard Medina went looking for a smartphone to beat new tariffs, the US announced the devices would be exempt from the duties When his camera stopped working on his iPhone recently, New Yorker Richard Medina didn’t waste any time. With the threat of […]

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Trump’s New Way to Kill Regulations: Because I Say So

President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — to implement a novel procedure to scrap a wide array of longstanding energy and environmental regulations. He told agencies that oversee everything from gas pipelines to power plants to insert “sunset” provisions […]

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