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Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule

WASHINGTON (AP) — To earn the vote he needed to become the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation's current vaccination schedule. But on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and ...

Judge won’t immediately block Musk or DOGE from data or worker layoffs

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused Tuesday to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that there are legitimate questions ...

Democrats have mastered the art of the manufactured crisis

So much is new and topsy-turvy in our national politics, but one thing has endured — the commitment of the Democrats and the media to whipping up insta-hysteria about something Donald Trump has said or done, or might say or do. This has been a consistent thread in their reaction to Trump ...

Minus 39: Record cold hits North Dakota capital

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than 95 million people are facing gripping cold Tuesday as a polar vortex sends temperatures plunging to record levels, closing schools, bursting pipes and forcing communities to set up more temporary shelters for the homeless. "Some of the coldest temperatures of ...

Official: None dead, 18 injured in Delta airline crash in Toronto

TORONTO (AP) — A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing Monday at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and those hurt had relatively minor injuries, the airport’s chief executive said. Snow was being blown by winds gusting to 40 mph (65 kph) when ...