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And former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering and abuse of power in connection with the looting of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.
1MDB is one of the largest financial crimes of the century and dates back to 2009.
More than $4.5 billion was allegedly taken from the fund, with money used to buy art and put toward the Hollywood film The Wolf of Wall Street.
The fallout has continued more than a decade later, with JP Morgan agreeing in August to pay $330 million to settle claims that it facilitated transactions.
Jho Low, a financier alleged to have masterminded the scheme, remains at large.
Today, the Malaysian court rejected the argument from Najib's defense that the money Najib handled was sent from Saudi Arabia's royal family, not from the sovereign wealth fund.
He's in prison for an earlier conviction related to the 1MDB scandal, and his legal team said it would appeal this decision.
Stock trading was thin the day after Christmas, and major U.S.
indexes were mostly flat in midday trading.
In commodities, silver and gold futures hit their latest records.
Both tend to gain as safe havens when investors are worried about inflation.
Coming up, what was on the MAHA agenda this year, and what does it mean for the year ahead?
That's after the break.
We're taking a look at health policy during President Trump's second term, like the changes to vaccine policy under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
and how Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement could affect Republican prospects in next year's midterm election.
I'm joined now by WSJ National Politics reporter Sabrina Siddiqui.
Sabrina, what have been some of the biggest health care changes under the Trump administration?
What has been Kennedy's approach to vaccine policy and how have we been seeing that play out?
When the CDC changes its recommendations for vaccines, does that mean that people actually lose access, like health insurers won't cover it anymore?
shifting slightly from vaccines, one of the more controversial points that was made by the Trump administration was saying that there's a connection between taking Tylenol during pregnancy and autism in the child that's born later.