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President Trump's pick for Surgeon General and a MAHA favorite, Dr. Casey Means, was grilled by the Senate Health Committee today.

Means is an outspoken critic of the medication-first health model and recently published a book about lifestyle interventions.

She's also supported parents' rights to choose which vaccines their children receive.

Here's Means defending parents' rights to pass on the hepatitis B vaccine typically given shortly after birth.

The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on shipments of Venezuelan oil into Cuba.

Daily Wire foreign affairs reporter Cassie Akiva has more.

The Cuban government says several people are dead and more are injured following an exchange of gunfire off its northern coast.

A speedboat from Florida entered Cuba's territorial waters on Tuesday.

When a Cuban government ship approached it, those on board the speedboat opened fire and wounded the Cuban ship's commanding officer.

Authorities apparently fired back, killing four and wounding six.

U.S.

officials have confirmed that the speedboat was a civilian vessel and not part of the military.

War Secretary Pete Hexeth reportedly threatened Anthropic this week after the AI company tried to set limits on military use of its model.

Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.