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with the agency now recommending children get vaccinated against 11 diseases.

Hitting out at the CDC's pared-back vaccination schedule, the AAP's Dr. Sean O'Leary said the recommendations aren't grounded in science, but rather in ideology.

A purge of the Chinese military has now reached the country's senior-most general, and we can exclusively report that he's being accused of leaking information about China's nuclear weapons program to the U.S.

and accepting bribes for official acts.

General Jian Youxia was once considered Xi Jinping's most trusted military ally,

and is a descendant of revolutionary elders who helped Mao Zedong's communist forces seize power in 1949.

Analysts say the opacity of China's political system makes it hard to ascertain Xi's motivations for targeting John.

A spokesman at the Chinese embassy in Washington said the party's decision to investigate John underscores that China's leadership maintains, quote, a full-coverage, zero-tolerance approach to combating corruption.

We've left a link to our reporting in our show notes.

And gold has surged past $5,000 for the first time ever, adding to its historic rally.

That's markets reporter Joe Wallace, who said that political uncertainty regarding Greenland and Venezuela, coupled with President Trump's latest threat of 100% tariffs on Canada, is pushing safe havens like gold and silver to new highs.

And that's it for What's News for this Monday morning.

Today's show was produced by Daniel Bach and Hattie Moyer.

Our supervising producer was Sandra Kilhoff.

And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

We will be back tonight with a new show.

And until then, thanks for listening.

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