Tracy Mumford

That kind of pushback from grand juries is becoming increasingly common as Trump appointees push forward with legally questionable cases in an effort to appease the president.

Also, the Department of Homeland Security has hired a new social media manager, despite the fact that his former colleagues raised alarms about the content he was posting.

21-year-old Peyton Rollins has spent most of the past year overhauling the Labor Department's social media pages.

which started promoting an anti-Semitic trope and Confederate imagery, and used the typeface from the original cover of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

According to internal messages and emails obtained by The Times, Rollins' co-workers repeatedly objected to the content, saying it made them uncomfortable and that it was getting engagement online from far-right extremists.

Rollins did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The DHS social media accounts he'll now be helping run

had already been under scrutiny for promoting white supremacist messaging.

And last update, the drugmaker Moderna says that the Food and Drug Administration has refused to review its cutting-edge flu vaccine.

The unusual rejection, which came after the company spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars testing its shot, is the latest sign that federal health policy, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has become hostile to vaccine development.

Moderna's vaccine uses mRNA technology, which was successfully used in COVID vaccines.

And according to a peer-reviewed study published by company scientists, the new mRNA flu shot is safe and effective.

Kennedy, however, has repeatedly criticized mRNA vaccines and canceled funding into their research and development.

The FDA told Moderna it refused to review the drug because it hadn't run a, quote, adequate and well-controlled study, though it didn't cite any specific concerns about the product's safety or effectiveness.

My colleague Pranav Bhaskar has been looking into some alarming new statistics.

Across North America and Europe, the UN estimates that children now account for 42% of terrorism-related investigations.

That's three times what it was just five years ago.

And in Europe in particular, as much as a third of counterterrorism work now involves minors as young as 12 or 13 years old, according to a research group in The Hague.

Pranoff says that in recent years, there have been a few high-profile cases, like a 15-year-old British girl who was groomed online by a neo-Nazi in Texas.

She later downloaded a bomb-making guide and posted about blowing up a synagogue.