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What will Senate Finance Committee ask Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. about vaccine advisory board changes?
Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee this morning. He's likely to be grilled over far reaching changes to federal health agencies, and you'll likely be asked about his promise not to change the makeup of a federal vaccine advisory board. However, Kennedy fired everybody on the panel and replaced them with his choices instead. A federal judge in Boston has Harvard rather handed Harvard University a big win yesterday. The judge ruled the Trump administration unlawfully froze more than two billion dollars in research funding to the school, and Pierre's Corey Turner has more.
That funding freeze was triggered, the administration said, by Harvard's failure to check the spread of anti-Semitism on campus. But Judge Allison Burroughs pointed out that the research being defunded, including studies of Alzheimer's, cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, heart disease, and autism, had no clear connection to antisemitism.
How did a federal judge rule on the Trump administration’s freeze of Harvard’s research funding?
Burroughs also said the freeze violated federal civil rights law and Harvard's First Amendment rights, saying she found it, quote, difficult to conclude.
The White House says it will immediately appeal what it called an egregious decision. Corey Turner, NPR News.
The Department of Homeland Security has opened an immigration detention facility at a state prison in Louisiana. More than fifty people are now being held there. From member station WRKF, Alex Cox reports the prison is known as Angola.
The new campus called Louisiana Lock Up, and it's set to hold what federal officials are calling the worst of the worst. Angola is known for its history of violence and use of inmate labor. Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nome says the choice of venue was deliberate.
Why is the DHS opening a new immigration detention facility at Angola Prison in Louisiana?
This is a facility that's notorious. It's a facility Angola Prison is legendary, but that's a message that these individuals that are gonna be here that are illegal criminals need to understand.
The funding for the camp comes from the one big beautiful bill act signed in July. It will have over 400 beds. For M PR News, I'm Alex Cox in Angola, Louisiana.
More than a dozen women have joined two house lawmakers to call for the release of all files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The women are connected to the criminal case against Epstein and they're demanding full transparency from federal officials. Она до вимен Маріна Ласерда творьох сторі публіки фірми ястрей.
А ти'янфолін.
What are lawmakers demanding regarding the release of all files on the Jeffrey Epstein case?
Да хав
House Republicans have voted to support a probe of the Epstein case by the House Oversight Committee. But that vote was mostly symbolic.
This is NPR. A new study finds that a majority of preschool aged children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were prescribed medications. But as NPR's Reto Chantry reports, medications should not be the first line of treatment for young children with ADHD.
Researchers looked at the electronic health records at pediatric clinics affiliated with eight academic institutions. Across the country. Of the more than seven hundred thousand three to five year olds seen at these clinics between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty three.
What does new research reveal about ADHD medication use in preschool‑aged children and recommended first‑line treatments?
1.4% were diagnosed with ADHD. Nearly 70% of those kids were prescribed medications before they turned seven, and more than forty percent got their prescriptions within thirty days of their diagnosis. Preschool age children with symptoms of ADHD are at risk of social and emotional problems as well as failure in academics. And the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends then the first line of treatment for such young children is to give parents the tools to manage behaviour in kids. The findings appear in JAMA Network Open. Read the Chatter G and PR News.
The NFL season gets underway tonight as the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles will welcome the Dallas Cowboys. Fans may be watching for how some new rules will affect the game that includes some changes to kickoffs and overtime.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What will Senate Finance Committee ask Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. about vaccine advisory board changes?
0:00–0:58
2
How did a federal judge rule on the Trump administration’s freeze of Harvard’s research funding?
0:58–1:52
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Why is the DHS opening a new immigration detention facility at Angola Prison in Louisiana?
1:52–2:34
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What are lawmakers demanding regarding the release of all files on the Jeffrey Epstein case?
2:34–3:34
5
What does new research reveal about ADHD medication use in preschool‑aged children and recommended first‑line treatments?
3:34–4:39