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Why did the CDC advisory panel vote to table the newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendation?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sangh. A key vaccine C D C advisory panel was poised to require people get a prescription before getting a covet vaccine, but today That measure failed in a close vote. NPR Selena Simmons defines the panel that Also decided not to change its recommendation for a baby's first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.
For decades, the CDC has recommended that infants get their first hepatitis B vaccine dose within the first 24 hours of life. That policy has long been a target of anti vaccine advocates, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But in a surprise move Friday, one of Kennedy's handpicked members of CDC's vaccine advisory panel, Dr.
What caused the Republican short‑term funding bill to stall in the Senate?
Robert Malone, made a motion to postpone a vote on the matter indefinitely.
I believe that uh there's enough ambiguity here that I believe that a vote today is premature.
The committee voted eleven to one to table action on the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, with Chair Martin Kohldorf as the lone dissenting vote. Selena Simmons Duffin, NPR News.
A Republican measure to keep federal agencies funded for seven weeks after funding expires at Mumsen has hit a snag. The short term bill passed in the House but stalled in the Senate. Most congressional Democrats were opposed. President Trump says on social media he and Chinese President Xi Jinping made progress toward approving a deal on TikTok in their phone call today. He says they have agreed to meet at the Apex Summit in South Korea late next month, and Trump also says he'll visit China early next year. TikTok has an estimated one hundred seventy million users in the US alone.
How are President Trump and Xi Jinping negotiating the future of TikTok?
It's been under threat of being banned over Washington's concerns that Beijing might gain access to sensitive data through TikTok's Chinese parent company, Bike Dance. Ukrainian president Voltimir Zelensky says his country is setting up channels to export weapons produced by Ukraine's fast growing defense sector. NPR's Joan Gakisis reports from Kyiv that the exports can finance the production of more weapons which Ukraine needs as Russia's war drags on.
In his evening video address, Zelensky said he hoped to present the export platforms in the next couple of weeks.
He said
Ukraine already has a surplus of some modern weapons and the capacity to produce even more of these weapons with additional financing. These weapons include sea drones, which have helped Ukraine drive out part of Russia's Black Sea fleet, and also anti-tank weapons. He said Ukraine will still prioritize the arming of brigades and stocking up arsenals. He said the first export channel will be
Joanna Kakissis N PR News Cave. From Washington.
What new weapons export channels is Ukraine establishing to fund its defense?
This is NPR News. A federal judge in Florida is rejecting President Trump's fifteen billion dollar defamation suit. Against the New York Times saying the eighty five page complaint is full of tedious and burdensome language with no bearing on the case. The judge is giving Trump's lawyers twenty eight days to file an amended complaint and limits them to Forty pages. Grammy wedding songwriter Brett James has died. He was fifty seven years old. The Associated Press site's North Carolina State Patrol in reporting he was among three people killed when their small plane crashed yesterday in the woods in Franklin under unknown circumstances. NPR's Isabello Gomez Sarmiento reports on Brett James' legacy in music.
Brett James
worked with some of the biggest names in country music, including Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and Carrie Underwood.
Why did a federal judge reject President Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times?
James won a Grammy Award in 2007 as part of the team that penned Jesus Take the Wheel. He also wrote songs for pop artists like Jessica Simpson, The Backstreet Boys, and Taylor Swift.
A perfect day good
Brett James was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020. The Songwriters Hall posted in his honor following news of his death. Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and PR News.
Authorities say mudslides and debris flows from yesterday's heavy rainfall on several Southern California mountain communities trapped motorists for ten hours. At least half a dozen vehicles were stranded on a narrow and winding road.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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Why did the CDC advisory panel vote to table the newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendation?
0:01–0:50
2
What caused the Republican short‑term funding bill to stall in the Senate?
0:50–1:46
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How are President Trump and Xi Jinping negotiating the future of TikTok?
1:46–2:57
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What new weapons export channels is Ukraine establishing to fund its defense?
2:57–3:51
5
Why did a federal judge reject President Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times?
3:51–4:39