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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee has voted 8-3 to roll back its universal recommendation to start hepatitis B immunization at birth, a guidance practiced for more than three decades. NPR's Rob Stein explains the new, more narrow guidance for newborns.
The committee voted to only urge that babies born to women who test positive for the virus get vaccinated at birth. Those who test negative or whose status is unknown would be counseled to talk to their doctors about waiting until their kids are at least two months old. The new recommendations would also urge parents to talk to their doctors about testing their kids first before necessarily getting the second and third doses that are usually given for full protection.
NPR's Rob Stein. This committee of CDC advisors was put together by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long questioned many vaccines and has launched a major review of all childhood vaccinations. The Trump administration is pledging support for European political parties that fight immigration. That sparked criticism from some mainstream European parties, as NPR's Lauren Freyer reports.
Germany's foreign minister, Johann Wadipool, dismissed this new White House document, telling reporters in Berlin that Europeans don't need advice on democracy from the Trump administration. In this document, the U.S. pledges to support what it calls patriotic parties that promote nationalism and fight immigration. It does not name any such parties, but those are the platforms of far-right parties, including Reform UK and the Alternative for Germany. which is classified as extremist by German intelligence services. The White House says it's necessary to support such parties to promote, quote, European greatness and prevent a future where, quote, certain NATO members will become majority non-European.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot use Guantanamo Bay as a holding place for migrants targeted for deportation. And Piersasha Pfeiffer reports.
What changes did the CDC recommend regarding hepatitis B immunization for newborns?
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which now plans to ask the court to shut down the migrant detention center at Guantanamo. The Trump administration began sending migrants there in February, and about 700 have been sent so far, usually for a few days or weeks at a time. The judge said that's costing $100,000 a day per detainee, whereas it would cost about $165 a day per detainee to hold them in the U.S. The judge also said the administration is not legally permitted to use offshore military bases to hold detainees designated for deportation. The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sasha Pfeiffer, NPR News.
This is NPR. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the president does have the constitutional power to fire members of two independent agencies at will, despite federal laws to the contrary. The ruling comes as the Supreme Court prepares to tackle the same topic, as NPR's Andrea Hsu reports.
In a two-to-one decision, the court ruled that President Trump's firings of National Labor Relations Board member Gwen Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Kathy Harris were lawful, despite federal laws that state they can only be fired for cause. The appeals court found that a 1935 Supreme Court decision limiting the president's power to remove officers at multi-member independent agencies like theirs would doesn't apply here because both agencies wield substantial executive power. On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a similar case. The Trump administration has asked the court to strike down that 1935 precedent and recognize that the president has unlimited power to remove those who assist him in carrying out his duties.
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