Retired 4-star general on fallout over US strike in Venezuela Gen. Robert Abrams discusses whether the strike could lead to regime change in Iran and Cuba.

Experts noted that while prior changes under the current administration affected individual vaccines, the latest revisions reshape the overall framework of childhood immunization guidance. The updated schedule, which takes effect immediately, was issued by Jim O’Neill, acting director of the CDC. It marks one of the most consequential public health policy shifts under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has repeatedly questioned the scope of childhood vaccination in the United States. “Stealth announcements of seismic changes in vaccine policy should include experts in pediatrics, infectious diseases and immunology,” Daskalakis said. “Comparing the U.S. childhood immunization schedule to that of Denmark or other countries ignores fundamental differences in population size, diversity, healthcare access, and infectious disease risk,” said Hopkins.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Trump administration on Monday said it had slashed billions in social services funds to a handful of blue states as part of its escalating response to new and unproven fraud allegations in Minnesota. AdvertisementIt’s not clear whether the freeze was inspired by specific fraud allegations or solely for political reasons. The Justice Department has charged dozens of people in Minnesota in a massive fraud scheme that siphoned away $250 million in federal child nutrition funds. AdvertisementIn December, a right-wing YouTuber posted a video alleging similar fraud at several day care centers, claiming the facilities weren’t serving any children. The state said its inspectors vetted the providers and didn’t find violations; the Trump administration has since frozen care payments nationwide.

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Supporters of the proposed billionaire tax say it is one of the few ways the state can provide health care for its most vulnerable. On social media, some wealthy Californians who oppose the wealth tax faced off against Democratic politicians and labor unions. “We believe billionaires can pay a modest wealth tax so working-class Californians have the Medicaid.”The Trump administration did not respond to requests for comment. He reiterated his opposition when asked about the proposed billionaires’ tax in early December. “The backers of this proposed initiative to tax California billionaires would have their work cut out for them,” said Kousser at UC San Diego.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:___Jan. 1The Washington Post on Trump's new humanitarian aid package to the U.N. The United States spent 20 years failing to create a stable government in Afghanistan and replaced a dictatorship in Libya with a fractured state. Perhaps most relevant, the United States has sporadically destabilized Latin American countries, including Chile, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua, by trying to oust a government through force. Despite this history, Mr. Trump seemed to commit the United States to a nation-building project in Venezuela. His administration has justified his attacks on the small boats by claiming they pose an immediate threat to the United States.

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“We are aligning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with international consensus while strengthening transparency and informed consent,” Kennedy said in a statement. Medical associations and public health advocates and experts condemned the revisions to the vaccine schedule, arguing they endanger children and are built on faulty assumptions. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe revised schedule will result in fewer doses and fewer vaccines being given in the U.S., according to industry and public health experts. Racine said the AAP will continue to publish its own childhood vaccine guidance, maintaining the routine recommendations scrapped by the Trump administration. President Donald Trump in early December ordered the review of the childhood immunization schedule to align with other countries, calling the U.S. an “outlier” that recommends far more shots than necessary.

From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and throughout the state, there’s a lot of good hospitals in the state of Pennsylvania. So it’s not surprising that 17 hospitals just earned the coveted overall 5-star designation from Forbes.com for 2026. Get our free mobile appWe have all of the hospital rankings posted below, but first it's kind of a natural question to ask:How Did Forbes Rank Pennsylvania’s Top Hospitals? This looked at how the hospital’s best practices were used to consistently deliver safe, up-to-date care for patients. They look at the quality of the care patients received and compared with the overall cost.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump keeps repeating a falsehood about Osama bin Laden — perhaps in the hopes that the more he says it, the more people will believe it. While talking about the deposed leader, the president pivoted to an astonishing claim about bin Laden. “Lindsey mentioned bin Laden. Do you know I wrote about bin Laden one year before the attack in the World Trade Center and I said, you got to go after bin Laden?” Trump falsely claimed. “In that book about a year before the World Trade Center was blown up, I said, ‘There’s somebody named Osama bin Laden.

The overhaul is effective immediately, meaning that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend vaccines against 11 diseases. HHS said its comparison to 20 peer nations found that the U.S. was an “outlier” in both the number of vaccinations and the number of doses it recommended to all children. “This decision protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health,” Kennedy said in a statement Monday. Medical experts disagreed, saying the change without public discussion or a transparent review of the data would put children at risk. “You can’t just copy and paste public health and that’s what they seem to be doing here,” said O’Leary.

A new documentary will take fans behind the scenes of Stranger Things' final season NetflixAnyone struggling to say goodbye to Stranger Things after the events of the recent season finale has one last gift from Netflix to look forward to. On Monday afternoon, the streaming giant confirmed that one last trip to Hawkins was on the cards, as the cast and crew of Stranger Things look set to take fans behind the scenes of the final run of episodes in a revealing new documentary. AdvertisementFilmmaker Martina Radwan spent a year on the set of Stranger Things with the Duffer Brothers in order to put together One Last Adventure: The Making Of Stranger Things 5. “I’m endlessly grateful to the Duffer Brothers for trusting me with a front-row seat to this incredible journey,” she enthused to the Netflix outlet Tudum. Watch the two-minute trailer for yourself – ahead of One Last Adventure’s release on Monday 12 January – below:AdvertisementAnyone keen to return to the Stranger Things universe can also look forward to a new series, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, arriving on Netflix later this year.

It’s by far the fastest-growing cause of death in America, soaring sixfold over the past decade or so, according to our analysis of death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But at the same time, it can’t explain a 746 percent increase in malnutrition deaths over that period. For example, we’ve seen very little growth in malnutrition deaths in hospitals in recent years. But does that mean rising malnutrition deaths are a mirage? He said he’d seen diagnoses like malnutrition on more and more death certificates.

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