A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of liver illnesses. A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders is decrying the decision by the committee appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Democrats are pushing for the release of video of the first U.S. military strikes on a boat in the Caribbean that they say shows a war crime or murder. At least 87 people have been killed so far in President Donald Trump’s effort to stop the flow of drugs. The U.S. Southern Command announced another strike against a small boat on Thursday as congressional oversight hearings were under way.
