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Friday, February 14, 2025

As a West Texas county is dealing with a measles outbreak, experts are reminding Americans outbreaks like these can be avoided with safe, effective and available vaccines. read more


Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with 10 undocumented immigrant workers who said they'd been employed by outside companies to work at Tesla and SpaceX facilities in the Austin area. read more


President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life " his childhood battle with polio " after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation Thursday as the nation's top health official. Trump attacked McConnell's mental acuity and said he had "no idea" if the senator had polio. The Oval Office barrage exposed the icy relationship between the Republican president and the former Senate GOP leader. They worked in tandem on tax cuts and judicial appointments during Trump's first term, but their relationship soured after McConnell blamed Trump for "disgraceful" acts in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and the president made personal comments about McConnell and his family. McConnell's office did not immediately respond to the president's attack Thursday. Earlier, the senator referred to himself as a survivor of childhood polio and talked about the life-saving impact of vaccines


Thursday, February 13, 2025

President Trump on Monday removed the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the independent agency responsible for overseeing ethics rules and financial disclosures for the executive branch. read more


Matt Schlapp, the face of the Conservative Political Action Conference, allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar in Virginia last weekend.


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J.D. Vance Met with Leader of Far-Right German Party

www.theguardian.com

Did Vance greet his counterpart with the official Leon nazi salute?

The ongoing measles outbreak in Texas' South Plains region is now the largest the state has seen in more than three decades.

The Texas Department of State Health Services reported on Friday there are now 48 identified measles cases, largely among children. The case count includes 13 hospitalizations.

www.dallasnews.com

February 14, 2025
In shock announcement, Trump Administration
fires
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over 1,000 CDC workers in single day

More than 10% of CDC workforce laid off

Sen. Ossoff: "Indefensible, indiscriminate firing of more than 1,000 CDC personnel in a single day leaves Americans exposed to disease and devastates careers and livelihoods for the world's most talented doctors and scientists"

www.ossoff.senate.gov

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