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In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the months long National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. nPR's Juliana Kim reports.
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U.S. district Judge Gia Cobb ruled that by sending thousands of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. president Trump undermined the city's autonomy and presented harms to the nation's capital. She issued a temporary block on the deployment, but it won't take effect until next month in order to give the Trump administration time to appeal. As of Wednesday, there were over 2,100 guard forces in D.C. that includes troops from several states. In a statement, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson asserted that Trump was well within his authority to send the guard to D.C. in order to protect federal ass and assist law enforcement. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
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The Trump administration has revised a CDC website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism. The update has outraged public health and autism experts. It's part of the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. S overhaul of U.S. vaccine policy, as NPR's Ping Huang explains.
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As Health Secretary, Kennedy has been sowing doubts about vaccine safety. Earlier this year, during a big measles outbreak in Texas which killed two children, Kennedy went on Fox News and said that the measles vaccines kills people every year, gives them the same symptoms you get from measles. That is not true. He's also been making changes to how vaccine policy gets made. So he stacked a CDC vaccine advisory committee with people known for their unorthodox views who have been raising unsupported conspiracy theories at public meetings. And they've already made some changes to policies for flu and Covid vaccines.
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NPR's Ping Huang reporting. Former Vice President Dick Cheney was memorialized as a no nonsense public servant who loved his country. At his Funeral in Washington, D.C. today, former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden attended. NPR's Don Goneye reports.
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Attendees included four former vice presidents and numerous members of Congress, past and present Republicans and Democrats. George W. Bush recalled Cheney as his closest White House advisor in times of crisis, but said Cheney never ceased being that guy from Washington.