The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially approved a set of recommendations Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisers made last month, including dropping a broad recommendation that Americans age 65 and older get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Why it matters: The updating of adult and child immunization schedules on Monday was necessary to allow people to get an updated COVID shot in every state without a prescription.
Immigrant detention centers nationwide are reporting placing more people in solitary confinement in 2025, sometimes for weeks at a time, according to new research.
The big picture: U.S. solitary confinement placements increasingly drag on for 15 days or longer, which the United Nations says constitutes psychological torture, according to a report by Harvard University researchers and Physicians for Human Rights.
This poll shows why Democrats are so confident about making Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits a centerpiece of the government funding fight: They're popular, even among Republicans.
Why it matters: That's why even before the government shutdown, some Republican senators were already thinking about how to extend the credits — with changes — before they expire at the end of the year.
