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BREAKING: Rep. Gerry Connolly, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, dies at 75<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The bromance between Trump and Putin hasn\u2019t resulted in Ukraine ceasefire progress. The Justice Department is investigating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And the rules around Covid vaccine rollouts are changing.<\/em>
Here\u2019s what to know today.<\/em>
President Donald Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine and has made no secret of his desire to do lucrative deals with Russia reintroduced to the international financial fold. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown little desire for any sort of ceasefire and he\u2019s more than happy to keep delaying any definite decisions.\u00a0
So, maybe predictably, the phone call this week between the two presidents didn\u2019t achieve great strides on reaching a ceasefire deal. However, one thing was clear by the end of their conversation: The bromance is real.\u00a0
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\u201cThe tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent,\u201d Trump said of his two-hour conversation, adding that Putin is a \u201cnice gentleman.\u201d Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov, meanwhile, said Trump and Putin called each other by their first names and \u201cneither of them wanted to end the conversation.\u201d\u00a0
But a question lingers: What does this bonhomie actually deliver for the men in the White House and the Kremlin?
For Putin, it\u2019s time. If the Russian leader\u2019s call with Trump delays making any decisions, then \u201cI think Putin will see it as a good job done,\u201d one expert said. But if an in-person meeting between Putin and Trump takes place, \u201cthen Trump will have to leave with something.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a>
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, over testimony he gave to Congress last year, a source said. House Republicans had requested a federal investigation into Cuomo, arguing he lied to the House Oversight Committee when he said he had not been involved in reviewing a report from the New York Department of Health about the state\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic from when he was governor.
A spokesperson for Cuomo questioned the timing of the announcement, which comes during his run for New York mayor against Mayor Eric Adams. \u201cThis is lawfare and election interference plain and simple,\u201d the spokesperson said. Federal corruption charges against Adams were dismissed after he began cooperating with the Trump administration on immigration enforcement.\u00a0Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a>
Meanwhile, former FBI director James Comey \u2014 who last week sparked a firestorm on the right and a Secret Service investigation over an Instagram photo showing seashells arranged in the shape of \u201c8647\u201d \u2014 brushed aside the chance that he might face criminal charges during a book signing this week at a Barnes & Noble in New York City. Amid the new scrutiny on Comey, he expressed dismay that the Trump Justice Department continues to target political foes, as well as universities and law firms.
\u201cMy thing, to me and I hope everyone else, is just a distraction that goes away in a weekend,\u201d he said. \u201cBut there\u2019s something much more important going on here \u2014 the use of power to aim at individuals eroding the rule of law.\u201d\u00a0Read more<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about Comey\u2019s reaction to the second Trump administration.
Updated Covid vaccines for healthy children and adults likely won\u2019t be available this fall \u2014 and possibly in subsequent years \u2014 as the FDA plans major changes for how Covid vaccines are released and who will be able to get the updated shots. The mandate comes before tomorrow\u2019s FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting where outside experts will discuss which strains should be included in the next round of Covid shots.
In a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the agency\u2019s new vaccine chief, wrote that any new Covid vaccine now must undergo placebo-controlled clinical trials and track participants for at least six months. That means it\u2019ll be near impossible for Pfizer and Moderna to complete new trials in time for the fall season. In a question-and-answer session, Makary and Prasad also suggested that the vaccines may not be updated every year.\u00a0
The rule changes aren\u2019t expected to affect the fall rollout for older adults and other people at high risk for severe illness because drugmakers are exempt from additional testing for those groups.\u00a0Here\u2019s what else to know.<\/strong><\/a>
The world is looking to the past to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. But advocates say what happened then is also part of the present and future. That\u2019s because\u00a0America\u2019s insufficient resettlement efforts decades ago<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has made Vietnamese refugees particularly vulnerable to deportation under the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on immigration, experts say.
Many of the refugees facing orders of removal fall under what immigration experts refer to as the \u201cmigration to school to prison to deportation pipeline.\u201d Advocates say it points to how those who resettled in the U.S. were given few resources, became entangled in the criminal justice system and were threatened with deportation upon serving their sentences. \u2014\u00a0<\/em>Kimmy Yam<\/em><\/strong>, NBC Asian America reporter<\/em>
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