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The CDC\u2019s vaccine advisory panel voted to roll back a recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
Voters who backed Democratic governors in New Jersey and Virginia this year after voting for Trump in 2024 have a message for both parties: reject your party\u2019s extremes and run campaigns about more than just Trump.
In new focus groups, 14 swing voters from New Jersey and Virginia revealed sharply negative views of both parties \u2014 and of politicians broadly. They explained that they were drawn in last month\u2019s elections in their states to Govs.-elect Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, who cast themselves as moderates and transcended the damaged Democratic Party brand.
And while 10 of these voters disapproved of Trump\u2019s job performance so far and voiced concerns about high prices, a majority said they did not view their votes for governor as a protest vote against Trump. An anti-Trump message alone may not be enough to sway them and voters like them next year in the midterm elections.
Instead, their consistent refrain serves as an important message to Republicans and Democrats as they look to sway swing voters in key races across the country next year: Candidate quality matters, ranging from positions on issues to personality to professional background.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Rock icon Gene Simmons visited the White House briefing room this afternoon and spontaneously answered some questions from the press, mostly about rights for musicians.\u00a0
Simmons did not directly answer whether he was meeting with Trump, but he appeared to have been taking a White House tour with his family. (Trump is not at the White House right now and remains at the Kennedy Center.) Simmons is in town ahead of Sunday\u2019s Kennedy Center honors, where his band KISS will be honored.
<\/span>Gene Simmons at the White House today.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Allison Robbert \/ AP<\/span>
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said he remains concerned about Pete Hegseth\u2019s\u00a0leadership at the Defense Department.
\u201cHegseth should go. He should resign or be fired,\u201d Blumenthal told NBC News\u00a0after a press conference here. <\/strong>\u201cHe bears responsibility for potential murders or war crimes, not just in the two survivors of that Sept. 2 strike, but for more than 80 deaths, killings on 23 boats without any legal justification. I have not seen the video, but it\u2019s been described to me. Americans need and deserve to see that video.\u201d
The September operation targeting a boat in the Caribbean Sea that was\u00a0suspected of smuggling drugs was\u00a0carrying a total of 11 individuals<\/a>, the Pentagon said at the time. After the first strike left two survivors, the military then launched a second.\u00a0
Since then, the U.S. has conducted more than 20 strikes on vessels it alleges are carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing more than 80 people.
The Trump administration has said\u00a0Adm. Frank M. Bradley was responsible for ordering the second strike<\/a>.\u00a0
\u201cI am very fearful that Secretary Hegseth, very simply, is throwing Adm. Bradley under the bus, saying he has Bradley\u2019s back enough to push him under the bus. It is ultimately Hegseth\u2019s responsibility,\u201d Blumenthal said.\u00a0
\u201cTo be very blunt, my worry is we have no strategy, no end game, no real plan for what is happening off the coast of Venezuela with about 1\/7 of our total naval strength committed to that area,\u201d he added. \u201cThat amount of naval strength is unnecessary to interdict narcotics. It should be done by the Coast Guard as a law enforcement effort. And I think there needs to be an inquiry by the Armed Services Committee.\u201d
NBC News reached out to the Pentagon for comment.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., said her office has continued to receive threats in the wake of a video she released with colleagues urging military members to refuse unlawful orders.\u00a0
\u201cI think that our posture right now is to be, remain attentive,\u201d Houlahan said in an interview with NBC10 airing on NBC10@issue on Sunday. \u201cWe certainly do continue to get calls that are worrisome and threats and we do have protection, but I will also say that we get an enormous amount of calls still that are enormously positive.\u201d\u00a0
Trump labeled the lawmakers \u201ctraitors\u201d and their actions seditious, at one point posting online: \u201cSEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!\u201d He later said he wasn\u2019t threatening death but thinks they are in serious trouble.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
A federal judge in Florida has ordered the release of material from grand jury investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 and 2007.
A similar bid was\u00a0rejected<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year, but U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said he was granting the Justice Department\u2019s renewed request in light of the bill that Congress passed\u00a0last month\u00a0<\/a>requiring the DOJ to release\u00a0all of its records related to Epstein.<\/a>
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Teeing up a blockbuster ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the lawfulness of President Donald Trump\u2019s contentious plan to roll back automatic birthright citizenship for nearly anyone born in the United States.
The eventual ruling in a case from New Hampshire, expected by the end of June, will likely determine conclusively whether Trump\u2019s ambitious proposal can move forward.
The case sets up a major clash between a president whose aggressive use of executive power has been a defining characteristic of his second term and a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that has so far mostly avoided direct clashes with the White House.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The Indiana House on Friday approved a new congressional map designed to net Republicans two seats, setting up a clash over the redistricting effort pushed by President Donald Trump in the state Senate.
The bill passed the state House, 57-41. But Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate have said there is not enough support for the map, which is designed to give the GOP control of all nine of the state\u2019s congressional districts. But the White House has pressured reluctant Indiana lawmakers for months to redraw their map as Trump seeks to shore up his party\u2019s narrow U.S. House majority ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections.
Read the full story here. <\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump accepted the inaugural FIFA peace prize at the World Cup draw event at the Kennedy Center this afternoon.
“This is truly one of the great honors of my life,” Trump said, adding that they’ve “saved millions and millions of lives.”
“The Congo is an example. Over 10 million people killed, and it was heading for another 10 million very quickly,” he said.
The president thanked the leaders of Canada and Mexico in his brief remarks.
“We\u2019ve had a tremendous relationship, working relationship, with Canada. We have our prime minister of Canada there, and we have our president of Mexico, and we\u2019ve worked closely with those two countries,” he said. “And the coordination and friendship and relationship has been outstanding. And I want to thank you both very much.”
<\/span>President Donald Trump receives the FIFA Peace Prize today.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Dan Mullan \/ Getty Images<\/span>
On the red carpet before the ceremony began, Trump was asked by reporters what he would say to those who would say the prize might conflict with his pledge to strike Venezuela.
\u201cI mean, I settled eight wars. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m getting it. I haven\u2019t been officially noticed. I\u2019ve been hearing about a peace prize, and I\u2019m here to represent our country in a different sense. But I can tell you, I did settle eight wars, and we have a ninth coming, but \u2014 which nobody\u2019s ever done before,\u201d Trump said.
\u201cI\u2019ve saved millions and millions of lives, and that\u2019s really what I want to do,\u201d he said.
Trump has repeatedly expressed that he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, even joking this week that he should win one for each conflict he has helped resolve. Last month, it was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado.<\/a>
Though U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie last week ruled that Lindsay Halligan\u2019s appointment as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District unlawful, Halligan’s name is still appearing across criminal information and indictments filed in the district. Per guidance sent internally around the Eastern District last week, Halligan\u2019s name is accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and First Assistant Robert McBride.
According to a Justice Department source with knowledge of the situation, staff in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office has been instructed to continue to refer to Halligan as the U.S. attorney \u201cpending appeal\u201d of last week\u2019s ruling.
This week, in a federal court in Virginia, several judges have expressed frustration with the Justice Department for continuing to list Halligan as the U.S. Attorney on those various court documents, due to the court ruling in the Comey and James\u2019 cases and the fact that the Justice Department has yet to appeal that ruling.
Details of the judge’s frustration were first reported by CNN.\u00a0<\/a>
Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick said during a hearing earlier this week that listing Halligan\u2019s name on charging documents \u201cis simply not acceptable,\u201d according to a transcript that was read to NBC News by a Justice Department source.
In several cases this week, Fitzpatrick told prosecutors he is going to strike Halligan\u2019s name from court documents.
Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala has told prosecutors she is now going to annotate any new court filings with Halligan\u2019s name on them.
On the signature page of at least one indictment issued this week, where the U.S. attorney is listed on the last page, there is now an asterisk and a reference to the Comey and James decisions in a footnote.
Trump said that he’s going to meet with the leaders of Canada and Mexico who are in Washington for the FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center today.
“We\u2019re going to meet with both,” Trump said on the red carpet. “We\u2019re getting along very well.”
He said he believed he had a meeting set up with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum after the event.
Sheinbaum mentioned the planned meeting with Carney and Trump during a press conference in Mexico yesterday. She said she expected to discuss trade issues with them.
<\/span>From left, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Jim Watson \/ AFP – Getty Images<\/span>
Asked about whether he’s concerned that some World Cup host cities have crime problems, the president told reporters, “We’ll take care of that problem,” and referred to his efforts to send federal troops to American cities like Washington, D.C.
“I will tell you if they do have a problem by the time we get there, we’ll take care of that problem. We can solve that problem. I’ve proven that in D.C. and everywhere else we went,” Trump said.
The Defense Department says it has finished its review of the AUKUS submarine deal<\/a>, determining that it is \u201cin alignment with President Trump\u2019s America First agenda.\u201d
The Trump administration said in June that it was launching a formal review of the 2021 deal with Australia and Britain, under which the U.S. would sell Australia three to five nuclear-powered attack submarines starting in 2032. Officials said there were concerns that the sale might leave the U.S. with fewer of the submarines for itself, raising fears in Australia for the future of the deal worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
\u201cThe review identified opportunities to put AUKUS on the strongest possible footing,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement yesterday. \u201cThis review is intended to inform the President and our allies as we move forward with the historic and ambitious AUKUS agenda.\u201d
Australia\u2019s defense industry minister, Pat Conroy, said he was pleased the review confirmed that the AUKUS deal was moving \u201cfull steam ahead,\u201d as Trump said in October during a visit to Washington by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. \u201cWe\u2019ll engage constructively with its findings and its recommendations on how to improve AUKUS even further,\u201d Conroy said.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said in a statement this morning that the decision<\/a> by the CDC advisory panel to reverse its hepatitis B vaccination recommendation for newborns “is a mistake.”
Cassidy chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and had expressed concerns<\/a> over the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as health and human services secretary before deciding to vote for his confirmation. Kennedy replaced members of the CDC panel<\/a> with known anti-vaccine activists.
“As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective.\u00a0The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate,” Cassidy said.
He said before the birth dose of the hepatitis vaccine was recommended, “20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it\u2019s fewer than 20.”
“Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker,” Cassidy continued. “Acting CDC Director O\u2019Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.”
In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Trump has the power to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board.\u00a0\u00a0
The court wrote in its opinion that under a 1935 ruling, “Congress may restrict the President\u2019s ability to remove principal officers who wield only quasi legislative or quasi-judicial powers.”
But, it wrote, a 2020 ruling said, “Congress may not restrict the President\u2019s ability to remove principal officers who wield substantial executive power. As explained below, the NLRB and MSPB wield substantial powers that are both executive in nature and different from the powers that Humphrey\u2019s Executor deemed to be merely quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial. So, Congress cannot restrict the President\u2019s ability to remove NLRB or MSPB members.\u201d\u00a0
In a dissent, Biden appointee Judge Florence Pan wrote, \u201cMy colleagues\u2019 substantial acceptance of the government\u2019s maximalist theory of executive power brings us closer to autocracy, harms our nation, and violates the separation of powers. I respectfully dissent.\u201d
Amid the Trump administration’s efforts earlier this year to dismantle large swaths of the federal government, Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox, who served as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles cases brought by federal employees about personnel decisions.
In May, the Supreme Court permitted<\/a> the administration’s request to fire the members of the independent agencies.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s vaccine advisory panel rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
The panel, formally known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices \u2014 whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0fired in June<\/a>\u00a0and replaced with a group that has largely expressed skepticism of vaccines \u2014 recommended that women who test negative for hepatitis B can decide in consultation with a health care provider whether their baby should get the birth dose. The group suggested waiting until at least 2 months of age for the first dose if the vaccine is not given at birth.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The CDC\u2019s vaccine advisory panel is expected to decide today whether all newborns should routinely get hepatitis B vaccines.
The vote was delayed after a chaotic meeting yesterday when members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices \u2014 whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0fired in June<\/a>\u00a0and replaced with a group that has largely expressed skepticism of vaccines \u2014 debated the voting language. The vote on the hepatitis B vaccine had already been pushed back after a September meeting.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The man\u00a0charged with planting two pipe bombs<\/a>\u00a0near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The Indiana House of Representatives is expected to vote on the partisan redistricting bill boosted by Trump this morning. If passed, the state Senate is expected to take the bill up next week.
Read more on the effort here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump will take part in the FIFA World Cup 2026 draw at the Kennedy Center today at noon in Washington. The event is shaping up to be quite Trump-tailored, from musical selections to a new \u201cFIFA Peace Prize\u201d that is expected to be awarded to him by FIFA President and close ally Gianni Infantino.
The question of whether the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies could affect players and those who want to attend matches looms large. The White House has placed travel restrictions on 19 countries, including Iran and Haiti, which have already qualified. Their fans could be subject to the ban if it remains in effect, and the administration has indicated it may expand to include even more countries.
The State Department says it is working closely with people outside the U.S. who have already bought tickets, launching a system known as \u201cFIFA PASS\u201d meant to expedite wait times for visa appointments and interviews.
The FIFA World Cup draw today will be viewed by millions around the globe, but the high-profile event appears to be tailored to one key player: Trump.
The celebrity-packed ceremony will determine which national teams are sorted into various groups for the 2026 men\u2019s tournament<\/a>, resulting in a schedule for most of the 48 countries that will participate. The final slots will be decided by playoff games in the spring.
The U.S., Mexico and Canada are making history as the first group of three nations to host the World Cup together. While the leaders of each host nation will attend, Friday\u2019s draw will have some distinct Trump rally hallmarks.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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