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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailGet our free Inside Washington emailPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order that significantly altered the federal guidance for childhood vaccines and call for states to reconsider their requirements for school, upending decades of public health practice.The move is aimed at pleasing the conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine activists who embraced his political movement in the years following the Covid-19 pandemic.Speaking Monday in the Oval Office, the president called the move an “ historic step in our mission to…

An expansive beach in Wales is the site of one of one of the saddest moments of the “Harry Potter” movie series. It’s where Dobby, a freed house elf, dies in Harry’s arms during “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”“I want to bury him,” the young wizard-in-training says after the elf takes his last breath. “Properly. Without magic.”Fans of the 2010 movie assembled a real memorial to the imaginary elf on the Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where the scene was filmed. “Here lies Dobby, a free elf,” says a sign atop a pile of stones, a…

Trump signing executive order to split up MMR vaccines, scraps recommendations for hepatitis B, Covid-19 and influenza jabsIn the Oval Office, Donald Trump has signed an executive order – that we flagged earlier – which would split up the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.“You should have five separate visits for vaccines rather than giving them all in the same day,” the president said.He added that his administration would no longer recommend hepatitis b, Covid-19 and influenza shots for children.“Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much healthy, and of course, the…

  8m ago Trump extends waiver for foreign ships moving energy, fertilizers President Trump on Monday extended a waiver for 90 days for foreign ships to transport goods, including oil, fertilizers and other fossil fuel products, among U.S. ports.The president first waived the Jones Act on March 17 so that it would be easier to transport oil and refined fuels among ports, reducing price pressures after the start of the war.The latest extension will take effect on Aug. 17 and suggests that the U.S. might be preparing for continued price pressures as the Strait of Hormuz, a primary waterway for…

Washington — President Trump is signing an executive order on Monday laying out new recommendations for childhood vaccinations, sources familiar with the plans told CBS News. A draft of the order, which was obtained by CBS News, said there should be a more limited number of vaccines recommended for children, and it directed the Health and Human Services Department to reassess vaccine sequencing and timing within 90 days. The draft order didn’t mention autism, but the president did. As he prepared to sign the order, Mr. Trump said, “Today, we’re proud to officially announce the United States of America’s Gold Standard Childhood…

The Defense Department has renamed a military base in Charleston for Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican from South Carolina who died on July 11.That base, previously known as Joint Base Charleston, was created in 2010 after the merger of a Navy base and an Air Force base that were both established in 1941. It will now be known as Joint Base Lindsey Graham.The senator had wanted to be a military pilot. But because of a hearing problem in one ear, he trained as a lawyer and served as a judge advocate general in the Air Force, the Air National Guard…

Inside a building with a colorful facade in Upper Manhattan, cubicles stand ready for drug users to wrap tourniquets around their arms and inject themselves with new, sterilized needles. Supporters say supervised drug-use sites like this reduce overdose deaths and street drug use. But critics say the centers are magnets for hard drug users and dealers, leaving the local community feeling less safe.