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College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: School assurances that they will provide funding for their increasingly imperiled Olympic programs, by far the biggest pipeline of talent for Team USA. Four people familiar with the talks told The Associated Press that lawmakers, mostly from the Democratic side that will need to provide votes to help any legislation pass the Senate, have been approached by college sports experts and policy shapers to explore options in exchange for support of a bill that some Democrats oppose. One of the clearest tradeoffs would be for…

In their first vote since appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the eight members of a vaccine committee voted to recommend a shot that protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.Clesrovimab, a monoclonal antibody created by pharmaceutical giant Merck, is recommended for use in infants younger than eight months born during or entering their first RSV season.Martin Kulldorff, who led the June 26 meeting, recently served as an expert witness for plaintiffs who accused Merck of concealing the risks of Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent cancer from human papillomavirus, or HPV.The eight new…

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.Many of these statements are factually incorrect. For example, in a newscast aired on June 12, 2025, Kennedy told Fox News viewers that 97% of federal vaccine advisers are on the take. In the same interview, he also claimed that children receive 92 mandatory shots. He has also widely claimed that only COVID-19 vaccines,…

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative called thimerosal.It’s a question seemingly laid to rest years ago, as studies showed no evidence that the preservative causes any health problems.“This is really a nonissue,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.Here are some things to know about the substance.What is thimerosal?Thimerosal is a preservative used in certain vaccines since the 1930s, as well as in some other medical products.It was mostly used in multi-dose vials…

Good morning. A huge congratulations to our video team for winning two News & Documentary Emmy Awards last night for The True Cost of Mining Electric Car Battery Metals and The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children. If you haven’t yet, give these incredible videos a watch.In today’s big story, a report by BI revealed that Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public documents. The company has since said it’s launching an investigation.What’s on deckMarkets: Why a billionaire investor is predicting a “little bull market” for stocks.Tech: Amazon’s grocery chief didn’t mince words when it…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the final days of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.But the justices also have six cases to resolve that were argued between January and mid-May. One of the argued cases was an emergency appeal, the administration’s bid to be allowed to enforce Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally.The remaining opinions will be delivered Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts…

LONDON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost the public trust.”A video of Kennedy’s speech was shown to participants at a Gavi meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, where the vaccines group was hoping to raise at least $9 billion for the next five years.Gavi is a public-private partnership including WHO, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank. It has paid for more than 1 billion children to be vaccinated through routine immunization programs, saving an estimated…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — One of the founders of Spire Motorsports has entered an agreement to purchase the NASCAR team owned by Rick Ware and is jumping back into the stock car series because he believes the current charters are grossly undervalued.T.J. Puchyr, who in 2018 alongside Jeff Dickerson launched the Spire team to take over the charter that Furniture Row Racing could not unload, told The Associated Press on Thursday he and Rick Ware Racing have a deal for him to take over Ware’s organization next season.When Puchyr and Dickerson bought the Furniture Row charter, the market for NASCAR’s…

LONDON (AP) — Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz are helping usher in a new era for tennis.With Wimbledon beginning Monday, the sport’s most recent Grand Slam champions are Gauff, a 21-year-old American, and Alcaraz, a 22-year-old Spaniard, who are both at No. 2 in the rankings and are both coming off French Open titles secured in riveting finals against the sport’s No. 1 players.They are young, they are charismatic as an be on the court and they are media-friendly off it. Gauff-Sabalenka, Alcaraz-Sinner give tennis rivalries as Wimbledon arrivesAlong with No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and former No. 1 Iga Swiatek…

With the words “Al Nassr forever” Cristiano Ronaldo ended uncertainty about his future and signed a two-year contract extension with the Saudi Arabian club on Thursday.The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s latest deal means he will play on until at least the age of 42 and gives him the chance to add to his record-breaking career.“A new chapter begins. Same passion, same dream. Let’s make history together,” Ronaldo said in a social media post along with a picture of him holding up a shirt that said “Ronaldo 2027.”The contract sees Ronaldo extend his time in Saudi Arabia, having joined Al Nassr…