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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked eight new members for a panel that helps set national vaccine policies.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel

Two days after firing vaccine experts who help set the nation's immunization policies, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked eight successors for the CDC panel.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Pien Huang
After working at the Social Security Administration for nearly 35 years, Michele Santa Maria opted to take early retirement fearing she'd be fired as part of the Trump administration's mass layoffs. Now Congress may eliminate a key part of her federal retirement package.

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  • Politics

She served the American people for 35 years. Now her retirement income is on the line

As part of Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," the House voted to end a retirement supplement aimed at helping federal employees who retire before they're 62.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Brian Wilson in 1965.

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  • Obituaries

Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers and
  • Chloe Veltman
The Boulders development, built in 2006 in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood, features a mature tree along with a waterfall. The developer also added mature trees salvaged from other developments — placing them strategically to add texture and cooling to the landscaping.

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  • Climate

In Seattle, preserving trees while increasing housing supply is a climate solution

Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Bellamy Pailthorp and
  • Parker Miles Blohm
Union members and supporters rally in Grand Park calling for the release of union leader David Huerta, who was arrested during an immigration enforcement action on June 9 in Los Angeles.

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  • USPS

As protests spread, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace wants to defund 'lawless' cities

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a bill this week that would give the federal government the ability to withhold federal dollars from cities deemed "lawless."

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Destinee Adams
Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley gives the President's Address during the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

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  • Politics

Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage

Southern Baptist delegates at their national meeting overwhelmingly endorsed banning same-sex marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court's 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide.

June 12, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Legislation in Congress would claw back two years of funding for the public media system, along with money for foreign aid programs.

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  • Politics

The GOP's massive bill would benefit the rich the most -- while hitting the poor

The top 10% of earners in the U.S. would see the biggest gains under the GOP tax and spending package, according to congressional forecasters, but those at the bottom of the income ladder would be worse off.

June 12, 2025
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  • Scott Horsley
Firefighters work at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state on Thursday.

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  • Asia

More than 200 are dead after Air India crash in Ahmedabad. 1 passenger has survived

The Air India flight crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad shortly after departure. Authorities say 204 bodies have been recovered from the site and there is one confirmed survivor so far.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Shweta Desai
The State Department, which administers the Fulbright Program. Eleven members of the 12-person Fulbright board have resigned over alleged Trump administration interference.

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  • Politics

Almost all of the Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference

Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Bill Armstrong is among the 62-year-olds who have filed for Social Security retirement benefits in recent months. "I decided I better get in the system before they move that age higher," he says.

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  • Business

Why there's an unexpected surge in people claiming Social Security

Some early filers say worries about the future under the Trump administration moved up their timelines.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Federal agents wait outside an immigration courtroom at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York on June 10, 2025.

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  • USPS

ICE's novel strategy allows for more arrests from inside immigration courts

The Trump administration has a novel strategy to boost arrests and reduce courts' backlog: dismissing people's immigration cases and immediately arresting them.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Mason Thamesas Hiccup with his Night Fury dragon, Toothless, in the new live-action <em>How to Train Your Dragon</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Action, rom-com, or kids, there's a movie for everyone this weekend

In theaters this weekend: A live-action How to Train Your Dragon, a matchmaker rom-com Materialists, an adaptation of Stephen King's The Life of Chuck, and Ana de Armas stars in a John Wick spin-off.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Nicole Daedone, founder and former CEO of OneTaste, departs Brooklyn federal court on June 13, 2023, in New York. Daedone and the company's former head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, were convicted on forced labor conspiracy charges.

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  • National

Leaders of 'orgasmic meditation' company were convicted of forced labor: What to know

OneTaste billed itself as a sexual wellness business centered on "orgasmic meditation." Prosecutors said former leaders subjected victims to sexual and emotional abuse.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court says family can sue over wrong-house raid

A unanimous Supreme Court said a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.

June 12, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
Volunteers help a homeowner search for personal items in the remains of a home that burned in the Palisades Fire in January in Pacific Palisades, California.

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  • Climate

Protecting your home from disaster might not help you get insurance

Insurance costs are soaring, and coverage is hard to find in some parts of the United States. Communities say insurers are ignoring their efforts to confront the problem.

June 12, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
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