Donald Trump overrode virtually every medical scientist on Earth today.
His executive order cuts the vaccines recommended for every American child to 11 and drops hepatitis and meningitis protection for most kids, in the middle of America’s worst year for measles in 35 years. It also orders the MMR vaccine split into three separate shots that no pharmaceutical company produces and the FDA has never approved.
He told parents while signing the order that the measles vaccine could be “quite lethal,” with no pediatrician in the room and a conservative lifestyle influencer at his side. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the company that makes the vaccine all said the same thing within hours: Trump’s order endangers children.
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Source: CBS News
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Source: WGGB Springfield MA
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Trump signs an order limiting hepatitis and meningitis vaccines to high-risk children and splitting the MMR shot, repeating debunked autism claims as he signs.
Source: UPI
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Florida AG Uthmeier demands six years of New York Times board records, wielding the state pension's 160,000 shares and threatening suit within two weeks.
Source: The Tampa Bay Times
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Former Air Force Secretary Kendall will sue to restore the security clearance stripped after reports on the Qatari jet's missing antimissile defenses.
Source: The Associated Press
August 10, 2026
Hegseth dedicates Joint Base Lindsey Graham a month after the senator's death, joined by the sister appointed to his seat within a day.
Source: WYFF Greenville
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Judge orders DOJ to justify holding an Afghan permanent resident whose lawyers cannot see the classified evidence in the first secret deportation court case.
Source: NOTUS
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State Department announces 175,000 visa revocations since January 2025, including some for social media posts and 100 at one embassy over birth tourism.
Source: WTTG Washington
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Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Source: The Washington Post
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GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci's 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Source: CNN
August 10, 2026
Judge orders VA to restore its 320,000-employee union contract after the department's third termination attempt this year defied her standing injunction.
Source: Federal News Network
August 10, 2026
ICE will pay LexisNexis $6.7 million to pipe 82 billion records into Palantir systems that map neighborhoods for deportation targeting, procurement documents show.
Source: 404 Media
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Source: The Washington Post [gift link]
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Source: The Wall Street Journal [gift link]
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