Amna Nawaz:
Today’s hearing took place as a newly formed panel of vaccine advisers met for the first time. The group was handpicked by Secretary Kennedy after he fired all 17 experts from the committee earlier this month.
Several of his replacements have outspoken anti-vaccine views. This new group says it will review the vaccine schedule for children, which could affect how and when kids are immunized in the U.S.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in jail for at least a few more days as legal teams debate whether he’d be deported if released. Supporters rallied outside a Tennessee courthouse today after a judge had ruled that the Salvadoran national could be free to head of his trial on two counts of human smuggling. But his lawyers worried he might be immediately detained by immigration officials and deported.
Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported in March and was brought back to the U.S. earlier this month to face trial. Separately, the Trump administration is suing all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland over an order that blocks the immediate deportation of immigrants. A judge said last month that those who file a petition in that state cannot be deported for at least one day.
The blistering heat wave across the Eastern half of the country has now been blamed for at least one death in the St. Louis area. That’s according to local police. Nearly 128 million Americans remain under extreme heat warnings and advisories today along large portions of the East Coast. Already this week, dozens of daily temperature records have been broken across the Midwest and Northeast.
New York saw its hottest day since 2012 yesterday. But there is some relief in sight. Forecasters say the heat will gradually weaken through the end of the week, although that comes with the threat of severe thunderstorms across the Central and Eastern U.S.
On Wall Street today, stocks took a pause after two days of strong gains. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped around 100 points on the day. The Nasdaq managed a slight gain of around 60 points. The S&P 500 ended pretty much unchanged.
And an international team of astronauts blasted off early today on a privately funded mission to the International Space Station.
