Trump Narrows Childhood Vaccine List, Shifting More Shots to Individual Review

FDA Targets Self-Certification Loophole With Mandatory Additive Reviews

Fauci Texts Reveal Theoretical Miscarriage Concern During Vaccine Rollout

Tech Giants Accept Texas Data Center Rules on Power and Water

Iranian Threat Prompted Secret Trump Flight From Turkey

Trump Narrows Childhood Vaccine List, Shifting More Shots to Individual Review

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 10 reducing from 18 to 11 the number of diseases for which the federal government recommends universal childhood vaccination. The order moves vaccines for COVID-19, influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and bacterial meningitis into a shared clinical decision-making category, while leaving 11 others on the universal list. It also urges separate measles, mumps and rubella shots, although the CDC says standalone versions are not licensed or sold in the United States. The order does not formally overrule the CDC or its outside advisory panel and does not itself bar insurance coverage, but federal recommendations have long influenced insurers, schools and state health departments. The American Academy of Pediatrics called the change dangerous and said no new evidence supports it as the CDC reported 2,318 measles cases in the first seven months of 2026, underscoring the order’s potential reach across childhood vaccination, insurance coverage and school requirements.

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FDA Targets Self-Certification Loophole With Mandatory Additive Reviews

The Food and Drug Administration proposed a rule Aug. 10 that would require food manufacturers to notify the agency and submit safety findings before marketing a new ingredient. For roughly 70 years, companies have been able to designate additives as generally recognized as safe, or GRAS, and sell them without informing the FDA. The proposal would make notification mandatory, give the FDA 180 days to review new submissions and require companies to disclose how additives already on store shelves are used, with the information placed in a public database. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented the measure as part of the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, but the proposal must go through public comment and could face industry opposition before becoming final. A mandatory system would give regulators a fuller inventory of substances used in processed foods, providing information needed to evaluate their safety.

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Fauci Texts Reveal Theoretical Miscarriage Concern During Vaccine Rollout

Newly released January 2021 text messages show that Dr. Anthony Fauci raised a theoretical concern that fever and a strong immune response after a second COVID-19 vaccine dose could be associated with miscarriage during the first trimester. Then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky called the issue a good point as she, Fauci and then-Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discussed vaccination risks and the dangers of COVID-19 during pregnancy. Days later, Fauci said in a public discussion that regulators had found no red flags for pregnant women so far while cautioning that evidence was still developing, and he later said CDC monitoring had found no increase in adverse outcomes among vaccinated pregnant women. Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson released the exchange after their committee obtained a forensic copy of Fauci’s government-issued phone containing more than 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails; the New York Post report did not include a response from Fauci. The messages illuminate how officials weighed an unproven risk during the early vaccine rollout, but they do not establish that vaccination caused miscarriages.

New York Post

Tech Giants Accept Texas Data Center Rules on Power and Water

Gov. Greg Abbott said Aug. 10 that Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, Google and data center operator QTS had agreed to comply with new Texas standards for data centers. The standards direct state utility regulators and ERCOT to require data centers to pay for their electrical infrastructure, reuse water, avoid increasing household electricity costs, limit disruption to neighboring communities and forgo taxpayer-funded incentives. The commitments followed Abbott’s Aug. 3 order requiring audits before data center projects can connect to the grid, a process that froze new connections and drew criticism from President Donald Trump. El Paso officials said it remains unclear whether Meta’s pledge applies to its project under construction there or affects incentives already approved by local governments. With ERCOT weighing connection requests totaling about 474 gigawatts, roughly 90% from data centers, the commitments could shape who pays for the power and water required by rapidly expanding artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

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Iranian Threat Prompted Secret Trump Flight From Turkey

A credible Iranian threat prompted U.S. officials to secretly move President Donald Trump from the legacy Air Force One to a smaller Air Force C-32A before he left Turkey on July 8, according to The Washington Post. Trump boarded the larger jet in view of cameras and was then transferred by an airport catering truck, leaving journalists and some White House staff aboard the decoy aircraft believing he was traveling with them. The operation followed a NATO summit in Ankara and renewed U.S. strikes on Iran, and it concealed Trump’s location from the public and many senior officials for hours. The White House continued to say Trump departed on the legacy Air Force One, while its response to detailed questions defended the security of the newer Qatar-provided aircraft he had used to travel to Turkey. The deception shows the extent of official concern about the threat while raising questions about an unusual break from the practice of having the White House press corps accompany the president.

Washington Post

AUGUST 11, 1934: FEDERAL PRISONERS ARRIVE AT ALCATRAZ

The first group of civilian inmates classified as the nation’s “most dangerous” were transferred to the newly fortified federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Built on a former military prison site, “The Rock” was intended to house high-risk prisoners and deter escape attempts with its isolation and harsh surrounding waters.

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