Amid confusion over federal vaccine recommendations, states become laboratories of public health

Amid confusion over federal vaccine recommendations, states become laboratories of public health

When the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, met last week, confusion filled the room.  Members admitted they didn’t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on the funding.  Now Jim…

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Hershey wins lawsuit claiming its Reese's Halloween candies aren't spooky enough

Hershey wins lawsuit claiming its Reese’s Halloween candies aren’t spooky enough

Hershey received a treat Friday when a judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming the company’s Reese’s candies tricked customers by depicting spooky Halloween designs on their packaging, while the unwrapped chocolates were in fact featureless.  U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian ruled Friday that the consumers who filed the class-action lawsuit failed to show that the lack…

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention center, attorneys say

Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention center, attorneys say

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transferred to a Pennsylvania detention center on Friday, his attorneys said in a status update, explaining to a federal judge handling his human smuggling case in Tennessee why a motion wasn’t promptly filed. Abrego Garcia, the 30-year-old native of El Salvador who was mistakenly deported to his home country in March, was previously…

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