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Theodore injury raises questions about Canada's roster flexibility at 4 Nations

Theodore injury raises questions about Canada's roster flexibility at 4 Nations

MONTREAL — Jon Cooper is prepared to send one of his forwards out on defence. Canada’s head coach also doesn’t believe that’s a bridge the country will have to cross at the 4 Nations Face-Off.
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Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Trump's health chief after a close Senate vote

Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Trump's health chief after a close Senate vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.
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Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state's top health official says

Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state's top health official says

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a Thursday memo written by the state's top health official and obtained by The Associated Press.
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Trump's foreign aid freeze forces health clinics in a vulnerable region of Syria to close

Trump's foreign aid freeze forces health clinics in a vulnerable region of Syria to close

SARMADA, Syria (AP) — In the town of Sarmada in northern Syria, Dr. Mohammad Fares unlocked a clinic that once bustled with patients. Now it's empty, and shelves of medicine reduced to a few boxes of bandages and expired drugs.
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Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life - his childhood polio battle

Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life - his childhood polio battle

President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood battle with polio — after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life - his childhood polio battle

Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life - his childhood polio battle

President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood battle with polio — after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Man from uncontacted Indigenous tribe emerges in Amazon, and villagers demonstrate a lighter

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses said Thursday.
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Changes to Inuit child funding program putting families at risk: health care workers

Changes to Inuit child funding program putting families at risk: health care workers

OTTAWA — Health-care workers in Nunavut say changes to a federal funding program for Inuit children are forcing some pregnant women to make a tough choice: have a safe birth or ensure the kids they already have are properly cared for.
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Federal judge pauses President Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

Federal judge pauses President Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.
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Federal judge pauses President Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

Federal judge pauses President Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.
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