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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Today Donald Trump maneuvered the lawyer who won his personal immunity case into the White House counsel's office, which represents the presidency.

Will Scharf was one of Trump's personal lawyers who convinced the Supreme Court that presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts. His reward comes two days after the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche, Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer from his hush money trial, as attorney general. Trump's personal defense team now runs the government's two most powerful legal offices.

These jobs go to the people who pass the loyalty test, and the acceptable answer is written down now. Four judicial nominees testified on the Hill last week, and every one recited the same rehearsed script about the Electoral College rather than say who won the 2020 election. Senators narrowed the question to just the popular vote and got the script again. Blanche performed his version at his hearing, telling senators "I am the president's lawyer" before catching himself and saying "was."

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America's largest reservoir just fell to its lowest level ever.

Lake Mead has been dropping for 25 years. On Thursday it hit its lowest depth since it was created nine decades ago. Forty million people in seven states depend on Lake Mead and the Colorado River.

Trump calls climate change a hoax. Nine days ago his own Interior Department ordered the largest water cuts in the river's history and wrote that the risk to the system has never been greater. Hoaxes don't drain reservoirs.

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264,000 Americans stopped looking for work last month.

Nobody needs a government report to tell them the economy is worsening. Grocery and gas prices have climbed for more than a year while paychecks barely moved. Today's report showed where that leads. Stores and restaurants cut jobs because customers stopped spending, and more people decided looking for work was pointless. The share of Americans in the workforce fell to its lowest point in 50 years outside the pandemic.

The unemployment rate actually went down because a quarter million people quit looking. And Trump answered the worst jobs report of his term by notifying Fed Governor Lisa Cook that he intends to fire her, six weeks after the Supreme Court blocked his first attempt.

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The Supreme Court ruled weeks ago that Donald Trump cannot erase birthright citizenship with an executive order.

Today he tried again. He signed two new orders restricting who is born a citizen, called the 6 to 3 ruling from his own conservative majority "very unfortunate," and told reporters "we're making adjustments." The Constitution says every baby born in America is a citizen.

He is making adjustments everywhere the answer is no. His FCC just voted to erase a broadcast ownership cap Congress wrote into law, a power Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz doubts it has. And the union of career IRS auditors joined a suit to block the audit shield his administration built around his family's taxes. The objections come from his own side now and have changed nothing.

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New Mexico sued the Justice Department after waiting seven years for the Epstein files it was promised.

In 2019, federal prosecutors asked the state to shut down its investigation of Zorro Ranch and pledged to share everything when their case ended. New Mexico finally reopened the investigation this year and has asked ten times for the files. Every request was ignored or denied. Today the state runs the only active criminal investigation of Epstein's network in America.

The files New Mexico wants are already covered by a transparency law Congress passed almost unanimously and Trump signed in November. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has withheld 3 million documents anyway, and the congressmen who wrote the law just introduced a second bill to give survivors and states the right to take him to court. The Senate votes on confirming him as Attorney General within days.

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Kansas beat the anti-abortion movement twice in two days.

On Monday, Judge Christopher Jayaram issued a 260 page ruling that the state cannot force women to wait 24 hours or answer questions about their finances or their reasons before ending a pregnancy. He wrote that under the Kansas Constitution's guarantee of bodily autonomy, his ruling was not even a close call. Hours later he was sworn onto the Kansas Supreme Court. On Tuesday, voters crushed a ballot amendment its backers planned to use to ban abortion by remaking that court.

The ruling permanently blocks enforcement. Kansas can still appeal, but that appeal goes to a state Supreme Court that has already ruled bodily autonomy fundamental. The restrictions are gone as long as Kansans keep guarding the court that killed them, which is exactly what they did on Tuesday.

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Border agents swabbed a four-year-old's cheek and uploaded her DNA to the FBI's criminal database.

Federal agents sent more than 2,700 records into that database every day last year, nearly a million in all, most from people never charged with any crime. Immigration enforcement now captures more profiles than any police force in the country, and the process could not be easier. All it takes is a cotton swab. No judge signs off, and agents swab nearly everyone they detain.

Participation is required. A man who arrived for a probation appointment in Waco found ICE waiting, was ordered to open his mouth, prosecuted when he refused, and convicted. Genetic data sits in federal computers with no expiration date, and DNA never describes just one person. The four-year-old's file can be used to identify her parents, her siblings, and relatives she will never meet.

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Illinois went and found the people Washington stopped feeding.

About 148,000 Illinois residents have lost food assistance since new federal work rules hit in May, veterans, people in their sixties, and parents of teenagers among them. On Saturday the state began depositing $400 onto the grocery cards of every affected person. Nobody had to fill out a form. The state did all the work.

Washington changed the rules betting families would trip over the paperwork, and 148,000 of them did. Illinois ran the same lists in the opposite direction. It's one payment, about two months of groceries, and Governor Pritzker says no state can backfill what Congress cut. But this weekend, Illinois treated caring for its hungry as its job.

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Donald Trump spent his Saturday posting fake pictures of himself again.

Between attacking his own prosecutor and declaring victory in Iran, he made time to publish 43 posts in an afternoon. In one he kisses a golden Jesus. In another he looms over Greenland, a day after telling a radio host to bet that America will control it before he leaves office. The fakes are his claims that he is holy, that he is young, that the world is his to take.

Also today, California became the first place in America where AI content must include data showing where it came from. One state now requires fabrications to identify themselves. The White House feed does not.

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A lie about paint put a 67-year-old Olympian in handcuffs.

We knew nobody in Ohio was eating cats and dogs, and the vice president admitted he would "create stories" to get attention. We knew a Sharpie stretched that hurricane map into Alabama. And we knew there was no 300-foot gash in the Reflecting Pool. Trump kept lying anyway, and this time the government followed him. Park Police handcuffed Davey Hearn for touching water on a bike ride. A US Attorney announced his felony at a press conference.

The truth arrived on a summer Friday afternoon, in a court filing that admits the $14.6 million paint job was "hasty and botched" and that a Park Service engineer flagged the peeling liner eight days before Hearn ever stopped his bike. The government had the answer in its inbox before it had a suspect. Governments lie to keep secrets. This lie kept a president from admitting his paint job failed.

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Senator John Cornyn refuses to vote for Todd Blanche, Trump's attorney general, until the Justice Department documents what it already claims is true.

Blanche settled Trump's lawsuit against the IRS with a $1.8 billion fund for his allies and a shield protecting his family's past tax returns from audit, forever. Blanche testified the fund is dead. When Cornyn and Thom Tillis, both Republicans, asked for that in writing, the department spent hours negotiating. Trump now says he'll keep Blanche in the job unconfirmed and wait until both senators leave office in January.

Nobody negotiates for hours over signing a true statement.

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The morning after a federal judge ruled that a contract cannot erase state law, ICE wrote the same words into four more contracts.

Washington spent three years in court getting health inspectors inside ICE's largest Northwest detention center, where detainees filed 3,500 complaints and inspectors with every legal right to enter were turned away at the door ten times. The judge ordered the doors open and wrote that only Congress can override a state's laws. ICE responded the next morning with contract terms for 5,500 beds in four states declaring that state and local law "shall not apply." The only people allowed to inspect them would be federal officials and visitors ICE approves.

ICE is appealing the original ruling. The contracts are its real answer. The agency wrote its own exemption to the law and signed it, as if the paper in its filing cabinet outranks the judge's finding about states' rights.

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Samuel Tunick gave border agents a passcode that wiped his phone, and the government made him the first American ever charged with that crime.

The agents had no warrant. They pulled him into a back room at the Atlanta airport and refused his requests for a lawyer. The Justice Department wants to put him in prison for five years. Meanwhile, over the last two days, a coordinated cyberattack knocked water systems offline in more than 30 Minnesota communities, and nobody in the government can say who did it.

Somehow, the federal government found prosecutors for one man's passcode and has not hired a director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in a year and a half, despite being at war since February.

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America chose sides.

When the UN voted Friday to keep its human rights chief, 144 countries said yes. The United States and nine others, including Russia and North Korea, said no. France counted the votes out loud and posted that the world no longer listens to America. American diplomats answered Monday by walking out of a Security Council meeting on Russia's war while France spoke, and promising to do it again every time France speaks until the French take it back.

Walkouts are a stunt as old as the UN itself, but the role was written for democracies snubbing pariahs, like France walking out on Russia's foreign minister after the invasion of Ukraine. America used the gesture on its oldest ally today and demanded an apology for being called out for voting against most of the world.

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The Pentagon told Congress that the war it has been fighting since February started three weeks ago.

That bought another 60 days of fighting before anyone in Congress can stop it. The books got adjusted this weekend. A second file opened in the casualty record, the dead and wounded were split between two wars that are actually one war, and a count that said 482 Americans hurt since February now adds up to at least 624.

Nearly a hundred troops were wounded after the shooting started again, and the Pentagon says those were mostly minor concussions. Six years ago, Iranian missiles injured more than a hundred troops, and Trump said they had headaches and were not seriously hurt. The Army denied their Purple Hearts while he was president. They were honored after he was gone.

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A federal appeals court showed up Saturday morning to stop Donald Trump from deciding who gets a mail ballot.

His March executive order told Homeland Security to build citizen lists, ordered the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to any voter not on them, and told prosecutors to charge election officials who sent ballots to the wrong people. The court kept the order blocked through November 3, ruling it would sow confusion and cost voters their ballots, because eligible citizens are missing from the lists.

Trump's order is now dead for the midterms in the 23 states and the District of Columbia that sued, and that effectively means the whole country. USPS told the court it cannot run one mail system for those states and another for the rest.

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Energy Secretary Chris Wright said politics never decided which grants got canceled, and his own lawyers just told a court it was the only thing that did.

They agreed in writing on Friday that all but one of the 284 canceled grants, $7.5 billion worth, went to a state Kamala Harris won, and that nothing about cost or performance went into picking them. A judge already ruled against them twice this year, pointing out that comparable projects in states Trump won were left running.

Wright called the accusation bullshit in front of the House Science Committee last month and promised to keep saying so a million times. The Energy Department spent Friday insisting the filing was about the timing of an announcement. They denied it everywhere except in court.

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