In explaining the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump accused Maduro and his wife of conducting a “campaign of deadly narco-terrorism against the United States and its citizens,” and Maduro of being “the kingpin of a vast criminal network responsible for trafficking colossal amounts of deadly and illicit drugs into…
Gov. Gavin Newsom used his final State of the State address to underscore California’s jaw-dropping crime figures — stats that he said refute the president’s claims about widespread murder and mayhem. To put in perspective some of the numbers cited by the governor on Thursday: The last time homicides were this low in Oakland, Rev….
MEXICO CITY — President Trump has ordered a partial blockade on oil tankers going to and from Venezuela, potentially crippling the nation’s already battered economy, and accused Caracas of stealing “oil, land other assets” from the United States — a significant escalation of Washington’s unrelenting campaign against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Asked about Venezuela on…
For most American infants, the hepatitis B shot comes just before their first bath, in the blur of pokes, prods and pictures that attend a 21st century hospital delivery. But as of this week, thousands of newborns across the U.S. will no longer receive the initial inoculation for hepatitis B — the first in a…
A key vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Friday to drop a decades-old recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B, the committee’s most controversial decision since its overhaul by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in June. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8…