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Friday, April 10, 2026
As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi’s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died
A Guardian investigation has found the relationships among the three involve hundreds of thousands of dollars and benefits to Kennedy, Bigtree and Siri. As Mississippi doctors, health officials and families deal with the consequences of weaker vaccine policies, the Guardian found, Ican has used its Mississippi victory – what Bigtree called “arguably the biggest win for health freedom in history” – to raise money to expand its push to weaken vaccine laws around the country...
“If we as a nation introduce the idea that there should be broad and widespread religious exemptions, what it will mean is that the basic framework of vaccine protection will unravel,” he said.
In Mississippi, Edney, the state health officer, said after the ruling that it was “galling” that out-of-state interests and a federal judge had interfered in the state, weakening what he called a wonderful law that had brought 40 years of success…
Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes
Israeli PM says he will continue to attack Hezbollah ‘with full force’ after attacks that killed more than 300 people…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/israel-bombing-lebanon-us-iran-ceasefire-condemnation
Italy’s Meloni pivots away from Trump as she looks to reset her premiership – POLITICO
"As is normal among allies, we must clearly say even when we do not agree," Meloni told parliament. She went on to list episodes where she claimed her government stood up to the White House, from tariffs "which we have many times defined as a wrong choice," to defending "the honor of our soldiers in Afghanistan, who had been defined as useless," and protecting Greenland's territorial integrity alongside European allies.
The Italian leader also described the war in Iran as "a military operation that Italy did not agree with and did not participate in ... a fact that emerged in all its concreteness with the Sigonella affair," she continued. She was referring — for the first time in a public statement — to Italy's recent decision to refuse permission for a U.S. military aircraft to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily before flying to the Middle East…
https://www.politico.eu/article/italys-giorgia-meloni-pivots-donald-trump-reset-premiership/
EU’s Kallas urges ‘heavy-handed’ Israel to end strikes in Lebanon – POLITICO
Top diplomat’s criticism comes as Iran threatens to abort a ceasefire deal if Israel doesn’t also stop its attacks against Hezbollah...
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-kallas-urges-israel-end-strikes-lebanon/
'We got our butts kicked.' Republicans rattled by Democratic momentum ahead of midterms | PBS News
"In rural, urban, red, blue, Democrats have overperformed everywhere," said Jared Leopold, a Democratic consultant whose clients include Keisha Lance Bottoms, a candidate for Georgia governor. "That is a significant canary in the coal mine about what November of '26 is going to look like."…
Pro-Iran groups deploy AI to troll Trump, influence the war narrative | PBS News
"They're using popular culture against the No. 1 pop culture country, the United States," said Nancy Snow, a scholar who has written more than a dozen books on propaganda.
The pro-Iran images circulating online include a series that uses the style of the "Lego" animated movies. In one, an Iranian military commander raps, "You thought you ran the globe, sitting on your throne. Now we turning every base into a bed of stone," as Trump falls into a bullseye built of "Epstein files," the U.S. government's investigative records on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein…
Injured and abandoned: hundreds of Gaza amputees left stranded in Egypt
At the peak of the Israel-Gaza conflict, 10 children a day were losing one or both legs. For those who cross the border for medical help, physical recovery is only the start of their struggle…
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers…
Teens accused of bombing attempt at Mamdani home openly discussed plans to kill
Prosecutors have claimed that Balat and Kayumi drove from Pennsylvania to the New York protest site carrying the bombs. On that day, the far-right provocateur Jake Lang and some 20 supporters were planning to protest in a demonstration called Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.
Around noon, they arrived at the protest site, which also played host to an anti-Lang counter-protest. The indictment claims that dashboard camera video in their car recorded them freely discussing potential casualties.
Kayumi allegedly told Balat: “All I know is I want to start terror, bro” and “I want to petrify these people.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/gracie-mansion-bomb-attempt-mamdani
‘Masquerading as a university’: inside the brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools
As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, PragerU is intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatism…
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/prageru-university-conservatism
US ignoring evidence Russia is helping Iran because it trusts Putin, says Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s president tells podcast he has tried to draw White House’s attention to collaboration between Moscow and Tehran over strikes on US bases…
Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval
Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather…
Republicans block Democrats’ push to curb Trump’s war powers over Iran
An attempt by House Democrats to pass a long-shot resolution on Thursday curtailing Donald Trump’s war powers over Iran failed after the Republican pro forma speaker, Chris Smith, did not recognize lawmakers from the opposite party on the floor...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/house-democrats-trump-war-powers-resolution-iran
US judge rules Pentagon has violated his order in press access case
The judge ordered the Trump administration to file a status report on or before 16 April “describing the steps taken to ensure compliance with this order”...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/09/pentagon-judge-press-access-case
Trump’s Iran War Is Tearing Apart His Catholic–Evangelical Coalition – Mother Jones
“Conservative Catholics who spent years building an alliance with evangelical Protestants, are waking up to find that their allies consider their faith a species of paganism and their sacraments a blasphemy.”
Well, duh!
RFK Jr. amends guidelines for key vaccine panel - POLITICO
“They’re actually going further to advance their cause by creating room to bring in more junk science, more alternative views, anti-vaccine views,” Hughes said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/rfk-jr-amends-guidelines-for-key-vaccine-panel-00866086
UK rejects tolls on Strait of Hormuz – POLITICO
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned countries must not “hijack” international transit routes and unilaterally apply tolls...
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rejects-tolls-on-strait-of-hormuz-yvette-cooper/
This is Rand Paul’s next potential clash with Donald Trump - POLITICO
“This isn’t because I want no ICE,” Paul told reporters earlier this year. “I want people to trust ICE. I want people to trust the immigration authorities and I think they do hard work.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/rand-paul-ice-funding-00865003
Trump’s ceasefire with Iran is tested as world anxiously watches - POLITICO
Iran, meanwhile, has continued to ratchet up the pressure on Israel: Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi referenced Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial — which is set to resume Sunday — in a Thursday social media post, writing: “A region-wide ceasefire, incl in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing.”
“If the U S. wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy, that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb but are prepared for it,” he added…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/donald-trump-iran-ceasefire-lebanon-0086580
Venezuela sought Iranian missile system in 2020, memo shows - POLITICO
The Venezuelan Defense Ministry under now-ousted leader Nicolás Maduro in 2020 allocated funds to purchase a ballistic missile system from Iran valued at more than $400 million, according to two people familiar with internal administrative documents authorizing the transaction...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/venezuela-iran-missile-system-2020-memo-00863522
What one campaign rally in Michigan reveals about young voters right now | PBS News
Still, that frustration hasn't led to disengagement for Koenig. He waited for hours to see El-Sayed. He described the campaign as different from what he's used to seeing, something more like Zohran Mamdani's successful run for mayor in New York City. He wanted that kind of energy in Michigan.
"You're not going to get people out with business as usual," Koenig said.
Karol Molina, an artist who recently moved from New York City, said she had been hunting for a candidate in Mamdani's mold when she arrived in Michigan. She settled on El-Sayed, who is facing U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in the state's primary.
"We want to be able to live and, like, afford life without constantly scraping by," she said...
Teen birth rates hit another historical low in 2025, CDC says : NPR
"What is actually affecting the birth rates are likely lower rates of teen pregnancy overall, which is in the context of higher use of contraception and lower sexual activity for youth, and then also continued access to abortion care," she says...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rates-hit-another-historical-low-2025-cdc
Middle East ceasefire threatens to unravel as Israel assaults Lebanon and Iran blocks oil tankers
Inclusion of Lebanon is significant difference in interpretation of truce agreed at 11th hour on Tuesday…
BREAKING: Pentagon THREATENS Catholic Church as Pope DENOUNCES War in Iran
Aaron Parnas reports on breaking news of Trump's Cabinet threatening the Pope and Catholic Church as the Pope denounces war in Iran, including a look at who made the remarks today, implications for Trump, and much more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEeFPq8HsU
LA teen loses eye after being shot by US agent at No Kings march, lawyer says
“He was not threatening anyone. He wasn’t attacking anyone. DHS officers took out his eye and they did it despite a federal injunction that plainly forbids firing these weapons at people’s heads,” DeSimone said.
In September, a California judge issued a court order limiting the DHS’s use of force against journalists and legal observers exercising their first amendment rights, who posed “no threat of imminent harm”.
“They didn’t shoot him for their own protection – Tucker was shot in another overt act of repression,” DeSimone said...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/los-angeles-teen-eye-no-kings-march
Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event
Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the Unabomber…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/epa-chief-zeldin-climate-denying-group-event
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