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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee this morning.
He's likely to be grilled over far-reaching changes to federal health agencies,
and you'll likely be asked about his promise not to change the makeup of a federal vaccine advisory board.
However, Kennedy fired everybody on the panel and replaced them with his choices instead.
A federal judge in Boston has rather handed Harvard University a big win yesterday.
The judge ruled that Trump administration unlawfully froze more than $2 billion in research funding to the school.
NPR's Corey Turner has more.
That funding freeze was triggered, the administration said,
by Harvard's failure to check the spread of antisemitism on campus.
But Judge Allison Burroughs pointed out that the research being defunded,
including studies of Alzheimer's, cancer,
Lou Gehrig's disease, heart disease, and autism, had no clear connection to antisemitism.