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Yesterday's three-hour Senate committee hearing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was combative.
Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist.
He refused to concede that with widespread scientific consensus,
COVID vaccines saved millions of lives.
One of his questioners was Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy, who was also a doctor.
Cassidy cast an important vote this year to confirm Kennedy.
But NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin says Kennedy has broken promises to Cassidy and other senators and changed federal vaccine policy.
Cassidy and several other Republican senators in this hearing were critical of Kennedy's anti-vaccine posture,
but they didn't go so far as to join their Democratic colleagues in calling for him to resign.
NPR Selena Simmons Duffin reporting.
A federal appeals court panel has lifted a lower court block that had ordered operations to wind down at an immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades.
The facility, also known as Alligator Alcatraz,
can continue operating while a legal challenge goes forward.
NPR's Greg Allen has more.
The decision, a two-to-one vote by a three-judge panel at the federal appeals court in Atlanta,