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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi

The world has hit a ‘very stubborn glass ceiling’ on childhood vaccination

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain completely unvaccinated, according to a new report, and public health experts point to conflict zones as threatening childhood vaccination efforts worldwide. Each year, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund publish a comprehensive report on estimates of national immunization

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People carry the body of Saif Musallet during his funeral near Ramallah

‘Why are you not preventing settler terrorism’: Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American man

By Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, CNN Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, West Bank (CNN) — Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family here, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage. “I think it’s time for me to get married,” Musallet told his father, Kamel, during

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Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people. Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went

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More than 20 states sue Trump administration over frozen after-school and summer funding

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than 20 states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer programs and more. Some of the withheld money funds after-school and summer programming at Boys & Girls Clubs, the YMCA

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Senate Democrats say Trump’s policies are hurting America’s ability to compete with China

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts, tariffs on allies and restrictions on international students have “deeply” undermined America’s ability to compete with China, Senate Democrats say. In a report released Monday, Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called for congressional action toward restoring the country’s global

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