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RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization
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Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.
“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”
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RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccines.ProPublica
At least 8 #Palestinians, most of them #children, were killed & over a dozen others were wounded in #Gaza on Sunday in an #Israel missile strike.
The #IDF said it had intended to hit an Islamic Jihad militant in the area but that a malfunction had caused the missile to fall "dozens of metres from the target".
The strike hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat #refugee camp, killing 6 children & injuring 17 others, said Ahmed Abu Saifan, an emergency physician.
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Inside her tent in al-Mawasi, 12-year-old Hala Abu Dahlez displays a photograph of herself taken before the injury that caused her hair to fall out after multiple operations. Hala sustained serious head injuries when a metal swing set collapsed on her after an Israeli airstrike.
Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
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Sleep deprivation
"Self portrait of my son and I, after another lonely sleepless night. Sleep deprivation can be so crippling. And with bed-sharing the only thing that brought reprieve, shame was often an emotion that was felt, due to social pressures and expectations on how to be a good mum."
Photograph: Grace Alexander
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Alice and Frieda
Alice’s eight-year-old daughter, Frieda, is one of thousands of children in Australia experiencing ‘school can’t’ – difficulty attending school due to emotional distress, sometimes linked to neurodiversity. “It’s a really lonely and confusing and shameful world because you assume that you are the problem,” the Sydney mum said.
Photograph: Mridula Amin
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Beast Unleashed
On this scorcher of a day, Adelaide topped the charts as the hottest city on Earth. While the kids watched on, it was the poodle who stole the show — charging through the spray like a beast unleashed, ears flying, water everywhere. Pure joy in motion, beating the heat in true Aussie style.
Photograph: Melissa Crisa
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Farewell to a horse
Eugenie saying farewell to her favourite horse, Merriwa
Photograph: Thérèse Maher
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Nursery workers take children for a ride in a residential area of the city in Hanoi, #Vietnam
Photograph: Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images
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A woman comforts a child injured in an Israeli attack outside the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital
Photograph: Ramadan Abed/Reuters
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Children’s belongings on a bridge as volunteers help clean up debris after the flash flood that swept through parts of Texas, Kerrville, #US
Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP
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Hala Abu Dahlez, 12, who was injured in an airstrike, adjusts her earring inside her tent in al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip. Hala sustained serious head injuries when a metal swing collapsed on her after an Israeli airstrike. Doctors say she requires specialised treatment outside the Gaza Strip. Hala lives with her family in a displacement camp and suffers from severe physical and psychological trauma.
Photograph: Haitham Imad
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A girl watches veterinarian workers examining a kitten during the Adopt Me Days festival. More than 500 cats and dogs, mainly evacuated from the battlefields territories were presented for adoption, Kyiv, #Ukraine
Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
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The aftermath of an Israeli attack on Gaza City
Palestinian children look on as people search for survivors in the rubble of a building in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip that was hit in an Israeli attack [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
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A child runs between handwoven carpets laid out in the open fields in scorching temperatures, Antalya, #Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty
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Gravelines, #France
A woman holding her child pleads with traffickers to be let on to a small boat as it arrives on the shore already full of migrants collected from further along the coast.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Young girls receive treatment at Nasser hospital for their wounds, sustained in an Israeli strike on a camp housing displaced Palestinians.
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New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. texasobserver.org/republicans-…
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How Republicans Are Willfully Endangering Immigrant Kids
GOP lawmakers often claim they want to protect children, but their policy decisions tell a different story.Trudy Taylor Smith (The Texas Observer)
A kindergarten students’ flag-raising team participates in a flag-raising ceremony at a school, ahead of the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain, in Hong Kong, China, June 30, 2025. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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Dnipropetrovsk, #Ukraine
Children play in a village. As many as 35,000 Ukrainian children are still missing and thought to be held in Russia or Russian-occupied territories, according to an American team of experts, with families saying they are being forced to take desperate and risky measures to try to rescue them.
Photograph: Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP/Getty Images
In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.
Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.
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Omar al-Hams, a three-year-old Palestinian boy who lost his entire family in Israeli airstrikes on northern Gaza, receives medical treatment at Nasser hospital. Suffering from multiple fractures and malnutrition, Omar is struggling to survive under harsh conditions.
Photograph: Doaa Albaz/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A Filipino activist holds an anti-war poster during a protest near the US embassy in Manila, #Philippines
Photograph: Noel Celis/Reuters
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MIRA!
A Palestinian man carries a wounded child after an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City on June 27, 2025 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
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Meanwhile in Gaza...
A mother embraces the remains of her infant daughter burnt alive.
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Protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, in Sanaa, Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Palestinians live in tents next to the rubble of buildings hit by Israeli attacks
Photograph: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A child sits among the remains of a destroyed building as people in the Palestinian territory continue to struggle for shelter, food and clean water.
Photograph: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A child suffering from an autoimmune disease struggles to get food and medication after her family fled their home to stay in a makeshift tent in Zeitoun
Photograph: Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A Palestinian man carries an injured girl to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the Gaza Health Ministry said was an Israeli strike in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Thursday [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
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