CDC Meeting On Vaccines, Fed Rate Cuts, Kimmel Suspended

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

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Vaccine advisers to the CDC meet today to decide on COVID boosters and childhood shots, with new members raising doubts about long-settled science. The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point to shore up a slowing job market, even as President Trump pushes for deeper cuts. And ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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0:00.0	A federal vaccine panel meets today discussing COVID boosters and childhood shots.
0:07.4	This is established science that they're attacking.
0:11.3	How can advisors named by RFK Jr. affect which vaccines you are able to choose?
0:15.9	I'm Layla Faldin. That's Steven Skeep, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:22.0	The Federal Reserve cut interest rates that can help the weakening job market,
0:27.2	but also adds the risk of even more inflation.
0:30.3	We have a situation where we have two-sided risk, and that means there's no risk-free pass.
0:34.9	Also, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
0:37.5	made a threat to ABC stations.
0:40.1	Frankly, when you see stuff like this,
0:42.2	I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
0:44.6	Within hours, Jimmy Kimmel was off the air
0:47.0	for telling jokes the government disliked.
0:49.2	The FCC leader publicly celebrated.
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