Marines Deployed to LA, CDC Vaccine Board Ousted, Overdose Deaths Drop

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

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For the fourth straight night, people in Los Angeles took to the streets to protest ICE immigration raids. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is removing all 17 members of a key vaccine committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And, after a decade of carnage when more than 230,000 people under the age of 35 died from overdoses in the U.S., drug deaths are rapidly declining.

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0:00.0	President Trump sends active duty Marines to respond to immigration protests in LA.
0:06.7	He's not for peacemaking.
0:08.7	He's here for war.
0:10.8	He wants a civil war on the streets.
0:12.9	What will the Marines be allowed to do?
0:15.0	I'm A minute Martinez.
0:16.0	That is Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:22.1	Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has removed all members of a CDC vaccine advisory committee.
0:28.7	We are heading in the direction of U.S. vaccine policy becoming the laughing stock of the globe.
0:34.5	What's the reason for the dismissals? And fatal overdoses from fentanyl are down among young people.
0:39.9	What we're seeing is a massive reduction in overdose risk among Gen Z in particular.
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