Also today, the current head of the National Institutes of Health is adding a new role as acting head of the CDC.

Dr. J. Bottacharya's appointment is just the latest in a series of shakeups across the nation's health agencies.

He'll serve until President Trump picks a permanent director, which requires Senate confirmation.

The former Stanford professor was a vocal critic of COVID-era

lockdowns. Public health experts say he'll face challenges running the agency simultaneously. They've

both been hobbled by funding and staffing cuts and they're based in different cities,

with the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. We have an update now for you on a story that we brought you just last night.

The Food and Drug Administration reversed its decision today to consider whether to approve

a new flu shot from Moderna that uses MRNA technology.

This comes a week after the FDA rejected the company's initial application, saying its research design was flawed.

Moderna is now seeking full approval for the vaccine's use in adults aged 50 to 64 and what's called accelerated approval for those 65 and older.

The company says the FDA set an August deadline for approval. Moderna hopes to make

the vaccine available later this year. Retail billionaire Les Wexner told lawmakers today he was

quote duped by a world-class con man as he faced questions about his association with Jeffrey

Epstein. The former Victoria's secret boss appears in the

Epstein files more than a thousand times. The two met in the 1980s. Epstein later managed

Wexner's personal fortune before the two had a falling out. At a deposition in Ohio,

Wexner denied wrongdoing and indeed has never been charged with any crimes related to Epstein.

But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say Wexner enabled Epstein's crimes.

There would be no Epstein Island.

There would be no Epstein plane.

There'd be no money to traffic women and girls.

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