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On Capitol Hill today, fiery bipartisan pushback for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,

who testified before a Senate committee over questions about his decision to oust the CDC director, Susan

Manaras, which he defended, claiming she was dishonest, and his move to limit COVID vaccines.

And Pierre Selena Simmons-Duffin has more.

This year, because the FDA's approval of the COVID-19 booster limits who can get it,

there's all this confusion about how the fall rollout is going to go.

Kennedy and the hearing refused to acknowledge that that does, in effect, limit who has access to the

vaccines. And he also refused to concede that COVID vaccines saved millions of lives,

which is something there's scientific consensus about.

And Pierre Salina Simmons-Duffin

reporting. A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court injunction to wind down operations at an

immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades. And Pierce Greg Allen reports the appeals court

says the facility officials call alligator alcatraz, can continue operations while a legal

challenge proceeds. The decision, a two-to-one vote by a three-judge panel at the federal appeals

court in Atlanta, reversed the ruling by a lower court judge in Miami. U.S. District Judge

Kathleen Williams had ruled that construction of the facility in the Everglades without public

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