For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and New York Magazine; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (GAZA, WEST BANK, LEBANON, UKRAINE and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, and COVID ETC. 1-29-25 entry is HERE.) — MCM

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When RFK Jr. was presented with the science on vaccines he said he needed to see, he dismissed it, by Lauran Neergaard and Mike Strobe | AP  WASHINGTON — The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary repeatedly asked to see “data” or “science” showing vaccines are safe – but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it. READ MORE. . .

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FROM JAN.  29  Dems grill RFK Jr. on vaccines, abortion in testy hearing. From Intelligencer at New York Magazine.  On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee held the first of two confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the secretary of Health and Human Services. Below, how the hearing played out in real time: . . . READ MORE . . .