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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