Closing summary This concludes out live coverage of the second Trump administration for the wek, but we will be back on Monday. Here are the latest developments:
A CDC advisory panel voted to abandon the decades-old recommendation that all babies get vaccinated against hepatitis B within the first 24 hours of life, in a major win for health secretary and vaccine-skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, video shown to senators showed.
The US admiral who directed an attack on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean on 2 September told lawmakers this week that the small boat destroyed by the US military is a series of strikes was moving narcotics to a larger vessel bound for the South American nation of Suriname, not the United States, two sources with direct knowledge of the testimony told CNN.
New video of a US coast guard mission to disable a boat used by suspected drug smugglers, and arrest the suspects at sea, raises doubt about why lethal strikes on similar boats by the Pentagon, of questionable legality, are even necessary.
The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters the night before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Adelita Grijalva, Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, said she was pepper-sprayed by an “aggressive” federal agent during an ICE raid outside a Mexican restaurant in Tucson. Her office released video to substantiate the claim.
The White House intensified its online spat with Sabrina Carpenter on Friday by posting video of the pop star that had been altered to make it seem as if she told a Saturday Night Live cast member of Cuban/Dominican descent, Marcello Hernández, that she was going to arrest him for being “too illegal”. In the original clip, Carpenter said she had to arrest someone for “being too hot”.