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Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealedUS politics live – latest updatesChildren in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio and hepatitis, said Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, on Wednesday in a speech during which he likened vaccine mandates to “slavery”.Ladapo, hand-picked for the role by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, is a long-time skeptic of the benefit of vaccines, and has previously been accused of peddling “scientific nonsense” by public health advocates. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate Author

Donald Trump calls clamor over Jeffrey Epstein files a ‘Democrat hoax that never ends’ as bipartisan group of lawmakers try to force vote on legislationTrump can’t use Alien Enemies Act, court rulesAs part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the federal justice department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the Associated Press. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/03/donald-trump-immigration-tariffs-epstein-us-politics-live-news-updates Author :

Judge said shadow justice secretary’s comments during trial of Elias Morgan were ‘ill thought through’ The justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has suggested that her Tory counterpart, Robert Jenrick, was guilty of “risking the collapse of trial”, after he was criticised in court for tweeting about a criminal case.Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, posted on social media about a murder trial a week after it had begun, making comments that the judge said were “ill thought through”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/justice-secretary-suggests-jenrick-risked-collapse-of-trial-with-tweet Author : Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Publish date : 2025-09-03 13:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Starmer says he is ‘proud’ to sit beside working class woman who became deputy PM after Rayner admits underpaying stamp duty on £800,000 flatKemi Badenoch is probably hastily redrafting her PMQs script in the light of Angela Rayner’s statement about underpaying her stamp duty. She has got less than half an hour to craft the right questions. And she will probably want to ask about the economy, and hate speech laws, too.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/03/farage-starmer-badenoch-pmqs-news-updates-uk-politics-live Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-09-03 11:20:00 Copyright for syndicated