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The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

Poland Enacts National Ban on Fur Farming, Operations to Cease by 2033 https://vegconomist.com/society/poland-enacts-national-ban-fur-farming-operations-cease-by-2033/

Poland Enacts National Ban on Fur Farming, Operations to Cease by 2033 - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Poland has enacted a nationwide ban on fur farming, requiring all existing operations to cease by 2033 and prohibiting the establishment of new facilities.

Kremlin hails Trump's national security strategy as aligned with Russia's vision (Shaun Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/07/kremlin-hails-trump-national-security-strategy-as-aligned-with-russia-vision
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p35#a251207p35

In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
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The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy,
calling it an encouraging change of policy
that largely aligns with Russian thinking.
The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday
💥that criticises the EU and says Europeis at risk of “civilisational erasure”,
💥while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
🔥“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vi…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ralph Vaughan Williams, BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Tadaaki Otaka:
🎵 Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra
#RalphVaughanWilliams
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BKb2NxLGiVw0dTUEUGEEx

West Coast Health Alliance,
WA Dept of Health,
and Leading National Medical Organizations
Continue to Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns
WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation
that has reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections by 99 percent

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Martin Yates:
🎵 To the Ploughboy (Folk Songs of the Four Seasons)
#RalphVaughanWilliams #RoyalScottishNationalOrchestra #MartinYates

“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.