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There is no scientific link between vaccines and autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube are all actively working to prevent misinformation regarding the effectiveness and safety of vaccinations amid the ongoingmeasles outbreakin an anti-vaccine hotspot in Washington State. “If a group or Page admin posts this vaccine misinformation, we will exclude the entire group or Page from recommendations, reduce these groups and Pages’ distribution in News Feed and Search, and reject ads with this misinformation,” Facebook says....

Photo: Facebook The wild animal, known as “Bear 211,” was euthanized Monday after being involved in a motor vehicle accident near Easton, Connecticut, Easton Police Chief Rich Doyle toldCBS2. Officers were alerted to the hit-and-run on Route 136 around 6:30 p.m., and discovered the bear suffered serious injuries, theAssociated Pressreported. “It had some broken legs and it was barely breathing when my officers got there,” Doyle told CBS2. From there, state officials directed that the animal be euthanized....

Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back up and running after going offline Monday morning for several hours. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,” Facebook tweeted shortly after its products were restored. “We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us....

Davyon Johnson.Photo: Michael Noble Jr. It was a typical school day on Dec. 9 when one of Davyon Johnson’s classmates opened a water bottle with his mouth. But the cap slipped down the boy’s throat, causing him to frantically whisper: “I’m choking, I’m choking.” Davyon, 11, a sixth-grader at The 6th & 7th Grade Academy at Ben Franklin in Muskogee, Oklahoma, knew exactly what to do. “I just hoped I would know how to do it,” he tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue....

L: Amauri Hughes; R: Tyheem V. Anderson.Photo:GoFundMe; Jackson County Detention Center GoFundMe; Jackson County Detention Center “What?” the relative heard a male voice say per the documents. “You scared of me?” There was a struggle. Then the call dropped, investigators allege in the documents. Amauri Hughes.GoFundMe GoFundMe The boyfriend, Tyheem V. Anderson, was arrested Tuesday and charged the following night with three criminal felony counts in connection to the young woman’s death: assault in the first degree, armed criminal action and kidnapping, according to the redacted charging documents....

An Arizona nursing facility where awoman in a vegetative state gave birthlast month was earlier faulted for failure to protect residents’ privacy while they were naked in the shower. The resident reported that “it made him feel uncomfortable,” according to the state records. “He stated that he does not know why staff come and go in the shower room, when he does not have any clothes on. He stated it has happened on many occasions....

Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty PresidentDonald Trumpon Tuesday weighed in on the debate surrounding 3-D printed plastic guns, saying he was “looking into” the matter and had consulted with the NRA about it. “I am looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public,” he tweeted. “Already spoke to NRA, doesn’t seem to make much sense!” Despite the president’s apparent skepticism over the issue, it was actually his administration that paved the way for downloadable guns to be made available to the public....

Hurricane Idalia damage.Photo:Courtesy of Mallie Crister Courtesy of Mallie Crister Less than a year afterHurricane Ianstruck Florida as a Category 4 storm, Mallie Critser is once again facing flood water in her family’s Fort Myers Beach home. Last fall, Critser shared with PEOPLE the harrowing nightmare of watching aswaves carried away her family’s cars and her grandparents’ homewhile water continued to rise. This year, asHurricane Idaliaapproached, her family took the hurricane warnings more seriously, she says....

Justice Stephen Breyer.Photo: Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Despite a chorus of calls from Democrats to retire before they lose the ability to control his replacement, JusticeStephen Breyersays he is content to continue going to work every day and, when the Supreme Court isn’t in session, spending quality time with his family at their New Hampshire hideaway. Breyer, 82,spoke to CNN this weekfor a wide-ranging conversation covering his possible retirement (about which he remains ambivalent) as well as his personal life...

Ron DeSantis.Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Florida Gov.Ron DeSantisfinds himself again mired in controversy as his state weighs a recommendation to collect data on female athletes' menstrual cycles. And while DeSantis himself didn’t propose the recommendation, critics are still decrying the proposal, which they allege could be weaponized against female or transgender athletes. The Miami Heraldreports that, currently in the state, an “optional” question about menstrual cycles is included on a physical form given to female high school athletes....

Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty, SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty, Nicole Neri/Bloomberg via Getty Hours afterTaylor Swifttook the stage at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, a fan account on Twitter were pushing the news that the concert had two special guests in attendance: PresidentJoe Bidenand former PresidentBarack Obama. The only problem? It wasn’t true. A fan account posted videos on Twitter purporting to show Biden exiting the stage via a back door, while another video appeared to show Barack andMichelle Obamaenjoying the concert from a box seat....

Donald Trump at a New Hampshire campaign event on Jan. 17, 2024.Photo:Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty In a Grand Rapids speech that relied heavily on anti-immigrant rhetoric — includingcalling people who entered the U.S. illegally “animals”— Trump raised the topic of crime in America. “Wouldn’t we love to have a statistic where crime is down 67%? Ours is only going in one direction,” he said, while pointing toward the ceiling....

As the third season ofThe Crownkicked off on Netflix on Sunday, the perennial question of how much of it is true raged among royal fans — and historians — once again. Robert Lacey, whose bookThe Crown: The Official Companion Vol. IIis out this week, uses his insight and expertise to explain some of the deliberate anomalies. Warning: Spoilers ahead! Did Princess Margaret really go to her father’s private secretary Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles and ask to take her sister’s place as Queen?...