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  • A sign is displayed at the entrance to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headquarters at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building on June 2, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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    Trump signs executive order expediting marijuana reclassification after lobbying from cannabis industry
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    Leading pediatrics group loses funding for grants that HHS says don’t align with administration’s priorities
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    Flu season in the US is heating up, driven by new subclade K variant
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  • The European Space Agency’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 3 December for around 20 hours. During that time, the comet was about 282–285 million km from the spacecraft.
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