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  "id": 1338630,
  "title": "Republican senator denounces Trump’s ‘crazy, stupid’ claims about MMR vaccine safety",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/republican-senator-denounces-trumps-crazy-stupid-claims-about-mmr",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-16T19:58:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/republican-senator-bill-cassidy-denounces-trump-vaccine-claims"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Outgoing Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr as health secretary before speaking out Republican senator Bill Cassidy – a medical doctor who voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy as federal health secretary in early 2025 – on Sunday denounced Donald Trump ’s “crazy, stupid” claims about the safety of the combined MMR…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}