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  "id": 3752759,
  "title": "AP report: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/ap-report-rfk-jr-said-a-samoa-trip-had-nothing-to-do-with-vaccines",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T13:47:22.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-report-rfk-jr-said-a-samoa-trip-had-nothing-to-do-with-vaccines-new-documents-refute-that"
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  "summary": "Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preempted the 2019 visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation's measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who had received them. In the letter, he used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/exclusive-rfk-jr-said-a-samoa-trip-had-nothing-to-do-with-vaccines",
        "published": "2026-08-27T12:01:19.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Associated Press",
        "title": "Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/exclusive-rfk-jr-said-a-samoa-trip-had-nothing-to-do-with-vaccines-3735335",
        "published": "2026-08-27T12:23:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "RFK told Congress he didn’t go to Samoa in 2019 to study measles vaccines — so why does his old letter mention it eight times?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/rfk-told-congress-he-didnt-go-to-samoa-in-2019-to-study-measles",
        "published": "2026-08-27T13:04:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "STAT News",
        "title": "RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/rfk-jr-said-a-samoa-trip-had-nothing-to-do-with-vaccines-new",
        "published": "2026-08-27T13:16:38.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "MedPage Today",
        "title": "RFK Jr. Said Samoa Trip Had Nothing to Do With Vaccines. New Documents Refute That.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/rfk-jr-said-samoa-trip-had-nothing-to-do-with-vaccines-new-documents",
        "published": "2026-08-27T15:05:17.000Z"
      }
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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."
}