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  "id": 3767941,
  "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",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T15:05:17.000Z",
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    "name": "MedPage Today",
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  "summary": "(MedPage Today) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that a 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had \"nothing to do with vaccines.\" New documents obtained...",
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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"
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      {
        "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"
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      {
        "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": "PBS NewsHour Health",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-27T13:47:22.000Z"
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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."
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