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American service members will no longer be required to get a yearly flu shot under a new Defense Department policy described by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as an effort to “restore freedom and strength to our joint force.”

In a video posted on X, the Pentagon boss cited the Biden administration's Covid-19 policies as the impetus for ditching the unrelated but mandatory influenza inoculation, accusing his predecessors of having “waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions.”

Calling the Covid-19 vaccine mandate part of an “era of betrayal” that was now “over,” Hegseth said the Pentagon was discarding “absurd, overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities,” such as “the universal flu vaccine and the mandate behind it.”

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Top Conservative and Liberal MPs are downplaying U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s comments dumping on Canada’s strategy heading into major trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico.

But former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig insists that while Lutnick spoke crudely, he has a point about the risks posed by Ottawa’s outreach to China amid the crucial trade talks.

Lutnick turned heads in Ottawa last week when he told a panel event it would be a bad strategy for Ottawa to wait out the clock to reach a good deal with the Donald Trump administration.

“That is like the worst strategy I’ve ever heard. They suck,” Lutnick said on Friday, insisting the president views the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement as a bad deal that must be “reimagined.”

Members of both parties have for months been hijacking House Oversight Committee business to call votes on subpoenas for high-profile figures in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — and Democrats say chair James Comer has quietly instituted a new strategy to contain the practice.

The Kentucky Republican’s workaround, they allege, is to hold “roundtables” on various issues within the panel’s jurisdiction rather than hearings. Roundtables are more informal and don’t permit members to offer motions to subpoena witnesses during unrelated committee business, as is allowed during hearings.

Over the past year, some GOP members have joined with Democrats to take advantage of the panel’s subpoena rules. In July, they voted on a surprise motion to release the full Epstein files when top congressional Republicans were dragging their feet. Lawmakers also compelled now-former Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify and were prepared to haul in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, too, before he said he would appear before the committee voluntarily.

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New study demonstrates effects of cocaine contamination on wild fish behaviour for the first time

Cocaine pollution is changing how juvenile Atlantic salmon move through their environment, making them swim farther and disperse more widely, a new study finds.

The study is the first to demonstrate the effects of cocaine contamination on fish behaviour in the wild, and can help better understand how chemical pollutants influence aquatic animal migration, according to researchers from Griffith University in Australia.

Cocaine and its metabolites are increasingly appearing in rivers and lakes around the world. They mainly enter waterways through wastewater systems that are not designed to fully remove these compounds.

Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with even Republicans showing less faith in his leadership.

The findings from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research show a president who is struggling with unfulfilled promises to tame inflation and testing Americans’ patience with a conflict in the Middle East that has dragged on longer than expected.

Trump’s approval rating on the economy dropped to 30% in April from 38% in a March AP-NORC poll. A similarly low share of U.S. adults, 32%, approve of the president’s leadership on Iran, which is unchanged since last month.