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The drop in vaccination rates is blamed, at least partly, on anti-vaccine activism, leading to more parents claiming religious and medical exemptions. The CDC advises that a 92-95% vaccination rate is necessary for population-level protection [herd immunity].

LSU Shreveport Political Science Professor Jeffrey Sadow worries that with no specific plans in place after Maduro's removal, chaos is already a serious concern inside Venezuela. He says there's a small window of time to restore order successfully with decisive short-term steps.

Applications for families will open on February 4, 2026. A lottery will be used if interest exceeds available funding. The application window for families closes a little more than a month later, on March 17.

The find, announced by Shell and INEOS, comes more than two weeks after the Trump administration held its first of 30 offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Arkansas' Crisis Center is typically contacted by an adult over the phone, but when they added texting, 65% on that platform were children and teenagers - 24/7 988 Lifeline.

287(g) agreements are intended to help ICE enforce federal immigration law locally. But some worry the new law will keep migrants from reporting crime because participating local law enforcement officers become de facto ICE agents.

This La. Army National Guard (LANG) deployment to New Orleans becomes the second deployment underway at the same time in the city. The two-month long immigration crackdown, launched by Homeland Security, known as "Operation Catahoula Crunch" started Dec. 3, 2025.

2024 marked the year where the NIH announced that all remaining chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico would be transferred to Chimp Haven in Keithville, La.

The Arkansas Supreme Court recently ruled that state lawmakers may only alter or eliminate citizen-led constitutional amendments if both chambers reach a two-thirds majority, also known as a supermajority.