Update: Two Israeli Embassy staffers were killed in D.C. What to know.
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<p>Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were shot and killed outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last night. The man and woman — a couple — had been attending a reception for young diplomats. <a href="https://apple.news/AXb9uTtZQTXiIWBqpWtVfRA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CBS</a> has the latest.</p><p>The FDA announced a change in its framework for approving new COVID vaccines for healthy individuals under 65. Usha Lee McFarling, a national science correspondent with <a href="https://apple.news/ASzpYSB0YQkyae1iIkrieiw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stat</a>, discusses the impact of the move, while <a href="https://apple.news/AB9cLi14HSJS8tmQCRDU-rw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NPR</a> reports on how some of the CDC’s main channels for communicating health information to the public have gone silent.</p><p>Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson join this week’s <a href="https://apple.news/ASJ2Bd7rlTYmpAeOhWLZ3eg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple News In Conversation</a> to talk about their book ‘Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.’</p><p>Plus, the <a href="https://apple.news/AeKkfUDeNQqOs6aWu7gF_-A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House passed</a> Trump’s massive tax-and-spending-bill, what to know about his <a href="https://apple.news/AkyDbtz5LSu-Dix3RYbJucQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">contentious meeting</a> with South Africa’s president, and the Defense Department <a href="https://apple.news/AHx07Bq-1TDWWs23TpVjiJA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">officially accepted a Qatari jet</a> to serve as Air Force One. Also, how the <a href="https://apple.news/A6zRkYkzvQRGooFPJwXaTvw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10 richest Americans</a> got significantly richer in the past year — and how they stand to gain more from the GOP tax bill.</p> <p>Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.</p> <p>Correction: A previous version of this episode cited comments the U.N. humanitarian chief made to the BBC that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die in the next 48 hours if they do not receive aid. The BBC has since <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o">updated</a> that reporting to reflect that a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification estimates that 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition could occur among children in Gaza ages 6 to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.</p>
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