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Florida’s surgeon general said yesterday the state would work to end all vaccine mandates, including those required for children to attend school. If successful, Florida would become the first state to undo its vaccine mandate program.
Vaccine mandates date back to 1827, when Boston became the first city to require students to be inoculated against smallpox to enroll in public school. Massachusetts adopted the approach in the 1850s, followed by New York, Connecticut, and others (see history). By 1980, all 50 states had adopted similar requirements, following the invention of the measles vaccine in 1963. Today, over 50 million schoolchildren are required to be vaccinated against polio, chickenpox, tetanus, and other illnesses. Parents in most states can secure religious or medical exemptions.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said he will end all mandates not written into state law, and called on the state’s Republican-led legislature to eliminate the others. See US vaccination trends here. |
A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that President Donald Trump cannot fast-track deportations of suspected Tren de Aragua members under the Alien Enemies Act. The judges determined alleged affiliation with the Venezuelan gang does not meet the wartime act's threshold for expelling citizens of hostile nations.
Founded in 2014 in a Venezuelan prison, Tren de Aragua has since grown into a transnational gang with known cells in Colombia, Peru, and Chile. While its US footprint is not publicly known, Trump accuses the group of violent crimes and illicit drug trafficking and, contrary to a declassified intelligence assessment, claims it operates under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. After declaring the gang a terrorist organization, he invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to send 137 alleged members to an El Salvadoran prison without court hearings.
Separately, the Trump administration threatened further military action against Latin American drug cartels, following Tuesday's lethal strike on an alleged Tren de Aragua drug-smuggling boat. |
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved Polymarket to relaunch in the US yesterday. Founded in 2020, Polymarket is the world’s largest betting market by trading volume, handling $9B last year.
In 2022, the CFTC found Polymarket acting as an unregulated exchange, ending its US operations. After several accounts placed multimillion-dollar bets that then-candidate Donald Trump would win the 2024 presidential election, the FBI opened an investigation into whether US users were still operating on the platform—a decision Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan characterized as politically motivated. The FBI under Trump closed its investigation in July without comment. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined the company as an adviser last week.
Billionaire Thomas Peterffy has suggested betting markets will eclipse the stock market within 15 years. Polymarket and its competitor Kalshi have nonetheless struggled to drum up sustained interest outside of US election cycles, witnessing steep drops in engagement this year.
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