WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 1-6-26 (2/3)

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Kent Covington. The United States has updated its childhood vaccine guidance, reducing the number of shots recommended for all children. Federal health officials now advise vaccines for 11 diseases down from about 17 before. Vaccines for, among other things, flu, hepatitis, RSV, and some types of meningitis are no longer recommended for every child. Instead, doctors may suggest them for higher risk, children, or decide cancer. case by case with families. Dr. Williams Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center says doctors must do a better job of helping parents understand vaccines, not just asking for consent. There are indeed a lot of new parents who really don't understand this issue and have not

received sufficient informed consent and are rather taken aback that their newborn baby is getting an injection with a vaccine. Some medical groups have raised concerns that the policy shift could confuse parents and weakened protections against preventable illness. But administration officials say the change follows a review of vaccine schedules in other developed countries and is meant to focus on core protections. They add that the vaccines will remain available and covered by insurance. Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maruro appeared in a New York courtroom Monday pleading not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges.

He told the court, quote, I was captured, insisting he is Venezuela's rightfully elected president. Maduro and his wife entered the courthouse under heavy guard. Two days after U.S. forces seized them at a Venezuelan military base, Maduro's lawyers argue that the arrest was illegal. The Board of Directors for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to shut down the organization. World's Kristen Flavin reports. The announcement will end the group's nearly 60-year role in directing federal funds to PBS, NPR, and local public media stations. The board acted after Congress cut off funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last year. Its core mission was to receive federal taxpayer dollars and pass them along to public

broadcasters. Once that funding ended, CBP effectively lost its reason for existing. CBP says public media outlets will continue operating independently. For World, I'm Kristen Flavin. In Washington. I don't believe that strike happens. Right. President Trump told reporters he does not believe the Kremlin's

that Ukrainian drones struck a resident belonging to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Trump admitted he was concerned about the allegation when Putin first brought it up last week. I mean, that was the first I heard about it. He said that his house was attacked. We don't believe that happened. You know, now that we've been able to check. For World Radio, I'm Kent Covington. For more sound journalism grounded in facts in biblical truth, visit world radio.

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