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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Astronomers have discovered an ancient reservoir of gas that is too hot for cosmic models to handle, reports a study published on Monday in Nature.By peering over 12 billion years through time to the infant cosmos, a team captured an unprecedented glimpse of a baby galaxy cluster called SPT2349-56. Cosmological models suggest that the gas strewn between galaxies in these ancient clusters should be much cooler than gas observed in modern galaxies, which has been heated up by the intense gravitational interactions that play out in clusters over billions of years.But the new observations of SPT2349-56 reveal an inexplicably hot reservoir of this intracluster gas, with temperatures similar to those at the center of the Sun, a finding that is contrary to current theoretical expectations, according to the new study.It is a massive surprise, said Dazhi Zhou, a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia who led the study, in a call with 404 Media. According to our current theory, this kind of hot gas inside young galaxy clusters should still be cool and less abundant, because these baby clusters are still accumulating and gradually heating their gas.This one we discover is already pretty abundant and even hotter than many mature clusters that we see today, he added. So, it's a bit different and forces us to rethink our current understanding of how these large structures form and evolve in the universe.The first stars and galaxies emerged in the universe a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, during an era called cosmic dawn. Galaxies gradually accumulated together into large clusters over time; for instance, our Milky Way galaxy is part of the Laniakea supercluster which contains about 100,000 galaxies and stretches across hundreds of millions of light years.As a baby cluster, SPT2349-56 is much smaller, measuring about 500,000 light years across, and containing about 30 luminous galaxies and at least three supermassive black holes. Zhou and his colleagues observed the cluster with Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a highly sensitive network of radio telescopes in Chile, which allowed them to capture the first temp check of its intracluster gas.Because this gas is pretty distant, it's very challenging to see the light of the gas directly, explained Zhou. To probe it, the team searched for whats known as the thermal SunyaevZeldovich signature, which is a detectable distortion of the oldest light in the universe as it passes through intracluster gas.The results produced a thermal energy measurement of 1061 erg, which is about five times hotter than expected. While the heat source is still unknown, Zhou speculated that it could be caused by high levels of activity in the cluster, where stars are forming 5,000 times faster than in our own galaxy and huge energetic jets of matter spout out of galactic cores.However, it will take more observations of these distant clusters to figure out whether the hot gas within SPT2349-56 is an aberration, or if super-hot gas is more common in early clusters than predicted.Like every first discovery, we have to be cautious and careful with big results, Zhou said. We need to test it further, with more independent observations and comparisons to other galaxy clusters at a similar time. This is what we hope that our community will do next, and we're also planning for follow up observations of other clusters to see whether there is a broader trend or if this system is an outlier.The new study is part of a wave of unprecedented observations of the early universe within the past few years. The James Webb Space Telescope, for example, has discovered massive galaxies much earlier in time than expected, pointing to a tantalizing gap in our knowledge about how our modern cosmos emerged from these ancient structures.It is starting to change our current understanding of how energetic the galaxy formation process was in such an early time, Zhou said. Galaxies were formed and evolved with much more violence, and were more active, more extreme, and more energetic than what we used to expect. The James Webb results are also consistent with our current discovery that these galaxies were very powerful in shaping their surroundings.

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Energy company stocks and the price of crude oil surged after the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro, with Trump claiming U.S. oil companies would participate in rebuilding the South American countrys energy infrastructure. What do you think?Which foreign leader do we have to arrest to get GameStop going again?Cesar Gruerio, Odor NeutralizerMy accountant has been encouraging me to invade Venezuela for years.Russell Forst, Oncology EnthusiastDamn. My parlay needed him to be killed.Diana Yee, Plate StackerThe post Oil Stocks Rise After U.S. Capture Of Maduro appeared first on The Onion.

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Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez smiles during a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas Venezuela, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)2026-01-06T21:52:09Z MIAMI (AP) In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodrguez spotted an opening.Then Venezuelas foreign minister, Rodrguez directed Citgo a subsidiary of the state oil company to make a $500,000 donation to the presidents inauguration. With the socialist administration of Nicolas Maduro struggling to feed Venezuela, Rodrguez gambled on a deal that would have opened the door to American investment. Around the same time, she saw that Trumps ex-campaign manager was hired as a lobbyist for Citgo, courted Republicans in Congress and tried to secure a meeting with the head of Exxon.The charm offensive flopped. Within weeks of taking office, Trump, urged by then-Sen. Marco Rubio, made restoring Venezuelas democracy his driving focus in response to Maduros crackdown on opponents. But the outreach did bear fruit for Rodrguez, making her a prominent face in U.S. business and political circles and paving the way for her own rise. Joshua Goodman is a Miami-based investigative reporter who spent two decades reporting from South America. From 2013 to 2019, he led APs bureau in Venezuela, where he interviewed then-president Nicols Maduro and spoke frequently with Delcy Rodrguez, Venezuelas new interim president. Delcy Rodriguez was a key contact with American press when she was Venezuelas foreign minister. Now, Rodriguez is leading the country after the U.S. captured President Nicolas Maduro. APs Joshua Goodman explains Rodriguezs rise to power. Shes an ideologue, but a practical one, said Lee McClenny, a retired foreign service officer who was the top U.S. diplomat in Caracas during the period of Rodrguezs outreach. She knew that Venezuela needed to find a way to resuscitate a moribund oil economy and seemed willing to work with the Trump administration to do that. Nearly a decade later, as Venezuelas interim president, Rodrguezs message that Venezuela is open for business seems to have persuaded Trump. In the days since Maduros stunning capture Saturday, hes alternately praised Rodrguez as a gracious American partner while threatening a similar fate as her former boss if she doesnt keep the ruling party in check and provide the U.S. with total access to the countrys vast oil reserves. One thing neither has mentioned is elections, something the constitution mandates must take place within 30 days of the presidency being permanently vacated. This account of Rodrguezs political rise is drawn from interviews with 10 former U.S. and Venezuelan officials as well as businessmen from both countries whove had extensive dealings with Rodrguez and in some cases have known her since childhood. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from someone who they almost universally described as bookishly smart, sometimes charming but above all a cutthroat operator who doesnt tolerate dissent. Rodrguez didnt respond to AP requests for an interview. Fathers murder hardens leftist outlookRodrguez entered the leftist movement started by Hugo Chvez late and on the coattails of her older brother, Jorge Rodrguez, who as head of the National Assembly swore her in as interim president Monday.Tragedy during their childhood fed a hardened leftist outlook that would stick with the siblings throughout their lives. In 1976 when, amid the Cold War, U.S. oil companies, American political spin doctors and Pentagon advisers exerted great influence in Venezuela a little-known urban guerrilla group kidnapped a Midwestern businessman. Rodriguezs father, a socialist leader, was picked up for questioning and died in custody. McClenny remembers Rodrguez bringing up the murder in their meetings and bitterly blaming the U.S. for being left fatherless at the age of 7. The crime would radicalize another leftist of the era: Maduro.Years later, while Jorge Rodrguez was a top electoral official under Chvez, he secured for his sister a position in the presidents office.But she advanced slowly at first and clashed with colleagues who viewed her as a haughty know-it-all.In 2006, on a whirlwind international tour, Chvez booted her from the presidential plane and ordered her to fly home from Moscow on her own, according to two former officials who were on the trip. Chvez was upset because the delegations schedule of meetings had fallen apart and that triggered a feud with Rodriguez, who was responsible for the agenda. It was painful to watch how Chvez talked about her, said one of the former officials. He would never say a bad thing about women but the whole flight home he kept saying she was conceited, arrogant, incompetent.Days later, she was fired and never occupied another high-profile role with Chvez. Political revival and soaring power under MaduroYears later, in 2013, Maduro revived Rodrguezs career after Chvez died of cancer and he took over. A lawyer educated in Britain and France, Rodrguez speaks English and spent large amounts of time in the United States. That gave her an edge in the internal power struggles among Chavismo the movement started by Chvez, whose many factions include democratic socialists, military hardliners who Chvez led in a 1992 coup attempt and corrupt actors, some with ties to drug trafficking. Her more worldly outlook, and refined tastes, also made Rodrguez a favorite of the so-called boligarchs a new elite that made fortunes during Chvezs Bolivarian revolution. One of those insiders, media tycoon Raul Gorrn, worked hand-in-glove with Rodrguezs back-channel efforts to mend relations with the first Trump administration and helped organize a secret visit by Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, to Caracas in April 2018 for a meeting with Maduro. A few months later, U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed the first of two money laundering indictments against Gorrin. After Maduro promoted Rodrguez to vice president in 2018, she gained control over large swaths of Venezuelas oil economy. To help manage the petro-state, she brought in foreign advisers with experience in global markets. Among them were two former finance ministers in Ecuador who helped run a dollarized, export-driven economy under fellow leftist Rafael Correa. Another key associate is French lawyer David Syed, who for years has been trying to renegotiate Venezuelas foreign debt in the face of crippling U.S. sanctions that make it impossible for Wall Street investors to get repaid.She sacrificed her personal life for her political career, said one former friend.As she amassed more power, she crushed internal rivals. Among them: once powerful Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami, who was jailed in 2024 as part of an anti-corruption crackdown spearheaded by Rodrguez.In her de-facto role as Venezuelas chief operating officer, Rodrguez proved a more flexible, trustworthy partner than Maduro. Some have likened her to a sort of Venezuelan Deng Xiaoping the architect of modern China. Hans Humes, chief executive of Greylock Capital Management, said that experience will serve her well as she tries to jump-start the economy, unite Chavismo and shield Venezuela from stricter terms dictated by Trump. Imposing an opposition-led government right now, he said, could trigger bloodshed of the sort that ripped apart Iraq after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein and formed a provisional government including many leaders who had been exiled for years.Weve seen how expats who have been outside of the country for too long think things should be the way it was before they left, said Humes, who has met with Maduro as well as Rodrguez on several occasions. You need people who know how to work with how things are not how they were.Democracy deferred?Where Rodrguezs more pragmatic leadership style leaves Venezuelas democracy is uncertain. Trump, in remarks after Maduros capture, said Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado lacks the respect to govern Venezuela despite her handpicked candidate winning what the U.S. and other governments consider a landslide victory in 2024 presidential elections stolen by Maduro.Elliott Abrams, who served as special envoy to Venezuela during the first Trump administration, said it is impossible for the president to fulfill his goal of banishing criminal gangs, drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists from the Western Hemisphere with the various factions of Chavismo sharing power. Nothing that Trump has said suggests his administration is contemplating a quick transition away from Delcy. No one is talking about elections, said Abrams. If they think Delcy is running things, they are completely wrong. JOSHUA GOODMAN Goodman is a Miami-based investigative reporter who writes about the intersection of crime, corruption, drug trafficking and politics in Latin America. 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LEGO chief product and marketing officer and executive vice president Julia Goldin talks as a a Chewbacca stands behind her during an LEGO news conference ahead of the CES tech show Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)2026-01-06T06:09:49Z LAS VEGAS (AP) Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huangs little robot buddies.CES is a huge opportunity annually for companies both large and small to parade products they plan to put on shelves this year. As predicted, artificial intelligence was anchored in nearly everything as tech firms continue to look for AI products that will attract customers. Here are the highlights from Day 1:Nvidia gets physicalThe biggest buzzword in the air at CES is physical AI, Nvidias term for AI models that are trained in a virtual environment using computer generated, synthetic data, then deployed as physical machines once theyve mastered their purpose.CEO Jensen Huang showed off Cosmos, an AI foundation model trained on massive datasets, capable of simulating environments governed by actual physics. He also announced Alpamayo, an AI model specifically designed for autonomous driving. Huang revealed that Nvidias next generation AI superchip platform, dubbed Vera Rubin, is in full production, and that Nvidia has a new partnership with Siemens. All of this shows Nvidia is going to fight increased competition to retain its reputation as the backbone of the AI industry.But once Huang called for two little, waddling, chirping robots to join him on stage, thats all the audience wanted to see more of. The chips are back in townAMD CEO Lisa Su announced a new line of its famed Ryzen AI processors as the company continues to expand its footprint in the world of AI-powered personal computers.For gamers, AMD also showed off the latest version of its gaming-focused processor, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Meanwhile, Intel announced its new AI chip for laptops, Panther Lake (also known as the Intel Core Ultra Series 3), and said the company has plans to launch a new platform to address a growing market for handheld video gaming machines. Intel, a Silicon Valley pioneer that enjoyed decades of growth as its processors powered the personal computer boom, fell into a slump after missing the shift to the mobile computing era unleashed by the iPhone. It fell further behind after the AI boom propelled Nvidia into the spotlight.President Donald Trumps administration stepped in recently to secure a 10% stake in the company, making the government one of Intels biggest shareholders. Federal officials said they invested in Intel to support U.S. technology and domestic manufacturing.Uber dives back into the robotaxi gameUber is giving the public a first look at their robotaxi at CES this week. Uber, along with luxury electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid Motors and vehicle tech company Nuro, introduced an autonomous vehicle with an Uber-designed in-cabin experience. Uber calls it the most luxurious robotaxi yet. It features cameras, sensors and radars that provide 360-degree perception and a low-profile roof halo with integrated LEDs that will display riders initials to help them spot their car and track their ride status. Inside, riders can personalize everything from climate and seat heating to music, while real-time visuals show exactly what the vehicle is seeing on the road and the route it plans to take.Autonomous on-road testing began last month in San Francisco, led by Nuro, marking a major step toward what the companies said is a planned launch before the end of the year. Star Wars and Lego announce a new partnershipWhen Lucasfilm chief creative officer David Filoni brought out an array of X-Wing pilots, Chewbacca, R2D2 and C-3PO, he won the Star Wars fandom for Lego.Lego announced its Lego Smart Play platform on Monday, which introduces new smart bricks, tags and special minifigs for your collection. The new bricks contain sensors that enable them to sense light and distance, and to provide an array of responses, essentially lights and sounds, when they are used in unison. Combine this with a newly announced partnership with the Star Wars franchise and now you can create your own interactive space battles and light-saber duels. LG reveals a new robot to help around the homeFile this one under intrigued, for now. The Korean tech giant gave the media a glimpse Monday of its humanoid robot that is designed to handle household chores such as folding laundry and fetching food. Although many companies have robots on display at CES, LG certainly is one of the biggest tech companies to promise to put a service robot in homes.It will be on display beginning Tuesday, so well have more to report soon.Whats new with lollipops? Music you can taste was on display Monday at CES: Lollipop Star unveiled a candy that plays music while you eat it. The company says it uses something called bone induction technology, which lets you hear songs like tracks from Ice Spice and Akon through the lollipop as you lick it or bite it in the back of your mouth, according to spokesperson Cassie Lawrence. The musical lollipops will go on sale after CES on Lollipop Stars website for $8.99 each. And if that wasnt enough star power, Akon was expected to visit the companys booth Tuesday when CES opens to the public. Atlas holds up Hyundais (manufacturing) worldHyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people and do things that people do. The company said a version of the robot that will help assemble cars is already in production and will be deployed by 2028 at Hyundais electric vehicle manufacturing facility near Savannah, Georgia.Delta gets spherical Delta Air Lines is taking entertainment to new heights as the official airline of the Sphere in Las Vegas. The airline announced a new multiyear partnership with Sphere Entertainment Co. that it says will deliver premium experiences to the venue, including a Delta SKY360 Club lounge. The carrier said SkyMiles members can unlock exclusive access to other experiences at the Sphere, starting during the final weekend of the Backstreet Boys residency in February with features including private suite seating, food and beverages. The partnership brings Delta branding to the Spheres massive exterior LED screen. Delta says more exclusive SkyMiles experiences will roll out in 2026 and beyond. RIO YAMAT Yamat is a national business reporter for The Associated Press. 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President Donald Trump listens as he was speaking with reporters while in flight on Air Force One, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, as returning to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2026-01-06T01:03:34Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump hasnt minced words about the larger message hes trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicols Maduro and spirit the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife to the United States to face federal drug trafficking charges.American dominance in the Western Hemisphere, Trump declared following Maduros capture, will never be questioned again.In the days since the audacious raid, Trump and his team have doubled down on the notion that the new focus on American preeminence in the hemisphere is here to stay. He also held up Maduros capture to make the case to neighbors to get in line or potentially face consequences. Trumps rhetoric harkens back to the muscular talk of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when American presidents deployed the military for territorial and resource conquests, including to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Theres been periods, Vietnam and Iraq, which have evoked questions about a return to American imperialism, but the U.S. leaders messages in those periods were cloaked in talk of democracy. The way Trump is talking about it is something we havent seen in a very long time. said Edward Frantz, a historian at the University of Indianapolis. In the aftermath of the operation, Trumps tough talk has been been directed at titular allies in Greenland where he renewed calls for the U.S. to take over the Danish territory for national security reasons and Mexico. Trump says Americas southern neighbor needs to get their act together fighting drug cartels. Trump has also warned that longtime adversary Cuba is going down now that Maduro, who has provided deeply discounted oil to the economically isolated government in Havana, has been deposed. And the president has heightened anxiety with Venezuelas neighbor, telling reporters that a military operation in Colombia the epicenter of global cocaine production sounds good to me. The Republican president has also said his administration will run Venezuela policy and threatened the countrys new leader, interim President Delcy Rodrguez, with an outcome worse than Maduros if she does not do whats right. Hes made plain that he expects Caracas to open its vast oil reserves to U.S. energy companies, further igniting speculation about American overreach.Were going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure the oil infrastructure and start making money for the country, Trump said over the weekend.The Venezuela incursion has split Latin America, with Trumpaligned leaders mostly from the right applauding the ouster, and nonaligned leaders condemning it on sovereignty grounds. Its sharpened concerns that Trump might actually be serious about his desire to annex Greenland as well. Leaning on Monroe Doctrine, Trump puts neighbors on edgeDanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned Monday that Trump would mark the undoing of the transatlantic military alliance, NATO, if he attempts to follow through on his assertion that the U.S. absolutely needs to take over Greenland for national security reasons. The alliance, which includes the U.S. and Denmark, has been a linchpin of post-World War II security.If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2. In the early part of the 20th century, American leaders repeatedly turned to the Monroe Doctrine, a foundational U.S. foreign policy document authored by the nations fifth president, which had been aimed at opposing European meddling in the Western Hemisphere. Now, Trump too is leaning on the doctrine to justify U.S. intervention in Venezuela and threaten action around the hemisphere in the name of protecting the safety and welfare of Americans.Trumps rhetoric conjures up images of Teddy Roosevelt and gunboat diplomacy. The rhetoric is a return to a pre-Great War era, Frantz said, referring to the 26th presidents intercessions in unstable Caribbean and Central American economies as well as his backing of Panamas secession from Colombia in the name of the U.S. national interest. Just weeks before the ouster of Maduro, Trump rolled out a long-awaited National Security Strategy that had some disparate elements that seemed to be at odds with each other.On one hand, Trump, who has long eschewed Americas role in foreign wars, asserted that the administration would have a predisposition to non-interventionism. But the strategy document also made clear that the administration would push to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.With the ouster of Maduro, the administration has clearly doubled down on the latter.This is the Western Hemisphere, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an appearance on NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday. This is where we live and were not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States. Anger at U.N. Security CouncilThe capture of Maduro and Trumps rhetoric could certainly be a level-setting moment for global leaders as they consider what may lay ahead in the final three years of Trumps second term.At an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Monday, Colombian Ambassador Leonor Zalabata Torres said the raid in Venezuela was reminiscent of the worst interference in our area in the past.Democracy cannot be defended or promoted through violence and coercion, and it cannot be superseded, either, by economic interests, said Zalabata Torres, whose country requested the meeting.At the same time, Democrats are questioning whether Trumps actions have created a permission structure for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has designs of capturing further territory from neighboring Ukraine, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has vowed to annex the self-ruled island of Taiwan.What the presidents done in this case has essentially given Putin and Xi Jinping a hall pass, said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, in an appearance on CNN.The Russians, for their part, have condemned Trumps action in Venezuela. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, the countrys U.N. envoy, said the world body cannot allow the United States to proclaim itself as some kind of a supreme judge to the world.___AP writers Jennifer Peltz and Farnoush Amiri at the United Nations contributed to this report. AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto

A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)2026-01-05T23:34:13Z WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine childrens health. The overhaul is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases, down from 18 a year ago. The changes comes as U.S. vaccination rates have been slipping and the share of children with exemptions has reached an all-time high, according to federal data. At the same time, rates of diseases that can be protected against with vaccines, such as measles and whooping cough, are rising.Heres what to know about the changes: Heres what federal vaccine recommendations have changedOnce broadly recommended, the federal government now only recommends protection against these diseases for certain children at high risk or based on individual doctor advice in whats called shared decision-making. Flu Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Meningococcal disease Rotavirus RSV COVID-19, a change made in 2025 Heres what federal vaccine recommendations stayed the sameThe following vaccines were left on the recommended-for-all list: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis or whooping cough (DTaP) Polio Chickenpox Human papillomavirus, or HPV. But in a surprise, the guidance reduces the number of recommended vaccine doses against HPV from two or three shots to just one. Hib, or Haemophilus influenzae type B, bacteria that despite the name isnt related to flu PCV or pneumococcal conjugate vaccineWhy were the vaccine recommendations changed? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the overhaul was in response to a request from President Donald Trump in December. Trump asked the agency to review how peer nations approach vaccine recommendations and consider revising U.S. guidance accordingly.HHS said its comparison to 20 peer nations found that the U.S. was an outlier in both the number of vaccinations and the number of doses it recommended to all children. Officials with the agency framed the change as a way to increase public trust by recommending only the most important vaccinations for children to receive.However, many European countries recommend some of the vaccines the U.S. removed from its list. What do doctors and pediatricians say?The nations large doctors groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, say they will continue to recommend the vaccines that the Trump administration has now demoted. They said there was no new science that warranted the changes, including no signs that the former U.S. vaccine schedule harmed children.Dr. Sean OLeary of the AAP said the changes could increase child illness and death from preventable disease. He voiced special concern that the U.S. would no longer recommend flu vaccine for children, just as the flu season is becoming severe and after last winters particularly harsh season.The pediatricians group has issued its own child vaccine recommendations. Also, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. While CDC requirements often influence those state regulations, some states have begun creating their own alliances to counter the Trump administrations guidance on vaccines. What will change for families?Its not yet clear. Because of the countering recommendations from pediatricians, doctor visits may not change. However, medical specialists say when the U.S. government doesnt explicitly recommend a shot, it will raise questions among parents, leading to more difficult conversations at the doctors office.If the changes mean fewer children are vaccinated, outbreaks that have historically been prevented by high vaccination rates could spread more widely, leading to more disease and more missed school and work. Will insurance continue to cover vaccines?The Trump administration said coverage will continue for families that still want the shots. Health insurers generally find vaccination a good deal, as shots are cheaper than hospitalizations, and many had previously said theyd planned to cover what was recommended last year through 2026.___AP writers Ali Swenson and Mike Stobbe contributed to this report from New York. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. LAURAN NEERGAARD Neergaard is an Associated Press medical writer who covers research on brain health, infectious diseases, organ transplantation and more. She is based in Washington, D.C. mailto

Arizona guard Brayden Burries passes during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Utah, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)2026-01-05T18:01:41Z Arizona held on to No. 1 by a single point over fast-closing Michigan in the AP Top 25 on Monday, making it one of the closest races for the top spot in the 78-year history of the mens college basketball poll.The Wildcats received 32 of 61 first-place votes and had 1,494 points, while the Wolverines scooped up the other 29 first-place votes from the national media panel. The one-point difference kept the first poll of 2026 from becoming the second ever with a tie for No. 1; Oregon State and Virginia shared the top spot on on Jan. 26, 1981.Arizona has been on top for the last five polls, but the Wolverines have been able to make up ground, thanks in part to becoming the first team in the poll era to win three consecutive games against ranked opponents by at least 30 points apiece. Michigan was 20 points behind Arizona in the last poll. All glory is fleeting, as you guys have heard me say, Michigan coach Dusty May said after the most recent blowout, 96-66 over then-No. 24 USC, which also kept his team among the six unbeatens left in Division I mens hoops.The Wolverines have not been No. 1 since Jan. 28, 2013, and that stint lasted just one week. The top six remained unchanged Monday from the final poll of 2025: Arizona and Michigan were followed by undefeated Iowa State, UConn, Purdue and Duke, while Houston jumped Gonzaga and BYU and Nebraska rounded out the top 10. The Huskers, who are riding a nation-best 18-game winning streak dating to last season and are off to the best start in school history, are in the top 10 for the first time since climbing to No. 9 on Feb. 28, 1966. Their latest win was a 58-56 slugfest with then-No. 9 Michigan State.Happy for Fred Hoiberg. Not that many years ago, everybody was on his butt, Spartans coach Tom Izzo said afterward. He did a hell of a job. Nebraska did a hell of a job. That was probably the best game their biggest game in 36 years. They responded. Vanderbilt, another program with scant mens basketball success, remained right behind the Huskers at No. 11. That is the highest the unbeaten Commodores have been since they were No. 7 in the preseason poll for the 2011-12 season.SEC play comes at you fast, and now we know the difficulties of this league and whats ahead of us, Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington said after Saturdays win over South Carolina while looking ahead to Tuesday nights matchup with No. 13 Alabama.Michigan State fell three spots to No. 12 following its loss to Nebraska, while the Crimson Tide were followed by Texas Tech and Arkansas in this weeks poll. Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa and Louisville rounded out the top 20, while Tennessee, Kansas, Virginia, SMU and UCF completed the initial top 25 of the new year.The Knights, who opened Big 12 play by beating the Jayhawks, are ranked for the first time since March 4, 2019.Were not just playing the opponent in front of us. Were trying to play to our standards, UCF coach Johnny Dawkins said. I just want them to go out there and just follow their hearts, play for each other, and I thought they did that. Rising and slidingIowa made the biggest move by climbing six spots to No. 19 following its win over UCLA on Saturday, while Georgia jumped five spots to No. 18. Kansas and North Carolina, which lost to SMU on Saturday, each fell five spots but remained in the poll.In and outNo. 24 SMU is ranked for the first time since finishing No. 11 in the final poll of the 2016-17 season. The Mustangs and UCF joined the Top 25 at the expense of USC and Florida, which lost 76-74 to Missouri on Saturday night.On the doorstepVillanova was the first team outside the Top 25, five points back of UCF. Also on the rise are Utah State and Miami (Ohio), which at 15-0 is the only unbeaten still outside the poll.Conference watchThe Big 12 led the way with seven ranked teams, including four in the top 10, while the Big Ten had six in the Top 25 and three in the top 10. The ACC and SEC had five ranked teams apiece, and the West Coast and Big East each had one.___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball DAVE SKRETTA Skretta is a Kansas City-based sports writer for The Associated Press. He covers the Royals, the Chiefs and college sports along with auto racing, the Olympics and other sports.

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LSU guard Flau'Jae Johnson, left, shoots a jumper over Kentucky forward Teonni Key (7) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Peter Forest)2026-01-05T17:01:53Z Kentucky and Vanderbilt made major jumps in The Associated Press womens basketball Top 25 on Monday after four of the top 10 teams lost last week, causing a shakeup in the poll.This was the first week since the end of November that a new school had entered the top 10 this season.The first four remained unchanged with UConn still No. 1, receiving 28 first-place votes and No. 2 Texas getting the other four. South Carolina and UCLA followed while Oklahoma moved up to fifth, the Sooners highest ranking since they were fourth in the final poll of 2009.Kentucky and Vanderbilt each rose five spots to sixth and seventh, respectively, after each knocking off then-No. 5 LSU in consecutive games. The Wildcats edged LSU 80-78 on a last-second shot.Vanderbilt has not been in the top 10 since it was seventh on March 12, 2007. Vandys 65-61 win over LSU on Sunday was its first against a top five team in 17 years. The Tigers, one of seven unbeaten teams to lose over the last week, plummeted to 12th.Maryland fell one spot to eighth after losing to Illinois, its first defeat of the season. Michigan dropped two places to ninth after a loss at Washington, which re-entered the Top 25 at No. 23. Louisville moved up three spots to 10th. TCU dropped to 13th after losing its first game of the season to Utah in overtime.There are only four undefeated teams left: UConn, Texas, Vanderbilt and No. 17 Texas Tech. Unbeaten no moreBesides LSU, Maryland and TCU losing for the first time this season, No. 11 Iowa State, Arizona State, Alabama and Georgia also all suffered their first losses. Falling IrishNotre Dame saw its run of 85 consecutive appearances in the Top 25 end after the Irish (10-4) lost to Georgia Tech and Duke last week. It was the third-longest active streak, trailing only UConn (615) and South Carolina (257). Notre Dame had been in the poll every week since Nov. 29, 2021. Milestone winsLouisvilles Jeff Walz and Miamis Tricia Cullop both earned their 500th career victories last week, doing so in back-to-back games against Virginia Tech.Game of the weekNo. 2 Texas at No. 12 LSU, Sunday. The Tigers will have a chance to rebound from the tough week with a game against the Longhorns. A victory would get LSU back in the SEC regular-season title race. ___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP womens college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball