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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seen following President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)2026-03-16T20:39:54Z A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and said U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key vaccine advisory committee.The decision halts an order by Kennedy announced in January to end broad recommendations for all children to be vaccinated against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis and RSV. A number of leading medical groups raised alarms that the vaccine recommendation changes made under Kennedy would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases. And the American Academy of Pediatrics and some other groups amended a lawsuit they had filed in July, asking the judge to stop the scaling back of the nations childhood vaccination schedule.The original lawsuit, in federal court in Boston, focused on Kennedys decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant women. The suit was updated as Kennedy took more steps that alarmed medical societies, causing the plaintiffs to ask Judge Brian E. Murphy to take steps to address those policy changes too. For example, the amended complaint asked the court to look at Kennedys actions concerning the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises public health officials on what vaccines to recommend to doctors and patients. Kennedy, a leading anti-vaccine activist before becoming the nations top health official, fired the entire 17-member panel last year and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices. Murphy, who was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, said Kennedys reconstitution of ACIP likely violated federal law. He ordered the appointments and all decisions made by the reformed committee put on hold.Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Andrew Nixon said: HHS looks forward to this judges decision being overturned just like his other attempts to keep the Trump administration from governing. ACIP was scheduled to meet this week to discuss COVID-19 vaccines, among other issues, but that gathering was being postponed.ACIP as currently constituted cannot meet, said Richard Hughes IV, an attorney representing the AAP. How can a committee meet without nearly the entirety of its membership?___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. MIKE STOBBE Stobbe mainly covers public health for The Associated Press. twitter mailto

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seen following President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)2026-03-16T21:03:01Z MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) Scores of people were killed and injured Monday night as suicide bombers hit at least three locations in northeastern Nigerias Borno state, the emergency services told The Associated Press, citing possible suicide bombings.Explosions were heard at three different locations in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, where Nigerias homegrown jihadi Boko Haram extremists have waged an insurgency for more than a decade. The bombings occurred at a local market and at the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, according to Sirajo Abdullahi, head of operations at Nigerias National Emergency Management Agency, or NEMA, in Maiduguri.There are casualties and they are still managing the causalities at the hospital, Abdullahi said. We cant give the actual figure until we count.

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Leqaa Kordia, with hands raised, waves to supporters after being released from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)2026-03-16T21:50:58Z ALVARADO, Texas (AP) A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administrations 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists was released Monday on $100,000 bond after a year in custody.Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March. Kordia was among roughly 100 people arrested outside Columbia University during protests at the school in 2024.I dont know what to say. Im free! Im free! Finally, after one year, Kordia, with a beaming smile, told reporters after emerging from the detention center.An immigration judge had ordered her released on bond three times. The government challenged the first two rulings, but Kordia was freed Monday after it did not challenge the third. She was recently hospitalized for three days following a seizure after fainting and hitting her head at the privately run detention facility. We are overwhelmed with relief and gratitude at the release of our beloved Leqaa Kordia, said Hamzah Abushaban, Kordias cousin, in a statement from her lawyers. This past year has taken an unimaginable toll on Leqaa and our entire family. Kordia said she was looking forward to going home and hugging her mother so hard. But she also said she would keep fighting on behalf of people still being held at the detention center. There is a lot of injustice in this place, she said. There is a lot of people that shouldnt be here the first place.Kordia said she joined the 2024 demonstration after Israel killed scores of her relatives in Gaza, where she maintains deep personal ties. My way of helping my family and my people was to go to the streets, she told The Associated Press in October.The charges against her for the protest were dismissed and sealed. Information about her arrest was later given to the Trump administration by the New York City Police Department, which said it was told the records were needed as part of a money laundering investigation. Kordia was arrested during a March 13, 2025, check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New Jersey. She was detained immediately and flown to Prairieland Detention Center, south of Dallas.She was among a number of people arrested after the Trump administration began using its immigration enforcement powers on noncitizens who had criticized or protested Israels military actions in Gaza, many students and scholars at American universities.Also among them was Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student who was arrested last March and spent three months detained in a Louisiana immigration jail before being freed.But while arrests of campus activists like Khalil drew condemnation from elected officials and advocates, Kordia was not a student or part of a group that might have provided support, so her case remained largely out of the public eye.Federal officials have accused Kordia of overstaying her visa, while scrutinizing payments she sent to relatives in the Middle East. Kordia said the money was meant to help family members suffering during the war. An immigration judge found overwhelming evidence that Kordia was telling the truth about the payments.At a hearing Friday, Kordias attorneys said she had a neurological condition that had worsened while in custody, putting her at an elevated risk of seizure. They reiterated that she could stay with U.S. citizen family members and did not pose a flight risk.The immigration judge, Tara Naslow, agreed.Ive heard testimony. Ive seen thousands of pages of evidence presented by the respondent, and very little evidence presented by the government in any of this, Naslow said.An attorney for the Department of Homeland Security, Anastasia Norcross, said the government opposed the release of Kordia, regardless of the bond. She did not say at the time whether it would appeal for a third time.___Offenhartz reported from New York. JAKE OFFENHARTZ Offenhartz is a general assignment reporter in the New York City bureau of The Associated Press. twitter mailto

A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica 2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create a plan to take over the development studio and force out its founder, according to court records.The Monday ruling details the bizarre story. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is the studio behind the 2018 underwater survival game Subnautica. The company has since been working on the sequel, Subnautica 2. In 2021, South Korean publisher Krafton bought Unknown Worlds Entertainment for $500 million and promised to pay out another $250 million if Subnautica 2 sold well enough.Kraftons internal sales projections for Subnautica 2 looked great, and looked like it would be on the hook for the additional $250 million. In an attempt to avoid paying this, Krafton CEO Changhan Kim turned to ChatGPT for help avoiding paying the developers the $250 million bonus. As Unknown Worlds prepared to release its hotly anticipated sequel, Subnautica 2, the parties relationship fractured, the court decision said. Fearing he had agreed to a pushover contract, Kraftons CEO consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate takeover strategy.Kim partnered with Krafton Head of Corporate Development Maria Park and the companys legal team to work out options. He toyed with finding a reason to fire the founders. According to court records, Park pinged Kim on Slack and told him that attempting to avoid paying the bonus would be legally risky. Hi CEO . . . it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause, the Slack message said according to court records. Therefore, there isnt much that we can practically gain other than punishment with a simple dismissal alone, whereas I am worried that we may be exposed to lawsuit and reputation risk.But the CEO would not accept defeat. And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help, court records said. When the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be difficult to cancel, Kim complained to Park that the [payout] was a contract under which we can only be dragged around.Kim pressed the chatbot for an answer. At ChatGPTs suggestion, Kim formed an internal task force, dubbed Project X. The task forces mandate was to either negotiate a deal on the earnout or execute a Take Over of Unknown Worlds. They looked to buy time, court records said. Kim sought ChatGPTs counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a Response Strategy to a No-Deal Scenario.This was a piece of ChatGPTs Project X for Krafton:a. Preemptive Framing - Repeat that protecting quality and fan trust is the highest priority, undermine the Large Corporation VS. Indie framingb. Securing Control Points -* Lock down Steam/console publishing rights andaccess rights over code/build pipeline through both legal and technical aspects.* For the earn-out freeze, keep room fornegotiations through provision stating immediateremoval if specific development results are achieveda. Systematic materials for legal defense - Prepare contract interpretation memorandums, log all communications, seek external consultationb. Team retention - Operation of retention packages for key personnel and rapid backfill pipelines in anticipation of resignation/departure scenariosc. Two handed strategy - Create a structure that allows for both hardball (Legal+ Finance) and softball (Support/Incentives) approaches so moderate factions within Unknown Worlds can push for compromise.Kim followed ChatGPTs advice rather than his lawyers advice, according to the court records. The first step was posting a message on Subanuticas website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to secure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy. He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the games original creators and entered into a legal battle with them.The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose. The judge has ordered he reinstate the fired developers and has exposed the CEOs flailing use of ChatGPT. Krafton told Kotaku that it was evaluating its options regarding the ruling and that it puts players at the heart of every decision.

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Residents and Taliban police gather the remains of a projectile at the site of a strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Barackatullah Popal)2026-03-16T13:46:33Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Afghanistan accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital late Monday, saying the airstrike had killed at least 400 people. It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen repeated cross-border clashes as well as airstrikes inside Afghanistan. International calls for a ceasefire have gone unheeded.Pakistan dismissed the accusation that it had hit a hospital, saying its strikes, which were also conducted in eastern Afghanistan, did not hit any civilian sites.Afghanistans deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat, in a post on X, said the airstrike had hit the hospital at about 9 p.m. local time, destroying large sections of the 2,000-bed facility. He said the death toll had so far reached 400 people, while about 250 people had been reported injured. Local television stations posted footage on X showing security forces using flashlights as they carried out casualties while firefighters struggled to extinguish flames among the ruins of a building. Fitrat said rescue teams were working to control the fire and recover the bodies. The strike came hours after Afghan officials said the two sides exchanged fire along their common border, killing four people in Afghanistan, as the deadliest fighting between the neighbors in years entered a third week. Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the strike on X, accusing Pakistan of targeting hospitals and civilian sites to perpetrate horrors. In a post before the death toll rose into the hundreds, he said those killed and injured were patients at the hospital. We strongly condemn this crime and consider such an act to be against all accepted principles and a crime against humanity, he posted. Pakistan dismisses the allegationsPakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharifs spokesman, Mosharraf Zaidi, dismissed the allegations as baseless, saying no hospital was targeted in Kabul. In a post on X before Afghan officials gave a death toll, Pakistans Ministry of Information said the strikes precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure including technical equipment storage and ammunition storage of Afghan Taliban and Afghanistan-based Pakistani militants in Kabul and Nangarhar, saying the facilities were being used against innocent Pakistani civilians. It said Pakistans targeting was precise and carefully undertaken to ensure no collateral damage is inflicted. The ministry said Mujahids claim was false and misleading and aimed at stirring sentiment and cover what it described as illegitimate support for cross-border terrorism. UN calls on Afghanistan to combat militantsThe strike came hours after the U.N. Security Council called on Afghanistans Taliban rulers to immediately step up efforts to combat terrorism. Pakistan accuses Kabul of harboring militant groups, particularly the Pakistani Taliban, which it says carry out attacks inside Pakistan.The Security Council resolution, adopted unanimously, didnt name Pakistan but condemns in the strongest terms all terrorist activity including terrorist attacks. The resolution also extends the U.N. political mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, for three months.Pakistans government accuses Afghanistan of providing safe haven to the Pakistani Taliban, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, as well as to outlawed Baloch separatist groups and other militants who frequently target Pakistani security forces and civilians across the country. Kabul denies the charge. The latest conflictThe fighting the most severe between the two neighbors began in late February after Afghanistan launched cross-border attacks in response to Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan that Kabul said killed civilians. The clashes disrupted a ceasefire brokered by Qatar in October after earlier fighting killed dozens of soldiers, civilians and suspected militants.Pakistan has declared it is in open war with Afghanistan. The conflict has alarmed the international community, particularly as the area is one where other militant organizations, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, still have a presence and have been trying to resurface.On Sunday, Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the military has killed 684 Afghan Taliban forces, a claim rejected by Afghanistan, which says casualties are far lower. Afghanistans Defense Ministry and other officials have said Afghanistan has killed more than 100 Pakistani soldiers. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said Afghanistans Taliban administration crossed a red line by deploying drones that injured several civilians in Pakistan last week.Responding to those attacks, Pakistans air force over the weekend struck equipment storage sites and technical support infrastructure in Afghanistans southern Kandahar Province, saying it was being used for attacks inside Pakistan. Kabul said Pakistan hit two locations, including an empty security site and a drug rehabilitation center that sustained minor damage. In Kabul, Afghanistans administrative Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi said defending sovereignty is the duty of all citizens. Speaking during a meeting with political analysts and media figures, Hanafi expressed regret over civilian casualties in recent Pakistani attacks, saying the war was imposed on Afghanistan.____Ahmed reported from Islamabad and Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed. ELENA BECATOROS Becatoros oversees coverage of southeast Europe for The Associated Press, with frequent assignments to the Middle East and Afghanistan. Based in Athens, Greece, she has worked around the world, including covering war in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. twitter instagram mailto

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