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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has officially terminated all HHS contracts with companies owned by Bill Gates, slashing hundreds of millions in federal funding. The move is part of Kennedy's broader effort to end government reliance on the Microsoft founder's business ventures in the health sector.
"We won't be giving him another nickel to develop more jabs," Kennedy stated during a recent Senate Finance Committee hearing. The decision is just the latest in a series of actions targeting mRNA vaccine development, with HHS previously canceling 22 projects worth nearly $500 million nationwide.
Gates reportedly received an estimated $408 million annually from federal contracts at one point, a figure that has now dropped to less than $10 million. Kennedy framed the cuts as a necessary step to redirect taxpayer money away from what he views as ineffective vaccine platforms and toward "safer, broader vaccine strategies" like whole-virus ...

The kolache, a sweet, fruit-filled pastry now considered a defining food of Central Texas, did not originate in Texas at all, it arrived with the wave of Czech immigrants who settled the Blackland Prairie region beginning in the 1850s and never let go of their culinary traditions. 🥐🔥⭐ The story of how this Eastern European pastry became a beloved staple of Texas food culture is genuinely fascinating.
Czech immigrants began settling in Central Texas counties including Fayette, Lavaca, and Washington in significant numbers starting in the mid nineteenth century, drawn by affordable farmland and the promise of a fresh start far from the political turmoil affecting Bohemia and Moravia at the time. These communities brought their language, their Catholic religious traditions, and crucially, their baking customs, with the kolache serving as a celebratory pastry traditionally made for weddings, holidays, and special community gatherings back in their homeland. Towns like West, Texas, ...

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