Today’s Lead News Stories

Florida Republicans advanced a bill this week aimed at weakening existing child vaccine protections, but the move highlighted a significant retreat from the radical anti-mandate demands made by state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo last year. The proposed new law, which seeks to expand exemptions for parents who don’t want their…

Democrats and one Republican demanding release of millions more pages they insist are still being deliberately withheld

Heather Jones of Alabama says two-year probation agreement leaves her ‘free and clear’ of legal matter

Revelation that subsidiary of Capgemini is to help trace and expel migrants in US provokes outrage in France

Japan reported having found sediments containing rare earth in the 6,000 metre deep-sea beds after launching the expedition to restraint the dependency on China for valuable minerals. The government claims this expedition to be the world's first ever attempt to dig for rare earth minerals at such a depth.

“The markets are pricing the risk that this time the past will not indicate the future—that we could have a sustained disruption in energy flows.”

A top Justice Department official is playing down the possibility of additional criminal charges arising from the Jeffrey Epstein files

Police plea for public help as Savannah Guthrie’s mom’s disappearance is investigated as a crime

Planned outages in force across Ukraine while Russian strike kills 12 miners hours after Zelenskyy says next trilateral talks to start on Wednesday. What we know on day 1,440