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Evette Jeffrey was an unintended victim of the shooting on May 12 after a schoolyard fight. Two boys in their early teens have now been charged in the killing.
This undated photo provided by Polina Pugacheva in April 2025 shows Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist who was a researcher at Harvard University.
Newsweek – What if I told you there's a preventative health measure that has saved more lives than almost any other medical intervention in history?
That it's rigorously tested and remarkably cost-effective? That sounds like it would be universally celebrated, right?
A few weeks ago, I found myself surrounded by 17 people who were deeply skeptical of this particular intervention—many of them passionately shared emotional stories as well as debunked or fringe rhetoric.
As you've probably guessed,...