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Every competitor got a gold medal at Trump’s Freedom 250 Patriot Games, which sounds more like Lake Wobegon than an elite youth sports event. Send news tips and stories about your above-average kids to John.Wilkerson@statnews.com or John_Wilkerson.07 on Signal.
Kennedy goes west
The day after the White House made another big push to change how Americans get vaccines, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in California pushing to change addiction treatment — and blaming the prior administration for how it previously handled it. My colleague Chelsea Cirruzzo was there with him.
