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U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, about his past comments comparing the CDC to "Nazi death camps." ...

Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate ...