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Today's topics:

HPV vaccine drives deaths to zero - A UK study in The Lancet finds cervical cancer deaths dropped to zero in highly vaccinated young women, highlighting HPV vaccine effectiveness, early vaccination, and the 9-valent shot’s broad coverage.

Supreme Court expands immigration powers - The US Supreme Court issued decisions allowing major rollbacks of Temporary Protected Status and tougher border tactics, signaling a wider shift in asylum, deportation, and immigration enforcement.

Big rulings loom on executive power - In the Court’s closing stretch, cases on birthright citizenship and the president’s power to fire independent agency leaders could redefine executive authority, federal governance, and constitutional rights.

Global wave of under-16 social bans - Australia’s under-16 social media ban is triggering similar moves across Indonesia, Malaysia, and the UK, fueling debate over youth safety, enforcement, platform liability, and online harms.

China open-source AI pressures rivals - Zhipu’s open-source GLM 5.2 is gaining rapid adoption with strong agentic performance and lower costs, intensifying the ‘intelligence per dollar’ race and enterprise interest in non-revocable AI access.

CAR T cells for bladder cancer - Researchers engineered MUC16-targeting CAR T cells that worked in preclinical bladder cancer when delivered directly into the bladder, pointing to a potential bladder-sparing approach for solid tumors.

Neutrinos linked to ancient starburst galaxy - Gravitational lensing helped identify a compact dusty star-forming galaxy from 11 billion years ago as the likely match to a high-energy neutrino, expanding neutrino astronomy across cosmic time.

Herculaneum scrolls virtually unwrapped - Using particle-accelerator imaging and AI ‘virtual unwrapping,’ researchers digitally opened Herculaneum scrolls, recovering large blocks of text and revealing previously unknown ancient works.

South Korea trains troops on drones - South Korea plans to train its entire military to use drones routinely, scaling reconnaissance and strike capabilities while facing constraints like training capacity and non-Chinese supply chains.

Religious Liberty Commission challenges separation - A Trump administration Religious Liberty Commission draft urges closer church–state ties, proposing policy changes like repealing the Johnson Amendment and expanding religious exemptions, drawing sharp criticism.

Episode Transcript

HPV vaccine drives deaths to zero
Let’s start in the US, where the Supreme Court is reshaping the practical limits of immigration policy—again. This week, the Court allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for large groups, including hundreds of thousands of Haitians and thousands of