Health and environment

Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that the United States Centers for Disease Control will remove the COVID-19 vaccine from its list of recommended vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. (NPR) (Reuters)

• https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413179/covid-vaccine-children-pregnant-rfk-cdc
• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-drops-covid-vaccine-recommendations-healthy-children-pregnant-women-2025-05-27/

International relations

Argentine president Javier Milei ratifies Argentina's withdrawal from the World Health Organization. (The Guardian)

• https://www-theguardian-com.translate.goog/world/2025/may/27/argentina-who-rfk-jr?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Politics and elections

King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Canada, visits Canada along with Queen Camilla on Prime Minister Mark Carney's advice. He also read the Speech from the Throne, the first reigning monarch to do so since 1977. (NPR)

• https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/g-s1-68959/canada-king-charles

Science and technology

SpaceX's first flight to reuse a Super Heavy Booster ends without achieving its goal, originally planned for Flights 7 and 8, which both failed, while losing the previously retrieved booster. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/elon-musk-plans-mars-talk-ahead-first-starship-launch-since-test-failures-2025-05-27/