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- Update on Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks — Worldwide, July 2019-February 2020
Government Record · 2020
CDC (MMWR)
MMWR update documenting 33 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks in the July 2019-February 2020 window, 31 of them type 2, linked to seeding from monovalent OPV2 campaigns…
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994)
Government Record · 1994
U.S. Congress
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994): Congress approved the trade agreements that created the World Trade Organization.
- USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, Public Law 114-23 (2015)
Government Record · 2015
U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress, June 2015: the USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23, changed the rules for collecting business records and other surveillance, after the court fights over…
- USA Today, Arizona Republic and Center for Public Integrity: Copy, Paste, Legislate (2019)
News Report · 2019
USA Today, Arizona Republic, Center for Public Integrity (two-year investigation)
USA Today, the Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity, April 2019: found at least 10,000 state bills from 2010 to 2018 copied almost entirely…
- USDA Final Rule: Removal of Country of Origin Labeling for Beef and Pork (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA, March 2016: after the WTO rulings, Congress repealed mandatory country-of-origin labels for beef and pork, and USDA removed the requirement.
- USDA: Final School Lunch Nutrition Standards (2012)
Government Record · 2012
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
USDA, January 2012: the final school lunch rule. Because of Congress's Section 743, USDA dropped its tomato paste change and kept crediting paste as if it…
- USDA: Proposed School Lunch Nutrition Standards (2011)
Government Record · 2011
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
USDA, January 2011: proposed counting tomato paste and puree in school lunches by actual volume served, which would have ended the extra credit given to pizza…
- USDA: SNAP Participation and Costs, 1969 to 2025
Government Record · 2026
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
USDA: average monthly food stamp (SNAP) participation went from 4.3 million in 1970 to 42.4 million in 2025.
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Rare Earths
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey, 2026: China mined an estimated 270,000 of the world's 390,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2025, about 69 percent. Refining share is…
- USGS Minerals Yearbook 2020 to 2021: China
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey: China produces about 90 percent of the world's refined rare earths and 99.9 percent of heavy rare earths.
- USGS: The 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence
Government Record · 2020
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS: the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes, a magnitude 6.4 and a 7.1, were shallow strike-slip quakes near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
- USITC: Economic Impact of Trade Agreements, 2016 Report
Government Record · 2016
U.S. International Trade Commission
U.S. International Trade Commission, 2016: research finds NAFTA greatly increased trade, slightly raised overall welfare, and had little to no effect on total U.S. employment, with…
- USITC: Economy-wide Modeling of NAFTA (1992)
Government Record · 1992
U.S. International Trade Commission
U.S. International Trade Commission, May 1992: before NAFTA, its model predicted total U.S. employment would rise by 29,300 to 44,500 jobs after five years.
- USTR Section 301 Tariffs on Chinese Goods (September 2018)
Government Record · 2018
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
The U.S. Trade Representative's September 2018 notice placing 10 percent tariffs on a list of Chinese goods, set to rise to 25 percent in 2019.
- USTR: 2026 National Trade Estimate Report
Government Record · 2026
Office of the United States Trade Representative
U.S. Trade Representative, March 2026: lists the European Union's ban on ractopamine-fed meat as a trade barrier and says Codex limits support safe trade. The U.S.…
- V Magazine: Taylor Swift Endorses Biden and Harris (2020)
News Report · 2020
V Magazine
V Magazine, October 2020: in her own words, Swift said she would vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
- VA Releases Annual Veteran Suicide Prevention Report Updated With 2024 Data
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The latest official report gives 17.7 Veteran suicides per day for 2024. The older “22 a day” estimate concerned 2012 data and different methods; it should…
- Vacaville Barber Offering Free Haircuts Has License Suspended (Primo’s Barbershop)
News Report · 2020
CBS Sacramento
Report identifies Juan Desmarais of Primo’s Barbershop and says the Board temporarily suspended his license on October 29, 2020. DCA said compensated barbering requires a valid…
- Vaccine Excipient Summary — Excipients Included in U.S. Vaccines, by Vaccine (CDC Pink Book Appendix B, Table B-1, Jan 2019 edition)
Government Record · 2019
CDC (document); mirrored by Oregon Board of Pharmacy
CDC's own package-insert compilation confirms residual formaldehyde and polysorbate 80 in several childhood vaccines and the use of human diploid fetal cell lines: MRC-5 cells (including…
- Vaccine Injury Compensation Data (HRSA VICP data page, updated monthly) (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA states ~60% of all VICP compensation comes via negotiated settlement in which HHS has not concluded the vaccine caused the injury, and that attorneys are…
- Vaccine Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report (2025)
Document · 2025
Grand View Research
Commercial market estimate putting the global vaccine market at $72.8 billion in 2025, projected at $78.1 billion in 2026 and $115.8 billion by 2033 — consistent…
- Vaccine Scheduler — Denmark (country profile) (2026)
Government Record · 2026
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
EU agency record confirming Denmark uses a risk-based (maternal HBsAg status) hepatitis B birth dose rather than a universal one — the model the December 2025…
- Vanderbilt was never doing genital surgeries on minors but agrees to pause other gender-affirming procedures (2022)
News Report · 2022
WPLN; letter by C. Wright Pinson reproduced in article
WPLN reproduces Pinson’s October 7 letter reporting an average of five minor surgical patients annually, all at least 16, none genital, and all with parental consent.…
- Vanguard facts and figures
Document · 2026
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Vanguard’s official ownership structure is fund/shareholder ownership, not ownership by an outside corporate parent. Together with Fink’s client-money statement, this undermines treating managed shares as the…