Good morning!🙋🏼♀️ I'mNicole Fallert. BRB, checking outInstagram's new features. RFK Jr. willwind down$500 million in mRNA vaccine development. An Army sergeantis in custodyafter five soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart. Another sex toy wasthrownon the floor of a WNBA game. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed his agency will be cutting funding to mRNA development, the vaccine technology used in the two most common COVID-19 vaccines licensed in the U.S. What we're talking about:Messenger RNA works by instructing the body's immune system to recognize the virus and creating fighting antibodies to attack it. These vaccines contain only a fraction of the virus, so unlike some vaccines, they can't give people the disease they're trying to prevent or trigger allergies. The most obvious consequence:Losing resources threatens improvementsfor vaccines that target infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, bird flu and cancers, experts say. There's a war brewing between medical groups and RFK Jr.Back-and-forth between HHS and the nation's top doctors iscreating confusion and sowing distrustamong patients and providers. Can I still get a COVID vaccine?It'sunclear whether patients should be expectingCOVID-19 vaccines this fall, doctors told USA TODAY. Right now, the only people recommended for COVID-19 vaccines are those older than 65 and people with existing health problems — making it harder for others who want the shot. An Army sergeant shot and wounded five fellow soldiers Wednesday at the Fort Stewart military base in Georgia, the latest in a growing number of violent, and sometimes deadly, incidents at U.S. military bases over the years. Officials did not provide further details on what led to the incident, but Army Brig. Gen. John Lubas said the suspect, Quornelius Radford, 28, used a personal handgun, not a military firearm. Fellow soldiers responded swiftly, tackling him to the ground.Other military baseshave also experiencedmass shootings in recent years. Who is Quornelius Radford?What we knowabout the Fort Stewart shooting suspect. President Trump couldmeet Putinas early as next week, reports say. United Airlinesresumed flightsafter resolving a tech glitch. This Hollywood actorsays hejoinedICE. Four years after a USA TODAY investigation,a woman received a settlementin a case alleging Louisiana colleges ignored rape reports. What's the weather today?Check your local forecast here. President Donald Trump's higher tariff rates of 10% to 50% on dozens of trading partners kicked in Thursday, testing his strategy for shrinking U.S. trade deficits without massive disruptions to global supply chains, higher inflation and stiff retaliation from trading partners. U.S. Customs and Border Protection began collecting the higher tariffs at 12:01 a.m. ET after weeks of suspense over Trump's final tariff rates and frantic negotiations with major trading partners that sought to lower them. Meanwhile, costs from Trump's tariff war are mounting for a wide swath of companies, including bellwethers Caterpillar, Marriott, Molson Coors and Yum Brands.USA TODAYbreaks downthe tariffs. Trump promised100% tariffson semiconductors and computer chips. Apple announced additional$100 billion in new U.S. investmentamid tariff frenzy. Some of the Texas Democrats who fled their state to try to block Republicans' redistricting efforts were evacuated from an Illinois hotel where they were staying over a bomb threat. Texas House Rep. John Bucy III, one of the Democrats at the hotel,told USA TODAYthat many legislators were still asleep when the alarm went off in the morning and that the group gathered outside. He said it took about two hours before everything was cleared up and they were allowed to safely reenter. Here's how Texas' redistricting crisishas balloonedinto state-on-state fights over the last week. These maps showhow Texas redistricting mapscould gain Trump more Republican seatsin the House. Here's what Obamasaid aboutthe Texas GOP's redistricting plan. Meet the MLB'sfirst female umpire. Mall culture is disappearing,andso is Claire's. Who was that "Wednesday"villain? The Athletics' Nick Kurtzisa MLB rookie sensationonly one year after college. Here are 2025'stoughest colllege football schedules. The latest toss of a sex toy came during Tuesday night's game between the Indiana Fever and the Los Angeles Sparks at Crypto.com Arena in L.A. With two minutes remaining in the second quarter, the neon green toy landed on the court in the lane near Fever forward Sophie Cunningham, who earlier in the week went on social media to plead with fans not to throw things on the floor and posted another reaction after the game. Sparks guard Kelsey Plum took it upon herself to get rid of it by kicking it into the stands.It's thethird such incident in the past two weekswhere a sex toy was thrown on the court of a WNBA game — and the league is issuing warnings and ejecting fans. Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified Plesionectes longicollum, a new species of ancient marine reptile that existed nearly 183 million years ago.What did the newly discovered Jurassic sea monster eat? Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY,sign up for the email here. Want to send Nicole a note? Shoot her an email at NFallert@usatoday.com. 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