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President Donald Trump is moving to give the White House greater control over National Institutes of Health grants after a tense Oval Office meeting in which budget chief Russell Vought criticized the agency for funding research priorities he said conflict with the administration’s agenda. Trump has directed Vought to draft …

President Donald Trump’s administration has installed Jay Bhattacharya, a prominent critic of the federal government’s coronavirus response, as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to four people familiar with the personnel move. Bhattacharya, who will continue serving as director of the National Institutes of Health, …