The State Department is taking over much of the control of global health initiatives, for which critics say the department does not have the expertise.

It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

A math whiz as a young man, he later blazed trails, both with his theoretical advances and his advocacy for minority students.

Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.

The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.