Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
HHS Secretary Kennedy names eight members to the task force that decides which preventive care insurers must cover free, four months after firing its chair.
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro refuses CDC help with a 731-case measles outbreak until the agency’s dashboard, still showing zero deaths, acknowledges the state’s four.
Pentagon issues mandatory testosterone screening for male service members over 30, delivering Hegseth’s July promise to keep troops on the “leading edge of lethality.”
HHS Secretary Kennedy tells the vaccine-skeptic group he co-founded it has a “steadfast friend at the White House” as measles deaths reach four in weeks.
Family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks after doctors denied an abortion, sues Texas Attorney General and Senate nominee Paxton over the ban.
Unvaccinated 18-year-old dies of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s fourth death, as Gov. Shapiro accuses HHS Secretary Kennedy of ordering CDC not to report them.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear erases $250 million in medical debt for more than 130,000 residents by spending $2.5 million in state housing money.
23 states sue to block DHS rule letting officials deny green cards over food stamps or Medicaid, four days before it takes effect.
EPA repeals limits on power-plant climate pollution, arguing greenhouse gases don’t endanger health, a claim that if upheld would bar future presidents from restoring them.
A 40-year-old woman dies of measles complications in Pennsylvania, the state’s third death this year in the nation’s largest outbreak since 1991.
North Carolina wins $590 million from Chemours and DuPont over forever-chemical pollution from the Fayetteville Works plant, the largest environmental damages recovery in state history.
Planned Parenthood sues to strike Wisconsin’s 24-hour abortion waiting period and physician-only rule as the state Supreme Court opens term with a 5-2 liberal majority.
Pennsylvania’s biggest measles outbreak in 30 years reaches 676 cases, 52 in two days, as CDC still omits state’s two deaths from its national tally.
CDC declares lettuce cyclospora outbreak over at 12,883 sickened in 21 states, 570 hospitalized and 2 dead, as FDA keeps investigating Taylor Farms’ Mexico operation.
California Gov. Newsom signs 13 youth online safety laws, banning personalized feeds and autoplay for kids under 16 and requiring AI chatbots to verify users’ ages.
Health Secretary Kennedy uses a $9,000-an-hour Air Force jet to campaign with Iowa Republicans, after Trump ousted his first-term health secretary over private-jet travel, Washington Post reports.
Deaths from ectopic pregnancies, which grow outside the womb and almost never survive, nearly doubled from 2020 to 2025 and rose fastest in states with strict abortion bans, ProPublica finds.
CDC gives employees with disabilities 20 days to resubmit medical paperwork it already received or lose interim accommodations, with 3,000 requests backlogged after HR layoffs.
US ends $45 million a year in HIV support for Namibia after the country refuses to hand over health data and biological specimens, the 5th African nation to reject at those terms.
Trump administration drafts rule paying married stay-at-home parents from a $12 billion child care fund now serving mostly single working mothers, with no new money, the New York Times reports.
Tulsa City Council spends $441,084 in opioid settlement money on a mobile mental health team that treats people where they are instead of jailing or hospitalizing them.
Pennsylvania coroner confirms a 2-month-old Lancaster County girl died of measles, one of 2 infant deaths the state had called only “measles-associated.”
Federal appeals court blocks a ruling that let one Idaho doctor perform abortions to protect a mother’s health or prevent self-harm, restoring the state’s near-total ban.
Health Secretary Kennedy and Defense Secretary Hegseth quietly assign an Army doctor to probe whether 2,544 unverified troop deaths came from Covid vaccines, a deposition reveals.
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee votes 19-0 to subpoena Oracle’s Larry Ellison after the VA nearly tripled Oracle’s $10 billion health records contract it once vowed to finish without overruns.
Childcare waitlists grow from 8 states to 23 plus DC, stranding hundreds of thousands of eligible children, after Congress let $28 billion in pandemic aid lapse, AP finds.
Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after 286 days at sea, as Democrats seek a probe of food shortages, broken plumbing and attempted suicides.
Agriculture Department defunds 2 of 3 programs studying the foodborne parasite Cyclospora and moves the third to Iowa, where no scientist will follow, during a record outbreak, POLITICO reports.
Federal judge pauses Florida and Texas’s bid to revoke the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide until after the midterms, at the FDA’s request during its safety review.
Washington’s Snohomish County opens 73 rooms of transitional housing for homeless residents in a former Everett Days Inn, converted on budget for under $22 million.
Chicago launches a $450,000 grant program paying food entrepreneurs and farmers market operators up to $10,000 to sell fresh food in neighborhoods that lack it.
FDA approves Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 vaccine targeting the dominant XFG variant for adults 65 and older and high-risk people ages 5 to 64, shipping immediately.
CDC adds Georgia, Tennessee and Texas to the Taylor Farms lettuce outbreak, which accounts for 11,485 of the more than 17,000 cyclospora cases recorded this year.
Documents show Health Secretary Kennedy wrote Samoa’s leader in 2019 asking to study its MMR vaccines, contradicting his Senate testimony that the trip had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
Connecticut and Waterbury fund 47 affordable apartments for healthcare workers across from Saint Mary’s Hospital, the first project under a 2022 state housing bond.
Confirmed cyclospora cases top 17,000 across 48 states in the largest US outbreaks ever recorded, with 11,841 more awaiting lab confirmation.
Kennedy questions whether Pennsylvania’s 2 measles deaths happened a day after his own CDC posted condolences for the measles-associated deaths.
FDA approves Rasonque, a once-daily pill for advanced pancreatic cancer that nearly doubled median survival to 13.2 months in trials.
Meta agrees to pay states up to $17 billion and cap minors at 2 hours daily to settle the landmark child safety trial midway through testimony.
2 unvaccinated Pennsylvania residents die of measles, the state’s first such deaths in 35 years, 2 weeks after Trump falsely called the MMR vaccine “quite lethal.”
USS Abraham Lincoln heads home with a Thailand port call after 250 straight days at sea, a carrier record, days after Trump said the deployment wasn’t long enough.
FDA clears a Roche and Eli Lilly blood test detecting Alzheimer’s markers in patients 55 and older, replacing costly PET scans and spinal taps.
Dare County, North Carolina, brings urgent care into schools, letting sick students in grades 6-12 see a doctor by telehealth in the building.
CMS chief Oz breaks with Trump three questions in, telling Face the Nation “the MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine.”
California to stock every public and charter school with free rescue inhalers for 3 years for the 1 million kids with asthma.
Idaho appeals the ruling that allowed abortions to protect a woman’s health or prevent suicide, arguing the exceptions should cover only the doctor who sued.
Alfalfa sprout outbreak spreads to 55 people across 15 states as the grower FDA warned about unsanitary conditions in 2025 still refuses a recall.
Sen. Kim says Delaney Hall medical staff deny responsibility for 3 detainee deaths as detainees describe being refused doctors and prescription medication.
68,000 northwest Indiana customers endure a 9th day without power after storms that killed 7, with full restoration in Gary not expected until Tuesday.
