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.
Minnesota and Wisconsin link 40 E. coli and salmonella cases to alfalfa sprouts from a Minnesota grower, warning consumers to discard 2 brands.
Appeals court rules Indiana cannot punish Planned Parenthood for telling minors where abortion is legal, calling referrals protected First Amendment speech.
Judge blocks HHS from converting the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program to abstinence-only teaching after it canceled 53 evidence-based grants worth $67 million.
Trump nominates Heidi Overton, a 37-year-old White House aide who urged the FDA to restrict abortion medication, to lead the agency.
Appeals court unanimously upholds EPA’s hazardous designation for 2 forever chemicals, keeping polluters liable for Superfund cleanup over industry objections.
Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to conspiring to conceal federal records about COVID origins research using his private email.
Connecticut launches its first state-funded mobile methadone units, investing $4 million in settlement funds to reach rural corners where treatment is hours away by bus.
EPA quietly stops publishing cancer risk estimates from air pollution after 2 decades, leaving raw emissions data the public cannot interpret alone.
4 states seeking up to $1.4 trillion take Meta to federal trial over claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children.
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions hit a record 4.2% as MMR coverage falls to 92.4%, well below the threshold needed to prevent measles outbreaks.
Trump administration refuses to renew Arkansas’ 13-year Medicaid waiver under new budget rules, threatening coverage changes for 200,000 low-income residents.
CENTCOM commander calls mental health a valid concern after visiting the USS Abraham Lincoln, a day after Trump dismissed families’ worries as nonexistent.
Colusa County, California, offers residents up to $10,000 to replace woodstoves made before 1988 with cleaner, cheaper-to-run heating.
Fauci refuses Senator Ron Johnson’s request to testify voluntarily, days after Republicans voted him in contempt for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
Los Angeles County links city, county, and nonprofit agencies into one network so aging and disabled residents find help from any starting point.
Federal judge rules the 14th Amendment protects abortion when pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or health, blocking Idaho’s ban in those cases.
Massachusetts judge orders a county sheriff to release ICE detainees’ anonymized health records, ruling a federal contract cannot override state public records law.
ICE names the third Delaney Hall detainee death after a policy change dropped the rule requiring review of deaths that occur after release.
Colorado’s June law protecting emotional support animals in housing takes effect after HUD stopped enforcing federal accommodation rules for untrained animals.
