All 14 GOP senators on Armed Services vote to kill expanded military IVF coverage, reversing course on the treatment Trump promised free for all.
Trump administration moves to strip Head Start standards for class sizes, medical screenings and literacy after failing to block the program’s funding.
State Department shows an AI-generated Africa map mislabeling all six countries it highlighted at a global AIDS conference before African partners.
Senate panel advances a CDC director nominee after nearly a year without one and a preparedness pick who repeated vaccine falsehoods.
Kennedy launches an HHS cooking show promoting his sauerkraut-heavy diet as food prices rise and his agency sheds staff.
Louisiana ends quarterly office visits for WIC families as new cards load food benefits remotely starting Aug. 1.
Ex-White House adviser Fauci invokes the Fifth at a Senate COVID hearing, saying Chairman Paul called it solely to trap him into a false statement.
Colorado awards $23.8 million to school meal programs in 131 districts, buying locally grown food and raising nutrition workers’ pay.
Coordinated cyberattack knocks water utilities offline across more than 30 Minnesota communities, with one town warning residents its tower held limited reserves.
Arbitrator rules HHS illegally fired 5,000 probationary employees, finding the mass terminations a reduction in force masquerading as performance dismissals.
FDA official insists the food supply is safe as parasite infections hit 11,000 cases and the agency’s only named source tests negative.
Trump administration kills the $3.6 billion subsidy holding down Medicare drug premiums, raising 2027 costs for most of 25 million Part D enrollees.
St. Petersburg opens hurricane recovery programs offering buyers up to $80,000 and purchasing flood-prone homes to permanently convert into open space.
GOP Sen. Cassidy, who voted to confirm Kennedy, calls the CDC website’s claim linking vaccines and autism almost an insult to Americans.
Delaware Gov. Meyer signs three laws mandating free hospital care under 300% of the poverty line, limiting hospital prices, and blocking private equity buyouts.
California awards $109.6 million to build 278 supportive housing units in four communities, with 103 reserved for homeless veterans with behavioral health needs.
Refugee agency moves to interview 800 Afghans about household immigration status in a wellbeing initiative advocates fear will fuel deportations, with answers kept 15 years.
Taylor Farms called the White House through a former Trump aide turned lobbyist to seek delay of the recall announcement in the cyclospora outbreak, WSJ reports.
CDC links cyclosporiasis outbreaks in four more states to tainted lettuce as confirmed and suspected cases near 12,000 nationwide.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
GAO finds Amazon workers on food stamps and Medicaid nearly tripled since 2020, with gig drivers now the top employer group using SNAP.
ICE officials privately warned of “insane” crowding as 86 detainees filled a Manhattan holding room built for brief stays, a Washington Post visual investigation shows.
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth’s new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
Cornyn threatens to sink Kari Lake and Mastriano ambassador nominations unless the administration releases $1.3 billion in appropriated AIDS relief funding.
Kennedy declares the cyclosporiasis outbreak “under control” as Mexico disputes the FDA’s link to Taylor Farms and no sample has tested positive.
U.S. measles cases hit 2,295, the most since 1991, passing last year’s record total with more than five months left in the year.
HHS withholds another $1 billion in Medicaid payments from California and Minnesota over fraud claims, adding to $1.5 billion already frozen from both states.
California regulators reject utilities’ plan and bar power shutoffs for unpaid bills when temperatures top 90 degrees, down from 100.
FDA admits the lettuce sample it flagged for cyclospora was a false positive, but the Taylor Farms recall stands as cases near 7,000.
Hawaii creates a $3 million program helping dementia patients, families, and caregivers navigate care as cases are expected to double in 25 years.
Taylor Farms’ 27-state recall notice hides which brands carry cyclospora-linked lettuce behind internal abbreviations as the outbreak nears 7,000 cases.
Seven American Ebola aid workers become the first people quarantined at a Kenya facility a court ordered halted, barred from reentering the U.S. for three weeks.
Taylor Farms pulls all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico a day after FDA linked its Taco Bell supply to the cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke five months after the Supreme Court ruled he lacks unilateral tariff authority.
Louisville jury orders ghost gun sellers to pay $104 million to the mother of a teen who killed himself with a kit shipped without a background check.
FDA investigates iceberg lettuce Taylor Farms supplied to Taco Bell as the cyclospora outbreak grows to nearly 7,000 suspected cases in 34 states.
FDA approves Merck’s Lipfendra, the first cholesterol-lowering pill in a drug class dominated by injections, cutting LDL nearly 60% in trials.
DHS lets immigration officers weigh food, housing, and health benefit use against green card applicants, reversing a 2022 rule limiting reviews to cash welfare.
Canadian wildfire smoke drives hazardous air through Saturday for 120 million Americans from Minneapolis to the mid-Atlantic as nearly 900 fires burn.
New Jersey job-protected leave expands today to part-time workers, new employees, and small business staff previously excluded from coverage.
Defense Secretary Hegseth orders annual testosterone screening for troops 30 and older as the administration pushes wider access to hormone therapy.
Rangers evacuate up to 10,000 campers from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters as smoke from over 100 Canadian wildfires blankets the Midwest and Northeast.
Cyclosporiasis spreads to 34 states with 141 hospitalized as the CDC says the source is still unknown, a day after Michigan pointed to lettuce.
Health inspectors find fly swarms, 54-degree blue cheese, and misused pesticides at Trump’s Sterling, Virginia golf club, the fourth Trump property cited this year.
Michigan identifies lettuce as the likely source of the cyclospora outbreak sickening nearly 3,000 people across 31 states, with 86 hospitalized.
Two Ohio cities approve pairing a licensed social worker with police and firefighters on mental health, addiction, and homelessness calls.
Cyclosporiasis outbreak tops 3,000 cases across 31 states, matching a normal full year in one event, as the government has yet to name the contaminated food.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear demands Sen. McConnell “just tell us what’s going on” 27 days into a hospitalization his office describes only as continuing recovery.
Michigan’s cyclosporiasis outbreak passes 1,200 cases with 44 hospitalized as investigators still cannot find the source and neighboring Ohio counties report 500 more.
