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.
FDA data shows 46% of Taylor Farms’ recalled lettuce went to Walmart, not Taco Bell, as the cyclosporiasis outbreak passes 23,000 sickened.
Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claims on Fox Business that 82% of women vaccinated in early pregnancy miscarried, citing a debunked misreading showing normal rates.
Trump administration bans Medicaid and CHIP from covering hormone treatment for transgender youth, effective immediately for some care despite doctors’ recommendations.
North Carolina prints three mental health crisis numbers on student IDs for grades six through college this fall under a new state budget provision.
GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci’s 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Trump signs an order limiting hepatitis and meningitis vaccines to high-risk children and splitting the MMR shot, repeating debunked autism claims as he signs.
Massachusetts creates its first licensing system for home care agencies, requiring background checks, abuse-prevention training, and insurance before firms can operate.
Taylor Farms recalls 20 jalapeño products from Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods as the salmonella outbreak sickening 345 people spans 27 states.
Federal judge blocks HUD from redirecting $4 billion in homelessness funding away from permanent housing, the agency’s third loss on the same overhaul.
Kennedy tells CDC scientists not to trust scientific authorities a day before the anniversary of the shooting that killed an officer at their campus.
CDC and FDA tie a salmonella outbreak sickening 345 people across 27 states to Mexican jalapeños served at Chipotle and Qdoba.
White House weighs an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, overriding aides’ advice to avoid the issue before midterms, Bloomberg reports.
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million to abate youth harms, finding Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance connecting predators to children.
HHS proposes erasing 1,400 Head Start regulations, letting class sizes rise and dropping health screening deadlines for 700,000 of the nation’s poorest children.
Senate Republicans vote to hold Fauci in contempt after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, arguing his Biden pardon voids the protection.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey signs a law barring ICE from schools, hospitals, and courthouses as ICE detains a second-term monthly record 46,000 people in July.
FDA approves the nation’s first mRNA flu shot for adults 50 and up, a year after Kennedy’s HHS canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA research.
Kennedy’s HHS hands Sen. Ron Johnson’s panel a copy of Fauci’s government iPhone, days after his released journals exposed private medical histories.
Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director, filling a chair vacant since Kennedy ousted her predecessor for disagreeing on vaccine policy.
Federal judge refuses to delay her takeover of Arizona’s prison healthcare system, ruling harm to the state pales beside inmates’ unconstitutional suffering.
Kansas judge strikes down decades of abortion restrictions as “not even a close call,” hours before being sworn onto the state Supreme Court.
Rand Paul’s Fauci diary dump exposed more than 20 people’s names and medical histories, a NOTUS review finds, with some still unredacted.
DOJ pays a 7-figure settlement to a pardoned anti-abortion activist whose clinic-blockade conviction was upheld on appeal, days after killing its weaponization fund.
Transgender federal workers sue OPM over canceled insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, arguing the same treatments remain covered for other employees.
Michigan reports the outbreak’s first two deaths as cyclosporiasis cases top 11,000, with the last federal update on the multistate outbreak ten days old.
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.
