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.
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.