Iowa restores SNAP recipients’ ability to buy soda and candy after a federal court rules the food-restriction waivers violate the federal definition of food.
New Jersey begins enforcing fines up to $25,000 against group homes that abuse or neglect residents with disabilities, with penalties funding quality improvements.
Extreme heat sends 11 Great American State Fair attendees to hospitals, seven needing advanced life support, as organizers delay Trump’s Saturday July Fourth celebration.
U.S. death rate falls 4.6 percent to the lowest recorded in the nation’s history, 689.2 per 100,000 people, in provisional 2025 CDC data.
Washington begins paying benefits under the nation’s first public long-term care insurance program, offering workers up to $36,500 for in-home care and equipment.
A congressionally ordered National Academies report urges the FAA to regulate cosmic radiation as an occupational hazard for flight crews, with pregnant workers facing some of the greatest risk.
New Jersey lawmakers pass a bill criminalizing interference with reproductive and transgender healthcare and shielding providers from extradition, sending it to Governor Sherrill.
Representative Tom Kean returns to the House floor after a nearly four-month absence, revealing he was hospitalized for depression, as Democrats say he owed constituents an earlier explanation.
The Trump administration freezes federal funding for New York’s Medicaid fraud unit over too few convictions, the second such suspension this year and part of a campaign focused largely on Democratic-led states.
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
Arkansas Governor Sanders moves forward Wednesday with a ban on buying candy and soda with SNAP benefits, days after a federal judge struck down identical restrictions in five states.
The Trump administration cancels 53 of 67 federal teen pregnancy prevention grants worth $68 million, calling the evidence-based programs misaligned with its priorities.
Five million people have dropped ACA coverage for 2026 after Trump and Republicans let enhanced subsidies expire, roughly doubling premiums, new federal data shows.
A federal appeals court rejects Trump’s EPA bid to abandon a 2024 rule tightening soot limits, leaving the standard the agency says will prevent 4,500 deaths a year in place.
Chicago builds the nation’s largest community air-monitoring network, 277 sensors citywide, under a 2023 settlement of a civil rights complaint over a polluting scrap shredder.
The Supreme Court rules 7-2 that federal pesticide law bars consumers from suing Monsanto for failing to warn that Roundup may cause cancer, ending tens of thousands of state lawsuits.
Senator Wyden warns the administration is preparing to fast-track the removal of more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children, a year after a judge halted a similar overnight attempt.
An Associated Press investigation finds the DEA let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills reach New Mexico streets from 2023 to 2025 to build bigger trafficking cases.
A Tennessee judge temporarily blocks the state from handing immigration enforcement the names of about 400 chronically ill undocumented children before a law forcing the disclosure takes effect.
Chemours will pay $450 million to settle a decade of illegal “forever chemical” discharges into three rivers, the first federal PFAS-manufacturer deal, which an affected state calls inadequate.
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth’s names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
The Air Force restores a flu shot rule for recruits after a Texas base outbreak sickened 222, two months after Hegseth ended the vaccine mandate.
Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest school district, bans screens for its youngest students and sharply caps device time for everyone else.
The Justice Department charges about 450 defendants in a $6.5 billion healthcare fraud crackdown, its largest, with a record number of Medicaid cases.
Michigan erases more than $74 million in medical debt for nearly 72,000 residents through a state partnership with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.
A Covid vaccine study showing the shots roughly halved severe illness was blocked from the CDC’s journal and published instead by the American Medical Association.
Federal judge strikes down Agriculture Department waivers that let 22 states bar SNAP recipients from buying soda and candy, finding the agency rewrote the legal definition of food.
Senate education chair Bill Cassidy, a Republican, promises a July vote to block the Trump administration from shifting special education to RFK Jr.’s health department.
Federal immigration authorities held an 8-year-old U.S. citizen in a Brooklyn shelter for nearly seven months, ignoring his birth certificate and releasing him only after a lawsuit and a judge’s ruling.
A Missouri judge strikes down most of the state’s abortion restrictions and restores medication abortion for the first time since 2018, enforcing the reproductive-rights amendment voters passed in 2024.
The State Department will permanently end PEPFAR HIV funding for South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV population, tying the cut to political demands including ending affirmative action.
A flu outbreak sickens at least 159 trainees at Lackland Air Force Base weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth ended mandatory military flu vaccination, with only 40 percent now opting in.
A federal appeals court lets Ohio enforce its 2023 law requiring parental consent before children under 16 use social media, reversing a block in place since 2024.
Vermont passes a 2028 data privacy law letting residents see, correct, and delete what companies hold on them, and banning health-data geofencing near clinics.
The State Department conditions billions in African health aid on real-time access to citizens’ medical data, with Uganda granting seven years of system logins.
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
A Tennessee law drafted with Stephen Miller will report roughly 400 chronically ill immigrant children to ICE if they keep getting lifesaving state-funded care past June 30.
HHS Secretary Kennedy overrules his own department’s medical reviewer to keep a symptom-free cruise passenger locked in a federal quarantine facility against her doctors’ recommendation.
Former Senate Republican leader McConnell, 84, is hospitalized for the second time this year, with his office declining to say why.
Fourteen Republican attorneys general ask the EPA to regulate the abortion pill mifepristone as a water contaminant, a claim environmental scientists say has no evidence.
A coalition of state attorneys general subpoenas OpenAI over its handling of advertising, health data, and minors, as wrongful death suits mount against ChatGPT.
Alabama’s attorney general threatens to prosecute six abortion pill providers, citing a disputed think tank study, and the deputy who signed faces a runoff for his job next week.
Planned Parenthood sues to overturn Alaska’s ban on telehealth abortion services, arguing it violates state constitutional privacy rights in a state where many live off the road system.
DC Water rushes emergency repairs on another corroded stretch of the sewer line that dumped 240 million gallons into the Potomac in January.
Agriculture Secretary Rollins blames Biden border policies for the flesh-eating screwworm’s return as Democrats point to her department’s 21,000 lost employees.
New York health inspectors cite Trump’s Hudson Valley golf club for serving food that is spoiled, adulterated, and from an unapproved source.
More than 22,000 Marylanders add a butterfly logo to state IDs alerting police to hidden disabilities as Eric’s ID Law spreads to other states.
Trump administration warns over 500 hospitals to post clear prices or face fines up to $2 million yearly, with red states Texas and Indiana leading violators.
Government watchdog finds wasted millions, a homicide and destroyed evidence at the largest U.S. immigrant detention camp, warning a $38 billion expansion risks repeating every failure.
New Mexico confirms its first New World screwworm case in 60 years as the flesh-eating parasite spreads beyond Texas.
