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.
Faculty groups sue Texas Tech over classroom limits on race and gender they say ban teaching Plato, Dred Scott facts, and Holocaust history.
Michigan cyclosporiasis cases quadruple to nearly 700 in six days as CDC investigates the parasitic intestinal illness across 18 states, with 20 hospitalized.
The contractor ICE hired for emergency medical claims processing has collected $44.6 million while paying detention health providers nothing in nine months.
Kennedy’s health department blocks a preventive care panel from meeting for the fourth time, leaving the group that guides insurance coverage idle since March 2025.
Twenty of Iowa’s 41 monitored state park beaches have been flagged unsafe for swimming at least once in the season’s first seven weeks.
A medical examiner’s report shows Camp East Montana staff dismissed a detainee’s suicide attempt as manipulation and repeatedly skipped his antipsychotic drugs before his death, ruled a homicide.
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.