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.
Agriculture Department confirms a second Texas screwworm case, the flesh-eating pest’s first U.S. cattle return since 1982.
American Diabetes Association has state troopers remove five doctors from its conference for handing out an editorial from its own journal criticizing Trump’s research cuts.
FDA launches a six-month safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a step toward restricting mail and telehealth access that antiabortion groups demanded.
ICE will stop reporting detainee deaths that occur within 30 days of release, ending a rule that captured fatalities tied to detention conditions.
Tyco agrees to a $10 million settlement with Wisconsin over decades of PFAS contamination in Marinette, far less than residents sought.
New Jersey sues GEO Group in state court after inspectors were allowed into only the food service areas of the Newark migrant jail where detainees report tuberculosis and untreated illness.
Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, the first state to do so, alleging ChatGPT aided in planning multiple murders and endangers children.
Trump administration releases Medicaid work-requirement rules exempting pregnant women and veterans, with an estimated 5 million still set to lose coverage by 2034.
National Science Foundation tells disabled employees to retest existing accommodations in a new building before honoring them, the union says.
Kenyan court blocks Trump’s plan to quarantine Ebola-exposed Americans in Kenya rather than bring them home for treatment, citing a threat to life.
Trump signs executive order directing the CDC to cut recommended childhood vaccines nearly in half, dropping shots for six diseases.
Trump administration plans to send Americans exposed to Ebola to Kenya for treatment rather than bringing them home to specialized U.S. facilities.
Supreme Court rejects Meta appeal, lets Vermont sue Instagram for designing platform to addict teens, potentially opening floodgates for hundreds of similar cases.
Ten ICE detainees have died by suicide since Trump returned to office, AP investigation finds, as detention population spiked 50% to 60,000.
NIAID scientists at NIH barred from speaking with WHO during active U.S. hantavirus and Congo Ebola outbreaks, four months after Trump’s WHO withdrawal.
CDC adds Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson as second U.S. entry point for Ebola screening, days after Dulles was named the only authorized airport.
Newsom declares state of emergency as 50,000 evacuated around Garden Grove aerospace plant where overheating tank of flammable acrylic chemical could still explode.
HUD strips emotional support animals from disability protections in housing, reversing first Trump administration guidance and threatening thousands of tenants with eviction.
US-bound Americans from Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan must enter through Dulles only after Trump’s administration cut $11.5 billion in virus monitoring.
Trump administration sends Ebola-positive American surgeon to Berlin and second exposed doctor to Prague after resisting their return to U.S. for care.
Nine doctors warn 23-year-old Guatemalan woman in El Paso ICE detention urgently needs ovarian surgery she was scheduled for days before Operation Metro Surge arrest.