In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that it sometimes fails to make headlines when a new outbreak erupts.

As of March 2026, measles has been continuously circulating around the...Read more

As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East.

In a sermon on March 1, 2026, for example, John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, described the war as part of a divine plan. “...Read more

You’ve seen it in bookstores – the metallic turquoise spine peeking out from the shelf under “Eastern Religions.” Or, perhaps, another of its more understated editions rendered in muted tones. It is “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” arguably the most well-known Tibetan Buddhist text outside Tibet.

It was first translated by ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security issued a policy memo in February 2026 that could lead to the detention of refugees who are legally in the country.

The new policy states that “DHS may arrest and detain a refugee who has lived in the United States for at least one year and has not yet acquired” lawful permanent resident status. ...Read more

In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they’re working in order to get and keep coverage.

That’s not stopping Florida lawmakers from trying to adopt Medicaid work requirements anyway. It’...Read more

BATON ROUGE, La. — The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine.

Bill Cassidy offered jabs to thousands of inmates at Louisiana’s maximum-security prison in the early 2000s. A decade before that, he set up vaccine clinics in middle schools, a model hailed nationally as a ...Read more

‘No Longer Based on Facts or Truth’

Sylvia Chou, 51, Maryland

Program director, National Cancer Institute

Sylvia Chou specializes in communication between patients and their health care providers, and social media’s role in public health. She joined the federal government in 2007 as a fellow and became a civil servant in 2010.

She ...Read more

Marc Ernstoff, a physician who has pioneered immunotherapy research and treatments for cancer patients, said his work as a federal scientist proved untenable under the Trump administration.

Philip Stewart, a Rocky Mountain Laboratories researcher focused on tick-borne diseases, said he retired two years earlier than planned because of hurdles ...Read more

MIAMI — Outside a remote immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz, an activist was handed something unusual by a departing guard: a patch from his uniform.

The patch shows a large alligator skull with its jaws open wide next to a hooded skeleton holding a scythe. The skeleton, depicted with red eyes...Read more

MIAMI – Rogelio has lived in the United States for nearly half of his 39 years, but the life he and his family have built together was at risk of coming to an end when he was taken into custody last summer as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The Guatemalan immigrant is married to a U.S. citizen and has two children ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A man with intellectual and developmental disabilities has been in the Tarrant County Jail for more than a year, and his mother is growing more worried about his health and well-being with each passing day.

Since December 2024, Shawn Fraraccio, 26, has been held on a charge of continuous violence against a family member. ...Read more

Idaho Democrats were gearing up for a quiet, little-known procedural move in the House: Submitting a “minority report.” Over its seven pages, three House Democrats challenged a bill aimed at transgender youth. But Republicans had other plans.

The report would have likely languished in the House Journal, a daily report of activities that few...Read more

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee was repeatedly denied his antipsychotic medication, resulting in cascading symptoms that caused him to harm himself and end up blind from one eye, a medical negligence lawsuit alleges.

Jose Braulio Sedano Navarro’s multiple medical episodes occurred at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in ...Read more

Chef René Redzepi announced he will "step away" from Noma, his lauded Copenhagen restaurant, and has resigned from MAD, the community-building nonprofit he founded. The chef's announcement follows dozens of recently resurfaced abuse allegations as well as a protest today outside the gate of Noma's L.A. pop-up in Silver Lake.

The news came ...Read more