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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration started the first of several sweeping trade investigations that set the stage for new tariffs, the centerpiece of a push to replace levies struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced Wednesday that his office would begin a probe into more than...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD chief who rocketed to social media stardom after he was recorded vaulting a metal barrier to capture an alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist outside Gracie Mansion said he acted on instinct and that it wasn’t until hours after the arrest that he realized his deadly peril.

Emir Balat, 18, lobbed an improvised explosive device ...Read more

A federal judge blocked the proposed construction of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Washington County, Maryland, in a ruling Wednesday.

The ruling is the latest update in a lawsuit filed by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, alleging that ICE had failed to conduct environmental review procedures ...Read more

UW Medicine officials on Wednesday warned of the growing number of measles cases in Washington state ahead of the summer travel season and FIFA World Cup and related events planned in the Puget Sound region.

Measles is considered highly contagious and easily spread. According to information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more

A new study led by researchers at UC San Diego shows a certain protein detected in the blood can provide decades of early warning that a person is at an increased risk of developing dementia later in life.

The finding has the potential to provide a longer runway to make the lifestyle changes that can help reduce risk, and could be used to ...Read more