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Special Report: At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They’r...

/ 2 days ago

Magic Happens When Kids and Adults Learn to Swim. Tragedy Can Strike if They Don’t.

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow. ...

/ 3 weeks ago

Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for at Least 80 Million People

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty g...

/ 4 weeks ago

Trump’s Picks for Top Health Jobs Not Just Team of Rivals but ‘Team of Opponents’

Stephanie Armour KFF Health News Julie Rovner KFF Health News Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health a...

/ 5 months ago

California Falling Short of Enrollment Goal as Mental Health Courts Roll Out Statewide

California’s new initiative to compel treatment for some of the state’s most severely mentally ill residents — many of whom are ...

/ 5 months ago

Scientists Fear What’s Next for Public Health if RFK Jr. Is Allowed To ‘Go Wild’

Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the p...

/ 6 months ago

With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get

Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch fireworks in ads for Opdivo+Yervoy, a combination of immu...

/ 8 months ago

The New COVID Vaccine Is Out. Why You Might Not Want to Rush to Get It.

The FDA has approved an updated COVID shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot ...

/ 9 months ago

Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign to Gut Planned Parenthood

A federal lawsuit in Texas against Planned Parenthood has a web of ties to conservative activist Leonard Leo, whose decades-long effort to s...

/ 9 months ago

Rescue From Above: How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times

The drones are coming. Michelle Andrews KFF Health News Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report...

/ 10 months ago

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

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US Military Ordered to Pull Books on Diversity, Gender Issues

Fresno County authorities are seeking the public’s help to find the suspect who killed Jesus Adrian Amador Jr., 22, of Huron, in a 2017 shooting. (Fresno County SO)

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Fresno County Authorities Seek Public’s Help in Huron Homicide

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UN Agencies Warn That Israel’s Plans for Aid Distribution Will Endanger Lives in Gaza

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Fresno Police Officer Arrested on Sexual Battery Charges

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Mayor Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, Arrested at ICE Detention Center He Has Been Protesting

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FDA Will Allow Three New Color Additives Made From Minerals, Algae and Flower Petals

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