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American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was bor...

/ 2 weeks ago

Silence on E. Coli Outbreak Highlights How Trump Team’s Changes Undermine Food Safety

Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to f...

/ 3 weeks ago

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...

/ 1 month 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. ...

/ 2 months 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...

/ 2 months 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...

/ 6 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 ...

/ 6 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...

/ 7 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...

/ 9 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 ...

/ 10 months ago

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Spyware from U.S.-backed Israeli firm Paragon Solutions was used to target prominent European journalists’ phones, raising concerns about government surveillance and commercial spyware abuse. (Shutterstock)

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Spyware From US-Backed Israeli Firm Targeted European Journalists, Report Finds

President Donald Trump speaks as he attends a military parade to commemorate the U.S. Army's 250th Birthday, on the day of his 79th birthday, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

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Israel’s War of Choice With Iran Puts Trump in a Bind

The Oak Fire near Morgan Canyon Road and Country Oak Lane in Prather remains active at 46% containment, burning 14 acres with 45 personnel working alongside multiple air tankers to strengthen containment lines. (CalFire)

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Prather’s Oak Fire Active in Fresno County, 46% Contained

Gilberto Lopez Mendez, 23, was arrested after pistol-whipping and shooting a victim in the leg near Dinuba on , with deputies recovering a converted fully automatic firearm. (Tulare County SO)

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Tulare County Authorities Arrest Man in Dinuba Shooting

Fresno police have arrested Scott Alvarado, 41, in the shooting death of Nicholas Bolanos, 33, on Friday, June 13, 2025. (Fresno PD)

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Fresno Murder Suspect Arrested in Madera County Following Shooting

Economist Jeffrey Sachs warns of potential US-Iran war in an interview with Tucker Carlson (pictured), citing decades of Israeli-influenced foreign policy in the Middle East. (Shutterstock)

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Tucker Carlson Says Trump ‘Complicit’ in Israel’s Attack on Iran

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