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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 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...

/ 3 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 ...

/ 8 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...

/ 9 months ago

More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.

When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned ye...

/ 1 year ago

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A drone view shows the stage for Lady Gaga's free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 2, 2025. (REUTERS/Janaina Quinnet)

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Lady Gaga to Draw 1.6 Million Fans to Copacabana, Boosting Brazilian Airlines and Rio’s Economy

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Fresno County Authorities Search for Missing Woman Last Seen at Huntington Lake

Firefighter work at the site of a Russian strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 2, 2025. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region/Handout via REUTERS)

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Russian Drones Hit Apartment Block in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, 46 Hurt

Elon Musk flashes his T-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, March 9, 2025. (AP File)

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Let DOGE Access Social Security Systems

The Visalia Police Department will hold a DUI checkpoint Friday, May 2, 2025, to promote public safety and remove impaired drivers from the road. (Visalia PD)

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Visalia Police to Hold DUI Checkpoint Friday

Dexter Marvin Francis is Valley Crime Stoppers' Most Wanted Person of the Day for May 2, 2025. (Valley Crime Stoppers)

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Valley Crime Stoppers’ Most Wanted Person of the Day: Dexter Marvin Francis

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