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Trump signs sweeping order to further restrict trans care for minors nationwide
The order says the U.S. will not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” transition-related care for minors, which it defines as those under age 19. Jan. 28, 2025, 6:13 PM CST By Jo Yurcaba President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order targeting transition-related medical care for minors Tuesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical…
SCOTUS agrees to hear challenge to Obamacare’s preventive care coverage
The court will decide the fate of the insurance mandate later this year. By Alice Miranda Ollstein and Josh Gerstein 01/10/2025 07:05 PM EST The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a broad challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s coverage of preventive services in its upcoming term, the latest in more than a decade of battles over…
Pentagon ends paying for travel for abortion and other reproductive care
The move, which is already drawing criticism from women in Congress, reverses a policy put in place after the repeal of Roe v Wade. Jan. 31, 2025, 12:58 PM CST By Courtney Kube The Pentagon has rescinded a Biden administration policy that reimbursed service members and dependents for travel to states where abortion and other reproductive health procedures are legal.…
Multiple health agency websites on HIV, contraception taken down to comply with executive orders
Researchers were scrambling to collect and archive as much data as possible. By Selina Wang, Steven Portnoy, Cheyenne Haslett, Dr. John Brownstein, and Youri Benadjaoud February 1, 2025, 2:17 PM Government agency webpages about HIV, LGBTQ+ people and multiple other public health topics were down as of Friday evening due to President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at gender ideology and…
‘A forgotten generation’: Older Black men in Boston are dying of drug overdoses at alarming rates
A new analysis shows that they are now hardest hit by the opioid epidemic By Chris Serres and Yoohyun Jung Updated January 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m. Anthony James is the first to admit that for most of his adult life, he lived under the illusion that he was invincible. He was just 14 and attending South…
Fact-Checking Claims About U.S.A.I.D. Funding
Trump administration officials have misled about how the aid agency is spending its funding, in an effort to cite widespread “waste.” By Linda Qiu Published Feb. 8, 2025 Top officials in the Trump administration and allies in Congress, eager to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, have accused the agency of misusing taxpayer funds. But many…
Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D.
As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work. By Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson Feb. 7, 2025 The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International Development paid Ben Stiller, Angelina Jolie and other actors millions of dollars to travel to…
Canada leaders take push against tariffs to White House
Feb 12, 2025 Brandon Drenon & Jessica Murphy Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders say they had a “constructive” meeting at the White House as they sought to make their case against the tariffs the US president has threatened to impose on the country. It is the first time all 13 premiers have visited the US…
Confusion clouds efforts to save Gaza ceasefire
Feb 12, 2025 Yolande Knell, Rushdi Abualouf The Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has looked shaky since it came into force on 19 January but now looks the closest yet to totally falling apart. A senior Egyptian source told the BBC that regional mediators Egypt and Qatar were “intensifying their diplomatic efforts in…