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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withheld the two measles-associated deaths reported by Pennsylvania on Aug. 25 from its weekly national measles death count, posting a footnote saying available information...
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston blocked HUD on Aug. 26 from restructuring the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, ruling the agency failed to give a reasoned explanation for sweeping changes to a grant program...
Nevada, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water Authority sued the Interior Department on Monday over the new Colorado River framework, which requires Arizona, California and Nevada to cut...
Five current and former administration officials told Reuters on Aug. 24 that Trump's frustration over what he considers a likely contributor to autism drove the Aug. 10 executive order cutting the federal childhood...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the 2027-2028 Colorado River operating guidelines on Friday, Aug. 21, imposing mandatory delivery cuts on the three Lower Basin states after three years of talks among the seven...
National Park Service employees were directed from Washington to move maintenance projects already approved for this year onto a new "low priority" list while work sought by the White House took precedence, according to...
Newly released federal data show enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fell from 42.2 million in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May 2026, more than 13 percent in a year, as work requirements and other...
Prominent figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement wrote to President Trump on Aug. 21 urging him not to expand coal-fired power to meet demand from AI data centers, saying "data centers should not become the...
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington ruled on Aug. 19 that the Department of Health and Human Services may not implement sweeping new conditions on grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program while...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service had filed a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirety. The Clinton-era rule blocks road...