Thursday, February 5, 2026

Tag: health

Whole milk returns to school lunches reversing an Obama-era restriction

Since the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) issued immediate guidance, the legislation allows schools to begin serving these options immediately.

EPA moves to value human lives at zero in air pollution...

Internal documents show the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning decades of public health accounting in favor of business compliance costs.

Over 20M Americans set to lose healthcare coverage Jan. 1 after...

Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely.

States introduce AI bills affecting health care

More than 250 AI bills in health care were introduced in 47 states since October.

Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis

Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved.

EPA proposes to double amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale...

Is this change part of a broader reassessment of how the agency evaluates cancer risks from chemicals?

Trump DOJ backs Bayer in Supreme Court fight over Roundup cancer...

A move by the administration aligns federal power with pesticide manufacturers as thousands of cancer patients fight for their day in court.

Warfare over healthcare: It’s necropolitics all the way down

This is not just an abstract dilemma that many households are facing; it is necropolitics in action, the state-sanctioned power to decide who lives and dies.

‘Ticking time bomb’: A pregnant mother kept getting sicker. She died...

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Trump’s ‘power to the people’ healthcare pitch masks a plan that...

Trump’s push to redirect federal healthcare dollars into individual cash payments while ending Medicaid and ACA subsidies is drawing warnings of a deepening national crisis and renewed calls for universal, publicly financed coverage.

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Judge blocks Noem effort to bar surprise ICE jail inspections as detention deaths mount

A federal judge halted the DHS secretary’s renewed effort to block surprise inspections as deaths, overcrowding, and abuse allegations inside immigration detention facilities continue to rise.

The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news? 

Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.

Trump ramps up denaturalization push with 2026 quota targeting naturalized citizens

Internal USCIS guidance reportedly calls for 100 to 200 denaturalization referrals per month, signaling a sharp escalation that experts say collides with legal limits and historical practice.

DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention

Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.

New analysis warns Trump offshore drilling plan could trigger thousands of oil spills

Conservationists say increased drilling could threaten already endangered marine species with extinction.