Tag: health
Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain...
New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.
US Forest Service stops issuing firefighter pants that contain PFAS, following...
Despite knowing about the use of PFAS, officials with the Forest Service had not previously informed wildland firefighters about it.
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.
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Trump administration threatens media licenses and treason charges over Iran war coverage
Critics warn FCC pressure on broadcasters and presidential threats of treason charges represent a dangerous escalation against press freedom during an active military conflict.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America – if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.
Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...
Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.
Million-dollar earners stop paying into Social Security for 2026
Recent polling indicates significant public support for reform, with approximately 71 percent of voters favoring a tax increase on wealthy Americans to guarantee the program's solvency.
Democrats’ last major obstacle to defeating MAGA for good
If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.