HEALTH

(Headline USA) Police bodycam footage released Friday shows the moment officers located and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. In one video, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask he was wearing to hide...

(José Niño, Headline USA) At least six major hospital systems have agreed to stop providing transgender-related medical interventions to minors under settlements with the Trump administration, according to a New York Times report published on Tuesday. The agreements end Justice Department inquiries into possible billing misconduct and consumer fraud...

(Headline USA) Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon is ordering testosterone screening for some 2 million troops without saying what it will cost, and its own clinical guidance says it does not know how many service members it will test or treat. The screening applies to every active-duty and reserve service...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) New York City has agreed to release new documents showing that officials lied about the air quality in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The more than 170,000 pages of documents are being released by NYC in response to...

(David Beasley, The Center Square) Ohio’s inspector general says he has uncovered more than $3 million in suspected unemployment benefits fraud dating back to the COVID-19 pandemic period. In 2024, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services referred an allegation of wrongdoing to the state Inspector General’s Office, involving...

(Headline USA) Lindsay Clancy did not have acute psychosis when she killed her three children but rather took their lives so they wouldn’t “suffer” after she took her own life, a forensic psychologist testified Monday in her murder trial. Kirk Heilbrun said he ruled out acute psychosis with command hallucinations because...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The vast majority of Americans want hospitals and healthcare providers to publicly disclose prices before patients receive care, according to a new poll. The Center Square Voters Voice Poll, conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, found 88% of American voters said it was at least "somewhat...

(Headline USA) A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, Arturo Béjar...

(Headline USA) A former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting to conceal federal records related to research on the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. David Morens is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 12 by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., have released more internal communications from former Health and Human Services officials, showing their private concerns about the COVID-19 vaccination in early 2021. Publicly, the HHS was touting the vaccine as perfectly safe. The new internal communications, released...

(Headline USA) Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold him in contempt. In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for...