HEALTH

(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...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When Anthony Fauci was leading the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he frequently touted how the vaccines were safe for pregnant women. But behind closed doors, Fauci apparently had second thoughts behind, according to text messages released from his COVID-era iPhone. According to the text...

(Headline USA) U.S. health officials on Monday proposed a rule change that would require food manufacturers to notify regulators before introducing new ingredients or additives into processed or packaged foods. The proposal would change a decades-old policy that advocates have called a regulatory loophole, blaming it for allowing thousands of...

(Headline USA) WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year. The change comes a year ahead of schedule. Kellogg said last August that it would remove synthetic dyes from its cereals by the end of 2027. But the company said...