HEALTH

(Headline USA) Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about the Kentucky Republican’s health. McConnell, 84, said in a statement that he was “briefly unconscious” around the time he was...

(Headline USA) Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, died after a tear in his aorta, according to a preliminary medical examiner finding shared by his office. The tear in the inner wall...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Video newly obtained by CNN captures paramedics rolling a person on a stretcher out of Sen. Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., Washington residence and lifting them into a waiting ambulance. The footage sharpens a question his staff has spent nearly a month dodging. What actually happened to...

(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) Many Washington state daycare providers receive large taxpayer subsidies, but an investigation by The Center Square found several that had few, if any, children and at least one establishment that received hundreds of thousands of dollars despite residents at the listed address indicating it...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci reportedly agreed earlier this month to testify before Sen. Rand Paul’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs—but he’s since changed his mind. Sen. Paul said Monday on Twitter/X that he’s subpoenaed Fauci to testify since he’s not speaking voluntarily. “Last week,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the eve of her last day as National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of documents detailing former COVID czar Anthony Fauci’s efforts to suppress the theory that coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. “These documents expose Fauci’s direct role in influencing and...

(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial, claiming he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday. It wouldn't absolve him of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing, but could free him...

(Headline USA) Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to a hospital Sunday, his spokesperson said, but there was no immediate information about why he was there or his prognosis. McConnell, 84, was the longest serving Senate leader in history before stepping aside from that role while finishing his final term, which...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard released on Friday records that detail the U.S. funding dangerous biolabs throughout the world, including over 40 in war-torn Ukraine. “Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci is set to testify before Sen. Rand Paul’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Fauci, who was among several officials pardoned by former President Joe Biden for potential federal offenses, has faced ongoing congressional scrutiny over the use...

(Headline USA) The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week. Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease and stroke, and it’s long been...

(Headline USA) Jill Biden says she feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched then-President Joe Biden stumble through a disastrous debate performance that led to the end of his 2024 reelection campaign, the former first lady said in a recent interview. “I was frightened, because I had never...