The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that individuals cannot sue state officials under federal civil rights law to challenge state decisions about which healthcare providers participate in Medicaid, even when those decisions may violate federal Medicaid requirements. The 6-3 ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic reverses a lower court decision […]
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics has revealed that states with the most permissive firearm laws experienced more than 6,000 excess deaths among children and adolescents in the 13 years following a pivotal 2010 Supreme Court decision. The research, led by Dr. Jeremy Faust of Harvard Medical School and Mass General […]
A comprehensive study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has found that U.S. states implementing complete or six-week abortion bans experienced a 5.6% increase in infant mortality rates, resulting in an estimated 478 excess infant deaths across 14 states during the study period. The research, led by […]
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the dramatic in-flight blowout of a mid-exit door (MED) plug on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 in January 2024 was caused by Boeing’s failure to provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight to its manufacturing workforce. The NTSB also cited […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, a move the Department of Agriculture (USDA) says will remove longstanding restrictions on road construction and timber harvesting across nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System. The Roadless Rule, enacted in 2001, prohibited […]
A federal appeals court has blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law that would have required the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom across the state’s public schools and universities, ruling the statute “plainly unconstitutional” and a violation of the First Amendment. The legislation, signed by Republican Governor Jeff […]
President Donald Trump: Thank you very much. A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) emergency request to stay a lower court order that required the government to provide advance notice and an opportunity to contest deportations to so-called “third countries”, nations other than a migrant’s country of origin or prior residence. The […]
A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas has vacated the Biden administration’s 2024 amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule that sought to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health care information. The ruling, issued in the case Purl v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, found that the […]
A federal judge has issued a mixed ruling in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of encrypted, auto-deleting messaging apps by senior executive branch officials to conduct government business, a practice watchdogs say threatens the preservation of vital public records. The case, brought by the nonprofit American Oversight, targeted […]
