HUNT, Texas — As the United States marked its 250th anniversary with fireworks and parades on Friday, the small Hill Country community of Hunt, Texas, and its surrounding towns observed a far more somber occasion: the first anniversary of catastrophic…
A Grid Under Pressure, a Public Left to Cope As a brutal heat dome drives temperatures into triple digits across the New York metropolitan region, Con Edison has reduced voltage by 8 percent across a broad swath of Southern Westchester…
Chicago is two days into its first heatwave of the year. The city’s response looks almost identical to what it was a decade ago. Health experts and community advocates say the Johnson administration’s current approach — centered on public messaging…
Millions of Seniors Could Access Weight-Loss Drugs at a Fraction of the Cost Under Temporary Federal Program Starting July 1, millions of Medicare recipients will be able to access popular GLP-1 weight-loss medications for as little as $50 per month…
Flesh-Eating Screwworm Returns to U.S. Soil: Four Cases Confirmed as USDA Scrambles to Contain Outbreak The New World screwworm — a parasitic fly whose larvae burrow into the living flesh of warm-blooded animals — has returned to the United States…
Record Losses, Fewer Flames: The Dangerous New Logic of Wildfire Risk Despite burning less land than almost any year since 2002, 2025 became the deadliest and most expensive wildfire season in recorded history — a paradox that scientists say reveals…
Trump Orders CDC to Cut Childhood Vaccine Recommendations, Defying Medical Experts and a Federal Court President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to align with a Health and Human Services assessment…
$3.3 Million Federal Grant to Investigate Whether Virtual Nursing Can Curb a Burnout Crisis Pushing Nurses Out of the Profession A University of North Carolina researcher has secured a $3.3 million federal grant to study whether virtual nursing — now…
Tank Temperature Rising, Explosion Risk Grows at Garden Grove Aerospace Facility A critically unstable tank holding roughly 7,000 gallons of highly toxic methyl methacrylate (MMA) at a Garden Grove aerospace facility is growing more dangerous by the hour, officials confirmed…
Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Mifepristone Access, But the Drug’s Future Remains Uncertain The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily restored mail access to the abortion drug mifepristone, halting a lower court ruling that would have forced patients to obtain the medication…