Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found.
There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX
I was on the track team and didn’t mind working out, but I discovered one could opt out of the President’s Fitness Challenge so I did just to be contrarian
We're more than a year into the 2nd Trump administration and there's no confirmed Surgeon General. This quiet war raging within the Republican Party is a big reason why. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
The battle over Trump's surgeon general pick is shining a light on divisions within the Republican Party, pitting MAHA newcomers against old-guard anti-abortion and anti-drug conservatives. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Indiana Supreme Court to take up RFRA-based lawsuit against abortion ban
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Nearly a year ago, Sebastian Gorka declared a national counterterrorism strategy “imminent.” By July, he was “on the cusp” of unveiling the plan — a phrase he repeated three months later in October. And again in January.
To date, no strategy has appeared.
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There is some polling out there, most of it commissioned by one campaign or another. But as the piece explores, even if Cassidy loses, it will likely not be because of MAHA.
Cassidy's reelection fight could reveal a lot about the future of #MAHA.
Will the movement be a major force this Nov. or was its 2024 boost for Trump an anomaly? Can it can assert its independence and make meaningful progress on policy issues or will it exist solely as a Trump-aligned group?
Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
BREAKING: A PA court struck down the state's ban on Medicaid covering abortion, making the procedure more accessible to a lot of low-income people. The ruling, which held that Pennsylvanians have a "fundamental right to reproductive autonomy,” could be appealed. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
"Leaders of the Make America Healthy Again movement have pitched themselves as a political force that will make or break GOP prospects in the midterms. But they have yet to make a splash in the only Senate primary where they have entered the fray."
NEW: This morning, the Trump admin is set to start the process of refunding $166 billion in illegal tariffs. Many questions await this new, hastily assembled system, including how easy it'll be for business -- and whether they'll share refunds with consumers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
Can RFK Jr.'s movement become a major national player as its PACs and advocacy groups expand their endorsements and target lists ahead of November? Or was its 2024 boost for Trump an anomaly? We're about to find out in just a few weeks in Louisiana.
Does MAHA have as much political clout as its leaders claim? We're about to find out in Louisiana, where the movement isn't making a big financial impact or putting health and environmental issues front and center in the high-stakes Senate primary. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Top nutrition experts question the protein push, saying Americans already consume more protein than they need, and there's no new evidence that people need to drastically ramp up consumption. https://to.pbs.org/49xi92c
"Sharing psychiatric data with social media firms means patients could be profiled. They could be targeted by dodgy treatment firms or charged different prices for goods based on their health." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Want to confide your secrets and get a sycophantic voice flattering you in return?
There’s an app for that. My latest on the explosion of AI therapists, @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
“Part of me is glad he’s wasting his time on bullshit, because it’s less dangerous for rule of law, for the American public,” one official told me, “but it also means we don’t have a real functioning FBI director.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Drugmakers raised prices on hundreds of drugs despite Trump deals, report finds www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.
Two bankruptcies, six jobs before ICE hired him Among the new hires is Carmine Gurliacci, 46, who resigned as a police officer in Richmond Hill, Georgia, to join ICE in Atlanta in December, according to a resignation letter obtained by AP. He filed for bankruptcy in 2022, saying he had no income and had been unemployed for two years after moving from New York to Georgia, court filings show. He said he was living with a friend and doing chores in exchange for housing, listing tens of thousands of dollars of unpaid loans, bills, child support and other debts. He also had filed for bankruptcy in 2013 in New York, when he listed $95,000 in liabilities, records show.
Really good reporting from AP. They took 40 people who had listed their new ICE job on LinkedIn, then looked for red flags.
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New research published in the medical journal JAMA on deaths in ICE custody shows that “systemic weakness” in medical care at the agency has become more serious in the past two decades, physicians say.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the research.
A great question! A better one: why is the gift shop for United gear while Spirit, the team that actually sells out the stadium, has to sell merch from folding tables
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
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A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.
