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Trump admin withholds Medicaid funds in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud

The Trump administration announced on July 21, 2026, that it’s withholding US$867 million in federal healthcare funding for California and $200 million for Minnesota – a total of more than $1 billion. Federal officials said the two states had failed…

August 5, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Spokane wildfires are a warning to the rest of the world

If you need any proof that climate change is not some far off problem for future generations — it’s our disastrous present — look no further than the unfolding wildfire crisis gripping the globe. In Spokane County, Washington alone, three…

August 4, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“My job is to find out the truth”: Dana Bash grills RFK Jr. over vaccines

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly clashed with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday’s “State of the Union” over vaccines, COVID-19, autism research and the nation’s growing measles outbreak, with the veteran anchor challenging the health secretary’s…

August 2, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Is ChatGPT Health the new WebMD?

For a few days around Christmas, Holly Jespersen, a 50-year-old living in New York, did not feel great. It felt like a cold was coming on, but she wasn’t sure if she should go to the doctor or not. “When…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Trump’s new foreign aid ban expands his “cruel” agenda on the world

Reproductive rights groups are gearing up for the current Trump administration to implement extensions to the current global gag rule — but this time, it may go even further than the usual dominance over reproductive rights. Also known as the…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Kennedy’s attacks on HPV vaccines could cause cancer to rise

Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, kills about 350,000 people annually — but for the last two decades, there’s been a robust, cheap and simple way of preventing much of it: the HPV vaccine. For nearly…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Early pregnancy care declines despite Trump’s pro-birth agenda

The current Trump administration has previously said it’s focused on promoting a “pro-family” agenda. Trump has said that he wants to be the “fertilization president.” Yet infant mortality remains high compared to other wealthy nations, despite more than 80 percent…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

RFK Jr.’s vaccine adviser under scrutiny ahead of key vaccine meeting

In just over a year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dramatically reshaped vaccines at the federal level, which has drawn considerable controversy given his lack of a medical background and his long history of attacking…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Climate change is the latest weapon in warfare. Trump is indulging it

The day before President Donald Trump ordered bombs dropped on Iran, he visited a Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, just one of several seemingly innocuous stops in the Lone Star State. He was mostly there to celebrate a dredging project…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Healthy Florida First’s toxic baby formula dilemma

In January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the state had tested 24 infant formula products available for sale locally. The results, he claimed, revealed elevated levels of heavy metals, such as mercury, in 16 of the products tested. DeSantis…

July 30, 2026 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0