A new CMS rule bars state Medicaid and CHIP plans from covering puberty blockers, hormones and surgery for minors. Kids already on hormone therapy get up to six months. Puberty blockers get nothing.
The Sierra Club and CHIPS Communities United sued the EPA over approvals for two new semiconductor chemicals. The agency's own consent orders identify acute toxicity, genetic toxicity and reproductive harm, name acute lethality as the primary concern for the chemical class, and say there are insufficient data to assess the risk — and the chemicals' identities are a trade secret.
New federal rules from Trump's budget bill will add about 100,000 people to Georgia Pathways. State officials say Georgia 'does not have the financial capacity' to cover them and are asking Washington for a bailout.
The consumer complaint database has published more than 17 million complaints filed since 2011, and advocates say nearly 6 million people got money back or a credit report fixed. The agency now says the stories consumers wrote have 'minimal' value.
The Fifth Circuit restored nine provisions of Texas SB 1 that a judge had struck down for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. More than three million eligible Texas voters have a disability.
Abbott is reviewing all state and federal grant money to DFW and Houston airports over foot-washing stations Muslims use before prayer. DFW's has sat inside the airport's interfaith chapel since 2019; Houston's, described as for people of all faiths, since 2024.
Spectrum News reviewed 12 years of disclosures: Whatley's firm took $3.5 million, including $1.2 million from energy clients. His campaign bio skips the entire career.
The Trump administration rejected Arkansas's request to renew ARHOME, the program insuring more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans. Cotton voted for the law behind the rejection, then called Medicaid important.
A 2002 Ohio law Husted cosponsored cut the deadline for suing a nursing home in half and barred state inspection reports from the courtroom. He has since taken more than $1 million from the industry.