Also, 50% of Jewish Americans between ages 18-34 say Israel is committing genocide. 35% of this group say they’re emotionally attached to Israel compared with 56% of all Jewish Americans.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

So when the doctor asked, and he did ask, no medication was provided. Suza's dad went to three different hospitals trying to find what she needed to make her well. She died just days after she got sick. 4/

The medication was in the nearby local warehouse. But it never arrived. That's because, despite Rubio's blanket waiver for life-saving aid, each USAID program needed an individual waiver. The program that delivered the malaria medications in Congo did not get one for months. 3/

Suza, a girl who loved frilly dresses, got sick with malaria in February. First a cough, then a fever. Then she couldn’t breathe. But the local clinic near her house ran out of the severe malaria medication she needed in January. No refills came. 📷 Arlette Bashizi 2/

. @secrubio.govpeeps.us keeps saying no one has died because of USAID cuts. 5-year-old Suza Kenyaba did. A six-month investigation with a slew of reporters on two continents proved as much. Our latest 1/ 🎁 wapo.st/46GSwcv

He helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him. Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Even Teddy Roosevelt (our least "woke" president ever) called Wounded Knee "a massacre," in which "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality." 5/

Dakota physician Charles Eastman was an eyewitness to the massacre: "Fully three miles from the scene of the massacre we found the body of a woman . . .and from this point on we found them scattered along as they had been relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered, while fleeing for their lives." 3/

US forces surrounded a community of Lakotas along Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 and used the new invention of rapid-firing Hotchkiss cannons to kill large numbers of the population. Soldiers than pursued the survivors for miles, killing them wherever they were found. 2/

NEW: Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA's response to natural disasters. But she fast-tracked $11 million+ to fix a Florida tourist attraction — after one of her big donors reached out. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Billionaire "writes" memoir (she used a ghostwriter) about recovering a memory during an MDMA therapy session about repeat sexual abuse from a teacher. This article discusses the reliability of recovered memories in general, and of this one, in specific. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

CBP said it found evidence of debt bondage, excessive overtime, withholding of wages, "abuse of vulnerability," and abusive working and living conditions.

A movement to protect Americans from medical debt has shifted to the states since the Trump administration halted federal rules enacted by former President Joe Biden. State bills have faced mixed outcomes. W/ Noam Levey + Katheryn Houghton kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

For @nbcnews.com/ @kffhealthnews.org, Lauren Sausser and I looked at the government’s confusing two-step: Simplify prior authorization for private insurance Add AI-powered prior authorization for Medicare: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

A college student approved for charity care at two hospitals "started receiving unexpected bills from doctors who worked at the hospitals but, because they weren't on staff there, didn't have to abide by the facilities' financial assistance policies." @kffhealthnews.org story for CBS:

I’ve known about the trend of non-Messianic Christian orgs hosting “Passover Seders” but I just came across one such org hosting a Yom Kippur event to argue that the holiday (the most sacred in Judaism) supports the Christian view of Jesus.

CDC scientists say they weren't asked to brief RFK about autism in the months leading up to this 'historic' announcement on autism. As for a new autism-vaccine study, CDC experts told me: “It absolutely looks like Kennedy has subverted the grantmaking process.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

🚨 "Sick to my stomach." That's how the researcher who found a link between Tylenol and autism felt when she realized MAHA would link her analysis to vaccines. My latest exclusive @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety, pedestrian trails, and bike lanes, citing that the projects “aren’t designed for cars.”

"The new panel’s discussions reflected its thin expertise and ignorance of how the vaccination schedule came to be. Scientific questions answered decades ago were asked as if they were brand-new."

“The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Katie Fallow from @knightcolumbia.org said the new policy is part of “the Trump administration’s broader assault on free speech and press freedom.” “A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Guevara, whose charges were dropped, has a work permit as well as a path to residency through his son, a U.S. citizen.

In a rural, largely Republican region of California, homegrown efforts to bolster the medical workforce face an uphill battle, in part because of federal health care cuts approved by the GOP Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in July, as well as a state budget deficit. bit.ly/3VWcHOI

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

* And J.J. Evans joins our GOAT copy desk, where he'll help ensure stories from Amanda, Claudia and the rest of our crew are airtight. J.J. comes to us most recently from the Washington Post, where he worked on stories from some of their top reporters. Can't wait to for them to join us. More TK.

* And veteran health care reporter Claudia Boyd-Barrett will join us to cover Southern California, including the intersection of immigration and health policy. She wrote for us in July on immigrants weighing the risk of deportation against seeking health care: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

NEWS of the hiring sort: * We've landed Amanda Seitz, an ace health policy reporter for the Associated Press, to help us cover 🙌all of this🙌 in Washington. She helped nail a big scoop in June: RFK Jr. secretly ordered CMS to hand over data to deportation officials. apnews.com/article/medi...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

RFK Jr.’s handpicked federal vaccine advisory committee is talking now about whether to push back the first dose of the Hep B vaccine from birth to 1 month of age. CDC experts prepared a really thorough presentation, including this stunning risk/benefit slide:

The Trump admin has pushed a significant amount of health costs to states, where many already need to tighten their budgets due to declining tax revenue, loss of pandemic money+economic uncertainty But I also found examples of them spending to replace federal cuts: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Tens of millions of people face sticker shock enrolling in Affordable Care Act insurance for 2026. To save money, the Trump administration wants them to consider less generous coverage. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The difference between white and non-white "very religious" parents is so interesting. 36% of "white, very religious" and 15% of "non-white, very religious" parents skipped or delayed a vax, excluding the covid or flu shots. 23% of the former and 7% of the latter skipped/delayed the MMR vax.

NEWS: By vaccinating babies at birth, the U.S. nearly eradicated hepatitis-B in children. Kennedy's vaccine advisory panel is expected this week to recommend delaying the shot, opening a window for kids to be infected. Exclusive by @jackie-fortier.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

In the past, fatalities among older people were often attributed to ailments like heart failure instead of falls. Changes in the processing of death certificates may help explain rising rates of fall-related mortality. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

No one in the Trump admin "has spoken explicitly about its intention to radically rethink how America funds and directs cancer research ... almost eight months into Trump’s second term, we have seen no proposals to replace what his administration is tearing down"

The man’s neurosurgeon said he wasn’t consulted before a surgical team+organ transplant org decided to take his patient off life support to donate his organs. He said his patient hadn’t even had an exam yet to determine if he was “brain dead.” Amazing reporting by Cara Anthony

Via Mark Mazzetti on Twitter "ICE raided a construction site next to CIA, without notifying the agency. Chaos ensued. People fleeing the raid scaled a fence and CIA shut its gates." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Meet the new vaccine panel advisors RFK Jr. is considering Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"34% of students say using violence to stop someone from speaking on campus is acceptable, at least in rare cases." rankings.thefire.org

"An artificial intelligence data center (for Meta) that would use more electricity than every home in Wyoming combined before expanding to as much as five times that size will be built soon near Cheyenne, according to the city’s mayor." apnews.com/article/ai-a...

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge says he'll toss the racketeering case against 61 people tied to protests over a training center called “Cop City.”

Independent rural hospitals are increasingly joining networks that share resources and bargaining power. The goal is to save money and improve patient care without losing their independence by joining a large health system. Reporting from Bowman, ND: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

See the Epstein birthday letter with Trump’s signature. We analyze the text and drawing of a nude woman. on.wsj.com/42eukNg

Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.

What a sentence: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."