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President Donald Trump considered “reopening insane asylums” and argued that society “can’t have these people walking around” with severe mental illnesses, during a recent interview on his crime crackdown in Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump on Monday called on drug companies, including Pfizer, to disclose evidence regarding the effectiveness of coronavirus treatments.

Officials have revealed the cause of death for Jessica Aber, the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who passed away in March.

One of the worst earthquakes in Afghanistan’s history struck the border region with Pakistan on Sunday, killing over 800 people and injuring at least 2,800 more.

ChatGPT reportedly played a disturbing role in making a tech industry veteran’s growing paranoia worse in the months leading up to him killing his elderly mother and himself.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expanding a recall of certain brands of shrimp that were imported from Indonesia and may be contaminated with a radioactive isotope called Cesium-137 (Cs-137). While the recalled shrimp may not present an “acute

Two major pharmacy retailers are reportedly limiting access to updated coronavirus vaccines as health officials in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are scaling back on their use.

South Carolina is asking the Supreme Court to be able to fully enforce its policy requiring school districts to mandate that students only use restrooms that correspond with their biological sex.  

A safety study released by consumer watchdog group Common Sense Media reveals that the Meta AI chatbot, integrated into Instagram and Facebook, can actively encourage and assist teens in planning dangerous activities like suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders.

A judge has awarded a family nearly $1 billion dollars after the botched delivery of their baby in 2019 at a hospital in West Valley City, Utah.

The department initiated the probe after a local report alleged that the district had converted a girls’ restroom in East High School to a multi-stall “all-gender” restroom, leaving the second floor with a restroom exclusively for male students and no restroom exclusively for female students.

Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law requiring public universities to provide abortion pills to students. 

Minnesota Democrats have aggressively championed transgender advocacy — but are now running away from their role in promoting the alienated young man’s lifestyle that led to him shooting Catholic schoolkids.

The British fertility rate fell to its lowest level on record in 2024 after falling for three straight years as the native public continues to delay or refrain from having children.

The Trump administration is demanding that dozens of states and territories remove gender ideology from sex education programs or risk losing millions in federal funding.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted that the One Big Beautiful Bill dramatically raises funding for rural hospitals, during Tuesday’s White House Cabinet meeting.

An Oklahoma man is now accused of impregnating his 11-year-old stepdaughter after she gave birth on August 16.

The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who took his own life in April, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the AI chatbot ChatGPT, claiming that the bot acted as a “suicide coach” for their son in his final weeks.

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to phase out the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report from the Daily Beast.

Alaska’s medical board unanimously voted on Friday to approve a proposed regulation that would restrict sex mutilating drugs and surgeries for minors. 

A Safe Haven Baby Box is going to be installed at a New Mexico hospital next week where parents can safely surrender their newborns anonymously.

Dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics have closed or will close this year, as the Trump administration battles to defund the abortion organization of taxpayer dollars through Medicaid.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill into law Tuesday banning local governments from using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion travel out of state. 

The U.S. World War II veteran considered the last surviving “ace” pilot died on August 14 in his home state of Nebraska at the age of 103.

A Florida woman is accused of performing dental work without a license after promoting her teeth services on social media.

HHS on Thursday terminated a sex education grant to California over the state’s refusal to remove radical gender ideology from the taxpayer-funded program, the agency announced. 

The tragic death of an experienced skydiver in England one day after she ended the relationship with her partner has been ruled a suicide.

A nurse from Ocala, Florida, is accused of raping her 15-year-old stepson after his father walked in and caught them in the act.

Mother and fitness influencer Nicole Brenda Santos Marins, 28, died in a motorcycle crash on Tuesday. 

A tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of ribeye steaks went up in flames along a Missouri highway on Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to the public to avoid Walmart’s Great Value-branded frozen shrimp due to the possibility of it being radioactive.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), a retired Navy SEAL, helped save the life of an 11-year-old boy injured in a car accident along Interstate 35 near Osceola, Iowa, on Saturday, August 16, by using makeshift tourniquets until first responders arrived, an experience he later reflected on in a post marking the anniversary of his daughter’s passing.

Costco said it will not sell the abortion pill mifepristone at any of its U.S. pharmacies, citing “lack of demand.” 

A judge ordered probation on Thursday for the teenager who fatally shot his father on December 28 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Comedian John Oliver torched the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement during a recent episode.

Hollywood megastar Chris Pratt joined Bill Maher on his “Club Random” podcast and had a sweeping conversation on topics from faith to the dangers of A.I., superstardom, health — Pratt trying to see “how fat” he could get during his breakout role on the hit NBC series “Parks and Recreation” — people so “mired in hatred” for President Donald Trump they rally against objectively good policies like the ones being championed by Pratt’s now-family, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.