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As the number of measles cases reported reaches the highest number since the highly contagious disease was eliminated in the United States in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) are speaking out about the need for people to use the safe and effective vaccine to end the outbreak.

President Donald Trump may appoint an “immigration czar” to coordinate the government’s fractured authority over border security, asylum law, the labor supply, and visas, according to a report by the Associated Press. 

The Trump administration announced Friday it will award a $5.1 million grant to the Obria Group – a nonprofit network of health centers that provides life-affirming comprehensive healthcare.

“While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter. 

President Donald Trump on Saturday referred to prominent conservative author Ann Coulter as a “Wacky Nut Job” following months of criticism she has directed at him regarding the lack of progress building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Over 100 Democrats introduced their “Medicare for All” proposal on Feb. 27. It takes away private health insurance — and that’s just the beginning.

A report from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement indicates that thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) were sexually abused during the past four years in federal custody. Of those reported to the Department of Justice, 65 percent of the abuses were at the hands of other minors in custody.

Dr. Alveda King recalled Margaret Sanger’s — founder of Planned Parenthood — racist and eugenicist politics in a Friday interview.

The Trump administration issued a final rule Friday that underscores that federal taxpayer funds provided for family planning services may not be used to support abortion in any way.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said on Friday that the United States government should pay reparations to families separated at the border.

President Donald Trump donated his third-quarter salary of 2018 to a federal agency that researches alcoholism.

The Donald Trump administration announced on Wednesday that they will grant South Carolina’s request to protect state faith-based foster care providers. 

The number of unaccompanied migrant children housed by the federal government jumped by more than 450 percent following President Barack Obama’s implementation of the DACA program in 2012. Government programs provided shelter to about 8,000 per year prior to implementation. After, the numbers jumped exponentially to an average of more than 44,000 annually.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that it will allow the temporary release of smuggled children and youths into homes that may contain illegal migrants.

The Obama-appointed director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that human fetal tissue from elective abortions “will continue to be the mainstay” for federal research.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — announced Monday it would be seeking to find and develop human tissue models that do not rely on the use of aborted fetal tissue.

The American Medical Association (AMA) will place gender ideology above biological science as it adopts a new policy that affirms the “medical spectrum of gender.”

The project leader of the pro-life group that exposed Planned Parenthood’s alleged profiting from the sale of aborted baby body parts says new evidence suggests the abortion chain and its partners may have lied to Congress about their revenues from the sales.

Former Olympic athlete and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner has now retracted support for President Donald Trump in a new op-ed published by The Washington Post.

Education secretary Betsy DeVos “is not eager” to go along with other departments in the Trump administration regarding the possible establishment of a legal definition of sex that would ensure individuals’ identification as either male or female, says a new report.

Pop megastar Lady Gaga is on the attack against President Donald Trump, this time claiming that his ideas about gender and transgenderism are “driven by ignorance.”

Immigration shelters in Texas are being overwhelmed by the massive numbers of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border from Mexico in recent months. The influx of migrant children placed more than 5,000 minors into shelters, according to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHS).

Americans who recognize the central role played by biology in shaping human needs and desires are applauding a report by the New York Times that the administration will roll back President Barack Obama’s establishment of the transgender ideology.

As the Trump administration pushes for drug price transparency, the pharmaceutical industry is already trying to subvert the coming changes.

Democratic legislators have drafted a bill to preserve the cartel-operated smuggling route used to deliver 180,000 Central American children and working-age youths to their illegal-immigrant parents and employers in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has terminated a contract between Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after concerns the biomedical company was providing the government with “fresh” aborted baby tissue to engineer humanized mice for drug experimentation.

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) slammed the Senate’s “unacceptable” short-term continuing resolution (CR) on Tuesday. The CR would prevent President Donald Trump’s potential shutdown threat over partial border wall funding.

First lady Melania Trump promoted responsible social media use at a cyberbullying prevention summit in Maryland on Monday as part of her Be Best campaign.

An illegal alien smuggled a woman’s daughter into the U.S. and sexually abused her after promising her mother a job, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said Tuesday.

The Trump Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will grant 10 Planned Parenthood affiliates taxpayer funding for family planning amid weighing a new rule that would eliminate grants to providers that do not clearly separate family planning services from abortion.

About 1-in-5 illegal alien adults crossing the United States-Mexico border with toddlers under the age of five are either criminals, not the child’s parent, or present some other danger to the child.

Actress and left-wing activist Alyssa Milano accused President Donald Trump of working to defeat women’s right to breastfeed by opposing a pro-breastfeeding resolution proposed at the United Nations.

Three parents actually admitted they were not related to the children with whom they were ordered to be “reunited” when agents brought out DNA swabs to test parentage. Two others were proven to not be the parents when DNA tests were completed. Eight other purported parents will not be “reunited” with children due to failed criminal background checks that turned up serious convictions or child abuse.

Olivia Golden, a former senior Clinton administration official at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), called for the release of all asylum claimants into American communities during a Thursday interview on C-SPAN.

The Pentagon has decided on two military bases in Texas that can temporarily house illegal aliens or unaccompanied children from July through December while their cases are processed: Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss.

HHS also noted CDC’s report that, while teen sex and pregnancy rates are at record lows, sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases are at record highs. Consequently, the agency says sex education “should be centered on science in the promotion of optimal health outcomes.”