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Washington, District of ColumbiaPublished 22 Sep 2026
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday the administration is cutting hundreds of thousands of Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees it calls fraudulent or ineligible. Officials put the savings at $2.2 billion. Outlets do not agree on the head count.
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Newberry, South CarolinaPublished 18 Sep 2026
Gov. Henry McMaster announced at Newberry Health that SCDHHS selected 228 Rural Health Transformation Program projects totaling about $167.3 million from 712 applications, with money going to hospitals, clinics, and a mobile-care van.
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Lancaster, PennsylvaniaPublished 5 Sep 2026
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had questioned Pennsylvania’s two measles-associated deaths. The county coroner confirmed one infant death and said measles did not kill a newborn.
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Dallas, TexasPublished 27 Aug 2026
After a Tuesday hearing, a Dallas judge left a restraining order in place and did not decide custody of a baby born Aug. 12 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, PakistanPublished 26 Aug 2026
A blaze in the neonatal unit at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences killed 14 of 15 infants. Officials blamed an air-conditioner spark; parents described locked doors and a slow rescue.
Open compositeSilver Spring, MarylandPublished 26 Aug 2026
Rasonque, from Revolution Medicines, is the first broad RAS inhibitor cleared for previously treated metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. A 500-patient trial showed median overall survival of 13.2 months versus 6.7 months on chemotherapy.
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Bunia, Ituri, Democratic Republic of the CongoPublished 26 Aug 2026
Ministry figures as of Saturday showed 5,514 confirmed cases and 2,642 deaths, including 317 in seven days. WHO marked 100 days of the Bundibugyo outbreak and called it a defining moment.
Open compositeLancaster, PennsylvaniaPublished 26 Aug 2026
Both people were unvaccinated Lancaster County residents. Officials called them the first measles deaths in Pennsylvania in 35 years. Gov. Josh Shapiro confronted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine messaging.
Open compositeKabul, AfghanistanPublished 26 Aug 2026
The agency says 3.7 million children are wasted, hospitals in the south are seeing three or four severely malnourished children per bed, and its $180 million nutrition programme is only 22 percent funded.
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Brussels, BelgiumPublished 25 Aug 2026
Provisional national tallies and EuroMOMO still disagree on the Europe-wide count. Germany's RKI puts heat deaths near 14,000; France's all-cause excess is about 7,300 through July; Spain's Carlos III figures differ by window.
Open compositeAtlanta, GeorgiaPublished 24 Aug 2026
About 155,000 U.S. kindergartners had at least one exemption last school year. Public-health voices call the coverage dip a real risk; a former CDC adviser says it is not a cause for panic.
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