As millions of Americans face a gap in food assistance due to the federal government shutdown, some families also worry about how they'll pay their winter heating bills. The shutdown has delayed ...

Home energy costs are on the rise. As the government shutdown continues, it could get harder for low-income families to afford their heating bills.Getty Images—catnap72 Reporter The government ...

Reiss is professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. Caplan is head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. In the latest effort to ruin America’s health, Rep. Paul ...

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a seismic idea: adding autism to the list of conditions covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The ...

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Tucked within the hundreds of pages of Republican-backed cuts to taxes and the social safety net known as the "big, beautiful bill" is a $50 billion fund called the Rural Health Transformation Program ...

There’s a lot to keep toddlers busy at Dill’s family child care. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have ...

It's Day 23 of the federal government shutdown, and Republicans and Democrats appear no closer to an agreement to end it. Without a fix, many federal employees will not be getting paid tomorrow, the ...