More frequent, intense and destructive fires fueled by climate change cause far more death and illness than official tallies ...

In Texas, a journalist uncovers a "shadow child welfare system that operates outside the purview of state officials, in ...

Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts ...

How lack of Medicaid expansion fuels rural poverty in the Deep South ,” by April Simpson, The Center for Public Integrity “ ...

Reporting has shown that African Americans and Latinos are killed at a disproportionately higher rate during such pursuits.

Every Thursday, 33-year-old insurance broker Simran Singh loads up his car with an assortment of items and sets out from his Bakersfield home. On the way, he might make a stop at an Indian grocery ...

At his day job, Harpreet Singh Pannu is a physician specializing in internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente facilities in San Jose and Santa Clara. But on Sundays, at his sangat (congregation), Pannu ...

To improve the country’s dismal record on maternal mortality, red and blue states alike are extending Medicaid coverage for doulas. But this promising step comes in the shadow of massive federal cuts ...

How prepared is your city to handle a measles outbreak? It’s a question any reporter covering public health should be asking their local officials. The number of measles cases in the U.S. is currently ...

When Heather Muriel Nguyen first identified as non-binary and asexual, it wasn’t just a declaration of identity, it was an act of self-advocacy in a culture where queerness is often silenced. Now a ...

Dr. Eleanor Fleming was nine months into conducting a five-year federally funded study of unconscious bias in dentistry when the government cancelled her grant in April as part of the Trump ...

As drug overdose deaths decline after years of relentlessly rising, the federal government is gutting programs shown to save and stabilize lives. There’s a barrage of news like this.