Recent News

CBS News’ investigation of a residential youth treatment center points to a larger failure of oversight, incentives and public trust.

NextEra’s $66.8 billion Dominion deal shows that AI is no longer just a software story. It is a power-bill story.

Campaigners are threatening legal action over a UK-US drug-pricing deal they say lets ministers override NICE, exposing how trade politics can creep into health-care cost decisions.

A six-month freeze on new hospice and home-health Medicare enrollments shows the uncomfortable tradeoff between fighting fraud and preserving access in a fragile health system.

Automated license plate readers are moving from crime-fighting tool to political liability as cities confront data-sharing, immigration-enforcement and local-control risks.

The Senate parliamentarian’s ruling against a $1 billion White House security-and-ballroom provision is a small procedural story with a larger accountability lesson.

WHO’s Ebola emergency declaration in Congo and Uganda is a reminder that public-health credibility is built before a crisis, not improvised after one begins.

A Penn Annenberg survey showing broad public concern about AI regulation is a warning that the political fight over artificial intelligence is moving faster than Washington wants to admit.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis commuted Tina Peters’s sentence while saying she broke the law and public trust. The backlash shows how election legitimacy and equal justice now collide in every high-profile case.

Conflicting mammogram recommendations are not just a medical-information problem. They expose a public-health system that asks citizens to trust institutions while those institutions struggle to speak clearly.