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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A flurry of new exchange traded funds is widening retail access to the fast-growing markets for private credit and equity, sparking concerns that these assets are a poor fit for small-scale investors and could prove
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare could lose millions of dollars in the latest round of federal funding cuts from the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has canceled over $12 billion in federal grants to states to help fight infectious diseases, provide addiction treatment, mental health services and other
Supporters of LGBTQ+ rights gather in the Capitol of the 2025 Fairness Rally, March 11, 2025. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Sarah Ladd) FRANKFORT — Gov. Andy Beshear is letting a bill that would take 67 transgender inmates off hormone therapy and block public funds for inmates’ elective medical treatments become law — without his signature.
Colorado’s health agencies will lose more than $230 million in federal grants, some of which already had been committed to programs that include crisis response teams and peer support for people recovering from addiction. The Trump administration is pulling back four grants to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment that fund COVID-19 disease
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has also abruptly terminated awards to Massachusetts’s Department of Mental Health. Rhode Island, meanwhile, expects to lose another $31 million in federal grant money, state officials said. New Hampshire officials did not respond to a request for information about how the cuts affected that state. The losses
This is not good: The Trump administration is going about federal civil rights investigations rather unusually, per The Washington Post, and appears to be making tip lists of students they seek to deport or otherwise punish. Generally speaking, federal civil rights probes involve inquiries to the colleges in question as to what type of incidents they encountered, how
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration will lose more than $30 million in federal grants, the majority of which already had been committed to programs including crisis response teams and peer support for people recovering from addiction. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration notified the BHA on Monday
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally. The administration has
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated a Republican attorney who was once accused of mishandling taxpayer funds and has a history of launching investigations against abortion clinics to lead the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. If confirmed by the Senate, Thomas March Bell will oversee fraud, waste and abuse