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Mother-to-be (d3sign via Getty Images)

Ectopic pregnancy deaths nearly doubled

Andrea Suozzo, Agnel Philip - ProPublica
A volunteer grabs a gallon of water at a water and food distribution drive held by College Hill Baptist Church and the World Central kitchen on March 07, 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. Residents in parts of Jackson, Mississippi, where 80% of the residents are Black, have been without running water since mid-February after the city was hit by back-to-back winter storms. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Lying about clean water will backfire

Troy Farah
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Silicon Valley's warnings of A.I.-induced doom (Getty Images)

If AI kills us, don't blame the machine

Alex Galbraith
Doctor applies bandage to preteen girl's arm following an immunization (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

Health misinfo at school

Barbara Rodriguez - The 19th
Workers clear debris at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, mid-to-late September 2001. (Peter Turnley/Getty Images)

America keeps abandoning its heroes

Bob Hennelly
SHANGHAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 06 2026: A man checks the "Equal Earth" map projection on a screen in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. The United Nations General Assembly recently endorsed the non-binding resolution to promote the projection, which aims to correct geographical distortions caused by the traditional Mercator map.

Our world map is wrong. MAGA likes it

Troy Farah
President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are promoting a health agenda with less vaccines. The reality of those goals are catching up as previously preventable diseases like measles are spreading fast throughout the U.S. (Jim WATSON / Getty Images)

Measles death undercuts RFK Jr.’s doubts

CK Smith
Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Alito is complicit in climate disaster

Troy Farah
A doctor in medical protective gloves takes a vaccine from a glass ampoule into a syringe. (Aleksandr Zubkov / Getty Images)

New guidance on fall vaccines

Troy Farah
Brad Reinhart, Senior Hurricane Specialist, tracks Tropical Storm Arthur at the National Hurricane Center on June 17, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Will Hurricane Dolly hit Mar-a-Lago?

Troy Farah
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a hearing with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senator calls for probe of RFK's lies

Troy Farah
A bike rider is pictured as an excessive heat warning remains in effect a day after record-breaking temperatures from a historic heatwave throughout the region in Seattle, Washington on June 29, 2021. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Real men don't bike? Nonsense

Jessica Kutz - The 19th
An excavator plows through land during construction for a section of border wall near Santa Elena Canyon on August 14, 2026 in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Contractors have begun construction of the Trump administration’s 30-foot southern border wall through Big Bend National Park. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas GOP cornered by Big Bend backlash

Alejandro Serrano, Gabby Birenbaum - The Texas Tribune
An AI chatbot responding to a query about abortion clinics with information about a crisis pregnancy center instead. (Illustration by Salon)

AI’s abortion misinformation problem

Nicole Karlis
Republican senator and physician Bill Cassidy has been a long-time advocate for vaccines despite the current administration's recent moves to restructure the childhood vaccine schedule. (Maxine Wallace / Getty Images)

Cassidy splits with Trump over vaccines

CK Smith
Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette spoke with Katie Miller, conservative podcaster and wife of Senior Trump Adviser Stephen Miller, as part of a series of behind-the-scenes conversations from the Trump Cabinet. (Nathan Howard-Pool / Getty Images)

Marco Rubio opts for Pop-Tarts over MAHA

CK Smith
President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The gospel of science denial

Heather Digby Parton
(bluestocking via Getty Images)

US life expectancy isn't what it seems

Nicole Karlis
Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fauci is an easy scapegoat

Troy Farah
Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. (Image Credit: NASA)

SpaceX’s rocket trashes the moon

Troy Farah
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks at a fireside chat in the National Press Building on February 02, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Trump admin weaponizes imagined fraud

Ben Zdencanovic - The Conversation
A Virgin Mary statue remains untouched in front of a burned out residential home in the Balboa neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, on August 2, 2026. Fast-moving fires left a trail of destruction in the northwestern US city of Spokane on Sunday, with officials reporting hundreds of structures reduced to cinders. (Photo by Erick Doxey / AFP via Getty Images)

Spokane wildfires are a warning

Troy Farah
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeing a spike in measles under his tenure, but refuses to admit his anti-vaccine stance is the cause. He instead blames the media for spreading such misinformation. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Dana Bash grills RFK Jr. over vaccines

CK Smith
Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

We're still living in 2020

Heather Digby Parton
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