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U.S. President Donald Trump, Director of the National Institute of Health Jay Bhattacharya, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attend a press conference in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on May 12, 2025.

Government Reform Is it too late for the Trump administration to try something new with the federal workforce?

Elaine Kamarck

May 14, 2025

The patient's entrance at the National Institutes of Health is shown in Bethesda, Maryland, on October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

Public Health The Trump administration’s NIH and FDA cuts will negatively impact patients

Richard G. Frank, Sherry Glied

May 14, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on May 5, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Courts & Law How much will Trump’s second-term judicial appointments shift court balance?

Russell Wheeler

May 12, 2025

A demonstrator holds up an abortion flag outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case on the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2020.

Reproductive Health Care Louisiana raises the stakes in the state abortion wars

Stephanie K. Pell

May 8, 2025

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