Sarah Donald of Pearl, Miss., left, who has been in recovery for nine years, receives naloxone nasal spray from an organizer at the state’s Save a Life Day in September. Overdose awareness is continuing to save lives, but overdoses and deaths have spiked in some areas this year (Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today). Illicit drug overdoses…
The price of health insurance will increase for most Missourians using the ACA marketplace as premiums increase and subsidies expire. (Getty Images) Most individual health insurance plans sold in Missouri will increase in price next year even as customers prepare to dig deeper into their own funds to replace costs previously covered by federal tax…
Boxes of sugary cereal fill a store’s shelves on April 16 in Miami, Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images). WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Boston ruled Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to pause a food assistance program for 42 million people was illegal — but gave the Trump administration until Monday to respond…
A protester holds a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia as demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations on April 24, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland on…
Razor wire follows the banks of the Rio Grande on the Texas side of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2024. The Trump administration now expects about 600,000 total deportations in 2025, fewer than the 685,000 under the Biden administration in fiscal 2024 (Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom). The Trump administration now expects about 600,000 total deportations in 2025,…
Soybeans being loaded from a grain bin onto a truck on June 13, 2018 in Dwight, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images). Soybeans sit in storage, farm bankruptcies are rising, and total farm debt continues to climb. By nearly every measure, American farmers are struggling. Experts say financial pressures are expected to continue mounting. Due to rising…
Images of 7-OH extract, powder, and gummies (left to right) posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration photo gallery (photo courtesy of FDA). The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services issued an advisory Tuesday warning consumers of health risks it says are associated with a product called 7-OH. The name, 7-OH, is short…
Bananas and cereals at a grocery store in Fairfax, Virginia, on March 3, 2011. (USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.) A coalition of Democratic state officials sued the Trump administration Tuesday, asking a federal judge to force the release of food assistance funds for 42 million people that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has said cannot…
Travelers move through Salt Lake International Airport in Salt Lake City on Oct. 16 (Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch). This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Tuesday failed for the 13th time to advance a stopgap spending bill that would fund the government until Nov. 21 and end the nearly one-month…
An emergency room nurse tends to a patient at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Texas. States, counties and nonprofits are striving to continue their work to close racial health disparity gaps but are struggling amid a loss of federal dollars (Brandon Bell/Getty Images). Racial health disparities may widen as states, universities and nonprofits grapple…
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