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The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

A growing body of research suggests that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive decline.

A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, "it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees," a scientist said.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency's money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes.

Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican, pressed Dr. Oz on transgender care and abortion, and now says he will vote for the physician's confirmation to become head of Medicare and Medicaid.

Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions.

The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke in their first news conference since returning to Earth two weeks ago from an unexpectedly long I.S.S. stay that lasted more than nine months.