News for April 4, 2025

Tiny Tots U Learning Academy in Texas is dealing with a measles outbreak among young children as the state’s case count nears 500.

The Trump administration decided not to move forward with a plan to let Medicare and Medicaid cover weight loss drugs.

The Supreme Court let the Trump administration keep blocking millions in federal education grants for now while the legal fight continues.

The Supreme Court let the Trump administration stop Education Department teacher training grants it said conflicted with its anti-DEI policy.

The Trump administration is setting up a new Title IX investigation team to speed up enforcement actions against transgender girls and women in school sports and sex-segregated facilities.

Austin Metcalf’s mother broke her silence after the 17-year-old was fatally stabbed at a Frisco track meet, saying the family is focusing on his funeral and the investigation.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump administration health funding cuts, and Minnesota officials said the ruling helps, but the fight is not over.

Donna Kalil is one of Florida’s top python hunters, and her year-round work shows how the state is trying to cut down invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades.

Senate Republicans, led by John Thune, moved ahead on a budget plan despite party worries about how it would handle Trump’s tax cuts and possible Medicaid cuts.

A Frisco high school student, Austin Metcalf, was fatally stabbed at a track meet, and the accused student said he acted in self-defense.

Catholic priest Fr. Arul Carasala was shot and killed at his parish rectory in Seneca, Kansas, and church officials said the community is grieving his death.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said some Health and Human Services staff fired in a big workforce cut were mistakenly let go and are being asked to return.

The SS United States Conservancy’s historic ocean liner is set to become the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast, while Escambia County and the New York Coalition are tied to a dispute over where — or whether — it should be sunk.

Dr Mehmet Oz has been confirmed by the US Senate to lead the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid.