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Byline: Paulina Firozi President Trump's optimistic assessment that a coronavirus vaccine will be ready by the end of the year just got doused in cold water by a former top [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi Plastic bags are back -- at least temporarily -- as businesses and consumers shift to single-use plastic products while they worry about the spread of the novel [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE LIGHTBULB Young climate activists have skipped school to demand urgent climate action across the globe. In Portland, Ore., they've pushed for a change inside the classroom [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE LIGHTBULB Martin Luther King III says South Carolina voters concerned about inequality in their communities should consider candidates' climate positions as they head to the polls [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE PROGNOSIS Moderate Democrats are clearly hoping Sen. Bernie Sanders's Medicare-for-all plan proves to be a liability in Saturday's Nevada caucus. And did everything they could at [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi At least one family planning provider is not backing down from a plan to reject federal dollars after the Trump administration said it would delay enforcement of [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi The wildfire smoke has been so bad in the Seattle area in recent years that city officials wanted to give people a respite -- a place to [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE PROGNOSIS Democratic-led states are pushing forward a flurry of bills to expand access to abortions in a rebuttal to Republican states that pushed to severely restrict [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi Ellen DeGeneres's mother says she regrets not believing her daughter when she said she was sexually abused by her stepfather as a teenager. It's the first time [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE LIGHTBULB When Karen Cakebread was forced to evacuate her home in Calistoga, Calif., during the Tubbs fire in 2017 -- and when she lost power at [...]

Byline: Kevin Uhrmacher;Kevin Schaul;Paulina Firozi;Jeff Stein The major Democratic presidential contenders have been vocal about the need to expand health-care coverage for more Americans. But they are split on how, [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE LIGHTBULB State lawmakers from Connecticut to Florida are proposingÃámeasures that some groups say could threaten how science and climate change are taught in the classroom. More [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE PROGNOSIS Drug company executives indicated last week they would be willing to slash their prices if they no longer were forced to pay middlemen the kind [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi THE LIGHTBULB In 1979, Pennsylvania was the site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in U.S. history. The partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE LIGHTBULBSome states aren't waiting around for Congress to pass a Green New Deal to tackle climate change.Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) plans to announce today that he's [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISTen years ago, Congress passed a law requiring insurance companies to cover behavioral health conditions in the same way they covered physical conditions. And there seems to [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISThe fiery debate over fetal tissue research came to Capitol Hill yesterday as Democrats and advocates clashed with Republicans and scientists linked to antiabortion groups pushing for [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISWith less than a month before the midterm elections, endangered Republican lawmakers are mounting a defense against attacks they're trying to dismantle a core element of the [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISIn just over a week, voters in four conservative states will decide whether to expand health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people.Idaho, Utah and Nebraska voters [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISAbortion rights are on the ballot next week, as voters in three states will consider significant measures to restrict or limit access to the procedure in what [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISJust over a month before this year's open enrollment period began for 2019 Obamacare plans, the Trump administration removed an online resource intended to help members of [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISPresident Trump tweeted yesterday that 'all' Republicans support protections for people with preexisting health conditions, adding that he'd work to change the minds of any in his [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of a bill that would have allowed San Francisco to open the nation's first sanctioned safe injection site disappointed advocates and paused [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISWith just over a week now left in the sign-up period for 2019 Obamacare plans, new figures show enrollment is down compared with last year. Overall, sign-ups [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISAs the chorus of medical professionals weighing in on the gun debate grows louder, House Democrats are vowing to push gun legislation and funding for research with [...]

Byline: Paulina FiroziTHE PROGNOSISThe Trump administration is providing states with a roadmap for how they can sidestep parts of the Affordable Care Act in the name of giving more power [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz;Paulina Firozi Endangered Republican candidates are fighting back against the narrative being advanced by Democrats that they are the villains in the battle over who would better manage [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi A civil rights group has filed a lawsuit accusing four D.C. cab companies of discriminating against blind passengers with service dogs. The Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil [...]