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A UK Covid inquiry found NHS staff faced PPE shortages and £9.9bn in taxpayer funds were wasted, though investigators found no evidence of corruption in contract awards.
Multiple women describe how endometriosis forced them to leave work or struggle through employment despite severe symptoms, while an ongoing inquiry examines the condition’s workplace impact.
A UK thinktank reports that restoring population health to 2014 levels could increase GDP by 2% and generate £72bn in public finance benefits, as working-age ill health has significantly worsened.
Nearly a quarter of U.S. workers remain in unwanted jobs to retain health benefits, up from 16% in 2021, while research funding delays and health program disenrollments affect millions.
An NHS trust is being investigated for corporate manslaughter following a 2023 triple homicide in Nottingham. The suspect had received psychiatric care from the trust years before the attacks.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed that the US-Israel war on Iran has cost $37.5bn, prompting lawmakers to question the conflict’s objectives and rising expenditures.
A fifth person has died in New York City from legionnaires’ disease traced to cooling towers on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, with 82 confirmed cases and no new diagnoses reported in six days.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed former FTC Chair Lina Khan to lead the city’s Economic Development Board and longtime government official Tony Shorris to head the Economic Development Corporation.
Hundreds of journalists and press freedom groups urge the White House Correspondents’ Association to publicly defend the press against Trump administration attacks at the rescheduled dinner.
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children face losing legal representation after the Trump administration cut funding to legal organizations and accelerated deportation proceedings, advocates warn.