During a trip to Poland, Attorney General Pam Bondi helped ensure the expulsion of a suspect charged Wednesday in a deadly car bomb attack on a California fertility clinic, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The May 18 car-bombing of the clinic, which killed the chief suspect, was one of the highest-profile attacks yet by what authorities say is a rising movement of people opposed to in-vitro fertilization clinics.
Colorado became the first state to offer extended paid family leave to parents with infants in the neonatal intensive care units after Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed the policy into law on Friday.
Why it matters: Parents will be able to take up to 12 extra weeks while their infants are in the NICU, where parental engagement has been linked to better developmental outcomes.
The cost of covering a family of four through workplace insurance now exceeds $35,000 — nearly triple what it cost 20 years ago as annual growth in health costs have far outpaced wages.
The big picture: Growing pharmacy and outpatient facility costs drove most of the increase, which includes employee and employer shares,according to the 2025 Milliman Medical Index.
Cities with row homes are among my favorite in the U.S. Looking at you, D.C., Philly and Brooklyn.
The big picture: A key part of those cities is their stoop culture: the art of sitting outside, observing the street scene — and chatting with passersby, who might eventually go from strangers to friends.
Wildfires in Canada have forced thousands of residents to evacuate in three provinces, impacting air quality in the U.S. — and smoke from the deadly fires has even blown across the Atlantic and reached parts of Europe.
The big picture: The fires that killed two people in Manitoba have been hitting air quality across the country and into the U.S. for days, with the latest alerts affecting Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and parts of Michigan on Tuesday.
The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue to allow hormone therapy for transgender inmates, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The big picture: The decision temporarily bars the bureau from enforcing President Trump's executive order that prohibits gender-affirming care for transgender people in federal prisons.
The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded guidance telling health providers who perform abortions in emergency cases that they're protected under federal law even if bans exist in their states.
Why it matters: The directive was issued by the Biden administration to give legal assurances to physicians and other providers facing questions about what qualifies as an emergency under a state ban.
Drug price middlemen are going to court to fight a first-in-the-nation effort to police their ownership of retail pharmacies as more state legislatures and Congress crank up scrutiny of their influence on the cost of medicines.
Why it matters: Large pharmacy benefit managers like CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx are increasingly being blamed for higher drug prices and the outsize role they play in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
