Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

Up to 4 month’s worth of rain may fall in less than a week across part of the central United States, threatening major flooding and endangering lives and property.

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex