Puberty Blockers Aren't Curing Gender Dysphoria. They're Manufacturing It. By Dr. Julia Mason The Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed regulations that would effectively ban hospitals from using puberty blockers on children, citing research that the drugs can cause irreversible ...
By Suzanne Potter This week, dozens of health care advocates rallied in Sacramento, asking lawmakers to find ways to shield Californians from massive federal cuts to Medi-Cal. Republicans in Congress passed a huge budget bill called House Resolution 1 last summer, which cut $1 trillion from Medicai...
What If Diet Could Help Treat Depression? New Research Shows Promise By Jeff Volek, PhD Depression among college students has reached crisis levels. Nearly half of U.S. college students report symptoms of depression, and about 15% say they've considered suicide. One-fifth take prescription antidepre...
Image: Lead singer, Simon Le Bon Duran Duran at the Acrisure Arena Story and Photos by Pat Krause It was another amazing night at Acrisure Arena when Duran Duran took the stage on Tuesday night, the 30th. The arena holds about 11,000 seats for concerts, and I didn’t see a single empty one. Duran Dur...
DLNews Politics: U.S. Territorial Interests and Imperialism Concerns: A Balanced Assessment Recent U.S. expressions of interest in greater influence or control over territories such as Greenland, Venezuela, Canada, the Panama Canal, and others have sparked debate about whether these actions reflect ...
DLNews Politics: Funding the Proposed $1.5 Trillion U.S. Military Budget: Mechanisms and Trade-Offs President Trump's January 7, 2026, proposal to raise the U.S. military budget to $1.5 trillion for fiscal year 2027 represents a substantial increase from the current baseline of approximately $900 bi...
DLNews Politics: Trump's Proposed $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget: A Global Arms Race in Context In a bold announcement on Truth Social on January 7, 2026, President Donald Trump called for a dramatic escalation in U.S. military spending, proposing a $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027. This figu...
DLNews Guest Column: By Claudia Boyd-Barrett for KFF Health News. Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration In July, federal immigration agents took Milagro Solis-Portillo to Glendale Memorial Hospital just out...
The war on saturated fat was never based on good science By Nina Teicholz For over half a century, Americans have been urged to shy away from saturated fats, found mainly in animal products. Paradoxically, decades of adherence to this advice have coincided with rising levels of chronic disease. Put ...
DLNews Biz: When Social Media Meets the Sun: Inside Trump Media’s Fusion Gamble Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, startled markets this week with an announcement few analysts had on their bingo cards: a proposed all-stock merger with nuclear fusion developer TAE T...
DLNews Family & Home As countries test new rules and parents raise concerns, societies grapple with how to balance protection, access, and free expression. The debate over children and social media has reached a turning point. What once sounded like a niche concern of anxious parents or tech skeptic...
JTFMax Satire: When Hollywood Buys the Newsroom Let’s begin with the money, because nothing in media moves without dollar signs doing the tango. Netflix has a signed deal to scoop up most of Warner Bros. — the studios, HBO, the streaming platforms, all the scripted glam — for about $82.7 billion. Th...
