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Concerns are growing in southern California over a cluster of “exceptionally rare” cancer cases that has sickened multiple children in a suburban community.

Families living in the Orange county neighborhood of Ladera Ranch, home to about 26,000 people, have reported that six children in the community were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, Katrina Foley, the vice-chair of the county board of supervisors, said in a statement.

Ewing sarcoma is a rare cancer that primarily affects bone and soft tissue and is largely seen in young adults and children.

At a community meeting this week, hundreds of residents turned up to voice their concerns, including several who spoke about additional cancer cases in adults and pets. While the American Cancer Society reports there are “no known lifestyle-related or environmental causes” of Ewing sarcoma, many residents believe the cancer cases are linked to the use of herbicides and pesticides.

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More than 400 state lawmakers from all 50 states are demanding an end to attacks on telehealth abortion care.

The lawmakers have signed onto an amicus brief, shared exclusively with HuffPost, that the advocacy organization State Innovation Exchange submitted Wednesday to the Fifth Circuit Court in the Louisiana v. FDA case.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration loosened restrictions around the abortion pill mifepristone, including repealing the in-person dispensing requirement, to ensure people could access the medication without exposing themselves to the virus. Louisiana seeks to reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement and ban access to the medication by mail.

Abortion pills by mail, or telehealth abortion care, has revolutionized access to reproductive healthcare since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022 — accounting for around 30% of all abortions in 2025.

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Donald Trump announced a new package of tariffs on Tuesday, this time on generic drugs made overseas, to begin in 2028.

The announcement, in a social media post, came just three months after the president issued a proclamation saying that generic pharmaceuticals “are not subject to tariffs at this time” but that decision “will be reassessed in one year.”

Trump’s latest head-spinning reversal on tariff policy means, he said, that generic drugs will continue to be imported tariff-free until 1 August 2028, when a 100% tariff would be imposed “for a one year period of time, and 200% thereafter.” The goal of the policy, Trump said, was to coerce drug makers into building plants in the United States.

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A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro's attempt to overturn his contempt of Congress felony conviction.

The unanimous opinion of three judges on the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals marks the latest failure of Trump advisers to unwind legal fallout over their actions around the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.

The decision also leans heavily into Navarro's failures to prove in court that Trump wanted to shield him from congressional testimony.

Navarro was found guilty in 2023 of defying congressional subpoenas related his public claims of plotting to block Congress from certifying Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election. The House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot sought both records Navarro had and his testimony, but he refused.

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One of the strictest abortion bans in the country will be on the ballot this November after Idaho’s secretary of state certified a ballot measure on Monday that would reverse the state’s abortion ban that prohibits the procedure at all stages of pregnancy.

The ballot initiative was headed by a volunteer-run group called Idahoans United for Women & Families, which ran a petition drive to get the measure in front of voters this fall. They gathered more than 100,000 signatures, surpassing the required 70,725 to get on the ballot.

If approved by voters, the measure would create a law for “reproductive freedom”, rather than serve as an amendment to the state constitution.

The change would make Idaho’s law similar to what it was before the supreme court ruled to overturn Roe v Wade in 2022, allowing states to ban abortion. Idaho’s new law would allow abortion until fetal viability, which is generally considered to be after about 21 weeks into a pregnancy. It would also allow people to make their own choices for abortion, contraception and fertility treatment.

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One in four Israelis now engages in harmful substance use as the psychological fallout from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its expanding wars across the Middle East reshapes daily life, according to research cited by Haaretz.

The Israeli Centre for Addiction and Mental Health said substance misuse had risen sharply since October 2023, when Israel launched its war on Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, the rate stood at one in 10 Israelis. It climbed to one in seven during the pandemic before reaching about 25 percent after October 2023.

The centre found that sedative use had increased by 2.5 times, while the consumption of opiates ahttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/one-four-israelis-using-drugs-amid-gaza-genocide-and-regional-warsnd stimulants had almost doubled. Alcohol and cannabis use had also risen.

Among people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the rate of substance misuse now stands at 54.2 percent.

Prof Shauli Lev-Ran, the centre’s founder, told Haaretz that repeated crises had entrenched habits formed during periods of extreme pressure.

“The more stress there is, the more people use,” he said, warning that consumption often continues even after immediate stress levels fall.

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