Stephens also highlighted the court’s Blake decision. In the landmark ruling in 2021, the state Supreme Court struck down Washington’s law criminalizing drug possession. As a result, convictions under ...

The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out ...

An executive order is in the works that would halt U.S. funding for research that makes viruses that are more virulent or ...

The African Union expressed dismay Wednesday over President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump began his second term Monday with a sweeping order aimed at reversing dozens of former President ...

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is ...

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law ...

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new ...

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and ...

President Biden's pardon protects Anthony Fauci, a longtime target of MAGA critics, from charges related to the contentious ...