A federal proposal would remove Head Start’s national expulsion ban and strict suspension limits.

More than 20 million Medicare Part B enrollees are expected to receive a one-time $90 payment.

Aqua RichJo | September 29, 2026 The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender people in federal prisons while a lawsuit continues. The Justice Department filed the emergency request Monday, September 28. The Court has not ruled on it. The request puts a direct question before the justices: Can the Bureau of Prisons put its new policy into effect now, despite a lower-court order blocking it?

Aqua RichJo | September 29, 2026 The federal government has formally removed the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations and restored the 2020 regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations. The change takes effect today, September 29. The 2024 rule explicitly addressed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; the restored 2020 rule uses a narrower sexual-harassment standard and gives people accused of misconduct additional procedural protectio

Aqua RichJo | September 28, 2026 A school rule can look the same on paper for every student and still produce sharply unequal outcomes. For years, federal civil-rights officials could examine that kind of disparate impact when deciding whether a school policy needed to change. The Trump administration has narrowed that approach, according to an Associated Press review of changes in federal school oversight. In July, the U.S. Department of Education removed disparate-impact pr

Aqua RichJo | September 26, 2026 The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily cleared the way for states to use the federal SAVE database to check voter eligibility while a lawsuit continues. The September 25 emergency order pauses a lower court’s restrictions on the revamped system. It does not finally decide whether the system is lawful, and states are not required to use it. The Court’s three liberal justices dissented. The ruling lands as Texas counties are already processing a

Aqua RichJo | September 25, 2026 Two more major hospital systems have agreed to stop providing specified gender-affirming treatments to minors as part of federal settlements. NYU Langone Hospitals and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will also pay a combined $9.45 million. The Justice Department says at least four other hospital systems have entered similar agreements. The money and the care restrictions are real terms of the latest agreements. The government’s all

Aqua RichJo | September 24, 2026 The federal government says it canceled about 315,000 Affordable Care Act Marketplace enrollments covering more than 760,000 people. Its reason: CMS says the enrollments were unauthorized. The question for patients is immediate: Is my coverage still active? CMS announced the action on September 22, but its fact sheet says the cancellations happened August 31. The agency expects to recover approximately $2.2 billion in premium subsidies tied to