NEW YORK (AP) — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power ...

The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own ...

When we asked readers if the city should declare a public health and safety emergency, the overwhelming majority of ...

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft backed a city councilor’s call to issue an emergency declaration at the Mass and Cass open-air drug market, while calling on Mayor Michelle Wu to explain her ...

Councilor Ed Flynn filed a resolution to declare Mass. and Cass a public health, safety, and humanitarian crisis. Do you agree?

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to analyze federal resources and news articles to illustrate how health crisis declarations work.

The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency Wednesday over an escalating mpox outbreak in Africa, joining the continent’s top public health body—warning the ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

The COVID-19 public health emergency, first declared on January 31, 2020, responded to a rapidly evolving and largely unknown virus sweeping across the globe.

The government officially ended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11. Now that the public health emergency is officially over, how will things change?

After more than three years, the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended. Thanks to vaccines, testing and treatment, we are in a much better place and deaths are at their lowest level since ...