March 5, 2026 LISTEN: Can’t afford health insurance this year? Don’t be afraid to talk to your doctor about money and the cost of care. On WAMU’s “Health Hub” on March 4, KFF Health News correspondent Sam Whitehead shared tips for people seeking affordable options without skipping care.   Health insurance could be out of…

By Tony Leys March 5, 2026 OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40% of what it spends for caregivers who help him live at home instead of in a nursing home. Sam Walker, 35, has severe autism…

By Arthur Allen and Kate Wells March 5, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS — Gabi has big brown eyes, pigtails, and a genetic condition that makes her bones brittle. They fracture easily, leaving the 2-year-old in such pain that her mother quit her job cleaning offices to stay home and cradle her in the one-bedroom apartment they share…

By Tsvetana Paraskova – Mar 05, 2026, 5:29 AM CST Dozens of Indian and South Korean oil tankers and more than 1,100 crew are currently stranded in and around the Persian Gulf as the critical chokepoint the Strait of Hormuz remains de facto closed to tanker traffic. Read more: Dozens of Asia-Flagged Oil Tankers Stranded…

For a long time, real estate agents have been considered indispensable in the United States for buying and selling houses. They control access to listings, review offers, and manage negotiations. But in the rest of the world, 85% of properties are sold by the owner while only 15% involve agencies. Now America is catching up and technology…

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune March 5, 2026 In May 2020, as a deadly pandemic raged across the world, Steve Toth decided he needed a haircut — and he was willing to go to jail over it. The state representative from The Woodlands, a conservative Houston suburb, went to Tune Up: The Manly Salon,…

By Ayden Runnels and Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune March 4, 2026 Camp East Montana, a hastily constructed immigration detention facility in El Paso currently experiencing a measles outbreak, is in the process of being closed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a report from the Washington Post. A document was distributed to…

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune March 4, 2026 Camp Mystic cannot alter its property by the Guadalupe River where 27 girls and the camp’s executive director died last summer, so that evidence can be preserved while a lawsuit proceeds, a judge in Austin ruled Wednesday. The camp cannot demolish, repair or reconstruct a number…

By Gabby Birenbaum, The Texas Tribune March 4, 2026 U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, admitted Wednesday to having an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide, after initially denying the allegation. Speaking on conservative talk show host Joe Pags’ show the day after he was forced into a runoff in his primary,…

By Apurva Mahajan and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune March 4, 2026 Nearly one in four registered voters in Texas cast a ballot in Tuesday’s primaries, a high-water mark for midterm elections in the state’s recent history, driven by electrifying momentum surrounding both parties’ races for U.S. Senate. In all, nearly 4.5 million Texans voted…