A federal judge on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop discouraging the use of words like “Black” and “disability” in grant applications, the Associated Press reported. The order also blocked the agency from laying off more federal employees from the Office of Head Start.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are being sued again for eliminating $11 billion in grants for disease outbreak prevention programs, this time with a newfound surge in measles cases as the backdrop.

The Department of Health and Human Services is terminating a National Institutes of Health grant program that supports students from marginalized backgrounds in the biomedical sciences. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the elimination of the ...

State officials learned in mid-December that multiple employees had either backdated or created documentation in a multimillion-dollar grant program.