Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

On an October night, Abraham Davis agreed to drive a friend to a mosque. His friend drew swastikas and curses on the mosque’s windows and doors while Abraham stood watch in the driveway.

It was a week of turmoil, but it seemed to prove an immutable rule of this presidency: People see what they want, even if others see something very different.

Trump’s immigration policy may be setting off protests in the U.S. and raising objections among allies abroad. But at home, a broad swath of the electorate is behind the president.

Increasingly, Americans live in alternate worlds, with different laws of gravity, languages and truths. Politics is raw, more about who you are than what you believe.

Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women.

he Food and Drug Administration stepped into the politics of abortion Wednesday, relaxing the requirements for taking a medication that induces abortion, a move that is expected to expand access to the procedure.

In an effort to curb what many consider the worst public health drug crisis in decades, the federal government Tuesday published the first national standards for prescription painkillers, ending months of arguments with pain doctors and drug industry groups and beginning what officials contended would be more judicious prescribing of the highly addictive medicines.

In an effort to curb what many consider the worst public health drug crisis in decades, the federal government on Tuesday published the first national standards for prescription painkillers, recommending that doctors try ibuprofen and aspirin before prescribing the highly-addictive pills, and that they give most patients only a few days’ supply.

If confirmed, the unexpectedly high number would have major implications for controlling the virus. The CDC said the reports involved transmission from male travelers to female partners in the United States.

Experts have long known that rich people generally live longer than poor people. But a growing body of data shows a more disturbing pattern.

The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency Monday, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak and gives countries powerful new tools to fight it.

Officials from the World Health Organization said Thursday that the Zika virus was “spreading explosively” in the Americas and announced they would decide next week whether to declare a public health emergency.

For decades, medical researchers saw indoor tanning as little more than a curiosity. But evidence has been gathering that tanning beds may play more of a role in the nation’s cancer numbers.

Experts say they do not know whether efforts to prevent diabetes have finally started to work, or if the disease has simply peaked in the population. But they say the shift tracks with the nascent progress that has been reported recently in the health of Americans.

Cancer researchers say there has been a substantial increase in women under the age of 26 who have received a diagnosis of early-stage cervical cancer, a pattern that they say is most likely an effect of the Affordable Care Act.