Good morning. It's Tuesday, May 6th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, Israel's plans to take more control of the Gaza Strip,
how Trump's tariffs could impact your favorite movies,
and what to know about tomorrow's Real ID deadline.
But first, attorneys general from 19 Democratic states plus Washington,
D.C. are suing the Trump administration over efforts to overhaul the Department of Health and Human Services.
So far,
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has eliminated 20,000 full-time positions at HHS
and has canceled funding for a number of longstanding research programs that support millions of Americans.
One is the Diabetes Prevention Program,
which has been tracking people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes for three decades,
and it also works to better understand associated diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia.
Around 38 million people in the U.S. have diabetes,
and the CDC estimates that one in five people don't know that they have it.
NBC News health reporter Aria Bendix told us about the impact of canceling this program.
Columbia University was one of the sites participating in the study,
and it handled the bulk of the funding.
So the researchers now say they can't do blood work, brain scans,