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View Online  More than one-third of first-time homebuyers had help from their parents: poll © Getty Images By Adam Barnes  More than a third of Americans who have ever owned a home received financial help from their parents and one in ten homeowners said their parents purchased the property for them outright, new polling data shows.  Read the full story here Montana health department says surgery cannot change a person's sex: 'sex is immutable' © Getty Images By Brooke Migdon The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services this week issued an emergency rule stating that transgender Montanans may not amend the sex designation on their birth certificates, even if they undergo gender-affirming surgery. Read the full story here San Diego lawmakers approve resolution for city to become abortion safe haven © The Associated Press/Noah Berger By Shirin Ali The San Diego City Council passed a resolution declaring it a safe city for reproductive freedom and access to abortion. California has doubled down on its commitment to abortion access ever since a leaked draft opinion showed the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.  Read the full story here How concerned should we be about monkeypox? © The Associated Press/CDC By Chia-Yi Hou Monkeypox is a virus found most commonly in mammals like rodents in Africa and can lead to illness in humans if the virus makes the jump. Recently, it has increasingly been detected on other continents. Several cases have been reported in the U.S. this month.  Read the full story here   Feature of the Week: Bipartisan lawmakers target addiction by boosting non-opioid pain management © The Associated Press/Patrick Sison By Joseph Guzman  Tens of millions of Americans are prescribed opioids like hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl each year to treat moderate to severe pain for patients following surgery or injury. But the powerful drugs run the risks of addiction, abuse and overdose. Now advocates and lawmakers are working to pass legislation to slash the number of opioids prescribed.  Read the full story here   Sign up for Changing America email Manage Subscriptions | Sign Up for Other Newsletters | Unsubscribe    Copyright © 1998 - 2022 Nexstar Media Inc. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use   To ensure you receive these emails in the future, please add thehill@email.thehill.com to your address book, contacts or safe senders list.