( March 30, 2026, 10:34 AM EDT) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Pursuant to a joint motion of the parties, a Rhode Island federal judge extended until April 10 an existing stay in a lawsuit by several states seeking to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a March 2025 decision that terminated $11 billion in federal financial assistance used by states for public health emergency preparedness and other public health purposes as no longer necessary because the COVID-19 pandemic had ended....