( July 16, 2025, 12:31 PM EDT) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The United States filed a notice of appeal to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 15 for the review of a Rhode Island federal district court grant of a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from implementing or enforcing a March 24 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....