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Your phone rings, and it's a number from Sweden. Do you answer? A Nobel Prize winner didn't This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks.

Everyone but Fred Ramsdell seemed to know he had just won the Nobel Prize.

Ramsdell was away on a backpacking trip Monday -- and kept his cellphone in airplane mode as he often does on family trips.

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Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way Naples, Florida, used to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

Retired accountant is hitting a high note: He's joined Louisiana State University's marching band At 66 years old, Kent Broussard, is the oldest member of the Louisiana State University marching band.

The 66-year-old LSU freshman, is now the marching band’s oldest member ever and proof that it is never too late to chase your dream.

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US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

An AP investigation finds that Silicon Valley companies sold surveillance technology to Chinese police and security contractors, ignoring warnings that the tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.

Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov.

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion.

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Their Last Love Token: A Dinosaur Rebuilt From Its Excavated Bones

A final token of love: a dinosaur.

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YouTube video by Associated Press Fireflies are lighting up summer skies, but are still on the decline

Some New Yorkers have been seeing more fireflies this summer than usual.

But these summertime bugs are still on the decline overall.

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Can The Washington Post’s TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post?

scoop: @davejorgenson, one of the breakout stars of the Marty Baron era of The Post, is leaving to start his own company with two Post alums

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RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raved in social media posts on Monday about the $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.

The meals contain chemical additives that make them impossible to recreate at home, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at NYU and food policy expert who reviewed the menu for The AP. She said many menu items are high in sodium, and some are high in sugar or saturated fats.

YouTube video by Associated Press Preventable diseases: Mom who lost her child to whooping cough wants to spare others

Katie tried for years to have a baby, welcoming Callie on Christmas Eve. But after a month, she began to cough.

"I'm still getting cards saying welcome baby. And she's gone." www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJKa...

YouTube video by Associated Press A mother describes damage done by rubella as preventable diseases make a comeback

Jacque was born with congenital rubella syndrome. There was no vaccine against rubella back then, and her mother Janith contracted the viral illness very early in the pregnancy. She has helped shepherd her daughter, Jacque, through life for decades www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhH2...

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families apnews.com/article/vacc...

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week. Their agenda suggests they’ll skip some expected topics, including a vote on COVID-19 shots.

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists apnews.com/article/acip...

Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may eventually help better forecast an underappreciated weat...

Forecasting hail is difficult. A team of researchers chased hail across the Great Plains to better forecast an underappreciated hazard that causes about $10 billion a year in damage in the U.S. From @borenbears.bsky.social @brittanykpeters.bsky.social

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Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.

Ousted CDC vaccine adviser says RFK Jr.'s message is clear: ‘Scientific expertise is no longer of use’ Terminated CDC vaccine adviser Helen Chu spoke with STAT about her fears for the future of vaccine policy

Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...

His family is "hoping fiercely that Dial lives long enough to see his beloved Pacers win an NBA title for the first time in history. Even if it is from a hospital bed."

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.

Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.

Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...

"Newtok’s relocation was supposed to provide a model for dozens of Alaskan communities that will need to move in the coming decades."

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago.

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The push alerts of the first 100 days of the Trump administration | AP News

The Associated Press has moved hundreds of news alerts since President Donald Trump took office for a second time. We used them to tell the often-dizzying story of what Trump did, how some people and courts pushed back and the world's reaction.

Pope Francis bestowed a special nickname on AP's Vatican reporter for her often-tough questions Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the nickname “la prima della classe” -- or “the first in class” -- from him in ...

“You were the one on the plane who told me, ‘No, that’s not the way it is, Father,’” the pope told her

“The government offers no other plausible explanation for its treatment of the AP,” the judge wrote. “The Constitution forbids viewpoint discrimination, even in a nonpublic forum like the Oval Office.”

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.

Today's HHS layoffs include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues. #medsky #healthpolicysky apnews.com/article/heal...

Top US Drug, Tobacco Regulators Cut as RFK Jr. Reshapes Health Agency First came Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ouster of a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services’ vaccine division. Then, the HHS chief axed the people overseeing new drug reviews and tobacc...

NEW: The entire CDC #FOIA office — nearly two dozen people — received RIF notices. FOIA personnel at FDA and NIH were also dismissed. The CDC has seen a massive uptick in FOIA requests this year. It’s the second busiest year since Covid.
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Opinion | The AP’s Freedom of Speech—and Yours A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.

"Imagine this dispute outside the U.S. context. If you discovered that the AP caved to a different government trying to control its speech, would you ever again trust anything the AP reported from that country—or for that matter, from anywhere?"  - Julie Pace in @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis | FULL DOCUMENTARY “Before a Breath” follows three mothers who have lost children to stillbirth and are striving to make pregnancy safer. Every year, more than 20,000 pregnanci...

“Before a Breath,” our documentary on America’s stillbirth crisis, is available to stream now.

Join director @nadiasussman.bsky.social and reporter/producer @deldeib.bsky.social in the live chat of our YouTube premiere:

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer's symptoms. Now they have to prove it An experimental treatment appears to postpone Alzheimer's symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease at a young age.

For one family this Alzheimer’s prevention trial 'is life.'

Jake's father and brother died from Alzheimer's in their 40s and 50s--and he has the gene as well. After years in a prevention study, he hasn't had any symptoms.

Funding for this study though is in jeopardy.
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