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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.

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years apnews.com/article/flu-...

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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NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacec...

NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes

"We’re pulling out all the stops, doing what we can to make sure Voyagers 1 and 2 continue their trailblazing for the maximum time possible.”

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YouTube video by Associated Press Jobs lost in every state and life-saving cures not discovered: The expected impact of research cuts

Hear from several Hopkins researchers about what funding cuts would mean for their work, and for patients:
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Paul Nestadt studies suicide prevention. He says yes, his research takes resources, but "there's few things that are as valuable as human life. And if we're going to be spending money on something, saving lives seems like a pretty clear winner."

Richard Huganir has been studying a gene mutation that causes certain intellectual disabilities. He says he's close to testing treatment in severely affected children. Parents are "desperate. We're running out of time and we're delayed. So that's not a great place to be."

Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America.

With the Trump administration’s crackdown on U.S. biomedical research, it’s not just about scientists losing their jobs or damaging the local economy their work indirectly supports — scientists around the country say it’s about patient health.
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Zelenskyy leaves White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office blowup Zelenskyy's delegation is expected to sign a landmark economic agreement with the U.S. in Washington, aimed at financing the reconstruction of war-damaged Ukraine

The @apnews.com story with context on what happened in the Oval Office today and why it matters: apnews.com/article/zele...

Marcus Edsall-Parr is pictured in the hospital as he gets dialysis treatments. He is using his iPad and wearing headphones. Text reads: "Organ Transplant System 'In Chaos' as Waiting Lists Are Ignored" Photo by Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

For decades, fairness has been the guiding principle of the American organ transplant system. But today, nearly 20% of the time, officials ignore strict rules meant to ensure that donated organs are offered to the patients who need them most, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/3XlqVK1