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Trump's vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

President Donald Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.

Lindsay Clancy trial turns focus to medications prescribed before she killed her children

By Michael Casey, Associated Press

Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some…

How a catering truck helped Trump secretly switch planes amid threat from Iran

By Nick Schifrin, Eliot Barnhart

Correction: In this segment, we misstated the year Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed. We should have said 2020, as the on-screen graphic indicated. We regret the error. The News Hour has confirmed the Washington Post's reporting on extraordinary, secret…

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Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has claimed 2,000 lives. Here's why it is hard to contain

By Cara Anna, Monika Pronczuk, Associated Press

Congo’s health authorities report 4,381 confirmed cases, including 2,011 deaths. This outbreak is spreading almost three times faster than the 2014-16 outbreak in West Africa, the deadliest in history.

Taylor Farms recalls several jalapeño products over salmonella concerns

By Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

Guacamole, pico de gallo and taco dip are some of the prepared foods included in the recall. The announcement comes a few weeks after Taylor Farms voluntarily recalled its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to…

This Medicare Part D subsidy is expiring. We answered your questions

By Hannah Grabenstein, Jiaya Echevarria

The Trump administration’s move to discontinue the subsidy is raising concerns among Medicare Part D enrollees about how much they’ll pay for coverage.

Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak started month before it was declared, WHO says

By Constant Same Bagalwa, Mark Banchereau, Associated Press

The World Health Organization says the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak started in February, months before it was officially declared in May.

Climate change may be making us lonelier. How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections

By Fiona Doherty, The Conversation

As extreme weather becomes more common and disruptive, the effects can impair relationships, interrupt routines and communication, and damage gathering places and the foundations of community traditions.

Health officials urge caution for Gulf Coast beachgoers during surge of deadly bacterial infections

By Associated Press

Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections this year, the state's health department said last week in a news release. All were hospitalized, and five died.