Oct 01 Cavers descend into the ‘Well of Hell,’ new clues about humans’ arrival in North America and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin One in two children in the U.S. have detectable levels of lead in their blood, cavers descend to the bottom of Yemen’s ‘Well of Hell’ for the first time and newly discovered fossil footprints show earlier human arrival in North… Continue reading
Oct 01 Nation’s most restrictive abortion law back in Texas court By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press The Biden administration has called the law unconstitutional and sued Texas last month. It's unclear when the judge will decide whether to put the law on hold. Continue reading
Oct 01 WATCH: Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian By Associated Press They were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch. Continue reading
Oct 01 COVID is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of urbanites By Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News The pandemic is devastating rural America, where lower vaccination rates are compounding the already limited medical care. Continue reading
Oct 01 WATCH: White House says Merck pill is ‘good news,’ vaccine still key By Associated Press The briefing is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET. Continue reading
Oct 01 Merck says experimental pill cuts worst effects of COVID-19 By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press Drugmaker Merck says its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus. Continue reading
Sep 30 Ban on ‘surprise’ medical bills on track for Jan. 1 rollout By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Patients will no longer have to worry about getting a huge bill following a medical crisis if the closest hospital emergency room happened to have been outside their insurance plan's provider network. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 5:18 Only 32% of pregnant Americans are vaccinated, with divide worsening along racial lines The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its most urgent appeal for pregnant individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine. New CDC data shows that pregnant people are twice as likely to be hospitalized due to the virus. Just… Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch 9:32 Mozambicans fleeing IS-affiliated insurgents feel failed by government, exploited by big business By Neha Wadekar, Ali Rogin The Southeast African nation of Mozambique is being terrorized by "Al Shabaab," an ISIS-affiliated insurgency that has killed 3,000 people and displaced many more. With the support of the Pulitzer Center, special correspondent Neha Wadekar and filmmaker Ed Ram report… Continue watching
Sep 30 Military suicides rise 15 percent as senior leaders call for action By Lolita C. Baldor, Robert Burns, Associated Press Data released by the Pentagon showed there were 580 suicides last year, compared to 504 the prior year. Continue reading