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No TikTok, no Instagram: Chilean school blocks phones and students rediscover real-world connections 09/12/2025 01:08am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volleyball, basketball, ping pong, dancing rehearsals or simple chats. Dozens of teens are rediscovering how to reconnect to the real world after a school in Santiago, Chile, implemented a pioneering program in the country that blocks cell phones signals. Now, instead of com Va. Department of Health issues order to ease COVID-19 vaccine access, as federal guidance shifts 09/11/2025 02:57pm • In recent days, residents of Virginia and other states began to need a prescription from their primary care provider in order to get a COVID vaccine, a change prompted by shifting federal requirements. An order the Virginia Department of Health issued Wednesday now makes it easier for eligible Virgi Americans still give awards shows consideration, a new AP-NORC poll finds 09/11/2025 09:16am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many Americans still want to thank the academy, at least a little. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve watched all or most of an awards show on TV or streaming in the past year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, while CDC finds 4% drop in US death rate in 2024. Experts say decline may be due to COVID 09/10/2025 07:40am • (NEW YORK) -- The United States death rate decreased by 3.8% in 2024 as COVID fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death for the first time in four years, new provisional federal data shows. The overall rate declined from 750.5 per 100,000 people in 2023 to 722 per 100,000, according to the r Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, a new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds 09/09/2025 10:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support. However, just over half also think the government spends too little on those in need, the new poll from the University Virginia families face hurdles getting updated COVID-19 vaccine amid prescription confusion 09/08/2025 08:35pm • Virginia families are hitting roadblocks while getting the new COVID-19 vaccine, as shifting federal rules spark confusion over pharmacy prescription requirements. According to the Virginia Department of Health, pharmacists can give vaccines in two ways: with a prescription from a medical provid Orioles and Cal Ripken Jr. celebrate the 30th anniversary of when he broke Lou Gehrig's record 09/06/2025 11:50pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Cal Ripken Jr. had some help for his lap around Camden Yards this time. The Hall of Fame shortstop sat atop a red convertible while riding from the right-field corner across the outfield warning track and eventually down to home plate. The Orioles were celebrating the 30th anniver Venice Film Festival, by the numbers: From standing ovations to Campari spritzes 09/06/2025 04:59pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) — After 10 days and dozens of red carpet premieres, the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival came to a close Saturday. While cinema is focused on the qualitative, a quantitative look can tell a story of its own. There are, after all, plenty of fascinating figures — beyond How romance and a road trip led to the purchase of the world's oldest drive-in theater 09/06/2025 08:32am • OREFIELD, Pa. (AP) — In a romance and adventure worthy of the big screen, a Pennsylvania couple is preserving the past and forging a future as the owners of the world’s oldest operating drive-in movie theater. Lauren McChesney got more than admission to a double feature when she handed her ticke For some, a COVID-19 vaccine means jumping through hoops or hitting the road 09/05/2025 10:05pm • Michelle Newmark has tried — and failed — a couple times to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. First, she was told she needed a prescription. Then she learned that her local CVS drugstore won't have shots for a couple more weeks. The Reston, Virginia, resident was considering a drive to Maryland t Facing stiff competition, remote workers up their game 09/04/2025 04:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When Kate Smith worked a 9-to-5 office job, she was burned-out, suffering from daily migraines and thinking, “I can't do this for the rest of my life.” She didn't have to. For her next role, Smith landed a remote, full-time marketing job that enabled her to travel the world. H Washington, Oregon and California governors form alliance in rebuke of Trump administration 09/03/2025 06:02pm • SEATTLE (AP) — The Democratic governors of Washington state, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they have created an alliance to establish their own recommendations for who should receive vaccines because they believe the Trump administration is putting Americans' health at risk by pol With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work 08/29/2025 04:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The CDC is in chaos and some groups are starting to step in and take over work the agency was doing. The moves come in response to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s extensive — and some say illegal — restructuring and downsizing of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease C The Latest: RFK Jr. adviser will serve as acting CDC leader after director’s firing, AP source says 08/28/2025 07:14pm • Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss a personnel change that has not been formally announced. The director of What polling shows about Trump's pivot from immigration to crime 08/28/2025 01:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington and other big cities came as views of his handling of immigration — the early focus of his second term — had been souring, a new analysis by The Associated Press shows. Trump's approach to crime is now a clear str