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4 people have died from eating death cap mushrooms as they spread in California after rains 4 people have died from eating death cap mushrooms as they spread in California after rains 02/06/2026 07:33pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. The California Department of Public Health is urging people to avoid mushroom foraging altogether t Data Doctors: Why Google Photos search feels broken Data Doctors: Why Google Photos search feels broken 02/06/2026 04:55pm • Q: Why is Google Photos AI search so bad and can I turn it off? A: If searching your photos — and especially your videos — feels worse than it used to, you’re not imagining it. Many users can no longer find pictures or clips they know are there, even though the same searches worked perfectl Judge strikes down old Arizona abortion restrictions that clash with voter-backed guarantees Judge strikes down old Arizona abortion restrictions that clash with voter-backed guarantees 02/06/2026 04:46pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, a judge ordered in a ruling released Friday. Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como found that the older laws present unnecessa The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/06/2026 09:43am • The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death’s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the fed Shutdown of Kenya's Koko biofuel firm wipes out clean cooking options 02/06/2026 08:34am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It was designed to be as simple as buying airtime: a quick tap on the dispenser, a few shillings and a cooking canister refilled. Now, more than 3,000 Koko fuel supply points across Kenya sit idle, with no fuel and no clear answers for the households that relied on them. For Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl 02/06/2026 07:09am • Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family. The Associated Press fought for three years for access to Fear in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination 02/06/2026 06:46am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing. Measles vaccination rates among the state's large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes aut Houston doctor indicted on charges he falsified records to block patients' liver transplants 02/05/2026 08:03pm • A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to receive a liver transplant, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr. was indicted by a grand jury in Houston last month on five counts of false stat The Best Exercises to Lower Cholesterol 02/05/2026 07:00pm • Heart disease remains the leading cause of death globally, and many of us are unfortunately at risk of developing it for various reasons, ranging from DNA and diet to sedentary lifestyle. One key culprit in heart disease is cholesterol. Cholesterol is a waxy substance in the blood that's vital for m Civil War scholar and retired Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt dies at 86 02/05/2026 05:44pm • GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has died. He was 86. Boritt had been a professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania for many years, founding the Civil War In Co-workers of different generations mentor each other to reduce workplace misunderstandings Co-workers of different generations mentor each other to reduce workplace misunderstandings 02/05/2026 04:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Goldberg brings a stack of newspapers to the office every day. The CEO of a Florida public relations firm scours stories for developments relevant to her clients while relishing holding the pages in her hand. "I want to touch it, feel it, turn the page and see the photos," High-tech treatment for shoulder conditions at GW Hospital High-tech treatment for shoulder conditions at GW Hospital 02/05/2026 03:31pm • This content was provided by GW Hospital. David M. Lutton, MD, is a board-certified, shoulder and elbow fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon at The George Washington University Hospital (GW Hospital). He specializes in conditions of the upper extremity, specifically shoulder, elbow and sports in Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests 02/05/2026 01:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right. The federally funded study published Thursday by the medical journal JAMA Oncology is being called the first t Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22 Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22 02/05/2026 10:56am • CAIRO (AP) — Famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday as an attack by paramilitary forces on a military hospital in the country's south killed 22 people, including the hospital’s director and three members of its m Organizers say a new civilian-led aid flotilla with over 100 boats will sail to Gaza in March 02/05/2026 10:27am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Organizers of an international flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on Thursday announced plans for another mission with more than 100 boats in March. Campaigners, who organized a similar aid flotilla last year, described the upcoming mission as the biggest civil
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