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How DC used less than a quarter-million dollars to clear $42M of debt for residents 08/30/2024 12:06pm • If you could spend $1 to help someone else pay off almost $200 of medical debt, would you? If you pay taxes in D.C., you've done just that. The District is using a $225,000 surplus from last year’s budget to buy out around $42 million in medical debt being held by some of the city's lowest inco Patients will suffer with bankrupt health care firm's closure of Massachusetts hospitals, staff say 08/30/2024 11:06am • AYER, Mass. (AP) — When Christina Hernon was 5, her throat swelled shut from an infection and her mother rushed her to a local Massachusetts hospital in the dead of night. She couldn't breathe, suffered a seizure and was near death when a doctor saved her by inserting a tube down her throat. Herno When the US left Kabul, these Americans tried to help Afghans left behind. It still haunts them 08/30/2024 09:49am • The United States' longest war is over. But not for everyone. Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide medical assistance to people in Afghanistan via video calls. He has helped Afghan families with their day-to-day living expenses. Yet he remains haunted by the people he could Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly 08/30/2024 09:44am • Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion on a sunny Aug Takeaways from AP report on perils of heatstroke for runners in a warming world 08/30/2024 09:43am • As climate change reshapes the way humans live outdoors, it's affecting the way they play, too. That includes runners, who may find themselves in harm's way on a warming planet. They pursue a sport that esteems grit and suffering in pursuit of improvement. Experts told The Associated Press that can Poland eases abortion access with new guidelines for doctors under a restrictive law 08/30/2024 08:06am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Seeking to ease access to abortion for women needing to end a pregnancy for health reasons, Poland's government is issuing guidelines to doctors Friday that reaffirm the legality of such procedures, based on medical recommendations. Under the current law, abortions for health North Carolina QB Max Johnson taken to hospital, after 3rd quarter leg injury at Minnesota 08/30/2024 01:51am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — North Carolina quarterback Max Johnson was taken to a hospital for further examination after an injury to his right leg in the season opener at Minnesota forced him out of the game in the third quarter of his debut with the Tar Heels on Thursday night. Johnson, the son of former The Latest: Trump campaigns in Michigan, Wisconsin; Harris sit down for interview with CNN 08/29/2024 09:55pm • Former President Donald Trump is campaigning Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin as he ramps up battleground state travel heading into the traditional Labor Day turn toward the fall election. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sat down Thursday for 7 Best Monthly Dividend Stocks to Buy Today 08/29/2024 08:00pm • Income-oriented equity investors know that most stocks that pay regular dividends distribute those dividends quarterly. There are, however, about 80 companies that pay monthly. For retired people or others who depend on investment income for monthly expenses, there are several distinct advantages to 49ers' Brandon Aiyuk ends contract dispute, agrees to 4-year, $120M deal, AP sources say 08/29/2024 07:59pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Aiyuk's long contract dispute with San Francisco came to an end Thursday when the star receiver agreed on a four-year, $120 million contract extension to stay with the 49ers. Two people familiar with the deal says the sides came to the agreement Thursday after Ai Great Britain para archer Jodie Grinham balances competition, motherhood and pregnancy 08/29/2024 04:35pm • PARIS (AP) — Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham returned to the Paralympic stage Thursday for the first time since Rio 2016, this time seven months pregnant. Grinham wrapped up her first competition this morning in the women’s individual compound open. She finished fourth and scored a personal best 11th Circuit allows Alabama to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for minors 08/29/2024 04:18pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A divided federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision allowing Alabama to enforce its ban on treating transgender minors with puberty blockers and hormones. In a decision released Wednesday night, a majority of judges on the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals decline Justice Department watchdog finds failures in FBI's handling of child sex abuse cases 08/29/2024 04:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has failed to report some child sexual abuse allegations to local law enforcement or social service agencies even after changes prompted by its handling of the case against former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, according to a Justice Department watchdog report r Judge says ex-Boston Celtics' Glen 'Big Baby' Davis can delay prison to finish film 08/29/2024 04:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A film project has earned former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis a temporary reprieve from the start of his three-year prison term for a fraud conviction in Manhattan federal court. Judge Valerie E. Caproni on Wednesday said Davis can wait until Oct. 22 to start se A baby in Gaza has a strain of polio linked to mistakes in eradication campaign, experts say 08/29/2024 02:51pm • LONDON (AP) — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of “an unqualified failure” of public health policy. The infection, which marked