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A look at the history of presidential assassination attempts in America 07/14/2024 04:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates. A look at some of the assassinations and attempted assassin Reagan survived an assassination attempt and his response changed the trajectory of his presidency 07/14/2024 10:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be assassin got off six shots in 1.7 seconds, nearly taking the life of a president and changing the trajectory of a presidency. It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to Doctors pushing to expand access to telemedicine visits for mental health patients 07/14/2024 05:05am • As in-person doctor's visits return to pre-pandemic levels, some virtual medical visits are not dwindling. In fact, some research shows mental health patients prefer visiting health care providers from the comforts of their own homes. More than half those visits, 55% nationwide, are remote, accor Missing Polish coal miner found alive more than two days after an earthquake 07/13/2024 02:13pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A miner who was reported missing after an earthquake shook Poland's Rydultowy coal mine has been found alive more than two days after the accident that killed one of his colleagues and injured another 17, local officials said Saturday. The miner has been airlifted to hospita Pastors see a wariness among Black men to talk abortion politics as Biden works to shore up base 07/13/2024 01:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Phoenix pastor the Rev. Warren H. Stewart Sr. has had countless discussions this election season with fellow Black men on the economy, criminal justice, immigration and other issues dominating the political landscape in their battleground state of Arizona. But never abortion. “ Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96 07/13/2024 12:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was 96. Westheimer died on Friday at her home in New York City, surrounded by her family, according to p Things to know about heat deaths as a dangerously hot summer shapes up in the western US 07/13/2024 06:02am • PHOENIX (AP) — A dangerously hot summer is shaping up in the U.S. West, with heat suspected in dozens of recent deaths, including retirees in Oregon, a motorcyclist in Death Valley, California and a 10-year-old boy who collapsed while hiking with his family on a Phoenix trail. Heat is the top cau Dutch rower makes it to Paris Olympics two years after nearly losing her life in a bicycle crash 07/13/2024 06:00am • Two years ago, doctors were by the hospital bed of Dutch rower Marloes Oldenburg asking if she wanted to donate her organs in case the risky surgery they were about to perform on her didn’t go well. She had just been airlifted to a hospital with her back broken into multiple places following a nas Who is the Buddhist nun who built a global charity from a tiny apartment in rural Taiwan? 07/13/2024 12:24am • HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The Buddhist teacher who founded what is now a global charity and religion with a $283 million operating budget grew up at a time when women could not be ordained as Buddhist nuns. What Cheng Yen, now 87, started in 1966 in Taiwan's countryside as a grassroots effort among h Mental health clinics across the US are helping Latinos bridge language and access barriers 07/13/2024 12:01am • Michelle Mata wasn’t diagnosed with a mental illness until she was 23, after years of suffering. She knew very little about who to ask for help, having grown up in a Latino family in San Antonio that didn’t talk about mental health. At appointments, she was terrified of telling the truth. “I d Former Georgia insurance commissioner sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud 07/12/2024 07:18pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sentenced former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine to serve three-and-a-half years in prison after Oxendine pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones had one question for the 62-year-old Republican, A truce in Congo ends in a week. Aid groups say it could be a lost opportunity to help civilians 07/12/2024 03:47pm • GOMA, Congo (AP) — A two-week truce in eastern Congo has heavily reduced fighting, but with a week left aid workers and local civil society groups say not much help has reached millions of people who are trapped in one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. The two-week humanitarian cease-f Extreme heat and some medicines can be a risky combo. Here's what to know 07/12/2024 02:25pm • Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as insulin that require refrigeration. Inhalers can explode. Epinephrine injectors such as Poland's centrist government suffers defeat in vote on liberalizing abortion law 07/12/2024 01:49pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his centrist coalition government suffered a bitter defeat Friday in parliament, where a slim majority rejected legislation that would have eased the strict anti-abortion law. The vote was 218-215 with two abstentions to reject the l Small Nashville museum wants you to know why it is returning artifacts to Mexico 07/12/2024 01:44pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When Bonnie Seymour took a job as assistant curator of Nashville's Parthenon museum, one of the first things she did was to look through the collections. Among paintings by American artists and memorabilia from Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial Exposition — the event for whic