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Does Medicare Cover the Shingles Vaccine? 09/09/2025 08:00pm • If you've ever had chickenpox in your childhood, chances are you're likely to develop shingles in the future. While people might assume that shingles -- a painful, blistering rash -- only affects older adults, 1 in 3 adults who have had chickenpox are susceptible to it. Here's what you need to know RFK Jr.'s latest 'Make America Healthy Again' report calls for more scrutiny of vaccines and autism 09/09/2025 07:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed the nation's public health and environmental agencies to prioritize investigations into vaccine injuries, prescription drug use and autism's causes in its latest “Make America Healthy Again” report released Tuesday. The 20-page report, overs Princeton doctoral student kidnapped in Iraq has been freed. 'We both started sobbing,' sister says 09/09/2025 06:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there has been freed and turned over to U.S. authorities, her family and officials said Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days i NHL CBA establishes a $4M annual fund for retired players' health care and wellness 09/09/2025 06:29pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Beyond the noticeable changes in the new NHL collective bargaining agreement like expanding the regular season to 84 games and implementing a playoff salary cap is an investment in caring for former players that has not existed until now. The league and union will contribute $4 mi Man faces federal charge in killing of Ukrainian woman on Charlotte train 09/09/2025 06:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday charged a man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train last month with a federal crime that could carry the death penalty. The federal charge comes amid growing questions about why Decarlos Brown Jr. was Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show 09/09/2025 03:30pm • BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intrica Activist group says a drone hit a Gaza aid boat in Tunisia. Authorities deny claim 09/09/2025 01:02pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An international activist group seeking to deliver aid to Gaza on a flotilla said Tuesday one of its main boats was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia. Tunisian authorities denied the claim, saying they were investigating a life jacket that caught on fire. All onboard wer Will anything stop 'The Studio' and 'Severance' at the Emmys? AP writers make their predictions 09/09/2025 11:41am • Sunday's 77th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive with clear favorites but few sure things. Will the acclaim for “Adolescence” carry it to limited series dominance, or will “The Penguin” complete a run that began with big nomination numbers and continued with a big performance at the Creative Arts McLean Boy Scout troop jumps into action to save leader after collapse on bike trail 09/09/2025 04:28am • A Boy Scouts of America troop leader from McLean, Virginia, says he owes his life to his troop after they saved him during a bike ride on March 30. Laurent Lee, 59, joined a group of Scouts, other leaders and parents for a bike ride in Lorton as part of the Cycling Merit Badge. The first part 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 Med School Multiple Mini Interview: What to Know 09/08/2025 08:00pm • Among the steps to applying for medical school is an interview known as a multiple mini interview, or MMI. This format is commonly used by med schools and other health-related professional programs. The goal of a MMI is to evaluate applicants for qualities that are essential in health care, such as Barry Sanders advocates for people to know their cholesterol numbers a year after his heart attack 09/08/2025 06:46pm • MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Barry Sanders was not motivated by statistics during his Pro Football Hall of Fame career, memorably opting to retire instead of playing one more season to likely break the NFL's all-time rushing record. “It never was a driver for me,” Sanders said Monday in an in Charlotte officials under fire after man with long criminal history kills Ukrainian woman on train 09/08/2025 05:02pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, faced sharp criticism for failing to keep a man with a history of mental illness, arrests and erratic behavior off the streets before he fatally stabbed a young Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train last month, a killing that critics s Hearing postponed on Catherine Hoggle's competency to stand trial in 2014 disappearance of her two children 09/08/2025 03:04pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland, judge ruled Monday to postpone until December a competency hearing for Catherine Hoggle, who's facing murder charges in the 2014 disappearance of her two young children. Judge James Bonifant was to hear arguments on the mental state of Hoggle, 38, but decided to put Another New Hampshire man gets a pig kidney as transplant trials are poised to start 09/08/2025 08:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animals organs really might save human lives. The 54-year-old New Hampshire man is faring well after his June 14 operation, doctors at Ma