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The Latest | Sheinbaum appears set to become Mexico's first female president 06/03/2024 03:01am • Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum declared victory in Mexico's presidential election, shortly after electoral authorities said she held an irreversible lead in an official quick count. Sheinbaum appears set to become Mexico's first female president — a major step in a country long marked Doctors see spike in younger women freezing their eggs, putting motherhood on hold 06/03/2024 12:00am • The rush to beat the biological clock is on hold for a growing number of young women. Doctors in the D.C. area have reported a spike in younger women looking to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs. “It's been a huge increase in the number of egg-freezing patients we’re seeing,” Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment 06/02/2024 09:35am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. These are some of the conditions at Israel's only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detai A growing community of breast milk donors in Uganda gives mothers hope 06/02/2024 08:09am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Early last year, Caroline Ikendi was in distress after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to remove a stillborn baby and save two others. Doctors said one of the preterm babies had a 2% chance of living. If the babies didn’t get breast milk — which she didn’t ha Cancer patients often do better with less intensive treatment, new research finds 06/02/2024 08:01am • Scaling back treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without compromising outcomes, doctors reported at the world’s largest cancer conference. It’s part of a long-term trend toward studying whether doing less — less surgery, less chemotherapy or less radiation — Being a patient is getting harder in a strained and complex US health care system 06/02/2024 08:00am • Tamika Davis couldn’t nap on her couch during cancer treatment. She kept worrying one of her toddlers would wander over and pull out the needle delivering chemotherapy. Friends and family watched her kids when they could during her treatment last year for colon cancer. But Davis had gaps with no h US military completes major exercise in Africa and works to deepen partnerships 06/02/2024 07:21am • TAN TAN, Morocco (AP) — High-ranking military officials from the U.S. and its top African allies watched intently as dust and flames shot up from pieces of the Sahara Desert hit by tank and artillery fire. They looked up as pilots flew F-16s into formation. And they listened intently as Moroccan a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer Ron Edmonds dies. His images of Reagan shooting are indelible 06/01/2024 06:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly assigned to cover the Reagan White House, Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds knew the most important part of the job was to keep watch on the president “at all times.” He did that for 28 years. But there was never a day like March 30, 1981. That was when Edmonds, Maxwell strikes out 11 in 2-hitter, Oklahoma beats UCLA 1-0 to reach Women's CWS semifinals 06/01/2024 06:34pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kelly Maxwell delivered the breakout pitching performance Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso had been waiting for. Maxwell threw a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts as the three-time defending national champion Sooners beat UCLA 1-0 on Saturday to reach the Women's College World Series se WHO member countries approve steps to bolster health regulations to better brace for pandemics 06/01/2024 06:08pm • GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said member countries on Saturday approved new steps to improve global preparedness for and response to pandemics like COVID-19 and mpox, and set a new deadline for agreeing on a broader treaty. Countries agreed by consensus to amend the International He Meet the candidates: DC's primary election headlined by several contested council races 06/01/2024 09:29am • D.C. is guaranteed at least one new council member when the dust settles from this election cycle, and there are several other contested council races. In Ward 7, longtime council member and former Mayor Vince Gray is stepping down, and a crowded field has emerged to fill his seat. In Wards 4 Diamondbacks ace Zac Gallen goes on 15-day IL with strained right hamstring 06/01/2024 12:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — Already stuck in a slump, the Arizona Diamondbacks are going to be without their top pitcher for a while. Diamondbacks ace Zac Gallen was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday because of a strained right hamstring, and the defending National League champions recalled right-hande Stars defenseman Chris Tanev active for Game 5 of West final vs. Oilers 05/31/2024 08:41pm • DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Stars defenseman Chris Tanev was active for Game 5 of the Western Conference Final on Friday night after taking a shot off his right foot in the previous game. Coach Pete DeBoer had said at the morning skate Friday he was optimistic Tanev could play. Tanev got hurt in the sec Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney 05/31/2024 06:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, and NYU Langone Health announced that she is stable after Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state's abortion law over medical exceptions 05/31/2024 05:49pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state's restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v