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Thailand's Parliament to vote Friday for a new prime minister as top contender gets opposition's nod 09/03/2025 01:09pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's main opposition party agreed on Wednesday to support a rival party's leader to be the next prime minister, in what appears to a move towards resolving the country's political crisis. The Southeast Asian country has been under a caretaker government since last week. The b Why getting a COVID-19 vaccine is more complicated 08/29/2025 05:19pm • Will you get a COVID-19 vaccine? That has become a complicated question for many people. The answer may depend on your age, insurance coverage, health and finding a health care professional who will give you the shot. A once-straightforward seasonal vaccine process has become muddled this year becau The Latest: Trump effort to control US capital expands to Union Station 08/27/2025 10:02pm • As President Donald Trump asserts his power to control the nation’s capital, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department will manage Union Station, taking control away from Amtrak. Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, now the face of Trump’s hardline immigration agen FDA approves updated COVID-19 shots with limits for some kids and adults 08/27/2025 06:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — and removed one of the two vaccines available for young children. The new shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are approved for all seniors. But the Food and Drug Administrati Wimbledon champions Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek get off to good starts at the US Open 08/27/2025 12:57am • NEW YORK (AP) — Iga Swiatek is trying to do something no woman has done since Serena Williams in 2012: win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon in the same season. Jannik Sinner is trying to do something no man has done since Roger Federer in 2008: repeat as U.S. Open champion. By the looks of things on Tu Fox tests positive for rabies in Alexandria 08/24/2025 09:12am • Health officials in Alexandria, Virginia, have issued a rabies alert after a fox in the Del Ray–Rosemont area tested positive for the virus. The fox apparently had contact with a domestic cat near a home Tuesday. The Alexandria Health Department said the fox is now dead. The health department South Africa's most vulnerable struggle to find HIV medication after US aid cuts 08/23/2025 10:13pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — On a warm evening in Johannesburg, the news spread like wildfire among sex workers: Within 24 hours, several nonprofit clinics providing free HIV services would be closing as President Donald Trump announced the United States was slashing foreign aid. Some South Africans living North Carolina Supreme Court says bars' COVID-19 lawsuits can continue 08/22/2025 05:56pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court issued favorable rulings Friday for bars and their operators in litigation seeking monetary compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions first issued by then-Gov. Roy Cooper that shuttered their doors and, in their view, treated them u Maryland health department confirms 1st human case of West Nile virus this year 08/22/2025 05:29pm • The Maryland Department of Health said Friday that an adult living in central Maryland has tested positive for West Nile virus, which is the first confirmed human case in the state so far this year. The patient is currently recovering from the infection. The health department did not confirm whic Court orders stray dogs in New Delhi released, easing its order to move them all to shelters 08/22/2025 06:28am • NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court ordered the release of all stray dogs that were removed from New Delhi streets after sterilization and immunization following an increase in the number of people who were bitten by dogs. The court’s ruling Friday modified its earlier judgment by ordering DC Health urges residents to take precautions after several birds test positive for West Nile virus 08/20/2025 08:58pm • Health officials in D.C. are urging residents across the city to take precaution after four birds in four different neighborhoods tested positive for West Nile virus last month. D.C. Health said a partner agency, City Wildlife, tested four American crows and the results came back positive. Th Editorial Roundup: United States 08/18/2025 02:25pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Aug. 14 The New York Times says shrinking crime rate is encouraging America is in the midst of a historic decline in crime. In 2023, murders fell 10 percent, which was then the largest annual drop since reliable records began in 19 Texas declares measles outbreak over 08/18/2025 02:12pm • The Texas measles outbreak that sickened 762 people since late January is over, state health officials said Monday. It's been more than 42 days since the last new case was confirmed, meeting the threshold public health officials use to declare measles outbreaks over. The last person to have an outbr Hundreds may have been exposed to rabies at bat-infested cabins in Grand Teton National Park 08/15/2025 06:30pm • Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park over the past few months. As of Friday, none of the bats found in some of the eight linked cabins at Ja Got the sniffles? Here's what to know about summer colds and the COVID-19 variant called stratus 08/15/2025 05:07pm • Summer heat, outdoor fun ... and cold and flu symptoms? The three may not go together in many people's minds: partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have lower activity levels in the summer. But it is possible to get the sniffles — or worse — in the s