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Sudan's tropical disease spike reflects poor health system 02/09/2023 07:27am • EL OBEID, Sudan (AP) — The two Sudanese women thought they had malaria and were taking their medication, but things took a dire turn. Both complained of a splitting headache and fever that didn’t respond to the anti-malaria treatment. By the time she was diagnosed with dengue fever, Raqiya Abdsa Fairfax Co. to end COVID emergency declaration on March 1 02/08/2023 04:51am • The local emergency declaration that has been in place since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Fairfax County, Virginia, will end in March. The declaration, which allowed the county to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, has been in place since March 2020. The Fairfax County Board of Supervi Transcript: Biden's second State of the Union address 02/07/2023 09:50pm • Transcript of President Joe Biden's second State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery and as provided by the White House: Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Leaders of our military. Mr. Chief Justice, Associate Justi CDC says surge of severe strep in kids was a return to pre-pandemic levels 02/07/2023 05:04pm • Last year's increase in severe strep infections in children amounted only to a return to levels of the disease from before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week, based on early figures from 2022. The new figures come after a health alert publis Food Prices Rise For These 10 Items: Here Are Alternatives to Buy Instead 02/06/2023 07:00pm • It's not your imagination. Food has been getting more expensive at the grocery store. In fact, Americans were spending 10.4% more on food at home in December 2022 as compared to a year earlier, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "We have seen lots of fluctuation ... with f Vaccine litigation lingers after lifting of military mandate 02/06/2023 04:23pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal appeals court judges closely questioned a Biden administration attorney Monday on the consequences military personnel might face for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations, even though Biden's vaccine mandate for military personnel has been rescinded. Lawyers for a group of Navy Kentucky Bourbon Trail attendance reaches record heights 02/06/2023 02:02pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Bourbon tourism reached new heights last year in Kentucky, where visitors flocked to large and small distilleries as the whiskey-making attractions shook off any pandemic-era hangover. Attendance at distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail surpassed 2 million in 2022 for FACT FOCUS: Egg shortage breeds chicken-feed conspiracies 02/05/2023 07:19pm • Social media users claim to have found a new culprit for sky-high egg prices: chicken feed. The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that their hens stopped laying eggs and speculating that common chicken feed products were the cause. Some we 'Died suddenly' posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies 02/04/2023 02:26pm • Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver’s autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine. A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia’s name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emo Today in History: FEB 4, Rosa Parks is born 02/04/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2023. There are 330 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 4, 1783, Britain’s King George III proclaimed a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War. On this date: In 1789, electors chos California won't require COVID vaccine to attend schools 02/03/2023 08:38pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Children in California won't have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation's most populous state. Gov. Gavin Newsom first announced the poli NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 02/03/2023 10:59am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ House GOP did not tell Raskin to remove head cove Chill pervades China's tech firms even as crackdown eases 02/02/2023 11:52pm • HONG KONG (AP) — A grinding crackdown that wiped billions of dollars of value off Chinese technology companies is easing, but the once-freewheeling industry is bracing for much slower growth ahead. Analysts say China’s easing of restrictions on companies like e-commerce giant Alibaba and online Race to vaccinate rare wild monkeys gives hope for survival 02/01/2023 04:05pm • SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — In a small lab nestled in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal’s belly. The next morning, biologist André Anti-Asian hate 'runs the gamut,' racist Yelp reviews show 02/01/2023 03:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As if running a restaurant during a pandemic wasn't tough enough, Christopher Wong also had to contend with a racist troll. “I will not have my dog eat in this place because they might cook him,” read the Yelp review of Wong's eatery, the Curry Up Cafe in suburban Los Angeles