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College Football Corner: Second half stumbles for Virginia and Virginia Tech, plus a shocker in the swamp 09/07/2025 01:58pm • Dave Preston is an AP Top 25 voter. Read his ballots here. It's easy to break down a football game as a tale of two halves, and sometimes one half looks nothing like the other. Witness what happened in Raleigh and Blacksburg Saturday: Virginia and Virginia Tech each had double-digit leads at Congo has announced a new Ebola outbreak. Here's what to know 09/06/2025 12:55pm • GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo's authorities announced earlier this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, confirmed the presence of the most viru States move to protect vaccines in the face of attempts to remove mandates 09/05/2025 10:34pm • Now that Florida is taking steps to be the first state to get rid of school vaccine mandates, some states are looking at following its lead while others are promising to protect vaccines for children and adults. Florida's announcement Wednesday along with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's at For some, a COVID-19 vaccine means jumping through hoops or hitting the road 09/05/2025 10:05pm • Michelle Newmark has tried — and failed — a couple times to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. First, she was told she needed a prescription. Then she learned that her local CVS drugstore won't have shots for a couple more weeks. The Reston, Virginia, resident was considering a drive to Maryland t Mpox outbreak in Africa is no longer a global health emergency, WHO chief says 09/05/2025 11:50am • GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization no longer considers the mpox outbreak in Africa to be an international health emergency, the U.N. agency's director said Friday. The new form of mpox emerged in early 2024 in Congo and neighboring African countries, spread through close contact includin Veteran politician Anutin Charnvirakul elected Thai prime minister in parliamentary vote 09/05/2025 08:55am • BANGKOK (AP) — Veteran Thai politician Anutin Charnvirakul was elected prime minister on Friday after winning a parliamentary vote, according to an official tally. The leader of the Bhumjaithai party won a total of 311 votes, far exceeding the 247 required majority from the House of Representative Montgomery Co. health officer stresses importance of flu shots for personal, community protection 09/05/2025 05:30am • The Centers for Disease Control is recommending flu shots for everyone 6 months and older as flu season approaches. According to the CDC, the 2025-26 fall and winter season for illnesses like influenza, RSV and COVID-19 starts in October and runs through mid-May. Dr. Kisha Davis, the Montgomer Operation Warp Speed was one of Trump's biggest achievements. Then came RFK Jr. and vaccine skeptics 09/05/2025 12:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, an effort he has credited with saving tens of millions of lives. During a Cabinet meeting last week, he likened it to “one of the greatest achievements ever.” Sitting at the table as The Latest: Trump holds dinner for tech and AI leaders 09/04/2025 10:22pm • President Donald Trump hosted a high-powered group of tech executives at the White House on Thursday as he showcased research on artificial intelligence and boasted of investments that companies are making around the United States. Trump has exulted in the attention from some of the world’s most s New Ebola outbreak in Congo suspected of causing 15 deaths 09/04/2025 08:54pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new Ebola outbreak in Congo is suspected of causing 15 deaths among 28 people with symptoms, the health ministry in the central African country said Thursday. It's the 16th outbreak of Ebola in Congo, and Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said the fatality rate, estimated Takeaways from RFK Jr.'s contentious hearing before Senate lawmakers 09/04/2025 06:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A contentious three-hour hearing between U.S. senators and Robert Kennedy Jr. devolved into multiple screaming matches on Thursday as the nation’s health secretary fended off accusations about sweeping changes he’s made to vaccines, health care policy and leadership. The over FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by RFK Jr. during Senate hearing 09/04/2025 05:12pm • U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made myriad false and misleading claims on Thursday as he fielded questions examining his seven-month tenure leading the nation's health agencies at a contentious three-hour hearing. Kennedy ignored government data, twisted legislation and pointed to unsu Massachusetts state health insurers to be required to cover vaccines, regardless of CDC guidance 09/04/2025 04:57pm • BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts insurance carriers will be required to cover vaccinations recommended by the state’s department of public health, whether or not those vaccines continue to be recommended by the federal government, Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday. The Democratic governor issued a The US will buy 2 million doses of an HIV prevention drug for low-income countries 09/04/2025 04:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is purchasing enough doses of a new twice-a-year HIV prevention shot to share with up to 2 million people in poor countries by 2028, the State Department announced Thursday. Gilead Sciences had already announced it would sell that supply of the protective drug lenacapvir Cat in San Francisco euthanized after latest bird flu infection tied to raw pet food 09/03/2025 10:29pm • Federal health officials are warning that certain lots of raw cat food may be contaminated with H5N1 bird flu after a pet cat in San Francisco that ate the food became infected with the virus and had to be euthanized. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that two lots of RAWR Raw Ca