World & Nation
President Trump says he thinks a more modern air traffic control computer system could have prevented last week’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter.
President-elect Donald Trump made clear again this week that he’d like the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to come under U.S. control.
A holiday honoring Panamanians killed protesting the U.S. presence there in 1964 takes on added resonance amid Trump’s threats to retake the Panama Canal.
California
Eggs are being confiscated at the U.S. border with Mexico amid a bird flu outbreak that has depleted chicken populations.
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Climate & Environment
A patient who’d been hospitalized after becoming infected with H5N1 bird flu in Louisiana has died.
Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, a report finds.
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if U.S. withdraws support for AIDS program.
Science & Medicine
A new class of over-the-counter probiotic supplements claim to prevent hangovers by reducing gut acetaldehyde. Some scientists are skeptical.
The number of national norovirus outbreaks was the highest seen in December since at least 2012. Experts suggest increased hand-washing to avoid catching the ultra-contagious stomach bug.