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Sabi Bera Zakari, center, and his wife Aboudou Salamatou, right, carrying her child Oumarou Zakari outside their house in N'dali, northern Benin, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

In Benin, malnutrition and misinformed views contribute to widespread stunting in children

12:04 AM on Friday, August 21

In Benin, stunting affects a third of children under 5 due to malnutrition, despite abundant resources

FILE - A microbiologist points out an isolated E. coli growth on an agar plate at the Washington State Department of Health, Nov. 3, 2015, in Shoreline, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Alfalfa sprouts linked to food poisoning illnesses in Minnesota and Wisconsin

4:20 PM on Thursday, August 20

Minnesota health officials are warning against eating certain alfalfa sprouts linked to a rare outbreak involving multiple bacteria

Aimee Breault of Acushnet, Mass., live-streams a demonstration in support of Lindsay Clancy outside Plymouth Superior Court, where Clancy is on trial in connection with the deaths of her three children, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds )

Women in pink rally in support of Lindsay Clancy at her trial for killing her 3 children

9:42 AM on Thursday, August 20

Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters have gathered to silently support the Massachusetts woman on trial in the killings of her three children

Somali women displaced by drought sit at Feynuus Nutrition Centre on the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia faces another hunger crisis and the UN food agency head says it has far less funds to help

8:38 AM on Thursday, August 20

Six million people are facing acute food insecurity in Somalia while the World Food Program only has a tenth of the resources to help than it did during the country's last hunger crisis

Members of the White Helmets carry the body of Mohammad Ghamira, a former White Helmets volunteer who died shortly after his release from jail, before his burial in the village of al-Haffa, Latakia province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026. (AP Photo)

Syrian police investigator will face prosecution after detainee with hemophilia dies

6:50 AM on Thursday, August 20

Syrian officials say that a police investigator who slapped a man during an interrogation despite having been warned that he had hemophilia will face prosecution

FILE - Dr. Erica Schwartz testifies during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions committee confirmation hearing to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

New CDC director acknowledges agency problems in first large staff meeting

3:54 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Dr. Erica Schwartz, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is promising to advocate for the agency while addressing staff burnout and understaffing issues

Former Wisconsin TE Jack Pugh died from acute bronchopneumonia, coroner's report says

11:41 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Former Wisconsin tight end Jack Pugh’s death resulted from acute bronchopneumonia, a type of pneumonia

Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, speaks during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, to lead the Food and Drug Administration

11:31 AM on Wednesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration

FILE - A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in Cambridge, Mass., May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)prnto

Moderna shares surge after it says its experimental mRNA cancer treatment passed a key test

10:41 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Moderna shares more than doubled after announcing initial results from a study of an experimental cancer treatment

A health worker sprays a colleague with disinfectant after taking part in a burial service for 3-year-old Mave Mercienne, who died of Ebola, in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

What to know about the outbreak of a rare kind of Ebola

10:04 AM on Wednesday, August 19

An Ebola outbreak in Congo has surpassed 5,000 confirmed cases

Houston Humane Society volunteers Dawn York, left, and Kent Williamson, right, walk Graphite and Shadow at the Humane Society in Houston, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)

Concerns about the New World screwworm have put Texas pet adoptions on hold

8:01 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The first New World screwworm outbreak in Texas in 60 years is hindering efforts to move rescued dogs and cats out of crowded animal shelters to states where they would be adopted

Ritz-Carlton Reynolds at Lake Oconee joins the wellness travel boom

8:00 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Susan Clancy, the former mother in law of Lindsay Clancy, enters the court room to give testimony during Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth Mass., Tuesday Aug. 18, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Lindsay Clancy was ‘begging for help’ before killing her children, former mother-in-law testifies

11:08 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Lindsay Clancy was “begging for help” as her mental health deteriorated in the months before she killed her three children, her former mother-in-law testified at her Massachusetts murder trial

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