August 25, 2024, 6:00am Health
Persistent high temperatures during the summer likely contribute to more premature births, especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, according to a recent study from a group of scientists in six U.S. states. Read story
August 25, 2024, 6:00am Health
The Affordable Care Act is back under attack. Not as in the repeal-and-replace debates of yore, but in a fresher take from Republican lawmakers who say key parts of the ACA cost taxpayers too much and provide incentive for fraud. Read story
August 25, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World
Each year on her birthday in mid-July, Jennifer Cummings goes to her old voicemails and listens to her father’s achingly familiar voice sending his love on a birthday long since passed. Read story
August 25, 2024, 5:51am Business
Four years ago this week, California’s power grid was so strained by a heat wave that rolling blackouts hit hundreds of thousands of residents over two days. It nearly happened again two years ago, when state officials issued 11 “flex alerts” asking businesses and homeowners to voluntarily reduce electricity use… Read story
August 25, 2024, 5:41am Health
In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed “the jewel of the Delta” by President Theodore Roosevelt, dreams to revitalize an abandoned hospital building have all but dried up. Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:05am Nation & World
It’s hard to put in words the mix of fear and dread Daniel Gonzales felt as a wind-whipped fire roared into his yard last month in this remote mountain town in eastern Kern County. He managed to get himself and two cats out before the flames overtook his house. But… Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:05am Nation & World
After World War II, Black people in Houston found the rare chance to buy a nice home in the new community of Pleasantville, Texas. But in the years that followed, officials routed the Interstate 610 loop with its tailpipe exhaust along one side of Pleasantville and cement plants and other… Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World
Haywood Park Community Hospital was the closest hospital for many in Brownsville, Tenn., a rural city in the western part of the state. Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World
Midwife Jennie Joseph touched Husna Mixon’s pregnant belly, turned to the 7-year-old boy in the room with them and asked: “Want to help me check the baby?” Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World
Tembanechako Mastick and a group of men scanned bushes near their village in southeast Zimbabwe, on the hunt for the den of hyenas that had attacked livestock. Scattered fragments of goat bones showed the way, and Mastick peeped cautiously into a deep hole in the earth. Read story
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