MINNEAPOLIS — University of Minnesota researchers have made key discoveries about one of the world’s most lethal pathogens, the Marburg virus, including potential weaknesses that could result in vaccines or drug treatments against it.

Marburg is lesser-known than its close cousin, Ebola, and remains confined so far to Africa. But its ...Read more

DENVER — Two students at Adams City High School are accused of calling in a fake bomb threat and a false claim of an active shooter at the Commerce City school on Wednesday, then covering themselves in something meant to look like blood, police said.

The two teens, who were not identified by police because they are juveniles, were arrested on...Read more

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday refused to rule out oil prices skyrocketing to $200 a barrel and admitted the United States is “simply not ready” to escort tankers despite President Donald Trump’s claim that the Persian Gulf is safe for shipping.

In a live interview with CNN outside the White House, Wright struggled to formulate...Read more

Iran’s new supreme leader said the Strait of Hormuz should remain closed and Tehran will look to open other fronts in the war if the U.S. and Israel persist with their attacks.

In his first public comments since succeeding his father four days ago, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said the critical waterway for oil and gas must remain effectively ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Cuba’s top diplomat in Washington says Havana is prepared to enter diplomatic talks with the United States, reiterating the country’s willingness to engage even as tensions escalate with President Trump asserting that the island nation’s government could soon collapse.

“We are ready to engage with the U.S. on the issues ...Read more

MIAMI and PALM BEACH, Fla. — Last December, a large coterie of Silicon Valley billionaires descended upon Miami to attend Art Basel, the ritzy, contemporary art fair that marks the end of the moneyed set’s yearly social calendar.

Much of the buzz surrounded the spectacle of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among the world’s richest men, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The family of a Knott County man who was killed by law enforcement in September 2024 is suing the two officers involved for unreasonable seizure and excessive force.

Travis Pratt was 25 when he was shot by Kentucky State Police Trooper Bruce Kelley and Knott County Sheriff’s Deputy Wesley Bolen on Sept. 9, 2024, in Littcarr...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz has flooded state legislators with ambitious proposals to fight fraud in government programs, holding a series of briefings in recent weeks meant to show he’s on top of a problem that has largely defined his last act as governor.

But opposition from Republicans, skepticism from some fellow Democrats and a ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With fewer than 100 days until the FIFA World Cup descends on Kansas City, city leaders could soon ask the tournament’s organizers for money to help KC further address homelessness during the major event this summer and beyond.

The Kansas City Council is expected to consider an action on Thursday that would direct the ...Read more

In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that it sometimes fails to make headlines when a new outbreak erupts.

As of March 2026, measles has been continuously circulating around the...Read more

As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East.

In a sermon on March 1, 2026, for example, John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, described the war as part of a divine plan. “...Read more

You’ve seen it in bookstores – the metallic turquoise spine peeking out from the shelf under “Eastern Religions.” Or, perhaps, another of its more understated editions rendered in muted tones. It is “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” arguably the most well-known Tibetan Buddhist text outside Tibet.

It was first translated by ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security issued a policy memo in February 2026 that could lead to the detention of refugees who are legally in the country.

The new policy states that “DHS may arrest and detain a refugee who has lived in the United States for at least one year and has not yet acquired” lawful permanent resident status. ...Read more

In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they’re working in order to get and keep coverage.

That’s not stopping Florida lawmakers from trying to adopt Medicaid work requirements anyway. It’...Read more

BATON ROUGE, La. — The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine.

Bill Cassidy offered jabs to thousands of inmates at Louisiana’s maximum-security prison in the early 2000s. A decade before that, he set up vaccine clinics in middle schools, a model hailed nationally as a ...Read more

‘No Longer Based on Facts or Truth’

Sylvia Chou, 51, Maryland

Program director, National Cancer Institute

Sylvia Chou specializes in communication between patients and their health care providers, and social media’s role in public health. She joined the federal government in 2007 as a fellow and became a civil servant in 2010.

She ...Read more