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A Venezuelan attends an asylum interview in Southern California while his wife, a doctor, is detained in Texas

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Police say a man carrying a backpack with an AR-style pistol inside has been arrested after walking into Aetna's headquarters in Connecticut

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodged arrows from angry Democrats as he kicked off an expected sprint of seven hearings in Congress over the next seven days

3:40 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has nominated Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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California is clashing with the Trump administration again with a bill that could leave doctors caught between state and federal law

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A new study finds the worrisome rise in colorectal cancer deaths among younger adults is concentrated in people with less education

10:55 AM on Thursday, April 16

Employees on the autism spectrum and employers that want to embrace neurodiversity can make work environments more welcoming for people who may struggle with job-related social interactions

9:01 AM on Thursday, April 16

For decades, billions of gallons of sewage and industrial waste have been dumped into the Tijuana River

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Arizona’s largest utility has agreed not to cut off electrical service to customers for nonpayment while forecasted high temperatures are 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) or above

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The interactive gaming platform Roblox, popular among children and teens, has reached an over $12 million agreement with the state of Nevada over its protections for young users

9:15 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Federal health officials will meet this summer to consider easing restrictions on a controversial group of drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement

7:59 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Paramedic groups say the Israeli military has killed four Lebanese rescue workers and wounded six others in three consecutive, targeted strikes

2:15 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Sudan is entering a fourth year of war marked by famine and massacres in what the United Nations calls an “abandoned crisis.”