An outbreak of salmonella is affecting nearly two dozen states, according to federal health officials.A total of 212 people have been infected with a strain of Salmonella Newport in 23 states. Since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) last update on July 21, 87 new cases have been reported, including 38 from eight…
Mary Van Doorn was just 21 when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. She had no symptoms at the time, and her diagnosis was discovered during routine blood work during a physical. Van Doorn tells Yahoo Life that her diagnosis felt “random,” given that she felt fine. So she “basically pretended that I didn’t hear…
Senate Republicans will propose cutting weekly emergency unemployment benefits from $600 to $200 until states can bring a more complicated program online, according to two people familiar with the plan granted anonymity to share details that had not yet been released.The proposal will come as part of a broader $1 trillion stimulus bill aimed at…
A large protest in Portland, Oregon Sunday night started peacefully but intensified early Monday, leading to the use of tear gas by federal agents, following a recent pattern. Demonstrators have been raising their voices against police brutality and for racial justice. Earlier, a bag containing loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails was found at a…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…