The dog popularly known as the Frenchie has held its crown as America's most popular dog breed for the second year in a row, according to the American Kennel Club.
Read more ...Congress unveils final spending package, as Friday midnight deadline looms National News
The text accounting for about three-quarters of all federal discretionary spending was released early Thursday. Now, lawmakers are racing against the clock to vote before a Friday midnight deadline.
Read more ...Native Americans are hardest hit by syphilis surge National News
Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.
Read more ...U.S. life expectancy rebounded in 2022 but COVID and drug overdoses were still deadly National News
As the COVID pandemic faded in 2022, U.S. life expectancy rose by more than a year. But the virus and drug overdoses spurred by fentanyl still took nearly 300,000 lives.
Read more ...Senators push to declassify TikTok intel and hold a public hearing ahead of ban vote National News
Senators who attended a classified intelligence briefing focused on TikTok's influence say the public should get the same information. There's bipartisan support for a vote on a House bill on the app.
Read more ...With a federal menthol ban looming, tobacco companies push 'non-menthol' substitutes National News
The alternatives have a similar taste, packaging and marketing. Anti-smoking activists say this is a way to get around state and federal bans.
Read more ...AI images and conspiracy theories are driving a push for media literacy education National News
One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.
Read more ...Police track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and his accomplice National News
Police arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital.
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