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Telehealth companies keep exposing their customers' medical data. What should they do?
None dead and 17 injured in Delta jet crash in Toronto, airport official says
The Canadian Press reports that one passenger is critically injured and seven others were also hurt on the flight from Minneapolis. Images posted on social med…
'Life-threatening cold' expected as polar vortex stretches across U.S. after deadly weekend flooding
Meteorologists said several states would experience the 10th and coldest polar vortex event this season. Weather forces in the Arctic are combining to push the…
At least 9 people are dead, including 8 in Kentucky, in latest blast of winter weather
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday that hundreds of people stranded by flooding had to be rescued. President Donald Trump approved the state's request for …
US East endures flooding, with snow in the forecast for the Northeast. Frigid cold in the Plains
Gov. Andy Beshear preemptively declared a state of emergency in Kentucky, where flash flooding was expected into Sunday. Flash flooding hit some roads in Bowli…
Where US adults think the government is spending too much, according to AP-NORC polling
On both sides of the political aisle, very few U.S. adults think the country is spending too much on Social Security and Medicare, according to the January AP-…
Breakfast is booming at US restaurants. Is it also contributing to high egg prices?
It's a chicken-and-egg problem: Restaurants are struggling with record-high U.S. egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of t…
Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump's health chief after a close Senate vote
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, was the only “no” vote among Republicans, mirroring his stands against Trump's picks for the Pentagon …
Judge clears way for Trump’s plan to downsize federal workforce with deferred resignation program
It was a significant legal victory for the Republican president after a string of courtroom setbacks.
Eastern storm cuts power to tens of thousands as California braces for flooding
Storms dumped heavy snow and freezing rain on a swath of the eastern U.S. stretching from Kentucky to the nation's capital, causing hundreds of traffic acciden…
US inflation got worse with rising groceries and gasoline prices
U.S. inflation accelerated last month as the cost of groceries, gasoline and rents rose, a disappointment for families and businesses struggling with higher co…
So long, penny! Trump orders US to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints
The lowly penny, the forgotten mainstay of coin jars and car cupholders everywhere, may soon be no more.
Here's what we know about a commuter plane crash in Alaska that killed 10 people
Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what cause…
Missing commuter plane found crashed on Alaska sea ice and all 10 aboard died, authorities say
A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice and all 10 people on board died, au…
Flu season in the US is the most intense it's been in at least 15 years
The flu has forced schools to shut down in some states. The Godley Independent School District, a 3,200-student system near Fort Worth, Texas, last week closed…
Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Forced leaves pulling all but a small fraction of staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job around the world began Friday, while em…