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Gulf of America Day," celebrating the renaming of the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico.

The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place temporarily due to the biggest bird flu outbreak in a decade

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom President Trump nominated for health secretary, faced tough questions from the Senate health committee on Thursday. During the hearing, Senators shared emotional personal stories about their children and patients dealing with serious health issues, making the session intense.

Senate Health committee on Thursday who said he had reservations about the nominee's «misleading arguments» on vaccines.

Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century belief in the United States that Americans were destined by divine providence to expand their territory across the North American continent. The term was coined by journalist John L. O’Sullivan in 1845 when he wrote that the US had a right to claim and spread democratic values and civilization across the continent. The ideology became one of the driving forces behind westward expansion and shaped US territorial, political, and social policies.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare, the government health care programs used by millions of disabled, poor and older Americans.

Texas to Florida and up through the Carolina coast.

The United States government has awarded Moderna $590 million to advance the development of its bird flu vaccine, as the country doubles down on efforts to tackle increasing infections in humans.

The tax deadline for some small businesses affected by severe weather in 2024 is drawing near, the IRS is reminding owners

Walmart says customers should throw out a chicken broth product that was sold at stores in mostly Southern states late last year

Arkansas and North Carolina mobilized their National Guards for tasks such as helping stranded motorists, as governors in multiple states declared states of emergency. School was canceled for millions of children from Texas to Georgia and as far east as South Carolina. The storm piled up more than a year's worth of snowfall on some Southern cities. As much as a foot (about 31 centimeters) fell in parts of Arkansas. There were reports of nearly 10 inches (about 25 centimeters) in Little Rock, a city that averages 3.8 inches (9.7 centimeters) a year.

Los Angeles plunged into its worst natural disaster in decades as wildfires driven by hurricane-strength wind gusts tore through prosperous neighborhoods, killed at least five people and forced more than 100,000 residents to flee.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Although America has a history of taking a commercial approach to international relations, purchases are rarely made without controversy. When Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana in 1803, doubling the size of the country, he had to set aside his zest for constitutional constructivism, which would have ruled out such bold federal action.

A Quebec father says he had to take his son to the United States for care after alleging doctors in Montreal wrote off his son’s chances at survival.In October 2024, two-and-a-half-year-old Arthur Tetrault was found in the pool of a home his family was renting in Ile-Bizard, Que., a Montreal suburb.Nicolas Tetrault said his son was rushed to the Lakeshore General Hospital Emergency department, and eventually, was transferred to the Montreal Children’s Hospital.It was there where his father said he began to grow unsatisfied with how his son was being treated.“They decided unilaterally that Arthur had no chance of survival, couldn’t breathe on his own (and) would be basically in the vegetative state for the next years of his life,” Tetrault said.Not wanting to give up on his son, Tetrault said he started doing his own research on possible treatments for drowning victims.He found the work of Dr. Paul Harch, a specialist on hyperbaric oxygen treatment in Louisiana who claims he’s had several positive results in young victims of brain injuries, including that 85 per cent of severely drowned children would see some level of improvement with hyperbaric oxygen treatment.Tetrault said he asked doctors in Montreal to give Arthur hyperbaric oxygen treatment and other alternative treatments based on increasing oxygen levels.According to him, they said no.

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week.

bird flu on Wednesday, involving a Louisiana resident, as California declared a state of emergency to address the escalating outbreak.The Louisiana patient was hospitalized in critical condition after suspected contact with an infected backyard flock, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

An appeals court in Louisiana has ruled that Nasdaq can’t require diversity on the boards of companies that list on the exchange