Mexico sees spike in H1N1 swine flu cases, 68 people dead
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has seen a sharp jump in cases of the virus H1N1, popularly known as swine (More…)
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Trump asks U.S. Congress to prohibit late-term abortion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump called for curbs on late-term abortion in his State of the Union address (More...)
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Huge quake strikes off Indonesia but tsunami warnings canceled
By Kanupriya Kapoor and Eveline Danubrata
JAKARTA (Reuters) – A massive quake struck on Wednesday off the Indonesian island of (More…)
Supreme Court set to consider contentious Texas abortion case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court was set to hear its first abortion rights case in nearly a decade on (More…)
Officials in Mexico investigating theft of radioactive material iridium-192
Mexican authorities are investigating the theft of a pickup truck that was transporting potentially dangerous radioactive material, the country’s interior (More…)
Michigan governor’s aides urged switch away from Flint River
DETROIT (Reuters) – Quality problems prompted two of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s top lawyers to urge that Flint be moved (More…)
Vital to food output, bees and other pollinators at risk
OSLO (Reuters) – Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries and (More…)
U.S. loses more than 160 abortion providers since 2011
The number of abortion providers in the United States continues to dwindle, and Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the rate of (More…)
U.S. officials investigating 14 new cases of Zika possibly being spread through sex
Health officials are investigating more than a dozen new reports of the Zika virus possibly being transmitted sexually, suggesting the (More…)
Libya could soon run out of life-saving medicines, U.N. warns
CAIRO (Reuters) – Libya faces severe shortages of life-saving medicine and about one million people will soon be in dire (More…)
New research suggests 20th century sea levels rose at quickest pace since 800 B.C.
Climate scientists studying the Earth’s sea levels have determined that it was “extremely likely” those waters rose more rapidly in (More…)
