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  • President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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    What Trump’s executive order means for vaccinations this fall
  • President Donald Trump signs an executive order about vaccines as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, watches, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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    Trump signs executive order aimed at reducing number of recommended childhood vaccines
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    Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products due to salmonella risk
  • People walk along the sea in Orange Beach, Alabama, on March 12, 2020.
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    Health officials urge caution for Gulf Coast beachgoers during surge of deadly bacterial infections
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  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the US Capitol on March 25, 2026.
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    AOC joins the growing number of women freezing their eggs. Here’s what to know
  • A shopper browses products at a grocery store in Wilmington, North Carolina, US, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. Global food prices ticked up in July to the highest in more than three years as renewed concerns over key grain export corridors compounded adverse weather across major growing regions. Photographer: Allison Joyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    FDA seeks to close decadeslong loophole for food additives
  • People dressed in protective gear lower the coffin containing the remains of a person who died of Ebola, during a burial service in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, on Tuesday.
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    Congo says 2,000 people have died in history’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak
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    What eggs, jalapeños, chickens and chameleons have in common this summer: salmonella
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    Pain, stigma and barriers to care: The burden of cysts and fibroids in Africa
  • In this photo provided by Dr. Stacy Norton, she receives a trial vaccine for Lynch Syndrome at the MD Anderson Cancer Center Infusion Center in Houston, on April 11, 2023.
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    Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer before it takes root
  • Bullet holes are seen in windows at the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) Global Headquarters following a shooting that left two dead, on August 9, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. On August 8, a gunman opened fire near the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control, killing a DeKalb County Police Department officer before being found dead by gunfire.
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    One year after shooting, CDC workers say they still feel like targets

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  • A person checking blood pressure at home using a digital monitor on a wooden table, with medication blister pack and glass of water nearby
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    Millions of adults in the US should be taking blood pressure-lowering medication
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    The disinfecting mistake many people make at home

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  • On April 8, 2024, NASA conducted a live broadcast of the total solar eclipse across North America. This video is a time-lapse of the phenomenon as seen from Mazatlán, Mexico. This video was shot on a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Camera, with a Canon 400mm lens, and a star tracker.
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    A rare sunset total solar eclipse will occur for millions of people on Wednesday
  • A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, in July 2026.
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    Sky-gazers can look forward to a stunning meteor shower peak this week. How and when to see it
  • An image of some of the Roman amphorae discovered in the shipwreck.
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    Fishermen find ancient Roman shipwreck off coast of Sicily
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This file photo shows a manned lunar lander during a trial at a test site in Huailai County, north China's Hebei Province. China on Thursday announced that it has successfully completed a comprehensive test for the landing and takeoff of its manned lunar lander at a test site in Huailai County, Hebei Province.
 The test completed on Wednesday represents a key step in the development of China's manned lunar exploration program, and it also marks the first time that China has carried out a test for extraterrestrial landing and takeoff of a manned spacecraft, said the China Manned Space Agency.
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    What we know about China’s moon-landing plans and why the US is so worried
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  • The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, 23 January 2018. There has been a recent rise of cases in Germany of seriously ill patients becoming infected with the dangerous yeast candida auris.
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