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Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's also become riskier warn pediatricians.

Youth cheerleading is getting more athletic — and riskier

As the female-dominated sport gets more acrobatic, girls are racking up more concussions and other injuries. A new pediatricians' report calls for change.

Members of the Nuclear Emergency Response Team training for a radiological contamination scenario. For 50 years, the secretive team has been the first line of defense against nuclear emergencies.

Meet America's secret team of nuclear first responders

For 50 years, a secretive group of government workers has been preparing for the worst. Here's a rare look inside the team that's ready to respond to a nuclear incident anywhere, anytime.

A patient who was diagnosed with tuberculosis holds his chest x-rays while consulting with a doctor at the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Mumbai, which treats people with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

TB reclaims title of deadliest infectious disease. That's an 'outrage' says WHO

DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. What's going on?

Trans-rights activists protest outside the House chamber at the Oklahoma state capitol before the State of the State address, Feb. 6, 2023, in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma and 25 other states have anti-trans laws on the books.

Trans health care under Trump may follow the abortion playbook and its Hyde amendment

Republicans spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ advertising in the campaign. Various policy initiatives are on the incoming administration's to-do list.

Drivers take advantage of the lull between lake-effect snowfalls in Lowville, N.Y., on Saturday.

Heavy snow blankets parts of the U.S. during busy holiday travel weekend

Frigid air was expected to move over the eastern third of the U.S. by Monday, while heavy snow was forecast to cause hazards in the Great Lakes, Plains and Midwest regions.

A worker with Lyon Contracting Services installs new windows at a home in Kensington, a Philadelphia neighborhood heavily impacted by the drug overdose epidemic. Free repairs at 400 homes in Kensington were paid for by settlement funds from opioid-related lawsuits. A Pennsylvania oversight board ruled that the repairs did not comply with guidelines on how the money should be spent.

Philadelphia criticized for how it's spending millions from opioid lawsuits

Philadelphia has disputed a state ruling that it should not have spent money from opioid-related legal settlements on home repairs and small businesses in an area ravaged by the drug epidemic.

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader.

Hezbollah picks cleric Naim Kassem to lead the Lebanese militant group

The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.

In Netflix's Our Little Secret, Lindsay Lohan plays Avery, a woman spending Christmas with her boyfriend's family — including her ex, who happens to be dating her boyfriend's sister.

Our 2024 holiday movie guide has you covered, from Hanukkah to 'Hot Frosty'

Grab your blanket, your cocoa, your snuggler of choice – holiday movie season has arrived. Here's a rundown of the standard and not-so-standard offerings you'll find on TV this year.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 28.

Karoline Leavitt, youngest White House press secretary, takes to the podium

Leavitt held her first press briefing Tuesday, becoming the youngest person to ever hold the job of White House press secretary. Trump previously stated he has "utmost confidence she will excel."

Supporters rally outside the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, following a hearing on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A separate lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in North Dakota, challenges a rule allowing DACA recipients to enroll in Affordable Care Act plans this year.

'Dreamers' can get Obamacare this year, unless a court case stops them

A Biden administration rule allows people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll in ACA health plans and qualify for subsidies. Nineteen states are seeking to block the rule.

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