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Advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended a new RSV vaccine to protect newborns by immunizing their moms late in pregnancy.

CDC recommends RSV vaccine in late pregnancy to protect newborns

The shot will help shield newborns from RSV in the early months of life, when they're especially vulnerable to severe illness.

Migrants between border walls near San Ysidro talk with a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Nov. 20, 2023.

Report finds migrants held too long in San Diego CBP detention centers

During a May inspection, more than half of detainees were held longer than 72 hours, according to a federal report.

Curfew declared in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked its main military barracks

The attack on the barracks and detention centers raised fears of a breakdown of order amid a surge of coups in the region.

Military personnel of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division take off with a Black Hawk helicopter during a demonstration drill at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase near Constanta, Romania on July 30, 2022. A Black Hawk helicopter crashed over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea.

5 U.S. service members were killed in a helicopter crash during a training exercise

The crash happened in the Mediterranean Sea during a routine air refueling mission on Saturday morning, defense officials said.

Physician's assistant Brett Feldman does a checkup on his patient Gary Dela Cruz on the side of the road near his encampment in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2022. Feldman is the director and co-founder of Street Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

More street medicine teams tackle the homeless health care crisis

Homeless people often have sporadic or no access to health care, resulting in costly, chronic conditions. A new statewide effort encourages Medi-Cal insurers to partner with street teams to improve care.

In<em> Poor Things</em>, Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a woman created as part of a back-from-the-dead mad science experiment.

Unhinged yet uplifting, 'Poor Things' is an un-family-friendly 'Barbie'

Emma Stone stars as an adult woman with the anarchic spirit of a very young child in a strangely touching film that's filled with transgressive sex, sadistic power games and grisly violence.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a deal to compensate victims of the opioid epidemic that shield the Sackler family from lawsuits.

It's money v. principle in Supreme Court opioid case

The justices struggled to decide whether to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to the multi-billion dollar Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal--a deal meant to compensate victims of OxyContin.

Palestinian farmers Naser El Khatib and Thaer El Taher stand on land filled with their olive trees at the edge of Beitunia, across from an area controlled by Israel in the occupied West Bank, on Dec. 2.

In the West Bank, Palestinian olive farmers fear for the worst in this year's harvest

Usually at this time of year, Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank are hard at work in their groves. But because of the war in Gaza, many have not been able to access their land.

Noname: Tiny Desk Concert

The Chicago-bred emcee-activist performs some revolutionary raps from her third album Sundial.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will make a recommendation about whether the agency should approve the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S.

The FDA considers first birth control pill without a prescription

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.

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