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The H5N1 bird flu virus has been raising fears across the country and has spread into dairy cattle.

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  • Health

Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's efforts to bar Harvard University from enrolling international students.<br>

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  • Education

Judge blocks Trump administration's effort to bar Harvard from enrolling international students

The preliminary injunction prevents the federal government from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - MAY 18: Strike Out Snakebite (SOS) – a newly launched global initiative – unveils the 'snakeover' – a series of artworks highlighting the critical need for action against snakebite envenoming at the 78th World Health Assembly, Park Mon Repos on May 18, 2025 in Geneva. Featured artwork by Mr Finbar - The Cobra.

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  • Global Health

Why giant statues of snakes popped up in Geneva

These colorful snakes aren't just works of art. Erected for the World Health Assembly, they're meant to draw attention to an extremely neglected health issue: snakebite.

May 29, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
People walk past Hungary's parliament building in Budapest in May.

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  • Europe

Hungary inspires U.S. conservatives. Its leader is seen as running a 'dictatorship'

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been called "Trump before there was a Trump." Here's why his reshaping of Hungary's political institutions inspires U.S. conservatives.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Arezou Rezvani,
  • and 2 more
Jazz drummer Al Foster, photographed in Paris in 1980.

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  • Obituaries

Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died

The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

May 29, 2025
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  • Nate Chinen
The drug use survey team worked for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which saw massive staff cuts in the Trump administration overhaul.

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  • Mental Health

They've tracked Americans' drug use for decades. Trump and RFK Jr. fired them

The 17-person team of statisticians and scientists at the National Survey on Drug Use and Health are all out of jobs. Researchers around the country use the data to understand behavioral health.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
The village of Blatten, in a valley below the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, was destroyed Wednesday by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed. A local river is now blocked and forming a lake that is flooding buildings that remain, authorities said.

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  • World

A Swiss village is buried after a glacier collapses in the Alps

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

May 29, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
British performers, writers and activists protest Israel's actions in Gaza outside the gates of Downing Street on May 21, 2025.

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  • Arts & Life

Hundreds of writers call for Gaza ceasefire and aid

More than 300 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed a letter calling for immediate aid and a ceasefire in Gaza.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
"A magical question is a question that everyone in your group is interested in answering" and hearing the responses to, says Priya Parker, a conflict resolution facilitator and author of the 2020 book <em>The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

Want to cut through small talk? Try asking a 'magical question'

These creative questions are fun to answer and can help reveal people's personalities. Conflict resolution facilitator Priya Parker shares her favorites and explains how to come up with your own.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Marielle Segarra,
  • Sam Yellowhorse Kesler,
  • and 1 more
Flowers and stones are left outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on May 23 in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

Shooting outside Jewish museum raises questions about shifts in political violence

If the suspect in the recent D.C. case planned to kill people because of their Jewish faith, this would represent a major anomaly in lethal, antisemitic violence.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Odette Yousef
Morgan Wallen's fourth album, <em>I'm the Problem</em>, continues his run of commercial success following a string of controversies.

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  • Music

Morgan Wallen is the elephant in the room

In 2021, Wallen was caught on video uttering a racial slur. Since then he's become the most commercially successful musician in country and popular music. How? By remaining committed to ambivalence.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers
The screens show the foreign exchange rates at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday.

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  • World

World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs

Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

May 29, 2025
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Health

American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration

Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Brett Kelman

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  • Arts & Life

Ramy Youssef is just trying to do the thing that entertains him

Ramy Youssef stays busy, creating shows like Ramy and #1 Happy Family USA, and starring in Poor Things and Mountainhead. He spoke with Rachel Martin about mortality and his gripe with Santa Claus.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Martin
Federal agencies identified listeria contamination in some Boar's Head deli meats last year.  Since Trump's cuts to federal agencies, experts worry inspectors can't keep up with demand.

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  • Health

How safe is the food supply after federal cutbacks? Experts are worried

As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.

May 29, 2025
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  • Yuki Noguchi
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