NEW YORK (AP) — Four men have been charged in the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams and New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Wednesday that the four were charged in a criminal…
University of Pennsylvania doctors say they've cured two patients of leukemia with a gene therapy that transforms someone's own immune cells into microscopic cancer killers. "What we…
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter. That's the prediction made Wednesday by Punxsutawney Phil after he emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania to perform his Groundhog Day duties. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="c0985f72bc6b0069008b95d435346138e29c18df" vtitle="Punxsutawney Phil predicts…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="4589019fd445f17b013bd4dc02887c2c5766197e" vtitle="Minority women most affected if abortion…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — has inspired many exaggerated claims through the years, both from fans and foes. Now President Joe Biden is adding his own. With a few loose words turned into a pithy…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5. The move could open the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots by early March. The nation’s…
Many Americans — some traditionally religious, some religiously unaffiliated — are increasingly finding a sense of community through virtual reality. It comes at a time when…
NEW YORK (AP) — Cheslie Kryst, the 2019 winner of the Miss USA pageant and a correspondent for the entertainment news program “Extra,” has died. Police said the 30-year-old Kryst jumped from a Manhattan apartment building. She was pronounced dead…
NEW YORK (AP) — Joni Mitchell is joining Neil Young in his protest against Spotify, seeking to have her music removed from the streaming service. Like Young a Canadian native and singer-songwriter with much of her success in the 1970s,…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A cold snap in Florida is different than in other places. We put on heavy coats when it’s 50 degrees. No blizzard conditions here in the Sunshine State, but we have our issues as well.…
