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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign event Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

RFK Jr. says Trump will push to remove fluoride from drinking water

By Jonathan J. Cooper - Associated Press

In this Nov. 18, 2020 file photo, a woman, wearing a protective face mask due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, wheels a cart with her purchases out of a Walmart store, in Derry, N.H. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, said Friday, May 14, 2021 that it won’t require vaccinated shoppers or workers to wear a mask in its U.S. stores, unless state or local laws say otherwise. Vaccinated shoppers can go maskless immediately, the company said. Vaccinated workers can stop wearing them on May 18. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Walmart, Costco ditch face mask requirement for fully vaccinated shoppers

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Nurses work in the COVID-19 ward at the Mellino Mellini hospital in Chiari, northern Italy, Monday, March 8, 2021. The 160-bed hospital in the Po River Valley town of Chiari has no more beds for patients stricken with the highly contagious variant of COVID-19 first identified in Britain, and which now has put hospitals in Italy’s northern Brescia province on high alert. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

The Latest: Alaska opens vaccines to all 16 or older

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Aug. 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a media briefing in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FDA says it’s close to approving Pfizer shots; Trump wants them now: ‘Stop playing games’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Leiana Smith, a registered nurse, right, takes a sample from a patient at a walk-up COVID-19 testing site Thursday, July 16, 2020, in the parking lot of 2001 W. Lincoln Ave. in Yakima, Wash. (Amanda Ray/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)

EDITORIAL: Tracking the coronavirus curve

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Donald Trump meets with senior military leaders and members of his national security team in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Saturday, May 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s perfect China ‘ban,’ death toll myths

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Dobbins Air Reserve Base is shown Monday, March 9, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. Thirty-four Georgians are among the U.S. citizens expected to arrive at the base on either Monday night or Tuesday morning, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a news release.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Savannah St. Pat’s parade scrapped; Georgia virus cases rise

By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN - Associated Press

Gastro outbreak forces Caribbean cruise ship to return to US

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In this frame from video emergency response crews gather outside a plane at JFK Airport amid reports of ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in New York. (WABC 7 via AP)

The Latest: Sick plane passengers appear to have the flu

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FILE - In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The New York Police Department says Frieden was arrested on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018 in Brooklyn. Frieden surrendered to face charges that he grabbed the buttocks of a woman he knew in his home last October. It says she reported it in July. He is charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

The Latest: Ex-CDC director told to stay away from accuser

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FILE--This Dec. 17, 1997, file photo, lettuce is harvested at a farm in Wellton, Ariz., east of Yuma. The Centers for Disease Control is expanding a warning about contaminated lettuce from Arizona that has now sickened dozens of people in several states. (AP Photo/Jeff Robbins, file)

Americans told to toss romaine lettuce over E. coli fears

By TERRY TANG - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY MAY 20 AND THEREAFTER - In a Friday, April 14, 2017 photo, Jill Wichner, 43, poses for a photo in her Southampton home, with a photo on the screen of her computer of the bull's eye rash that she found on her arm while on a cruise in 2007. She has been suffering with symptoms of Lyme disease ever since. (Kim Weimer/The Intelligencer via AP)

Lyme disease on rise amid diagnosis, treatment controversy

By JENNY WAGNER and Bucks County Courier Times - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune, left, and Teressa Celia, Associate Director of Infection Prevention and Control, pose in protective suits in an isolation room, in the Emergency Room of the hospital, during a demonstration of procedures for possible Ebola patients in New York. A doctor who recently returned to New York City from West Africa is being tested for the Ebola virus. The doctor had a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms and was taken Thursday to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

N.Y. and N.J. say they will require Ebola quarantines

By Marilynn Marchione and Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

Allegheny County measles case a false alarm

By pitgrekb - Associated Press

SIMMONS: Political shenanigans of health care are sickening

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times