Michelle R. Smith

UCLA center Lauren Betts (51) reacts against Minnesota during the first half in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, March 27, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (Justine Willard/AP)

Sweet 16: Kiki Rice, Lauren Betts and top-seeded UCLA advance to Elite Eight with 80-56 rout of Minnesota

March 27, 2026 at 11:13 p.m.

By MICHELLE SMITH SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When the final buzzer sounded on UCLA’s 80-56 regional semifinal win over Minnesota in the women’s NCAA Tournament, the Bruins gathered on the...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Translating what Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak

April 15, 2025 at 12:48 p.m.

When the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endorsed the measles vaccine this month after an outbreak in Texas claimed the life of a second child, his comments...

Cesar Acevedo, left, holds his infant son, Adriel Acevedo, as as nurse Tracey McElroy, right, prepares to give him a vaccination that included a polio dose at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

April 13, 2025 at 8:49 a.m.

Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run...

FILE – Pete Hegseth walks to an elevator for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump’s Pentagon pick had been flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’

November 15, 2024 at 4:38 p.m.

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a...

La doctora Mysheika Roberts, comisionada de salud de Columbus, Ohio, ha visto el sube y baja en la financiación de salud pública. Le preocupa qué pasará luego de la pandemia.

Expertos en salud pública temen que los fondos desaparezcan cuando termine la pandemia

April 20, 2021 at 2:49 p.m.

En respuesta a la pandemia de covid-19, el Congreso ha invertido decenas de miles de millones de dólares en los departamentos de salud pública estatales y locales, pagando por máscaras,...

Jennifer Gottschalk, supervisora del departamento de Salud Ambiental del condado Toledo-Lucas, camina por un pasillo en las oficinas del departamento, en Toledo, Ohio, el 24 de junio de 2020. Cuando el coronavirus se propagó, tenían tan poco personal que las tareas de Gottschalk incluían supervisar las inspecciones de campamentos y piscinas, y el control de roedores, además de la preparación para brotes para una comunidad de más de 425.000 personas.

EEUU: sistema de salud pública encara el virus sin recursos

July 1, 2020 at 2:31 p.m.

El sistema de salud pública de Estados Unidos ha subsistido en la precariedad durante décadas y carece de los recursos necesarios para enfrentar la peor crisis de salud en un...

David Byrne posa para una serie de fotos para promover su álbum 'American Utopia' que salió el 9 de marzo.

David Byrne aborda la utopía americana en su nuevo álbum

May 13, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

David Byrne tiene algunas observaciones sobre la vida actual en Estados Unidos, que le preocupa. El exvocalista de Talking Heads, un artista prolífico, ve a la gente dividida en bandos...

Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez is seated during his murder trial, Thursday, April 2, 2015, in Fall River, Mass. Hernandez is charged with killing Odin Lloyd in June 2013.

Sheriff: Ex-NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Is A Master Manipulator

December 12, 2018 at 7:35 p.m.

The sheriff who had former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in custody for more than 18 months said Tuesday that he's a master manipulator and will probably do fine...

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