Dec 23 (Reuters) - South Korean satellite launch company Innospace on Monday launched the first commercial rocket from Brazil's Alcantara Space Center, a milestone for the firm and Brazilian aerospace

Innospace's rocket crashes in first commercial launch in Brazil; shares tumble

A long-awaited change in drug policy by President Donald Trump could bring scientists one step closer to understanding the harms and benefits of marijuana.

Cannabis reclassification could 'open the floodgates' for research, scientists say

We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite that recently suffered an anomaly in orbit, thanks to Vantor's WorldView-3 spacecraft.

Doomed SpaceX Starlink satellite photographed from orbit

Food and Drug Administration's approval of an oral version of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy could potentially expand access to millions of patients and give the Danish company a much-needed fillip in the red-hot market. The first GLP-1 pill specifically for ​obesity, also branded as Wegovy, is a 25-mg oral formulation of semaglutide, the active ingredient in the blockbuster injectable version.

Explainer-What Novo Nordisk's weight-loss pill approval means for company, patients

Dec 23 () - The weight-loss drug market is surging, with biotech firms racing to win share in a sector dominated by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. Analysts forecast the industry will generate about $150 billion in annual sales in the next decade.

Factbox-Weight-loss drug developers line up to tap lucrative market as competition heats up

Thirteen people who were in direct contact with the rabid dog have started post-exposure treatment and had not displayed any symptoms, as of Dec. 23.

Chicago reports first rabies-positive dog in 61 years. What we know.

A federal judge’s ruling clears the way for Hawaii to include cruise ship passengers in a new tourist tax to help cope with climate change, a levy set to go into effect at the start of 2026.  U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake on Tuesday denied a request seeking to stop officials from enforcing the new law on cruises.  In the nation’s first such levy to help cope with a warming planet, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed legislation in May that raises tax revenue to deal with eroding shorelines, wildfi

Federal judge upholds Hawaii's new climate change tax on cruise passengers

Tetanus could make a comeback, especially in states vulnerable to climate-linked natural disasters like Florida and Texas, an NBC News investigation finds.

As tetanus vaccination rates decline, doctors worry about rising case numbers

A growing number of medical experts and officials are walking back shaken baby syndrome testimony that put parents behind bars. They face an uphill battle.

Experts who once backed 'shaken baby' science now fight to free imprisoned caregivers

Covered California warns that some people may be at risk of dropping their health insurance. It all comes as the deadline to enroll nears.

Southern Californians, your health insurance costs could rise in 2026

A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please the fictional horror villain known as Slender Man was ordered back to a state psychiatric hospital Tuesday after she escaped from her group home last month.  Waukesha County Circuit Judge K. Scott Wagner granted a state Department of Health Services request to revoke 23-year-old Morgan Geyser’s release privileges.  Geyser told the judge through her attorney, Tony Cotton, last week that she would not fight revocation.

Wisconsin judge sends Slender Man attacker back to mental health institution after group home escape

A Texas boy’s second dose of the MMRV vaccine cost over $1,400. A Pennsylvania woman’s long-acting birth control cost more than $14,000. Treatment for a Florida Medicaid enrollee’s heart attack cost nearly $78,000 - about as much as surgery for an uninsured Montana woman’s broken arm.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. In 2025, these patients were among the hundreds who asked Bill of the Month to investigate their medical

How to avoid or deal with an outrageous medical bill

Weather will vary widely across the U.S. as we head into the holiday week.

Holiday weather forecast: Where travelers can expect a wintry mix, flooding and record warmth across the U.S.

AAA estimates 122.4 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home for Christmas and New Year's, up more than 2% from last year.

Holiday travel: Best days to hit the road as 110 million Americans expected to drive over Christmas and New Year's

Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.”  The supplies, which came from the state and were paid for with federal money, were for a program where drug users exchange dirty needles for clean ones, part of a strategy known as harm reduction.  In some places, the order is galvanizing support for syringe exchange programs, which decades of research show are extremely effective at preventing disease among intravenous drug users an

Addiction-stricken community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump's order

Washington health officials warned residents that heavy rain and floodwaters could sweep rats into the sewer systems and up into their ... well ... toilets!

Toilet rats? Washington health officials warn of possible rodents in sewer systems after floods

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company.  Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before leading the Justice Department’s charge to turn Mangione’s federal prosecution into a capital case, creating a “profound conflict of interest” that violated his due process rights, hi

Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers say Bondi’s death penalty decision was tainted by conflict of interest

A Minnesota jury awarded $65.5 million on Friday to a mother of three who claimed talcum products made by Johnson & Johnson exposed her to asbestos and contributed to her developing cancer in the lining of her lungs.  Jurors determined that plaintiff Anna Jean Houghton Carley, 37, should be compensated by Johnson & Johnson after using its baby powder throughout her childhood and later developing mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer caused primarily by exposure to the carcinogen asbestos.  Johnson

Minnesota jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $65.5 million to woman with cancer who used talcum powder

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the facility in Salem, N.H., according to police.

What we know about the Brown University shooting suspect who was found dead, and how police linked him to the MIT killing

Maxwell Kruzic said he was in such “crippling” stomach pain Oct. 5, 2023, that he had to pull off the road twice as he drove himself to the emergency room at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado. “It was the worst pain of my life,” he said. Kruzic was seen immediately because hospital staff members were pretty sure he had appendicitis. They inserted an IV, called a surgeon and sent him off for a scan to confirm the diagnosis.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most import

Hot peppers sent him to the ER. Two years later, a ‘ghost bill’ arrived.

The still-unsolved shooting death​ of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro​ this week has sent shockwaves through the campus.

Tributes pour in for MIT professor Nuno Loureiro amid unresolved shooting case

The deadline is Friday. But loopholes could limit what comes out.

When will the Epstein files be released — and will they reveal anything new?

US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.

‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

Vanessa Miller, a survivor of the terror attack at Australia's Bondi Beach, torched the police officers on the scene for "hiding."

Bondi Beach survivor criticizes police for inaction during terror attack

Authorities are searching for a suspect in the killing of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot at his home near Boston.  Loureiro, a married 47-year-old from Portugal, was shot Monday night and died Tuesday at a local hospital.  Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive, and no suspects were in custody as of Wednesday morning, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said.

What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and the investigation into his shooting

Teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana remains at record lows, according to national survey results released Wednesday.  Two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes or electronic cigarettes in the previous 30 days.

Teen drug use remains low, but survey finds small rise in heroin and cocaine use

Nuno Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Nuno Loureiro, MIT physicist, fatally shot at home; police investigate

Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the killing of professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two days after he was shot to death at his home outside Boston.  Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts.  The prosecutor’s office said the homicide investigation was “active and ongoing” as of early afternoon Wednesday and had no update — earlier they had said no sus

Shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro has police searching for a suspect

A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced Tuesday.  The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, onc

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

"The phone was ringing off the wall of kids being sick," a school official said.

Kansas school officials report high student illness, dismiss early

A six-year-old child reported being struck in the forehead, while two other children said bullets were fired at them, but did not hit. Israel Police have detained an 18-year-old for questioning over a complaint filed on Tuesday morning about a person who fired rubber bullets at a kindergarten in Ashkelon from a suspicious vehicle.

'A prank': Israel Police detain suspect for shooting rubber bullets at Ashkelon kindergarten

The weekend shooting left two students dead and nine others injured at the Ivy League school.

Manhunt for Brown University shooter continues: FBI releases photos of suspect, announces $50K reward

An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey

Poll: Most are satisfied with their health insurance, but a quarter report denials or delays

Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state's lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren't out of the woods yet.  Maine is home to a few thousand of the distinctive black-and-white waterbirds — the East Coast’s largest loon population — and conservationists said efforts to protect them from threats helped grow the population.  An annual count of common loons found more adults and chicks this year than last, Maine Audubon said this week.

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Chicago reports first rabies-positive dog in 61 years. What we know.

Federal judge upholds Hawaii's new climate change tax on cruise passengers

As tetanus vaccination rates decline, doctors worry about rising case numbers

As tetanus vaccination rates decline, doctors worry about rising case numbers

Experts who once backed 'shaken baby' science now fight to free imprisoned caregivers

Southern Californians, your health insurance costs could rise in 2026

Wisconsin judge sends Slender Man attacker back to mental health institution after group home escape

How to avoid or deal with an outrageous medical bill

Holiday weather forecast: Where travelers can expect a wintry mix, flooding and record warmth across the U.S.

Holiday travel: Best days to hit the road as 110 million Americans expected to drive over Christmas and New Year's

Addiction-stricken community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump's order

Toilet rats? Washington health officials warn of possible rodents in sewer systems after floods

Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers say Bondi’s death penalty decision was tainted by conflict of interest

Minnesota jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $65.5 million to woman with cancer who used talcum powder

What we know about the Brown University shooting suspect who was found dead, and how police linked him to the MIT killing

Hot peppers sent him to the ER. Two years later, a ‘ghost bill’ arrived.

Tributes pour in for MIT professor Nuno Loureiro amid unresolved shooting case

When will the Epstein files be released — and will they reveal anything new?

‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

Bondi Beach survivor criticizes police for inaction during terror attack

What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and the investigation into his shooting

Teen drug use remains low, but survey finds small rise in heroin and cocaine use

Nuno Loureiro, MIT physicist, fatally shot at home; police investigate

Shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro has police searching for a suspect

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

Kansas school officials report high student illness, dismiss early

'A prank': Israel Police detain suspect for shooting rubber bullets at Ashkelon kindergarten

Manhunt for Brown University shooter continues: FBI releases photos of suspect, announces $50K reward

Poll: Most are satisfied with their health insurance, but a quarter report denials or delays

More loons are filling Maine's lakes with their ghostlike calls