Health

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates — controlled by Democrats who flipped the chamber in November after campaigning on abortion rights — decisively voted down a bill that would have instituted a near-total abortion ban.

CHICAGO (AP) — A large children's hospital in Chicago remains hobbled by a cyberattack that began more than a week ago , cutting doctors and nurses off from digital patient records and limiting parents' ability to communicate with their kids' caregiv

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican-led campaign to restore abortion rights in Missouri ended Thursday, clearing the path for a competing, more sweeping constitutional amendment to get on the state's November ballot.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Legislation in West Virginia to narrow the definitions of gender would give women no further rights and is a way for Republicans to suppress transgender people, speakers at a public hearing said Thursday.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling two types of Mexican-style corn salad kits due to possible Listeria contamination.

VANCOUVER — When the sun goes down, the rats of Vancouver's Burrard Skytrain Station emerge, in a scurrying blur of fur and whipping tails.

LONDON (AP) — Prince William returned to royal duties Wednesday for the first time since his father, King Charles III , announced his cancer diagnosis and his wife, Kate, was hospitalized for abdominal surgery .

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's administration on Wednesday backed off its plans to impose rules that advocates feared would have restricted gender-affirming medical treatment for adults in a way no other state has.

ATLANTA (AP) — The death of a Georgia couple's baby that was decapitated during delivery has been classified by a medical examiner as a homicide, their attorneys announced Wednesday. Treveon Taylor Jr.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators on Wednesday voted against amending the state's strict law against abortions to allow exceptions in cases of rape and incest. The state banned almost all abortions after the U.S.