A deadly airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza has highlighted the ongoing devastation to the region's healthcare system. The Israeli military claims it targeted a Hamas commander using the hospital as a base, though it has not provided evidence. Israel continues near-daily strikes in Gaza, despite a ceasefire with Hamas. Hospitals have been attacked throughout the conflict. The World Health Organization has documented over 1,050 attacks on health facilities. Gaza's healthcare system is in ruins and struggling to recover. Twenty of Gaza’s 36 prewar hospitals are functioning, though none is fully operational. Thursday's strike killed six people, including a surgeon and a 13-year-old boy.
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The American Cancer Society is recommending routine prostate cancer screening for more middle-aged men, in a major change to its guidelines. That means a blood test for what's called PSA, or prostate-specific antigen. The new guideline says men at average risk of getting prostate cancer should get a PSA test every two years between the ages of 50 and 69. It says men at high risk, including Black men and those with a strong family history of prostate cancer, should get yearly PSA checks and start earlier at age 45. An abnormal PSA doesn't mean that a man has prostate cancer, but may require further testing.
FILE - This 1974 microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows changes in cells indicative of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. (Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr./CDC via AP)
A 17-year-old boy with autism has been found found alive after six days lost in eastern Australian woodlands. Police said the teenager had begun camping with a friend when he disappeared Friday near Walhalla, east of Melbourne. A police helicopter crew found him Thursday surrounded by wilderness lying in a dry creek bed. He was described to be in good spirits and mostly good health. He was taken to a hospital for monitoring. The Southern Hemisphere spring weather had been mild for the past week in the region where he was lost.
Teresita de Jesús Padilla has reunited with her two sons after they were taken from her in Chile four decades ago. The children were illegally adopted during Gen Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, part of a dark chapter involving state corruption and child trafficking. Tim Rolnick and Travis Murdoch, now in their 40s, grew up in the U.S. and only recently discovered their origins. In 2020, Tim learned about his family in Chile through a DNA test. Following an emotional reunion in Santiago, both sons expressed a deep connection with their mother. They now aim to rebuild their family and create new memories.
President Donald Trump's administration is planning to make it harder to get food aid through the federal government's big grocery assistance program. It says the proposed rule would close a loophole by no longer allowing some people who receive benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needed Families program to automatically be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program too. The administration estimates that 6.3 million people could lose eligibility for SNAP. The proposal comes at a time when the number of people receiving the aid has fallen sharply — and on the heels on sweeping election gains for Democrats across the country.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told a U.N. climate summit that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza isn't only a genocide but an ecocide. Ergodan on Wednesday called on Israel to allow aid into the Palestinian territory. Torrential rains and floods have destroyed tents and shelters in Gaza. That has left many Palestinians without food, water or dry places to sleep. A 2025 U.N. Environment Program report says the war has severely damaged Gaza’s crops and trees, contaminated marine ecosystems and decimated its ability to handle sewage and garbage.
Every water sample taken from the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and its tributaries had microplastics found, according to a new report from the non-profit Environment America.
Congo’s Ebola cases have crossed 11,000 cases in another development that shows the severity of the outbreak. The latest health ministry data Wednesday showed 11,042 people have been infected by the deadly virus that has now killed 5,387, nearly half of those infected, in the country’s deadliest outbreak. Since the outbreak was declared mid-May, Congolese authorities have struggled to contain it due to a series of factors including conflicts and a health system crisis. The Bundibugyo virus responsible for this outbreak has no known vaccine or treatment and has spread to the eight of the country’s 26 provinces.
Police are investigating whether two Ohio State University students, treated for burns after being engulfed in flames at a party, were hazing victims. The university placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after a video circulated showing a group surrounding the burning students. The incident occurred Saturday. A student reported the possible hazing after seeing the video. The victims were treated for second- and third-degree burns. Ohio's "Collin’s Law," signed in 2021, toughens penalties for hazing. Ohio State maintains a public list of hazing violations, but Sigma Alpha Epsilon hasn't appeared on it in the last five years.