French Pharma Firm Ordered to Pay Millions Over Deadly Diabetes Drug

PARIS — A French appeals court on Wednesday ordered pharmaceutical firm Servier to pay more than $460 million in damages over a scandal involving a diabetes drug linked to hundreds of deaths

Poinsettia's Origins, Namesake’s Checkered History Get New Attention

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Scientists Aim to Save Northern White Rhino From Extinction

Nairobi — Kenyan and international researchers are hoping to save the northern white rhino species from extinction by implanting eggs from an older female northern white rhino into a female surrogate rhino from another species

2023: The Year Artificial Intelligence Broke Through

From ChatGPT to the impacts of machine learning on the music and film industry, academia and politics, generative artificial intelligence dominated technology news in 2023

Malawi Bans Maize Imports From Kenya, Tanzania Over Disease

BLANTYRE, MALAWI — Malawi, which already is suffering from food shortages, this week banned the import of unmilled maize from Kenya and Tanzania over concerns that the spread of maize lethal necrosis disease could wipe out the staple food

Drought-Prone California OKs New Rules for Turning Wastewater Directly Into Drinking Water

SACRAMENTO, California — When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: an ice skating rink in Ontario, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the Central Valley

Health Care Under Siege as Ukraine Enters Second Winter of War

GENEVA — As Ukraine enters a second winter of war, the World Health Organization warns that the country’s public health system will come under enormous stress as millions of civilians try to keep safe and warm during the long, brutally cold weather a[..]

In Sudan, Health Care Crisis Looms for Unborn, Newborn as Conflict Escalates

Nairobi, Kenya — According to the British charity Save the Children, some 30,000 children will be born in war-torn Sudan over the next three months without access to proper medical care, such as through doctors, hospitals and medicines

Volunteers Join Annual Christmas Bird Count

North America’s oldest citizen science project is underway with thousands of volunteers measuring bird populations in the annual Christmas Bird Count

Study Bolsters Evidence Severe Obesity Increasing in Young US Kids

NEW YORK — A new study adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U

Guatemala Loses Landmark Indigenous and Environmental Rights Case

MEXICO CITY — Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday

Face Masks Now an Occasional Feature of US Landscape

NEW YORK — The scene: A crowded shopping center in the weeks before Christmas

US Woman Criminally Charged After Miscarriage

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick blood clots

NM Extends Ban on Oil and Gas Leasing Around Area Sacred to Native Americans

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‘Prescribed Burns’ Could Aid Forests in US Southeast, Experts Say

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