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Schuette’s office has launched a criminal investigation into the water emergency to see if any laws were broken, and he announced Monday that a former FBI chief and an ex-prosecutor will lead the probe and report directly to him.

The issue of transgender athletes recently gained wider global attention when Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, announced he had undergone gender reassignment surgery and was now living as a woman, Caitlyn Jenner. According to The Associated Press, the changes...

“A billion people are infected with malaria parasites and it kills a child every minute”.

Brazil, which has been hit hard by Zika, says almost 4,000 babies have been born with suspected microcephaly since October, and US officials say pregnant women should avoid traveling to countries affected by the outbreak. Travel warnings have been issued by some nations as the...

The word “zika” is derived from the Zika forest in Uganda, where the virus was first isolated by scientists from a sentinel rhesus monkey.

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters”, Trump said.

A Facebook page that has been set up to support Trevor, Team Trevor, is full of well-wishers and photos and videos of other people who have braved the long waiting list for heart transplants and have underwent the surgery, thanks to generous donors who have opted to become organ...

Yet is such a goal truly achievable in the near future? The shape of this particular moonshot is still indistinct, but the basic elements are coming into focus: more federal money, better data sharing between scientists and doctors, and giving a big pair of red-tape-cutting...

NEW YORK, United States-Three people in New York have tested positive for the Zika virus, which has been blamed for a surge in babies born with abnormally small heads in Latin America, city officials said Friday.

Dole Fresh Vegetables announced a recall of its packaged salads Friday after a listeria outbreak from one its facilities spread to six states, killing one person and infecting 11 others.

Indiana Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Carol Comer said the disposal of the hundreds of thousands of birds is a logistical challenge, “The infected birds are being composted on the farm”.

The CDC’s latest report on Zika also states that the virus “can also be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby during pregnancy or around the time of birth”, which, understandably has pregnant women scared.

A woman leaves her apartment as health workers fumigates her neighbourhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador, January 21, 2016.

The Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo are planning for the quarterback to have offseason surgery to plate his left collarbone in attempt to prevent future injuries, according to sources.

As zika virus is sweeping through Latin America, the advice for Kiwi women who are pregnant or planning to be is to hold off travelling to affected countries.