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In a pilot program in South Africa, teens who are not infected with HIV are going on a preventive regimen of anti-AIDS drugs.

About half of adults 65 and older have above-normal blood sugar levels that put them in the prediabetes category. Although that is a signal to improve your eating habits and get more exercise, researchers say only a small percentage of the group will develop diabetes.

Its name alone is terrifying. But infections in humans are both rare and devastating. Here are five things to know about the microscopic brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

Polk County recently rejected a planned truck refueling stop near a key wildlife corridor crossing over Interstate 4. It's a pretty big deal for animal and environmental advocates.

As heaps of black bags littered sidewalks with their contents spilling out of holes chewed by critters, the city council declared a major incident to bring in additional cleanup crews and vehicles.

Some voters are convinced that President Biden won't really be on the ballot in November. We explore this phenomenon. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on April 4, 2024.)

As the country seethes after George Floyd's killing, three black men from South Los Angeles who lived through the Watts or Rodney King riots share their ideas of what just policing would look like.

Preliminary results show a far-right candidate returned a commanding lead in the first round of the presidential election. He heads to a runoff later this month with the Workers' Party candidate.

The money will be donated to help defuse racism against the Asian American community. Xiao Zhen Xie's grandson wrote, "She insists on making this decision saying this issue is bigger than Her."

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Evening Masterwork: Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat for March 4, 2023

The supermoon — the Super Flower Blood Moon, to be exact — brought the first total lunar eclipse in nearly 2 1/2 years.

Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will tell Congress the economy is recovering but that more needs to be done to get to pre-pandemic levels

Biden is 80 years old, and would be 86 by the end of a second term. While many voters see his age as cause for concern, a campaign strategist says there are upsides to his decades of experience.

Of course, the first real CFP rankings aren't out for a few weeks, but an AP "mock" bracket gives the Bulls the automatic bid for a non-power conference team.

After hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats went into hypothermic shock during the city's recent cold snap, they lost their grip and fell. But they found a temporary home: the attic of Mary Warwick.

The film is based on a true story set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil was living under a military dictatorship.

How a shortage of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals affects the region, and efforts to train more doctors to meet the need.

The man in Turkey, to combat nervousness, brought along his violin — playing away as he soared through the sky. It's safe to say he conquered his fear. He has signed up to do it again.

Beyoncé became the only other solo woman alongside Taylor Swift to achieve the feat with no accompanying artists, Billboard said.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to set limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants.

Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as Farmville and Cityville, is expected to have its initial public offering before the end of the year. Zynga is a phenomenon. More than 200 million people play its games each month. One person who doesn't feel Zynga's success is cause for celebration is video game designer Ian Bogost. Bogost thinks Zynga's games are mindless, designed to suck money out of players' pockets. To make his point he created a parody game of his own. As On the Media's P.J. Vogt reports, what Bogost didn't expect is that his satire would become one of the most popular games he's ever made.

Oil prices jumped higher Friday on news of a deal between OPEC and Russia to cut production. Global oil prices have fallen 30 percent in recent months.

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity urged viewers Monday to "take Covid seriously," and to believe in the science. It contradicts what he and other top anchors at Fox have said over and over again.

The song is many things: comforting, manipulative, cathartic, a little threatening. Most importantly, it is a vessel, which empties out at the chorus to accommodate whatever a listener brings to it.