You may not be interested in the color of your doctor’s curtains, but chances are you did some homework of your own before your last checkup. On a typical day, an estimated 8 million American adults seek health information online, where the number of health-related Web sites now tops 60,000. And the explosion in health news and information has hardly been limited to the Web. Newspapers, magazines, the nightly news and cable TV are awash in reports about new drugs, newly discovered genes and the risks and benefits of this or that new surgical procedure or exercise regimen....

At least six health departments issued statements Thursday night saying they would halt all COVID-related work, including case investigations, contact tracing, quarantine directives, and public announcement of the number of cases and deaths. Agencies in Stoddard, Pemiscot, New Madrid, Scott, Dunklin, and Laclede Counties were included, according to The Kansas City Star. The announcements said the decision was a “huge concern” but they had to follow Schmitt’s “orders” until state health officials gave them directions....

Forty-eight percent have those who claimed compensation reported having cancer, and 20 percent of those with cancer were found to have an additional qualifying condition. Under the “Never Forget the Heroes” Act, the VCF provides funds to those who survived, lost a family member, responded, removed subsequent debris, or were near the exposure site on the day of the attacks. The report stated that 79 percent of those filing eligibility claims were approved....

France is open in its war against radical Islamist ideology. “We are in a war against an enemy that is both inside and outside,” French interior minister Gerald Darmanin told RTL radio, admitting that more terror attacks in France are inevitable. “We need to understand that there have been and there will be other events such as these terrible attacks,” he said. France has recently increased its efforts, with clear calls for regulation of social media and introducing a national bill specifically to fight radical Islam....

Police arrested 133 protestors for “Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding,” Capitol Police spokesperson Eva Malecki told Gay City News. More than 500 people are believed to have participated in the protest. The demonstration was organized by the advocacy group Housing Works, who announced the protest in September, alongside plans to bus participants to the protest from the group’s New York City base. The group describes itself as “a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS,” and it states their mission is “to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain our efforts....

The schools, many of which are already struggling with low funding, could lose thousands more due to a change in enforcement of a rule on how to report students living in poverty, according to a Friday report from The New York Times. The Education Department plan to cut off the schools because they have not been reporting the statistics based on census data as technically required by law, although the government had been allowing the schools to report the statistics based on number of students on free and reduced school lunch programs, which some consider to be a more reliable measure, especially in rural areas....

Administration officials will also watch Yeltsin’s speech to his Parliament this week. They want Yeltsin to condemn the assault on Chechnya and fire the military hard-liners responsible for the debacle. Unless he indicates regret for the operation soon, the officials say, they may delay a U.S.-Russian summit in Moscow planned for May. Top Kremlin officials say Yeltsin is taking his time with “very difficult personnel decisions,” and predict he will stick to a firm line on Chechnya....

They will have more help Thursday and even more on Sunday in the Daytona 500. Whether it will be enough remains the big question heading into the biggest events of Speedweeks. Denny Hamlin won the Sprint Unlimited, a race that started with 18 cars and ended with eight Saturday night. The Budweiser Duel qualifying races on Thursday — 150-mile races to set the field for the Daytona 500 — will have 25 drivers in the first race and 24 in the second....

Zlatko Dalic’s men were surprise participants in the final of the 2018 edition of this tournament, where they were ultimately beaten by France. Croatia aren’t tipped for glory in Qatar, either, though a good start against Morocco will undoubtedly lead to suggestions they might be dark horses. Below are the confirmed lineups for both teams. MORE: Morocco vs. Croatia live: World Cup score, highlights, result from 2022 Group F match...

Hakimi, the Madrid-born superstar who opted to play for Morocco, the country of his parents’ birth, put on a wonderful display in Tuesday’s 0-0 draw, slaloming up the field and pressing like a mad man against wave after wave of Spanish passing. The PSG man came up trumps again during the penalty shootout, lining up to take the match-clinching penalty after a pair of impressive saves from goalkeeper Yassine Bounou....

Evie Rodriguez, who works as a funeral director and embalmer in Illinois, posts videos to the app as retseleve and promises to reveal funeral secrets. In a recent video that has been viewed almost 150,000 times, Rodriguez describes one of the surprising products that you will find at a funeral home. She tells how dental simulators, or dental formers, are plastic devices used when a person is missing teeth or dentures....

According to new results published in a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll, 76 percent of Iowa Democrats said they wear a face covering almost all or most of the time, compared to 37 percent of Iowa Republicans. The poll also reported that 52 percent of political independents in Iowa say they wear a face mask in public. The survey, which was taken June 7-10, showed that 36 percent of Iowans — regardless of political affiliation — said they wear a face covering almost all or most of the time, compared to 26 percent who answered they “typically never” wear a face covering while out in public....

The survey results, which were published on Sunday morning, show that 60 percent of Arizona voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, while 59 percent disapprove of the president’s response to racial inequality. In Michigan and Florida, 59 percent and 57 percent respectively disapprove of the president’s response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel virus. In both states, 57 percent said they disapprove of his response to racial inequality....

After tying Eric Lindros on Saturday for the Canadian World Juniors all-time points record, the 2023 draft sensation broke it on Monday with his goal to open Canada’s quarterfinal game against Slovakia. After a Slovakia turnover in its own zone, Bedard got the puck in alone on Adam Gajan and beat him glove side for his 32nd career point at the World Juniors. The 17-year-old has been stellar for Canada at the tournament, leading all skaters in goals, assists and points....

Following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court, England, on Wednesday, Lorna Hewitt, 43, was convicted along with her husband Craig Hewitt, 42. The trial jury also found the couple, of Walkley Road, Sheffield, northern England, neglected their 22-year-old son, Matthew Langley, for a seven-month period between November, 2019, to June, 2020. Langley was found by paramedics following an emergency 999 call in the early hours of June 2, 2020. Despite being six feet tall, he only weighed six stone, the court heard....

Layleen Polanco was 27 years old when she was found unresponsive inside her cell in the Rose M. Singer Center at the island-jail facility. She had epilepsy and schizophrenia, conditions which her mother, Aracelis Polanco, alleges were allowed to exacerbate due to the negligence of corrections officers, ultimately contributing to her premature death. Aracelis Polanco claimed in the lawsuit that her daughter’s death on June 7 occurred as a result of “personnel [who] failed to provide her safe housing, adequate medical care, and proper accommodation for her disabilities....

Mia Montemaggi was allegedly kidnapped by three men on Tuesday while she was staying with her maternal grandmother in the Les Poulières, a village in the Vosges region of France, according to a report by the news agency Agence France-Presse. More than 200 police officers were mobilized in a massive search for the missing girl. Mia and her mother were located on Sunday morning in an abandoned factory, which other people had illegally moved in to, in the Swiss town of Sainte-Croix, François Pérain, the public prosecutor in Nancy, told AFP....

Drivers Meera and Raghavendra Rao reported being stuck on the interstate for 16 hours though they were only about 100 feet past an exit. The National Weather Service reported that Monday’s blizzard caused up to 11 inches of snowfall. So far, no serious injuries have been reported. Due to how tightly packed the traffic was, road crews had a difficult time reaching the accident sites to tow the jackknifed trucks, Senator Tim Kaine told WTOP....

Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia (PFAM) were finally rewarded for their perseverance after they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) on Wednesday. The signing ceremony between PFAM represented by its Chief Executive Officer, Izham Ismail and FAM represented by its Secretary-General Datuk Hamidin Amin - was also witnessed by the president of both associations in Hairuddin Omar and HRH Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim respectively....