(Anchorage, AK) — The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and the Municipality of Anchorage are warning Anchorage residents of a recent spread of mumps, and encouraging residents to update their vaccinations if necessary. Several new mumps cases have been diagnosed in the past few months, and there are now 13 confirmed cases of […]
THE PENTAGON — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued a warning to North Korea, saying that any attempt to launch missiles at U.S. soil “could escalate into war very quickly.” “If they do that, it’s game on,” Mattis told Pentagon reporters during an impromptu briefing late Monday. “You don’t shoot at people in this world unless […]
WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a stark warning to North Korea, saying it “best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Trump, speaking to reporters at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, accused […]
Health warnings cover about 10 percent of a cigarette pack’s exterior surface in the United States, but there is broad support, even among smokers, for making them significantly larger, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study has found. The study, published in the journal PLoS One, found that a majority of smokers and nonsmokers who responded to a randomized […]