New sunscreen ingredient wins FDA approval after years of delay

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years. The decision announced Tuesday will give Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the world. The ingredient, bemotrizinol, met the FDA’s standards for protecting from dangerous ultraviolet …

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Ads in New York Must Now Label AI-Generated ‘Synthetic Performers’

Any advertisements in New York that feature artificial intelligence-generated people in place of actors will now be violating state law if they don’t clearly label that they have used a “synthetic performer.” The law, signed in December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, went into effect Tuesday. Her office is calling it a “first-in-the-nation law” that will …

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US Urges Europe to Step up Travel Measures to Prevent Spread of Ebola From Africa

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people coming to the continent from Ebola-hit countries in Africa, hinting that failure to do so may result in increased U.S. regulations on travel from Europe, including for the World Cup soccer tournament. Secretary of …

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Former Munitions Testing Site in Connecticut Redeveloped as Urban Forest

On Valentine’s Day in 2024, a small group of activists trudged through the snow to a high chain-link fence surrounding hundreds of acres of woods in Bridgeport. In their arms, they carried thousands of handwritten cards pasted onto large paper hearts: love letters to the forest that for decades had been cordoned off from the …

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US Urges Europe to Impose Ebola Travel Bans Ahead of World Cup

By Simon Lewis and Giulia Paravicini WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, June 9 (Reuters) – The Trump administration ⁠has ⁠called on European nations to follow Washington’s ⁠lead and impose travel restrictions on people who have recently been in Central African countries affected ​by the Ebola outbreak, in hopes of avoiding the spread of the virus during the soccer World …

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Watchdog finds waste and unsanitary conditions at ICE facility inside Fort Bliss

A government watchdog found major problems with the Trump administration’s efforts to hold immigrant detainees inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, including millions of dollars in waste, unsanitary conditions and inadequate tuberculosis control measures, as well as a lost firearm. From August 2025 to March 2026, the facility, known as Camp East Montana, …

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Photos You Should See – June 2026 | Photos

The Tick Triggering a Red Meat Allergy As ER visits for tick bites rise across parts of the U.S., health officials are drawing attention to alpha-gal syndrome, a potentially life-threatening allergy linked to the lone star tick. Cecelia Smith-SchoenwalderJune 9, 2026

Rome mayor resigns over expense-account scandal

ROME — Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino resigned Thursday following a scandal over his expense accounts that became the final straw in a months-long campaign by opponents inside and out of his Democratic Party to force him from office. Marino said in a letter addressed to Romans that his resignation was not an admission of guilt …

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Many soccer fans excited about U.S. hosting World Cup, CBS News poll finds

Three in four U.S. soccer fans feel positive about the U.S. hosting the World Cup, including more than half who are excited about it. The U.S. hosting the tournament generates comparatively less enthusiasm among those who aren’t soccer fans. Relatively few of those who aren’t soccer fans say the U.S. hosting the World Cup makes …

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