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By Arthur Allen and KFF Health News HealthDay ReportersSATURDAY, May 16, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug had prolonged the lives of a third of the …
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — The PGA Championship raised its total prize fund this year to $20.5 million, a $1.5 million increase from last year but still third among the three American majors. The winner’s share will be $3,690,000. The Masters raised its total purse to $22.5 million this year, the highest payout of golf’s …
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Three gunmen who allegedly stormed into two primary schools in a rare attack in southwestern Nigeria were taken into custody, police said Saturday. Authorities were still assessing the number of schoolchildren that might have been abducted, police spokesperson Ayanlade Olayinka told The Associated Press. Gunmen attacked two primary schools in the …
May 16 (Reuters) – The acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s drug center, Tracy Beth Hoeg, was fired on Friday, according to her social media post, and has been replaced by deputy Michael Davis, the FDA’s website shows. Reuters was first to report Hoeg was expected to leave the FDA on Friday, …
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 16 (Reuters) – At least 42 Nigerian school children were missing on Saturday a day after suspected Islamist militants attacked a school in the insurgency-hit northeastern Borno state, a senator for the area said. Residents said on Friday that armed men abducted an unknown number of students from Mussa Primary and Junior …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the “no shirt, no problem,” mantra. His club was boosted to a win Friday night by a group of college ball players in the right-field seats who took off and waved their shirts as they sang, chanted and drew others into the fray. …
May 16 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Saturday allowed a sanctions waiver to lapse that had previously allowed countries including India to buy Russian seaborne oil after a month-long extension aimed at easing oil supply shortages and high prices due to Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. • U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent …
Tens of thousands of demonstrators descended on central London on Saturday for a rally organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, with supporters framing the event as a protest against the erosion of British identity. Police estimated that around 60,000 people attended the “Unite the Kingdom” march, making it one of the largest right-wing mobilizations seen …
BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry on Saturday described as “preliminary” the tariff, agricultural and aircraft deals agreed during this week’s visit by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump left Beijing on Friday after two days of talks with President Xi Jinping that featured pageantry and warm rhetoric but limited detail on concrete outcomes …
BERLIN (AP) — A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort, after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, authorities said Saturday. The dead whale was stranded on Thursday just off the small island …