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Three California condors were found dead in northern Arizona, and now officials know the cause. The condors from the Arizona-Utah flock tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, the National Park Service said in a Friday, April 7, news release. The first condor was seen showing signs of illness on March 9 by The Peregrine Fund. The group that manages the Arizona-Utah flock first thought the bird had lead poisoning, officials said. But the bird later tested positive for the avian flu after collecting the female’s body below its nest on March 20, officials said. The U.S. Departm......

President Joe Biden on Monday signed a bill to declassify intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. Congress approved the legislation unanimously. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, introduced the bill March 1 after the Department of Energy said with “low confidence” it believed the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. How the pandemic began has led to competing theories. Some scientists have advanced the idea that the virus emerged as an accidental lab leak, while others say the evidence available favors the idea that an animal first infected a human. A team of virus e......

While the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the U.S. in 2020, the nationwide rate of sudden unexplained infant deaths remained steady — except among Black babies, according to a study released Monday. The sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) rates among white, Asian, American Indian and Hispanic babies all remained relatively steady or declined from 2019 to 2020, the study found. However, the rate increased substantially among Black babies. “The significant increased rate of SUID among non-Hispanic Black infants from 2019 to 2020, but not among other single race and Hispanic infants, deserves furthe......

A Lowe’s shopper in California lost his appeal this month of a court ruling that dismissed his claim that Lowe’s workers should have intervened when another shopper repeatedly spat in his face during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawyer John Birke told The Charlotte Observer on Tuesday that he was “extremely disappointed” by the ruling of the California 2nd District Court of Appeal. Still, he contends, his lawsuit may have saved lives. That’s because a day after he sued in July 2020, Lowe’s announced it would make all customers wear masks in its U.S. stores, he said. “It’s a Pyrrhic vict......

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan state representative came to the Capitol on Thursday to cast votes, despite testing positive test for COVID-19 the day before. Rep. Natalie Price, a Berkley Democrat, cast her vote from the gallery as the Michigan House held late night votes to pass an increase to the Earned Income Tax Credit, a repeal of some taxes on retirement income and a $946 million supplemental budget, the first-term lawmaker disclosed Monday. Price acknowledged her positive coronavirus test in a Facebook post Monday evening after Bridge Michigan reported on her attendance. The Lansing newsle......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Francisco Bay Area cities and counties set big goals to combat homelessness in 2022, as public outrage over the crisis intensified and officials took advantage of extra state and federal resources doled out in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Did they hit their mark? Not on every front. But even so, officials say they’ve made significant progress as we head into the new year. San Mateo County set perhaps the most ambitious goal, setting its sights on essentially ending street homelessness in 2022 by making sure everyone who wanted to come inside had access to a sh......