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Mpox virus particles. Via CDC/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)(NEW YORK) -- Mpox cases are on the rise in the U.S., increasing to almost double what they were at the same time last year, according to new CDC data.There is a national year-to-date estimate of 511 cases as of mid-March, compared to 287 cases during the same period last year. New York City has been dealing with over 100 cases so far this year, whereas last year, the city only had 30.Mpox, formerly known...

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Mega Millions jackpot swelled to $1.12 billion after no winners were selected in last weeks drawing. The next drawing is Tuesday night at 11 p.m. ET.This is the sixth time the Mega Millions jackpot prize has surpassed $1 billion. If won Tuesday night, this would be the fifth largest prize in the history of the game.The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 3, 8, 31, 35 and 44, plus the gold Mega Ball 16.There have been 30 consecutive drawin...

Joe daniel price/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a challenge to the Food and Drug Administrations regulation of mifepristone, a widely used drug used in medication abortions.In what was the most significant reproductive rights case brought before the high court since its conservative majority overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, most of the justices, across ideological lines, appeared skeptical of restricting access to the abortion pill nationwide and repeatedly que...

Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In 2020, then-President Donald Trump was hyper critical of President Joes Biden campaign schedule dubbing his sparse event calendar and low-attendance rallies, a result of following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic, a "basement campaign."Now, as Trump lags in fundraising and faces a robust legal schedule, the Biden campaign is attempting to flip the term back at Trump as his...

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.N. Security Council voted Monday to adopt a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza for the remaining days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the unconditional release of hostages being held by Hamas terrorists.The Security Council said the resolution could lead to a lasting sustainable cease-fire in the nearly five-month conflict.The Security Council voted 14-0 with the United States abstaining.Ramadan,...

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who escaped from his vandalized Central Park Zoo enclosure in February 2023, had high levels of rat poison in his system and was suffering from "severe herpesvirus" that he contracted from eating pigeons when he died last month in Manhattan.The post-mortem necropsy report was released Monday afternoon by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which runs New York Citys Central Park Zoo, revealing it...

Boris Lopez and Cecia Juarez(LOS ANGELES) -- A 10-month-old who was born at 26 weeks gestation has beaten the odds to return home from the hospital.Ellyannah, the daughter of Cecia Juarez and Boris Lopez, was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Guerin Childrens in Los Angeles on March 15 after spending the first eight months of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit, two weeks in the pediatric intensive care unit and then another month on the pediatrics floor."There were doctors [and] nurses...

ABC NewsBoeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of the year, the company said in an announcement Monday.The move comes amid fallout from a high-profile safety failure onboard an Alaska Airlines flight in January, when a door plug blew out of Boeings 737 Max 9 aircraft while the plane was in flight.In a statement on Monday, Calhoun acknowledged the challenges facing Boeing."The eyes of the world are on us, and I know that we will come through this moment a better company," Cal...

ABC NewsThis week marks one year since The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges while on a reporting trip.A year into what the U.S. State Department has declared to be a wrongful detainment, Evan Gershkovichs parents say they are optimistic."We know that the U.S. government is taking Evans case very seriously," his mother, Ella Milman, told "Good Morning America" co-anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive sit-down inte...

ABC NewsA weekend outing to the Northern California woods took a horrific turn for two brothers when a mountain lion attacked them, killing one and leaving the other with traumatic injuries to the face, authorities said.This was the first fatal attack by a cougar in the state in 20 years, California officials said.The attack unfolded Saturday afternoon while the brothers, ages 21 and 18, were out searching for shed deer antlers near the El Dorado National Forest, about 52 miles northeast of Sacr...