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David Ryder/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago-area pharmacist was convicted of stealing and selling COVID-19 vaccination cards, the Justice Department announced on Monday. Tangtang Zhao, 36, of Chicago, stole CDC-issued COVID-19 vaccination cards from the pharmacy where he worked, and sold them to buyers across the country through an online marketplace, according to the DOJ. “During a three-week timeframe in March and April 2021, Zhao posted listings for over 650 COVID-19 vaccination cards t...

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Wachirawit Jenlohakit/Getty Images(SARASOTA, Fla.) -- Five people caught malaria locally in the U.S. for the first time since 2003, according to health officials. Four people in Sarasota County, Florida, and one person in Cameron County, Texas, reported cases of the mosquito-borne illness, state officials said. Cameron County is the southernmost county in Texas, about 1,300 miles away from Sarasota, Florida. All four Florida patients "have been treated and have recovered," according t...

American Farm Bureau(NEW YORK) -- The average cost of a 4th of July cookout is slightly down, but families are still feeling the pinch of inflation and other cost catalysts on groceries. According to The American Farm Bureaus annual marketbasket survey, the average cost for a 4th of July cookout will cost about $67.73 to feed 10 people, down just 3% or $2.27 per person from last year. Although the organizations survey indicates that prices have decreased slightly from the record highs of 2022, t...

Cavan Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As a pediatrician, Dr. Kristina Lehman knows the ins and outs of the evidence around breastfeeding better than most. But as a mother, she also knows that breastfeeding is hard and that following evidence-based guidelines isnt possible or the choice for everyone. "Im more proud of my breastfeeding relationship than even my [medical degree]," Lehman, who is also a breastfeeding medicine specialist, internal medicine physician and associate professor...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks - Region 5(COLUMBUS, Mont.) -- Cleanup is continuing at the site where a train carrying potentially hazardous materials derailed into the Yellowstone River in Montana, according to officials. The incident left multiple tankers in the Yellowstone River and decimated the railroad portion of the Yellowstone Twin River Bridges in Stillwater County, Montana. Officials have not indicated whether the derailment caused the bridge to collapse or whether the collapse precip...

AppleStuffed animals are greater than gold in the new trailer for The Beanie Bubble. Zach Galifianakis and Elizabeth Banks lead the Apple TV+ film about Ty Warner and the three women who helped him make the plush animal toys known as Beanie Babies such a craze in ‘90s. Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan also star. According to a press release, the film tells an inventive story “about what and who we value, and the unsung heroes whose names didn’t appear on the heart-shaped t...

CBP El Paso(EL PASO, Texas) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection saw right through a commercial refrigeration unit that, instead of being used to make ice cream, had been stuffed with more than 100 pounds of cocaine, officials said Thursday. Customs officers in El Paso, Texas, seized 146 pounds of the narcotic after discovering it had been bundled up and hidden in the walls of the ice cream maker and then detected by X-ray technology at a federal border crossing on Monday, according to a CBP ne...

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine for older adults could soon be available after an advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to recommend them Wednesday. During a meeting, the agencys Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices looked at clinical trial data for two vaccines, one by Pfizer and the other by GSK. Short of a full recommendation, the committee said adults aged 60 and over may...

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Frozen fruit products distributed to Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Target, Aldi and AWG stores in over 30 states have been voluntarily recalled due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. SunOpta Inc’s subsidiary, Sunrise Growers Inc., issued the voluntary recall on specific frozen fruit products linked to pineapple provided by a third-party supplier, the company announced in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday....