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The U.S. public health emergency declaration helped marshal resources during the worst of the COVID-19 crisis, when the virus was spreading rampantly. This week, the declaring expires.

The COVID public health emergency ends this week. Here's what's changing

Three years ago, the emergency declaration enabled certain tools for fighting the pandemic and protecting Americans. Now that it's expiring, here's what is changing — and what's not.

New recommendations from the USPSTF advise that women get biannual mammograms starting at age 40 to detect breast cancers.

If you're 40, it's time to start mammograms, according to new guidelines

The influential U.S. Preventive Task Force issue a draft of its new breast cancer screening guidelines. They're now recommending women start younger, amid a rise in breast cancer rates.

President Biden (center) meets with top congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Tuesday afternoon to talk about the debt limit.

Biden and congressional leaders met about the debt limit. They'll talk again on Friday

The government could run out of money to pay its bills as soon as June 1. President Biden said talks were "productive" though Speaker Kevin McCarthy said "I didn't see any new movement."

Autumn Hendry moved into the Nesting Place maternity home after she became pregnant, but she wasn't allowed to stay after she began using meth and alcohol again.

Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions

A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.

Steve Kirsch, a tech entrepreneur turned anti-vaccine activist, at a conference in Atlanta for future COVID and vaccine-related litigation that he helped organize and fund.

As the pandemic winds down, anti-vaccine activists are building a legal network

They're aiming to bring together lawyers who have brought COVID-19 and vaccine-related cases to court with experts and build a body of law to combat future public health orders.

Tom Hanks used some of the pandemic slowdown to write a novel titled, <em>The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.</em>

Tom Hanks has starred in dozens of movies. Now he's written a novel, too

For Tom Hanks, movies have always been transformative. Now, after acting in dozens of them, he's written a novel based on his experiences on movie sets. He talked to NPR's A Martinez.

Members of the band Sum 41 say they are breaking up after 27 years together

Sum 41 is behind 2000s hits such as "Fat Lip" and "In Too Deep." The band said it will finish a U.S. and international tour and release an album before officially disbanding.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will make a recommendation about whether the agency should approve the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S.

The FDA considers first birth control pill without a prescription

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.

Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe, center, is congratulated Monday by staff sports columnist Rick Cleveland, right, after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, as her mother, Bethel Wolfe, left, observes, at a celebration in Jackson, Miss. Wolfe was honored for her reporting on a $77 million welfare scandal, the largest embezzlement of federal funds in Mississippi's history.

Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

Josh Groban and the combined casts of <em>Hamilton</em> and <em>Sweeney Todd</em>.

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Josh Groban, cast of 'Hamilton' celebrate 'Sweeney Todd'

The casts of both shows joined together to sing a parody song penned by Miranda.

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