Moderna shares jumped as much as 96% in premarket trading Wednesday after the drugmaker and Merck announced positive Phase 3 results for their personalized mRNA melanoma therapy, intismeran autogene (mRNA-4157/V940), combined with Merck's Keytruda . The INTerpath-001 trial met its primary endpoint of recurrence-free survival and a key secondary endpoint...
A destructive U.S. wildfire season has severely strained domestic emergency resources, prompting Australia and New Zealand to deploy over 240 firefighters. This international mobilization marks the largest contingent ever sent jointly by the two countries to assist American fire suppression operations. Federal, state, and local agencies face an escalating series...
A massive high-pressure heat dome over the southern United States triggered severe heat and humidity advisories across 19 states, with elevated overnight temperatures staying in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees. The extreme weather pattern coincided with severe, training storms along the heat dome's northern boundary, spanning from Iowa...
National wildfire statistics released by the National Interagency Fire Center show that nearly fifty thousand fires have burned over seven million acres across the United States since early January. This total represents one hundred twenty nine percent of the ten year average for total incidents and one hundred sixty eight...
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson and Representative Michael Baumgartner requested an in-person meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss federal recovery aid following historic wildfires across the Pacific Northwest state. In their joint letter, the state leaders thanked the administration for initial emergency support while pushing for a major disaster declaration...
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, potentially removing restrictions on roads, road reconstruction and timber harvesting across roughly 44.7 million acres of inventoried roadless areas. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the change would give local Forest Service managers flexibility to improve forest health...
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has named Dr. Charles W. M. Roberts its next president and chief executive officer, succeeding Dr. James R. Downing after 12 years. Roberts, currently an executive vice president and director of St. Jude’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in Memphis, Tennessee, will take over Jan. 1, 2027....
Two explosions at Brent Industries in Toledo, Ohio, early Tuesday sparked a major fire, partially collapsed the building and left two workers unaccounted for, officials said. The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department said the blasts occurred shortly before 5 a.m. during a shift change at the industrial recycling and textile-reconditioning...
A fast-moving wildfire near Tok, Alaska, prompted Level 3 GO evacuations Monday as strong winds drove flames through residential areas along the Alaska Highway. The Mukluk Fire began near Sundog Trail shortly before noon and grew from about 20 acres Monday to more than 1,500 acres by evening, according to...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency water contamination advisory following an industrial solvent spill along a major river corridor. Federal inspectors reported that a storage facility containment failure discharged thousands of gallons of concentrated solvent into local waterways, forcing immediate drinking water shutoffs across multiple municipal treatment plants....
