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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Thursday the state is seeking federal permission to exclude soft drinks and candy from the list of items that can be purchased under the benefit for low-income Americans long known as food stamps.

Five people who are incarcerated at a New Mexico county detention facility have measles, the state health department said Thursday.

OTTAWA — The Federal Court has approved a multi-billion-dollar class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run 'Indian hospitals' following out-of-court negotiations between Ottawa and Indigenous survivors.

WASHINGTON (AP) — States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood , from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and cancer screenings, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers took up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative called thimerosal.

TORONTO — Toronto Public Health says it recorded 42 heat-related emergency department visits during the heat wave that gripped much of Ontario earlier this week.

MONTRÉAL — Quebec's premier offered his condolences on Thursday to the victims of an air ambulance crash on Quebec's North Shore that killed three crew members and a patient.

LONDON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi , saying the organization has “ignored the science" and “lost the public trust.

HALIFAX — Police in Halifax are looking for a woman accused of assaulting a man days before he died at an encampment for homeless people.

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is further tightening control of cannabis by banning sales of the plant to those without prescriptions.