Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson says he is running for a U.S. House seat representing Memphis, challenging longtime Democratic congressman Steve Cohen to represent the majority-Black city in a contest of youth versus experience.

States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.

No one could replace the inimitable talent that was Whitney Houston.

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him.

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in herds since last year.

A California man says his two cats died and a third was hospitalized after he fed them raw milk recalled for bird flu risk.

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That raises new questions about the outbreak of the virus, also known as Type A H5N1.