News for April 6, 2025

Director Joy Donley is turning her family’s grief after her son Lewis’s death into a play that highlights organ donation and the comfort it can bring.

Police shot Long Qian Chen after he allegedly attacked four children with a meat cleaver in a Brooklyn home, and the children are expected to survive.

Andrew Painter is set to pitch in a minor league game for the first time in three years as the Phillies ease him back from Tommy John surgery.

A second unvaccinated child has died from measles in Texas as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits the state and the outbreak spreads.

Joseph Tater, a U.S. citizen awaiting trial in Russia, was forcibly sent to a psychiatric hospital after a Moscow court approved the move.

Minnesota health professionals, including Munira Maalimisaq, are working to fight vaccine fear in the Somali community by sharing facts about the MMR vaccine and autism.

A second child has died in Texas’s growing measles outbreak, highlighting the risk of the disease and the need for vaccination.