The World Health Organization has said efforts to contain the Ebola epidemic are “catching up”, despite the virus having had a “big head start.”
This week, WHO reported a major drop in the number of suspected Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) outbreak, after testing ruled out many of them.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday there were now 344 confirmed cases of Ebola in the DRC outbreak and 116 suspected cases — a significant drop from the 1,000-plus suspected cases.

June 4 (Reuters) - The UK cost-effectiveness watchdog on Thursday recommended AbbVie's "guided missile" cancer therapy, Elahere, for patients with a hard-to-treat form of ‌ovarian cancer.
The drug, Elahere, will be made available to patients under a ‌confidential commercial agreement between AbbVie and the state-run National Health Service, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said.
The decision comes after NICE revised its value appraisal framework as part of a broader UK-U.S. deal last year to secure zero tariffs on British pharmaceutical products and medical technology, in exchange for increased drug spending and ‌changes to its ******* sment criteria.
The ⁠new framework would widen access to treatments previously rejected on cost grounds.
Critically ill patients whose cancer has stopped responding to ⁠standard chemotherapy will now be able to access Elahere through the NHS. The drug was previously limited to clinical trials, private care, or compassionate use.

SEATTLE (AP) — A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific.
The buoy 80 meters (260 feet) below the water's surface will be removed June 16 from the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million that has continuously collected real-time data for more than a decade. But last month, the National Science Foundation announced it would dismantle most of the system, pulling instruments from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland by 2027.
Funded by the foundation, the observatories have tracked everything from ocean circulation and marine ecosystems to climate change and extreme weather. Its data has been freely available and has informed more than 500 scientific publications. The project was slated to run for another 15 to 20 years.
In an emailed statement, the foundation said the decision is not a cancellation, but a “descoping” aligned with a “wider strategy of a nimbler approach to prioritize support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies, as well as smart lifecycle management within its research infrastructure portfolio.” The foundation added that its decision drew in part on a 2025 National Academies report on the future of ocean science.
But for the scientists who built and operated the system — and the researchers, educators and students who rely on its data — the timing feels particularly punishing.

California Democrats persuaded voters to let them redraw the state's congressional map so the party could potentially gain five seats in the U.S. House to counter GOP redistricting in Texas. Tuesday’s primary will be the first indication of whether that will pay off.
The state’s unusual primary system, in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party, means Democrats have a chance of effectively missing out on a pickup in the San Diego suburbs, where Republican Rep. Darrell Issa's district was redrawn to give it a slight Democratic lean.
Issa retired, and a Republican San Diego County supervisor, Jim Desmond, stepped in to run. So did an avalanche of nine Democrats — so many that some fear the Democratic vote will be split among them, leaving Desmond and the only other GOP candidate, Jim O’Neil, as the top vote-getters. Under that scenario, Democrats would be locked out of the November general election.
“After millions of dollars and a nationwide effort to redraw these districts in response to Texas, Democrats being shut out would be a nightmare,” said Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former Obama administration official who is one of the Democrats running.
California has been the bright spot for Democrats in a redistricting war kicked off by President Donald Trump to help his party retain control of the House. After Texas redrew its map to make as many as five more seats winnable for the GOP, California voters allowed Democrats to suspend their state’s own independent redistricting commission and create a new map in retaliation.

A new drug, decades in the making, is showing game-changing results for those battling pancreatic cancer. NBC’s medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar joins TODAY with what you need to know about the breakthrough medication that doubled survival time and slowed tumor progression in patients during trials and how it could potentially help treat other cancers.

Human remains discovered by a hiker in a northern New Mexico national forest last week have been identified as Melissa Casias, a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee who disappeared nearly a year ago, authorities said.
The remains were found May 28, nearly 11 months after she disappeared, in the McGaffey Ridge area of Carson National Forest — nearly 15 miles from her home in Taos. A handgun was found alongside the remains, the New Mexico State Police said in a news release.
The state Office of the Medical Investigator positively identified Casias, but the cause and manner of death have not yet been determined, police said. The remains will undergo further anthropological examination by the Office of the Medical Investigator.
State police declined to comment further when reached by CNN on Monday. CNN has also reached out to the Office of the Medical Investigator and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Casias, 54, was last seen walking along a highway near Talpa, New Mexico, in June 2025, state police said. She had left her belongings — including her purse, identification and cellphones — at her home in Taos, nearly 8 miles away. One of her phones had been factory-reset, NBC News reported at the time.

Hezbollah has begun unleashing "game changing" waves of "lethal" nighttime drones against Israel, a defense expert warns, with the attacks contributing to casualties, defense breaches and plunging parts of the border region into chaos, according to reports.
Escalating deployments by Hezbollah had also prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convene an emergency security meeting on May 30 following a surprise Hezbollah strike, amid reports of "utter chaos" as Israeli forces scrambled to respond.
"These nighttime drones are the very small Category 1 and Category 2 drones," defense expert and Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell told Fox News Digital.
"They are generally used by squads on the ground to go and conduct tactical lethal missions or surveillance missions right in theater immediately. What they are able to do is use thermal sensors to be able to fly at night and use heat signatures to spot IDF troops," he said.
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Sridhar Ramaswamy sees the major software players beginning to sort the AI winners from the losers. As of now, Snowflake, the cloud storage company where Ramaswamy is chief executive, is on the upside.
Ramaswamy just delivered a blowout first quarter for Snowflake, which this week reported a beat across the board. The results helped vault its shares up 36% and extended five-day gains past 50%. Shares also surged after the 14-year-old company said it would pay Amazon $6 billion during the next five years for the tech giant’s popular Graviton chips, reflecting strong demand Snowflake is seeing for its services.
The positive results were much needed for Snowflake following a stock slump that has decimated many software-as-a-service businesses due to investor fears about AI replacing traditional software vendors. Snowflake is among a pack of companies anchoring themselves after launching major AI initiatives that incorporate agentic technology with the data the company handles. The strong Q1 results (revenue grew 33% year-over-year, the fastest pace in two years) validated the consumption-based pricing model the company has long had, Ramaswamy said, and showed that traditional software can transition to AI compute.
“It’s important to understand that all software companies are not the same,” Ramaswamy told Fortune on Friday, days before Snowflake is set to host its tech summit in San Francisco.
The difference for Snowflake, Ramaswamy said, is that it has priced its products by consumption from the getgo. “We recognize revenue only when a customer actually uses Snowflake’s capabilities,” he said. “We have to show value to make money.”

Officers have now made an arrest after a man refused to leave a property in Shepshed.
Leicestershire Police said it attended an address in Britannia Street on Sunday morning to carry out an arrest attempt. But when officers arrived, a man refused to leave the address.
Armed police were called and cordons were put in place while police responded to the incident.
On Sunday evening, police said a 51-year-old had been arrested on suspicion of affray and remained in custody.
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