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WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Before Fred Kalfon began exercising at the Grey Team veterans center a couple months ago, the 81-year-old rarely left his Florida home.Parkinson's disease, an inner ear disorder and other neurological problems, all likely caused by the...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando A university professor who spent 100 days living underwater at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers resurfaced Friday and raised his face to the sun for the first time since March 1.Dr. Joseph Dituri set a new record for the longest...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week.The White House said Thursday that Jha will return to Brown University, where he had served as the dean of the...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando A special Italian court has shut down a probe into whether the country's former premier and former health minister caused unnecessary deaths by failing to extend a lockdown zone in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The Court of...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Debate surrounding Florida’s new restrictions on gender-affirming care focused largely on transgender children. But a new law that Republican presidential candidate and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last month also made it difficult – even...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando An Austrian federal court said Thursday that the state can’t be held liable for a COVID-19 infection from an outbreak at an Alpine ski resort as the pandemic hit Europe in early 2020.The Supreme Court of Justice announced its verdict in...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The British government is facing a Thursday afternoon deadline to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry — or face legal action from a probe that Johnson...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.Births to moms 35 and older continued to rise, with the highest rates...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando A former Connecticut state representative was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Wednesday for stealing more than $1.2 million from the city of West Haven — most of it in federal coronavirus-related aid — and using a good chunk of it to...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando A massive 5,000-mile wave of seaweed that has begun washing up in Florida has been found to hold deadly flesh-eating bacteria, according to a report by Newsweek on Tuesday.The report shows that a study by Florida Atlantic University...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando As Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.Now the inquiry wants to see, in full, what Johnson wrote to other U.K. officials as the outbreak raged...

WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition.Early findings...