Shelby Lum
@shelbylum.bsky.social
Staff video journalist at AP health & science. Prev. making videos at the Boston Globe and the Richmond Times-Dispatch 📰🎥 Ohio State alum.
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced apnews.com/article/trum...
AP is taking a deep dive into autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases don’t get a lot of public attention, and they’re difficult to diagnosis. For most lupus patients it's years before they get an answer. apnews.com/article/auto...
Disease of 1,000 faces shows how science is tackling immunity’s dark side
It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AP is taking a deep dive into autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases don’t get a lot of public attention, and they’re difficult to diagnosis. For most lupus patients it's years before they get an answer. apnews.com/article/auto...
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BREAKING: Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among the 40 that will see flights cut due to the government shutdown.
Most major US airports are among 40 targeted by shutdown-related flight cuts
Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago along with hubs across the U.S. are among the 40 that will see flights cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among the 40 that will see flights cut due to the government shutdown.
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
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Everyone but Fred Ramsdell seemed to know he had just won the Nobel Prize.
Ramsdell was away on a backpacking trip Monday -- and kept his cellphone in airplane mode as he often does on family trips.
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Ramsdell was away on a backpacking trip Monday -- and kept his cellphone in airplane mode as he often does on family trips.
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Your phone rings, and it's a number from Sweden. Do you answer? A Nobel Prize winner didn't
This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Everyone but Fred Ramsdell seemed to know he had just won the Nobel Prize.
Ramsdell was away on a backpacking trip Monday -- and kept his cellphone in airplane mode as he often does on family trips.
apnews.com/article/nobe...
Ramsdell was away on a backpacking trip Monday -- and kept his cellphone in airplane mode as he often does on family trips.
apnews.com/article/nobe...
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BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.
Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.
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Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way Naples, Florida, used to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way Naples, Florida, used to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
The 66-year-old LSU freshman, is now the marching band’s oldest member ever and proof that it is never too late to chase your dream.
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Retired accountant is hitting a high note: He's joined Louisiana State University's marching band
At 66 years old, Kent Broussard, is the oldest member of the Louisiana State University marching band.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The 66-year-old LSU freshman, is now the marching band’s oldest member ever and proof that it is never too late to chase your dream.
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apnews.com/article/lsu-...
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An AP investigation finds that Silicon Valley companies sold surveillance technology to Chinese police and security contractors, ignoring warnings that the tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
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September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
An AP investigation finds that Silicon Valley companies sold surveillance technology to Chinese police and security contractors, ignoring warnings that the tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion.
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Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say
Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion.
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apnews.com/article/flor...
Their Last Love Token: A Dinosaur Rebuilt From Its Excavated Bones
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August 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Some New Yorkers have been seeing more fireflies this summer than usual.
But these summertime bugs are still on the decline overall.
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But these summertime bugs are still on the decline overall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hv...
Fireflies are lighting up summer skies, but are still on the decline
YouTube video by Associated Press
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August 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Some New Yorkers have been seeing more fireflies this summer than usual.
But these summertime bugs are still on the decline overall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hv...
But these summertime bugs are still on the decline overall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hv...
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scoop: @davejorgenson, one of the breakout stars of the Marty Baron era of The Post, is leaving to start his own company with two Post alums
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Can The Washington Post’s TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post?
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July 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
scoop: @davejorgenson, one of the breakout stars of the Marty Baron era of The Post, is leaving to start his own company with two Post alums
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
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The meals contain chemical additives that make them impossible to recreate at home, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at NYU and food policy expert who reviewed the menu for The AP. She said many menu items are high in sodium, and some are high in sugar or saturated fats.
RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raved in social media posts on Monday about the $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.
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July 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The meals contain chemical additives that make them impossible to recreate at home, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at NYU and food policy expert who reviewed the menu for The AP. She said many menu items are high in sodium, and some are high in sugar or saturated fats.
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families apnews.com/article/vacc...
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families
In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.
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June 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families apnews.com/article/vacc...
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New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists apnews.com/article/acip...
New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week. Their agenda suggests they’ll skip some expected topics, including a vote on COVID-19 shots.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists apnews.com/article/acip...
Forecasting hail is difficult. A team of researchers chased hail across the Great Plains to better forecast an underappreciated hazard that causes about $10 billion a year in damage in the U.S. From @borenbears.bsky.social @brittanykpeters.bsky.social
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Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science
A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may eventually help better forecast an underappreciated weat...
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June 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Forecasting hail is difficult. A team of researchers chased hail across the Great Plains to better forecast an underappreciated hazard that causes about $10 billion a year in damage in the U.S. From @borenbears.bsky.social @brittanykpeters.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.
Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.
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June 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.
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Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...
Ousted CDC vaccine adviser says RFK Jr.'s message is clear: ‘Scientific expertise is no longer of use’
Terminated CDC vaccine adviser Helen Chu spoke with STAT about her fears for the future of vaccine policy
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June 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...
His family is "hoping fiercely that Dial lives long enough to see his beloved Pacers win an NBA title for the first time in history. Even if it is from a hospital bed."
Dying at 48, former Pacers photographer wants to live long enough to see NBA title www.indystar.com/story/sports...
Dying at 48, former Pacers photographer wants to live long enough to see NBA title
Matt Dial, a former IndyStar photographer who shot many Pacers games, is on hospice battling Stage 4 colon cancer.
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June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
His family is "hoping fiercely that Dial lives long enough to see his beloved Pacers win an NBA title for the first time in history. Even if it is from a hospital bed."
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BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
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June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.
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Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...
Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...
"Newtok’s relocation was supposed to provide a model for dozens of Alaskan communities that will need to move in the coming decades."
The problem-plagued relocation of the town of Newtok, Alaska, demonstrates the federal government’s failure to oversee the complex project and understand communities’ unique cultural needs, @propublica.org, KYUK News and @washingtonpost.com found.
Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.
The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.
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May 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Newtok’s relocation was supposed to provide a model for dozens of Alaskan communities that will need to move in the coming decades."
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CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years apnews.com/article/flu-...
CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years
More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years apnews.com/article/flu-...
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The Associated Press has moved hundreds of news alerts since President Donald Trump took office for a second time. We used them to tell the often-dizzying story of what Trump did, how some people and courts pushed back and the world's reaction.
The push alerts of the first 100 days of the Trump administration | AP News
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April 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Associated Press has moved hundreds of news alerts since President Donald Trump took office for a second time. We used them to tell the often-dizzying story of what Trump did, how some people and courts pushed back and the world's reaction.