Health news today spans recovery, technology, and the ways courts are weighing violence and accountability. William Shatner and his daughter Melanie shared that they underwent overlapping treatment for separate stage 4 cancers—melanoma and breast cancer—and are now cancer-free, offering a rare story of resilience in a difficult landscape. On the consumer health front, Samsung is betting that wellness remains a major market, unveiling its Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 with bigger batteries and expanded AI-driven health tracking aimed at making round-the-clock monitoring more useful. Elsewhere, two major criminal cases moved forward with public-health undertones of trauma and harm: in Buffalo, federal prosecutors opened their terrorism case against Hadi Matar over the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, while in Hong Kong, a British woman was sentenced for blackmail tied to rape allegations the court found false. Separately, a U.S. judge set a 2027 trial date for Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores on sweeping drug-trafficking and firearms charges.