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3 issues to watch in public health in 2026
We warned you late last year that 2025 was likely to be pretty rock ’n roll. Confession time: We had no idea it would be as cuckoo bananas as it turned out to be. That the administration would summarily terminate most global health aid by shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development? Completely disrupt grant-funded scientific research around the country?…
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Lord Ram, Hanuman greater than Superman and Spider Man: Naidu
Tirupati: Characters like Spider Man, Batman and Superman are imaginary, but the heroes from Indian mythology, Ram, Krishna, Hanuman and Arjuna, represent real values and ideals, said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday, December 26. Speaking at the Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan event at the National Sanskrit University in Tirupati, Naidu said, “Hanuman is more powerful than Superman and…
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A Ping-Pong-Specific Review of ‘Marty Supreme’
Timothée Chalamet’s gripping new movie is earning rave reviews and plenty of Oscar buzz. But how’s the pong? In the beginning of Marty Supreme, our protagonist, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), is a shoe salesman working at his uncle’s shop. A woman (Odessa A’zion) enters the store and says she left her old shoes after she bought a new pair, and…
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Weight-loss drugs are changing. Here’s what to know
NEW YORK – Weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1s are transforming healthcare. Some people who struggled for years to shed pounds experience dramatic weight loss on the medications, and there are indications that the drugs have potential to treat diseases beyond obesity. The drugs also have minted billions of dollars for Eli Lilly and Denmark’s Novo Nordisk, the two pharmaceutical powerhouses…
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Crypto Events That Reshaped the Industry in 2025
February: The Bybit theft recenters the market on operational risk On Feb. 24, the crypto industry faced a renewed security reckoning after about $1.4 billion was stolen from Bybit, making it one of the largest exchange-related thefts on record. US authorities publicly attributed the attack to actors linked to North Korea and warned that the stolen assets would likely be…
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The Middle East is on the brink of a new crisis. Here’s where it could start.
Bottom lines up front As a turbulent year comes to a close, the Middle East is entering another period of acute strategic tension. There is a complex web of players involved: Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, alongside armed nonstate actors including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and multiple factions within Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces. No one should confuse the patchwork…
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Melodee Buzzard’s mother fatally shot her in the head, police say
Missing California girl Melodee Buzzard, 9, was found dead in a rural part of Utah’s Wayne County from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said. Her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder. Cartridge cases found at the Utah crime scene in December were linked to a cartridge case that was found at Buzzard’s Vandenberg Village…
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Stolen medication
As journalists, we measure success not just in clicks or conversions, but in what happens after a story makes its way into the world. Impact isn’t always immediate or easily quantified. It can surface quietly — in an email from a listener, a shift in public understanding, or a decision made differently because someone finally has the information they need.…
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Capsule Reviews – New York Theater
Several movies are opening today, a traditional day of moviegoing, including “Marty Supreme,” “Song Sung Blue,” “The Testament of Ann Lee,” The Choral” and ‘No Other Choice.” Below are my quick takes on these and several other feature films currently available in cinemas. A surprising number of these new movies are related to live theater in some way – as direct…
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Why Britain has a deer problem
NJ Convery BBC Ben Martill often gazes out of his window to watch the deer roaming below. “In the past few years there have been loads of them,” he says. Yet Ben doesn’t live in rural woodland but in a block of flats on a fairly busy road in the market town of Horsham in West Sussex. He often sees…
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