George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images Millions of Medicare patients could soon be prescribed Wegovy â and itâs going to cost taxpayers a lot of money. Last month, Medicare announced that it will cover the new class of anti-obesity drugs, including Wegovy and Ozempic, for patients at risk of stroke or heart attack. Itâs a watershed moment for a novel class of medications, one sure to amplify debates about their long-term... Read more âș
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David Williams/Bloomberg via Getty Images What if you were legally allowed to only ever have $2,000 in financial assets at one time? Saving is hard. Whether for emergencies, special occasions, or retirement, a lot of us fall short. In fact, almost half of Americans donât have three months worth of expenses saved. And for some, itâs partly because they arenât allowed to. Imagine you have to stop working for whatever... Read more âș
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President Joe Biden attends a campaign event at El Portal Restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 19, 2024. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Democrats are starting their Latino outreach early because they know they have a problem. Joe Biden knows he has a problem with Latino voters. He acknowledged as much during a visit to Arizona last month: âI need you badly,â he said, with a tinge of exasperation,... Read more âș
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Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett talk before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the US Capitol on February 7, 2023. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over. A federal court is picking an unusual fight with one of the federal judiciaryâs governing... Read more âș
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Iranian protesters burn US flags during a protest gathering to condemn the Israeli airstrike against the Iranian consulate in Syria, at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, on April 1, 2024 | Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images And US troops may suffer the consequences. Even as the fighting has raged in Gaza, a question has hung over the war: Would it escalate into a wider regional conflict involving Iran, its various... Read more âș
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On April 2, 2024, Palestinians stand next to a vehicle in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on, where employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO. | Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images The killing of World Central Kitchen workers shows no place in Gaza is safe, even for aid groups. An Israeli airstrike Monday killed seven aid... Read more âș
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Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel A six-week ban will take effect in May, though voters could overturn it in November. In spring 2022, just months before the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republicans in Florida passed a law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, down from the previous legal threshold of 24 weeks. It took effect that summer, but advocates for reproductive rights challenged it in state... Read more âș
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Lord Yoshii Toranaga (center on horse, Hiroyuki Sanada) is based on real-life ShĆgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. | FX on Hulu The FX and Hulu hit depicts a bloody, brutal, mostly thwarted colonial history of Japan. Itâs based in the truth. ShĆgun, FXâs period drama-action series on Hulu, has drawn comparisons to Game of Thrones, thanks to its shocking violence, like people pulling out their own guts with swords and others being... Read more âș
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A North Atlantic right whale, entangled in fishing rope, next to her newborn, on December 2, 2021, near Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via AP Two simple solutions would save the North Atlantic right whale. Why arenât we using them? The story of the North Atlantic right whale, an icon of the East Coast, should be one of hope â a tale of recovery.... Read more âș
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Caitlin Clark and Iowa won the Big 10 Womenâs Basketball Tournament earlier this month. | Adam Bettcher/Getty Images The most exciting player in college basketball, explained. For the uninitiated, college basketball may seem like a complicated sport. Nearly every second is packed with plays, screens, cuts, and defenses that can be hard to follow. Commentators spray you with names and phrases that youâre supposed to already know. (Izzo? Geno? The... Read more âș
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A diamond-ring effect during a total eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017, as viewed from the Cohen Recreation Center in Chester, Illinois. | Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This will be the last total solar eclipse over the contiguous United States for 21 years. Donât miss it! On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will be able to see a rare celestial occurrence: a total solar eclipse.... Read more âș
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âYou never forget your first kiss ⊠you always remember your first time in the shadow,â says one eclipse chaser. Thereâs a total solar eclipse somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so. And whether itâs passing over a barren, ice-cragged coast of Antarctica, a remote African desert, or a lonely patch of ocean, you can be sure there will be an umbraphile â a shadow-loving eclipse chaser â... Read more âș
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Food delivery apps have recently added new fees in response to minimum pay rules in New York City and Seattle. | Getty Images/iStockphoto As delivery discourse rages, donât forget the middlemen: apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub. No one is happy about the delivery apps. Not the customers, who feel gouged by an avalanche of fees. Not restaurants, who feel gut-punched by the commission apps take from them. Certainly not... Read more âș
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Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation as part of Mass Generalâs historic pig kidney transplant surgery on March 16, 2024. | Massachusetts General Hospital We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too? No one tells you, when you donate your kidney, that from that point on youâre a Kidney Guy. When kidney things happen in the news, everyone... Read more âș
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Passersby walk near a poster for âOppenheimerâ in Roppongi, as the film debuts in Japan eight months post worldwide launch on March 30, 2024. | Marcin Nowak/Anadolu/Getty Images The filmâs Japan premiere renews critiques about what the movie omitted. Oppenheimerâs premiere in Japan this past weekend has renewed scrutiny of how the film depicted the devastating bombings that killed more than 200,000 people during World War II. The Oscar-winning film... Read more âș
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The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years. Over the last couple weeks, itâs begun to infect cattle â and one dairy farm worker. | Nathalie Laurence - Sunspiral Images via Getty Images Explain it to me: Am I at risk of getting bird flu? Bird flu is, famously, a disease that infects birds. But on Monday, federal... Read more âș
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Usher featured in a February 2024 Skims menâs campaign. | Donna Trope/Courtesy of Skims The internet loves Kim Kardashianâs shapewear company. But it loves its ads even more. Before hitting the stage at this yearâs Super Bowl Halftime Show, R&B singer Usher graced the cover of Vogueâs 2024 Winter Digital issue. It wasnât totally obvious, though, that he was meant to be the publicationâs guest of honor. The styling is... Read more âș
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images An exhausting â if not exhaustive â timeline of J.K. Rowlingâs transphobia. J.K. Rowlingâs supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. Itâs a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New... Read more âș
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BeyoncĂ©/Blair Cardwell via Instagram Coverage and analysis of the global superstarâs eighth studio album. Giddy up! Cowboy Carter, BeyoncĂ©âs eighth studio album and long-awaited sequel to Renaissance, dropped on March 29. Notable collaborators include musicians like Linda Martell, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, and many others. Earlier this year, BeyoncĂ© made history as the first Black woman to top Billboardâs Hot Country Songs chart with âTexas Hold... Read more âș
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Despite progress, including bans on lead in gasoline, lead remains a public health threat all over the world. | Robert Alexander/Getty Images What contaminated applesauce reveals about how lead exposure happens. Lead keeps showing up where itâs not supposed to be. In 2024, one of the most potent neurotoxins known to humanity persists all over the world as a public health threat. For the second time in six months, lead... Read more âș
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