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WHO declares latest Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. A rare variant of the disease with no approved treatments is to blame
The World Health Organization declared Sunday the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern. Africa’s top public health body first confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province on Friday. By Saturday, it had reported 336 suspected cases and 88 deaths. All the cases are in Congo,…
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RFK ally confirms she was fired by FDA: ‘I learned so much and leave with no regrets’
A Food and Drug Administration official involved in scrutinizing the safety of antidepressants, COVID-19 vaccines and other widely used therapies has been removed from her role leading the agency’s drug program. Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg will be replaced as FDA’s acting drug center director by Dr. Mike Davis, who has been serving as deputy director,…
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‘It’s so good’: Jensen Huang enjoys Beijing delicacies on trip with Trump
Jensen Huang is trying some of Beijing’s delicacies — the good, and others which may be more of an acquired taste. The Nvidia CEO was spotted by the public and local media at No. 69 Fangzhuanchang Noodles, for a bowl of “zhajiangmian” — a Beijing specialty that features noodles covered in a thick soybean-paste sauce…
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Burned out and going nowhere: the American worker is too mentally drained to even look for a new job
The résumé sits unfinished in a Google Doc. The LinkedIn tab stays open, untouched. For millions of American workers, the search for something better has ground to a halt — not because the jobs aren’t there, but because they’ve done the math. The door, it turns out, is barely open. More than half of U.S.…
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Half of older Americans are unfulfilled. Their doctors can’t see it
A landmark study of more than 6,600 adults ages 62 and older found nearly half (46%) reported lacking a fundamental sense of purpose, wholeness, and connection—what researchers call “fulfillment”—despite living in an era of longer life expectancy and medical advancement. The research, published by CenterWell, the health care services arm of Humana, tracked participants between 2023…
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American overdose deaths decline for third straight year to 2019 levels
About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data. It was the third straight annual drop, making it the longest decline in decades, according to federal data released Wednesday. The 2025 total is about the same as the tally in 2019, before…
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Jenn Hyman steps down as CEO of Rent the Runway: ‘I’ve left it all on the field’
Eighteen years ago, Jenn Hyman cofounded Rent the Runway. She had just turned 27 and was fresh out of Harvard Business School. Her idea to rent out high-end clothing and accessories created a category and made wearing secondhand clothing more popular. Since then, there’s been an IPO, a pandemic that nearly killed the company, and…
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Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers
Lake Tahoe doesn’t know where its power will come from after next ski season—and it’s a major problem for the 49,000 residents who call the region home. The Sierra Nevada tourist hub—home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitors—is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data…
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The ‘King of Comics’ finally gets his due as New York names a Lower East Side street after Jack Kirby
The gesture may lack the explosive drama of a rooftop fight or the tension of a car chase, but on May 11, 2026, a street sign honoring a legendary comics creator will be unveiled in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. After a lobbying effort by comics expert Roy Schwartz, the New York City Council in December…
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Joni Lamb, founder of one of the largest Christian TV networks in the world, dies at 65
Joni Lamb, who with her late husband founded the Daystar Television Network and guided it to become one of the world’s largest Christian TV networks, died Thursday. She was 65. Lamb, the network’s president, had been suffering from serious health issues before sustaining a back injury that caused her health to deteriorate, the network said…