Lifestyle
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Young adult suicide rate down 11% over 2.5 years of new 988 mental health crisis hotline
Nearly 4,400 fewer U.S. teens and young adults died by suicide than projected in the first two-and-a-half years of the 988 mental health crisis hotline, a sign the program is working even as it faces long-term funding challenges. Suicide deaths among 15- to 23-year-olds were 11% lower than what researchers expected between July 2022 —…
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The man who helped put meat at the top of RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid is Steak ’n Shake’s new ‘Chief MAHA Officer’
The MAHA movement is going corporate as Steak ’n Shake offers a well-done wellness pivot and puts “Make America Healthy Again” movement on the menu. The burger chain announced that Michael Boes will serve as its first “Chief MAHA Officer,” a new executive post focused on “nutritional integrity, ingredient transparency, and the healthiness” of its…
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Paramount’s $81 billion Warner Bros mega merger moves closer to becoming a reality as shareholders approve deal
An $81 billion Warner-Paramount mega merger has received shareholders’ stamp of approval, propelling a deal that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape closer to the finish line. Per a preliminary vote count on Thursday, the overwhelming majority of Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted in support of selling the entire business to Paramount for $31 a share,…
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‘It’s a film that is good for the city’: Milan welcomes ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’
Prada may have a title role in “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” which premieres in Italy’s fashion capital on Thursday, but fashion at large gets a spotlight and Milan a supporting role. The film evokes Prada without being about the storied fashion house that has become synonymous with Milan. In homage, Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour both wear…
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Jay Leno hypes up Burbank Airport bond sale to muni investors
Jay Leno’s latest hosting gig involves a classic car, an airport construction site and municipal bonds. Clad in denim and sitting behind the wheel of a 1930 Duesenberg, the renowned TV personality and car enthusiast promoted an upcoming bond deal in a video for Hollywood Burbank Airport — giving a twist to the typically-staid marketing…
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Billionaire Michael Dell started his company in his University of Texas dorm room. Now, he’s betting on AI with a $750 million gift
Michael Dell is having one of his biggest philanthropic years yet, having announced a major gift to his alma mater on the heels of a $6.25 billion pledge to seed “Trump Accounts.” The Dell Technologies founder and his wife, Susan Dell, announced Tuesday a $750 million gift to the University of Texas at Austin to…
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The health misinformation crisis is bigger than anyone thought: Most people worldwide believe at least one of 6 common medical myths
For years, the working theory about health misinformation was reassuringly simple: it was a fringe problem, confined to a narrow slice of the population — the deeply partisan, the undereducated, the chronically online. A sweeping new global survey blows that theory apart. The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report on Trust and Health, based on…
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‘The current system right now is unsustainable’: top economist sees a crucial crack in the economy
Home healthcare workers make up less than 3% of the total jobs, but KPMG senior economist Matthew Nestler sees reason to pay attention—and reason to be concerned. “The current system right now is unsustainable,” he told Fortune, “and [it’s] buckling before we’re hit with this massive aging and retiring of the baby boomers—the largest generation…
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George Foreman buried in Sioux City; family says he always remembered his only visit there nearly 40 years ago
The late boxing great George Foreman lies buried in a cemetery in the northwestern corner of Iowa — a place he has no connection to outside of a lone visit to the region nearly 40 years ago. Foreman died March 21, 2025, at the age of 76 in Houston and was buried in Logan Park…
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Exclusive: Adam Silver on winning the Edison Achievement Award: ‘Sports remind us that some of the most important forms of innovation are human’
If you look at Adam Silver’s background, you wouldn’t think he’d eventually come to lead the NBA, nor bring it to be the massive marketing and media powerhouse it is today. The son of a labor lawyer, he grew up in Rye, New York, editing at his high school newspaper and running cross country. He…