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The hidden signs in your gut that may indicate Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge
Go with your gut. Researchers at University College London have isolated a “microbial signature” in the gut that could help predict Parkinson’s disease in patients who aren’t yet showing symptoms. The potential breakthrough can’t come fast enough, as global cases of this neurodegenerative disease continue to ramp up at record speed. Up to 1.5 million
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The U.K. Smoking Ban Is Illiberal
Cigarettes have always been noxious to me: As a kid, I stole my grandpa’s Marlboros and hid them deep in a trash bin. In college, Chesterfields made the kisses of a woman I loved taste carcinogenic. When I lived in Spain, smoky air in my favorite bar made my lungs burn. And no law has
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Internal email reveals Senate GOP ‘terrified’ as 3 states shift: ‘The left is crushing us’
An email to supporters of Republicans in the Senate said the party is “terrified” as Democrats advance on their midterm odds in three unexpected states. The National Republican Senatorial Committee — the party’s nationwide campaign arm for the GOP in the Senate — sent out a panicked email to donors in which it disclosed the
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The Strange Comfort of a Rewatch
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. A familiar dilemma: You open Netflix, determined to watch something new. Twenty minutes of scrolling later, after having
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China will send giant pandas to Atlanta again
BEIJING — Atlanta will have giant pandas again. China announced it will send two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta in Beijing’s latest panda diplomacy effort, despite tensions with Washington, less than a month before a much-anticipated visit by President Trump to Beijing. The China Wildlife Conservation Assn. said in a statement that male panda Ping Ping and
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Report on Kash Patel’s drinking may have an unexpected consequence: analyst
FBI Director Kash Patel may have saved himself from President Donald Trump’s wrath with his lawsuit against The Atlantic, a political analyst has claimed. Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on April 20, 2026, following a bombshell investigative report detailing his alleged excessive drinking and erratic
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Can Thomas Massie Survive the Trump Barrage?
Photographs by Caroline Gutman Representative Thomas Massie, the renegade Kentucky Republican who fiercely guards his political independence, doesn’t love being on President Trump’s bad side. He would prefer not to have the president’s allies spend millions to defeat him in a primary. In fact, if Massie had his way, he’d be working for Trump right
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Blue state forges ‘unusual’ solution to ‘disturbing’ problem created by Trump: expert
A man who emerged as an unlikely ally pushing Donald Trump’s tariffs is now back to criticizing the president over a problem a blue state is said to have solved. The union leader who has an on-off relationship with the president says the administration is waging an all-out war on American science—and California is fighting
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Fishy: NYC man makes sushi from bass he catches in Hudson River: ‘Crazy’
A Queens fisherman thinks he knows the best spot in NYC for fresh sushi and sashimi, and it’s not Nobu. It’s — don’t gag — The Hudson River. Gilberto Diaz Jr. enjoys eating striped bass sashimi he catches himself in the murky waters, and has been doing so for years. Gilberto Diaz Jr. enjoys eating
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Astronomers Discover Major Clue About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins
3I/ATLAS became the main character when it came hurtling into our solar system last year, so it’s only fitting it gets a dramatic backstory. After using the ALMA observatory in Chile to closely examine the interstellar visitor — widely believed to be some type of comet — astronomers discovered that it likely fled from a