Step back far enough, and you can see exactly what is driving so much geopolitics today: Ukraine is trying to join the West. Israel is trying to join a new Middle East. And Russia and Iran have teamed up to try to block both.Unfortunately, the new G.O.P. House... More »
The pandemic has led to a rapid acceleration in cognitive decline among the over-50s, regardless of whether or not they contracted Covid-19, and had a “real lasting impact” on their brain health, a study has found. So how do you know how healthy your brain is ... More »
A few things you can bet on when there’s been a terrible mass shooting in this country.One is that the heartbreaking stories about victims and chilling ones about the craziness of the shooter will not necessarily be followed by a strong bipartisan drive for si... More »
I don’t know Mike Johnson, the brand-new speaker of the House of Representatives, but I feel as if I do because we’re from the same neck of the woods. He’s from Shreveport, in Caddo Parish, La., where I was born and where one of my brothers died.Johnson’s dist... More »
Two enormous blobs deep inside Earth could be remnants of the birth of the moon.Where did the moon come from? The most popular theory says that about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-size protoplanet slammed into Earth. Some of the resulting debris, tossed into o... More »
The so-called iPhone giveaways marketed by Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T can make customers spend more on perks they don’t need.There’s no such thing as a free iPhone.But phone carriers would like you to believe otherwise. Over the last few weeks, AT&T, Verizon a... More »
As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going.Th... More »
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is poised to close as many as a dozen embassies including in Spain, Hong Kong and multiple countries in Africa, according to media reports and analysts, in a move that could see nearly 25 percent of Pyongyang’s missions close w... More »
Andrew Lopez, ESPNNov 1, 2023, 03:24 AM ETOpen Extended ReactionsPHOENIX -- The San Antonio Spurs' Keldon Johnson knew he had to make a play.After a Victor Wembanyama putback dunk cut the Phoenix Suns' lead to just one point with 6.8 seconds remaining Tuesday ... More »